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Leaping over printed hurdles - William Carlos Williams "11/1"

Their energy comes from bread - William Carlos Williams "11/1"

That you may break them utterly - William Carlos Williams "Ad Infinitum"

A splendour of purple garments - William Carlos Williams "An After Song"

From the day's leaping of horses - William Carlos Williams "An After Song"

Here in the modern twilight - William Carlos Williams "An After Song"

The terrible faces of our nonentities - William Carlos Williams "Apology"

The set pieces of your faces - William Carlos Williams "Apology"

Struck by a wind together - William Carlos Williams "Approach of Winter"

Out of the nothing beyond the lake - William Carlos Williams "April"

Opening hearts of lilac - William Carlos Williams "April"

That there were flowers also in hell - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]

The lily's throat to the hummingbird - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]

A thousand tropics in an apple blossom - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]

The whole world became my garden - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]

The sea which no one tends - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]

Starfish stiffened by the sun - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]

Rose hedges to the very water's brink - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]

Before the spectacle of our lives - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]

Crimson petals spilled among the stones - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]

Weakest flower shall be our trust - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]

While my very bones sweated - William Carlos Williams "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" [excerpt]

Great gold cross shining in the wind - William Carlos Williams "Ballet"

Seeing the stars turning over you - William Carlos Williams "Ballet"

Robin, untwisting a song - William Carlos Williams "Ballet"

Fling ourselves round with dust lilies - William Carlos Williams "Ballet"

Will crush forth our laughter - William Carlos Williams "Ballet"

The boulevards chosen out of ten years - William Carlos Williams "Berket and the Stars"

The full sweep of certain wave summits - William Carlos Williams "Berket and the Stars"

A clutter of yellow and blue - William Carlos Williams "Blizzard"

Years of anger following - William Carlos Williams "Blizzard"

All recognition lost - William Carlos Williams "Burning the Christmas Greens"

At the winter's midnight - William Carlos Williams "Burning the Christmas Greens"

Breathless to be witnesses - William Carlos Williams "Burning the Christmas Greens"

Broken against cold winds - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

A slow hand lifted a tide - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

Causing the sun to shine in his sphere - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

By virtue of brown eyes turning back the seasons - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

Sets spinning on waxen wings - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

Heavy sweetness proves its own caretaker - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

A handful of dead Februarys - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

This full, fragile head of veined lavender - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

This branch of blue butterflies - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

June is a yellow cup I'll not name - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

Time is a green orchid - William Carlos Williams "A Celebration"

Lift your flowers on bitter stems - William Carlos Williams "Chickory and Daisies"

And scorn greyness - William Carlos Williams "Chickory and Daisies"

Has sent one golden needle - William Carlos Williams "Complaint"

A frozen road past midnight - William Carlos Williams "Complaint"

Those fleas that escaped earth and fire - William Carlos Williams "Complete Destruction"

By the god of blood - William Carlos Williams "Con Brio"

Straw grey, frost grey - William Carlos Williams "Conquest"

The grey of frozen ground - William Carlos Williams "Conquest"

A black tree trunk icily resplendent - William Carlos Williams "Conquest"

Rimming the banked blue grey - William Carlos Williams "Conquest"

Into overpowering white - William Carlos Williams "Conquest"

The corner of a great rain - William Carlos Williams "Contemporania"

Hugging the earth in August - William Carlos Williams "Daisy"

Spring is gone down in purple - William Carlos Williams "Daisy"

The mind dances with itself - William Carlos Williams "The Dance"

The sun is a flame-white disc - William Carlos Williams "Danse Russe"

Silken mists above shining trees - William Carlos Williams "Danse Russe"

Blow the thin streams aslant - William Carlos Williams "The Dark Day"

Winds of the white poppy - William Carlos Williams "The Dark Day"

The hollow vastness of the sky - William Carlos Williams "Dawn"

Always at some new loving treason - William Carlos Williams "The Death of Franco of Cologne: His Prophecy of Beethoven"

The burning dust from his wheels - William Carlos Williams "The Death of Franco of Cologne: His Prophecy of Beethoven"

Ice cream in the shape of flowers - William Carlos Williams "The Delicacies"

As the ascent beckoned - William Carlos Williams "The Descent"

A place formerly unsuspected - William Carlos Williams "The Descent"

Alive by reason of the sun - William Carlos Williams "The Descent"

What is denied to love - William Carlos Williams "The Descent"

