Poems


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This volume of poems was published in 1923, the year Edna St. Vincent Millay became the third woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. It was perhaps the lead poem in this volume, Renascence, published in 1918 in a literary contest that first won her widespread recognition. Her works also included drama and prose, and in 1943 became the second woman to win the Robert Frost Prize for poetry. This volume is divided into three sections of lyric poems, including sonnets, a poetic form of which she was a master. - Summary by Larry Wilson (1 hr 55 min)

Chapters

Renascence 9:49 Read by Larry Wilson
God’s World 1:36 Read by Stefan Von Blon
Afternoon on a Hill 1:03 Read by Stefan Von Blon
Journey 2:10 Read by Josh Kibbey
Sorrow 1:08 Read by Stefan Von Blon
Tavern 1:16 Read by Stefan Von Blon
Ashes of Life 1:12 Read by Larry Wilson
The Little Ghost 1:41 Read by Nemo
Kin to Sorrow 0:49 Read by Michael MacTaggert
Three Songs of Shattering 1:49 Read by Farrah
The Shroud 1:07 Read by Farrah
The Dream 1:14 Read by Nemo
Indifference 0:52 Read by Josh Kibbey
Witch-wife 1:12 Read by Stefan Von Blon
Blight 1:33 Read by Farrah
When the Year Grows Old 1:19 Read by Farrah
Sonnets I-VI 4:59 Read by Larry Wilson
Section Two, Poems I and II 0:41 Read by Larry Wilson
Recuerdo 1:20 Read by Peter Yearsley
Thursday 0:40 Read by Nemo
To the Not Impossible Him 0:47 Read by Kathleen Moore
The Singing-Woman from the Wood’s Edge 2:15 Read by Kathleen Moore
Humoresque 0:36 Read by Kathleen Moore
She is Overheard Singing 2:02 Read by Kathleen Moore
The Unexplorer 0:32 Read by Josh Kibbey
Grown-up 0:44 Read by Stefan Von Blon
The Penitent 1:10 Read by Larry Wilson
Daphne 0:37 Read by Amy Gramour
Portrait by a Neighbour 0:57 Read by Amy Gramour
The Merry Maid 0:45 Read by Larry Wilson
To S. M. 0:46 Read by Peter Yearsley
The Philosopher 0:58 Read by Peter Yearsley
Four Sonnets 4:15 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Section Three: Spring 1:05 Read by Larry Wilson
City Trees 0:47 Read by Amy Gramour
The Blue-Flag in the Bog 7:00 Read by Josh Kibbey
Eel-Grass 0:40 Read by Foon
Elegy before Death 1:19 Read by Peter Yearsley
The Bean-Stalk 2:39 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Weeds 1:12 Read by Foon
Passer Mortuus Est 1:03 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Pastoral 0:50 Read by Amy Gramour
Assault 0:42 Read by Larry Wilson
Travel 1:06 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Low-Tide 0:57 Read by Nemo
Song of a Second April 1:23 Read by Bruce Kachuk
The Poet and His Book 4:09 Read by Larry Wilson
Alms 1:39 Read by Nemo
Inland 1:09 Read by Nemo
To a Poet that Died Young 1:45 Read by Nemo
Wraith 1:36 Read by Nemo
Ebb 0:31 Read by Larry Wilson
Elaine 1:25 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Burial 0:54 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Mariposa 0:55 Read by Nemo
Doubt no more that Oberon 0:55 Read by Josh Kibbey
Lament 1:14 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Exiled 2:07 Read by Nemo
The Death of Autumn 1:07 Read by Foon
Ode to Silence 9:36 Read by Larry Wilson
Memorial to D. C. 0:41 Read by Bruce Kachuk
Sonnets I-VI 5:42 Read by Eva Davis
Sonnets VII-XII 4:42 Read by Josh Kibbey
Wild Swans 0:51 Read by Larry Wilson