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Lord I do fear / Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year.
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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Should at that moment the full moon Step forth upon the hill, And memories hard to bear at noon, By moonlight harder still, Form in the shadows of the trees, - Things that you could not spare And live, or so you thought, yet these All gone, and you still there, A man no longer what he was, Not yet the thing he planned.
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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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Beauty never slumbers All is in her name But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.
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I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late And eaten in an echoing hall Alone and from a chipped plate The words that I withdrew too late.
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That is my being, the madness of an unaccustomed mood.
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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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Not poppy, nor mandrake, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep, Which thou owest yesterday.
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