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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

Afternoon on a Hill, 23

Journey, 24

Sorrow, 26

Tavern, 27

Ashes of Life, 28

The Little Ghost, 29

Kin to Sorrow, 31

Three Songs of Shattering, 32

The Shroud, 34

The Dream, 35

Indifference, 36

Witch-wife, 37

Blight, 38

When the Year Grows Old, 40

Unnamed Sonnets, i-v, 42

Sonnet vi (Bluebeard), 47

Section Two

I, 51

II, 51

Recuerdo, 52

Thursday, 53

To the Not Impossible Him, 54

The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge, 55

Humoresque, 58

She is Overheard Singing, 59

The Unexplorer, 61

Grown-up, 62

The Penitent, 63

Daphne, 64

Portrait by a Neighbour, 65

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

The Blue-Flag in the Bog, 77

Eel-Grass, 86

Elegy before Death, 87

The Bean-Stalk, 88

Weeds, 90

Passer Mortuus Est, 91

Pastoral, 92

Assault, 93

Travel, 94

Low-Tide, 95

Song of a Second April 96

The Poet and his Book, 97

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

Unnamed Sonnets, i-xii, 134

Wild Swans, 146

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.

The longest-living author of this work died in 1950, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 73 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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