THE TEMPERS


THE TEMPERS

BY
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
LONDON
ELKIN MATHEWS, CORK STREET
M CM XIII


TO
CARLOS HOHEB


CONTENTS

PAGE
Peace on Earth[7]
Postlude[8]
First Praise[9]
Homage[10]
The Fool's Song[11]
From "The Birth of Venus," Song[12]
Immortal[13]
Mezzo Forte[14]
An After Song[15]
Crude Lament[16]
The Ordeal[17]
The Death of Franco of Cologne: His Prophecy of Beethoven[18]
Portent[21]
Con Brio[22]
Ad Infinitum[23]
Translations from the Spanish, "El Romancero"[24]
Hic Jacet[30]
Contemporania[31]
To wish Myself Courage[32]