William Carlos Williams

American poet and physician William Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford, N.J. and educated in Geneva, Switzerland, the University of Pennsylvania (M.D., 1906), and the University of Leipzig, where he studied pediatrics.

Winds, The

by William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2<author>
3  <person id="12866" sex="1" role="author">
4    <name>
5      <firstname>William Carlos</firstname>
6      <lastname>Williams</lastname>
7    </name>
8    <life-events>
9      <date ty="birth" circa="false" suffix="ad">1883</date>
10      <date ty="death" circa="false" suffix="ad">1963</date>
11      <text-value>(1883–1963)</text-value>
12    </life-events>
13    <biography>y</biography>
14  </person>
15</author>
16

 flowing edge to edge 
 their clear edges meeting— 
 the winds of this northern March— 
 blow the bark from the trees 
 the soil from the field 
 the hair from the heads of 
 girls, the shirts from the backs 
 of the men, roofs from the 
 houses, the cross from the 

Click here for complete poem