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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

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William Carlos Williams

From “Broken Windows”

I HAVE seen the hills blue,

I have seen them purple;

And it is as hard to know

The words of a woman

As to straighten the crumpled branch

Of an old willow.