The Buck in the Snow is a poem written by Edna St. Vincent Millay and was first published in 1928 as part of a poetry collection of the same name.

In the poem, the Speaker describes seeing a buck and a doe, happy and alive, but later sees that the...

I, Being born a Woman and Distressed is a sonnet written by playwright and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay. The poem was first published in her anthology collection The Harp-Weaver, and Other Poems (1923).

Despite being a...

Pity Me Not (Sonnet 29) is a poem written by Edna St. Vincent Millay and was first published in 1923.

The poem revolves around the concept of love, as the Speaker tries to come to terms with the idea that over time, love tends to fade. The Speaker...

Edna St. Vincent Millay is the very definition of the poet as rebel. At least as much Shelley and maybe even more than Keats, Millay fully inhabits the role of the writer in society as the caretaker of its continued progression forward. She was a...