(22 February 1892 – 19 October 1950 / Rockland / Maine / United States)

poet Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay

21. Departure 1/13/2003
22. Dirge 1/13/2003
23. Dirge Without Music 1/13/2003
24. Doubt No More That Oberon 1/13/2003
25. Ebb 1/13/2003
26. Eel-Grass 1/13/2003
27. Elegy 1/13/2003
28. Elegy Before Death 1/13/2003
29. Epitaph 1/13/2003
30. Euclid Alone 1/1/2004
31. Exiled 1/13/2003
32. Feast 1/13/2003
33. First Fig 1/13/2003
34. Fontaine, Je Ne Boirai Pas De Ton Eau! 1/13/2003
35. God's World 1/4/2003
36. Grown-up 1/1/2004
37. Here Is A Wound That Never Will Heal, I Know 1/13/2003
38. Humoresque 1/1/2004
39. I do but ask that you be always fair 1/1/2004
40. I Dreamed I Moved Among The Elysian Fields 1/13/2003

The Shroud

Death, I say, my heart is bowed
Unto thine,—O mother!
This red gown will make a shroud
Good as any other!

(I, that would not wait to wear
My own bridal things,
In a dress dark as my hair
Made my answerings.

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