| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Tenzone | | By Ezra Pound |
| | From “Contemporania”
WILL people accept them? | |
| (i. e. these songs). | |
| As a timorous wench from a centaur | |
| (or a centurian), | |
| Already they flee, howling in terror. | 5 |
| Will they be touched with the truth? | |
| Their virgin stupidity is untemptable. | |
| I beg you, my friendly critics, | |
| Do not set about to procure me an audience. | |
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| I mate with my free kind upon the crags; | 10 |
| the hidden recesses | |
| Have heard the echo of my heels. | |
| in the cool light, | |
| in the darkness. | | | | |
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