...true of Romance Moderne. And while I think other "line patterns" could be more effective, I quite like Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. 15 Yet a great deal of the volume is not fresh, unusual, and illuminative. A great deal of it is "sour...

...I feel that I would like to go there and fall into those flowers and sink into the marsh near them. TO WAKEN AN OLD LADY Old age is a flight of small...covered with broken seed-husks, and the wind tempered with a shrill piping of plenty. Yvor Winters TWO SONGS OF ADVENT On the desert, between pale mountains,...

...I feel that I would like to go there and fall into those flowers and sink into the marsh near them. TO WAKEN AN OLD LADY Old age is a flight of small...covered with broken seed-husks, and the wind tempered with a shrill piping of plenty. Yvor Winters TWO SONGS OF ADVENT On the desert, between pale mountains,...

...remain relatively stationary: rails forever parallel return on themselves infinitely. The dance is sure. To Waken An Old Lady Old age is a flight of small...and the wind tempered by a shrill piping of plenty. Arrival And yet one arrives somehow, finds himself loosening the hooks of her dress in a strange bedroom...

...over a wild solitude. The man turns and there — his solitary track stretched out upon the world. TO WAKEN AN OLD LADY Old age is a flight of small...failing they are buffeted by a dark wind — But what? the flock has rested, the snow is covered with broken seedhusks and the wind tempered by a shrill piping...

...products of America go crazy— (1. 1-2) CMoP; InPS; NAAL-2; NOBA; OxBA; PoE To Waken an Old Lady 43 . z .`E . (1. 1—6) HAP; InPK; NoP; QFR; WeW 503 POETRY QUOTATIONS 504 44 I begin with a design for a hearse....

...sends me a poem by William Carlos Williams called 'To Waken an Old Lady.' I've never read it before: Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming...and the wind tempered by a shrill piping of plenty. Ed advises me: 'Don't be too resigned; keep some shrillness in your piping of plenty.' The postscript...

...Baldness." Williams' 'To Waken an Old Lady" deals with the topic of old age. The poem opens with a conceit: Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. (CP 1: 152) It is evident that the image of "small / cheeping birds" here is used by Williams as an...

...Williams achieved a long slender look on the page when he wrote in his poem "To Waken an Old Lady" (1938): Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. The poem goes on in its narrow columnlike format for eighteen lines. While free verse allows the writer...