Sour Grapes

Sour Grapes  (1921)  by William Carlos Williams

The Late Singer→

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SOUR GRAPES
A Book of Poems


BOSTON
THE FOUR SEAS COMPANY
1921

To
ARTHUR KREYMBORG

Certain of the poems in this book have appeared in the magazines Poetry, a Magazine of Verse, The Egoist, The Little Review, The Dial, Others, and Contact.

Contents

• The Late Singer
• March
• Berket and the Stars
• A Celebration
• April
• A Goodnight
• Overture to a Dance of Locomotives
• Romance Moderne
• The Desolate Field
• Willow Poem
• Approach of Winter
• January
• Blizzard
• To Waken and Old Lady
• Winter Trees
• Complaint
• The Cold Night
• Spring Storm
• The Delicacies
• Thursday
• The Dark Day
• Time, the Hangman
• To a Friend (Williams)
• The Gentle Man
• The Soughing Wind
• Spring
• Play
• Lines
• The Poor
• Complete Destruction
• Memory of April
• Epitaph
• Daisy
• Primrose
• Queen-Ann's-Lace
• Great Mullen
• Waiting
• The Hunter
• Arrival
• To a Friend Concerning Several Ladies
• Youth and Beauty
• The Thinker
• The Disputants
• The Tulip Bead
• The Birds
• The Nightingales
• Spouts
• Blueflags
• The Widow's Lament in Spring
• Light Hearted William
• Portrait of the Author
• The Lonely Street
• The Great Figure

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1963, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 30 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.