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

Metric Figure

By William Carlos Williams

THERE is a bird in the poplars—

It is the sun!

The leaves are little yellow fish

Swimming in the river;

The bird skims above them—

Day is on his wings.

Phoenix!

It is he that is making

The great gleam among the poplars.

It is his singing

Outshines the noise

Of leaves clashing in the wind.