"I would I were alive again To kiss……" — Edna St. Vincent Millay

I would I were alive again To kiss the fingers of the… - Edna St. Vincent Millay

"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, To catch the freshened, fragrant breeze From drenched and dripping apple-trees. For soon the shower will be done, And then the broad face of the sun Will laugh above the rain-soaked earth Until the world with answering mirth Shakes joyously, and each round drop Rolls twinkling, from its grass-blade top."

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

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