Collected Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Author:Edna St. Vincent Millay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

And ferns where the water sloped from stone to stone in the clear dark

Without ripple or speech

Curved motionless, rooted in rotted bark

And leaves laid together and the rifled husks of the beech.

As sharp as in my childhood, still

Ecstasy shocks me fixed. The will

Cannot entice it, never could,

So never tries. But from the wood

The wind will hurl the clashing sleet;

Or a small fawn with lovely feet,

Uncertain in its gait, will walk

Among the ferns, not breaking back

One frond, not bruising one fern black,

Into the clearing, and appraise

With mild, attracted, wondering gaze,

And lifted head unhurt and new,

This world that he was born into.

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