| American wit and humor - 1927 - 902 pages
...Annapolis dance, and yet great gobs shook her frame. — Stanford Chaparral Fooled I burn my candle at both ends; It will not last the night, But ah, my friends, and ho. my foes; I have electric light! . . . — Carolina Buccaneer DEAR SANTA CLAUS: Honestly,... | |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay - Poetry - 1922 - 56 pages
...Think Not I am Faithful 3 1 SONNET 1 Shall Forget You Presently $2. JL FEW FIGS FROM THISTLES FIRST FIG MY CANDLE burns at both ends; It will not last the...foes, and oh, my friends — It gives a lovely light ! SECOND FIG SAFE upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand : Come and see my shining palace built... | |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay - 1922 - 48 pages
...SONNET — Oh, Think Not I am Faithful 38 SONNET— I Shall Forget You Presently 39 FIRST FIG TUTY candle burns at both ends ; It will not last the night;...foes, and oh, my friends — It gives a lovely light! SECOND FIG QAFE upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon... | |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay - Poetry - 1922 - 58 pages
...Oh, Think Not I am Faithful 3 1 SONNET — I Shall Forget You Presently 3 Z JL FEW FIGS FROM THISTLES MY CANDLE burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friend It gives a lovely light ! SECOND FIG SAFE upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand : Come and... | |
| Richardson Little Wright - Country life - 1922 - 240 pages
...written the almost perfect four hues on this pleasant time THE FIRST FIG My candle burns at both ends, 'T will not last the night. But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends. It gives a lovely light. Note 10. A visit to M. Georges Truffaut's establishment at Versailles is worth the time of every American... | |
| Louis Untermeyer - Literary Criticism - 1923 - 466 pages
...these light verses the quality of a facile cynicism, an ignoble adroitness. This is the "first fig" : My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the...foes, and oh, my friends— It gives a lovely light ! Only the dilettanti of emotion could relish, after the radiance of her first poems, the sophisticated... | |
| 1923 - 380 pages
...earliest songs to her latest sonnets — one would venture to say that life has, at times, chastened her. "My candle burns at both ends, It will not last the...foes, and oh, my friends — It gives a lovely light 1" What a lovely ring of lightness ! One can see through it a delightfully irresponsible doubter, and... | |
| Floyd Dell - Abortion - 1923 - 472 pages
...though the poem had suddenly been translated out of a foreign language into one she could understand. "My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the...foes, and oh, my friends, It gives a lovely light!" Paul's question repeated, interrupted her thoughts of Pat, of whose life this poem seemed to have revealed... | |
| Literature - 1923 - 1028 pages
...she became the poet laureate of the younger generation. The first poem in the volume is as follows: My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the...foes, and oh, my friends — It gives a lovely light! The second poem utters the same gospel of impulse: m • *••••• ••-;•-• Sketched... | |
| John Chipman Farrar - American literature - 1924 - 368 pages
...she became the poet laureate of the younger generation. The first poem in the volume is as follows : My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the...foes, and oh, my friends — It gives a lovely light ! The second poem utters the same gospel of impulse : Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand... | |
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