Favorite poems
Selected and annotated by Frank Beck
Sonnet XXX
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (circa 1920) Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating s...
"People"
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In any man who dies, there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight. It goes with him. There are left books and bridges and pai...
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"The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter"
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While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead, I played about the front gate, pulling flowers. You came by on bamboo st...
"Proud Songsters"
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The thrushes sing as the sun is going, And the finches whistle in ones and pairs, And as it gets dark loud nightingales ...
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A child's ecstasies remembered
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Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world than I. All appeared new, and strange at fir...
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