EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
Principal Works:

Poems listed below the book titles can be found in the ESVM INDEX on this site. (Note: The listing of poems, by no means, represents the extent of the prose and sonnets published in each collection.)

RENASCENCE AND OTHER POEMS, 1917;

���� Afternoon on a Hill
���� Ashes of Life
���� Blight
���� The Dream
���� God's World
���� Indifference
���� Interim
���� Kin to Sorrow
���� The Little Ghost
���� Renascence
���� The Shroud
���� Sonnets:
���� ���� II ���� �"Time does not bring relief; you all have lied"
���� ���� III �����"Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring,"
���� ���� IV ���� "Not in this chamber only at my birth --"
���� ���� VI ���� "This door you might not open, and you did;"
���� Sorrow
���� The Suicide
���� Tavern
���� Three Songs of Shattering
���� When the Year Grows Old
���� Witch-Wife


A FEW THIGS FROM THISTLES, 1921;

���� Daphne
���� Fig, First
���� Fig, Second
���� Grown Up
���� Midnight Oil
���� The Pentinent
���� The Philospher
���� Portrait by a Neighbour
���� The Singing-Woman From the Wood's Edge
���� To The Not Impossible Him
���� The Unexplorer


ARIA DA CAPO (verse play) 1921;
THE LAMP AND THE BELL (play) 1921;
TWO SLATTERNS AND A KING (play) 1921;

SECOND APRIL, 1921;

���� Alms
���� Assault
���� The Bean-Stalk
���� The Blue-Flag In the Bog
���� Burial
���� City Trees
���� The Death of Autumn
���� Doubt No More That Oberon
���� Ebb
���� Eel-Grass
���� Elegy Before Death
���� Exiled
���� Inland
���� Journey
���� Lament
���� The Little Hill
���� Low-Tide
���� Mariposa
���� Memorial to D.C.
���� Ode to Silence
���� Passer Mortuus Ext
���� Pastoral
���� The Poet and His Book
���� Rosemary
���� Song of A Second April
���� Sonnets:
I ��� �����"We talk of taxes, and I call you friend;"
II �� ����"Into the golden vessel of great song"
III � ����"Not with libations, but with shouts and laughter"
IV �� ���"Only until this cigarette is ended,"
V����� ���"Once more into my arid days like dew, Like wind from an oasis,"
VI���� ���"No rose that in a garden ever grew,"
VII � ���"When I� too long have looked upon your face,"
VIII�� ��"And you as well must die, beloved dust,"
IX���� ���"Let you not say of me when I am old,"
X����� ���"Oh, my beloved, have you thought of this:"
XI���� ��"As to some lovely temple, tenantless Long since,"
XII��� ��"Cherish you then the hope I shall forget,"
���� Spring
���� Travel
���� Weeds
���� Wild Swans
���� Wraith


THE HARP-WEAVER AND OTHER POEMS, (PULITZER PRIZE WINNER), 1923;

���� A Visit to the Asylum
���� Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
���� The Concert
���� Departure
���� Feast
���� Sonnets:
���� ���� "I know I am but summer to your heart,"
���� ���� "I shall go back again to the bleak shore"
���� ���� "Oh, Oh, you will be sorry for those words"
���� ���� "Pity me not because the light of day"
���� ���� "Sometimes when I am wearied suddenly"
���� ���� "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,"
���� The Wood Road


DISTRESSING DIALOGUES, (as "Nancy Boyd") 1924;
THE KING'S HENCHMAN, (opera) 1927;

THE BUCK IN THE SNOW, 1928;

���� Dirge Without Music
���� Justice Denied in Massachusetts
���� To Those Without Pity


EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY'S POEMS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, 1929;

FATAL INTERVIEW, 1931;

���� VII ���� �"Night is my sister, and how deep in love,"
���� XVI ���� �"I dreamed I moved among the Elysian fields,"
���� XXVI ���� "Women have loved before as I love now;"
���� XXX ���� �"Love is not all, it is not meat nor drink"


THE PRINCESS MARRIES THE PAGE, (play) 1932;
WINE FROM THESE GRAPES, 1934;

���� Apostrophe to Man
���� Autumn Daybreak
���� Conscientious Objector
���� The Fawn
���� The Fledgling
���� If Still Your Orchards Bear
���� The Leaf and the Tree


FLOWERS OF EVIL (translation From Baudelaire, with George Dillon) 1936;
CONVERSATION AT MIDNIGHT, 1937;
HUNTSMAN, WHAT QUARRY? 1939;

���� Intention to Escape From Him
���� Lines Written in Recapitulation
���� Menses
���� Modern Declaration
���� The Snow Storm
���� Theme and Variation I
���� To Elinor Wylie
���� The True Encounter
���� Underground System


MAKE BRIGHT THE ARROWS, 1940 NOTEBOOK, 1940;

���� Make Bright the Arrows

THERE ARE NO ISLANDS ANY MORE, 1940;
COLLECTED SONNETS, 1941;
INVOCATION OF THE MUSES, 1941;
THE MURDER OF LIDICE, (radio play) 1942;
COLLECTED LYRICS, 1943;
POEMS AND PRAYER FOR AN INVADING ARMY, 1944;

MINE THE HARVEST (published posthumously) 1954;

���� An Ancient Gesture
���� Sonnets:
���� ���� "I will put Chaos into fourteen lines"
���� ���� "The courage that my Mother had,"
���� When It is Over


ACCOUNTS OF HER LIFE AND WORK INCLUDE:


SAVAGE BEAUTY
The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by
Nancy Milford

Published 2001


WHAT LIPS MY LIPS HAVE KISSED
The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay by
Daniel Mark Epstein

Published 2001

Edna St. Vincent Millay and Her Times, Elizabeth Atkins, 1936;

Edna St. Vincent Millay: America's Best Loved Poet, by Toby Shafter , 1957;

Restless Spirit by Miriam Gurko, 1962;

The Indigo Bunting, a personal memoir by Vincent Sheean, 1951;

Karl Yost published a bibliography in 1937.

A volume of her letters, edited by Allan Ross Macdougall, was published in 1952.




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