SONNET
by: Edna St. Vincent Millay
(1892-1950)
- BEING born
a woman and distressed
- By all the needs and notions of my kind,
- Am urged by your propinquity to find
- Your person fair, and feel a certain zest
- To bear your body's weight upon my breast,--
- So subtly is the fume of life designed,
- To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind
- And leave me once again undone, possessed.
- Think not for this, however,--the poor treason
- Of my stout blood against your staggering brain--
- I shall remember you with love, or season
- My scorn with pity; let me make it plain:
- I find this frenzy insufficient reason
- For conversation when we meet again.
"Sonnet" is reprinted
from Poetica Erotica. Ed. T.R. Smith. New York: Crown
Publishers, 1921. |
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