Poet of the Month 106: EZRA POUND

 

 

EZRA POUND

1885 – 1972 

 

 

 

 

THE TEA SHOP

 

 

The girl in the tea shop

      Is not so beautiful as she was,

The August has worn against her.

She does not get up the stairs so eagerly;

Yes, she also will turn middle-aged,

And the glow of youth that she spread about us

      As she brought us our muffins

Will be spread about us no longer.

      She also will turn middle-aged.

 

 

 

collected in 

Lustra 

(1916) 

 

 

 

 

 

Use the link below to read more poems by North American poet, translator and critic EZRA POUND:

 

 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ezra-pound

 

 

 

 

 

 

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