Oh, Think Not I Am Faithful To A Vow (Edna St. Vincent Millay Poems)
Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow!Faithless am I save to love's self alone.Were you not lovely I ...
Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow!Faithless am I save to love's self alone.Were you not lovely I ...
I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind,Am urged by your propinquity ...
And you as well must die, beloved dust,And all your beauty stand you in no stead;This flawless, vital hand, this ...
I know I am but summer to your heart,And not the full four seasons of the year;And you must welcome ...
Cherish you then the hope I shall forgetAt length, my lord, Pieria?-put awayFor your so passing sake, this mouth of ...
When we are old and these rejoicing veinsAre frosty channels to a muted stream,And out of all our burning their ...
No rose that in a garden ever grew,In Homer's or in Omar's or in mine,Though buried under centuries of fineDead ...
I shall go back again to the bleak shoreAnd build a little shanty on the sandIn such a way that ...
I shall forget you presently, my dear,So make the most of this, your little day,Your little month, your little half ...
Women have loved before as I love now;At least, in lively chronicles of the past-Of Irish waters by a Cornish ...
NEVER, never may the fruit be plucked from the bough And gathered into barrels. He that would eat of love ...
Man alive, that mournst thy lot,Desiring what thou hast not got,Money, beauty, love, what not;Deeming it blesseder to beA rotted ...
I said,—for Love was laggard, O, Love was slow to come,— "I'll hear his step and know his step ...
Spring rides no horses down the hill,But comes on foot, a goose-girl still.And all the loveliest things there beCome simply, ...
Death devours all lovely things;Lesbia with her sparrowShares the darkness, presentlyEvery bed is narrowUnremembered as old rainDries the sheer libation,And ...
Being Young and Green, I said in love's despite:Never in the world will I to living wightGive over, air my ...
No matter what I say,All that I really loveIs the rain that flattens on the bay,And the eel-grass in the ...
Here is a wound that never will heal, I know, Being wrought not of a dearness and a death, But ...
There it was I saw what I shall never forget And never retrieve. Monstrous and beautiful to human eyes, hard ...
God had called us, and we came; Our loved Earth to ashes left; Heaven was a neighbor's house, Open to ...
Aye, but she? Your other sister and my other soul Grave Silence, lovelier Than the three loveliest maidens, what of ...
XLI I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by ...
Into the golden vessel of great song Let us pour all our passion; breast to breast Let other lovers lie, ...
My heart is what it was before, A house where people come and go; But it is winter with your ...
(He speaks, but to himself, being aware how it is with her) Think not I have not heard. Well-fanged the ...
As to some lovely temple, tenantless Long since, that once was sweet with shivering brass, Knowing well its altars ruined ...
IV I SHALL forget you presently, my dear, So make the most of this, your little day, Your little month, ...
No rose that in a garden ever grew, In Homer's or in Omar's or in mine, Though buried under centuries ...
Sweet love, sweet thorn, when lightly to my heart I took your thrust, whereby I since am slain, And lie ...
Think not, not for a moment let your mind, Wearied with thinking, doze upon the thought That the work's done ...
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