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The selected poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay / edited and with an introduction by Nancy Milford.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950 (Author). Milford, Nancy. (Added Author).

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ISBN: 0375761233 (pbk)
Physical Description: xvii, 167 p. ; 21 cm.
Edition: 2002 Modern Library Paperback ed.
Publisher: New York : Modern Library, 2002.

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The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay

by Millay, Edna St. Vincent; Milford, Nancy (Editor); Gatwood, Olivia (Introduction by)

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The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Section	Section Description	Page Number
	Biographical Note	p. v
	Introduction Nancy Milford	p. xiii
	Renascence and Other Poems	p. 1
	Renascence	p. 3
	Interim	p. 10
	The Suicide	p. 17
	God's World	p. 22
	Afternoon on a Hill	p. 23
	Sorrow	p. 24
	Tavern	p. 25
	Ashes of Life	p. 26
	The Little Ghost	p. 27
	Kin to Sorrow	p. 29
	Three Songs of Shattering	p. 30
I.	The first rose on my rose-tree	p. 30
II.	Let the little birds sing	p. 30
III.	All the dog-wood blossoms are underneath the tree!	p. 31
	The Shroud	p. 32
	The Dream	p. 33
	Indifference	p. 34
	Witch-Wife	p. 35
	Blight	p. 36
	When the Year Grows Old	p. 38
	Sonnets	p. 40
I.	Thou art not lovelier than lilacs,--no	p. 40
II.	Time does not bring relief; you all have lied	p. 41
III.	Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring	p. 42
IV.	Not in this chamber only at my birth	p. 43
V.	If I should learn, in some quite casual way	p. 44
VI.	Bluebeard	p. 45
	A Few Figs from Thistles	p. 47
	First Fig	p. 49
	Second Fig	p. 49
	Recuerdo	p. 50
	Thursday	p. 51
	To the Not Impossible Him	p. 52
	MacDougal Street	p. 53
	The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge	p. 54
	She Is Overheard Singing	p. 56
	The Prisoner	p. 58
	The Unexplorer	p. 59
	Grown-up	p. 60
	The Penitent	p. 61
	Daphne	p. 62
	Portrait by a Neighbor	p. 63
	Midnight Oil	p. 64
	The Merry Maid	p. 65
	To Kathleen	p. 66
	To S. M.	p. 67
	The Philosopher	p. 68
	Sonnets	p. 69
I.	Love, though for this you riddle me with darts	p. 69
II.	I think I should have loved you presently	p. 70
III.	Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow!	p. 71
IV.	I shall forget you presently, my dear	p. 72
	Second April	p. 73
	Spring	p. 75
	City Trees	p. 76
	The Blue-Flag in the Bog	p. 77
	Journey	p. 84
	Eel-Grass	p. 86
	Elegy Before Death	p. 87
	The Bean-Stalk	p. 88
	Weeds	p. 90
	Passer Mortuus Est	p. 91
	Pastoral	p. 92
	Assault	p. 93
	Travel	p. 94
	Low-Tide	p. 95
	Song of a Second April	p. 96
	Rosemary	p. 97
	The Poet and His Book	p. 98
	Alms	p. 102
	Inland	p. 104
	To a Poet That Died Young	p. 105
	Wraith	p. 107
	Ebb	p. 109
	Elaine	p. 110
	Burial	p. 111
	Mariposa	p. 112
	The Little Hill	p. 113
	Doubt No More That Oberon	p. 114
	Lament	p. 115
	Exiled	p. 116
	The Death of Autumn	p. 118
	Ode to Silence	p. 119
	Memorial to D.C.	p. 125
	Epitaph	p. 127
	Praver to Persephone	p. 128
	Chorus	p. 129
	Elegy	p. 130
	Dirge	p. 132
	Sonnets	p. 133
I.	We talk of taxes, and I call you friend	p. 133
II.	Into the golden vessel of great song	p. 134
III.	Not with libations, but with shouts and laughter	p. 135
IV.	Only until this cigarette is ended	p. 136
V.	Once more into my arid days like dew	p. 137
VI.	No rose that in a garden ever grew	p. 138
VII.	When I too long have looked upon your face	p. 139
VIII.	And you as well must die, beloved dust	p. 140
IX.	Let you not say of me when I am old	p. 141
X.	Oh, my beloved, have you thought of this	p. 142
XI.	As to some lovely temple, tenantless	p. 143
XII.	Cherish you then the hope I shall forget	p. 144
	Wild Swans	p. 145
	Sonnets and The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver	p. 147
	Sonnets	p. 149
	When you, that at this moment are to me	p. 149
	I know I am but summer to your heart	p. 150
	Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!	p. 151
	Here is a wound that never will heal, I know	p. 152
	Say what you will, and scratch my heart to find	p. 153
	What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why	p. 154
	Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare	p. 155
	The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver	p. 156
	Index of Titles	p. 161
	Index of First Lines	p. 165

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