Printings of "The Black Swan"
From Jack W. C. Hagstrom and Bill Morgan, James Ingram Merrill: A Descriptive Bibliography (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2009).
A2 The Black Swan and Other Poems (Icaros 1946).
A4 First Poems (Knopf 1951).
A13 Selected Poems (Chatto and Windus 1961).
A44 From the First Nine: Poems 1946-1976 (Atheneum 1983).
(The volume's date is given as 1982, but it was published on Jan. 18, 1983).
A82 Selected Poems: 1946-1985 (Knopf 1992).
A95 Selected Poems (Carcanet 1996).
A100 The Voice of the Poet: James Merrill (Random House AudioBooks 1999).
A102 Collected Poems (Knopf 2001).
A104 Selected Poems (Knopf 2008).
C53 "The Black Swan," Medusa (Student Journal) 1.1 (Fall 1945): 31-32.