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RIVER POEM (1) by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL

Poet Analysis

First Line: THIS OLD MAN HAD LAVENDER SKIN, A HANDKERCHIEF
Last Line: BUT THE RIVER STAYED AT OUR SIDE, AND SHONE, AND RAN

Poem Sources:

FROM THE FIRST NINE; POEMS, 1946-1976.
  MERRILL, JAMES INGRAM
  (1982)
 
SELECTED POEMS, 1946 - 1985.
  MERRILL, JAMES INGRAM
  (1993)
 



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