Daphne
Edna St. Vincent Millay * Track #9 On A Few Figs from Thistles
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- #1First Fig (”My candle burns at both ends...”)
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- #2Second Fig
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- #3Macdougal Street
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- #4The Singing-Woman from the Wood’s Edge
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- #5The Prisoner
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- #6The Unexplorer
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- #7Grown-up
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- #8The Penitent
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- #9Daphne
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- #10Portrait by a Neighbor
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- #11Midnight Oil
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- #12The Merry Maid
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- #13To Kathleen
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- #14If he should lie a-dying
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- #15The Philosopher
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- #16Four Sonnets
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- #17I shall forget you presently, my dear (Sonnet XI)
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- #18I think I should have loved you presently (Sonnet IX)
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- #19Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow!
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- #20I do but ask that you be always fair
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Daphne by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Millay, known for her melodious upbeat rhyming poetry, wrote Daphne in three perfect rhyming tercets (AAA-BBB-CCC).
Daphne, in Greek Mythology, is a water nymph (a naiad) who attracted the attention of Apollo. Apollo perused Daphne before she begged her father, Ladon, to help. Ladon then turned his...
Daphne Annotated
Why do you follow me?—
Any moment I can be
Nothing but a laurel-tree.
Any moment of the chase
I can leave you in my place
A pink bough for your embrace.
Yet if over hill and hollow
Still it is your will to follow,
I am off;—to heel, Apollo!