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A Few Figs from Thistles
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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To Cairo and Cathay,
Whether or not this blessed spot
Is blest in every way?
Now it may be, the flower for me
Is this beneath my nose;
How shall I tell, unless I smell
The Carthaginian rose?
The fabric of my faithful love
No power shall dim or ravel
Whilst I stay here,—but oh, my dear,
If I should ever travel!
Macdougal Street
As I went walking up and down to take the evening air,
(Sweet to meet upon the street, why must I be so shy?)
I saw him lay his hand upon her torn black hair;
("Little dirty Latin child, let the lady by!")
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FIRST FIG
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!
SECOND FIG
SAFE upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand:
Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
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RECUERDO
WE were very tired, we were very merry–
We had
What should I be but just what I am?
A Few Figs from Thistles, the second collection I read by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was the second collection of hers that was published (in 1920). As with the first collection I read by her, Second April, I was mesmerized by her blending of the beau
Charming
"Her lawn looks like a meadow, and if she mows the place, she leaves the clover standing, and the Queen Anne's lace"!
Beautiful, flighty poems, that give one a strong impression of undressed honesty.
Thomas Hardy once said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay.
RECUERDO
We were very tired, we were very merry--
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable--
But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table,
We lay on the hill-top underneath the moon;
And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came
soon.
We
The Philosopher
And what are you that, wanting you
I should be kept awake
As many nights as there are days
With weeping for your sake?
And what are you that, missing you,
As many days as crawl
I should be listening to the wind
And looking at the wall?
I know a man that's a braver man
And twenty men as kind,
An