Home » American Poets » William Carlos Williams

Complete Destruction

by William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams

It was an icy day.
We buried the cat,
then took her box
and set fire to it
in the back yard.
Those fleas that escaped
earth and fire
died by the cold.




Quotes of the Day

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
• Alfred Lord Tennyson


Poems of the Day
    Edwin Arlington Robinson

    Her Eyes
    Up from the street and the crowds that went, Morning and midnight, to and fro, Still was the room where his days he spent, And the stars were ...