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I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt


Edna O'Brien

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Yet ther...
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And not the full four seasons of the year;
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I have forgotten, and what arms have lain EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY And he whose soul is flat -- the sky
Will cave in on him by and by.
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Take her head upon your knee;
Say to her, "My dear, my dear,
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EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
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In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
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Today is in the past.

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Beauty is not enough.
You can no longer qui...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Song of a Second April

APRIL this year, not otherwise
Than April of a year ag...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Moon, that against the lintel of the west
Your forehead lean until the gate be swung,
Long...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY After all, my erstwhile dear,
My no longer cherished,
Need we say it was not love,
Ju...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Ebb

I know what my heart is like
Since your love died:
It is like a holl...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or ...
EDNA O'BRIEN Be to her, Persephone,
All the things I might not be;
Take her head upon your knee.
S...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY For men that are afraid to die
Must warm their hands before a lie;
The fire that's built o...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Love is Not All

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a r...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Dirge Without Music

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY