{"id":759,"date":"2008-08-16T16:00:38","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T23:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=759"},"modified":"2008-08-16T16:00:38","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T23:00:38","slug":"restoring-edna-st-vincent-millays-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=759","title":{"rendered":"Restoring Edna St. Vincent Millay's garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

wedna_st_vincent_millay.jpg<\/a>
\nEdna St. Vincent Millay, photographed by Carl Van (via Wikipedia)<\/em><\/p>\n

steepletop.jpg<\/a>
\nSteepletop today, Washington Post<\/em><\/p>\n

The Washington Post has a nice story<\/a> today on my favorite poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay. I think there are always those who want to restore her standing as a poet, but this story also talks about the restoration of her home in the last years of her life — Steepletop at Austerlitz, New York — and the restoration of her garden. The story also talks about how Millay’s love of, and knowledge of, nature greatly informed her poetry. Wouldn’t I love to have a cutting of something from Millay’s garden!<\/p>\n

I have long believed that Millay wrote the best sonnets since Shakespeare.<\/p>\n

Sonnet<\/p>\n

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
\nNor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
\nNor yet a floating spar to men that sink
\nAnd rise and sink and rise and sink again;
\nLove can not fill
\nthe thickened lung with breath,
\nNor clean the blood,
\nnor set the fractured bone;
\nYet many a man
\nis making friends with death
\nEven as I speak, for lack of love alone.
\nIt well may be that in a difficult hour,
\nPinned down by pain and moaning for release,
\nOr nagged by want past resolution’s power,
\nI might be driven to sell your love for peace,
\nOr trade the memory of this night for food.
\nIt well may be. I do not think I would.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

— Edna St. Vincent Millay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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