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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: A Few Figs from Thistles + +Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay + +Posting Date: July 26, 2009 [EBook #4399] +Release Date: August, 2003 +First Posted: January 26, 2002 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A FEW FIGS FROM THISTLES *** + + + + +Produced by David Starner + + + + + + + + + +A Few Figs from Thistles + +Poems and Sonnets + +by + +Edna St. Vincent Millay + + + + +Thanks are due to the editors of Ainslie's, The Dial, Pearson's +Poetry, Reedy's Mirror, and Vanity Fair, for their kind permission +to republish various of these poems. + +This edition of "A Few Figs from Thistles" contains several poems +not included in earlier editions. + + + + First Fig + + My candle burns at both ends; + It will not last the night; + But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-- + It gives a lovely light! + + + + Second Fig + + Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: + Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand! + + + + Recuerdo + + We were very tired, we were very merry-- + We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. + It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable-- + But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table, + We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon; + And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon. + + We were very tired, we were very merry-- + We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry; + And you ate an apple, and I ate a pear, + From a dozen of each we had bought somewhere; + And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold, + And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold. + + We were very tired, we were very merry, + We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. + We hailed, "Good morrow, mother!" to a shawl-covered head, + And bought a morning paper, which neither of us read; + And she wept, "God bless you!" for the apples and pears, + And we gave her all our money but our subway fares. + + + + Thursday + + And if I loved you Wednesday, + Well, what is that to you? + I do not love you Thursday-- + So much is true. + + And why you come complaining + Is more than I can see. + I loved you Wednesday,--yes--but what + Is that to me? + + + + To the Not Impossible Him + + How shall I know, unless I go + To Cairo and Cathay, + Whether or not this blessed spot + Is blest in every way? + + Now it may be, the flower for me + Is this beneath my nose; + How shall I tell, unless I smell + The Carthaginian rose? + + The fabric of my faithful love + No power shall dim or ravel + Whilst I stay here,--but oh, my dear, + If I should ever travel! + + + + Macdougal Street + + As I went walking up and down to take the evening air, + (Sweet to meet upon the street, why must I be so shy?) + I saw him lay his hand upon her torn black hair; + ("Little dirty Latin child, let the lady by!") + + The women squatting on the stoops were slovenly and fat, + (Lay me out in organdie, lay me out in lawn!) + And everywhere I stepped there was a baby or a cat; + (Lord God in Heaven, will it never be dawn?) + + The fruit-carts and clam-carts were ribald as a fair, + (Pink nets and wet shells trodden under heel) + She had haggled from the fruit-man of his rotting ware; + (I shall never get to sleep, the way I feel!) + + He walked like a king through the filth and the clutter, + (Sweet to meet upon the street, why did you glance me by?) + But he caught the quaint Italian quip she flung him from the gutter; + (What can there be to cry about that I should lie and cry?) + + He laid his darling hand upon her little black head, + (I wish I were a ragged child with ear-rings in my ears!) + And he said she was a baggage to have said what she had said; + (Truly I shall be ill unless I stop these tears!) + + + + The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge + + What should I be but a prophet and a liar, + Whose mother was a leprechaun, whose father was a friar? + Teethed on a crucifix and cradled under water, + What should I be but the fiend's god-daughter? + + And who should be my playmates but the adder and the frog, + That was got beneath a furze-bush and born in a bog? + And what should be my singing, that was christened at an altar, + But Aves and Credos and Psalms out of the Psalter? + + You will see such webs on the wet grass, maybe, + As a pixie-mother weaves for her baby, + You will find such flame at the wave's weedy ebb + As flashes in the meshes of a mer-mother's web, + + But there comes to birth no common spawn + From the love of a priest for a leprechaun, + And you never have seen and you never will see + Such things as the things that swaddled me! + + After all's said and after all's done, + What should I be but a harlot and a nun? + + In through the bushes, on any foggy day, + My Da would come a-swishing of the drops away, + With a prayer for my death and a groan for my birth, + A-mumbling of his beads for all that he was worth. + + And there'd sit my Ma, with her knees beneath her chin, + A-looking in his face and a-drinking of it in, + And a-marking in the moss some funny little saying + That would mean just the opposite of all that he was praying! + + He taught me the holy-talk of Vesper and of Matin, + He heard me my Greek and he heard me my Latin, + He blessed me and crossed me to keep my soul from evil, + And we watched him out of sight, and we conjured up the devil! + + Oh, the things I haven't seen and the things I haven't known. + What with hedges and ditches till after I was grown, + And yanked both ways by my mother and my father, + With a "Which would you better?" and a "Which would you rather?" + + With him for a sire and her for a dam, + What should I be but just what I am? + + + + She Is Overheard Singing + + Oh, Prue she has a patient man, + And Joan a gentle lover, + And Agatha's Arth' is a hug-the-hearth,-- + But my true love's a rover! + + Mig, her man's as good as cheese + And honest as a briar, + Sue tells her love what he's thinking of,-- + But my dear lad's a liar! + + Oh, Sue and Prue and Agatha + Are thick with Mig and Joan! + They bite their threads and shake their heads + And gnaw my name like a bone; + + And Prue says, "Mine's a patient man, + As never snaps me up," + And Agatha, "Arth' is a hug-the-hearth, + Could live content in a cup;" + + Sue's man's mind is like good jell-- + All one colour, and clear-- + And Mig's no call to think at all + What's to come next year, + + While Joan makes boast of a gentle lad, + That's troubled with that and this;-- + But they all would give the life they live + For a look from the man I kiss! + + Cold he slants his eyes about, + And few enough's his choice,-- + Though he'd