| 1927 - 902 psl.
...Annapolis dance, and yet great gobs shook her frame. Stanford Chaparral Fooled I burn my candle at both ends; It will not last the night, But ah, my friends, and ho. my foes; I have electric light! . . . Carolina Buccaneer DEAR SANTA CLAUS: Honestly,... | |
| Richardson Little Wright - 1922 - 240 psl.
...written the almost perfect four hues on this pleasant time THE FIRST FIG My candle burns at both ends, 'T will not last the night. But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends. It gives a lovely light. Note 10. A visit to M. Georges Truffaut's establishment at Versailles is worth the time of every American... | |
| Louis Untermeyer - 1923 - 462 psl.
...gives most of these light verses the quality of a facile cynicism, an ignoble adroitness. This is the "first fig" : My candle burns at both ends; It will...foes, and oh, my friends- It gives a lovely light! Only the dilettanti of emotion could relish, after the radiance of her first poems, the sophisticated... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1923 - 982 psl.
...duties of human life. No one so well as Miss Millay has spoken with the accents credited to the village. "My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the...foes, and oh, my friends It gives a lovely light!" Thus she commences in "A Few Figs from Thistles." And she continues with impish songs and rakish ballads... | |
| Floyd Dell - 1923 - 472 psl.
...though the poem had suddenly been translated out of a foreign language into one she could understand. "My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the...foes, and oh, my friends, It gives a lovely light!" Paul's question repeated, interrupted her thoughts of Pat, of whose life this poem seemed to have revealed... | |
| 1923 - 380 psl.
...earliest songs to her latest sonnets one would venture to say that life has, at times, chastened her. "My candle burns at both ends, It will not last the...foes, and oh, my friends It gives a lovely light 1" What a lovely ring of lightness ! One can see through it a delightfully irresponsible doubter, and... | |
| 1923 - 1028 psl.
...she became the poet laureate of the younger generation. The first poem in the volume is as follows: My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the...foes, and oh, my friends It gives a lovely light! The second poem utters the same gospel of impulse: m * -;- Sketched... | |
| John Chipman Farrar - 1924 - 368 psl.
...she became the poet laureate of the younger generation. The first poem in the volume is as follows : My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the...foes, and oh, my friends It gives a lovely light ! The second poem utters the same gospel of impulse : Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand... | |
| Carl Van Doren - 1924 - 262 psl.
...duties of human life. No one so well as Miss Millay has spoken with the accents credited to the village. "My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the...foes, and oh, my friends It gives a lovely light!" Thus she commences in A Few Figs from Thistles. And she continues with impish songs and rakish ballads... | |
| Franklin Pierce Adams - 1924 - 172 psl.
...hearts can stand a breaking About a billion times. // Mr. HW Longfellow lad written Miss Millay's " My candle burns at both ends, It will not last the...foes, and oh, my friends, It gives a lovely light." Between the dark and the daylight My bay berry candle burns; 126 IF It shines from out my window... | |
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