W. S. Merwin served as Poet Laureate of the United States and has received every major literary accolade, including two Pulitzer prizes, most recently for The Shadow of Sirius (Copper Canyon) and the National Book Award for Migration: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon).

Other poems by W. S. Merwin in Verse Daily:
February 22, 2015:   "A Message to Po Chu-I" "In that tenth winter of your exile.."
October 24, 2008:   "The Laughing Thrush" "O nameless joy of the morning..."
June 20, 2008:   "Fresh Rose" "Fresh rose, fresh rose..."
July 12, 2005:   "To a Tortoiseshell Lyre" "Do you know how beautiful you are..."
May 12, 2005:  "Summer" ""Be of this brightness dyed..."
April 25, 2005:  "Vixen" ""Comet of stillness princess of what is over..."

Books by W. S. Merwin:

Other poems on the web by W. S. Merwin:
"After the Dragonflies"
"October"
"The Wild Geese"
"Old Man At Home Alone in the Morning"
One Hundred Eighty-two poems
Five poems
Seven poems
One Hundred Ninty-nine poems
Twelve poems
Fifty-one poems
Eight poems

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