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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
APRIL, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: If you had come away with me
Last Line: I awoke smiling but tired.
Subject(s): April
First Line: If you had come away with me
Last Line: I awoke smiling but tired.
Subject(s): April
If you had come away with me
into another state
we had been quiet together.
But there the sun coming up
out of the nothing beyond the lake was
too low in the sky,
there was too great a pushing
against him,
too much of sumac buds, pink
in the head
with the clear gum upon them,
too many opening hearts of lilac leaves,
too many, too many swollen
limp poplar tassels on the
bare branches!
It was too strong in the air.
I had no rest against that
springtime!
The pounding of the hoofs on the
raw sods
stayed with me half through the night.
I awoke smiling but tired.
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