Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay
(22 February 1892 – 19 October 1950 / Rockland / Maine / United States)
Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay : 39 / 169
Humoresque - Poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Heaven bless the babe!" they said.
"What queer books she must have read!"
(Love, by whom I was beguiled,
Grant I may not bear a child.)
"Little does she guess to-day
What the world may be!" they say.
(Snow, drift deep and cover
Till the spring my murdered lover.)
Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay : 39 / 169
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Poem Submitted: Thursday, January 1, 2004
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Find this piece quite humorous. I enjoy her not so serious poems! (Report) Reply
Does anyone know what who the poet is referring to 'murdered lover? ' (Report) Reply