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''On and on eternally
Shall your altered fluid run,
Bud and bloom and go to seed;
But your singing days are done;''
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), U.S. poet. Memorial to D. C. (V, l. 29-32). . ;
pseud. "Nancy Boyd" Collected Poems [Edna St. Vincent Millay]...
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''All your lovely words are spoken.
Once the ivory box is broken,
Beats the golden bird no more.''
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), U.S. poet. Memorial to D. C. (V, l. 36-38). . ;
pseud. "Nancy Boyd" Collected Poems [Edna St. Vincent Millay]...
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''And deep into her crystal body poured
The hot and sorrowful sweetness of the dust:
Whereof she wanders mad, being all unfit
For mortal love, that might not die of it.''
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), U.S. poet. Oh, Sleep Forever in the Latmian Cave (l. 12-15). . ;
pseud. "Nancy Boyd" Collected Poems [Edna St...
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''Sweet sounds, oh, beautiful music, do not cease!
Reject me not into the world again.
With you alone is excellence and peace,
Mankind made plausible, his purpose plain.''
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), U.S. poet. On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven (l. 1-4). . ;
pseud. "Nancy Boyd" Collected Poems [Edna St. Vin...
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''Music my rampart, and my only one.''
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), U.S. poet. On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven (l. 14). . ;
pseud. "Nancy Boyd" Collected Poems [Edna St. Vinc...
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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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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), U.S. poet. Passer Mortuus Est, Second April (1921).
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''Pity me that the heart is slow to learn
What the swift mind beholds at every turn.''
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), U.S. poet. Pity me not (l. 13-14). . ;
pseud. "Nancy Boyd" Collected Poems [Edna St. Vincent Millay]. Norma M...
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''Before she has her floor swept
Or her dishes done.
Any day you'll find her
A-sunning in the sun!''
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), U.S. poet. Portrait by a Neighbor (l. 1-4). . ;
psued. "Nancy Boyd" Collected Poems [Edna St. Vincent Millay]...
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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.''
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), U.S. poet. Pretty Love I Must Outlive You, A Gift for God, "Riches," (1975).
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''We were very tired, we were very merry—
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.''
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), U.S. poet. Recuerdo (l. 1-2). . ;
pseud. "Nancy Boyd" Collected Poems [Edna St. Vincent Millay]. Norma Millay...
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