The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams · 1909-1939 (Vol. 1) · 001 (New Directions Paperbook) by Williams, William Carlos -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Contents Preface The Tempers 1913

Peace on Earth Postlude First Praise Homage The Fool’s Song From “The Birth of Venus,” Song Immortal Mezzo Forte An After Song Crude Lament The Ordeal The Death of Franco of Cologne: His Prophecy of Beethoven Portent Con Brio Ad Infinitum Translations from the Spanish, “El Romancero”

I. Although you do your best to regard me II. Ah, little green eyes III. Poplars of the meadow IV. The day draweth nearer

Hic Jacet Contemporania To Wish Myself Courage

Poems 1909-1917

1909 The Uses of Poetry Love On a Proposed Trip South 1910 And Thus with All Praise Martin and Katherine Misericordia Min Schleppner 1911 I will sing a joyous song 1912 For Viola: De Gustibus A Man to a Woman In San Marco, Venezia 1913 Sicilian Emigrant’s Song On First Opening The Lyric Year 1914 The Wanderer: A Rococo Study [first version] At Dawn Rendezvous To the Outer World La Flor Offering A La Lune The Revelation Transitional Invitation (We live in this flat blue basin) Aux Imagistes Peace Pastorals and Self-Portraits

Self-Portrait 1. (You lie packed) Pastoral 1. [first version] (The old man who goes about) Idyl (Wine of the grey sky) Seraph Pastoral 2. (If I talk to things) Self-Portrait 2. (It is raining) Idyl (They say to me) Grotesque

1915 The Shadow Slow Movement A Confidence 1916 Metric Figure (Veils of clarity) Epigramme Stillness Drink A Love Song: First Version, 1915 Naked (What fool would feel) Marriage The Old Worshipper The Young Housewife Spring Song (Having died) Fire Spirit Night 1917 Sick African Chinese Nightingale

Al Que Quiere! 1917

Sub Terra Pastoral (When I was younger) Chicory and Daisies Metric Figure (There is a bird in the poplars) Woman Walking Gulls Appeal In Harbor Winter Sunset Apology Pastoral (The little sparrows) Love Song (Daisies are broken) M.B. Tract Promenade El Hombre Hero Libertad! Igualdad! Fraternidad! Canthara Mujer Summer Song (Wanderer moon) Love Song (Sweep the house clean) Foreign A Prelude History Winter Quiet Dawn Good Night Danse Russe Portrait of a Woman in Bed Virtue Conquest Portrait of a Young Man with a Bad Heart Keller Gegen Dom Smell! Ballet Sympathetic Portrait of a Child The Ogre Riposte The Old Men Pastoral (If I say I have heard voices) Spring Strains Trees A Portrait in Greys Invitation (You who had the sense) Divertimiento January Morning To a Solitary Disciple Dedication for a Plot of Ground K. McB. Love Song (I lie here thinking of you) The Wanderer

Poems 1918-1921

1918 Love Song (He: You have come between me) Le Médecin Malgré Lui 1919 The Young Laundryman To Be Closely Written on a Small Piece of Paper Which Folded into a Tight Lozenge Will Fit Any Girl’s Locket Stroller Man in a Room 1920 A Coronal To Mark Anthony in Heaven It is a small plant Healall Butterandeggs Thistle Spirit of ’76 Portrait of a Lady Marianne Moore 1921 St. Francis Einstein of the Daffodils [first version] To the Shade of Po Chü-i The Cats’ Month Daybreak

Sour Grapes 1921

The Late Singer March Berket and the Stars A Celebration April (If you had come away with me) A Goodnight Overture to a Dance of Locomotives Romance Moderne The Desolate Field Willow Poem Approach of Winter January Blizzard To Waken an Old Lady Winter Trees Complaint The Cold Night Spring Storm The Delicacies Thursday The Dark Day Time the Hangman To a Friend The Gentle Man The Soughing Wind Spring Play Lines The Poor (By constantly tormenting them) Complete Destruction Memory of April Epitaph Daisy Primrose Queen-Anne’s-Lace Great Mullen Waiting The Hunter Arrival To a Friend Concerning Several Ladies Youth and Beauty The Thinker The Disputants The Tulip Bed The Birds The Nightingales Spouts Blueflags The Widow’s Lament in Springtime Light Hearted William Portrait of the Author The Lonely Street The Great Figure

Spring and All 1923

I. Spring and All II. The Pot of Flowers III. The Farmer IV. Flight to the City V. The Black Winds VI. To Have Done Nothing VII. The Rose (The rose is obsolete) VIII. At the Faucet of June IX. Young Love [first version] X. The Eyeglasses XI. The Right of Way XII. Composition XIII. The Agonized Spires XIV. Death the Barber XV. Light Becomes Darkness XVI. To an Old Jaundiced Woman XVII. Shoot it Jimmy! XVIII. To Elsie XIX. Horned Purple XX. The Sea XXI. Quietness XXII. The Red Wheelbarrow XXIII. Rigamarole XXIV. The Avenue of Poplars XXV. Rapid Transit XXVI. At the Ball Game XXVII. The Wildflower

