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LinesAuthor(s): William Carlos WilliamsSource: Poetry, Vol. 13, No. 6 (Mar., 1919), p. 304Published by: Poetry FoundationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20572032 .
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POETRY: A Magazine of Verse
PLAY
Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am, By what devious means do you contrive To remain idle? Teach me, 0 Master.
LINES
Leaves are grey-green, The glass broken bright green.
TH E DARK DAY
A three-day-long rain from the east An interminable talking, talking Of no consequence-patter, patter, patter. Hand in hand little winds Blow the thin streams aslant.
Warm. Distance cut off. Seclusion. A few passers-by, drawn in upon themselves, Hurry from one place to another. Winds of the white poppy! there is no escape! An interminable talking, talking, Talking . . . . it has happened before. Backward, backward, backward.
THURSDAY
I have had my dream-like others And it has come to nothing, so that
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