FINAL WEEK OF NATIONAL POETRY MONTH

Afternoon On A Hill
    By Edna St. Vincent Millay
                       [The above link will take you to a list of her poems at public-domain-poetry.com]


         I will be the gladdest thing
            Under the sun!
        I will touch a hundred flowers
            And not pick one.

        I will look at cliffs and clouds
            With quiet eyes,
        Watch the wind bow down the grass,
            And the grass rise.

        And when lights begin to show
            Up from the town,
        I will mark which must be mine,
            And then start down!

                                                        Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) in 1933. 
                                                                   Picture by Carl Van Vechten.