Ancient Music - A poem by Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound - Ancient Music

Winter is icummen in, 
Lhude sing Goddamm. 
Raineth drop and staineth slop, 
And how the wind doth ramm! 
Sing: Goddamm. 

Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us, 
An ague hath my ham. 
Freezeth river, turneth liver, 
Damn you, sing: Goddamm. 

Goddamm, Goddamm, 'tis why I am, Goddamm, 
So 'gainst the winter's balm. 

Sing goddamm, damm, sing Goddamm. 
Sing goddamm, sing goddamm, DAMM. 

A parody of the Anglo-Saxon poem, Cuckoo Song

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Poet: Ezra Pound (Ezra Pound Art) Poem: Ancient Music Year: Published/Written in 1902 Poem of the Day: Jan 13 2001 Comment 5 of 5, added on January 30th, 2009 at 4:54 PM. I just read a translation of this poem in Dutch ( by Gert jan de Vries in the volume '500 gedichten die iedereen gelezen moet hebben').Maybe because part of it is already written in double dutch the poem stays very powerful after being translated. Powerful enough to make me try to find the original text. The poem gives me energy to fight and survive the winter in stead of just going for a wintersleep. I don't know if that's what its meant to be, but that is what it is to me. God bless America for having great poets like Ezra Pound! Welmoed from Netherlands Comment 4 of 5, added on December 27th, 2005 at 9:49 PM. Hey Noreen..Ezra pound died in 1972 and unforunately he couldn't "write on". Mary from Egypt Comment 3 of 5, added on November 20th, 2005 at 10:13 AM. well, ezra,sinc i was just reading that you grew up in wyncote and attended the University of Pennsylvania this poem makes a whole lot more sense !! now it is evident to me you have waited for a bus on the streets of philly after a snowstorm when the snow has melted and turned into that particularly nasty form of brownish slush i have only seen there. write on ,mr. pound !!! Noreen Wilder from United States More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, Ancient Music, has received 5 comments. Click here to read them, and perhaps post a comment of your own. Of course you can also always discuss poems by Ezra Pound with others on the American Poems poetry forum!

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Poet: Ezra Pound Poem: Ancient Music Year: Published/Written in 1902 Last read: Nov 7 2009, 10:18AM Poem of the Day: Jan 13 2001 Viewed 11677 times. Added on November 20th, 2005 at 10:13 AM.

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