We were very tired, we were very merry—
We had gone back and forth all night on 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 a 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 pears,
And we gave her all our money but our subway fares.
“Recuerdo”
by
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Throughout much of her career, Pulitzer Prize-winner Edna St. Vincent Millay was
one of the most successful and respected poets in America.
She is noted for both her dramatic works, including Aria da capo, The Lamp and the Bell,
and the libretto composed for an opera, The King’s Henchman, and for such
lyric verses as “Renascence” and the poems found in the collections
"A Few Figs From Thistles, Second April, and The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver",
winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1923.
Like her contemporary Robert Frost, Millay was one of the most skillful writers of
sonnets in the twentieth century, and also like Frost, she was able to combine
modernist attitudes with traditional forms creating a unique American poetry.
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