(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

41. I Know I Am But Summer To Your Heart 1/13/2003
42. I Know The Face Of Falsehood And Her Tongue 1/13/2003
43. I Shall Go Back 1/1/2004
44. I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed 1/1/2004
45. If I Should Learn, In Some Quite Casual Way 1/1/2004
46. If Still Your Orchards Bear 1/13/2003
47. Indifference 1/13/2003
48. Inland 1/13/2003
49. Intention To Escape From Him 1/13/2003
50. Interim 1/13/2003
51. Invocation To The Muses 1/13/2003
52. Journey 1/13/2003
53. Justice Denied In Massachusetts 1/13/2003
54. Kin To Sorrow 1/13/2003
55. Lament 1/13/2003
56. Lines for a Grave-Stone 1/1/2004
57. Lines Written In Recapitulation 1/13/2003
58. Love Is Not All 1/13/2003
59. Low-Tide 1/13/2003
60. Make Bright The Arrows 1/13/2003

City Trees

The trees along this city street,
Save for the traffic and the trains,
Would make a sound as thin and sweet
As trees in country lanes.

And people standing in their shade
Out of a shower, undoubtedly
Would hear such music as is made
Upon a country tree.

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