Early PoemsMillay's first three books of lyrics and sonnets are collected here: Renascence, Second April, and A Few Figs from Thistles. With a balanced and appreciative introduction and useful annotations, this volume presents some of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's best work in which she weaves intellect, emotion, and irony.
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | |
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING | |
A NOTE ON THE TEXT | |
Renascence | 3 |
Interim | 11 |
The Suicide | 19 |
Gods World | 24 |
Afternoon on a Hill | 25 |
I shall forget you presently my dear | 76 |
Spring | 79 |
City Trees | 80 |
The BlueFlag in the Bog | 81 |
Journey | 89 |
EelGrass | 91 |
Elegy Before Death | 92 |
The BeanStalk | 93 |
Sorrow | 26 |
Tavern | 27 |
Ashes of Life | 28 |
The Little Ghost | 29 |
Kin to Sorrow | 31 |
Three Songs of Shattering | 32 |
The Shroud | 34 |
The Dream | 35 |
Indifference | 36 |
WitchWife | 37 |
Blight | 38 |
When the Year Grows Old | 40 |
Thou art not lovelier than lilacsno | 42 |
Time does not bring relief you all have lied | 43 |
Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring | 44 |
Not in this chamber only at my birth | 45 |
If I should learn in some quite casual way | 46 |
Bluebeard | 47 |
First Fig | 51 |
Recuerdo | 52 |
Thursday | 53 |
To the Not Impossible Him | 54 |
Macdougal Street | 55 |
The SingingWoman from the Woods Edge | 57 |
She Is Overheard Singing | 59 |
The Prisoner | 61 |
The Unexplorer | 62 |
Grownup | 63 |
The Penitent | 64 |
Daphne | 65 |
Portrait by a Neighbour | 66 |
Midnight Oil | 67 |
The Merry Maid | 68 |
To Kathleen | 69 |
To S M | 70 |
The Philosopher | 71 |
I do but ask that you be always fair | 72 |
Love though for this you riddle me with darts | 73 |
I think I should have loved you presently | 74 |
Oh think not I am faithful to a vow | 75 |
Weeds | 95 |
Passer Mortuus Est | 96 |
Pastoral | 97 |
Assault | 98 |
Travel | 99 |
LowTide | 100 |
Song of a Second April | 101 |
Rosemary | 102 |
The Poet and His Book | 103 |
Alms | 108 |
Inland | 110 |
To a Poet that Died Young | 111 |
Wraith | 113 |
Ebb | 115 |
Elaine | 116 |
Burial | 117 |
Mariposa | 118 |
The Little Hill | 119 |
Doubt No More that Oberon | 120 |
Lament | 121 |
Exiled | 122 |
The Death of Autumn | 124 |
Ode to Silence | 125 |
Memorial to D C | 133 |
Wild Swans | 139 |
We talk of taxes and I call you friend | 140 |
Into the golden vessel of great song | 141 |
Not with libations but with shouts and laughter | 142 |
Only until this cigarette is ended | 143 |
Once more into my arid days like dew | 144 |
No rose that in a garden ever grew | 145 |
When I too long have looked upon your face | 146 |
And you as well must die beloved dust | 147 |
Let you not say of me when I am old | 148 |
Oh my beloved have you thought of this | 149 |
As to some lovely temple tenantless | 150 |
Cherish you then the hope I shall forget | 151 |
EXPLANATORY NOTES | 153 |