Selected poems / Edna St. Vincent Millay ; J.D. McClatchy, editor.
2003
811.52 M645sp 2003
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Title
Selected poems / Edna St. Vincent Millay ; J.D. McClatchy, editor.
Uniform Title
Poems. Selections
ISBN
1931082359 (alk. paper)
9781931082358 (alk. paper)
9781931082358 (alk. paper)
Imprint
New York : The Library of America, ©2003.
Language
English
Description
xxxiii, 231 pages ; 20 cm.
Other Standard Identifiers
9781931082358
Call Number
811.52 M645sp 2003
System Control No.
(OCoLC)50440956
Summary
Revel in the candid verse of Edna St. Vincent Millay, including such favorites as "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" and "Renascence." This lively selection casts Millay's career in a new light. Here are familiar favorites alongside neglected gems: translations, a verse play, songs from her opera libretto "The King's Henchman," and the complete sonnet sequence "Fatal Interview."
Note
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note
I. from Renascence and Other Poems (1917) : Renascence ; Interim ; Afternoon on a Hill ; Witch-Wife ; When the Year Grows Old ; "Time does not bring relief; you all have lied" ; "If I should learn, in some quite casual way" ; Bluebeard
from A Few Figs from Thistles (1920) : First Fig ; Second Fig ; Recuerdo ; To the Not Impossible Him ; Grown-up ; Daphne ; Midnight Oil ; The Philosopher ; "I think I should have loved you presently" ; "I shall forget you presently, my dear"
from Second April (1921) : Eel-Grass ; Elegy Before Death ; Weeds ; Passer Mortuus Est ; Alms ; Inland ; Ebb ; from Memorial to D.C. : Epitaph ; Dirge ; Elegy ; "Only until this cigarette is ended" ; "Once more into my arid days like dew" ; "When I too long have looked upon your face" ; "And you as well must die, beloved dust" ; "As to some lovely temple, tenantless" ; Wild Swans
from The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (1923) : Autumn Chant ; Feast ; The Betrothal ; The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver ; Never May the Fruit Be Plucked ; Hyacinth ; To One Who Might Have Borne a Message ; "Love is not blind. I see with single eye" ; "Pity me not because the light of day" ; "Here is a wound that never will heal, I know" ; "Your face is like a chamber where a king" ; "I, being born a woman and distressed" ; "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why" ; "How healthily their feet upon the floor" ; "Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare" ; Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree
from The Buck in the Snow (1928) : To the Wife of a Sick Friend ; To a Friend Estranged from Me ; The Buck in the Snow ; Evening on Lesbos ; Dirge Without Music ; Lethe ; To Inez Milholland ; To Jesus on His Birthday ; "Not that it matters, not that my heart's cry."
II. Aria da Capo (1921)
from The King's Henchman (1927) : Ælfrida's Song ; Love Scene
Translations from Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire (1936) : The Fang ; Parisian Dream ; Invitation to the Voyage ; The Old Servant ; Late January ; The King of the Rainy Country ; Mists and Rains ; A Memory.
III. Fatal Interview (1931)
from Wine from These Grapes (1934) : Valentine ; In the Grave No Flower ; Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies ; The Solid Sprite Who Stands Alone ; Spring in the Garden ; Sonnet ("Time, that renews the tissues of this frame") ; Desolation Dreamed Of ; On the Wide Heath ; Two Sonnets in Memory ; Conscientious Objector ; Epitaph for the Race of Man
from Conversation at Midnight (1937) : "Thus are our altars polluted; nor may we flee. . . ." ; "The mind thrust out of doors"
from Huntsman, What Quarry? (1939) : The Snow Storm ; Not So Far as the Forest ; "Fontaine, Je Ne Boirai Pas De Ton Eau!" ; The True Encounter ; Czecho-Slovakia ; Underground System ; Two Voices ; This Dusky Faith ; To a Young Poet ; To Elinor Wylie ; "Now that the west is washed of clouds and clear" ; "I too beneath your moon, almighty Sex" ; "Thou famished grave, I will not fill thee yet" ; "Not only love plus awful grief"
from Make Bright the Arrows (1940) : "Make bright the arrows" ; An Eclipse of the Sun is Predicted ; "Gentlemen Cry, Peace!" ; "I must not die of pity; I must live"
from The Murder of Lidice (1942) : "They marched them out to the public square"
from Mine the Harvest (1954) : Small hands, relinquish all ; Ragged Island ; "To whom the house of Montagu" ; "The courage that my mother had" ; Armenonville ; Dream of Saba ; For warmth alone, for shelter only ; "Black hair you'd say she had, or rather" ; Steepletop ; "Look how the bittersweet with lazy muscle moves aside" ; "Those hours when happy hours were my estate" ; "Not to me, less lavish
though my dreams have been splendid" ; "Tranquility at length, when autumn comes" ; Sonnet in Dialectic ; "It is the fashion now to wave aside" ; "Admetus, from my marrow's core I do" ; "I will put Chaos into fourteen lines" ; "And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you" ; "Felicity of Grief!
