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Renascence --
Interim --
The suicide --
God's world --
Afternoon on a hill --
Sorrow --
Tavern --
Ashes of life --
The little ghost --
Kin to sorrow --
The first rose on my rose-tree --
Let the little birds sing --
All the dog-wood blossoms are underneath the tree --
The shroud --
The dream --
Indifference --
Witch-wife --
Blight --
When the year grows old --
Spring --
City trees --
The blue-flag in the bog --
Journey --
Eel-grass --
Elegy before death --
The bean-stalk- --
Weeds --
Passer mortuus est --
Pastoral --
Assault --
Travel --
Low-tide --
Song of a second April --
Rosemary --
The poet and his book --
Alms --
Inland --
To a poet that died young --
Wraith --
Ebb --
Elaine --
Burial --
Mariposa --
The little hill --
Doubt no more that Oberon --
Lament --
Exiled --
The death of autumn --
Ode to silence --
Epitaph --
Prayer to Persephone --
Chorus --
Dirge --
Elegy --
Wild swans --
First fig --
Second fig --
Recuerdo --
Thursday --
To the not impossible him --
Macdougal street --
The singing-woman for the wood's edge --
She is overheard singing --
The unexplorer --
Grown-up --
The penitent --
Daphne --
Portrait by a neighbour --
Midnight oil --
The merry maid --
To Kathleen --
To S.M. --
The philosopher --
My heart, being hungry --
Autumn chant --
Nuit Blanche --
Oh, little rose tree, bloom --
Beat me a crown of bluer metal --
Rain comes down --
The wood road --
Feast --
Souvenir --
Scrub --
The goose girl --
The dragonfly --
Departure --
The return from town --
A visit to the asylum --
The Spring and the Fall --
The curse --
Keen --
The betrothal --
Humoresque --
The pond --
The ballad of the harp-weaver --
Never may the fruit be plucked --
The concert --
Hyacinth --
To one who might have borne a message --
Siege --
The cairn --
Spring song --
Memory of Cape Cod --
Moriturus --
Song --
To the wife of a sick friend --
The bobolink --
The hawkweed --
To a friend estranged from me --
The road to Avrille --
For Pao-Chin, a boatman on the Yellow Sea --
Northern April --
There at dusk I found you --
Being young and green --
Mist in the valley --
The hardy garden --
The pigeons --
The buck in the snow --
The anguish --
Justice denied in Massachusetts --
Hangman's oak --
Wine from these grapes --
To those without pity --
Dawn --
To a young girl --
Evening on Lesbos --
Dirge without music --
Memory of Cassis --
Portrait --
Winter night --
The cameo --
Counting-out rhyme --
The plum gatherer --
West country song --
Pueblo pot --
When caesar fell --
Lethe --
On first having heard the skylark --
To a musician --
Come along in then, little girl --
Oh, burdock, and you other dock --
Everybody but just me --
I know a hundred ways to die --
Look, Edwin! do you see that boy --
All the grown-up people say --
Wonder where this horseshoe went --
The return --
October --
an etching --
Autumn daybreak --
The oak-leaves --
The fledgling --
The hedge of hemlocks --
Cap D' Antibes --
From a train window --
The fawn --
Valentine --
In the grave no flower --
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies --
The solid sprite who stands alone --
Spring n the garden --
Sonnet --
Aubade --
Sappho crosses the dark river into Hades --
Epitaph --
On thought in harness --
Desolation dreamed of --
The leaf and the tree --
On the wide heath --
Apostrophe to man --
My spirit, sore from marching --
Conscientious objector --
Above these cares --
If still your orchards bear --
Lines for a grave-stone --
How naked, how without a wall --
The ballad of Chaldon Down --
The princess recalls her one adventure --
Short story --
Pretty love, I must outlive you --
English sparrows --
Impression: fog off the coast of Dorset --
The rabbit --
Song for young lovers in a city --
To a Calvinist in Bali --
Thanksgiving dinner --
The snow storm --
Huntsman, what quarry? --
That chill is in the air --
Branch by branch --
Distressed mind, forbear --
Not dead of wounds, not borne --
Poor passionate thing --
Rendezvous --
The fitting --
What savage blossom --
Menses --
The plaid dress --
"Fontaine, je ne bourai pas de ton eau!" --
Intention to escape from him --
To a young poet --
Modern declaration --
The road to the past --
The true encounter --
Not even my pride will suffer much --
Heart, do not bruise the breast --
Rolled in the trough of thick desire --
And do you think that love itself --
I had not thought so tame a thing --
Leap now into this quiet grave --
Now from a stout and more imperious day --
The time of year ennobles you --
Song for a lute --
For you there is no song --
Sonnet in answer to a question --
Nobody now throughout the pleasant day --
Gone over to the enemy now --
Over the hollow land --
Inert perfection --
Say that we saw Spain die --
Underground system --
Two voices --
Mortal flesh, is not your place in the ground? --
No earthly enterprise --
Lines written in recapitulation --
This dusky faith --
Truce for a moment --
To the maid of Orleans --
Memory of England --
The pear tree --
Druid's chant --
Song of the nations --
Baccalaureate hymn --
Invocation to the Muses --
To S.V.B. --
