Edna St. Vincent Millay

Photo from Walter Rufus Eagles' website.  

Selected Poetic Works

tan works are available online; green works are in the Alexander Mack library; some works are available both places.

Renascence and Other Poems 1917
A Few Figs from Thistles 1920
Second April 1921
The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems 1923
Poems 1923
Distressing Dialogues 1924
The Buck in the Snow 1928
Fatal Interview 1931
Wine from These Grapes 1934
Conversations at Midnight 1937
Huntsman, What Quarry? 1939
There Are No Islands Any More 1940
Make Bright the Arrows 1940
Collected Sonnets 1941
Invocation of the Muses 1941
Collected Lyrics 1943
Poem and Prayer for an Invading Army 1944
Collected Poems 1949
Mine the Harvest 1954
Collected Poems 1956

Poems for consideration

"First Fig"

"Love Is Not All"

"The Plaid Dress"

Millay on the Web

poem texts (some will require you to scroll down; because so many of Millay's poems are readily available, it may be easier for you to simply search for the poem you are interested in; for instance Bryant McGill's translation project has more than 140 Millay poems )

• "Alms" site 1 
• "Ashes of Life" site 1 (audio) 
• "Assault" site 1
• "Afternoon on a Hill" site 1
• "The Bean-Stalk" site 1 
• "Blight" site 1
• "The Blue-Flag in the Bog" site 1 
• "Burial" site 1 
• "City Trees" site 1 
• "The Death of Autumn" site 1 
• "Doubt No More That Oberon" site 1 
• "The Dream" site 1
• "Ebb" site 1 
• "Eel-Grass" site 1 
• "Elaine" site 1 
• "Elegy Before Death" site 1 2 (audio) 
• "Exiled" site 1 
• "Four Sonnets" site 1 
• "God's World" site 1
• "Indifference" site 1
• "Inland" site 1 
• "Interim" site 1
• "Journey" site 1 
• "Kin to Sorrow" site 1
• "Lament" site 1 
• "The Little Ghost" site 1 
• "The Little Hill" site 1 
• "Low-Tide" site 1
• "Mariposa" site 1 
• "Memorial to D.C." site 1 
• "Ode to Silence" site 1 
• "Passer Mortuus Est" site 1
• "Pastoral" site 1 
• "The Poet and His Book" site 1
• "Renascence"  site 1
• "Rosemary" site 1 
• "The Shroud" site 1
• "Song of a Second April" site 1 
• "Sonnet 1" (Thou art not lovelier than lilacs) site 1 2 (audio)
• "Sonnet 2" (Time does not bring relief) site 1 
• "Sonnet 3" (Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring) site 1 (audio)
• "Sonnet 4" (Not in this chamber only at my birth) site 1 (audio)
• "Sonnet 5" (If I should learn, in some quite casual way) site 1 (audio)
• "Sonnet 6" (Bluebeard) site 1
• Sonnets I-XII (from Second April) site 1 2 3 
• "Sorrow" site 1
• "Spring" site 1 
• "The Suicide" site 1
• "Tavern" site 1
• "Three Songs of Shattering" site 1
• "Thursday" site 1 
• "To a Poet that Died Young" site 1 
• "Travel" site 1
• "Weeds" site 1 
• "When the Year Grows Old" site 1
• "Wild Swans" site 1
• "Witch-wife" site 1 2 
• "Wraith" site 1 

audio only

• "Cherish you then the hope I shall forget" [0:50, read by Walter Rufus Eagles]
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• "Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare" [0:51, read by Walter Rufus Eagles]

• "I do but ask that you be always fair" [0:48, read by Walter Rufus Eagles]

• "I shall go back again to the bleak shore" [0:46, read by Walter Rufus Eagles]

• "Love is not all" [0:51, read by Walter Rufus Eagles]

• Never may the fruit be plucked [0:41, read by Walter Rufus Eagles]

• Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow [0:43, read by Walter Rufus Eagles]

• On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven [0:52, read by Walter Rufus Eagles]

• Only until this cigarette is ended [0:52, read by Walter Rufus Eagles]

• Recuerdo [1:06, read by Walter Rufus Eagles] or here an undated recording by Millay herself

• Time does not bring relief [0:52, read by Walter Rufus Eagles]

• Two Figs [0:25, read by Walter Rufus Eagles] 

• Two Sonnets in Memory of Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti [1:47, read by Walter Rufus Eagles]