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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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Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!
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We were so wholly one I had not thought That we could die apart. I had not thought That I could move,—and you be stiff and still! That I could speak,—and you perforce be dumb! I think our heart-strings were, like warp and woof In some firm fabric, woven in and out Your golden filaments in fair design Across my duller fibre.
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Sorrow like a ceaseless rain Beats upon my heart. People twist and scream in pain-- Dawn will find them still again This has neither wax nor wane, Neither stop nor start.
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Her lawn looks like a meadow, And if she mows the place She leaves the clover standing And the Queen Anne's Lace.
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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.
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
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Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will love that land where man is free, And that will I defend.
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This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.
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A grave is such a quiet place.
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I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death I am not on his pay-roll.
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Guess I'll weep awhile. Guess I won't, I mean.
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When you are corn and roses and at rest I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost To haunt the scene where I was happiest To bend above the thing I loved the most
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The younger generation forms a country of its own. It has no geographical boundaries. I've talked with young Hungarians in Budapest, with young Italians in Rome, with young Frenchmen in Paris, and with young people all over. ... These young people are going to do things. They are going to change things.
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pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.
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You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.
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Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead Is great Apollo and the happier he
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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday - so much is true.
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Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries.
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I make bean stalks, I'm A builder, like yourself.
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