The Soughing WindAuthor(s): William Carlos WilliamsSource: Poetry, Vol. 13, No. 6 (Mar., 1919), p. 302Published by: Poetry FoundationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20572026 .

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POETRY: A Magazine of Verse

A FRIEND OF MINE

Well, Lizzie Anderson! seventeen men-and The baby hard to find a father for!

What will the good father in heaven say To the local judge if he do not solve this problem? Does one with a little two-pointed smile Change the law-pouff!-into a mouthful of phrases?

THE GENTLE MAN

I feel the caress of my own fingers On my own neck as I place my collar And think pityingly of the kind Women I have known.

TO BE CLOSELY WRITTEN ON A SMALL PIECE OF PAPER

WHICH FOLDED INTO A TIGHT LOZENGE WILL

FIT ANY GIRL S LOCKET

Lo the leaves Upon the new autumn grass Look at them well . . .!

THE SOUGHING WIND

Some leaves hang late, and some fall Before the first frost-so goes The tale of winter branches and old bones.

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