A Few Figs from Thistles

Poems and Sonnets

by

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.

This edition of "A Few Figs from Thistles" contains several poems
not included in earlier editions.

First Fig

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night ;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends--
It gives a lovely light!


Second Fig

Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand:
Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!