Millay Poems - Poems about Millay

... My candle burns at both ends. It will not last the night. But, ah my foes, and oh, my friends, it sheds a lovely light. Author: Edna Saint Vincent Millay Her very first publi......Read the rest...

...I’ve strolled down Bedford from Barrow, maybe a couple times or more. When I would get to 86, I headed through the garden door. I felt inspiration flowing, from the rafters down to the floor. ......Read the rest...

...Edna St Vincent Millay 'A POET&his BOOK_____    /        \   (          )            _________ ________   [{•)(• ]¥¥          (________            [  ||  ]¥¥¥       ......Read the rest...

...Spring hangs like a dripping woolen coat from the pewter frame of a glowering sky. Why is it that poets write of spring as if it were made of rose petals and birdsong?— and insist that sp......Read the rest...

...Edna St Vincent Millay for poetic immortality oft did pray With her command of the ' traditionel then married & became so conventional......Read the rest...

...our lady of Guadalupe stands alight in corner air her gown emerald, cerise, gold Don Pedro stands afore glass to glass in an amber glow Lowry’s beaked bird of uva descent shadows flicker here, t......Read the rest...

...Quiet, dawn, Covid. Biggest accomplishment yesterday: buying toilet paper. Thanking the young cashier for doing her job. Feeling a little sick, wearing my mask and gloves, Spring oblivious to the......Read the rest...

...Poems about Poets V Edna St. Vincent Millay Has Her Way with a Vassar Professor by Michael R. Burch After a night of hard drinking and spreading her legs, Millay hits the dorm, where the ......Read the rest...

...They wouldn’t let me be White Oh I wanted to be Dreams of that Pulitzer haunted me They said, Sir, you have ten minutes to play I gave them Milton, Poe and Millay I stood before that panel......Read the rest...

...I was wondering how many renowned gay poets I know— Like Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, and Arthur Rimbaud? Edna St. Vincent Millay and Alice Walker, I am told, Both Sylvia Plath and Gertrude Stein......Read the rest...

...State of the Art (II) These are my "ars poetica" poems about the art and craft of writing poetry. What the Poet Sees by Michael R. Burch What the poet sees, he sees as a swimmer ~~~......Read the rest...

...Sonneteer Petrarch, with Shakespeare, set the standards: so little space - fourteen short lines, each with just ten syllables. Yet greats like St. ......Read the rest...

...Poems about Poems (II) Kin by Michael R. Burch for Richard Moore 1. Shrill gulls, how like my thoughts you, struggling, rise to distant bliss? the weightless blue of skies that are no......Read the rest...

...“Women Have Loved Before As I Love Now” by Edna St. Vincent Millay Women have loved before as I love now; At least, in lively chronicles of the past- Of Irish waters by a Cornish prow Or Troja......Read the rest...

...Now, I am speechless; I am without speech As you transcend the simplistic to grand Grant me the guidance of your gifted hand In the temple of your pen, I beseech To climb in your footsteps of ver......Read the rest...