Episode 1: The Unexplorer by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Read and more GoodPoetry at www.GoodPoetry.org, and listen on Audible, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Anchor.Fm, iHeart, and GooglePlay Music and connect with us @itsGoodPoetry on Facebook, and Twitter.\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nPhotograph Info:\nEdna St. Vincent Millay, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nThe Poem:\n\nThe Unexplorer\n\nThere was a road ran past our house\n\xa0Too lovely to explore.\n\xa0I asked my mother once\u2014she said\n\xa0That if you followed where it led\n\xa0It brought you to the milk-man\u2019s door.\n\xa0(That\u2019s why I have not traveled more.)\n\n\u201cThe Unexplorer\u201d was published in A Few Figs From Thistles (Harper & Brothers, 1922). This poem is in the public domain.