Poem by Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

The Bath-Tub

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain,
When the hot water gives out or goes tepid,
So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion,
O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

1. Nicotine
2. Fan-Piece, for Her Imperial Lord
3. Coda
4. Alba
5. Song in the Manner of Housman

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