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I know that Beauty must ail and die,
And will be born again, — but ah, to see
Beauty stiffened, staring up at the sky!
Oh, Autumn! Autumn! — What is the Spring to me?
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I know I am but summer to your heart,
And not the full four seasons of the year.
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Women are
Superior to men in every way,
But chiefly in the intellect.
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And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me.
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This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.
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"One thing there's no getting by—
I've been a wicked girl." said I;
"But if I can't be sorry, why,
I might as well be glad!"
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Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age
The child is grown, and puts away childish things.
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
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Heap not on this mound
Roses that she loved so well;
Why bewilder her with roses,
That she cannot see or smell?
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I drank at every vine.
The last was like the first.
I came upon no wine
So wonderful as thirst.
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The sun that warmed our stooping backs and withered the weeds uprooted—
We shall not feel it again.
We shall die in darkness, and be buried in the rain.
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Life in itself
Is nothing,
An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.
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After all, my earstwhile dear,
My no longer cherished,
Need we say it was not love,
Now that love is perished?
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All my life,
Following Care along the dusty road,
Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed....
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There are a hundred places where I fear To go, —so with his memory they brim! And entering with relief some quiet place Where never fell his foot or shone his face I say, 'There is no memory of him here!' And so stand stricken, so remembering him!
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Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand;
Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
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Many a bard's untimely death
Lends unto his verses breath;
Here's a song was never sung:
Growing old is dying young.
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But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.
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I find that I never lose Bach. I don't know why I have always loved him so. Except that he is so pure, so relentless and incorruptible, like a principle of geometry.
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But you were something more than young and sweet And fair, - and the long year remembers you.
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Birds that cannot even sing —
Dare to come again in spring!
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And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you all through my life?-sharing my fire, my bed, Sharing-oh, worst of all things!-the same head?- And, when I feed myself, feeding you too?
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Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
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To a Young Poet Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird. Bird and wing together Go down, one feather. No thing that ever flew, Not the lark, not you, Can die as others do.
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Death devours all lovely things;
Lesbia with her sparrow
Shares the darkness—presently
Every bed is narrow.
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Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Born:
February 22, 1892
Died:
October 19, 1950
(aged 58)
Bio:
Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism.
Known for:
A few figs from thistles (1920)
Renascence, and other poems (1912)
Collected Sonnets (1941)
Collected Poems
Fatal interview (1931)
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