love song
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Love SongAuthor(s): William Carlos WilliamsSource: Poetry, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Nov., 1916), pp. 81-82Published by: Poetry FoundationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20570960 .
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NEW VERSE
LOVE SONG
What have I to say to you When we shall meet? Yet I lie here thinking of you.
The stain of love Is upon the world. Yellow, yellow, yellow, It eats into the leaves, Smears with saffron TheXhorned branches that lean Heavily Against a smooth purple sky.
There is no light Only a honey-thick stain That drips from leaf to leaf And limb to limb, Spoiling the colors Of the whole world.
I am alone. The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.
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POETRY: A Magazine of Verse
See me! My hair is dripping with nectar Starlings carry it On their black wings. See, at last
My arms and my hands Are lying idle.
How can I tell If I shall ever love you again
As I do now?
NAKED
What fool would feel His cheeks burn Because of the snow?
Would he call it By a name, give it Breasts, features, Bare limbs ? Would he call it A woman? (Surely then he would be
A fool.)
And see her, Warmed-with the cold,
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