Merwin, W.S. — Green with Beasts, Poems

London/ Sussex, Rupert Hart-Davis / Ditchling Press, 1956. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover. Bound in green paper with green jacket. 85 pages 23 cm. To Dido -- Physiologus ; Leviathan ; Blue cockerel ; Two horses ; Dog ; White goat, white ram ; The bathers ; The wilderness ; The wakening ; The prodigal son ; The annunciation ; The mountain ; Saint Sebastian ; The Isaiah of Souillac ; The station ; The master Tobacco ; Burning the cat ; Dog dreaming ; Backwater pond : the canoeists ; River sound remembered ; After the flood ; In the heart of Europe ; A sparrow sheltering under a column of the British Museum ; Learning a dead language ; Three faces ; Her wisdom ; The sapphire ; Thorn leaves in March ; Low fields and light ; Birds waking ; Evening with Lee shore and clifts ; The fishermen ; Two paintings by Alfred Wallis ; Senility Cay ; Fog ; The shipwreck ; The eyes of the drowned ; Watch keels going over ; Mariners' carol. VG-. Jacket is price clipped, has toning around edges and foxing. Book itself is clean and unmarked besides previous owners name penned in front.