Personae by Ezra Pound

Author:Ezra Pound
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8112-2247-1
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 1925-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

We came to Ventadour

In the mid love court, he sings out the canzon,

No one hears save Arrimon Luc D’Esparo—

No one hears aught save the gracious sound of compliments.

Sir Arrimon counts on his fingers, Montfort,

Rochecouart, Chalais, the rest, the tactic,

Malemort, guesses beneath, sends word to Cœur-de-Lion:

The compact, de Born smoked out, trees felled

About his castle, cattle driven out!

Or no one sees it, and En Bertrans prospered?

And ten years after, or twenty, as you will,

Arnaut and Richard lodge beneath Chalus:

The dull round towers encroaching on the field,

The tents tight drawn, horses at tether

Further and out of reach, the purple night,

The crackling of small fires, the bannerets,

The lazy leopards on the largest banner,

Stray gleams on hanging mail, an armourer’s torch-flare

Melting on steel.

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