Edna St. Vincent Millay image
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Born in February 22, 1892 / Died in October 19, 1950 / United States / English

Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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To A Friend Estranged From Me

... Today has seen the setting, in your eyes cold and senseless as the sea, ...

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Only Until This Cigarette Is Ended

... And then adieu,—farewell!—the dream is done ...

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Gazing Upon Him Now, Severe And Dead

...   Small, and absurd, and hers: for once, not hers, unclassified ...

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Thou Art Not Lovelier Than Lilacs

...   Each hour more deeply than the hour before, ...

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Where Can The Heart Be Hidden In The Ground

... Gone from this world indeed what's graveward carried, ...

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The Doctor Asked Her What She Wanted Done

... "I don't know what you do exactly when a person dies ...

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I Do But Ask That You Be Always Fair

... Less dear to hold me than your own bright charms, ...

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I, Being Born A Woman And Distressed

... Of my stout blood against my staggering brain, ...

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I Shall Forget You Presently, My Dear

... by and by I shall forget you, as I said, but now, ...

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As To Some Lovely Temple, Tenantless

... Long since, that once was sweet with shivering brass, ...

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No Rose That In A Garden Ever Grew

... Thus when I swear, "I love with all my heart," ...

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I Shall Go Back

... Unchanged from what they were when I was young ...

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This Door You Might Not Open

...   For greed like yours, no writhings of distress, ...

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Counting-Out Rhyme

... Stripe of green in moosewood maple, ...

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I Will Put Chaos Into Fourteen Lines

... Past are the hours, the years of our duress, ...