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We had no clue what was happening, what it was. In fact, if it happened again, I'm not sure I'd know what it was.


Edna Beechraft

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In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
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Today is in the past.

Blown from the dark hill hither to my door EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I love humanity but I hate people.
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Few come this way; not that the darkness
Deters them, but t...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year;
And you must ...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Music my rampart, and my only one.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY TO what purpose, April, do you return again?
Beauty is not enough.
You can no longer qui...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Song of a Second April

APRIL this year, not otherwise
Than April of a year ag...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Moon, that against the lintel of the west
Your forehead lean until the gate be swung,
Long...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY After all, my erstwhile dear,
My no longer cherished,
Need we say it was not love,
Ju...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Ebb

I know what my heart is like
Since your love died:
It is like a holl...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or ...
EDNA O'BRIEN Be to her, Persephone,
All the things I might not be;
Take her head upon your knee.
S...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY For men that are afraid to die
Must warm their hands before a lie;
The fire that's built o...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Love is Not All

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a r...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Dirge Without Music

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY