Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay Book

	Biographical Note	v
	Introduction	xiii
	Renascence and Other Poems	1
	Renascence	3
	Interim	10
	The Suicide	17
	God's World	22
	Afternoon on a Hill	23
	Sorrow	24
	Tavern	25
	Ashes of Life	26
	The Little Ghost	27
	Kin to Sorrow	29
	Three Songs of Shattering	30
I.	The first rose on my rose-tree	30
II.	Let the little birds sing	30
III.	All the dog-wood blossoms are underneath the tree!	31
	The Shroud	32
	The Dream	33
	Indifference	34
	Witch-Wife	35
	Blight	36
	When the Year Grows Old	38
	Sonnets	40
I.	Thou art not lovelier than lilacs,--no	40
II.	Time does not bring relief; you all have lied	41
III.	Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring	42
IV.	Not in this chamber only at my birth	43
V.	If I should learn, in some quite casual way	44
VI.	Bluebeard	45
	A Few Figs from Thistles	47
	First Fig	49
	Second Fig	49
	Recuerdo	50
	Thursday	51
	To the Not Impossible Him	52
	MacDougal Street	53
	The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge	54
	She Is Overheard Singing	56
	The Prisoner	58
	The Unexplorer	59
	Grown-up	60
	The Penitent	61
	Daphne	62
	Portrait by a Neighbor	63
	Midnight Oil	64
	The Merry Maid	65
	To Kathleen	66
	To S. M.	67
	The Philosopher	68
	Sonnets	69
I.	Love, though for this you riddle me with darts	69
II.	I think I should have loved you presently	70
III.	Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow!	71
IV.	I shall forget you presently, my dear	72
	Second April	73
	Spring	75
	City Trees	76
	The Blue-Flag in the Bog	77
	Journey	84
	Eel-Grass	86
	Elegy Before Death	87
	The Bean-Stalk	88
	Weeds	90
	Passer Mortuus Est	91
	Pastoral	92
	Assault	93
	Travel	94
	Low-Tide	95
	Song of a Second April	96
	Rosemary	97
	The Poet and His Book	98
	Alms	102
	Inland	104
	To a Poet That Died Young	105
	Wraith	107
	Ebb	109
	Elaine	110
	Burial	111
	Mariposa	112
	The Little Hill	113
	Doubt No More That Oberon	114
	Lament	115
	Exiled	116
	The Death of Autumn	118
	Ode to Silence	119
	Memorial to D.C.	125
	Epitaph	127
	Praver to Persephone	128
	Chorus	129
	Elegy	130
	Dirge	132
	Sonnets	133
I.	We talk of taxes, and I call you friend	133
II.	Into the golden vessel of great song	134
III.	Not with libations, but with shouts and laughter	135
IV.	Only until this cigarette is ended	136
V.	Once more into my arid days like dew	137
VI.	No rose that in a garden ever grew	138
VII.	When I too long have looked upon your face	139
VIII.	And you as well must die, beloved dust	140
IX.	Let you not say of me when I am old	141
X.	Oh, my beloved, have you thought of this	142
XI.	As to some lovely temple, tenantless	143
XII.	Cherish you then the hope I shall forget	144
	Wild Swans	145
	Sonnets and The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver	147
	Sonnets	149
	When you, that at this moment are to me	149
	I know I am but summer to your heart	150
	Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!	151
	Here is a wound that never will heal, I know	152
	Say what you will, and scratch my heart to find	153
	What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why	154
	Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare	155
	The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver	156
	Index of Titles	161
	Index of First Lines	165