The Merry Maid
Edna St. Vincent Millay * Track #12 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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The Merry Maid by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Edna St. Vincent MillayThe Merry Maid Annotated
Oh, I am grown so free from care
  Since my heart broke!
I set my throat against the air,
  I laugh at simple folk!
There's little kind and little fair
  Is worth its weight in smoke
To me, that's grown so free from care
  Since my heart broke!
Lass, if to sleep you would repair
  As peaceful as you woke,
Best not besiege your lover there
  For just the words he spoke
To me, that's grown so free from care
  Since my heart broke!