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Submit Human Translation | Discuss Poem | Post Poetry | Listen McGill Live Conscientious Objector by Edna St. Vincent Millay I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death. I hear him leading his horse out of the stall; I hear the clatter on the barn-floor. He is in haste; he has business in Cuba, business in the Balkans, many calls to make this morning. But I will not hold the bridle while he clinches the girth. And he may mount by himself: I will not give him a leg up. Though he flick my shoulders with his whip, I will not tell him which way the fox ran. With his hoof on my breast, I will not tell him where the black boy hides in the swamp. I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll. I will not tell him the whereabout of my friends nor of my enemies either. Though he promise me much, I will not map him the route to any man's door. Am I a spy in the land of the living, that I should deliver men to Death? Brother, the password and the plans of our city are safe with me; never through me Shall you be overcome. American Review | www.PaperLyon.com | McGill Live Radio | Publish

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Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay Afternoon On A Hill Alms And do you think that love An Ancient Gesture Apostrophe To Man Ashes Of Life Assault Autumn Daybreak A Visit To The Asylum Being Young And Green Blight Bluebeard Burial Chorus City Trees Conscientious Objector Daphne Departure Dirge Dirge Without Music Doubt No More That Oberon Ebb Eel-Grass Elegy Elegy Before Death Epitaph Exiled Feast First Fig Fontaine Je Ne Boirai Pas D Gods World Grown Up Here Is A Wound That Never If I Should Learn In Some Q If Still Your Orchards Bear Indifference Inland Interim Intention To Escape From Hi Invocation To The Muses I Dreamed I Moved Among The I Know I Am But Summer To Y I Know The Face Of Falsehoo Journey Justice Denied In Massachus Kin To Sorrow Lament Lines Written In Recapitula Love Is Not All Low-Tide Make Bright The Arrows Mariposa Memorial To DC Menses Midnight Oil Mist In The Valley Modern Declaration My Most Distinguished Guest Night Is My Sister And How Not Even My Pride Shall Suf Not In A Silver Casket Cool Ode To Silence Oh Oh You Will Be Sorry Passer Mortuus Est Pastoral Pity Me Not Because The Lig Portrait By A Neighbour Prayer To Persephone Renascence Rosemary Scrub Second Fig Song Of A Second April Sonnets 01 We Talk Of Taxes Sonnets 02 Into The Golden Sonnets 03 Not With Libatio Sonnets 04 Only Until This Sonnets 05 Once More Into M Sonnets 06 No Rose That In Sonnets 07 When I Too Long Sonnets 08 And You As Well Sonnets 09 Let You Not Say Sonnets 10 Oh My Beloved Ha Sonnets 11 As To Some Lovel Sonnets 12 Cherish You Then Sonnets From An Ungrafted T Sonnet 01 Thou Art Not Love Sonnet 02 Time Does Not Bri Sonnet 03 Mindful Of You Th Sonnet 04 Not In This Chamb Sonnet 05 If I Should Learn Sonnet 06 Bluebeard Sonnet Women Have Loved Bef Sorrow Souvenir Spring Sweet Love Sweet Thorn When Tavern The Ballad Of The Harp-Weav The Bean-Stalk The Betrothal The Blue-Flag In The Bog The Concert The Curse The Death Of Autumn The Dream The Fawn The Fledgling Weeds The Goose-Girl The Leaf And The Tree The Little Ghost The Little Hill The Penitent The Philosopher The Plaid Dress The Poet And His Book The Return From Town The Shroud The Singing-Woman From The The Snow Storm The Spring And The Fall The Suicide The True Encounter The Unexplorer The Wood Road Think Not Not For A Moment Three Songs Of Shattering To A Poet That Died Young To The Not Impossible Him To Those Without Pity Travel Two Sonnets In Memory Underground System Well I Have Lost You What Lips My Lips Have Kiss When The Year Grows Old When We Are Old And These R Whereas At Morning In A Jew Wild Swans Witch-Wife Wraith

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Eamon Grennan	Eavan Boland	Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Lee Masters	Edith Wharton	Edmund Spenser
Edna St. Vincent Millay	Edward Fitzgerald	Edward Hirsch
Edward Lear	Edward Taylor	Edwin Brock
Edwin Morgan	EE Cummings	Eileen Myles
Elizabeth Bishop	Elizabeth Browning	Elizabeth Jennings
Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Ellen Bryant Voigt	Ellis Parker Butler
Emily Dickinson	Erica Jong	Ernest Dowson
Etheridge Knight	Ezra Pound

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