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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

First Fig


              1My candle burns at both ends;
              2    It will not last the night;
              3But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends --
              4    It gives a lovely light!


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, A Few Figs from Thistles: Poems and Sonnets (New York and London: Harper, 1922): 1. PS 3525 I495F4 Robarts Library.
First publication date: June 1918
Publication date note: Published in Poetry
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1998.
Recent editing: 4:2002/3/1

Composition date: 1920
Form: Hymnal Measure
Rhyme: abab


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