W.S. Merwin — English Poetry Library

English Poetry Library

W.S. Merwin1927–201920th century William Stanley Merwin was an American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose and produced many works in translation. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, his writing influence derived from an interest in Buddhist philosophy and deep ecology. Residing in a rural part of Maui, Hawaii, he wrote prolifically and was dedicated to the restoration of the island's rainforests.

Poems

105 poems

104 CONNECTICUT RIVER74 lines
106 CONNECTICUT RIVER21 lines
18 Bandana10 lines
42 CONNECTICUT RIVER6 lines
64. CONNECTICUT RIVER19 lines
68 CONNECTICUT RIVER7 lines
ABBES PATENT GONG BELLS6 lines
Academies.4 lines
ACCOUNT BOOKS5 lines
Adjutant-General’s Office.9 lines
AGENTS WANTED!16 lines
Albuminiz med PagsrManufacturer.8 lines
An’ cayn’t git erbout any mo’.5 lines
AND CENTRAL13 lines
And why should I regret what I have done when7 lines
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law.35 lines
Attorneys at Law.22 lines
Before J travelled my road I was my road.10 lines
Bell Manufacturers.7 lines
Bia tied fee18 lines
Big Table Publishing:Co29 lines
Book Publishers.13 lines
Books and Stationery.6 lines
Boot and Shoe Dealers.24 lines
Boot and Shoe Manufactures and Dealers.8 lines
Boot and-SffoeR epairers.10 lines
Brewers.4 lines
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.40 lines
CHAPTER 1.4 lines
CHAPTER III.8 lines
CHAPTER IV.6 lines
CHAPTER X.4 lines
CHAPTER XXI.4 lines
Chester us -20 lines
Clothing Dealers.5 lines
Co Wi AE Nea Ge Seay13 lines
Coal and Wood.13 lines
Conn. River7 lines
Daps 178 lines
Daps 196 lines
Daps 9123 lines
Day cannot mock him who does not mock the8 lines
Dentists.5 lines
Depa4 lines
DISEASES OF MEN AND WOMEN.15 lines
Do I ain’ a turnin’ ter greed.6 lines
Do not speak harshly of your misfortunes to any-7 lines
DRAFTING FRONT OF WAIST.6 lines
Dry Goods and Groceries.10 lines
Every toy has the right to break.5 lines
Everyone thinks that his things are not like all8 lines
FiG.-t36 lines
FRONT BACK AND SIDE FORMS37 lines
Gristmill.9 lines
Groceries.6 lines
He who goes up step by step always finds himself4 lines
He who is imprisoned in evil does not escape from9 lines
He who tells the truth says almost nothing.5 lines
INTRODUCTION.53 lines
JAN12 lines
Jf I were someone who led himself I would not4 lines
Kast Hampton Ec =30 lines
Lath i ie29 lines
Manufacturers of24 lines
Massy me! ef dar ain’ a ham.5 lines
Meat Market.4 lines
My dead go on suffering in me the pain of living.7 lines
My particles of time play with eternity.6 lines
NEWTON CASE, JAMES LOCKWOOD, LEVERETT BRAINARD.5 lines
No one understands that you have given every-9 lines
Norwich 6 24 lines
Nothing that is complete breathes.7 lines
Oldest and Largest Establishment in New England.7 lines
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.8 lines
Only the wound speaks its own word.4 lines
Oo9 lines
Pain unsettles me when it is weak; when it is4 lines
Physician.5 lines
Real Estate Agents.8 lines
Restaurant.7 lines
Russell Manufacturing Co. Higganum.7 lines
Second—With the lesson and draft before you for8 lines
SEE ALSO DEALERS.17 lines
Shirt Manufacturers.7 lines
Since I prepare only for what ought to happen to4 lines
So’s yo’ heart ain’ jes at ease.12 lines
That which was before me and that which comes10 lines
The condemnation of an error is another error.7 lines
The grieving for everyone and about everything5 lines
THE WAIST MEASURE.5 lines
There are sufferings that have lost their memory6 lines
Truth has very few friends and those few are4 lines
Tt is a long time now since I asked heaven for6 lines
United States Hotel :15 lines
We become aware of the void as we fill it.7 lines
We tear life out of life to use it for looking at4 lines
When I am asleep I dream what I dream when I18 lines
When I look for my existence J do not look for4 lines
Where everyone grieves no one hears the crying.6 lines
WITH OTHER INTERESTING MATTER RELATING TO THE BUSINESS21 lines
Wool Carding.7 lines
Wrrdsor 4 LIS 1 qusepotnt10 lines
You are always telling a dream. When do you4 lines
You are fastened to them and cannot understand5 lines
You are sad because they abandon you and you13 lines