Part 1

Renascence and Other Poems

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Contents:

Renascence All I could see from where I stood

Interim The room is full of you!--As I came in

The Suicide "Curse thee, Life, I will live with thee no more!

God's World O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!

Afternoon on a Hill I will be the gladdest thing

Sorrow Sorrow like a ceaseless rain

Tavern I'll keep a little tavern

Ashes of Life Love has gone and left me and the days are all alike;

The Little Ghost I knew her for a little ghost

Kin to Sorrow Am I kin to Sorrow,

Three Songs of Shattering

I The first rose on my rose-tree

II Let the little birds sing;

III All the dog-wood blossoms are underneath the tree!

The Shroud Death, I say, my heart is bowed

The Dream Love, if I weep it will not matter,

Indifference I said,--for Love was laggard, O, Love was slow to come,--

Witch-Wife She is neither pink nor pale,

Blight Hard seeds of hate I planted

When the Year Grows Old I cannot but remember

Sonnets

I Thou art not lovelier than lilacs,--no,

II Time does not bring relief; you all have lied

III Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring,

IV Not in this chamber only at my birth--