Sour Grapes: A Book of Poems
‘SOUR GRAPES’
A Book of Poems
BOSTON The Four Seas Company 1921
Copyright, 1921, by The Four Seas Company
The Four Seas Press Boston, Mass., U. S. A.
To ALFRED KREYMBORG
Certain of the poems in this book have appeared in the magazines: Poetry , a Magazine of Verse , The Egoist , The Little Review , The Dial , Others , and Contact .
William Carlos Williams
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CONTENTS
SOUR GRAPES
THE LATE SINGER
MARCH
BERKET AND THE STARS
A CELEBRATION
APRIL
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
COMPLETE DESTRUCTION
MEMORY OF APRIL
EPITAPH
DAISY
PRIMROSE
QUEEN-ANN’S-LACE
GREAT MULLEN
WAITING
THE HUNTER
ARRIVAL
TO A FRIEND CONCERNING SEVERAL LADIES
YOUTH AND BEAUTY
THE THINKER
THE DISPUTANTS
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