"all to no end save beauty
the eternal
So in detail they, the crowd,
are beautiful" William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), U.S. poet. At the Ball Game (l. 9-12). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press. |
"It is summer, it is the solstice
the crowd is
cheering, the crowd is laughing
in detail
permanently, seriously
without thought" William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), U.S. poet. At the Ball Game (l. 31-36). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press. |
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