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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

Grown-up


              1Was it for this I uttered prayers,
              2And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs,
              3That now, domestic as a plate,
              4I should retire at half-past eight?


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): 16. PS 3525 I495F4 Robarts Library.
First publication date: 1921
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1998.
Recent editing: 4:2002/3/1

Composition date: 1920
Rhyme: aabb


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