Episode 1: The Unexplorer by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Published: Nov. 21, 2021, 10:29 p.m.

b'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.'