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Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Age: 58 †
Born: 1892
Born: February 22
Died: 1950
Died: October 19
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Lord I do fear / Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year.
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Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.
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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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When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! I had you and I have you now no more.
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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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It's little I know what's in my heart,What's in my mind it's little I know,But there's that in me must up and start,And it's little I care where my feet go.
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Martyred many times must be Who would keep his country free.
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We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace.
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