WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:48:40 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg april – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Millay, Edna St. Vincent -- Poem (1920-03), “Spring,” ll. 16-18 https://wist.info/millay-edna-st-vincent/80873/ https://wist.info/millay-edna-st-vincent/80873/#respond Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:01:20 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=80873 It is not enough that yearly, down this hill,
April
Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.


Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet
Poem (1920-03), “Spring,” ll. 16-18

First published in The Chapbook, Vol. 2, No. 13 (1920-07). Collected in Second April (1921). A handwritten draft was dated 1920-03-21.

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