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Edna St. Vincent Millay's Poetry, by first line

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  • Second Fig
    Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand:
    Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
    2 lines, 3 comments
  • Recuerdo
    We were very tired, we were very merry --
    We had gone back&n
    19 lines, 4 comments
  • Ebb
    I know what my heart is like
    Since your love died:
    7 lines, 2 comments
  • Lament
    Listen, children:
    Your father is dead.
    22 lines, 6 comments
  • Dirge
    Boys and girls that held her dear,
    Do your weeping now;
    13 lines, 2 comments
  • Grown-up
    Was it for this I uttered prayers,
    And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs,
    4 lines, 4 comments
  • The Penitent
    I had a little Sorrow,
    Born of a little Sin,
    25 lines, 1 comment
  • Feast
    I drank at every vine.
    The last was like the first. <
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • Departure
    It's little I care what path I take,
    And where it leads it's little I care;
    29 lines, 2 comments
  • The Betrothal
    Oh, come, my lad, or go, my lad,
    And love me if you lik
    22 lines, 2 comments
  • Humoresque
    "Heaven bless the babe!" they said.
    "What queer books she must ha
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • Spring
    To what purpose, April, do you return again?
    Beauty is not enough.
    18 lines, 1 comment
  • Indifference
    I said,--for Love was laggard, O, Love was slow to come,--
    "I'll hear his step and know his step when I am warm in bed;
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • The Dream
    Love, if I weep it will not matter,
    And if you laugh I shall not care;
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • The Unexplorer
    There was a road ran past our house
    Too lovely to explore.
    6 lines
  • Inland
    People that build their houses inland,
    People that buy a plot of ground
    16 lines
  • Euclid Alone
    Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.
    Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,
    14 lines, 4 comments
  • Interim
    The room is full of you!--As I came in
    And closed the door behind me, all at once
    211 lines, 1 comment
  • The Shroud
    Death, I say, my heart is bowed
    Unto thine,--O mother!
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • Counting-Out Rhyme
    Silver bark of beech, and sallow
    Bark of yellow birch and yellow
    12 lines, 2 comments
  • Assault
    I
    I had forgotten how the frogs must sound
    11 lines
  • Elegy Before Death
    There will be rose and rhododendron
    When you are dead and under ground;
    20 lines
  • I Shall Go Back
    I shall go back again to the bleak shore
    And build a little shanty on the sand
    14 lines
  • Passer Mortuus Est
    Death devours all lovely things;
    Lesbia with her sparrow
    12 lines
  • The True Encounter
    "Wolf!" cried my cunning heart
    At every sheep it spied,
    10 lines
  • Wild Swans
    I looked in my heart while the wild swans went over.
    And what did I see I had not seen before?
    8 lines
  • City Trees
    The trees along this city street
    Save for the traffic and the trains,
    12 lines, 2 comments
  • Weeds
    White with daisies and red with sorrel
    And empty, empty under the sky! -
    16 lines
  • Travel
    The railroad track is miles away,
    And the day is loud with voices speaking,
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • Rosemary
    For the sake of some things
    That be now no more
    18 lines, 2 comments
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