Love

My Heart, Being Hungry

by Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892–1950

From The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (1923)

Love

My heart, being hungry, feeds on food
The fat of heart despise.
Beauty where beauty never stood,
And sweet where no sweet lies
I gather to my querulous need,
Having a growing heart to feed.

It may be, when my heart is dull,
Having attained its girth,
I shall not find so beautiful
The meagre shapes of earth,
Nor linger in the rain to mark
The smell of tansy through the dark.

MLA

Millay, Edna St. Vincent. “My Heart, Being Hungry.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/millay/88/.

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Millay, Edna St. Vincent. “My Heart, Being Hungry.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/millay/88/.

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