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William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, in 1883. He began writing poetry while a student at Horace Mann High School, at which time he made the decision to become...
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FURTHER READING
Poems About Home
Fishing on the Susquehanna in July
by Billy Collins
Home is so Sad
by Philip Larkin
My House, I Say
by Robert Louis Stevenson
On the Disadvantages of Central Heating
by Amy Clampitt
Te Deum
by Charles Reznikoff
The Cabbage
by Ruth Stone
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
by W. B. Yeats
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From Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?
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This Is Just To Say  
by William Carlos Williams

I have eaten

the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold



Copyright © 1962 by William Carlos Williams. Used with permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. No part of this poem may be reproduced in any form without the written consent of the publisher.
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