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Ezra Pound perhaps? Personae.
Roger
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From: "Martin Walker" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: [identify] poems by others
>O strange face there in the glass!
> O ribald company, O saintly host,
> O sorrow-swept my fool,
> What answer? O ye myriad
> That strive and play and pass,
> Jest, challenge, counterlie!
> I?I?I?
> And ye?
>
> [author?]
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> But I am but a nameless sort of person
> (A broken Dandy lately on my travels)
> And take for rhyme, to hook my rambling verse on,
> The first that Walker's Lexicon unravels
>
> - George Gordon, Lord Byron
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 5:16 PM
> Subject: Re: poems by others
>
>
>> Oh, yes,
>>
>> And then I begin to think of our Performing Selves, just who (& how old
>> is he) am I putting on for you today?
>>
>> Often curmudgeonly, yells at things, & is really really pissed that he
>> can't remember names & many words when he needs them....
>>
>> Doug
>> On 3-Apr-09, at 9:10 AM, Martin Walker wrote:
>>
>>> [THE OLD MAN] The old man In the mirror Startles Me But the young man In
>>> the photograph Is stranger Still.
>>>
>>> George Oppen
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>>> But I am but a nameless sort of person
>>> (A broken Dandy lately on my travels)
>>> And take for rhyme, to hook my rambling verse on,
>>> The first that Walker's Lexicon unravels
>>>
>>> - George Gordon, Lord Byron
>>>
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
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>>
>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>>
>> Latest books:
>> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>> Wednesdays'
>> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>>
>> It's always night or we wouldn't need light.
>>
>> Thelonious Monk
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