In a Station of the Metro

Ezra Pound's two-line Imagist poem on faces seen in the crowd at a station of the Paris Métro.

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.

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• The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
  Petals on a wet, black bough.

  Poetry: A Magazine of Verse (April 1913)In context

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