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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