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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

Humoresque


              1"Heaven bless the babe!" they said.
              2"What queer books she must have read!"
              3(Love, by whom I was beguiled,
              4Grant I may not bear a child.)

              5"Little does she guess to-day
              6What the world may be!" they say.
              7(Snow, drift deep and cover
              8Till the spring my murdered lover.)

Notes

1] The title means `a musical whimsy, a fanciful composition.'

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): 27. 6th printing. PS 3525 I495H3 Robarts Library.
First publication date: October 1918
Publication date note: Published in The Dial
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1998.
Recent editing: 4:2002/3/1

Rhyme: aabb

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