Midnight Oil
Edna St. Vincent Millay * Track #11 On A Few Figs from Thistles
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Album A Few Figs from Thistles
- #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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Midnight Oil by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Edna St. Vincent MillayMidnight Oil Annotated
Cut if you will, with Sleep's dull knife,
  Each day to half its length, my friend,—
The years that Time takes off my life,
  He'll take from off the other end!