If, in the foggy Aleutians --
Poem and prayer for an invading army --
Christmas canticle --
We have gone too far --
Deep in the muck of unregarded doom --
The animal ball --
Through the green forest --
As sharp as in my childhood --
By goodness and by evil so surrounded --
At least, my dear --
Small hands, relinquish all --
Ragged island --
To whom the house of Montagu was neighbour --
This is mine, and I can hold it --
Of what importance, o my lovely girls, my dancers --
Few come this way --
The strawberry shrub --
When it is over --
The courage that my mother had --
Wild-cat, gnat and I --
This should be simple; if one's power were great --
Song --
New England spring, 1942 --
Her in a rocky cup --
How innocent we lie --
Armenoville --
Put it down! I say --
I still can see --
There were herbs strown --
Heavily on the faithful bulk of Kurvenal --
Dream of Saba --
Who hurt you so --
When the tree-sparrows with no sound --
Amorphous is the mind --
For warmth alone, for shelter only --
The agnostic --
The apple-trees bud, but I do not --
Black hair you'd day she had --
Cave canem --
An ancient gesture --
Jesus to His disciples --
Establishment is shocked --
Some things are dark --
If it should rain --
The Parsi woman --
Journal --
The sea at sunset can reflect --
I, in disgust with the living --
How did I bear it --
Men working --
Steepletop --
Even you, sweet Basil --
Nothing could stand all this rain --
Borage, forage for bees --
The gardener in haying time --
Sky-coloured bird --
To a snake --
I woke in the night and heard the wind --
Look how the bittersweet --
Truck-garden market-day --
Intense and terrible, I think, must be the loneliness --
Sometimes, oh, often, indeed --
Not for a nation --
Thou art not lovelier than lilacs, no --
Time does not bring relief, you all have lied --
Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring --
Not in this chamber only at my birth --
If I should learn, in some quite casual way --
This door you might not open, and you did --
I do but ask that you be always fair --
Love, though for this you riddle me with darts --
I think I should have loved you presently --
Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow --
I shall forget you presently, my dear --
We talk of taxes, and I call you friend --
Into the golden vessel of great song --
Not with libations, but with shouts and laughter --
Only until this cigarette is ended --
Once more into my arid days like dew --
No rose that in a garden ever grew --
When I too long have looked upon your face --
And you as well must die, beloved dust --
Let you not say of me when I am old --
Oh, my beloved have you thought of this --
As to some lovely temple --
Cherish you then --
When you --
That love at length --
Love is not blind --
I know I am but summer --
I pray you if you love me --
Pity me not --
Sometimes when I am wearied suddenly --
Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word --
Here is a wound that never will heal --
I shall go back again to the bleak shore --
Say what you will --
What's this of death --
I see so clearly now my similar years --
Your face is like a chamber --
The light combes back
with Columbine --
Lord Archer, Death, whom sent you in your stead --
Loving you less than life --
I, being born a woman and distressed --
What lips my lips have kissed --
Still will I harvest beauty where it grows --
How healthily after feet upon the floor --
Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare --
Sonnets from an ungrafted tree.
Life ... --
Grow not too high --
Not that it matters --
Country of hunchbacks --
Upon this marble bust that is not I --
For this your mother sweated in the cold --
Sweet sounds --
What thing is this that --
The beast that rends me in the sight of all --
No lack of counsel from the shrewd and wise --
Nay, learned doctor, these fine leeches fresh --
Of all that ever in extreme disease --
Since I cannot persuade you from this mood --
Nigh is my sister --
Yet in an hour to come --
When you are dead --
Strange thing that I --
Not in a silver casket cool with pearls --
Olympian gods --
I said --
Epitaph for the race of man --
Those hours when happy hours were my estate --
Not, to me, less lavish --
Tranquility at length --
And is indeed truth beauty --
to hold secure the province of pure art --
And if I die --
It is the fashion now to wave aside --
Admetus --
What chores these churls do put upon the great --
I will put chaos into fourteen lines --
Come home, victorious wounded --
Read history so learn your place in time --
Read history thus learn how small a space --
My words that once were virtuous and expressed --
Now sits the autumn cricket in the grass --
And must I then --
If I die solvent --
Grief that is grief and properly so hight --
Felicity of grief --
What rider spurs him from the darkening east.
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Millay, Edna St. Vincent Author
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9780060129484
9780062124012
9780060129354
9780060908898
9780062124012
9780060129354
9780060908898
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