William Stanley Merwin

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    Gaze not on swans, in whose soft breast,
    A full-hatched beauty seems to nest
    Nor snow, which falling from the sky
    Hovers in its virginity.
    Henry Noel, British poet, and William Strode, British poet. Beauty Extolled (attributed to Noel and to Strode)

    Rain falls into the open eyes of the dead
    Again again with its pointless sound
    When the moon finds them they are the color of everything
    —William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)

    Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
    When the last fires will wave to me
    —William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)