Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
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Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am,by what devious means do you contriveto remain idle? Teach me, O master.
© William Carlos Williams
Peasant Wedding
Pour the wine bridegroomwhere before you thebride is enthroned her hairloose at her temples a headof ripe wheat is onthe wall beside her theguests..
© William Carlos Williams
Transitional
First he said:It is the woman in usThat makes us write-Let us acknowledge it-Men would be silent.We are not menTherefore we can speakAnd be..
© William Carlos Williams
The Approaching Hour
You Communists and Republicans!all you Germans and Frenchmen!you corpses and quickeners!The stars are about to meltand fall on you in tears.Get..
© William Carlos Williams
Proletarian Poet
A big young bareheaded womanin an apronHer hair slicked back standingon the streetOne stockinged foot toeingthe sidewalkHer shoe in her hand...
© William Carlos Williams
The Corn Harvest
Summer !the painting is organizedabout a youngreaper enjoying hisnoonday restcompletelyrelaxedfrom his morning laborssprawledin fact..
© William Carlos Williams
On Gay Wallpaper
The green-blue groundis ruled with silver linesto say the sun is shiningAnd on this moral seaof grass or dreams lie flowersor baskets of..
© William Carlos Williams
The Mind’s Games
If a man can say of his life orany moment of his life, There isnothing more to be desired! his statebecomes like that told in the famousdouble..
© William Carlos Williams
Sub Terra
Where shall I find you—You, my grotesque fellowsThat I seek everywhereTo make up my band?None, not oneWith the earthy tastes I require:The burrowing..
© William Carlos Williams
The Crowd At The Ball Game
The crowd at the ball gameis moved uniformlyby a spirit of uselessnesswhich delights them—all the exciting detailof the chaseand the escape, the..
© William Carlos Williams
The Wedding Dance In The Open Air
Disciplined by the artistto go roundand roundin holiday geara riotously gay rabble ofpeasants and theirample-bottomed doxiesfillsthe market..
© William Carlos Williams
The Hunter In The Snow
The over-all picture is wintericy mountainsin the background the returnfrom the hunt it is toward eveningfrom the leftsturdy hunters lead intheir..
© William Carlos Williams
Great Mullen
One leaves his leaves at homebeomg a mullen and sends up a lighthouseto peer from: I will have my way,yellow--A mast with a lantern, tenfifty, a..
© William Carlos Williams
Hic Jacet
The coroner's merry little childrenHave such twinkling brown eyes.Their father is not of gay menAnd their mother jocular in no wise,Yet the coroner's..
© William Carlos Williams
Young Sycamore
I must tell youthis young treewhose round and firm trunkbetween the wetpavement and the gutter(where wateris trickling) risesbodilyinto the air..
© William Carlos Williams
Slow Movement
All those treasures that lie in the little bolted box whose tiny space isMightier than the room of the stars, being secret and filled with dreams:All..
© William Carlos Williams
Flowers By The Sea
When over the flowery, sharp pasture'sedge, unseen, the salt oceanlifts its form-chicory and daisiestied, released, seem hardly flowers alonebut..
© William Carlos Williams
The Spouts
In this world ofas fine a pair of breastsas ever I sawthe fountain inMadison Squarespouts up of watera white treethat dies and livesas the rocking..
© William Carlos Williams
The Disputants
Upon the table in their bowlin violent disarrayof yellow sprays, green spikesof leaves, red pointed petalsand curled heads of blueand white among the..
© William Carlos Williams
Heel & Toe To The End
Gagarin says, in ecstasy,he could havegone on foreverhe floatedat and sangand when he emerged from thatone hundred eight minutes offthe surface ofthe..
© William Carlos Williams
The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee
By N. Scott MomadayI am a feather on the bright skyI am the blue horse that runs in the plainI am the fish that rolls, shining, in the waterI am the..
© Thanksgiving Day
Slant
By Suji Kwock KimIf the angle of an eye is all, the slant of hope, the slant of dreaming, according to each life,what is the light of this..
© Thanksgiving Day
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
By Ross GayFriends, will you bear with me today,for I have awakenedfrom a dream in which a robinmade with its shabby wings a kind of veilbehind..
© Thanksgiving Day
Thanks
By W. S. MerwinListenwith the night falling we are saying thank youwe are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railingswe are running out of the..
© Thanksgiving Day
The New-England Boy's Song about Thanksgiving Day
By Lydia Maria ChildOver the river, and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way, To carry the..
© Thanksgiving Day