William Stanley Merwin Long Poems

• 1. Identity
  When Hans Hofmann became a hedgehog
  somewhere in a Germany that has
  vanished with its forests and hedgerows
  Shakespeare would have been a young actor
  ...
• 2. End Of A Day
  In the long evening of April through the cool light
  Bayle's two sheep dogs sail down the lane like magpies
  for the flock a moment before he appears near the oaks
  a stub of a man rolling as he approaches
  ...
• 3. The River Of Bees
  In a dream I returned to the river of bees
  Five orange trees by the bridge and
  Beside two mills my house
  Into whose courtyard a blind man followed
  ...
• 4. The Speed Of Light
  So gradual in those summers was the going
  of the age it seemed that the long days setting out
  when the stars faded over the mountains were not
  leaving us even as the birds woke in full song and the dew
  ...
• 5. Term
  At the last minute a word is waiting
  not heard that way before and not to be
  repeated or ever be remembered
  one that always had been a household word
  ...
• 6. A Codex
  It was a late book given up for lost
  again and again with its sentences
  
  bare at last and phrases that seemed transparent
  ...
• 7. Any Time
  How long ago the day is
  when at last I look at it
  with the time it has taken
  to be there still in it
  ...
• 8. Shadow Hand
  Duporte the roofer that calm voice
  those sure hands gentling weathered tiles
  into new generations or
  half of him rising through a roof
  ...
• 9. Shore Birds
  While I think of them they are growing rare
  after the distances they have followed
  all the way to the end for the first time
  tracing a memory they did not have
  ...

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