William Carlos Williams Poems

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51.
The Great Figure

Among the rain
and lights
I saw the figure 5
in gold
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52.
January

Again I reply to the triple winds
running chromatic fifths of derision
outside my window:
Play louder.
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53.
Nantucket

Flowers through the window
lavender and yellow

changed by white curtains –
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54.
To Elsie

The pure products of America
go crazy--
mountain folk from Kentucky
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55.
The Uses Of Poetry

I've fond anticipation of a day
O'erfilled with pure diversion presently,
For I must read a lady poesy
The while we glide by many a leafy bay,
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56.
Tract

I will teach you my townspeople
how to perform a funeral
for you have it over a troop
of artists-
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57.
Primrose

Yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow!
It is not a color.
It is summer!
It is the wind on a willow,
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58.
Hunters In The Snow

The over-all picture is winter
icy mountains
in the background the return
from the hunt it is toward evening
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59.
The Term

A rumpled sheet
Of brown paper
About the length
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60.
January Morning

I

I have discovered that most of
the beauties of travel are due to
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