Monday, January 13, 2003

Sonnets 01: We Talk Of Taxes, And I Call You Friend Comments

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We talk of taxes, and I call you friend;
Well, such you are,—but well enough we know
How thick about us root, how rankly grow
Those subtle weeds no man has need to tend,
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Colleen Courtney 17 May 2014

An interesting poem by the poet.

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Meleia Von Walsung 28 May 2010

I could complete my life hearing and reading only St Vincent Millay! Bittersweet resignation seems to be a leit motif in many of her works, and the pictures she paints with her choice of words are always, to me, brooding, somber, sad in a universal sense.

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Rockland / Maine / United States
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