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Pastimes : A Day to Listen
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To: SirRealist who started this subject9/14/2002 5:08:58 AM
From: SirRealist   of 28
 
Another favored poet: poets.org

And another poem of Millay's that I like:

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Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want past resolution's power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. I do not think I would.

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And her two most famous (and shortest) poems:

First Fig

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends--
It gives a lovely light!



Second Fig

Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand:
Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
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