 I shall forget you presently, my dear, So make the most of this, your little day, Your little month, your little half a year, Ere I forget, or die, or move away, And we are done forever; by and by I shall forget you, as I said, but now, If you entreat...  A Few Figs from Thistles– Poems and Sonnets - 32 psl.autoriai: Edna St. Vincent Millay - 1922 - 39 psl.Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | 1927 - 976 psl.
...As if that were the way to talk to an erring child! And how shocking to say, if you really meant it: "I shall forget you presently, my dear, So make the...little day, Your little month, your little half a year. . ." Important poetry couldn't be written out of such superficiality! Then one day after a long visit... | |
 | Edna St. Vincent Millay - 1927 - 168 psl.
...you, I am most faithless when I most am true. I SHALL forget you presently, my dear, So make the mosl: of this, your little day, Your little month, your...you, as I said, but now, If you entreat me with your loveriest lie I will protest you with my favourite vow. I would indeed that love were longer-lived,... | |
 | Sister Mary Madeleva - 1925 - 240 psl.
...and impudent laughter in upon the feverish sentimentalism of the day. This is the way the wind blows: I shall forget you presently, my dear, So make the most of this, your little day, [ 150 ] , Your little month, your little half a year, Ere I forget, or die, or move away. I would indeed... | |
 | Dorothy Stickney - 1982 - 58 psl.
...Italian. I think I shall send this special delivery because I have more stamps than I need. (Stand) I shall forget you presently, my dear, So make the...with your loveliest lie I will protest you with my favourite vow. I would indeed that love were longer-lived, And oaths were not so brittle as they are,... | |
 | Edna St. Vincent Millay - 1998 - 244 psl.
...your side. So wanton, light and false, my love, are you, I am most faithless when I most am true. 75 I shall forget you presently, my dear, So make the...little half a year, Ere I forget, or die, or move away, 5 And we are done forever; by and by I shall forget you, as I said, but now, If you entreat me with... | |
 | Eric Murphy Selinger - 1998 - 274 psl.
...dear" ( 1 922), Millay's "unflappable flapper" persona is more appealing but just as aggressive.14 "Make the most of this, your little day, /Your little month, your little half a year," she tells her lover, confident that he will listen close enough to hear his time grow longer line by... | |
 | Neil Roberts - 2003 - 652 psl.
...forget you presently', in which she puts a characteristically modern spin on the carpe diem theme: I shall forget you presently, my dear, So make the...with your loveliest lie I will protest you with my favourite vow. This is typical in the way that it contrasts the traditional hyperbole of the theme... | |
 | Daniel Mark Epstein - 2002 - 332 psl.
...of a girl you knew / Who would have loved you in a day or two." Even more cruel is the last sonnet, "I shall forget you presently, my dear / So make the most of this, your little day," in which the modern woman demolishes the romantic edifice of courtship and courtly love in a few tart... | |
 | Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas J. Travisano - 2003 - 677 psl.
...her love relationship with the poet and activist Floyd Dell. I shall forget you presently, my dear I shall forget you presently, my dear, So make the...with your loveliest lie I will protest you with my favourite vow. I would indeed that love were longer-lived, And oaths were not so brittle as they are,... | |
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