1. Home »
  2. American Poets »
  3. Edna St. Vincent Millay

To A Young Poet

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird.
Bird and wing together
Go down, one feather.
No thing that ever flew,
Not the lark, not you,
Can die as others do.




Quotes of the Day

vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return

• George Eliot



Poems of the Day
  • Ambrose Bierce
    The Confederate Flags
    by Ambrose Bierce
    Tut-tut! give back the flags - how can you care, You veterans and heroes? Why should you at a kind intention swear Like twenty Neros? Suppose the act was not so overwise - Suppose it was illegal;