James Merrill

American poet

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

Always that same old story—
Father Time and Mother Earth,
A marriage on the rocks.

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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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