Poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Tavern

I’ll keep a little tavern
   Below the high hill’s crest,
Wherein all grey-eyed people
   May set them down and rest.

There shall be plates a-plenty,
   And mugs to melt the chill
Of all the grey-eyed people
   Who happen up the hill.

There sound will sleep the traveller,
   And dream his journey’s end,
But I will rouse at midnight
   The falling fire to tend.

Aye, ’tis a curious fancy—
   But all the good I know
Was taught me out of two grey eyes
   A long time ago.

1. Grown-up
2. My Most Distinguished Guest And Learned Friend
3. Assault
4. Night Is My Sister, And How Deep In Love
5. The Spring and the Fall

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