Second April

Eel-Grass

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Eel-Grass

No matter what I say,

All that I really love

Is the rain that flattens on the bay,

And the eel-grass in the cove;

The jingle-shells that lie and bleach

At the tide-line, and the trace

Of higher tides along the beach:

Nothing in this place.

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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