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• A ghost in marble of a girl you knew Who would have loved you in a day or two.

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  Girl, Two, Ghost

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.41, eBookIt.com

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• There are a hundred places where I fear To go, --so with his memory they brim! And entering with relief some quiet place Where never fell his foot or shone his face I say, 'There is no memory of him here!' And so stand stricken, so remembering him!

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  Memories, Feet, Relief

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.144, eBookIt.com

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• And reaching up my hand to try, I screamed to feel it touch the sky.

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  Reaching Up, Hands, Sky

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.116, eBookIt.com

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• I am not afraid of lawyers as I used to be. They are lambs in wolves' clothing.

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  Law, Lambs, Used

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1972). “Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay”

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• I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me.

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  Passion, Thinking, Roots

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• And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you all through my life?-sharing my fire, my bed, Sharing-oh, worst of all things!-the same head?- And, when I feed myself, feeding you too?

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  Life, Pain, Fire

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.239, Library of America

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• I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll.

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  Pay, Dies

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.181, Library of America

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• Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom, golden in the green grass, This life can be. Common as a dandelion-blossom, beautiful in the clean grass, not beautiful Because common, beautiful because beautiful, Noble because common, because free.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Beautiful, Noble, Green

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• I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person fair, and feel a certain zest To bear your body's weight upon my breast; So subtly is the fume of life designed, To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind, And leave me once again undone, possessed. Think not for this, however, the poor treason Of my stout blood against my staggering brain, I shall remember you with love, or season My scorn with pity, - let me make it plain: I find this frenzy insufficient reason For conversation when we meet again.

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  Thinking, Clouds, Remember You

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.79, Library of America

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• Night falls fast. Today is in the past.

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  Fall, Past, Night

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.201, Library of America

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• Ah! Up then from the ground sprang I And hailed the earth with such a cry As is not heard save from a man Who has been dead, and lives again. About the trees my arms I wound; Like one gone mad I hugged the ground; I raised my quivering arms on high; I laughed and laughed into the sky.

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  Men, Sky, Mad

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.38, Library of America

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• pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.

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  Learning, Heart, Mind

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.19, Library of America

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• All my life, Following Care along the dusty road, Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed.

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  Compassion, Generosity, Care

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.155, eBookIt.com

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• But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.

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  Girl, Lying, Home

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink.

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  Love, Rain, Men

  "Love Is Not All" l. 1 (1931)

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• But far, oh, far as passionate eye can reach, And long, ah, long as rapturous eye can cling, The world is mine: blue hill, still silver lake, Broad field, bright flower, and the long white road A gateless garden, and an open path: My feet to follow, and my heart to hold.

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  Flower, Heart, Eye

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2011). “Collected Poems”, p.67, Harper Collins

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• I saw and heard, and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, and present, and forevermore.

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  Past, Lasts, Saws

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.117, eBookIt.com

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• The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief or grief has drained me clean; Still it seems a pity No one saw,—it must have been Very pretty.

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  Grief, Rose, Tree

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). “Millay: Poems”, p.45, Everyman's Library

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• If I could have two things in one: the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun.

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  Light, Two, Sun

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1950). “Second April: and, The buck in the snow [and other poems]”

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• Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.

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  Life, Cups, Flight

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.148, eBookIt.com

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• Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off my life, he'll take from off the other end!

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  Sleep, Cutting, Years

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• We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace.

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  War, Thinking, Sides

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No thing that ever flew, Not the lark, not you, Can die as others do.

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  Wings, Bird, Together

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Ah, drink again This river that is the taker-away of pain, And the giver-back of beauty! In these cool waves What can be lost?-- Only the sorry cost Of the lovely thing, ah, never the thing itself! The level flood that laves The hot brow And the stiff shoulder Is at our temples now. Gone is the fever, But not into the river; Melted the frozen pride, But the tranquil tide Runs never the warmer for this, Never the colder. Immerse the dream. Drench the kiss. Dip the song in the stream.

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  Running, Dream, Song

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.95, Library of America

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• Beauty in all things-no, we cannot hope for that; but some place set apart for it.

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  Beauty, All Things

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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