
Edna St. Vincent Millay · English
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Edna St. Vincent Millay · English
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A Few Figs from Thistles Poems and Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay Thanks are due to the editors of Ainslie's, The Dial, Pearson's Poetry, Reedy's Mirror, and Vanity Fair, for their kind permission to republish various of these poems. This edition of "A Few Figs from Thistles" contains several poems not included in earlier editions. First Fig My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— It gives a

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