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A ghost in marble of a girl you knew Who would have loved you in a day or two.
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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That is my being, the madness of an unaccustomed mood.
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Progress-progress is the dirtiest word in the language-who ever told us- And made us believe it-that to take a step forward was necessarily, was always A good idea?
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Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?
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Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease To ponder on themselves, the while they stare At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere.
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No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.
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Music my rampart, and my only one.
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Stranger, pause and look From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!
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Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.
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I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.
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What should I be but just what I am?
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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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One things there's no getting by, I've been a wicked girl, Says I... But, if I can't be sorry I might as well be glad !
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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
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