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﻿~Edna St. Vincent Millay~

**Facts about Edna St. Vincent Millay: ** **﻿** ==== ====
 * She was born in February 22, 1892[[image:220px-Millay_magn.jpg width="275" height="340" align="right" caption="Edna St. Vincent Millay at Vassar College"]]
 * By 1912 she was already famous (only at 18.)
 * 5 years later her first book appeared (1917)
 * Died October 19, 1950.
 * in 1952 it was, "unfashionable" to admire Edna St. Vincent Millays work.
 * Edna once blamed her fall on her political activism.
 * Alcohol and drug addiction in the last 15 years of her life most likely drained her of a lot of energy.
 * She was brought down and discouraged by some just because she was a woman.
 * Died at age 58.
 * Romance was the theme of her poems.
 * Graduated from Vassar College in 1917.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Born in Rockland, Maine.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Her original name was Vincent.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Her brother was a sailor.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Her poem Renasrence, got her a scholarship to college.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">She wrote and directed her own play called, The Princess Marries the Page.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Edna married Eugen Boissevain.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">In 1921 Edna wrote an antiwar play which hurt her reputation.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">In 1927 Edna was arrested for loitering.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">She was the third woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Edna was known for her many love affairs.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list .5in;">She happened to be openly bisexual at the time she lived in New York.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">In 1944 Edna had a mental break-down so she couldn't write for two years.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">She died at age 58 when she fell down the staircase in her own house.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Her husband past away from having a stoke. He had Lung Cancer, surgery. then a stroke.
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**<span style="color: #4010c6; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Our Poem:﻿ ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">No Rose in a Garden Ever Grew- ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">No rose that in a garden ever grew, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">In Homer's or in Omar's or in mine,  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Though buried under centuries of fine dead dust of roses,  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">shut from sun and dew Forever,  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">and forever lost from view,  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">But must again in fragrance rich as wine,  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The grey aisles of the air incarnadine  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">When the old summers surge into a new. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Thus when I swear, "I love with all my heart," <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">'Tis with the heart of Lilith that I swear,  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">'Tis with the love of Lesbia and Lucrece;  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">And thus as well my love must lose some part  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Of what it is, had Helen been less fair,  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Or perished young, or stayed at home in Greece  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">~Edna St. ﻿Vincent Millay


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**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Pictures on our page- ﻿ ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">(Edna St. Vincent Millay at Vassar College) Genthe, Arnold. "Edna St. Vincent Millay." //Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia//. 1923. Web. 30 Jan. 2011.<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[]. ====<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">(Edna as a baby) "Wednesday Women- Edna St Vincent Millay." Bohemian Pages. Web. 01 Feb. 2011. <http://bohemianpages.blogspot.com/2010/07/vincent.html>. ====

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 32px;">McClatchy, J. D., ed. Edna St. Vincent Millay Selected Poems. Print. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 32px;">"Edna St. Vincent Millay." //Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia//. Web. 07 Feb. 2011. []. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 32px;">St. Vincent Millay, Edna. "Alms by Edna St. Vincent Millay." //PoemHunter.Com - Thousands of Poems and Poets.. Poetry Search Engine//. Web. 07 Feb. 2011. <http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/alms/>.
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