Edna St. Vincent Millay

Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. She wrote much of her prose and hackwork verse under the pseudonym Nancy Boyd.

Millay won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her poem 'Ballad of the Harp-Weaver'; she was the first woman and second person to win the award. In 1943, Millay was the sixth person and the second woman to be awarded the Frost Medal for her lifetime contribution to American poetry.

Millay was highly regarded during much of her lifetime, with the prominent literary critic Edmund Wilson calling her 'one of the only poets writing in English in our time who have attained to anything like the stature of great literary figures.'' By the 1930s, her critical reputation began to decline, as modernist critics dismissed her work for its use of traditional poetic forms and subject matter, in contrast to modernism's exhortation to 'make it new.' However, the rise of feminist literary criticism in the 1960s and 1970s revived an interest in Millay's works.

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Poems

  • A Visit To The Asylum Read Poem
  • Afternoon On A Hill Read Poem
  • Alms Read Poem
  • An Ancient Gesture Read Poem
  • And Do You Think That Love Itself Read Poem
  • And You As Well Must Die, Beloved Dust Read Poem
  • Apostrophe To Man Read Poem
  • As Men Have Loved Their Lovers In Times Past Read Poem
  • As To Some Lovely Temple, Tenantless Read Poem
  • Ashes Of Life Read Poem
  • Assault Read Poem
  • Autumn Daybreak Read Poem
  • Being Young And Green Read Poem
  • Blight Read Poem
  • Bluebeard: Sonnet VI Read Poem
  • Burial Read Poem
  • Cherish You Then The Hope I Shall Forget Read Poem
  • Childhood Is The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies Read Poem
  • Chorus Read Poem
  • City Trees Read Poem
  • Conscientious Objector Read Poem
  • Counting-Out Rhyme Read Poem
  • Daphne Read Poem
  • Departure Read Poem
  • Dirge Read Poem
  • Dirge Without Music Read Poem
  • Doubt No More That Oberon Read Poem
  • Ebb Read Poem
  • Eel-Grass Read Poem
  • Eight Sonnets Read Poem
  • Elaine Read Poem
  • Elegy Read Poem
  • Elegy Before Death Read Poem
  • Epitaph Read Poem
  • Euclid Alone Read Poem
  • Exiled Read Poem
  • Feast Read Poem
  • First Fig Read Poem
  • Fontaine, Je Ne Boirai Pas De Ton Eau! Read Poem
  • From: A Few Figs From Thistles Read Poem
  • Gazing Upon Him Now, Severe And Dead Read Poem
  • God's World Read Poem
  • Grown-up Read Poem
  • Hearing Your Words, And Not A Word Among Them Read Poem
  • Here Is A Wound That Never Will Heal, I Know Read Poem
  • Humoresque Read Poem
  • I Do But Ask That You Be Always Fair Read Poem
  • I Dreamed I Moved Among The Elysian Fields Read Poem
  • I Know I Am But Summer To Your Heart Read Poem
  • I Know The Face Of Falsehood And Her Tongue Read Poem
  • I Shall Forget You Presently, My Dear Read Poem
  • I Shall Go Back Read Poem
  • I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently Read Poem
  • I Will Put Chaos Into Fourteen Lines Read Poem
  • I, Being Born A Woman And Distressed Read Poem
  • If I Should Learn, In Some Quite Casual Way Read Poem
  • If Still Your Orchards Bear Read Poem
  • Indifference Read Poem
  • Inert Perfection Read Poem
  • Inland Read Poem
  • Intention To Escape From Him Read Poem
  • Interim Read Poem
  • Into The Golden Vessel Of Great Song Read Poem
  • Invocation To The Muses Read Poem
  • Journey Read Poem
  • Justice Denied In Massachusetts Read Poem
  • Kin To Sorrow Read Poem
  • Lament Read Poem
  • Let You Not Say Of Me When I Am Old Read Poem
  • Lines For A Grave-Stone Read Poem
  • Lines Written In Recapitulation Read Poem
  • Love Is Not All Read Poem
  • Love Is Not Blind. I See With Single Eye Read Poem
  • Love, Though For This You Riddle Me With Darts Read Poem
  • Low-Tide Read Poem
  • Make Bright The Arrows Read Poem
  • Mariposa Read Poem
  • May The Fruit Never Be Plucked Read Poem
  • Memorial To D.C. Read Poem
  • Menses Read Poem
  • Midnight Oil Read Poem
  • Mindful Of You The Sodden Earth Read Poem
  • Mist In The Valley Read Poem
  • Modern Declaration Read Poem
  • Moriturus Read Poem
