William Carlos Williams Poems

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41.
To A Poor Old Woman

munching a plum on
the street a paper bag
of them in her hand
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42.
Memory Of April

You say love is this, love is that:
Poplar tassels, willow tendrils
the wind and the rain comb,
tinkle and drip, tinkle and drip--
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43.
The Thinker

My wife's new pink slippers
have gay pompons.
There is not a spot or a stain
on their satin toes or their sides.
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44.
Peace On Earth

The Archer is wake!
The Swan is flying!
Gold against blue
An Arrow is lying.
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45.
Pastoral

The little sparrows
hop ingenuously
about the pavement
quarreling
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46.
Willow Poem

It is a willow when summer is over,
a willow by the river
from which no leaf has fallen nor
bitten by the sun
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47.
The Widow's Lament In Springtime

Sorrow is my own yard
where the new grass
flames as it has flamed
often before but not
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48.
First Praise

Lady of dusk-wood fastnesses,
Thou art my Lady.
I have known the crisp, splintering leaf-tread with thee on before,
White, slender through green saplings;
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49.
The Dance

In Breughel's great picture, The Kermess,
the dancers go round, they go round and
around, the squeal and the blare and the
tweedle of bagpipes, a bugle and fiddles
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50.
The Great Figure

Among the rain
and lights
I saw the figure 5
in gold
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