The Lonely StreetAuthor(s): William Carlos WilliamsSource: Poetry, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Jan., 1922), p. 201Published by: Poetry FoundationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20573414 .

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William Carlos Williams

they mark the hillside. It is a formal grandeur,

a stateliness, a signal of finality and perfect ease. Among the savage

aristocracy of rocks one, risen as a tree, has turned from his repose.

THE LONELY STREET

School is over. It is too hot to walk at ease. At ease in light frocks they walk the streets to while the time away. They have grown tall. They hold pink flames in their right hands. In white from head to foot, with sidelong, idle look in yellow, floating stuff, black sash and stockings touching their avid mouths with pink sugar on a stick like a carnation each holds in her hand they mount the lonely street.

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