A Few Figs from Thistles

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Contents: Renascence All I could see from where I stood Interim The room is full of you!--As I came in The Suicide "Curse thee, Life, I will live with thee no more!

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Written on the occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Vassar College Alumnae Association Dedicated to '1917' Lorenzo, King of Fiori Julia Lovejoy Cuniberti '11...

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Thanks are due to the editors of Ainslie's, The Dial, Pearson's Poetry, Reedy's Mirror, and Vanity Fair, for their kind permission to republish various of these poems.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

SPRING To what purpose, April, do you return again?

Kurt Vonnegut

Everything was perfectly swell.

Edgar Allan Poe

The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.

Heinrich Hoffmann

[Transcriber's Note: This book was first published in German in 1844, and in English translation in 1848.

Edgar Allan Poe

The "Red Death" had long devastated the country.