  • My Most Distinguished Guest And Learned Friend Read Poem
  • Night Is My Sister, And How Deep In Love Read Poem
  • No Rose That In A Garden Ever Grew Read Poem
  • Not Even My Pride Shall Suffer Much Read Poem
  • Not In A Silver Casket Cool With Pearls Read Poem
  • Not In This Chamber Read Poem
  • Not With Libations, But With Shouts And Laughter Read Poem
  • Ode To Silence Read Poem
  • Oh, My Beloved, Have You Thought Of This Read Poem
  • Oh, Oh, You Will Be Sorry Read Poem
  • Oh, Think Not I Am Faithful To A Vow Read Poem
  • Once More Into My Arid Days Like Dew Read Poem
  • Only Until This Cigarette Is Ended Read Poem
  • Passer Mortuus Est Read Poem
  • Pastoral Read Poem
  • Pity Me Not Because The Light Of Day Read Poem
  • Portrait By A Neighbour Read Poem
  • Prayer To Persephone Read Poem
  • Recuerdo Read Poem
  • Renascence Read Poem
  • Rosemary Read Poem
  • Scrub Read Poem
  • Second Fig Read Poem
  • She Is Overheard Singing Read Poem
  • Song Of A Second April Read Poem
  • Sonnet XXVIII: From Fatal Interview Read Poem
  • Sonnet: VII: From Fatal Interview Read Poem
  • Sonnet: What Lips My Lips Have Kissed Read Poem
  • Sonnet: XLVI Read Poem
  • Sorrow Read Poem
  • Souvenir Read Poem
  • Spring Read Poem
  • Sweet Love, Sweet Thorn, When Lightly To My Heart Read Poem
  • Tavern Read Poem
  • The Ballad Of The Harp-Weaver Read Poem
  • The Bean-Stalk Read Poem
  • The Betrothal Read Poem
  • The Blue Flag In The Bog Read Poem
  • The Concert Read Poem
  • The Courage That My Mother Had Read Poem
  • The Curse Read Poem
  • The Death Of Autumn Read Poem
  • The Doctor Asked Her What She Wanted Done Read Poem
  • The Dream Read Poem
  • The Fawn Read Poem
  • The Fledgling Read Poem
  • The Goose-Girl Read Poem
  • The Leaf And The Tree Read Poem
  • The Little Ghost Read Poem
  • The Little Hill Read Poem
  • The Penitent Read Poem
  • The Philosopher Read Poem
  • The Plaid Dress Read Poem
  • The Poet And His Book Read Poem
  • The Prisoner Read Poem
  • The Return From Town Read Poem
  • The Shroud Read Poem
  • The Singing-Woman From The Wood's Edge Read Poem
  • The Snow Storm Read Poem
  • The Spring And The Fall Read Poem
  • The Suicide Read Poem
  • The True Encounter Read Poem
  • The Unexplorer Read Poem
  • The Wood Road Read Poem
  • Think Not, Not For A Moment Let Your Mind Read Poem
  • This Door You Might Not Open Read Poem
  • Thou Art Not Lovelier Than Lilacs Read Poem
  • Three Songs Of Shattering Read Poem
  • Thursday Read Poem
  • Time Does Not Bring Relief Read Poem
  • To A Friend Estranged From Me Read Poem
  • To A Poet That Died Young Read Poem
  • To A Young Poet Read Poem
  • To Kathleen Read Poem
  • To The Not Impossible Him Read Poem
  • To Those Without Pity Read Poem
  • Travel Read Poem
  • Two Sonnets In Memory Read Poem
  • Underground System Read Poem
  • We Talk Of Taxes, And I Call You Friend Read Poem
  • Weeds Read Poem
  • When I Too Long Have Looked Upon Your Face Read Poem
  • When The Year Grows Old Read Poem
  • Where Can The Heart Be Hidden In The Ground Read Poem
  • Whereas At Morning In A Jeweled Crown Read Poem
  • Wild Swans Read Poem
  • Witch-Wife Read Poem
  • Women Have Loved Before As I Love Now Read Poem
  • Wraith Read Poem
  • "When you, that at this moment are to me" Read Poem
  • "Pity me not because the light of day" Read Poem
  • "Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!" Read Poem
  • "I shall go back again to the bleak shore" Read Poem
  • "Loving you less than life, a little less" Read Poem
  • "I, being born a woman and distressed" Read Poem
  • "Still will I harvest beauty where it grows" Read Poem
  • "Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare." Read Poem
  • "The white bark writhed and sputtered like a fish" Read Poem
  • "She had forgotten how the August night" Read Poem
  • Ashes of Life Read Poem
  • Four Sonnets (1922) Read Poem
  • “Time does not bring relief; you all have lied” Read Poem
  • “I think I should have loved you presently” Read Poem
  • “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why” Read Poem
  • The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver Read Poem
  • Figs from Thistles: First Fig Read Poem