Humoresque Poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Humoresque

Rating: 2.8


"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.)

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Colleen Courtney 17 May 2014

Find this piece quite humorous. I enjoy her not so serious poems!

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Roxxi Dahl 26 October 2008

Does anyone know what who the poet is referring to 'murdered lover? '

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Rockland / Maine / United States
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