“Afternoon on a Hill" by Edna St. Vincent Millay

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend April 30, 2017   Afternoon on a Hill   Edna St. Vincent Millay

I will be the gladdest thing     Under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers     And not pick one.   I will look at cliffs and clouds     With quiet eyes, Watch the wind bow down the grass,     And the grass rise.   And when lights begin to show     Up from the town, I will mark which must be mine,     And then start down!            This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   "Afternoon on a Hill" was published in Renascence and Other Poems (Harper & Brothers, 1917).   Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, in 1892. Her collections of poetry include Second April (Harper & Brothers, 1921) and The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver (F. Shay, 1922), which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. She died in 1950.   Photo credit: Carl Van Vechten  Poetry by Millay   Early Poems (Penguin Books, 1998) "My Lantern" by Marianne Moore "In Particular" by Djuna Barnes "The Armadillo" by Elizabeth Bishop Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. If you enjoy Poem-a-Day, please consider making a donation to help make it possible. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038