Classic and Contemporary Poets

WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN

Poems found: 1072

ANOTHER YEAR COME

BALLAD OF JOHN CABLE AND THREE GENTLEMEN

FOR A COMING EXTINCTION

FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF MY DEATH

LEMUEL'S BLESSING

LOSING A LANGUAGE

ODYSSEUS; FOR GEORGE KIRSTEIN

PLEA FOR A CAPTIVE

SMALL WOMAN ON SWALLOW STREET

SOME LAST QUESTIONS

SONG OF THREE SMILES

THE ASIANS DYING

THE DRUNK IN THE FURNACE

THE STRANGER; AFTER A GUARANI LEGEND RECORDED BY ERNESTO MORALES

TO THE CONSOLATIONS OF PHILOSOPHY

MY BROTHERS THE SILENT

NOT THESE HILLS

SOMETHING I'VE NOT DONE

WHEN I CAME FROM COLCHIS

WHEN THE HORIZON IS GONE

WHEN THE WAR IS OVER

YOU, GENOESE MARINER

227 WAVERLY PLACE

DANCE OF DEATH: EPITAPH

DANCE OF DEATH: FARMER

DANCE OF DEATH: HUNTSMAN

DANCE OF DEATH: KING

DANCE OF DEATH: MONK

DANCE OF DEATH: SCHOLAR

DANCE OF DEATH: WOMAN

FLEA'S CARRYING WORDS

LETTER FROM GUSSIE

NIGHT FRAGRANCE

POEM FOR DOROTHY

PRAYER OF THE EYES

SHORT NAP ON THE WAY

SHORT NAP ON THE WAY

SICKNESS AT THE EQUINOX

SPARROW SHELTERING UNDER A COLUMN OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM

ACCLIMATIZATION

ACROSS THE AUTUMN

AFTER THE ALPHABETS

AFTER THE FLOOD

AFTER THE HARVESTS

AFTER THE SOLSTICE

AFTER THE SPRING

ISLAND IN THE HARBOR

ANCESTRAL VOICES

ANIMALS FROM MOUNTAINS

ANNIVERSARY ON THE ISLAND

ANOTHER YEAR COME

AS THOUGH I WAS WAITING FOR THAT

AT THE SAME TIME (1)

AT THE SAME TIME (2)

AT THE SAME TIME (3)

