Poems (Millay)
Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay
By the Same Author
THE HARPWEAVER
AND OTHER POEMS
"In the sublimation of lyricism she is unapproached. There is no one who so lifts extreme simplicity and naturalness on to the peaks of ecstasy or the heights of sorrow; or who so combines beauty with power." Manchester Guardian.
Poems by
Edna St. Vincent Millay
THIRD IMPRESSION
London
Martin Secker
1926
First published August 1923, 1,000 coies
Reprinted . August 1924, 1,000 copies
Reprinted .January 1926, 1,000 copies
Printed in Great Britain.
Londons Martin Secker (Ltd.) 1926.
CONTENTS
Section One
Renascence, 13
God's World, 22
Journey, 24
Sorrow, 26
Tavern, 27
Ashes of Life, 28
The Little Ghost, 29
Kin to Sorrow, 31
The Shroud, 34
The Dream, 35
Indifference, 36
Witch-wife, 37
Blight, 38
Section Two
I, 51
II, 51
Recuerdo, 52
Thursday, 53
The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge, 55
Humoresque, 58
The Unexplorer, 61
Grown-up, 62
The Penitent, 63
Daphne, 64
The Merry Maid, 66
To S. M., 67
The Philosopher, 68
Sonnet—Love, Though for This, 69
Sonnet—I Think I Should Have Loved You, 70
Sonnet—Oh, Think Not I am Faithful, 71
Sonnet—I Shall Forget You Presently, 72
Section Three
Spring, 75
City Trees, 76
Eel-Grass, 86
The Bean-Stalk, 88
Weeds, 90
Pastoral, 92
Assault, 93
Travel, 94
Low-Tide, 95
Alms, 102
Inland, 104
To a Poet that Died Young, 105
Wraith, 107
Ebb, 109
Elaine, 110
Burial, 111
Mariposa, 112
Doubt no more that Oberon, 113
Lament, 114
Exiled, 115
The Death of Autumn, 117
Ode to Silence, 118
Memorial to D. C., 127
Wild Swans, 146
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