Paracelsus In Excelsis

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



‘Being no longer human, why should I
Pretend humanity or don the frail attire?
Men have I known and men, but never one
Was grown so free an essence, or become
So simply element as what I am.
The mist goes from the mirror and I see.
Behold! the world of forms is swept beneath-
Turmoil grown visible beneath our peace,
And we that are grown formless, rise above-
Fluids intangible that have been men,
We seem as statues round whose high-risen base
Some overflowing river is run mad,
In us alone the element of calm.'

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLM
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 513
Words 99
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13

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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic of the early modernist movement. more…

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