Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millaywas an American poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work. The poet Richard Wilbur asserted, "She wrote some of the best sonnets of the century."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth22 February 1892
CountryUnited States of America
children father men
Listen, children: Your father is dead. From his old coats I'll make you little jackets; I'll make you little trousers From his old pants. There'll be in his pockets Things he used to put there, Keys and pennies Covered with tobacco; Dan shall have the pennies To save in his bank; Anne shall have the keys To make a pretty noise with. Life must go on, Though good men die; Anne, eat your breakfast; Dan, take your medicine; Life must go on; I forget just why.
fall boards crumbs
Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall.
rose corn ghost
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
girl sorry wicked
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 !
book eye writing
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.
death blessed cutting
Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust!
death men good-man
Life must go on, Though good men die.
oil evil wheels
Evil alone has oil for every wheel.
country liberty martyred
Martyred many times must be Who would keep his country free.
life no-friends
Life has no friend ...
love
He that would eat of love must eat it where it hangs.
song age dying
Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.
believe ideas progress
Progress-progress is the dirtiest word in the language-who ever told us- And made us believe it-that to take a step forward was necessarily, was always A good idea?
men religion died
Man has never been the same since God died.