Poems

“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.””

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“I felt his gaze, I heard his moan,And knew his hunger as my own.””

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“The room is full of you!”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Not speak however silently,But my hushed voice will answer Thee””

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Mine is a body that should die at sea!And have for a grave, instead of a graveSix feet deep and the length of me,All the water that is under the wave!And terrible fishes to seize my flesh,Such as a living man might fear,And eat me while I am firm and fresh, -Not wait till I’ve been dead for a year!””

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Over these things I could not see; These were the things that bounded me;And I could touch them with my hand,Almost, I thought, from where I stand.And all at once things seemed so smallMy breath came short, and scarce at all.””

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“I would I were alive againTo kiss the fingers of the rain,To drink into my eyes the shineOf every slating silver line,To catch the freshened, fragrant breezeFrom drenched and dripping apple-trees.””

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“And as it went my tortured soul(...) That all about me swirled the dust.Deep in the earth I rested now, Cool is its hands upon the browAnd soft its breast beneath the headOf one who is so gladly dead.””

— Edna St. Vincent Millay