The tree lay down on the garage roof and stretched, You have your heaven, it said, go to it.

from The Collected Poems: Vol. II, 1939-1962. Copyright © 1944 by New Directions Publishing Corporation. Used with permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved.

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Poems by This Author

A Love Song by William Carlos Williams What have I to say to you Approach of Winter by William Carlos Williams The half-stripped trees Asphodel, That Greeny Flower [excerpt] by William Carlos Williams Of asphodel, that greeny flower, Complaint by William Carlos Williams They call me and I go Complete Destruction by William Carlos Williams It was an icy day Danse Russe by William Carlos Williams If when my wife is sleeping Details for Paterson by William Carlos Williams I just saw two boys For the Poem Paterson [1. Detail] by William Carlos Williams Her milk don't seem to For the Poem Paterson [3. St. Valentine] by William Carlos Williams A woman's breasts Gulls by William Carlos Williams My townspeople, beyond in the great world It Is a Small Plant by William Carlos Williams It is a small plant Landscape With The Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams According to Brueghel Marriage by William Carlos Williams So different, this man Peace on Earth by William Carlos Williams The Archer is wake Poem [Daniel Boone] by William Carlos Williams Daniel Boone, the father of Kentucky Poem [on getting a card] by William Carlos Williams on getting a card Queen-Anne's-Lace by William Carlos Williams Her body is not so white as Smell by William Carlos Williams Oh strong-ridged and deeply hollowed Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital] by William Carlos Williams By the road to the contagious hospital Spring and All, XIV by William Carlos Williams Of death Spring Storm by William Carlos Williams The sky has given over Summer Song by William Carlos Williams Wanderer moon The Descent by William Carlos Williams The descent beckons The Great Figure by William Carlos Williams Among the rain The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams so much depends The Uses of Poetry by William Carlos Williams I've fond anticipation of a day The Widow's Lament in Springtime by William Carlos Williams Sorrow is my own yard This Is Just To Say by William Carlos Williams I have eaten To a Poor Old Woman by William Carlos Williams munching a plum on To Elsie by William Carlos Williams The pure products of America Tract by William Carlos Williams I will teach you my townspeople Winter Trees by William Carlos Williams All the complicated details

Further Reading

Poems About Weather (Soma)tic 5: Storm SOAKED Bread by CAConrad Becoming Weather, 21 by Chris Martin Snow-Bound [The sun that brief December day] by John Greenleaf Whittier The Book of a Thousand Eyes [Rain, queen] by Lyn Hejinian A Line-storm Song by Robert Frost A Winter Without Snow by J. D. McClatchy An Octave Above Thunder by Carol Muske-Dukes Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm by Carl Phillips Dispatches from Devereux Slough by Mark Jarman Even the Rain by Agha Shahid Ali Flood by Miyazawa Kenji Flood by Eliza Griswold Great Sleeps I Have Known by Robin Becker History of Hurricanes by Teresa Cader Identity Crisis by F. D. Reeve In April by James Hearst Into Bad Weather Bounding by Bin Ramke It Was Raining In Delft by Peter Gizzi L’Avenir est Quelque Chose by Dobby Gibson Now Winter Nights Enlarge by Thomas Campion Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley Passage I by Maureen N. McLane Problems with Hurricanes by Victor Hernández Cruz Purism by Vona Groarke Rain by Claribel Alegría Shells by Elaine Terranova Sitting Outside by W. D. Snodgrass Sleet by Alan Shapiro Snow by Naomi Shihab Nye The Snow Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson The Storm by Theodore Roethke The Woman and the Flame by Aimé Césaire Who Has Seen the Wind? by Christina Rossetti