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Title: Renascence and Other Poems

Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay

Release Date: June 19, 2008 [EBook #109]

Language: English

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Renascence and Other Poems

by

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Contents:

Renascence
All I could see from where I stood

Interim
The room is full of you!--As I came in

The Suicide
"Curse thee, Life, I will live with thee no more!

God's World
O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!

Afternoon on a Hill
I will be the gladdest thing

Sorrow
Sorrow like a ceaseless rain

Tavern
I'll keep a little tavern

Ashes of Life
Love has gone and left me and the days are all alike;

The Little Ghost
I knew her for a little ghost

Kin to Sorrow
Am I kin to Sorrow,

Three Songs of Shattering

I
The first rose on my rose-tree

II
Let the little birds sing;

III
All the dog-wood blossoms are underneath the tree!

The Shroud
Death, I say, my heart is bowed

The Dream
Love, if I weep it will not matter,

Indifference
I said,--for Love was laggard, O, Love was slow to come,--

Witch-Wife
She is neither pink nor pale,

Blight
Hard seeds of hate I planted

When the Year Grows Old
I cannot but remember

Sonnets

I
Thou art not lovelier than lilacs,--no,

II
Time does not bring relief; you all have lied

III
Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring,

IV
Not in this chamber only at my birth--

V
If I should learn, in some quite casual way,

VI Bluebeard
This door you might not open, and you did;

Renascence and Other Poems

Renascence

All I could see from where I stood
Was three long mountains and a wood;
I turned and looked another way,
And saw three islands in a bay.
So wi