A BOOK OF POEMS

AL QUE QUIERE!

By William Carlos Williams
THE TEMPERS
[London: Elkin Mathews]

A BOOK OF POEMS
AL QUE QUIERE!

BY
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

BOSTON
THE FOUR SEAS COMPANY
1917
Copyright, 1917, by
THE FOUR SEAS COMPANY
The Four Seas Press
Boston, Mass., U. S. A.

Había sido un arbusto desmedrado que prolonga sus filamentos hasta encontrar el humus necesario en una tierra nueva. Y cómo me nutría! Me nutría con la beatitud con que las hojas trémulas de clorófila se extienden al sol; con la beatitud con que una raíz encuentra un cadáver en descompositión; con la beatitud con que los convalecientes dan sus pasos vacilantes en las mañanas de primavera, bañadas de luz; ...

RAFAEL ARÉVALO MARTÍNEZ

Many of the poems in this book have appeared in magazines, especially in Poetry, Others, The Egoist, and The Poetry Journal.

CONTENTS

PAGE
[Sub Terra][13]
[Pastoral][14]
[Chickory and Daisies][15]
[Metric Figure][16]
[Woman Walking][17]
[Gulls][18]
[Appeal][19]
[In Harbor][20]
[Winter Sunset][21]
[Apology][22]
[Pastoral][23]
[Love Song][24]
[M. B.][25]
[Tract][26]
[Promenade][29]
[El Hombre][31]
[Hero][31]
[Libertad! Igualdad! Fraternidad!][32]
[Canthara][33]
[Mujer][33]
[Summer Song][34]
[Love Song][35]
[Foreign][35]
[A Prelude][36]
[History][37]
[Winter Quiet][42]
[Dawn][42]
[Good Night][43]
[Danse Russe][44]
[Portrait of a Woman in Bed][45]
[Virtue][47]
[Conquest][49]
[Portrait of a Young Man With a Bad Heart][49]
[Keller Gegen Dom][50]
[Smell][52]
[Ballet][52]
[Sympathetic Portrait of a Child][54]
[The Ogre][55]
[Riposte][56]
[The Old Men][57]
[Pastoral][57]
[Spring Strains][58]
[Trees][59]
[A Portrait in Greys][60]
[Invitation][61]
[Divertimiento][62]
[January Morning][62]
[To a Solitary Disciple][67]
[Dedication for a Plot of Ground][69]
[K. McB.][70]
[Love Song][71]
[The Wanderer][75]