MarriageAuthor(s): William Carlos WilliamsSource: Poetry, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Nov., 1916), p. 84Published by: Poetry FoundationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20570962 .

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POETRY: a Magazine of Verse

What! Would he see a thing Lovelier than A high-school girl, With the skill Of Venus To stand naked Naked on the air?

Falling snow and you up there-waiting.

MARRIAGE

So different, this man And this woman: A stream flowing In a field.

APOLOGY

Why do I write today? The beauty of The terrible faces Of our nonentities Stirs me to it:

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