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Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Edna St. Vincent Millay

Died: 18 October 1950

Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, on February 22, 1892. In 1917, Millay published her first book, Renascence and Other Poems (Harper, 1917). She published A Few Figs from Thistles (Harper & Brothers, 1920), a volume of poetry which drew much attention for its controversial descriptions of female sexuality and feminism. In 1923, Millay was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver (Flying Cloud Press, 1922). She also wrote the libretto of one of the few American grand operas, The King’s Henchman (Harper & Brothers, 1927). Edna St. Vincent Millay died on October 18, 1950, in Austerlitz, New York. (Source)

Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Passer Mortuus Est by Edna St. Vincent Millay

October 5, 2025
“Unremembered as old rain / Dries the sheer libation, / And the little petulant hand / Is an annotation.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Grown Up by Edna St. Vincent Millay

November 2, 2011
"I should retire at half-past eight?" — Edna St. Vincent Millay
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First Fig by Edna St. Vincent Millay

April 3, 2011
"My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night;" — Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Ebb by Edna St. Vincent Millay

April 5, 2007
"Drying inward from the edge." — Edna St. Vincent Millay