Edna St. Vincent Millay. Afternoon on a Hill. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

Afternoon on a Hill

By Edna St. Vincent Millay


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	5
With quiet eyes,
Watch the wind bow down the grass
And the grass rise.

And when lights begin to show
Up from the town	10
I will mark which must be mine,
And then start down!