For 10 points, name this author of "Recuerdo" and "Renascence", as well as the collection A Few Figs from Thistles.
In one poem, this author asserts that "heroes seek release / From dusty bondage into luminous air". Another of her works thrice repeats the couplet "We were very tired, we were very merry-- / We had gone back and forth all night upon the ferry". She wrote of viewing "three long mountains and a wood" in a work in which she sees God's face after being revived by rain. The couplet "Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: / Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!" is found in her most famous collection, which begins "My candle burns at both ends". For 10 points, name this author of "Recuerdo" and "Renascence", as well as the collection A Few Figs from Thistles.
In one poem, this author asserts that "heroes seek release / From dusty bondage into luminous air".
Edna St. Vincent {Millay} [accept {Nancy Boyd because people totally} buzz in and {say uncommon pseudonyms}]