William Carlos Williams

Here you will find thePoemYouth and Beautyof poet William Carlos Williams

Youth and Beauty

I bought a dishmop-- having no daughter-- for they had twisted fine ribbons of shining copper about white twine and made a tousled head of it, fastened it upon a turned ash stick slender at the neck straight, tall-- when tied upright on the brass wallbracket to be a light for me and naked as a girl should seem to her father.