Best Edna St. Vincent Millay Lines
- But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and… Across
- You are loved. If so, what else matters? Else Matters
- Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand! Built
- The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief or grief has drained me clean;… Been
- To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No thing that ever… Bird
- But she was not made for any man, and she will never be all mine. All
- I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair:… Age
- I saw and heard, and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, and present, and forevermore. All
- I would I were alive again To kiss the fingers of the rain, To drink into my eyes the shine Of every slanting silver line,… Alive
- When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! "I had you and I have you now no more. Hang
- She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine. Fairy
- And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea. Beads
- But you were something more than young and sweet And fair, - and the long year remembers you. Fair
- A ghost in marble of a girl you knew Who would have loved you in a day or two. Day
- Ah, I could lay me down in this long grass And close my eyes, and let the quiet wind Blow over me Ah
- But far, oh, far as passionate eye can reach, And long, ah, long as rapturous eye can cling, The world is mine: blue hill, still… Ah
- I will come back to you, I swear I will; And you will know me still. I shall be only a little taller Than when… Come Back
- ... but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight Full
- Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies. Childhood
- SHE is neither pink nor pale, And she never will be all mine; She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a… All
- I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me. Deeper
- Life must go on; I forget just why. Forget
- I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year; And you must welcome from another part… All
- Beauty is whatever gives joy. Beauty
- Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in… Broken
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