The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay

One of America's most celebrated poetsand winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1923Edna St. Vincent Millay defined a generation with her passionate lyrics and intoxicating voice of liberation. Edited by Millay biographer Nancy Milford, this Modern Library Paperback Classics collection captures the poet's unique spirit in works likeRenascence and Other Poems,A Few Figs from This-tles, andSecond April, as well as in "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" and eight sonnets from the early twenties. As Milford writes in her Introduction, "These are the poems that made Edna St. Vincent Millay's reputation when she was young. Saucy, insolent, flip, and defiant, her little verses sting the page."

Nancy Milford's Zelda was translated into twelve languages, sold over 1.4 million copies in five editions, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award. She is also the author of the upcoming biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay, entitled Savage Beauty. From the Hardcover edition.

Biographical Note

v

Introduction

xiii

Nancy Milford

Renascence and Other Poems

1

(46)

Renascence

3

(7)

Interim

10

(7)

The Suicide

17

(5)

God's World

22

(1)

Afternoon on a Hill

23

(1)

Sorrow

24

(1)

Tavern

25

(1)

Ashes of Life

26

(1)

The Little Ghost

27

(2)

Kin to Sorrow

29

(1)

Three Songs of Shattering

30

(2)

The first rose on my rose-tree

30

(1)

Let the little birds sing

30

(1)

All the dog-wood blossoms are underneath the tree!

31

(1)

The Shroud

32

(1)

The Dream

33

(1)

Indifference

34

(1)

Witch-Wife

35

(1)

Blight

36

(2)

When the Year Grows Old

38

(2)

Sonnets

40

(7)

Thou art not loverlier than lilacs,---no

40

(1)

Time does not bring relief; you all have lied

41

(1)

Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring

42

(1)

Not in this chamber only at my birth

43

(1)

If I should learn, in some quite casual way

44

(1)

Bluebeard

45

(2)

A Few Figs from Thistles

47

(26)

First Fig

49

(1)

Second Fig

49

(1)

Recuerdo

50

(1)

Thursday

51

(1)

To the Not Impossible Him

52

(1)

MacDougal Street

53

(1)

The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge

54

(2)

She Is Overheard Singing

56

(2)

The Prisoner

58

(1)

The Unexplorer

59

(1)

Grown-up

60

(1)

The Penitent

61

(1)

Daphne

62

(1)

Portrait by a Neighbor

63

(1)

Midnight Oil

64

(1)

The Merry Maid

65

(1)

To Kathleen

66

(1)

To S. M.

67

(1)

The Philosopher

68

(1)

Sonnets

69

(4)

Love, though for this you riddle me with darts

69

(1)

I think I should have loved you presently

70

(1)

Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow!

71

(1)

I shall forget you presently, my dear

72

(1)

Second April

73

(74)

Spring

75

(1)

City Trees

76

(1)

The Blue-Flag in the Bog

77

(7)

Journey

84

(2)

Eel-Grass

86

(1)

Elegy Before Death

87

(1)

The Bean-Stalk

88

(2)

Weeds

90

(1)

Passer Mortuus Est

91

(1)

Pastoral

92

(1)

Assault

93

(1)

Travel

94

(1)

Low-Tide

95

(1)

Song of a Second April

96

(1)

Rosemary

97

(1)

The Poet and His Book

98

(4)

Alms

102

(2)

Inland

104

(1)

To a Poet That Died Young

105

(2)

Wraith

107

(2)

Ebb

109

(1)

Elaine

110

(1)

Burial

111

(1)

Mariposa

112

(1)

The Little Hill

113

(1)

Doubt No More That Oberon

114

(1)

Lament

115

(1)

Exiled

116

(2)

The Death of Autumn

118

(1)

Ode to Silence

119

(6)

Memorial to D. C.

125

(8)

Epitaph

127

(1)

Prayer to Persephone

128

(1)

Chorus

129

(1)

Elegy

130

(2)

Dirge

132

(1)

Sonnets

133

(12)

We talk of taxes, and I call you friend

133

(1)

Into the golden vessel of great song

134

(1)

Not with libations, but with shouts and laughter

135

(1)

Only until this cigarette is ended

136

(1)

Once more into my arid days like dew

137

(1)

No rose that in a garden ever grew

138

(1)

When I too long have looked upon your face

139

(1)

And you as well must die, beloved dust

140

(1)

Let you not say of me when I am old

141

(1)

Oh, my beloved, have you thought of this

142

(1)

As to some lovely temple, tenantless

143

(1)

Cherish you then the hope I shall forget

144

(1)

Wild Swans

145

(2)

Sonnets and the Ballad of the Harp-Weaver

147

(14)

Sonnets

149

(7)

When you, that at this moment are to me

149

(1)

I know I am but summer to your heart

150

(1)

Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!

151

(1)

Here is a wound that never will heal, I know

152

(1)

Say what you will, and scratch my heart to find

153

(1)

What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why

154

(1)

Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare

155

(1)

The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver

156

(5)

Index of Titles

161

(4)

Index of First Lines

165

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The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay

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