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TO KATHLEEN by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Poet Analysis

First Line: STILL MUST THE POET AS OF OLD
Last Line: AS THERE ARE FLOWERS AND YOU AND SONG.
Subject(s): SISTERS;
Still must the poet as of old,
In barren attic bleak and cold,
Starve, freeze, and fashion verses to
Such things as flowers and song and you;

Still as of his old being give
In Beauty's name, while she may live,
Beauty that may not die as long
As there are flowers and you and song.



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