Millay: Poems: Edited by Diana Secker Tesdell (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

One of America’s most beloved poets, Edna St. Vincent Millay burst onto the literary scene at a very young age and won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923. Her passionate lyrics and superbly crafted sonnets have thrilled generations of readers long after the notoriously bohemian lifestyle she led in Greenwich Village in the 1920s ceased to shock them. Millay’s refreshing frankness and cynicism and her ardent appetite for life still burn brightly on the page more than half a century after her death. This volume includes the early poems that many consider her best— “Renascence” and “The Ballad of the Harp Weaver” among them—as well as such often-memorized favorites as “What lips my lips have kissed” and “First Fig” (“My candle burns at both ends . . .”). The poet’s most famous verse drama, the one-act antiwar fable Aria da Capo, is included here as well. One Of America's Best-loved Poets, Edna St Vincent Millay (1892-1950) Burst Onto The Literary Scene At A Very Young Age And Won The Pulitzer Prize For Poetry In 1923. Her Lyrics And Sonnets Have Thrilled Generations Of Readers Long After The Notoriously Bohemian Lifestyle She Led In Greenwich Village In The 1920s Ceased To Shock Them. Renascence -- Interim -- The Suicide -- God's World -- Afternoon On A Hill -- Sorrow -- Tavern -- Ashes Of Life -- The Little Ghost -- Kin To Sorrow -- Three Songs Of Shattering: 1. The First Rose On My Rose-tree; 2. Let The Little Birds Sing; 3. All The Dog-wood Blossoms Are Underneath The Tree! -- The Shroud -- The Dream -- Indifference -- Witch-wife -- Blight -- When The Year Grows Old -- Sonnets: 1. Thou Art Not Lovelier Than Lilacs, -- No; 2. Time Does Not Bring Relief -- You All Have Lied; 3. Mindful Of You The Sodden Earth In Spring; 4. Not In This Chamber Only At My Birth; 5. If I Should Learn, In Some Quite Casual Way; 6. Bluebeard -- First Fig -- Second Fig -- Recuerdo -- Thursday -- To The Not Impossible Him -- Macdougal Street -- The Singing-woman From The Wood's Edge -- She Is Overheard Singing -- The Prisoner -- The Unexplorer -- Grown-up -- The Penitent -- Daphne -- Portrait By A Neighbor -- Midnight Oil -- The Merry Maid -- To Kathleen -- To S. M. --^ The Philosopher -- Sonnets: 1. Love, Though For This You Riddle Me With Darts; 2. I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently; 3. Oh, Think Not I Am Faithful To A Vow!; 4. I Shall Forget You Presently, My Dear -- Spring -- City Trees -- The Blue-flag In The Bog -- Journey -- Eel-grass -- Elegy Before Death -- The Bean-stalk -- Weeds -- Passer Mortuus Est -- Pastoral -- Assault -- Travel -- Low-tide -- Song Of A Second April -- Rosemary -- The Poet And His Book -- Alms -- Inland -- To A Poet That Died Young -- Wraith -- Ebb -- Elaine -- Burial -- Mariposa -- The Little Hill -- Doubt No More That Oberon -- Lament -- Exile -- The Death Of Autumn -- Ode To Silence -- Memorial To D.c. --^ Sonnets: 1. We Talk Of Taxes, And I Call You Friend; 2. Into The Golden Vessel Of Great Song; 3. Not With Libations, But With Shouts And Laughter; 4. Only Until This Cigarette Is Ended; 5. Once More Into My Arid Days Like Dew; 6. No Rose That In A Garden Ever Grew; 7. When I Too Long Have Looked Upon Your Face; 8. And You As Well Must Die, Beloved Dust; 9. Let You Not Say Of Me When I Am Old; 10. Oh, My Beloved, Have You Thought Of This...; 11. As To Some Lovely Temple, Tenantless; 12. Cherish You Then The Hope I Shall Forget Wild Swans -- Sonnets: When You, That At This Moment Are To Me; I Know I Am But Summer To Your Heart; Oh, Oh, You Will Be Sorry For That Word; Here Is A Wound That Never Will Heal, I Know; Say What You Will, And Scratch My Heart To Find; What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why; Euclid Alone Has Looked On Beauty Bare -- The Ballad Of The Harp-weaver. Edna St. Vincent Millay. Includes Index.