Renascence and other poems / Edna St. Vincent Millay [electronic text]

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Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950

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New York; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers

1917

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"Renascence and other poems / Edna St. Vincent Millay [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAC5688.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 24, 2025.

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 If I should learn, in some quite casual way, That you were gone, not to return again— Read from the back-page of a paper, say, Held by a neighbor in a subway train, How at the corner of this avenue And such a street (so are the papers filled) A hurrying man—who happened to be you— At noon to-day had happened to be killed, I should not cry aloud—I could not cry Aloud, or wring my hands in such a place— I should but watch the station lights rush by With a more careful interest on my face, Or raise my eyes and read with greater care Where to store furs and how to treat the hair