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SWIMMING BY NIGHT by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL

Poet Analysis

First Line: A LIGHT GOING OUT IN THE FOREHEAD
Last Line: OF WAVES, THEIR LENGTH AND SPARKLE, THE SPINNING GLOBE %YOU WEAR, AND THE STAR RUNNING DOWN HIS CHEE
Subject(s): SWIMMING;

Poem Sources:

THE NEW YORKER BOOK OF POEMS; SELECTED BY THE EDITORS OF THE NEW YORKER.
  (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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