All I could see from where I stood /
The speaker of a poem by this author says "A man was starving in Capri; He moved his eyes and looked at me" and ends the poem by warning "he whose soul is flat" that "sky / will cave in on him by and by." This poet wrote of a time "when first the shaft into his vision shone / Of light anatomized!" in a poem that describes how "heroes seek release / From dusty bondage into luminous air". This author of the sonnet (*) "Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare" wrote of rain washing away her grave in a poem that begins "All I could see from where I stood / Was three long mountains and a wood". In another of her poems, a mother uses a musical instrument with a woman's head to make clothes for her child. For 10 points, name this American poet of "The Ballad of the Harp Weaver" and "Renascence", as well as the collection A Few Figs from Thistles.
The speaker of a poem by this author says "A man was starving in Capri; He moved his eyes and looked at me" and ends the poem by warning "he whose soul is flat" that "sky / will cave in on him by and by."
Edna St. Vincent Millay