Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a be… - Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note
In me a beauty that was never mine,
How first you knew me in a book I wrote,
How first you loved me for a written line....

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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About Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She was also known for her unconventional, bohemian lifestyle and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work.

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Pen Names: Nancy Boyd

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How first you knew me in a book I wrote,
How first you loved me for a written line

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Anna Akhmatova Emily Dickinson Sara Teasdale William Butler Yeats Lord Byron

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I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me.

Heart, have no pity on this house of bone:
Shake it with dancing, break it down with joy.

Still must the poet as of old,
In barren attic bleak and cold,
Starve, freeze, and fashion verses to
Such things as flowers and song and you;

Still as of old his being give
In Beauty's name, while she may live,
Beauty that may not die as long
As there are flowers and you and song.

Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me … - Edna St. Vincent Millay

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