William Stanley Merwin Remember Poems

• 1. 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
  ...
• 2. 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
  ...
• 3. Air
  Naturally it is night.
  Under the overturned lute with its
  One string I am going my way
  Which has a strange sound.
  ...
• 4. The Ships Are Made Ready In Silence
  Moored to the same ring:
  The hour, the darkness and I,
  Our compasses hooded like falcons.
  
  ...
• 5. When You Go Away
  When you go away the wind clicks around to the north
  The painters work all day but at sundown the paint falls
  Showing the black walls
  The clock goes back to striking the same hour
  ...
• 6. 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
  ...
• 7. Whenever I Go There
  Whenever I go there everything is changed
  
  The stamps on the bandages the titles
  Of the professors of water
  ...

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