Broadcasts.com - ""I, Being Born a Woman..." - Edna St. Vincent Millay" (Basement Poetry Podcast)

Published: July 19, 2020, 1:17 a.m.

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"I, being born a woman and distressed"

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I, being born a woman and distressed

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By all the needs and notions of my kind,

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Am urged by your propinquity to find

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Your person fair, and feel a certain zest

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To bear your body\\u2019s weight upon my breast:

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So subtly is the fume of life designed,

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To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind,

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And leave me once again undone, possessed.

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Think not for this, however, the poor treason

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Of my stout blood against my staggering brain,

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I shall remember you with love, or season

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My scorn with pity,\\u2014let me make it plain:

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I find this frenzy insufficient reason

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For conversation when we meet again.

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