Chapter I: Front Matter

Poems _by_ Edna St. Vincent Millay

Poems _by_
Edna St. Vincent Millay

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London
Martin Secker
1923

_Printed in Great Britain_
_London: Martin Secker (Ltd.) 1923_

CONTENTS

_Section One_

Renascence, 13

God’s World, 22

Afternoon on a Hill, 23

Journey, 24

Sorrow, 26

Tavern, 27

Ashes of Life, 28

The Little Ghost, 29

Kin to Sorrow, 31

Three Songs of Shattering, 32

The Shroud, 34

The Dream, 35

Indifference, 36

Witch-wife, 37

Blight, 38

When the Year Grows Old, 40

Unnamed Sonnets, i-v, 42

Sonnet vi (Bluebeard), 47

_Section Two_

I, 51

II, 51

Recuerdo, 52

Thursday, 53

To the Not Impossible Him, 54

The Singing-Woman from the Wood’s Edge, 55

Humoresque, 58

She is Overheard Singing, 59

The Unexplorer, 61

Grown-up, 62

The Penitent, 63

Daphne, 64

Portrait by a Neighbour, 65

The Merry Maid, 66

To S. M., 67

The Philosopher, 68

Sonnet--Love, Though for This, 69

Sonnet--I Think I Should Have Loved You, 70

Sonnet--Oh, Think Not I am Faithful, 71

Sonnet--I Shall Forget You Presently, 72

_Section Three_

Spring, 75

City Trees, 76

The Blue-Flag in the Bog, 77

Eel-Grass, 86

Elegy before Death, 87

The Bean-Stalk, 88

Weeds, 90

Passer Mortuus Est, 91

Pastoral, 92

Assault, 93

Travel, 94

Low-Tide, 95

Song of a Second April, 96

The Poet and his Book, 97

Alms, 102

Inland, 104

To a Poet that Died Young, 105

Wraith, 107

Ebb, 109

Elaine, 110

Burial, 111

Mariposa, 112

Doubt no more that Oberon, 113

Lament, 114

Exiled, 115

The Death of Autumn, 117

Ode to Silence, 118

Memorial to D. C., 127

Unnamed Sonnets, i-xii, 134

Wild Swans, 146