Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ASSAULT, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY



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First Line: I had forgotten how the frogs must sound
Last Line: From one house to another!
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Frogs


I

I HAD forgotten how the frogs must sound
After a year of silence, else I think
I should not so have ventured forth alone
At dusk upon this unfrequented road.

II

I am waylaid by Beauty. Who will walk
Between me and the crying of the frogs?
Oh, savage Beauty, suffer me to pass,
That am a timid woman, on her way
From one house to another!






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