The speaker of another poem by this author of "Recuerdo" advises a former lover to "make the most ofÂ… your little day," because "I shall forget you presently."
Two girls in a short poem by this author repeat the line "We were very tired, we were very merry" while taking the ferry back home after a night out. The speaker of another poem by this author of "Recuerdo" advises a former lover to "make the most ofÂ… your little day," because "I shall forget you presently." This author first gained national fame with a poem whose speaker "sankÂ… Full six feet below the earth" after being crushed by "infinity" while trying to touch the sky; that poem by this author opens, (*) "All I could see from where I stood / Was three long mountains and a wood." This author declares, "My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night" in "First Fig." For 10 points, name this poet who wrote the collection A Few Figs From Thistles, as well as the long lyric poem "Renascence."
Two girls in a short poem by this author repeat the line "We were very tired, we were very merry" while taking the ferry back home after a night out.
Edna St. Vincent Millay 