‘Poetry’ Archive

An Amazing Millay Sonnet 03/29/2011 1 Comment

This sonnet by Edna St Vincent Millay has, for some reason, been sitting on my desk for a year or so, and I just found it.  Keep in mind that it was written in 1939, thirty years before men actually landed on the moon, and the sonnet, among other things, predicts that event.  But in many [...]