First linesWilliam Carlos Williams

  1. A day on the boulevards chosen out of ten years of Berket and the Stars
  2. A middle-northern March, now as always⁠— A Celebration
  3. A three-day-long rain from the east⁠— The Dark Day
  4. A wind might blow a lotus petal History
  5. Again I reply to the triple winds January
  6. All the complicated details Winter Trees
  7. Although you do your best to regard me Translations from the Spanish, “El Romancero”
  8. Among the rain The Great Figure
  9. An oblique cloud of purple smoke Woman Walking
  10. An old willow with hollow branches Epitaph
  11. And yet one arrives somehow, Arrival
  12. Are you not weary, Ballet
  13. Artsybashev is a Russian. Foreign
  14. By constantly tormenting them The Poor
  15. Come with us and play! From “The Birth of Venus,” Song
  16. Crooked, black tree Trees
  17. Daisies are broken Love Song
  18. Ecstatic bird songs pound Dawn
  19. Elvira, by love’s grace Homage
  20. Even in the time when as yet The Wanderer
  21. Fool, Hero
  22. Go to sleep⁠—though of course you will not⁠— A Goodnight
  23. Hard, chilly colors: Conquest
  24. Have I seen her? Portrait of a Young Man with a Bad Heart
  25. Her body is not so white as Queen-Ann’s-Lace
  26. Here it is spring again The Late Singer
  27. I bought a dishmop⁠— Youth and Beauty
  28. I feel the caress of my own fingers The Gentle Man
  29. I have discovered that most of January Morning
  30. I have had my dream⁠—like others⁠— Thursday
  31. I know only the bare rocks of today. A Prelude
  32. I lie here thinking of you:⁠— Love Song
  33. I stopped the car Blueflags
  34. I tried to put a bird in a cage. The Fool’s Song
  35. I will teach you my townspeople Tract
  36. If I say I have heard voices Pastoral
  37. If I when my wife is sleeping Danse Russe
  38. If you had come away with me April
  39. In a tissue-thin monotone of blue-grey buds Spring Strains
  40. In brilliant gas light Good Night
  41. In the flashes and black shadows The Hunter
  42. In this world of Spouts
  43. It is a willow when summer is over, Willow Poem
  44. It is cold. The white moon The Cold Night
  45. It is useless, good woman, useless: the spark fails me. The Death of Franco of Cologne: His Prophecy of Beethoven
  46. It was an icy day. Complete Destruction
  47. It’s a strange courage El Hombre
  48. Lady of dusk wood fastnesses, First Praise
  49. Leaves are greygreen, Lines
  50. Lift your flowers Chickory and Daisies
  51. Light hearted William twirled Light Hearted William
  52. Limb to limb, mouth to mouth Winter Quiet
  53. Love is like water or the air Riposte
  54. Men with picked voices chant the names Overture to a Dance of Locomotives
  55. Miserable little woman Divertimiento
  56. Miserly, is the best description of that poor fool Con Brio
  57. Mother of flames, Crude Lament
  58. My shoes as I lean The Nightingales
  59. My townspeople, beyond in the great world, Gulls
  60. My wife’s new pink slippers The Thinker
  61. Now that I have cooled to you Postlude
  62. Now? Why⁠— Virtue
  63. O Crimson salamander, The Ordeal
  64. O my grey hairs! Spring
  65. Oh strong ridged and deeply hollowed Smell!
  66. Oh, black Persian cat! Mujer
  67. Old age is To Waken an Old Lady
  68. Old men who have studied The Old Men
  69. On the day when youth is no more upon me To Wish Myself Courage
  70. One leaves his leaves at home Great Mullen
  71. Poor old Abner, old white-haired nigger! Time the Hangman
  72. Rather notice, mon cher, To a Solitary Disciple
  73. Red cradle of the night, Portent
  74. School is over. It is too hot The Lonely Street
  75. Snow: Blizzard
  76. So art thou broken in upon me, Apollo, An After Song
  77. Some leaves hang late, some fall The Soughing Wind
  78. Sorrow is my own yard The Widow’s Lament in Springtime
  79. Still I bring flowers Ad Infinitum
  80. Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am, Play
  81. Surely there, among the great docks, is peace, my mind; In Harbor
  82. Sweep the house clean, Love Song
  83. Sweet child, The Ogre
  84. Take that, damn you; and that! Mezzo Forte
  85. The Archer is wake! Peace on Earth
  86. The birches are mad with green points Portrait of the Author
  87. The corner of a great rain Contemporania
  88. The coroner’s merry little children Hic Jacet
  89. The dayseye hugging the earth Daisy
  90. The half stripped trees Approach of Winter
  91. The hostess, in pink satin and blond hair⁠—dressed The Delicacies
  92. The little sparrows Pastoral
  93. The May sun⁠—whom The Tulip Bed
  94. The murderer’s little daughter Sympathetic Portrait of a Child
  95. The old black-man showed me Canthara
  96. The sky has given over Spring Storm
  97. The world begins again! The Birds
  98. Then I raised my head Winter Sunset
  99. There is a bird in the poplars! Metric Figure
  100. There’s my things Portrait of a Woman in Bed
  101. They call me and I go Complaint
  102. This plot of ground Dedication for a Plot of Ground
  103. Tracks of rain and light linger in Romance Moderne
  104. Upon the table in their bowl The Disputants
  105. Vast and grey, the sky The Desolate Field
  106. Wanderer moon Summer Song
  107. Well, Lizzie Anderson! seventeen men⁠—and To a Friend
  108. Well, mind, here we have Promenade
  109. When I am alone I am happy. Waiting
  110. When I was younger Pastoral
  111. Where shall I find you, Sub Terra
  112. Why do I write today? Apology
  113. Will it never be possible A Portrait in Greys
  114. Winter has spent this snow M. B.
  115. Winter is long in this climate March
  116. Witness, would you⁠— Keller Gegen Dom
  117. Yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow! Primrose
  118. Yes, there is one thing braver than all flowers; Immortal
  119. You exquisite chunk of mud K. McB.
  120. You know there is not much To a Friend Concerning Several Ladies
  121. You say love is this, love is that: Memory of April
  122. You sullen pig of a man Libertad! Igualdad! Fraternidad!
  123. You who are so mighty, Appeal
  124. You who had the sense Invitation

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