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W.S. Merwin

W.S. Merwin

30 songs
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2017
Album
May 2017
The Lice

3 tracks

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Album
May 2017
The Lice

3 tracks

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2017
Single
Jan 2017
LIVING WITH THE NEWS
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Single
Jan 2017
LIVING WITH THE NEWS
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2017
Album
Jan 2017
Garden Time

1 track

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Album
Jan 2017
Garden Time

1 track

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1999
Album
Jan 1999
The River Sound

1 track

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Album
Jan 1999
The River Sound

1 track

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1988
Album
Jan 1988
The Rain in the Trees

8 tracks

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Album
Jan 1988
The Rain in the Trees

8 tracks

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1966
Single
May 1966
When You Go Away
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Single
May 1966
When You Go Away
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1966
Single
May 1966
The Widow
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Single
May 1966
The Widow
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1966
Single
May 1966
Looking for Mushrooms at Sunrise
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Single
May 1966
Looking for Mushrooms at Sunrise
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1964
Single
Sep 1964
The Last One
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Single
Sep 1964
The Last One
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1964
Single
Sep 1964
Some Last Questions
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Single
Sep 1964
Some Last Questions
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1964
Single
Sep 1964
Pieces for Other Lives
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Single
Sep 1964
Pieces for Other Lives
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1964
Single
Sep 1964
Among the Eyes
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Single
Sep 1964
Among the Eyes
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1964
Single
Sep 1964
It Is March
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Single
Sep 1964
It Is March
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1964
Album
Aug 1964
Poetry September 1964

6 tracks

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Album
Aug 1964
Poetry September 1964

6 tracks

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1962
Single
Jan 1962
Separation
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Single
Jan 1962
Separation
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Top Songs

#1
Native Trees
#2
When You Go Away
#3
West Wall
#4
Touching the Tree
#5
To the New Year
#6
The Widow
#7
The Sound of the Light
#8
The River of Bees

About W.S. Merwin

Also known as
William Stanley Merwin

Discography

The Rain in the Trees
8 tracks · 1988
Poetry September 1964
6 tracks · 1964
The Lice
3 tracks · 2017
Garden Time
1 track · 2017
The River Sound
1 track · 1999

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Native Trees

Neither my father nor my mother knew the names of the trees where I was born what is that I asked and my father and mother did not hear they…

When You Go Away

When you go away the wind clicks around to the north The painters work all day but at sundown the paint falls Showing the black walls The cl…

West Wall

In the unmade light I can see the world as the leaves brighten I see the air the shadows melt and the apricots appear now that the branches …

Touching the Tree

Faces are bending over me asking why they do not live here they do not know anything there is a black river beyond the buildings watching ev…

To the New Year

With what stillness at last you appear in the valley your first sunlight reaching down to touch the tips of a few high leaves that do not st…

The Widow

How easily the ripe grain Leaves the husk At the simple turning of the planet There is no season That requires us Masters of forgetting Thre…

The Sound of the Light

I hear sheep running on the path of broken limestone through brown curled leaves fallen early from walnut limbs at the end of a summer how l…

The River of Bees

In a dream I returned to the river of bees Five orange trees by the bridge and Beside two mills my house Into whose courtyard a blindman fol…

The Last One

Well they'd made up their minds to be everywhere because why not. Everywhere was theirs because they thought so. They with two leaves they w…

The First Year

When the words had all been used for other things we saw the first day begin out of the calling water and the black branches leaves no bigge…

Discography at a glance

30

Songs on Lyrks

5

Albums

11

Singles

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W.S. Merwin is a music artist with 30 songs on Lyrks.

Popular tracks by W.S. Merwin include Native Trees, When You Go Away, West Wall, Touching the Tree, To the New Year. Browse full lyrics on Lyrks.

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