The Little Ghost - And Other Poems on Grief and Healing
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in 1892 in Rockland, Maine, the eldest of three daughters, and was encouraged by her mother to develop her talents for music and poetry. Her long poem "Renascence" won critical attention in an anthology contest in 1912 and secured for her a patron who enabled her to go to Vassar College. After graduating in 1917 she lived in Greenwich Village in New York for a few years, acting, writing satirical pieces for journals (usually under a pseudonym), and continuing to work at her poetry. She traveled in Europe throughout 1921-22 as a "foreign correspondent" for Vanity Fair. Her collection A Few Figs from Thistles (1920) gained her a reputation for hedonistic wit and cynicism, but her other collections (including the earlier Renascence and Other Poems [1917]) are without exception more seriously passionate or reflective. In 1923 she married Eugene Boissevain and -- after further travel -- embarked on a series of reading tours which helped to consolidate her nationwide renown. From 1925 onwards she lived at Steepletop, a farmstead in Austerlitz, New York, where her husband protected her from all responsibilities except her creative work. Often involved in feminist or political causes (including the Sacco-Vanzetti case of 1927), she turned to writing anti-fascist propaganda poetry in 1940 and further damaged a reputation already in decline. In her last years of her life she became more withdrawn and isolated, and her health, which had never been robust, became increasingly poor. She died in 1950.
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The Little Ghost - And Other Poems on Grief and Healing - Edna St. Vincent Millay
THE
LITTLE GHOST
AND OTHER POEMS
ON GRIEF AND HEALING
By
EDNA
ST. VINCENT MILLAY
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Contents
THE LITTLE GHOST
THE SHROUD
SONNET III
SONNET V
SONNET V
SONNET VIII
SONNET IX
SONNET XI
SONNET XII
TO S. M. IF HE SHOULD LIE A-DYING
THE BLUE-FLAG IN THE BOG
ELEGY BEFORE DEATH
PASSER MORTUUS EST
THE POET AND HIS BOOK
INLAND
TO A POET THAT DIED YOUNG
BURIAL
MARIPOSA
LAMENT
MEMORIAL TO D. C. VASSAR COLLEGE, 1918
EPITAPH
PRAYER TO PERSEPHONE
CHORUS
ELEGY
DIRGE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
THE
LITTLE GHOST
AND OTHER POEMS
ON GRIEF AND HEALING
THE LITTLE GHOST
I knew her for a little ghost
That in my garden walked;
The wall is high—higher than most—
And