even Death being kind" ; "If I die solvent
die, that is to say."
from A Few Figs from Thistles (1920) : First Fig ; Second Fig ; Recuerdo ; To the Not Impossible Him ; Grown-up ; Daphne ; Midnight Oil ; The Philosopher ; "I think I should have loved you presently" ; "I shall forget you presently, my dear"
from Second April (1921) : Eel-Grass ; Elegy Before Death ; Weeds ; Passer Mortuus Est ; Alms ; Inland ; Ebb ; from Memorial to D.C. : Epitaph ; Dirge ; Elegy ; "Only until this cigarette is ended" ; "Once more into my arid days like dew" ; "When I too long have looked upon your face" ; "And you as well must die, beloved dust" ; "As to some lovely temple, tenantless" ; Wild Swans
from The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (1923) : Autumn Chant ; Feast ; The Betrothal ; The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver ; Never May the Fruit Be Plucked ; Hyacinth ; To One Who Might Have Borne a Message ; "Love is not blind. I see with single eye" ; "Pity me not because the light of day" ; "Here is a wound that never will heal, I know" ; "Your face is like a chamber where a king" ; "I, being born a woman and distressed" ; "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why" ; "How healthily their feet upon the floor" ; "Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare" ; Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree
from The Buck in the Snow (1928) : To the Wife of a Sick Friend ; To a Friend Estranged from Me ; The Buck in the Snow ; Evening on Lesbos ; Dirge Without Music ; Lethe ; To Inez Milholland ; To Jesus on His Birthday ; "Not that it matters, not that my heart's cry."
II. Aria da Capo (1921)
from The King's Henchman (1927) : Ælfrida's Song ; Love Scene
Translations from Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire (1936) : The Fang ; Parisian Dream ; Invitation to the Voyage ; The Old Servant ; Late January ; The King of the Rainy Country ; Mists and Rains ; A Memory.
III. Fatal Interview (1931)
from Wine from These Grapes (1934) : Valentine ; In the Grave No Flower ; Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies ; The Solid Sprite Who Stands Alone ; Spring in the Garden ; Sonnet ("Time, that renews the tissues of this frame") ; Desolation Dreamed Of ; On the Wide Heath ; Two Sonnets in Memory ; Conscientious Objector ; Epitaph for the Race of Man
from Conversation at Midnight (1937) : "Thus are our altars polluted; nor may we flee. . . ." ; "The mind thrust out of doors"
from Huntsman, What Quarry? (1939) : The Snow Storm ; Not So Far as the Forest ; "Fontaine, Je Ne Boirai Pas De Ton Eau!" ; The True Encounter ; Czecho-Slovakia ; Underground System ; Two Voices ; This Dusky Faith ; To a Young Poet ; To Elinor Wylie ; "Now that the west is washed of clouds and clear" ; "I too beneath your moon, almighty Sex" ; "Thou famished grave, I will not fill thee yet" ; "Not only love plus awful grief"
from Make Bright the Arrows (1940) : "Make bright the arrows" ; An Eclipse of the Sun is Predicted ; "Gentlemen Cry, Peace!" ; "I must not die of pity; I must live"
from The Murder of Lidice (1942) : "They marched them out to the public square"
from Mine the Harvest (1954) : Small hands, relinquish all ; Ragged Island ; "To whom the house of Montagu" ; "The courage that my mother had" ; Armenonville ; Dream of Saba ; For warmth alone, for shelter only ; "Black hair you'd say she had, or rather" ; Steepletop ; "Look how the bittersweet with lazy muscle moves aside" ; "Those hours when happy hours were my estate" ; "Not to me, less lavish
though my dreams have been splendid" ; "Tranquility at length, when autumn comes" ; Sonnet in Dialectic ; "It is the fashion now to wave aside" ; "Admetus, from my marrow's core I do" ; "I will put Chaos into fourteen lines" ; "And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you" ; "Felicity of Grief!
even Death being kind" ; "If I die solvent
die, that is to say."
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Also issued online.
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American poets project ; 1.
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Online version: Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950. Poems. Selections. Selected poems. New York : The Library of America, ©2003
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