I drank at every vine, the last was like the first. I came upon no wine so wonderful as thirst. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“I will control myself, or go inside. I will not flaw perfection with my grief. Handsome, this day: no matter who has… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Sorrow like a ceaseless rain Beats upon my heart. People twist and scream in pain-- Dawn will find them still again; This… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Lord, I do fear Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year My soul is all but out of me-let fall No… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Beautiful Copy Share Image
When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! "I had you and I have you now… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
But you were something more than young and sweet And fair, - and the long year remembers you. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Love Copy Share Image
Night falls fast. Today is in the past. Blown from the dark hill hither to my door Three flakes, then four Arrive,… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Dark Copy Share Image
“A wind with a wolf's head Howled about our door, And we burned up the chairs And sat upon the floor.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Beauty Copy Share Image
We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
it may be said of me by Harper & Brothers, that although I reject their proposals, I welcome their advances. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Brother Copy Share Image
Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
I saw and heard, and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, and present, and forevermore. — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“Lost in Hell,-Persephone, Take her head upon your knee; Say to her, "My dear, my dear, It is not so dreadful here.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay Hell Copy Share Image
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Age Copy Share Image
Not poppy, nor mandrake, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep, Which thou… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
I'm so tired of hearing about 'Renascence,' I'm nearly dead. I find it's as hard to live down an early triumph as… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“Learn to love blackness while there is yet time, blackness Unpatterned, blackness without horizons.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay Time Copy Share Image
I will come back to you, I swear I will; And you will know me still. I shall be only a little… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
