 That would mean just the opposite of all that he was praying ! He taught me the holy-talk of Vesper and of Matin, He heard me my Greek and he heard me my Latin, He blessed me and crossed me to keep my soul from evil, And we watched him out of sight, and...  A Few Figs from Thistles: Poems and Sonnets - Page 10by Edna St. Vincent Millay - 1922 - 39 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1923 - 982 pages
...out of sight, and we conjured up the devil! Oh, the things I have n't seen and the things I have n't known, What with hedges and ditches till after I was...her for a dam, What should I be but just what I am?" Speaking in this manner, Greenwich Village seems a long way from the village of Concord, heart of the... | |
 | Carl Van Doren - Literary Criticism - 1924 - 262 pages
...she tells the story of the singing woman "Whose mother was a leprechaun, whose father was a friar." "In through the bushes, on any foggy day, My Da would...her for a dam, What should I be but just what I am?" Speaking in this manner, Greenwich Village seems a long way from the village of Concord, heart of the... | |
 | Clement Wood - Poets, American - 1925 - 418 pages
...crossed me to keep my soul from evil, And we watched him out of sight, and we conjured up the devil 1 Oh, the things I haven't seen and the things I haven't...her for a dam, What should I be but just what I am? Gorgeous fooling . . . and underneath it, a whole world that isn't. Her first line defines her failing... | |
 | Clement Wood - Poets, American - 1925 - 430 pages
...sight, and we conjured up the devil! Oh, the things I haven't seen and the things I haven't known, \Vhat with hedges and ditches till after I was grown, And...her for a dam, What should I be but just what I am? Gorgeous fooling . . . and underneath it, a whole world that isn't. Her first line defines her failing... | |
 | Edna St. Vincent Millay - American poetry - 1927 - 168 pages
...watched him out of sight, and we conjured up the devil ! . Oh, the things I haven't seen and the things 1 haven't known, What with hedges and ditches till after I was grown, 56 father, With a " Which would you better ? " and a " Which would you rather ? " With him for a sire... | |
 | Edna St. Vincent Millay - Poetry - 1998 - 244 pages
...heard me my Greek and he heard me my Latin, He blessed me and crossed me to keep my soul from evil, 30 And we watched him out of sight, and we conjured up...would you better?" and a "Which would you rather?" 35 With him for a sire and her for a dam, What should I be but just what I am? SHE IS OVERHEARD SINGING... | |
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