Poems 1922-1928

1922 Wild Orchard Picture showing My luv The Bull The Jungle Fish Hula-Hula View When Fresh, It Was Sweet 1923 From a Book New England The Drunkard The new cathedral overlooking the park At Night How has the way been found? The Hermaphroditic Telephones 1924 Full Moon [first version] Last Words of My Grandmother [first version] It Is a Living Coral 1926 Interests of 1926 Poem (Daniel Boone) The gayest of bright flowers Struggle of Wings 1927 Tree Paterson March Is a Light Young Sycamore Lines on Receiving The Dial’s Award: 1927 The Dead Baby All the Fancy Things Brilliant Sad Sun Impromptu: The Suckers From: A Folded Skyscraper

1. Hemmed-in Males 2. (Emily Dickinson Wellcome) 3. The Winds 4. (Ezra Pound)

Winter 1928 The Men The Atlantic City Convention, A Composition in Two Parts: Poem and Speech 1. The Waitress 2. The Conservation of the Human Sub-Species On Gay Wallpaper The Lily The Source

The Descent of Winter 1928 Poems 1929-1935

1929 Question and Answer Simplex Sigilum Veri: A Catalogue [first version] 1930 The Flower (A petal, colorless) The Attic Which Is Desire: The Moon— Birds and Flowers Child and Vegetables Delia Primavera Trasportata al Morale

April (the beginning—or) Full Moon The Trees The Wind Increases The Bird’s Companion The House The Sea-Elephant Rain Death (He’s dead) The Botticellian Trees

A Marriage Ritual The Unfrocked Priest Poem (As the cat) Flowers by the Sea [ first version] Sea-Trout and Butterfish 1931 Sunday [first version] A Crystal Maze Readie Pome 1932 Two Aspects of April The Cod Head The Red Lily This Florida: 1924 To In the ‘Sconset Bus 1933 Our (American) Ragcademicians Rhymed Address: The Lobster The Flowers Alone The Locust Tree in Flower [first version] The Centenarian 4th of July Song (The black-winged gull) A Foot-Note Sluggishly 1934 The Entity The Sun Bathers Nantucket This Is Just to Say Young Woman at a Window (While she sits) Young Woman at a Window (She sits with) 1935 To a Dead Journalist

An Early Martyr and Other Poems 1935

An Early Martyr Flowers by the Sea Item The Locust Tree in Flower View of a Lake To a Mexican Pig-Bank To a Poor Old Woman The Sadness of the Sea Late for Summer Weather Proletarian Portrait Tree and Sky The Raper from Passenack Invocation and Conclusion Genesis Solstice The Yachts Young Love Hymn to Love Ended An Elegy for D. H. Lawrence Sunday The Catholic Bells [The Right of Way] Simplex Sigilum Veri [The Dead Baby] [The Black Winds] [The Farmer] [The Wind Increases] To Be Hungry Is to Be Great A Poem for Norman Macleod You Have Pissed Your Life

Adam & Eve & The City 1936

To a Wood Thrush Fine Work with Pitch and Copper [Young Woman at a Window] The Rose (First the warmth) La Belle Dame de Tous les Jours A Chinese Toy Adam Eve St. Francis Einstein of the Daffodils The Death of See To an Elder Poet Unnamed: From “Paterson” The Crimson Cyclamen Translations from the Spanish

1. Cancion 2. Stir your fields to increase 3. The dawn is upon us 4. Tears that still lacked power 5. Poplars of the meadow

Perpetuum Mobile: The City

Poems 1936-1939

1936 The Young Cat and the Chrysanthemums 1937 Paterson: Episode 17 Advent of Today The Girl (with big breasts) Classic Scene The Sun Wind of the Village Autumn Africa Weasel Snout She Who Turns Her Head The Term 1938 Man and Nature The Poor (It’s the anarchy of poverty) Between Walls A Bastard Peace Lovely Ad The Defective Record Middle At the Bar Graph for Action Breakfast To Greet a Letter-Carrier These Morning Porous 1939 The Halfworld The Hard Listener The Return to Work The Last Words of My English Grandmother

Appendix A: A Note on the Text Appendix B: Annotations Appendix C: Tables of Contents for Collected Poems, 1921-1931; Complete Collected Poems; and Collected Earlier Poems Appendix D: Three Additional Poems Acknowledgments Index of Titles Index of First Lines Other Titles Copyright

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