Vincent Millay
Vincent Millay
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.
men made mines
But she was not made for any man, and she will never be all mine.
girl lying home
But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.