Whose days are vast and gray - William Carlos Williams "The Desolate Field"

Lady of rivers strewn with stones - William Carlos Williams "First Praise"

For the bird was Truth - William Carlos Williams "The Fool's Song"

Broke my pretty cage - William Carlos Williams "The Fool's Song"

Plash into the clean white sink - William Carlos Williams "Good Night"

Three girls in crimson satin - William Carlos Williams "Good Night"

Memory playing the clown - William Carlos Williams "Good Night"

Tideless waves thundering slantwise - William Carlos Williams "A Goodnight"

Spray dashed thirty feet high - William Carlos Williams "A Goodnight"

The wild chill in their eyes - William Carlos Williams "A Goodnight"

The burning liquor of moonlight - William Carlos Williams "A Goodnight"

The gutters packed with dead leaves - William Carlos Williams "A Goodnight"

Wheels rumbling through the dark city - William Carlos Williams "The Great Figure"

And sends up a lighthouse to peer from - William Carlos Williams "Great Mullen"

Will not soon have another singer - William Carlos Williams "Gulls"

From all that division and subtraction - William Carlos Williams "Heel & Toe to the End"

Jocular in no wise - William Carlos Williams "Hic Jacet"

How they jibe at loss - William Carlos Williams "Hic Jacet"

An arrogance endured six thousand years - William Carlos Williams "History"

And eat the air of the place - William Carlos Williams "History"

Will mount again into rose-leaves - William Carlos Williams "History"

Holds an edge against the weather - William Carlos Williams "History"

Worn against the years - William Carlos Williams "History"

The yellow and purple dusk - William Carlos Williams "History"

All vain souls candles when noon is - William Carlos Williams "Homage"

The loud clangour of pretenders - William Carlos Williams "Homage"

A strange courage you give me - William Carlos Williams "El Hombre"

Shine alone in the sunrise - William Carlos Williams "El Hombre"

One thing braver than all flowers - William Carlos Williams "Immortal"

An injured Juno roused against Heaven's King - William Carlos Williams "Immortal"

There is always the morning - William Carlos Williams "In Harbor"

From among those trumpeting petals - William Carlos Williams "Iris"

A finished thing guarding its secret - William Carlos Williams "It Is a Small Plant"

Forty flowers on twenty stems - William Carlos Williams "It Is a Small Plant"

A wish achieved and half lost again - William Carlos Williams "It Is a Small Plant"

Or I do not live at all - William Carlos Williams "The Ivy Crown"

Just as the nature of briars - William Carlos Williams "The Ivy Crown"

To make roses stand before thorns - William Carlos Williams "The Ivy Crown"

Reply to the triple winds - William Carlos Williams "January"

Chromatic fifths of derision - William Carlos Williams "January"

The strange hours we keep to see them - William Carlos Williams "January Morning"

Exquisite brown waves - William Carlos Williams "January Morning"

Long circlets of silver moving - William Carlos Williams "January Morning"

Expect the ground to be always solid - William Carlos Williams "K. McB."

Even become dust - William Carlos Williams "K. McB."

Some wind-dancing afternoon - William Carlos Williams "Keller Gegen Dom"

In the futile darkness of a wall - William Carlos Williams "Keller Gegen Dom"

Stars dancing to the crack of a leaf - William Carlos Williams "Keller Gegen Dom"

The sun that melted the wings' wax - William Carlos Williams "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"

This was Icarus drowning - William Carlos Williams "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"

Dreams that have destroyed us - William Carlos Williams "Libertad! Igualdad! Fraternidad!"

Turn bitter in the end - William Carlos Williams "Libertad! Igualdad! Fraternidad!"

Twirled his November moustaches - William Carlos Williams "Light Hearted William"

Quietly twirling his green moustaches - William Carlos Williams "Light Hearted William"

Hold pink flames in their right hands - William Carlos Williams "The Lonely Street"

Gold and silver mixed to one - William Carlos Williams "Love"

Petals are news of the day - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"

With a roar show the white - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"

Little loaves of sweet smells - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"

Sweet smells from a white sky - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"

A burst of fragrance from black branches - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"

Only a honey-thick stain - William Carlos Williams "Love Song"

Has spent this snow out of envy - William Carlos Williams "M. B."

And disdains even the sun - William Carlos Williams "M. B."

And try them against the sky's limits - William Carlos Williams "M. B."

