Sour Grapes (1921)
by
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.
Sources:
Public domain text taken from The Poets’ Corner:
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/wcw-sg3.html#39