greykit.poetry — Edna St Vincent Millay

• 1920 [edna-st-vincent-millay] First Fig
  A Few Figs from Thistles

  My candle burns at both ends — four lines that concede the night is short and refuse to care, because of the light.

  #epigram#defiance#1920s
• 1920 [edna-st-vincent-millay] Second Fig
  A Few Figs from Thistles

  Two lines setting the ugly house safe upon its rock against the shining palace built upon the sand — and preferring the sand.

  #epigram#defiance#1920s
• 1912 [edna-st-vincent-millay] Renascence
  Renascence and Other Poems

  Written at nineteen: the horizon presses down until the whole of infinity and all the world's suffering pours through her, she is buried and prays for rain — and comes back up into a world whose sky is no wider than the soul.

  #lyric#vision#rebirth#1910s