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- No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place. Air
- Listen, children: Your father is dead. From his old coats I'll make you little jackets; I'll make you little trousers From his old pants. There'll… Anne
- Guess I'll weep awhile. Guess I won't, I mean. Awhile
- A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now,… Cursed
- I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person… All
- Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung,… Bitten
- For my omniscience paid I toll In infinite remorse of soul. All sin was of my sinning, all Atoning mine, and mine the gall Of… All
- Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search… Age
- This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to… Book
- Ah! Up then from the ground sprang I And hailed the earth with such a cry As is not heard save from a man Who… Ah
- I love humanity but I hate people. Anger
- Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Darkness
- She is happy where she lies With the dust upon her eyes. Dust
- Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is… Age
- There are a hundred places where I fear To go, --so with his memory they brim! And entering with relief some quiet place Where never… Brim
- Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves… Apparent
- I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year. Four
- Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom, golden in the green grass, This life can be. Common as a dandelion-blossom, beautiful in the clean grass, not beautiful Because… Beautiful
- When you are corn and roses and at rest I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost To haunt the scene where I was happiest… Bend
- And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you all through my life?-sharing my fire, my bed, Sharing-oh, worst of all things!-the same head?- And,… All
- And what are you that, missing you, I should be kept awake As many nights as there are days With weeping for your sake? And… Any
- One things there's no getting by, I've been a wicked girl, Says I... But, if I can't be sorry I might as well be glad… Been
- Night falls fast. Today is in the past. Fall
- Ah, drink again This river that is the taker-away of pain, And the giver-back of beauty! In these cool waves What can be lost?-- Only… Ah
- A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down. Appears
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