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The term "w c williams" has been searched for 511 times on the American Poems site since July 19th, 2005.
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1. Mrs. Purkapile - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 1124 times on American Poems.
He ran away and was gone for a year.
When he came home he told me the silly story
Of being kidnapped by pirates on Lake Michigan
And kept in chains so he could not write me.
I pretended to believe it, though I knew very well
What he was doing,... (Read full poem)
2. Variations On A Theme By William Carlos Williams - written by Kenneth Koch
Read 1682 times on American Poems.
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I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next summer.
I am sorry, but it was morning, and I had nothing to do
and its wooden beams were so inviting.
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We laughed at the hollyhocks together
and then I sprayed them with... (Read full poem)
3. Mrs. Williams - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 612 times on American Poems.
I was the milliner
Talked about, lied about,
Mother of Dora,
Whose strange disappearance
Was charged to her rearing.
My eye quick to beauty
Saw much beside ribbons
And buckles and feathers
And leghorns and felts,
To set off sweet... (Read full poem)
4. September 1961 - written by Denise Levertov
Read 767 times on American Poems.
This is the year the old ones,
the old great ones
leave us alone on the road.
The road leads to the sea.
We have the words in our pockets,
obscure directions. The old ones
have taken away the light of their presence,
we see it moving away... (Read full poem)
5. Dora Williams - written by Edgar Lee Masters
Read 535 times on American Poems.
When Reuben Pantier ran away and threw me
I went to Springfield. There I met a lush,
Whose father just deceased left him a fortune.
He married me when drunk. My life was wretched.
A year passed and one day they found him dead.
That made me... (Read full poem)
6. My Father's Love Letters - written by Yusef Komunyakaa
Read 3800 times on American Poems.
On Fridays he'd open a can of Jax
After coming home from the mill,
& ask me to write a letter to my mother
Who sent postcards of desert flowers
Taller than men. He would beg,
Promising to never beat her
Again. Somehow I was happy
She had gone, &... (Read full poem)
7. In A Motel Parking Lot, Thinking Of Dr. Williams - written by Wendell Berry
Read 1152 times on American Poems.
I.
The poem is important, but
not more than the people
whose survival it serves,
one of the necessities, so they may
speak what is true, and have
the patience for beauty: the weighted
grainfield, the shady street,
the well-laid stone and the... (Read full poem)
8. Caboose Thoughts - written by Carl Sandburg
From Cornhuskers.
Published in 1918.
Read 1884 times on American Poems.
IT’S going to come out all right—do you know?
The sun, the birds, the grass—they know.
They get along—and we’ll get along.
Some days will be rainy and you will sit waiting
And the letter you wait for won’t come,
And I... (Read full poem)
9. Smoke - written by Philip Levine
Read 754 times on American Poems.
Can you imagine the air filled with smoke?
It was. The city was vanishing before noon
or was it earlier than that? I can't say because
the light came from nowhere and went nowhere.
This was years ago, before you were born, before
your parents met... (Read full poem)
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