Winter is long in this climate - William Carlos Williams "March"

A flower or two picked from mud - William Carlos Williams "March"

Against treacherous bitterness of wind - William Carlos Williams "March"

In blue and yellow enamel - William Carlos Williams "March"

Dragons in embossed brickwork marching - William Carlos Williams "March"

The sacred way to Nebuchadnezzar's throne - William Carlos Williams "March"

The dust of ten thousand dirt years - William Carlos Williams "March"

Bared by the storms from my calendar - William Carlos Williams "March"

Lining the way to an old altar - William Carlos Williams "March"

Seeking the flowers of March - William Carlos Williams "March"

With all the ridicule of misery - William Carlos Williams "March"

The leaves are little yellow fish - William Carlos Williams "Metric Figure"

Outshines the noise of leaves clashing - William Carlos Williams "Metric Figure"

Pointing to the life-giving water - William Carlos Williams "The Motor-Barge"

Already cursed with offspring - William Carlos Williams "Mujer"

In silent attitudes of attention - William Carlos Williams "The Old Men"

Swim the winding flame - William Carlos Williams "The Ordeal"

The fire roots that circle him - William Carlos Williams "The Ordeal"

Until the Hell-flower dies down - William Carlos Williams "The Ordeal"

The shuffling of all ants be done forever - William Carlos Williams "Overture to a Dance of Locomotives"

A leaning pyramid of sunlight - William Carlos Williams "Overture to a Dance of Locomotives"

Poised horizontal on glittering parallels - William Carlos Williams "Overture to a Dance of Locomotives"

Rails forever parallel return on themselves - William Carlos Williams "Overture to a Dance of Locomotives"

Dipped his hand in the black waters of the sky - William Carlos Williams "Pastoral"

Nor picked the yellow lilies - William Carlos Williams "Pastoral"

To touch fingers with the moon - William Carlos Williams "Pastoral"

Quarreling with sharp voices - William Carlos Williams "Pastoral [The little sparrows]"

There is hunting in heaven - William Carlos Williams "Peace on Earth"

Beautifully and completely rotten - William Carlos Williams "Perfection"

Red cradle of the night - William Carlos Williams "Portent"

Shall be piled sinew on sinew - William Carlos Williams "Portent"

To separate you from your greyness - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"

Into your grey-brown landscapes - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"

Always against a grey sky - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"

The motion of our drawing apart - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"

Touching a grey, broken sky - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"

Level and undisturbed by colors - William Carlos Williams "A Portrait in Greys"

We are alone in this terror - William Carlos Williams "Portrait of the Author"

Face to face on this road - William Carlos Williams "Portrait of the Author"

Let the polished plows stay idle - William Carlos Williams "Portrait of the Author"

Crushes my house and leaves me - William Carlos Williams "Portrait of the Author"

In a fury of lilac blossoms - William Carlos Williams "Portrait of the Author"

Temples soothed by sun to ruin - William Carlos Williams "Postlude"

Wall flowers that once were flame - William Carlos Williams "Postlude"

Gold of tarnished masonry - William Carlos Williams "Postlude"

Arrows to shoot the stars - William Carlos Williams "Postlude"

Pink confused with white flowers - William Carlos Williams "The Pot of Flowers"

Spill the shaded flame - William Carlos Williams "The Pot of Flowers"

Only the bare rocks of today - William Carlos Williams "A Prelude"

My brown sea-weed - William Carlos Williams "A Prelude"

The shadow under a bush - William Carlos Williams "Primrose"

Forget-me-nots in the ditch - William Carlos Williams "Primrose"

No destructive pressure but time - William Carlos Williams "The Problem"

Wild carrot taking the field by force - William Carlos Williams "Queen-Ann's-Lace"

Ebbing back into the sun - William Carlos Williams "Romance Moderne"

Plunging glassy funnels fall - William Carlos Williams "Romance Moderne"

A hound running over rough ground - William Carlos Williams "Romance Moderne"

Detached dance of gnomes - William Carlos Williams "Romance Moderne"

Sliding mists sheeting the alders - William Carlos Williams "Romance Moderne"

Green stars of scrawny weed - William Carlos Williams "Romance Moderne"

Light withdrawing its tattered shreds - William Carlos Williams "Romance Moderne"

Myriads of counter processions - William Carlos Williams "Romance Moderne"

With mortal fear you reward me - William Carlos Williams "El Romancero"

The heavy torture of sorrows unbrightened - William Carlos Williams "El Romancero"

Eyes of hope's fair assurance - William Carlos Williams "El Romancero"

Cementing the grooved columns of air - William Carlos Williams "The Rose"

At the edge of the petal - William Carlos Williams "The Rose"

The souring flowers of the bedraggled poplars - William Carlos Williams "Smell!"

