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SCENES OF CHILDHOOD by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL

Poem Explanation Poet Analysis

First Line: MY MOTHER'S LAMP ONCE OUT
Last Line: YOU ARE THE HEROES WITHOUT NAME %OR ORIGIN

Poem Sources:

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETS; AMERICAN POETRY SINCE 1940.
  STRAND, MARK (ED.)
  (1969)
 
FROM THE FIRST NINE; POEMS, 1946-1976.
  MERRILL, JAMES INGRAM
  (1982)
 
SELECTED POEMS, 1946 - 1985.
  MERRILL, JAMES INGRAM
  (1993)
 
COLLECTED POEMS. EDITED BY J.D. MCCLATCHY AND STEPHEN YENSER.
  MERRILL, JAMES INGRAM
  (2001)
 



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