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MEMORIAL TO D.C.: 2. PRAYER TO PERSEPHONE by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Poet Analysis

First Line: BE TO HER, PERSEPHONE
Last Line: "IT IS NOT SO DREADFUL HERE."
Subject(s): DEATH; FRIENDSHIP; PERSEPHONE; VASSAR COLLEGE; DEAD, THE; PROSERPINE; PROSERPINA;

BE to her, Persephone,
All the things I might not be;
Take her head upon your knee.
She that was so proud and wild,
Flippant, arrogant and free,
She that had no need of me,
Is a little lonely child
Lost in Hell, -- Persephone,
Take her head upon your knee;
Say to her, "My dear, my dear,
It is not so dreadful here."





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