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The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay

By: Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Paperback | 15 September 2002 | Edition Number 1

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An indispensable collection of the groundbreaking poet’s most masterful and innovative work, celebrating a bold early voice of female liberation, independence, and queer sexuality—featuring a new introduction by poet Olivia Gatwood, author of Life of the Party

Edna St. Vincent Millay defined a generation as one of the most critically acclaimed poets of the Modernist era. Her work pushed boundaries within the literary canon for its lyrical expression of female embodiment and progressive feminist politics, and she was honored as only the third woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay demonstrates Millay’s legacy and influence on contemporary poetry. Sometimes satirical, often sharp, and always striking, the poems in this collection span Millay’s remarkable career, from the success of Renascence and Other Poems to the sting of A Few Figs from Thistles, and Second April, as well as “The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver” and eight sonnets from the early twenties. Millay’s incandescent poetry continues to inspire today as broadly and deeply as during her lifetime.

The Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of resistance.

AMERICAN INDIAN STORIES • THE AWAKENING • THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY • THE HEADS OF CERBERUS • LADY AUDLEY’S SECRET • LOVE, ANGER, MADNESS • PASSING • THE TRANSFORMATION OF PHILIP JETTAN • VILLETTE • THERE IS CONFUSION • THE SELECTED POEMS OF EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

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"Edna St. Vincent Millay seems to me one of the only poets writing in English in our time who have attained anything like the stature of great literary figures."--Edmund Wilson

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Biographical Note	p. v
Introduction	p. xiii
Renascence and Other Poems	p. 1
Renascence	p. 3
Interim	p. 10
The Suicide	p. 17
God's World	p. 22
Afternoon on a Hill	p. 23
Sorrow	p. 24
Tavern	p. 25
Ashes of Life	p. 26
The Little Ghost	p. 27
Kin to Sorrow	p. 29
Three Songs of Shattering	p. 30
The first rose on my rose-tree	p. 30
Let the little birds sing	p. 30
All the dog-wood blossoms are underneath the tree!	p. 31
The Shroud	p. 32
The Dream	p. 33
Indifference	p. 34
Witch-Wife	p. 35
Blight	p. 36
When the Year Grows Old	p. 38
Sonnets	p. 40
Thou art not lovelier than lilacs,--no	p. 40
Time does not bring relief; you all have lied	p. 41
Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring	p. 42
Not in this chamber only at my birth	p. 43
If I should learn, in some quite casual way	p. 44
Bluebeard	p. 45
A Few Figs from Thistles	p. 47
First Fig	p. 49
Second Fig	p. 49
Recuerdo	p. 50
Thursday	p. 51
To the Not Impossible Him	p. 52
MacDougal Street	p. 53
The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge	p. 54
She Is Overheard Singing	p. 56
The Prisoner	p. 58
The Unexplorer	p. 59
Grown-up	p. 60
The Penitent	p. 61
Daphne	p. 62
Portrait by a Neighbor	p. 63
Midnight Oil	p. 64
The Merry Maid	p. 65
To Kathleen	p. 66
To S. M.	p. 67
The Philosopher	p. 68
Sonnets	p. 69
Love, though for this you riddle me with darts	p. 69
I think I should have loved you presently	p. 70
Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow!	p. 71
I shall forget you presently, my dear	p. 72
Second April	p. 73
Spring	p. 75
City Trees	p. 76
The Blue-Flag in the Bog	p. 77
Journey	p. 84
Eel-Grass	p. 86
Elegy Before Death	p. 87
The Bean-Stalk	p. 88
Weeds	p. 90
Passer Mortuus Est	p. 91
Pastoral	p. 92
Assault	p. 93
Travel	p. 94
Low-Tide	p. 95
Song of a Second April	p. 96
Rosemary	p. 97
The Poet and His Book	p. 98
Alms	p. 102
Inland	p. 104
To a Poet That Died Young	p. 105
Wraith	p. 107
Ebb	p. 109
Elaine	p. 110
Burial	p. 111
Mariposa	p. 112
The Little Hill	p. 113
Doubt No More That Oberon	p. 114
Lament	p. 115
Exiled	p. 116
The Death of Autumn	p. 118
Ode to Silence	p. 119
Memorial to D.C.	p. 125
Epitaph	p. 127
Praver to Persephone	p. 128
Chorus	p. 129
Elegy	p. 130
Dirge	p. 132
Sonnets	p. 133
We talk of taxes, and I call you friend	p. 133
Into the golden vessel of great song	p. 134
Not with libations, but with shouts and laughter	p. 135
Only until this cigarette is ended	p. 136
Once more into my arid days like dew	p. 137
No rose that in a garden ever grew	p. 138
When I too long have looked upon your face	p. 139
And you as well must die, beloved dust	p. 140
Let you not say of me when I am old	p. 141
Oh, my beloved, have you thought of this	p. 142
As to some lovely temple, tenantless	p. 143
Cherish you then the hope I shall forget	p. 144
Wild Swans	p. 145
Sonnets and The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver	p. 147
Sonnets	p. 149
When you, that at this moment are to me	p. 149
I know I am but summer to your heart	p. 150
Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!	p. 151
Here is a wound that never will heal, I know	p. 152
Say what you will, and scratch my heart to find	p. 153
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why	p. 154
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare	p. 155
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver	p. 156
Index of Titles	p. 161
Index of First Lines	p. 165
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