Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.
SpoutsWilliam Carlos Williams
I
as fine a pair of breasts
as ever I saw,
the fountain in
Madison Square
spouts up of water
a white tree,
that dies and lives
as the rocking water
in the basin
turns from the stone rim
back upon the jet
and rising there
reflectively drops down again.