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Author: Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

Text collections / compilations [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

Canzoni
Cathay
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
Lustra
Personae
Ripostes

Texts set to music [warning - not necessarily comprehensive]

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A girl (The tree has entered my hands) - R. Heppener *
A Virginal (No, no! Go from me. I have left her lately ) (from Ripostes) - S. Gerber
Alba (As cool as the pale wet leaves ) (from Lustra) - M. Dalby
An Immorality (Sing we for love and idleness ) (from Ripostes) - L. Hoiby, J. Koch, A. Copland, B. Weber
Ancient Music (Winter is icumen in ) - G. Bachlund LAT
April (Three spirits came to me) (from Personae) - H. Cowell *
Aria (from Canzoni) - W. Rummel [x]
Art (Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth) (from Lustra) - G. Bachlund
Art (O chansons foregoing ) (from Lustra) - G. Bachlund
As cool as the pale wet leaves (from Lustra)
M. Dalby: Alba

Au bal masqué [x]
W. Rummel: Au bal masqué

Au bal masqué - W. Rummel [x]
Beautiful Women (It rests me to be among beautiful women ) (from Lustra) - G. Bachlund
Blue mountains to the north of the walls (from Cathay) SLN
O. Greif: Taking leave of a friend

By the North Gate, the wind blows full of sand (from Cathay)
G. Bantock: Lament of the Frontier Guard

Canto XXX (Compleynt, compleynt ) [x] *
G. Binkerd: Compleynt, compleynt

Coitus (The gilded phaloi of the crocuses) (from Lustra)
A. Lerdahl: Eros

Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are
J. Holbrooke: The Garret

Compleynt, compleynt (Compleynt, compleynt ) - G. Binkerd [x] *
Compleynt, compleynt [x] *
G. Binkerd: Compleynt, compleynt

Dance Figure (Dark-eyed, o woman of my dreams) (from Lustra) - S. Gerber
Dark-eyed, o woman of my dreams (from Lustra)
S. Gerber: Dance Figure

Empty are the ways (from Lustra)
W. Strickland: Ione, Dead the Long Year

Envoi (Go, dumb-born book ) (from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley) - A. Hinton
Epilogue (O chansons foregoing ) (from Lustra)
G. Bachlund: Art

Epitaphs (Fu I loved the high cloud and the hill) (from Lustra) - G. Binkerd
Eros (The gilded phaloi of the crocuses) (from Lustra) - A. Lerdahl
Fan-Piece (O fan of white silk) (from Lustra) - M. Dalby
Fan-Piece, For Her Imperial Lord (O fan of white silk) (from Lustra)
M. Dalby: Fan-Piece

Four and forty lovers had Agathas in the old days
D. Diamond: Four Ladies

Four Ladies (Four and forty lovers had Agathas in the old days ) - D. Diamond
Fu I loved the high cloud and the hill (from Lustra)
J. Avshalomov: Fu-Yi
G. Binkerd: Epitaphs

Fu-Yi (Fu I loved the high cloud and the hill) (from Lustra) - J. Avshalomov
Go, dumb-born book (from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley)
A. Hinton: Envoi

Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth (from Lustra)
G. Bachlund: Art

Here we are, picking the first fern-shoots
G. Bantock: Song of the Bowmen of Shu

Histrion (No man hath dared to write this thing as yet) - W. Bolcom *
I would bathe myself in strangeness *
R. Heppener: The plunge

In a Station of the Metro (The apparition of these faces in the crowd) (from Lustra)
M. Dalby: The faces

Ione, Dead the Long Year (Empty are the ways) (from Lustra) - W. Strickland
It rests me to be among beautiful women (from Lustra)
J. Koch, J. Holbrooke: Tame Cat
G. Bachlund: Beautiful Women

Ladies (Four and forty lovers had Agathas in the old days )
D. Diamond: Four Ladies

Lament of the Frontier Guard (By the North Gate, the wind blows full of sand ) (from Cathay) - G. Bantock
L'art, 1910 (Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth) (from Lustra)
G. Bachlund: Art

My City, my beloved, my white! Ah, slender *
R. Heppener: N.Y.

No man hath dared to write this thing as yet *
W. Bolcom: Histrion

No, no! Go from me. I have left her lately (from Ripostes)
S. Gerber: A Virginal

N.Y. (My City, my beloved, my white! Ah, slender) - R. Heppener *
O chansons foregoing (from Lustra)
G. Bachlund: Art

O fan of white silk (from Lustra)
M. Dalby: Fan-Piece

O generation of the thoroughly smug (from Lustra)
J. Holbrooke: Salutation

Pan is dead (Pan is dead. Great Pan is dead) - R. Heppener *
Pan is dead. Great Pan is dead *
R. Heppener: Pan is dead

Salutation (O generation of the thoroughly smug) (from Lustra) - J. Holbrooke
See, they return; ah, see the tentative (from Ripostes)
W. Rummel: The return

Sing we for love and idleness (from Ripostes)
L. Hoiby, J. Koch, A. Copland, B. Weber: An Immorality

Song of the Bowmen of Shu (Here we are, picking the first fern-shoots) - G. Bantock
Taking leave of a friend (Blue mountains to the north of the walls ) (from Cathay) - O. Greif SLN
Tame Cat (It rests me to be among beautiful women ) (from Lustra) - J. Koch, J. Holbrooke
The apparition of these faces in the crowd (from Lustra)
M. Dalby: The faces

The faces (The apparition of these faces in the crowd) (from Lustra) - M. Dalby
The Garret (Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are) - J. Holbrooke
The gilded phaloi of the crocuses (from Lustra)
A. Lerdahl: Eros

The girl in the tea shop (The girl in the tea shop ) (from Lustra) - G. Bachlund
The girl in the tea shop (from Lustra)
J. Holbrooke: The Tea-Shop Girl
J. Koch: The Tea Shop
G. Bachlund: The girl in the tea shop

The petals fall in the fountain (from Lustra)
M. Dalby: Ts'ai Chi'h

The plunge (I would bathe myself in strangeness) - R. Heppener *
The return (See, they return; ah, see the tentative ) (from Ripostes) - W. Rummel
The River-Merchant's Wife (While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead ) (from Cathay) - L. Willingham
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter (While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead ) (from Cathay) - L. Hoiby
The Tea Shop (The girl in the tea shop ) (from Lustra) - J. Koch
The Tea-Shop Girl (The girl in the tea shop ) (from Lustra) - J. Holbrooke
The tree has entered my hands *
R. Heppener: A girl

Three spirits came to me (from Personae) *
H. Cowell: April

Ts'ai Chi'h (The petals fall in the fountain) (from Lustra) - M. Dalby
While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead (from Cathay)
L. Willingham: The River-Merchant's Wife
L. Hoiby: The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
L. Regteren-Altena: The river-merchant's wife: a letter

Winter is icumen in LAT
G. Bachlund: Ancient Music

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