The star in my
Hand is falling

All the uniforms know what's no use

May I bow to Necessity not
To her hirelings

(C) William Stanley Merwin
03/12/2017


Best Poems of William Stanley Merwin

• End Of A Day
• It Is March
• Shore Birds
• Unknown Bird
• For The Anniversary Of My Death
• Some Last Questions
• December Night
• Vehicles
• Another River
• For A Coming Extinction
• A Codex
• Term
• Any Time
• Air
• Wish
• Before The Flood
• Shadow Hand
• To The New Year
• My Friends
• The Ships Are Made Ready In Silence
• When You Go Away