"And the Days Are Not Full Enough" by Ezra Pound

[desolateangel83.livejournal.com]

And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass.

On a side note, why did Ezra speak in that messed-up Scottish accent?

Comments

[slurring-rhythm.livejournal.com]

ohh that hit home with me.
thanks for the post!
(i don't know about the scottish accent)

[goodfoot08.livejournal.com]

speaking as a rank civilian on this level, I find that Joyce, Pound, and Eliot were all adept mimics. Probably many others of that time were. I think there may be a milieu question here about the developing role of recording equipment and developing ethnicism as a badge of something.

[goodfoot08.livejournal.com]

meant to say that I like this a lot.

[ballytivnan.livejournal.com]

don't be talkin smack about EP! heh. I think i'm blaming his accent on Yeats.

[borrowed-hearts.livejournal.com]

I have always so adored this poem! Thanks for posting!

[chad-horvath.livejournal.com]

"messed-up Scottish accent"? really?

I've never heard him... that seems so funny, though! Now I want to find a recording of his.