Love Is Not All’, also referred to as Sonnet XXX, is a traditional Shakespearean sonnet with fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. It consists of three quatrains and a couplet at the end. The poem was first
Hereis a selection of 12 poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay from some of her earlier collections. Vincent, as her family and friends called her, was introduced by her mother to great works of literature fromBoissevainand Millay had an open relationship and Millay lived openly as a bisexual woman. “Prayer to Persephone” is one in a series of poems entitled In Memorial to D.C. and written for a friend who had recently passed away. The poem alludes to Persephone’s abduction, a myth often referred to as “The Rape of Persephone.”.
Mindfulof you the sodden earth in spring, And all the flowers that in the springtime grow, And dusty roads, and thistles, and the slow. Rising of the round moon, all throats that sing. The summer through, and each departing wing, And all the nests that the bared branches show, And all winds that in any weather blow, Edna St. Vincent Millay. 1917. . 120 277 174 71 114 266 404 276