William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems

edited by robert pinsky

Introduction

Peace on Earth

Con Brio

Aux Imagistes

Metric Figure ("Veils of clarity")

Stillness

The Young Housewife

Pastoral

Metric Figure ("There is a bird...")

Apology

Pastoral

El Hombre

Danse Russe

Smell!

Spring Strains

January Morning

To a Solitary Disciple

Dedication for a Plot of Ground

Love Song

Le Médecin Malgré Lui

A Coronal

To Mark Anthony in Heaven

Portrait of a Lady

Willow Poem

Approach of Winter

January

To Waken an Old Lady

Complaint

Thursday

Play

Complete Destruction

Queen-Anne's-Lace

Waiting

Arrival

Blueflags

The Widow's Lament in Springtime

The Lonely Street

The Great Figure

from Spring and All

"By the road to the contagious hospital"

"The farmer in deep thought"

"The Easter stars are shining"

"The rose is obsolete"

"In passing with my mind"

"Of death"

"O tongue"

"The pure products of America"

"so much depends"

"Somebody dies every four minutes"

"The crowd at the ball game"

My Luv

The Bull

Fish

The Drunkard

The Dead Baby

Winter

On Gay Wallpaper

The Lily

from The Descent Of Winter

9/30 "There are no perfect waves--"

10/21 "In the dead weeds a rubbish heap"

10/28 "in this strong light"

10/29 "The justice of poverty"

11/1 "I won't have to powder my nose tonight ..."

11/20 "Even idiots grow old"

The Moon--

Child and Vegetables

The Trees

The Wind Increases

The Sea-Elephant

Death

The Botticellian Trees

Poem

Nantucket

This Is Just To Say

An Early Martyr

Flowers by the Sea

To a Poor Old Woman

Proletarian Portrait

The Raper from Passenack

Genesis

The Yachts

Fine Work with Pitch and Copper

St. Francis Einstein of the Daffodils

Advent of Today

Classic Scene

Autumn

The Term

The Poor

Between Walls

Middle

These

The Last Words of My English Grandmother

River Rhyme

The End of the Parade

River Rhyme II

Election Day

Passaic, N.J.

Gothic Candor

A Sort of a Song

Paterson: The Falls

The Dance

Burning the Christmas Greens

Raleigh Was Right

To Ford Madox Ford in Heaven

A Woman in Front of a Bank

When Structure Fails Rhyme Attempts to Come to the Rescue

Threnody

East Coocoo

The Woodpecker

Passer Domesticus

The Descent

To a Dog Injured in the Street

The Yellow Flower

The Artist

Theocritus: Idyl I

A Negro Woman

To a Man Dying on His Feet

The Pink Locust

from Asphodel, That Greeny Flower:

Book I

Coda

Sappho

Greeting for Old Age

from Pictures from Brueghel:

I. Self-Portrait

II. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

III. The Hunters in the Snow

V. Peasant Wedding

X. Children's Games, I

Exercise

Jersey Lyric

Metric Figure ("gotta hold your nose")

The Gossips

Poem

The High Bridge Above the Tagus River at Toledo

Sonnet in Search of an Author

The Turtle

To My Friend Ezra Pound

Heel & Toe to the End

Stormy

Biographical Note

Note on the Texts

Notes

Index of Titles and First Lines