CONTENTS

SECTION ONE

Renascence

God's World

Afternoon on a Hill

Journey

Sorrow

Tavern

Ashes of Life

The Little Ghost

Kin to Sorrow

Three Songs of Shattering

The Shroud

The Dream

Indifference

Witch-Wife

Blight

When the Year Grows Old

Sonnets

SECTION TWO

I

II

Recuerdo

Thursday

To the Not Impossible Him

The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge

Humoresque

She is Overheard Singing

The Unexplorer

Grown-Up

The Penitent

Daphne

Portrait by a Neighbour

The Merry Maid

To S. M.

The Philosopher

Four Sonnets

SECTION THREE

Spring

City Trees

The Blue-Flag in the Bog

Eel-Grass

Elegy before Death

The Bean-Stalk

Weeds

Passer Mortuus Est

Pastoral

Assault

Travel

Low-Tide

Song of a Second April

The Poet and his Book

Alms

Inland

To a Poet that Died Young

Wraith

Ebb

Elaine

Burial

Mariposa

Doubt no more that Oberon

Lament

Exiled

The Death of Autumn

Ode to Silence

Memorial to D. C.

I Epitaph

II Prayer to Persephone

III Chorus

IV Elegy

V Dirge

Sonnets (2)

Wild Swans

Transcriber's Notes

Poems by
Edna St. Vincent Millay

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London
Martin Secker
1923

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Printed in Great Britain
London: Martin Secker (Ltd.) 1923

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