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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

Dirge


              1Boys and girls that held her dear,
              2    Do your weeping now;
              3All you loved of her lies here.

              4Brought to earth the arrogant brow,
              5    And the withering tongue
              6Chastened; do your weeping now.

              7Sing whatever songs are sung,
              8    Wind whatever wreath,
              9For a playmate perished young,

            10For a spirit spent in death.
            11    Boys and girls that held her dear,
            12All you loved of her lies here.

Notes

1] This poem is the last in a group (pp. 87-95) from a memorial to D. C. and is dated at Vassar College, 1918.

Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
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Original text: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Second April (New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1921): 95. B-11 3143 Fisher Rare Book Library.
First publication date: 1921
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1998.
Recent editing: 4:2002/3/1

Composition date: 1918
Rhyme: aba bcb cdc eff

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