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From Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech…
- Cut if you will with sleep's dull knife, the years from off your life, my friend! the years that death takes off my life, he'll…
- Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.
- Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease…
- How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow . . . Life, looking out…
- I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late; And eaten in an echoing hall Alone and from a chipped…
- I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of…
- I know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool Left there by the…
- Night falls fast. Today is in the past. Blown from the dark hill hither to my door Three flakes, then four Arrive, then many more.
- Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping…
- Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall.
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
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