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Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead Is great Apollo and the happier he
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Age: 58 †
Born: 1892
Born: February 22
Died: 1950
Died: October 19
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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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Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!
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Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink and rise and sink again Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone Yet many a man is making friends with death Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
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I screamed, and--lo!--Infinity Came down and settled over me
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My candle burns at both ends it will not last the night but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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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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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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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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Lord I do fear / Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year.
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Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.
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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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Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry let us renew our faith and pledge to man, his right to be himself and free.
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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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Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose.
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