Recuerdo

Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)



We were very tired, we were very merry --
   We had gone back and forth all night upon the ferry.
   It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable --
   But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table,
   We lay on the hill-top underneath the moon;
   And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon.  
   We were very tired, we were very merry --
   We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry;
   And you ate an apple, and I ate a pear,
  From a dozen of each we had bought somewhere;
  And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold,
  And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold.  

  We were very tired, we were very merry,
  We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
  We hailed, "Good morrow, mother!" to a shawl-covered head,
  And bought a morning paper, which neither of us read;
  And she wept, "God bless you!" for the apples and the pears,
  And we gave her all our money but our subway fares.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 18, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AabbccAAddee AAffgg
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 941
Words 183
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 12, 6

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism more…

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