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• Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Song, Reading, Heart

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1991). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: selected poems : the centenary edition”, Harpercollins

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• For the body at best
  Is a bundle of aches,
  Longing for rest;
  It cries when it wakes.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Body, Cry, Longing

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

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• Curse thee, Life, I will live with thee no more! Thou hast mocked me, starved me, beat my body sore! And all for a pledge that was not pledged by me, I have kissed thy crust and eaten sparingly That I might eat again, and met thy sneers With deprecations, and thy blows with tears.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Sad, Blow, Tears

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2012). “The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay”, p.17, Modern Library

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• Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will love that land where man is free, And that will I defend.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Giving Up, Men, Land

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1991). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: selected poems : the centenary edition”, Harpercollins

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• I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Needs, Kind, Born

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

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• There isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Matter, Transport, Train

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.162, eBookIt.com

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• Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Book, Lines, Firsts

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

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• Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Age, Youth, Aging

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.158, Library of America

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• Listen, children: Your father is dead. From his old coats I'll make you little jackets; I'll make you little trousers From his old pants. There'll be in his pockets Things he used to put there, Keys and pennies Covered with tobacco; Dan shall have the pennies To save in his bank; Anne shall have the keys To make a pretty noise with. Life must go on, Though good men die; Anne, eat your breakfast; Dan, take your medicine; Life must go on; I forget just why.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Children, Father, Men

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2009). “Second April: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Should at that moment the full moon Step forth upon the hill, And memories hard to bear at noon, By moonlight harder still, Form in the shadows of the trees, - Things that you could not spare And live, or so you thought, yet these All gone, and you still there, A man no longer what he was, Not yet the thing he planned.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Memories, Moon, Men

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1934). “Wine from these grapes”

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• Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Children, Childhood, Kingdoms

  Wine from these Grapes (1934) "Childhood is the Kingdom where Nobody dies"

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• A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Book, Writing, Eye

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• Life must go on, Though good men die.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Death, Men, Good Man

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.176, eBookIt.com

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• I shall forget you presently, my dear, So make the most of this, your little day, Your little month, your little half a year, Ere I forget, or die, or move away, And we are done forever; by and by I shall forget you, as I said, but now, If you entreat me with your loveliest lie I will protest you with my favorite vow. I would indeed that love were longer-lived, And vows were not so brittle as they are, But so it is, and nature has contrived To struggle on without a break thus far,-- Whether or not we find what we are seeking Is idle, biologically speaking.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Lying, Struggle, Moving

  "Four Sonnets - IV" l. 9 (1922)

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• I know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool Left there by the tide, A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Heart, Inward, Ledges

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.61, Library of America

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• I will come back to you, I swear I will; And you will know me still. I shall be only a little taller Than when I went.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Littles, Know Me, Swear

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1991). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: selected poems : the centenary edition”, Harpercollins

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• But if I can't be sorry, why,
  I might as well be glad!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Sorry, Might, Wells

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.36, eBookIt.com

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• She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Valentine, Hands, Mouths

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.141, eBookIt.com

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• Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Flower, Smell, Rose

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.185, eBookIt.com

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• Sorrow like a ceaseless rain Beats upon my heart. People twist and scream in pain-- Dawn will find them still again; This has neither wax nor wane, Neither stop nor start.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Pain, Rain, Heart

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.134, eBookIt.com

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• Not poppy, nor mandrake, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep, Which thou owest yesterday.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Sweet, Flower, Sleep

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• We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Race, Self, Our Actions

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• Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Love, Funny, Dog

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

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• I find that I never lose Bach. I don't know why I have always loved him so. Except that he is so pure, so relentless and incorruptible, like a principle of geometry.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Music, Principles, Relentless

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

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• To be grown up is to sit at the table with people who have died, who neither listen nor speak.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  People, Tables, Aging

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

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