William Carlos Williams

Here you will find the Poem Haymaking of poet William Carlos Williams

Haymaking

The living quality of 
the man's mind 
stands out 

and its covert assertions 
for art, art, art! 
painting 

that the Renaissance 
tried to absorb 
but 

it remained a wheat field 
over which the 
wind played 

men with scythes tumbling 
the wheat in 
rows 

the gleaners already busy 
it was his own--- 
magpies 

the patient horses no one 
could take that 
from him