 I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year; And you must welcome from another part Such noble moods as are not mine, my dear. No gracious weight of golden fruits to sell Have I, nor any wise and wintry thing; And I...  Century Monthly Magazine - Page 302edited by - 1923Full view - About this book
 | American poetry - 1922 - 236 pages
...be lost, But, cast in bronze upon his very urn, Make known him Master, and for what good reason. III I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the...well To carry still the high sweet breast of spring. Wherefore I say: O love, as summer goes, I must be gone, steal forth with silent drums, That you may... | |
 | American poetry - 1922 - 224 pages
...be lost, But, cast in bronze upon his very urn, Make known him Master, and for what good reason. III I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the...well To carry still the high sweet breast of spring. Wherefore I say: O love, as summer goes, I must be gone, steal forth with silent drums, That you may... | |
 | EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY - 1923 - 118 pages
...Well I know I What is this beauty men are babbling of; \I wonder only why they prize it so. x 55 V IV I KNOW I am but summer to your heart, And not the...well To carry still the high sweet breast of Spring. Wherefore I say: O love, as summer goes, I must be gone, steal forth with silent drums, That you may... | |
 | American poetry - 1923 - 560 pages
..."poetica Americanus, " Kreymborg and Millay, the latter with eight sonnets, one having these sweet lines: "I know I am but summer to your heart. And not the...wise and wintry thing; And I have loved you all too well To carry still the high sweet breast of spring." The fifth sonnet is also wonderously beautiful.... | |
 | Carl Van Doren - Literary Criticism - 1924 - 262 pages
...she has forgotten him; but so may a woman show wisdom by admitting the variability and transcience of love, as in this crystal sonnet: "I know I am but...well To carry still the high sweet breast of spring. Wherefore I say: O love, as summer goes, I must be gone, steal forth with silent drums, That you may... | |
 | Edna St. Vincent Millay - American poetry - 1924 - 122 pages
...letters." Well I know What is this beauty men are babbling of ; I wonder only why they prize it so. 61 I KNOW I am but summer to your heart, And not the...well To carry still the high sweet breast of Spring. Wherefore I say : " O love, as summer goes, I must be gone, steal forth with silent drums, That you... | |
 | Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle - Poetry - 1925 - 490 pages
...wind whereon its petals shall be laid. And again, in Sonnet IV, rich and varied is her vocabulary : I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the...well To carry still the high sweet breast of Spring. Wherefore I say : O love, as summer goes, I must be gone, steal forth with silent drums, That you may... | |
 | Carl Van Doren, Mark Van Doren - American literature - 1925 - 432 pages
...Harp-Weaver and Other Poems" (1923) Miss Millay thus expresses a sense of love's variety and variability: I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the...well To carry still the high sweet breast of spring. Wherefore I say : O love, as summer goes, I must be gone, steal forth with silent drums, That you may... | |
 | Carl van Doren - American literature - 1925 - 372 pages
...love sonnets in the language, Miss Millay thus expresses a sense of love's variety and variability : I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four summers of the year; And you must welcome from another part Such noble moods as are not mine, my dear.... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...HOAGLAND [b. 1932). US novelist, essayist. Heart's Desire, "The Lapping, Itchy Edge of Love" (1988). 6 I know I am but summer to your heart. And not the full four seasons of the year. EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950). US poet. I know I ¿m but summer to your heart. 7 One does not... | |
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