Poems

A selection of W.S. Merwin's poems

“A Black Kite”
“A Contemporary”
“A Door”
“A Hollow”
“A Last Look”
“A Letter to Su Tung-p’o”
“A Momentary Creed”
“A Night Fragrance”
“A Single Autumn”
“A Step at a Time”
“A Summer Night”
“A Term”
“After the Alphabets”
“After the Spring”
“Air”
“Among the Shadows at Home”
“An Encampment at Morning”
“Ancient World”
“Another River”
“Another Year Come”
“Antique Sound”
“Any Time”
“As Though I Was Waiting For That”
“Ash”
“At the Same Time”
“Autumn Equinox”
“Autumn Evening”
“Avoiding News by the River”
“Before a Departure in Spring”
“Before Midsummer Above the River”
“Before the Flood”
“Beggars and Kings”
“Beginners”
“Beginning”
“Berryman”
“Black Cherries”
“Blueberries After Dark”
“By The Front Door”
“Choosing”
“Chord”
“Chorus”
“Cold Spring Morning”
“Color Merchants”
“Coming To Hear”
“Coming to the Morning”
“Completion”
“Convenience”
“Cover Note”
“Day without a Name”
“December Among the Vanished”
“December Morning”
“December Night”
“Dew Light”
“Division”
“Dream of Koa Returning”
“Dry Ground”
“Duo As The Light Is Going”
“Dusk in Winter”
“Early January”
“Early One Morning”
“Early One Summer”
“Echoing Light”
“Elegy for a Walnut Tree”
“Empty Water”
“End of A Day”
“Falling”
“Far Company”
“Finding a Teacher”
“Fly”
“Foghorn”
“Footholds”
“For A Coming Extinction”
“For the Anniversary of My Death”
“For the Departure of a Stepson”
“From Our Shadows”
“From the Start”
“Garden Music”
“Garden Notes”
“Garden”
“Gift”
“Glass”
“Glasses”
“Glassy Sea”
“Going”
“Good Night”
“Grace Note”
“Green Fields”
“Hearing the Names of the Valleys”
“Heartland”
“Here Together”
“High Fronds”
“Home for Thanksgiving”
“Homecoming”
“How it Happens”
“How We Are Spared”
“In a Clearing”
“In The Meantime”
“In the Winter of My Thirty-eighth Year”
“In Time”
“Into October”
“Into the Cloud”
“Invocation”
“It is March”
“January”
“Just Now”
“Kanaloa”
“Kin”
“Lake Shore in Half Light”
“Late Spring”
“Lights Out”
“Living With the News”
“Long Afternoon Light”
“Looking East at Night”
“Looking for Mushrooms at Sunrise”
“Looking Up in the Garden”
“Losing a Language”
“Lunar Landscape”
“Memory”
“Midnight in Early Spring”
“Migration”
“Morris Graves’ Blind Bird”
“Native Trees”
“Native”
“Near Field”
“New Moon in November”
“Night Above The Avenue”
“No Shadow”
“No Twilight”
“Noah’s Raven”
“Nocturne II”
“Nocturne”
“Note”
“Now it is Clear”
“October”
“Offering”
“On the Mountain”
“On the Subject of Poetry”
“Once Later”
“One Day Moth”
“One October Night”
“One of the Butterflies”
“One Story”
“One Summer”
“One Valley”
“Overtone”
“Palm”
“Parts of a Tune”
“Peasant”
“Place”
“Presidents”
“Prophecy”
“Provision”
“Questions to Tourists Stopped by a Pineapple Field”
“Rain at Night”  
“Rain Light”
“Rain Travel”
“Recognitions”
“Relics”
“Remembering Summer”
“Remembering”
“River”
“Rule of Thumb”
“Savonarola”
“Search Party”
“Season”
“Separation”
“September’s Child”
“September”
“Shaving Without a Mirror”
“Shore Birds”
“Sight”
“Sky in September”
“Snow”
“Snowfall”
“Something I’ve Not Done”
“Song of Man Chipping an Arrowhead”
“Song of Three Smiles”
“Spring Equinox Full Moon”
“Spring”
“Still Morning”
“Summer Doorway”
“Summer”
“Sun and Rain”
“Tale”
“Term”
“Thanks”
“The Animals”
“The Artisan World”
“The Bell of One Morning”
“The Biology of Art”
“The Blackboard”
“The Clear Skies”
“The Cold Before the Moonrise”
“The Color They Come To”
“The Comet Museum”
“The Dream Again”
“The Estuary”
“The Eternal Return”
“The Finding of Reasons”
“The First Year”
“The Flight”
“The Folding Cliffs” (page 49)
“The Folding Cliffs” (pages 281-282)
“The Gods”
“The Heart”
“The Hollow in the Stone”
“The Hydra”
“The Inevitable Lightness”
“The Last One”
“The Latest Thing”
“The Laughing Child”
“The Laughing Thrush”
“The Long and the Short of It”
“The Love for October”
“The Making of Amber”
“The Morning Hills”
“The Morning”
“The Mourner”
“The Nails”
“The New Song”
“The Night Plums”
“The Nomad Flute”
“The Old Boast”
“The Other House”
“The Palms”
“The Plaster”
“The Poem”
“The Present”
“The River Of Bees”
“The Salt Pond”
“The Solstice”
“The Song of the Trolleys”
“The Sound of Forgetting”
“The Source”
“The Speed Of Light”
“The Superstition”
“The Veil of May”
“The Water of the Suns”
“The Way to the River”
“The Wild Geese”
“The Wild”
“The Wilderness”
“The Wings of Daylight”
“The Wonder of the Imperfect”
“Threshold”
“Tidal Lagoon”
“To a Leaf Falling in Winter”
“To Age”
“To Ashes”
“To Impatience”
“To Luck”
“To Maoli as the Year Ends”
“To Paula in Late Spring”
“To the Air”
“To the Book”
“To the Grass of Autumn”
“To the Hand”
“To The Insects”
“To the Light of September”
“To the Margin”
“To the Mistakes”
“To the Moss”
“To the New Year”
“To The Soul”
“To the Spiders of This Room”
“To The Words”
“To These Eyes”
“To This May”
“To Waiting”
“Touching the Tree”
“Tracing the Letters”
“Trail Marker”
“Travelling Together”
“Trees”
“Turning”
“Under the Day”
“Unknown Bird”
“Unknown Soldier”
“Untold”
“Urticophilia”
“Utterance”
“Variation on a Theme”
“Vixen”
“Voice of Summer”
“Voices Over Water”
“Waking to the Rain”
“Waves in August”
“West Wall”
“What Can We Call It”
“What Is a Garden”
“What is Modern”
“What the Bridges Hear”
“When the War is Over”
“When You Go Away”
“White Morning”
“White on White”
“White-Eye”
“Wild Oats”
“Wings”
“Wish”
“Witness”
“Worn Words”
“Yesterday”
“Youth of Grass”
“Youth”
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