Art

Set by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Art", 2010 [ medium voice or high voice and piano ] [Sung Text]

Note: this setting is made up of several separate texts.


Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth,
Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.

Text Authorship:

  • by Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972), "L'art, 1910", appears in Lustra, first published 1916

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O chansons foregoing
You were a seven days' wonder.
When you came out in the magazines
You created considerable stir in Chicago,
And now you are stale and worn out,
You're a very depleted fashion,
A hoop-skirt, a calash,
An homely, transient antiquity.
Only emotion remains.
Your emotions?
Are those of a maitre-de-cafe.

Text Authorship:

  • by Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972), "Epilogue", appears in Lustra, first published 1916

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

Author(s): Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)