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Poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay


Epitaph


Heap not on this mound
Roses that she loved so well:
Why bewilder her with roses,
That she cannot see or smell?

She is happy where she lies
With the dust upon her eyes.



Edna St. Vincent Millay


Edna St. Vincent Millay's other poems:
  1. Tavern
  2. Assault
  3. Intention to Escape from Him
  4. Sonnet 03: Mindful Of You The Sodden Earth In Spring
  5. Grown-up


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Samuel Coleridge Epitaph ("Stop, Christian passer-by : Stop, child of God")
  • Percy Shelley Epitaph ("These are two friends whose lives were undivided") 1822
  • Abraham Cowley Epitaph ("Underneath this marble stone")
  • Katherine Philips Epitaph ("What on Earth deserves our trust?")
  • Thomas Hardy Epitaph ("I never cared for Life: Life cared for me")
  • Elinor Wylie Epitaph ("For this she starred her eyes with salt")
  • Walter Scott Epitaph ("AMID these aisles, where once his precepts showed")
  • Robert Southey Epitaph ("HERE, in the fruitful vales of Somerset")
  • George Byron Epitaph ("Posterity will ne’er survey") January 2, 1820

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