[Four Sonnets (1922)] (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
I1.Love, though for this you riddle me with darts,.And drag me at your chariot till I die, --.Oh, heavy prince! ...
I1.Love, though for this you riddle me with darts,.And drag me at your chariot till I die, --.Oh, heavy prince! ...
The room is full of you!—As I came in And closed the door behind me, all at once A something ...
Aye, but she?Your other sister and my other soulGrave Silence, lovelierThan the three loveliest maidens, what of her?Clio, not you,Not ...
I When you, that at this moment are to me Dearer than words on paper, shall ...
God had called us, and we came;Our loved Earth to ashes left; Heaven was a neighbor's house,Open flung to us, ...
Son, said my mother,When I was knee-high,"You've need of clothes to cover you,And not a rag have I."There's nothing in ...
Down, you mongrel, Death!Back into your kennel!I have stolen breathIn a stalk of fennel!You shall scratch and you shall whineMany ...
Ho, Giant! This is I!I have built me a bean-stalk into your sky!La,—but it's lovely, up so high!This ...
Searching my heart for its true sorrow,This is the thing I find to be:That I am weary of words and ...
Hard seeds of hate I planted That should by now be grown,— Rough stalks, and from thick stamens ...
Now goes under, and I watch it go under, the sunThat will not rise again.Today has seen the setting, in ...
I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.So it is, and so it ...
There will be rose and rhododendronWhen you are dead and under ground; Still will be heard from white syringasHeavy with ...
I thought, as I wiped my eyes on the corner of my apron:Penelope did this too.And more than once: you ...
Not in this chamber only at my birth— When the long hours of that mysterious night Were over, ...
Sweet love, sweet thorn, when lightly to my heartI took your thrust, whereby I since am slain,And lie disheveled in ...
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone ...
Pity me not because the light of dayAt close of day no longer walks the sky;Pity me not for beauties ...
Before she has her floor swept Or her dishes done, Any day you'll find her A-sunning in the sun!It's long ...
Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow!Faithless am I am save to love's self alone.Were you not lovely ...
Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow!Faithless am I save to love's self alone.Were you not lovely I ...
When I too long have looked upon your face,Wherein for me a brightness unobscuredSave by the mists of brightness has ...
My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and ...
The room is full of you!-As I came in And closed the door behind me, all at once A something ...
When I too long have looked upon your face, Wherein for me a brightness unobscured Save by the mists of ...
Searching my heart for its true sorrow, This is the thing I find to be: That I am weary of ...
Hard seeds of hate I planted That should by now be grown,- Rough stalks, and from thick stamens A poisonous ...
III OH, THINK not I am faithful to a vow! Faithless am I save to love's self alone. Were you ...
Before she has her floor swept Or her dishes done, Any day you'll find her A-sunning in the sun! It's ...
Before she has her floor swept Or her dishes done, Any day you'll find her A-sunning in the sun! It's ...
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