With what deep thirst we quicken - William Carlos Williams "Smell!"

To reconcile the people and the stones - William Carlos Williams "A Sort of a Song"

Flower that splits the rocks - William Carlos Williams "A Sort of a Song"

Of winter branches and old bones - William Carlos Williams "The Soughing Wind"

Cutting my life with sleep - William Carlos Williams "Spring and All"

The sea of many arms - William Carlos Williams "Spring and All"

The blazing secrecy of noon - William Carlos Williams "Spring and All"

Cold with dead men's tears - William Carlos Williams "Spring and All"

By the force of the moon - William Carlos Williams "Spring and All"

Enter the new world naked - William Carlos Williams "Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital]"

Now the stark dignity of entrance - William Carlos Williams "Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital]"

Rooted, they grip down and begin - William Carlos Williams "Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital]"

The sky has given over its bitterness - William Carlos Williams "Spring Storm"

Water from a thousand runnels - William Carlos Williams "Spring Storm"

A tissue-thin monotone of blue-grey buds - William Carlos Williams "Spring Strains"

Tense blue-grey twigs - William Carlos Williams "Spring Strains"

Two blue-grey birds chasing a third - William Carlos Williams "Spring Strains"

Smoke from a few lean chimneys - William Carlos Williams "The Storm"

The burrowing pride that rises - William Carlos Williams "Sub Terra"

Could fathom the guts of shadows - William Carlos Williams "Sub Terra"

Wanderer moon smiling - William Carlos Williams "Summer Song"

Unrelated to jealous ears and eyes - William Carlos Williams "These"

And decide to dream no more - William Carlos Williams "Thursday"

A solace of ripe plums - William Carlos Williams "To a Poor Old Woman"

How motionless the eaten moon - William Carlos Williams "To a Solitary Disciple"

Morning brown-stone and slate - William Carlos Williams "To a Solitary Disciple"

The jasmine lightness of the moon - William Carlos Williams "To a Solitary Disciple"

Deer going by fields of goldenrod - William Carlos Williams "To Elsie"

Will have a heavier rain - William Carlos Williams "Tract"

With some show of inconvenience - William Carlos Williams "Tract"

On your little grey-black hillock - William Carlos Williams "Trees"

Toward the infinite summits of the night - William Carlos Williams "Trees"

Even you the few grey stars - William Carlos Williams "Trees"

Into a vague melody of harsh threads - William Carlos Williams "Trees"

The bitter horizontals of a north wind - William Carlos Williams "Trees"

Whose fruits all anguish mend - William Carlos Williams "The Uses of Poetry"

The mad sun himself -- blackened crimson - William Carlos Williams "Virtue"

Waved me from the white wet - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

Grey gulls among the white - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

At her throat is loose gold - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

Instantly down the mists of my eyes - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

Her voice entered at my eyes - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

Who know all fires out of the bodies - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

Tense air enjoying the dusty fight - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

Heard her voice in a low thunder - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

My voice of leaves and varicolored bark - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

In the waving grass of your minds - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

Under the eaves of your spirit - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

The weight of the sky is upon them - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

My voice was a seed in the wind - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

A vine among oaks - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

The wind coming that stills birds - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

Until time had been washed finally under - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

In memory of this clear marriage - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

Sorrow is my own yard - William Carlos Williams "The Widow's Lament in Springtime"

Where the new grass flames - William Carlos Williams "The Widow's Lament in Springtime"

A willow when summer is over - William Carlos Williams "Willow Poem"

One opaque stone of a cloud - William Carlos Williams "Winter Sunset"

Prepared their buds against a sure winter - William Carlos Williams "Winter Trees"

Wise trees stand sleeping in the cold - William Carlos Williams "Winter Trees"

An oblique cloud of purple smoke - William Carlos Williams "Woman Walking"

On a sheet of grey sky - William Carlos Williams "Woman Walking"

A dark crimson corner of roof - William Carlos Williams "Woman Walking"

Toward me from that dead hillside - William Carlos Williams "Woman Walking"

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