The Wood Road Poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Wood Road

Rating: 2.9


If I were to walk this way
Hand in hand with Grief,
I should mark that maple-spray
Coming into leaf.
I should note how the old burrs
Rot upon the ground.
Yes, though Grief should know me hers
While the world goes round,
It could not if truth be said
This was lost on me:
A rock-maple showing red,
Burrs beneath a tree.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Colleen Courtney 17 May 2014

Fascinating how something can mean one thing to a person and something else to someone else. Or nothing at all to someone else. Interesring write.

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Rockland / Maine / United States
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