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Martyred many times must be Who would keep his country free.

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Country, Liberty, Martyred

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Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink.

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Love Is, Meat, Slumber

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

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Time can make soft that iron wood.

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Time, Iron, Woods

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

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Life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse.

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Life, Forever, Goes On

Edna St. Vincent Millay (2007). “The Collected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay”, p.7, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease To ponder on themselves, the while they stare At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere In shapes of shifting lineage; let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air. O blinding hour, O holy, terrible day, When first the shaft into his vision shone Of light anatomized! Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.

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Peace, Hero, Air

"Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare" l. 11 (1923)

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The only people I really hate are servants. They're not really human beings at all.

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Hate, Class, People

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I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.

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Heart, Heavenly, Resigned

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Frances Schoonmaker (1999). “Edna St. Vincent Millay”, p.30, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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Progress-progress is the dirtiest word in the language-who ever told us- And made us believe it-that to take a step forward was necessarily, was always A good idea?

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Believe, Ideas, Progress

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let geese
Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release
From dusty bondage into luminous air.

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Freedom, Hero, Air

Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.81, Library of America

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Under my head till morning; but the rain, Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh, Upon the glass and listen for reply.

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Morning, Rain, Glasses

1923 Harp-Weaver and Other Poems,'Sonnet19: What lips my lips have kissed'.

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Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall.

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Fall, Boards, Crumbs

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

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Evil alone has oil for every wheel.

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Oil, Evil, Wheels

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

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Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease To ponder on themselves, the while they stare At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere.

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Peace, Earth, Euclid

Edna St. Vincent Millay (2012). “The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay”, p.155, Modern Library

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Death devours all lovely things;
Lesbia with her sparrow
Shares the darkness--presently
Every bed is narrow.

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Death, Darkness, Lovely

'Passer Mortuus Est' (1921).

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[on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks and silver sugar spoons and hay ricks and paper-covered novels and picture frames and rag carpets and toothpicks and skating rinks and birds of paradise and roof gardens and burdocks and French grammars before Sunday school time.

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Dog, Rain, School

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Tiresome heart, forever living and dying,
House without air, I leave you and lock your door.
Wild swans, come over the town, come over
The town again, trailing your legs and crying!

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Heart, Swans, Air

Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.194, eBookIt.com

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Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead
Is great Apollo; and the happier he

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Dust, Long, Apollo

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

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I know, but I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

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Resigned, Knows

Buck in the Snow (1928) "Dirge Without Music"

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When you are corn and roses and at rest I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost To haunt the scene where I was happiest To bend above the thing I loved the most

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Rose, Corn, Ghost

Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.150, Library of America

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Her lawn looks like a meadow, And if she mows the place She leaves the clover standing And the Queen Anne's Lace.

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Queens, Looks, Lace

Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.37, eBookIt.com

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I am not at all in favor of hard work for its own sake; many people who work very hard indeed produce terrible things, and should most certainly not be encouraged.

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Work, People, Favors

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

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One things there's no getting by, I've been a wicked girl, Says I... But, if I can't be sorry I might as well be glad !

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Girl, Sorry, Wicked

Edna St. Vincent Millay, “The Penitent”

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... but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight

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Rain, Tonight, Ghost

1923 Harp-Weaver and Other Poems,'Sonnet19: What lips my lips have kissed'.

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That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe.

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Catastrophe, Accomplices

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

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So up I got in anger, And took a book I had, And put a ribbon on my hair To please a passing lad. And, "One thing there's no getting by -- I've been a wicked girl," said I; But if I can't be sorry, why, I might as well be glad!

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Girl, Sorry, Book

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

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Born: February 22, 1892
Died: October 19, 1950
Occupation: Poet
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