Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes about Earth

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Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there. I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one.

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there. I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Summer, Flower, Earth

Earth does not understand her child, Who from the loud gregarious town Returns, depleted and defiled, To the still woods, to fling him down.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Children, Doe, Earth

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1934). “Wine from these grapes”

Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease To ponder on themselves, the while they stare At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Peace, Earth, Euclid

Edna St. Vincent Millay (2012). “The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay”, p.155, Modern Library