The Return
See, they return; ah, see the tentative
Movements, and the slow feet,
The trouble in the pace and the uncertain
Wavering!
See, they return, one, and by one,
With fear, as half-awakened;
As if the snow should hesitate
And murmur in the wind
and half turn back;
These were the "Wing'd-with-Awe,"
Inviolable.
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Ezra Pound's poem "The Return" was published in Des Imagistes (1914), the first of the imagist anthologies. The anthology was first published as an issue of the little magazine The Glebe. To read this poem in digitized versions of Des Imagistes, follow the links below:
The Blue Mountain Project (The Glebe)
The Modernist Journals Project (The Glebe)
The Modernist Journals Project (Publisher: Albert and Charles Boni, NY)
The Modernist Journals Project (Publisher: The Poetry Bookshop, London)