Ebb
Edna St. Vincent Millay * Track #17 On Second April and Other Poems
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- #12The Poet And His Book
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- #14Inland
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- #15To A Poet That Died Young
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- #16Wraith
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- #17Ebb
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- #18Elaine
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- #19Burial
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- #21The Little Hill
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- #22Doubt No More That Oberon
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- #24Exiled
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- #25The Death Of Autumn
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- #26Ode To Silence
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- #27Epitaph
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- #28Prayer To Persephone
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- #29Chorus
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- #30Elegy
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- #32Second April: Sonnets
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- #33When I too long have looked upon your face
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“Ebb” is defined as “the movement of tide out to sea” or in verb form as, “to move/recede away from the land.” But the verb form also has a double meaning; it also means “to gradually lessen or reduce in emotional quality.”
For Millay to use this as the title displays the emotion expressed from it-h...
Ebb Annotated
I know what my heart is like
Since your love died:
It is like a hollow ledge
Holding a little pool
Left there by the tide,
A little tepid pool,
Drying inward from the edge.