Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO THE OUTER WORLD, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS


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First Line: At peace here -- I feel you about me
Last Line: And we will join you all wherever you may be circling.
Subject(s): Hope


At peace here -- I feel you about me.
Do not think that I disdain your fine clothing,
The distinction of your robes clinging about the shoulders,

The magnificence of your ruddy hair, the grace of your distinguished bearing
As you move athwart me -- here keeping
Pace to your splendors with my heart beats!

Surely the air were bare indeed
Were I not reaching up into it continually
To feel you passing.

But mighty and many as you are
There is one I have never seen among you,
Some small passer it may be: it is she keeps me waiting.

When she comes -- if she come -- in the end,
I shall spring up beside her well at ease
And we will join you all wherever you may be circling.





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