William Stanley Merwin Morning Poems
- 1. A Letter To Ruth Stone
Now that you have caught sight
of the other side of darkness
the invisible side
so that you can tell
... - 2. 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
... - 3. The Source
There in the fringe of trees between
the upper field and the edge of the one
below it that runs above the valley
one time I heard in the early
... - 4. Vehicles
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... - 5. To The New Year
st sunlight reaching down
to touch the tips of a few
high leaves that do not stir
as though they had not noticed
... - 6. The Ships Are Made Ready In Silence
Moored to the same ring:
The hour, the darkness and I,
Our compasses hooded like falcons.
... - 7. Green Fields
By this part of the century few are left who believe
in the animals for they are not there in the carved parts
of them served on plates and the pleas from the slatted trucks
are sounds of shadows that possess no future
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