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Edna St. Vincent Millay's Poetry, by title

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  • A Visit To The Asylum
    Once from a big, big building,
    When I was small, small,
    28 lines, 2 comments
  • Afternoon On A Hill
    I will be the gladdest thing
    Under the sun!
    13 lines, 1 comment
  • Alms
    My heart is what it was before
    A house where people come and go,
    28 lines, 1 comment
  • An Ancient Gesture
    I thought, as I wiped my eyes on the corner of my apron:
    Penelope did this too.
    17 lines, 1 comment
  • And Do You Think That Love Itself
    And do you think that love itself,
    Living in such an ugly house,
    26 lines
  • And You As Well Must Die, Beloved Dust
    And you as well must die, beloved dust,
    And all your beauty stand you in no stead;
    14 lines
  • Apostrophe To Man
    (On reflecting that the world
    is ready to go to war again)
    18 lines, 1 comment
  • As Men Have Loved Their Lovers In Times Past
    As men have loved their lovers in times past
    And sung their wit, their virtue and their grace,
    13 lines
  • As To Some Lovely Temple, Tenantless
    As to some lovely temple, tenantless
    Long since, that once was sweet with shivering brass,
    14 lines
  • Ashes Of Life
    Love has gone and left me and the days are all alike;
        Eat I must, and sleep I will, — and would that night we
    11 lines, 3 comments
  • Assault
    I
    I had forgotten how the frogs must sound
    11 lines
  • Autumn Daybreak
    Cold wind of autumn, blowing loud
    At dawn, a fortnight overdue,
    16 lines
  • Being Young And Green
    Being Young and Green, I said in love's despite:
    Never in the world will I to living wight
    8 lines
  • Blight
    Hard seeds of hate I planted
      That should by now be grown,—
    29 lines
  • Bluebeard: Sonnet VI
    This door you might not open, and you did; 
        So enter now, and see for what slight thing 
    13 lines
  • Burial
    Mine is a body that should die at sea!
    And have for a grave, instead of a grave
    8 lines, 2 comments
  • Cherish You Then The Hope I Shall Forget
    Cherish you then the hope I shall forget
    At length, my lord, Pieria?—put away
    14 lines
  • Chorus
    Give away her gowns,
    Give away her shoes;
    12 lines
  • City Trees
    The trees along this city street
    Save for the traffic and the trains,
    12 lines, 2 comments
  • Conscientious Objector
    I shall die, but
    that is all that I shall do for Death.
    24 lines, 2 comments
  • Counting-Out Rhyme
    Silver bark of beech, and sallow
    Bark of yellow birch and yellow
    12 lines, 2 comments
  • Daphne
    Why do you follow me?—
    Any moment I can be
    9 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
  • Dirge
    Boys and girls that held her dear,
    Do your weeping now;
    13 lines, 2 comments
  • Dirge Without Music
    I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
    So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time ou
    18 lines
  • Doubt No More That Oberon
    Doubt no more that Oberon—
    Never doubt that Pan
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • Ebb
    I know what my heart is like
    Since your love died:
    7 lines, 2 comments
  • Eel-Grass
    No matter what I say,
    All that I really love
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • Elegy
    Let them bury your big eyes
    In the secret earth securely,
    38 lines
  • Elegy Before Death
    There will be rose and rhododendron
    When you are dead and under ground;
    20 lines
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