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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WEEDS, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: White with daisies and red with sorrel
Last Line: The blood too bright, the brow accurst.
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Weeds
First Line: White with daisies and red with sorrel
Last Line: The blood too bright, the brow accurst.
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Weeds
White with daisies and red with sorrel
And empty, empty under the sky! --
Life is a quest and love a quarrel --
Here is a place for me to lie.
Daisies spring from damnèd seeds,
And this red fire that here I see
Is a worthless crop of crimson weeds,
Cursed by farmers thriftily.
But here, unhated for an hour,
The sorrel runs in ragged flame,
The daisy stands, a bastard flower,
Like flowers that bear an honest name.
And here a while, where no wind brings
The baying of a pack athirst,
May sleep the sleep of blessèd things,
The blood too bright, the brow accurst.
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