 | Edna St. Vincent Millay, Hughes Mearns - 1927 - 36 psl.
...We lay on the hill-top underneath the moon; And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon. We were very tired, we were very merry — We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry; And you ate an apple, and I ate a pear, From a dozen of each we had bought somewhere; And the sky went... | |
 | Edna St. Vincent Millay - 1927 - 168 psl.
...table, We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon ; And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon. We were very tired, we were very merry — We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry ; And you ate an apple, and I ate a pear, From a dozen of each we had bought somewhere ; And the sky... | |
 | Sharon Osborne Brown - 1928 - 572 psl.
...memory. And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold, And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold. We were very tired, we were very merry — We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. We hailed, "Good-morrow, mother!" to a shawl-covered head, And bought a morning paper, which neither... | |
 | Edna St. Vincent Millay - 1922 - 56 psl.
...SAFE upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand ! WERE very tired, we were very merry — We had gone back and forth all night on thejerry. It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable — But we looked into a fire, we leaned... | |
 | Dorothy Stickney - 1982 - 58 psl.
...table, We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon ; And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon. We were very tired, we were very merry — We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. And you ate an apple, and I ate a pear, From a dozen of each we had bought somewhere; And the sky went... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 psl.
...done. Any day you'll find her A-sunning in the sun! (1. 1—4) FaPON; MoShBr; OBCA; PDV Recuerdo 26 e (And himself with it) that he thinks to frame, Or, for the laurel, he may gain a scorn (1. 1-2) AmFN; FaFP; FPL; LiTA; LiTM; NAAL-2; NoAM; OxBA; PoA; TAP 35 Dust in an urn long since, dispersed... | |
 | Betty Andrews - 1994 - 100 psl.
...across a table. (VINCENT sits, hugging her knees and weeping. The reading goes on— just audible.) We were very tired, we were very merry — We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. VINCENT. It came so soon — all the fuss and the fame. I wasn't ready. How do you get ready for something... | |
 | Edna St. Vincent Millay - 1998 - 244 psl.
...5 We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon; And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon. We were very tired, we were very merry — We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry; And you ate an apple, and I ate a pear, to From a dozen of each we had bought somewhere; And the sky... | |
 | James Carroll - 1998 - 556 psl.
...could toward my place, Carolyn leaning on me, rubbing my arms, me reciting loudly Millay's "Recuerdo." We were very tired, we were very merry, We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. We hailed ''Good morrow, mother!" to a shawl-covered head And bought a morning paper, which neither... | |
 | Nuala O'Faolain - 1999 - 228 psl.
...Maurier novelette on a faintly incestuous theme, which quoted the refrain of Edna St. Vincent Millay: We were very tired, We were very merry, We had gone back and forth All night on the ferry. I yearned after the troubled, rich, English upper-class people in books like that. In real life, glamour... | |
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We were very tired, we were very merry — We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. 
