Poem: “Humoresque” Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Humoresque

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“Heaven bless the babe!” they said;“
What queer books she must have read!”
(Love, by whom I was beguiled,
Grant I may not bear a child.)

“Little does she guess to-day
What the world may be,” they say.
(Snow, drift deep and cover
Till the spring my murdered lover.)

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American Literature – American Poetry – Edna St. Vincent Millay – Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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