James Merrill

James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was an American poet.

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• Always that same old story—
  Father Time and Mother Earth,
  A marriage on the rocks.
  • "The Broken Home" (1966)

• Since it had never truly fit, why wear
  The shoe of prose? In verse the feet went bare.
  • "The Book of Ephraim" (1976)

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