BACKWATER POND: THE CANOEISTS

BALLAD OF JOHN CABLE AND THREE GENTLEMEN

BALLADE OF SAYINGS

BANISHMENT IN WINTER

BEFORE A DEPARTURE IN SPRING

BEGINNING OF THE PLAINS

BLIND WILLIAM'S SONG

BODIES OF WATER

BREAD AND BUTTER

BREAD AT MIDNIGHT

BURNING MOUNTAIN

BURNING THE CAT

BY DAY AND BY NIGHT

BY THE CLOUD PATH

CANCION Y GLOSA

CAROL OF THE THREE KINGS

CEREMONY AFTER AN AMPUTATION

CHOICE OF PRIDES

COLLOQUY AT PENIEL

COLOR MERCHANTS

COMING TO THE MORNING

CROWS ON THE NORTH SLOPE

DEATH OF A FAVORITE BIRD

DECEMBER AMONG THE VANISHED

DECEMBER: OF APHRODITE

DECEPTION ISLAND

DEPARTURE'S GIRLFRIEND

DICTUM: FOR A MASQUE OF DELUGE

DISTANT MORNING

EARLY ONE SUMMER

EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON

ENVOY FROM D'AUBIGNE

EPITAPH ON CERTAIN SCHISMATICS

EVENING WITH LEE SHORE AND CLIFFS

FINDING A TEACHER

FOOTPRINTS ON THE GLACIER

FOR A DISSOLVING MUSIC

FOR SAYING THAT IT WON'T MATTER

FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF MY DEATH

FOR THE DEPARTURE OF A STEPSON

FOR THE GRAVE OF POSTERITY

FORGOTTEN STREAMS

FOURTH PSALM: THE CEREMENTS

FRANCOIS DE MAYNARD 1582-1645

FULL MOONLIGHT IN SPRING

GETTING AROUND AT LAST

GLIMPSE OF THE ICE

GRANDFATHER IN THE OLD MEN'S HOME

GRANDMOTHER AND GRANDSON

GRANDMOTHER DYING

GRANDMOTHER WATCHING AT HER WINDOW

HEARING THE NAMES OF THE VALLEYS

HERMIONE ON SIMULACRA

HISTORY OF ALCHEMY

HOLDERLIN AT THE RIVER

HOME FOR THANKSGIVING

HOW WE ARE SPARED

HUCKLEBERRY WOMAN

HUMBLE BEGINNING

IN A CLOUD OF HANDS

IN STONY COUNTRY

IN THE HEART OF EUROPE

IN THE LIFE OF DUST

IN THE NIGHT FIELDS

IN THE TIME OF THE BLOSSOMS

IN THE WINTER OF MY THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR

INSCRIPTION FACING WESTERN SEA

INSCRIPTION FOR A BURNED BRIDGE

INSTRUCTIONS TO FOUR WALLS

IS THAT WHAT YOU ARE

LAMENT FOR THE MAKERS

LAST MORNING AT PUNTA ARENA

LEARNING A DEAD LANGUAGE

LEMUEL'S BLESSING

LIVES OF THE ARTIST

LOOKING EAST AT NIGHT

LOOKING FOR MUSHROOMS AT SUNRISE

LOSING A LANGUAGE

LOW FIELDS AND LIGHT

LUNAR LANDSCAPE

MAN WITH ONE LEAF IN OCTOBER NIGHT

MARINER'S CAROL

MEMORY OF THE LOSS OF WINGS

MENG TZU'S SONG

MIDNIGHT IN EARLY SPRING

MIGRANTS BY NIGHT

NEW MOON IN NOVEMBER

NEW OF THE ASSASSIN

NIGHT ABOVE THE AVENUE

NOTE IN A GUIDE BOOK

NOTES FROM A JOURNEY

ODE: THE MEDUSA FACE

ODYSSEUS; FOR GEORGE KIRSTEIN

ON A SACRIFICE OF DARKNESS

ON EACH JOURNEY

ON THE BACK OF THE BOARDING PASS

ON THE SILENT ANNIVERSARY OF A REUNION

ON THE SUBJECT OF POETRY

ONE OF THE LIVES

OTHER TRAVELERS TO THE RIVER

OVER THE BIER OF THE WORDLING

PEASANT; A PRAYER TO THE POWERS OF THIS WORLD

PIECES FOR OTHER LIVES

PLEA FOR A CAPTIVE

POOL ROOM IN THE LIONS CLUB

PRINT FALLEN OUT OF SOMEWHERE

PSALM: OUR FATHERS

REMEMBERING THE SIGNS

RETURNING SEASON

RETURNS AFTER DARK

RIMBAUD'S PIANO

RIME OF THE PALMERS

RIVER SOUND REMEMBERED

ROUTE WITH NO NUMBER

RUNES FOR A ROUND TABLE: AQUARIUS

RUNES FOR A ROUND TABLE: ARIES

RUNES FOR A ROUND TABLE: CANCER

