Monday, January 13, 2003

Lament Comments

Rating: ★3.2

Listen, children:
Your father is dead.
From his old coats
I'll make you little jackets;
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Colleen Courtney 17 May 2014

I love this piece! It says so much. there is a time to grieve but then life goes on. It's the way of the world.

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Andrew Quintana 18 October 2009

I love the irony in the title. It's a lament but it's not really if life must go on like it says in the poem.

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Rockland / Maine / United States
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Rockland / Maine / United States
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