Book/Printed Material A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets,
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Image 1 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, PS- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 2 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, CopiglitS°_ 1 n o CfiPmiGHT DEPOSni- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
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Image 3 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets,- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 4 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets,- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
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Image 5 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, A FEW FIGS FROM THISTLES- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 6 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, By Edna St, Vincent Millay RENASCENCE, and Other Poems A FEW FIGS FROM THISTLES, Poems SECOND APRIL, Poems ARIA DA CAPO, a Play TWO SLATTERNS AND A KING, a Play THE LAMP…- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 7 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, Few FiQS From Thistles POEMS AND SONNETS Edna Sl.ViRcent Millaip NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION FRANK SHAY A STEWART KIDD PUBLISHER ^^m. DISTRIBUTOR NEW YORK -iJF^lEk CINCINNATI- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 8 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, Copyright, 1922 by C-, FRANK SHAY fv AU Rights Reserved Ov^ Printed in the United States of America The Caxton Press 3CU602651- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 9 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, A FEW FIGS FROM THISTLES- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
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Image 10 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, Thanks are due to the editors of Ainslie s, The Dial, Pearson s, Poetry, Reedy s Mirror, and Vanity Fair, for their kind permission to republish various of these poems. This edition…- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 11 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, FIRST FIG g SECOND FIG g RECUERDO 10 THURSDAY 12 TO THE NOT IMPOSSIBLE HIM I3 MACDOUGAL STREET I4 THE SINGING- WOMAN FROM THE WOOD S EDGE 1 6 SHE IS OVERHEARD…- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 12 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets,- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 13 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, FIRST FIG TV/TY candle bums at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends- It gives a lovely light! SECOND FIG QAFE upon the…- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 14 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, RECUERDO X^IZE were very tired, we were very merry We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable But we…- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 15 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, RECUERDO And bought a morning paper, which neither of us read; And she wept, God bless you! for the apples and the pears, And we gave her all our money but our…- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 16 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, THURSDAY A ND if I loved you Wednesday, Well, what is that to you? I do not love you Thursday So much is true. And why you come complaining Is more than…- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 17 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, TO THE NOT IMPOSSIBLE HIM OW shall I know, unless I go To Cairo and Cathay, Whether or not this blessed spot Is blest in every way? Now it may be, the…- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 18 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, MACDOUGAL STREET A^S I went walking up and down to take the evening air, (Sweet to meet upon the street, why must I be so shy?) I saw him lay his hand…- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 19 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, MACDOUGAL STREET But he caught the quaint Italian quip she flung him from the gutter; (What can there be to cry about that I should lie and cry?) He laid his darling…- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 20 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, THE SINGING-WOMAN FROM THE WOOD S EDGE \X7HAT should I be but a prophet and a liar, Whose mother was a leprechaun, whose father was a friar? Teethed on a crucifix and…- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 21 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, THE SINGING- WOMAN But there comes to birth no common spawn From the love of a priest for a leprechaun, And you never have seen and you never will see Such things…- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 22 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, FIGS FROM THISTLES Oh, the things I haven t seen and the things I haven t known, What with hedges and ditches till after I was grown, And yanked both ways by…- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 23 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, SHE IS OVERHEARD SINGING )H, Prue she has a patient man, And Joan a gentle lover, And Agatha s Arth is a hug-the-hearth, But my true love s a rover! Mig, her…- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 24 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, FIGS FROM THISTLES And Agatha, Arth is a hug-the=hearth, Could live content in a cup, Sue s man s mind is like good jell All one color, and clear And Mig s…- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 25 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, SHE IS OVERHEARD SINGING And Mig and Sue have naught to do But peep who s passing by, Joan is paired with a putterer That bastes and tastes and salts, And Agatha…- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 26 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, THE PRISONER ^LL right, Go ahead! What s in a name? I guess I ll be locked into As much as I m locked out of! 22- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 27 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, THE UNEXPLORER npHERE was a road ran past our house Too lovely to explore. I asked my mother once she said That if you followed where it led It brought you to…- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 28 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, GROWN-UP ■^il^^AS it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight? 24- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 29 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, THE PENITENT J HAD a little Sorrow, Bom of a little Sin, I found a room all damp with gloom And shut us all within; And, Little Sorrow, weep, said I, And,…- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 30 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, FIGS FROM THISTLES And put a ribbon on my hair To please a passing lad. And, **One thing there s no getting by- I ve been a wicked girl, said I; But…- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 31 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, DAPHNE \A7 HY do you follow me?—- Any moment I can be Nothing but a laurel-tree. Any moment of the chase I can leave you in my place A pink bough for…- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 32 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, PORTRAIT BY A NEIGHBOR OEFORE she has her floor swept Or her dishes done, Any day you ll find her A-sunning in the sun! It s long after midnight Her key s…- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 33 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, PORTRAIT BY A NEIGHBOR She forgets she borrowed butter And pays you back cream! Her lawn looks like a meadow, And if she mows the place She leaves the clover standing And…- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 34 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, MIDNIGHT OIL r^UT if you will, with Sleep s dull knife, Each day to half its length, my friend,- The years that Time takes off 1213/ life, He ll take from off…- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 35 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, THE MERRY MAID QH, I am grown so free from care Since my heart broke! I set my throat against the air, I laugh at simple folk! There s little kind and…- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 36 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, TO KATHLEEN QTILL must the poet as of old, In barren attic bleak ajid cold, Starve, freeze, and fashion verses to Such things as flowers and song and you; Still as of…- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 37 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, TO S. M. he should lie a-d^ing T AM not willing you should go Into the earth, where Helen went; She is awake by now, I know. Where Cleopatra s anklets rust…- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 38 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, THE PHILOSOPHER ND what are you that, missing you, I should be kept awake As many nights as there are days With weeping for your sake? And what are you that, missing…- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 39 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, FOUR SONNETS 35- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922
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Image 40 of A few figs from thistles: poems and sonnets, FIGS FROM THISTLES T OVE, though for this you riddle me with darts, And drag me at your chariot till I die, Oh, heavy prince! Oh, panderer of hearts! Yet hear me…- Contributor: Millay, Edna St. Vincent
- Date: 1922