Second April

Passer Mortuus Est

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Passer Mortuus Est

Death devours all lovely things;

Lesbia with her sparrow

Shares the darkness,--presently

Every bed is narrow.

Unremembered as old rain

Dries the sheer libation,

And the little petulant hand

Is an annotation.

After all, my erstwhile dear,

My no longer cherished,

Need we say it was not love,

Now that love is perished?

About Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Summary

Spring

City Trees

The Blue-Flag In The Bog

Journey

Eel-Grass

Elegy Before Death

The Bean-Stalk

Weeds

Passer Mortuus Est

Pastoral

Assault

Travel

Low Tide

Song Of A Second April

Rosemary

The Poet And His Book

Alms

Inland

To A Poet That Died Young

Wraith

Ebb

Elaine

Burial

Mariposa

The Little Hill

Doubt No More That Oberon

Lament

Exiled

The Death Of Autumn

Ode To Silence

Memorial To D. C.

Epitaph

Prayer To Persephone

Chorus

Elegy

Dirge

Sonnets

Wild Swans

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