by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
I will be the gladdest thing
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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.
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- by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), appears in Renascence and Other Poems, first published 1917 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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