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Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.
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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The heart grows weary after a little Of what it loved for a little while.
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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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Need we say it was not love, Now that love is perished?
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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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Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!
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If I could have two things in one: the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun.
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Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written.
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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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Night falls fast. Today is in the past.
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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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Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line.
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Lord I do fear / Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year.
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And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me.
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I know, but I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
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Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
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Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
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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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Beauty never slumbers All is in her name But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.
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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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