First Fig and Other Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Author:Edna St. Vincent Millay
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780486158952
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-10-11T00:00:00+00:00

Passer Mortuus Est

Death devours all lovely things;

Lesbia with her sparrow

Shares the darkness,—presently

Every bed is narrow

Unremembered as old rain

Dries the sheer libation,

And the little petulant hand

Is an annotation.

After all, my erstwhile dear,

My no longer cherished,

Need we say it was not love,

Now that love is perished?

Pastoral

If it were only still!—

With far away the shrill

Crying of a cock;

Or the shaken bell

From a cow’s throat

Moving through the bushes;

Or the soft shock

Of wizened apples falling

From an old tree

In a forgotten orchard

Upon the hilly rock!

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