slip me clean for a nun, or a queen, + Or a beggar with knots in her voice,-- + + And Agatha will turn awake + While her good man sleeps sound, + And Mig and Sue and Joan and Prue + Will hear the clock strike round, + + For Prue she has a patient man, + As asks not when or why, + And Mig and Sue have naught to do + But peep who's passing by, + + Joan is paired with a putterer + That bastes and tastes and salts, + And Agatha's Arth' is a hug-the-hearth,-- + But my true love is false! + + + + The Prisoner + + All right, + Go ahead! + What's in a name? + I guess I'll be locked into + As much as I'm locked out of! + + + + The Unexplorer + + There was a road ran past our house + Too lovely to explore. + I asked my mother once--she said + That if you followed where it led + It brought you to the milk-man's door. + (That's why I have not traveled more.) + + + + Grown-up + + Was it for this I uttered prayers, + And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, + That now, domestic as a plate, + I should retire at half-past eight? + + + + The Penitent + + I had a little Sorrow, + Born of a little Sin, + I found a room all damp with gloom + And shut us all within; + And, "Little Sorrow, weep," said I, + "And, Little Sin, pray God to die, + And I upon the floor will lie + And think how bad I've been!" + + Alas for pious planning-- + It mattered not a whit! + As far as gloom went in that room, + The lamp might have been lit! + My little Sorrow would not weep, + My little Sin would go to sleep-- + To save my soul I could not keep + My graceless mind on it! + + So up I got in anger, + And took a book I had, + And put a ribbon on my hair + To please a passing lad, + And, "One thing there's no getting by-- + I've been a wicked girl," said I; + "But if I can't be sorry, why, + I might as well be glad!" + + + + Daphne + + 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! + + + + Portrait by a Neighbor + + Before she has her floor swept + Or her dishes done, + Any day you'll find her + A-sunning in the sun! + + It's long after midnight + Her key's in the lock, + And you never see her chimney smoke + Till past ten o'clock! + + She digs in her garden + With a shovel and a spoon, + She weeds her lazy lettuce + By the light of the moon, + + She walks up the walk + Like a woman in a dream, + She forgets she borrowed butter + And pays you back cream! + + Her lawn looks like a meadow, + And if she mows the place + She leaves the clover standing + And the Queen Anne's lace! + + + + Midnight Oil + + 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! + + + + The Merry Maid + + 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! + + + + To Kathleen + + Still must the poet as of old, + In barren attic bleak and cold, + Starve, freeze, and fashion verses to + Such things as flowers and song and you; + + Still as of old his being give + In Beauty's name, while she may live, + Beauty that may not die as long + As there are flowers and you and song. + + + + To S. M. + + If he should lie a-dying + + I am not willing you should go + Into the earth, where Helen went; + She is awake by now, I know. + Where Cleopatra's anklets rust + You will not lie with my consent; + And Sappho is a roving dust; + Cressid could love again; Dido, + Rotted in state, is restless still: + You leave me much against my will. + + + + The Philosopher + + And what are you that, wanting you + I should be kept awake + As many nights as there are days + With weeping for your sake? + + And what are you that, missing you, + As many days as crawl + I should be listening to the wind + And looking at the wall? + + I know a man that's a braver man + And twenty men as kind, + And what are you, that you should be + The one man in my mind? + + Yet women's ways are witless ways, + As any sage will tell,-- + And what am I, that I should love + So wisely and so well? + + + + Four Sonnets + + + I + + Love, though for this you riddle me with darts, + And drag me at your chariot till I die,-- + Oh, heavy prince! Oh, panderer of hearts!-- + Yet hear me tell how in their throats they lie + Who shout you mighty: thick about my hair + Day in, day out, your ominous arrows purr + Who still am free, unto no querulous care + A fool, and in no temple worshiper! + I, that have bared me to your quiver's fire, + Lifted my face into its puny rain, + Do wreathe you Impotent to Evoke Desire + As you are Powerless to Elicit Pain! + (Now will the god, for blasphemy so brave, + Punish me, surely, with the shaft I crave!) + + + II + + I think I should have loved you presently, + And given in earnest words I flung in jest; + And lifted honest eyes for you to see, + And caught your hand against my cheek and breast; + And all my pretty follies flung aside + That won you to me, and beneath your gaze, + Naked of reticence and shorn of pride, + Spread like a chart my little wicked ways. + I, that had been to you, had you remained, + But one more waking from a recurrent dream, + Cherish no less the certain stakes I gained, + And walk your memory's halls, austere, supreme, + A ghost in marble of a girl you knew + Who would have loved you in a day or two. + + + III + + Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow! + Faithless am I save to love's self alone. + Were you not lovely I would leave you now; + After the feet of beauty fly my own. + Were you not still my hunger's rarest food, + And water ever to my wildest thirst, + I would desert you--think not but I would!-- + And seek another as I sought you first. + But you are mobile as the veering air, + And all your charms more changeful than the tide, + Wherefore to be inconstant is no care: + I have but to continue at your side. + So wanton, light and false, my love, are you, + I am most faithless when I most am true. + + + IV + + I shall forget you presently, my dear, + So make the most of this, your little day, + Your little month, your little half a year, + Ere I forget, or die, or move away, + And we are done forever; by and by + I shall forget you, as I said, but now, + If you entreat me with your loveliest lie + I will protest you with my favorite vow. + I would indeed that love were longer-lived, + And oaths were not so brittle as they are, + But so it is, and nature has contrived + To struggle on without a break thus far,-- + Whether or not we find what we are seeking + Is idle, biologically speaking. + + + + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Few Figs from Thistles, by +Edna St. Vincent Millay + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A FEW FIGS FROM THISTLES *** + +***** This file should be named 4399.txt or 4399.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/4/3/9/4399/ + +Produced by David Starner + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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