RUNES FOR A ROUND TABLE: CAPRICORN

RUNES FOR A ROUND TABLE: GEMINI

RUNES FOR A ROUND TABLE: LEO

RUNES FOR A ROUND TABLE: LIBRA

RUNES FOR A ROUND TABLE: PISCES

RUNES FOR A ROUND TABLE: SAGITTARIUS

RUNES FOR A ROUND TABLE: SCORPIO

RUNES FOR A ROUND TABLE: TAURUS

RUNES FOR A ROUND TABLE: VIRGO

SAINT SEBASTIAN

SHE WHO WAS GONE

SIXTH FLOOR WALK-UP

SKY IN SEPTEMBER

SMALL WOMAN ON SWALLOW STREET

SOME LAST QUESTIONS

SOME WINTER SPARROWS

SONG OF MARVELS

SONG OF THE MAD MENAGERIE

SONG OF THE NEW FOOL

SONG OF THREE SMILES

SONG WITH THE EYES CLOSED

STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE

STILL AFTERNOON LIGHT

SUNSET AFTER RAIN

SUSPICOR SPECULUM

TERGVINDER'S STONE

PORTLAND' GOING OUT

BIRDS ON THE MORNING OF GOING

BLIND SEER OF AMBON

BONES OF PALINURUS PRAY TO THE NORTH STAR

CALLING UNDER THE BREATH

CHINESE MOUNTAIN FOX

COLD BEFORE THE MOONRISE

CROSSROADS OF THE TIME WORLD ETC

DIFFERENT STARS

DRUNK IN THE FURNACE

DRY STONE MASON

EYES OF THE DROWNED WATCH KEELS GOING OVER

FINDING OF REASONS

FLIGHT OF LANGUAGE

GARDENS OF VERSAILLES

HILL OF EVENING

HORIZONS OF ROOMS

HOURS OF DARKNESS

INAUGURATION: 1985

INDIGESTION OF THE VAMPIRE

INEVITABLE LIGHTNESS

ISAIAH OF SOUILLAC

JUDGMENT OF PARIS

LADY WITH THE HERON

LOST CAMELIA OF THE BARTRAMS

MAN WHO WRITES ANTS

MOMENT OF GREEN

NAME OF THE AIR

NIGHT OF THE SHIRTS

PERMANENT COLLECTION

REAL WORLD OF MANUEL CORDOVA

SAINT OF THE UPLANDS

SHIPS ARE MADE READY IN SILENCE

SILENCE BEFORE HARVEST

SLEEPING MOUNTAIN

SOUND OF THE LIGHT

STRANGER; AFTER A GUARANI LEGEND RECORDED BY ERNESTO MORALES

STRANGERS FROM THE HORIZON

STUDENTS OF JUSTICE

TRAIL INTO KANSAS

WARS IN NEW JERSEY

WATER OF THE SUNS

WAY [OR, THAT WAY] TO THE RIVER

WHEELS OF TRAINS

WRITING ON A FALLEN LEAF

THIRD PSALM: THE SEPTEMBER VISION

THIS DAY OF THIS MONTH OF THIS YEAR OF THIS

THORN LEAVES IN MARCH

TIDE LINE GARDEN

TO A FEW CHERRIES

TO A FRIEND TRAVELLING

TO A REFLECTION

TO BE SUNG WHILE STILL LOOKING

TO DAYS OF WINTER

TO FINDING AGAIN

TO LINGERING REGRETS

TO MY BROTHER HANSON

TO MY FATHER'S HOUSES

TO MY GRANDFATHERS

TO THE ANCIENT ORDER OF LEGS

TO THE DUST OF THE ROAD

TO THE FACE IN THE MIRROR

TO THE MISTAKES

TO THE PARTING YEAR

TO THE SORROW STRING

TO THE SPIDERS OF THIS ROOM

TO THE SURGEON KEVIN LIN

TO THE UNLIKELY EVENT

TO THE WAY BACK

TO WHERE WE ARE

TOUCHING THE TREE

TRACING THE LETTERS

TRAVELLING TOGETHER

TRAVELLING WEST AT NIGHT

TWO PAINTINGS BY ALFRED WALLIS: 1. VOYAGE TO LABRADOR

TWO PAINTINGS BY ALFRED WALLIS: 2. SCHOONER UNDER THE MOON

UNDER BLACK LEAVES

UNDER THE MIGRANTS

UNDER THE OLD ONE

UNFINISHED BOOK OF KINGS

VARIATION ON A LINE BY EMERSON

VIEWS FROM THE HIGH CAMP

WAKING TO THE RAIN

WANTING A SOUL IN THE SOUTH

WAVES IN AUGUST

WESTERN COUNTRY

WHAT IS A GARDEN

WHEN YOU GO AWAY

WHENEVER I GO THERE

WHITE GOAT, WHITE RAM

WHOEVER YOU ARE

WOMAN FROM THE RIVER

WORDS FROM A TOTEM ANIMAL

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