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Sunday, November 4, 2012

Poem-A-Day: I think I should have loved you presently by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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I think I should have loved you presently (Sonnet IX) 

I think I should have loved you presently, 

And given in earnest words I flung in jest; 

And lifted honest eyes for you to see, 

And caught your hand against my cheek and breast; 

And all my pretty follies flung aside 

That won you to me, and beneath your gaze, 

Naked of reticence and shorn of pride, 

Spread like a chart my little wicked ways. 

I, that had been to you, had you remained, 

But one more waking from a recurrent dream, 

Cherish no less the certain stakes I gained, 

And walk your memory's halls, austere, supreme, 

A ghost in marble of a girl you knew 

Who would have loved you in a day or two.

 
Today's poem is in the public domain. 

Poetry by Millay

Collected Poems
November 3, 2012

Born on February 22, 1892, Edna St. Vincent Millay received the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for her fourth volume of poems, The Harp Weaver.

Also by Millay

Poem-A-Day started as a National Poetry Month program in 2006, delivering daily poems from newly-published poetry titles.

 

Due to popular demand, Poem-A-Day became a year-round program in 2010, featuring original, never-before-published poems by contemporary poets on weekdays, and classic poems on weekends.

 

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