Edna St. Vincent Millay, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. She wrote much of her prose and hackwork verse under the pseudonym Nancy Boyd.

“To A Friend Estranged From Me”

By Edna St. Vincent Millay|2024-12-06T15:54:37-06:00December 6th, 2024|Categories: Friendship, Poetry|

Now goes under, and I watch it go under, the sun That will not rise again. Today has seen the setting, in your eyes cold and senseless as the sea, Of friendship better than bread, and of bright charity That lifts a man a little above the beasts that run. That this could be! That [...]