In a 1920 poetry collection, she wrote, "My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night"
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Stamps - SHE WAS THE MOST POPULAR POET OF HER TIME ...  Jul 12, 1981 ... ''There are no islands any more,'' she wrote in 1940 in a passionate plea against ... ''My candle burns at both ends, It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and ... did a water color portrait on a piece of old ivory from her personal collection. ... Between 1920 and 1923, she turned out three volumes of poetry,...
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Collected Poems: Edna St. Vincent Millay: 9780062015273 ...  Buy Collected Poems on Amazon.com  FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders. ... My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends .... In the 1920s and '30s, Millay was considered a spokesperson for personal .... Yes, she wrote poems that rhymed, sometimes to the point of sing-song...
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First Fig - Poems | Academy of American Poets - Poets.org  At the request of Vassar's drama department, she also wrote her first verse play, The Lamp ... That same year Millay published A Few Figs from Thistles (1920), a volume of poetry ... Collected Poems (1956) ... My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends It gives a lovely light!
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Edna St. Vincent Millay - Wikipedia  Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892  October 19, 1950) was an American poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the ... The poet Richard Wilbur asserted, "She wrote some of the best sonnets of the century." .... from A Few Figs from Thistles (1920). Millay wrote...
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Edna St. V. Millay Found Dead At 58 - The New York Times  Oct 19, 2000 ... My candle burns at both ends, It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, ... War she wrote of the Nazi massacre of the Czechoslovak city of Lidice: ... Before this, when Miss Millay won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1922,...
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Anne Sexton | poetryarchive.org  Anne Sexton (1928-1974) is often grouped with such poets as Sylvia Plath, John ... She had a fraught relationship with her alcoholic business-man father, and her ... After both births she suffered depression which led to mental breakdown, ... Her first book, To Bedlam and Part Way Back, was published in 1960 and was...
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Poetry 2 Flashcards | Quizlet  NAME THE POET---Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and ... That Good Night" but died at age 39 after years of hard drinking & debauchery ..... POETRY---Not only did he write "Don Juan", he proved it was possible to...
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Frost's Life and Career--by William H. Pritchard and Stanley Burnshaw  In 1894 he sold his first poem, 'My Butterfly: An Elegy', to a New York ... were often intensive ones in which he would read, comment on, and reflect largely about ..... and Ice," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," and the title poem of the ... two deceptively playful blank verse dialogs, A Masque of Reason (1945) and A...
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"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas  Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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RepeatAfterUs.com -Adlai Stevenson-Eleanor Roosevelt  She would rather light candles than curse the darkness, and her glow has warmed the world. (Eulogy for Eleanor Roosevelt at the United Nations, Nov. 9, 1962)...
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Notes on Cummings' Poetry - Gvsu  To find notes to specific poems, click on book titles below, or scroll down to ... Tulips & Chimneys (1922 Manuscript) Complete Poems ... in "An Analysis of Two Poems by E. E.Cummings" [Spring 10 (2001): 31-43]. ... a section called "La Guerre," poems about World War I. The following passage ..... inti = intimate [adjective].
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Poe's ghostly maidens  [Editorial Note: Edgar Allen Poe's poetry often dealt with a love lost to death. ... of ANNABEL LEE; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. ... "Sir," said I,"or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
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When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be - Poems | Academy of ...  The oldest of four children, he lost both his parents at a young age. ... Writing some of his finest poetry between 1818 and 1819, Keats mainly worked on ... language, Ode on a Grecian Urn," Ode on Melancholy," and Ode to a Nightingale. ... When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming...
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The Glass Essay by Anne Carson - Poetry Foundation  My mother's kitchen is dark and small but out the window. there is the moor, ... Emily's habitual spelling of this word, ... Emily made her awkward way ... Time in its transparent loops as it passes beneath me now ... the cruel illness (pain no words can render), ... caressing and singing to one another in our made-up language.
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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd - Wikipedia  "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" is a long poem in the form of an elegy written by American poet Walt Whitman (18191892) in 1865. ... These poems, collected under the title Drum-Taps and Sequel to Drum-Taps, ...... Article  Talk...
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And like a dying lady, lean and pale, Who totters forth, wrapped in a ...  Percy Bryce Shelley (17921822) ... He thinks woman's brain is like the waning moon,. The poem's imagery and ... to Be (written 1818, published 1848). By John...
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When I Consider How My Light Is Spent Sonnet Xix John Milton ...  Oct 4, 2016 ... ... how my light is spent (Sonnet xIx) focuses on the poet's loss of sight and his. ... poem "When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly" offers few surprises. ... of the mid-18th-century fascination of poets with death and suicide, as well as the ... The poet Phoebe Cary wrote a parody of Goldsmith's poem titled "When...
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Preview  When we two parted (Lord Byron) [Multimedia-English ...  These two lines make us think of her death (typical exaggerations of Romanticism poetry). It could mean that she's dead (because her skin turned pale and her...
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. II. by William ...  ... this poem in her. Grasmere Journal. ... "his poems are sometimes little more than poetical versions of her ... she's dead, and my father's in at the next town; he's a potter.' I .... [Written in the Orchard, Town-end, Grasmere. .... TO THE CUCKOO
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Howl, Parts I & II - Poems | Academy of American Poets - Poets.org  Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg (1955) .... I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging...
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Edna St. Vincent Millay - Wikipedia  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1917). Renascence: and other poems. Harper & brothers. (title poem first published under name E.