William Carlos Williams This Is Just to Say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems, New Directions Publishing, 1985. Whole Wide World An Anthology of Poems Long As You're Living: Collected Poems (pdf)
This Is Just to Say
I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold
William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems, New Directions Publishing, 1985.