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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods
Live a longer life than men do,
Men a longer life than dogs do,
Dogs a longer life than
love
does.
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Sweet
love
, sweet thorn, when lightly to my heart. I took your thrust, whereby I since am slain, And I lie disheveled in the grass apart, A sodden thing bedrenched by tears and rain.
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SHE is neither pink nor pale, And she never will be all mine; She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine. She has more hair than she needs; In the sun 'tis a woe to me! And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea. She
loves
me all that she can, And her ways to my ways resign; But she was not made for any man, And she never will be all mine.
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After all, my erstwhile dear,
My no longer cherished,
Need we say it was not
love
,
Now that
love
is perished?
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I know what my heart is like Since your
love
died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool Left there by the tide, A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge.
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'Tis not
love
's going hurts my days,
But that it went in little ways.
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Do you suppose, when you and I are dead, dear, they will publish the
Love
Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay and Her Mother?
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After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not
love
, just because it perished?
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Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree,
Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,
Yet knows its boughs more silent than before:
I cannot say what
loves
have come and gone,
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.
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You wrote me a beautiful letter, I wonder if you meant it to be as beautiful as it was. I think you did; for somehow I know that your feeling for me, however slight it is, is of the nature of
love
... When you tell me to come, I will come, by the next train, just as I am. This is not meekness, be assured; I do not come naturally by meekness; know that it is a proud surrender to You.
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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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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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The fabric of my faithful
love
No power shall dim or ravel
Whilst I stay here, — but oh, my dear,
If I should ever travel!
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But you are mobile as the veering air,
And all your charms more changeful than the tide,
Wherefore to be inconstant is no care:
I have but to continue at your side.
So wanton, light and false, my
love
, are you,
I am most faithless when I most am true.
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O troubled forms, O early
love
unfortunate and hard,
Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure
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Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will
love
that land where man is free, And that will I defend.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Charles Caleb Colton
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Born:
February 22, 1892
Died:
October 19, 1950
(aged 58)
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