Monadnock Valley Press: Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Monadnock Valley Press has republished the following poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950):

Renascence and Other Poems (1917, complete)

• Renascence
• Interim
• The Suicide
• God's World
• Afternoon on a Hill
• Sorrow
• Tavern
• Ashes of Life
• The Little Ghost
• Kin to Sorrow
• Three Songs of Shattering
• The Shroud
• The Dream
• Indifference
• Witch-Wife
• Blight
• When the Year Grows Old
• Sonnet: "Thou art not lovelier than lilacs"
• Sonnet: "Time does not bring relief"
• Sonnet: "Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring"
• Sonnet: "Not in this chamber only at my birth"
• Sonnet: "If I should learn, in some quite casual way"
• Sonnet: Bluebeard

A Few Figs from Thistles (1920, complete)

• First Fig
• Second Fig
• Recuerdo
• Thursday
• To the Not Impossible Him
• Macdougal Street
• The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge
• She Is Overheard Singing
• The Prisoner
• The Unexplorer
• Grown-up
• The Penitent
• Daphne
• Portrait by a Neighbor
• Midnight Oil
• The Merry Maid
• To Kathleen
• To S. M., If he should lie a-dying
• The Philosopher
• Sonnet: "Love, though for this you riddle me with darts"
• Sonnet: "I think I should have loved you presently"
• Sonnet: "Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow!"
• Sonnet: "I shall forget you presently, my dear"

Second April (1921, complete)

• Spring
• City Trees
• The Blue-Flag in the Bog
• Journey
• Eel-Grass
• Elegy Before Death
• The Bean-Stalk
• Weeds
• Passer Mortuus Est
• Pastoral
• Assault
• Travel
• Low-Tide
• Song of a Second April
• Rosemary
• The Poet and His Book
• Alms
• Inland
• To a Poet that Died Young
• Wraith
• Ebb
• Elaine
• Burial
• Mariposa
• The Little Hill
• Doubt No More That Oberon
• Lament
• Exiled
• The Death of Autumn
• Ode to Silence
• Memorial to D. C.
• Epitaph
• Prayer to Persephone
• Chorus
• Elegy
• Dirge
• Sonnet: "We talk of taxes, and I call you friend"
• Sonnet: "Into the golden vessel of great song"
• Sonnet: "Not with libations, but with shouts and laughter"
• Sonnet: "Only until this cigarette is ended"
• Sonnet: "Once more into my arid days like dew"
• Sonnet: ""No rose that in a garden ever grew
• Sonnet: "When I too long have looked upon your face"
• Sonnet: "And you as well must die, beloved dust"
• Sonnet: "Let you not say of me when I am old"
• Sonnet: "Oh, my beloved, have you thought of this"
• Sonnet: "As to some lovely temple, tenantless"
• Sonnet: "Cherish you then the hope I shall forget"
• Wild Swans

The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (1923, complete)

• My Heart, Being Hungry
• Autumn Chant
• Nuit Blanche
• Three Songs from the Lamp and the Bell
• The Wood Road
• Feast
• Souvenir
• Scrub
• The Goose-Girl
• The Dragonfly
• Departure
• The Return from Town
• A Visit to the Asylum
• The Spring and the Fall
• The Curse
• Keen
• The Betrothal
• Humoresque
• The Pond
• The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
• Never May the Fruit Be Plucked
• The Concert
• Hyacinth
• To One Who Might Have Borne a Message
• Siege
• The Cairn
• Spring Song
• Memory of Cape Cod
• When You, That at This Moment
• That Love at Length Should Find
• Love Is Not Blind
• I Know I Am but Summer
• I Pray You If You Love Me
• Pity Me Not
• Sometimes When I Am Wearied
• Oh, Oh, You Will Be Sorry
• Here Is a Wound
• I Shall Go Back Again
• Say What You Will
• What's This of Death
• I See So Clearly
• Your Face Is Like a Chamber
• The Light Comes Back
• Lord Archer, Death
• Loving You Less than Life
• I, Being Born a Woman
• What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
• Still Will I Harvest Beauty
• How Healthily Their Feet
• Euclid Alone Has Looked
• So She Came Back
• The Last White Sawdust
• She Filled Her Arms with Wood
• The White Bark Writhed
• The Wagon Stopped before the House
• Then Cautiously She Pushed
• One Way There Was
• She Let Them Leave Their Jellies
• Not Over-Kind nor Over-Quick
• She Had Forgotten
• It Came into Her Mind
• Tenderly, in Those Times
• From the Wan Dream
• She Had a Horror
• There Was Upon the Sill
• The Doctor Asked Her
• Gazing upon Him Now

The Buck in the Snow (1928, selections)

• The Anguish
• Counting-out Rhyme
• Dirge without Music
• Evening on Lesbos
• For Pao-Chin, a Boatman on the Yellow Sea
• The Hardy Garden
• Lethe
• Song
• To a Friend Estranged from Me
• To a Young Girl
• To the Wife of a Sick Friend
• To Those Without Pity
• Winter Night

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