MEDALLION

by: Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

UINI in porcelain!

The grand piano

Utters a profane

Protest with her clear soprano.

 

The sleek head emerges

From the gold-yellow frock

As Anadyomene in the opening

Pages of Reinach.

 

Honey-red, closing the face-oval,

A basket-work of braids which seem as if they were

Spun in King Minos' hall

From metal, or intractable amber;

 

The face-oval beneath the glaze,

Bright in its suave bounding-line, as,

Beneath half-watt rays,

The eyes turn topaz.

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