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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
STILLNESS, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poet's Biography
First Line: Heavy white rooves / of rutherford
Last Line: And say -- nothing.
Subject(s): Silence
First Line: Heavy white rooves / of rutherford
Last Line: And say -- nothing.
Subject(s): Silence
Heavy white rooves
of Rutherford
sloping west and east
under the fast darkening sky:
What have I to say to you
that you may whisper it to them
in the night?
Round you
is a great smouldering distance
on all sides
that engulfs you
in utter loneliness.
Lean above their beds tonight
snow covered rooves;
listen;
feel them stirring warmly within
and say -- nothing.
Other Poems of Interest...
QUIET AND THE SHELL by ROBERT KELLY
A SONG OF SILENCE by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON
TANKA DIARY (9) by HARRYETTE MULLEN
7 A.M., A MAN AND A WOMAN by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR
THIS MORNING, GOD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR