William Carlos Williams: Selected Poems

With the publication of this book, Charles Tomlinson's edition of Williams's Selected Poems, New Directions has introduced a gathering larger and more comprehensive than the original 1963 edition.

Introduction

xv

Peace on Earth

1

(1)

Con Brio

2

(1)

Aux Imagistes

3

(1)

Metric Figure (``Veils of clarity'')

3

(1)

Stillness

4

(1)

The Young Housewife

5

(1)

Pastoral

5

(1)

Metric Figure (``There is a bird . . .'')

6

(1)

Apology

7

(1)

Pastoral

8

(1)

El Hombre

9

(1)

Danse Russe

9

(1)

Smell!

10

(1)

Spring Strains

10

(2)

January Morning

12

(4)

To a Solitary Disciple

16

(2)

Dedication for a Plot of Ground

18

(1)

Love Song

19

(1)

Le Medecin Malgre Lui

20

(1)

A Coronal

21

(1)

To Mark Anthony in Heaven

22

(1)

Portrait of a Lady

23

(1)

Willow Poem

24

(1)

Approach of Winter

24

(1)

January

25

(1)

To Waken an Old Lady

25

(1)

Complaint

26

(1)

Thursday

27

(1)

Play

27

(1)

Complete Destruction

27

(1)

Queen-Anne's-Lace

28

(1)

Waiting

29

(1)

Arrival

30

(1)

Blueflags

30

(1)

The Widow's Lament in Springtime

31

(1)

The Lonely Street

32

(1)

The Great Figure

33

(17)

from Spring and All

``By the road to the contagious hospital''

34

(1)

``The farmer in deep thought''

35

(1)

``The Easter stars are shining''

36

(1)

``The rose is obsolete''

37

(2)

``In passing with my mind''

39

(1)

``Of death''

40

(2)

``O tongue''

42

(1)

``The pure products of America''

43

(3)

``so much depends''

46

(2)

``Somebody dies every four minutes''

48

(1)

``The crowd at the ball game''

48

(2)

My Luv

50

(1)

The Bull

50

(1)

Fish

51

(4)

The Drunkard

55

(1)

The Dead Baby

56

(1)

Winter

57

(1)

On Gay Wallpaper

58

(1)

The Lily

59

(6)

from The Descent Of Winter

9/30 ``There are no perfect waves---''

60

(1)

10/21 ``In the dead weeds a rubbish heap''

60

(1)

10/28 ``in this strong light''

61

(1)

10/29 ``The justice of poverty''

62

(1)

11/1 ``The moon, the dried weeds''

63

(1)

11/20 ``Even idiots grow old''

64

(1)

The Moon---

65

(1)

Child and Vegetables

65

(2)

The Trees

67

(2)

The Wind Increases

69

(1)

The Sea-Elephant

70

(3)

Death

73

(2)

The Botticellian Trees

75

(2)

Poem

77

(1)

Nantucket

78

(1)

This Is Just To Say

78

(1)

An Early Martyr

79

(2)

Flowers by the Sea

81

(1)

To a Poor Old Woman

82

(1)

Proletarian Portrait

82

(1)

The Raper from Passenack

83

(2)

Genesis

85

(1)

The Yachts

85

(2)

Fine Work with Pitch and Copper

87

(1)

St. Francis Einstein of the Daffodils

88

(2)

Advent of Today

90

(1)

Classic Scene

91

(1)

Autumn

92

(1)

The Term

92

(1)

The Poor

93

(1)

Between Walls

94

(1)

Middle

95

(1)

These

96

(2)

The Last Words of My English Grandmother

98

(2)

River Rhyme

100

(1)

The End of the Parade

100

(1)

River Rhyme II

101

(1)

Election Day

101

(1)

Passaic, N.J.

102

(1)

Gothic Candor

102

(1)

A Sort of a Song

103

(1)

Paterson: The Falls

103

(2)

The Dance

105

(1)

Burning the Christmas Greens

106

(3)

Raleigh Was Right

109

(1)

To Ford Madox Ford in Heaven

110

(2)

A Woman in Front of a Bank

112

(1)

When Structure Fails Rhyme Attempts to Come to the Rescue

113

(1)

Threnody

113

(1)

East Coocoo

114

(1)

The Woodpecker

115

(1)

Passer Domesticus

116

(1)

The Descent

117

(1)

To a Dog Injured in the Street

118

(3)

The Yellow Flower

121

(3)

The Artist

124

(1)

Theocritus: Idyl I

125

(6)

A Negro Woman

131

(1)

To a Man Dying on His Feet

132

(1)

The Pink Locust

133

(18)

from Asphodel, That Greeny Flower

Book I

136

(11)

Coda

147

(4)

Sappho

151

(1)

Greeting for Old Age

152

(6)

from Pictures from Brueghel

Self-Portrait

153

(1)

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

154

(1)

The Hunters in the Snow

155

(1)

Peasant Wedding

156

(1)

Children's Games, I

157

(1)

Exercise

158

(1)

Jersey Lyric

158

(1)

Metric Figure (``gotta hold your nose'')

159

(1)

The Gossips

159

(1)

Poem

160

(1)

The High Bridge Above the Tagus River at Toledo

161

(1)

Sonnet in Search of an Author

162

(1)

The Turtle

163

(2)

To My Friend Ezra Pound

165

(1)

Heel & Toe to the End

166

(1)

Stormy

167

(4)

Biographical Note

171

(2)

Note on the Texts

173

(6)

Notes

179

(3)

Index of Titles and First Lines

182

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