A Few Figs from Thistles (Frank Shay, 1922)

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A FEW FIGS FROM THISTLES

By
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Renascence, and Other Poems
A Few Figs from Thistles, Poems
Second April, Poems
Aria da Capo, a Play
Two Slatterns and a King, a Play
The Lamp and the Bell, a Play
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver, a Poem

A Few Figs From Thistles

Poems and Sonnets

By

Edna St. Vincent Millay

New and
Enlarged Edition

Frank Shay
Publisher
New York

Steward Kidd
Distributor
Cincinnati

Copyright, 1922 by
Frank Shay
All Rights Reserved

Printed in the United States of America
The Caxton Press

A FEW FIGS FROM THISTLES

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	09
Second Fig	09
Recuerdo	10
Thursday	12
To the Not Impossible Him	13
MacDougal Street	14
The Singing-Woman from the Wood’s Edge	16
She is Overheard Singing	19
The Prisoner	22
The Unexplorer	23
Grown-Up	24
The Penitent	25
Daphne	27
Portrait by a Neighbor	28
Midnight Oil	30
The Merry Maid	31
To Kathleen	32
To S. M.	33
The Philosopher	34
Sonnet—Love, Though for This	36
Sonnet—I Think I Should Have Loved You	37
Sonnet—Oh, Think Not I am Faithful	38
Sonnet—I Shall Forget You Presently	39

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