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“Dirge Without Music” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay expresses her struggle to accept mortality in her poem “Dirge Without Music”

Edna St. Vincent Millay is no stranger to us at SevenPonds. While death remains a constant theme in many of her poems, her relationship with death oscillates between acceptance and repulsion—making her treatment of the subject utterly relatable. A woman … Continue reading

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