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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

Feast


              1I drank at every vine.
              2    The last was like the first.
              3I came upon no wine
              4    So wonderful as thirst.

              5I gnawed at every root.
              6    I ate of every plant.
              7I came upon no fruit
              8    So wonderful as want.

              9Feed the grape and bean
            10    To the vintner and monger;
            11I will lie down lean
            12    With my thirst and my hunger.

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, The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (New York and London: Harper, 1923): 9. 6th printing. PS 3525 I495H3 Robarts Library.
First publication date: 1923
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1998.
Recent editing: 4:2002/3/1

Rhyme: abab

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