Edna St. Vincent Millay

.I looked in my heart while the wild swans went over ?And what did I see I had not seen before ;Only a question less or a question more

,The railroad track is miles away ,And the day is loud with voices speaking Yet there isn’t a train goes by all day .But I hear its whistle shrieking

,I had a little Sorrow ,Born of a little Sin I found a room all damp with gloom ;And shut us all within

There it was I saw what I shall never forget .And never retrieve Monstrous and beautiful to human eyes, hard to ,believe

;But, sure, the sky is big, I said ;Miles and miles above my head So here upon my back I’ll lie .And look my fill into the sky

—We were very tired, we were very merry .We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry —It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable ,But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table

Ah, could I lay me down in this long grass And close my eyes, and let the quiet wind Blow over me—I am so tired, so tired ,Of passing pleasant places! All my life

;This door you might not open, and you did So enter now, and see for what slight thing ,You are betrayed... Here is no treasure hid No cauldron, no clear crystal mirroring

;Love has gone and left me and the days are all alike !Eat I must, and sleep I will, — and would that night were here !But ah! — to lie awake and hear the slow hours strike !Would that it were day again! — with twilight near

I will be the gladdest thing !Under the sun I will touch a hundred flowers .And not pick one

هي إدنا سانت فنسنت ميلي كانت طوال معظم حياتها المهنية، واحدة من أكثر الشعراء نجاحًا واحترامًا في أمريكا، وحائزت على جائزة بوليتزر، وتشتهر بأعمالها الدرامية

هي قصيدة للشاعرة إدنا فنسنت ميلي، تدور القصيدة حول التأثير الجسدي والروحي للخسارة وكيف يمكن تغيير عالم المرء.   ملخص قصيدة Elegy Before Death   هي قصيدة من خمسة مقاطع تتكون من مجموعات من أربعة أسطر، كل سطر من هذه الأسطر له نفس الطول والقصيدة تحمل باستمرار مخطط قافية (ABCB DEFE) طوال الوقت، نُشرت هذه […]