| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Ortus | | By Ezra Pound |
| | From “Contemporania”
HOW have I labored? | |
| How have I not labored | |
| To bring her soul to birth, | |
| To give these elements a name and a centre! | |
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| She is beautiful as the sunlight, and as fluid. | 5 |
| She has no name, and no place. | |
| How have I labored to bring her soul into separation; | |
| To give her a name and her being! | |
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| Surely you are bound and entwined, | |
| You are mingled with the elements unborn; | 10 |
| I have loved a stream and a shadow. | |
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| I beseech you enter your life. | |
| I beseech you learn to say “I” | |
| When I question you: | |
| For you are no part, but a whole; | 15 |
| No portion, but a being. | | | | |
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