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Edna St. Vincent Millay
(1892 - 1950 / Rockland / Maine)
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''I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.''
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), U.S. poet. Afternoon on a Hill (l. 1-4). . ;
pseud. "Nancy Boyd" Collected Poems [Edna St. Vincent Millay]. N...
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''It mattering not how beautiful you were,
Or how beloved above all else that dies.''
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), U.S. poet. And You as Well Must Die, Beloved Dust (l. 13-14). . ;
pseud. "Nancy Boyd" Collected Poems [Edna S...
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''this wonder fled,
Altered, estranged, disintegrated, lost.
Nor shall my love avail you in your hour.''
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), U.S. poet. And You as Well Must Die, Beloved Dust (l. 7-9). . ;
pseud. "Nancy Boyd" Collected Poems [Edna St....
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Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age.
The child is grown, and puts away childish things.
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
Nobody that matters, th...
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), U.S. poet and author. "Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies," Wine From the Grapes (1934).
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''Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
Nobody that matters, that is.''
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), U.S. poet. Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies, Wine From These Grapes (1934).
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Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve...
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), U.S. poet. Dirge without Music (l. 13-16). . ;
pseud. "Nancy Boyd" Collected Poems [Edna St. Vincent Millay]....
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Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know, But I do not approve...
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), U.S. poet. "Dirge Without Music," lines 13-16 (1928).
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''let geese
Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release
From dusty bondage into luminous air.''
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), U.S. poet. Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare (l. 6-8). . ;
pseud. "Nancy Boyd" Collected Poems [Edna St....
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''Fortunate they
Who, though once only and then but far away,
Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.''
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), U.S. poet. Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare (l. 12-14). . ;
psued. "Nancy Boyd" Collected Poems [Edna S...
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''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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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), U.S. poet. Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare, The Harp-weaver and Other Poems (1923).
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