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ROMANCE LANGUAGE by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHEN FIRST IN LOVE I BREAKFASTED BY WATER
Last Line: ALTHOUGH I TELL THE GOD'S OWN TRUTH, OR TRY TO

Poem Sources:

SHENANDOAH; AN ANTHOLOGY.
  BOATWRIGHT, JAMES (ED.)
  (1985)
 
FROM THE FIRST NINE; POEMS, 1946-1976.
  MERRILL, JAMES INGRAM
  (1982)
 
COLLECTED POEMS. EDITED BY J.D. MCCLATCHY AND STEPHEN YENSER.
  MERRILL, JAMES INGRAM
  (2001)
 



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