Episode 3: "Tavern" 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 passport photograph----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nThe Poem:\n\nI'll keep a little tavern\n\xa0 \xa0 Below the high hill's crest,\n\xa0Wherein all grey-eyed people\n\xa0 \xa0 May set them down and rest.\n\nThere shall be plates a-plenty,\n\xa0 \xa0 And mugs to melt the chill\n\xa0Of all the grey-eyed people\n\xa0 \xa0 Who happen up the hill.\n\nThere sound will sleep the traveller,\n\xa0 \xa0 And dream his journey's end,\n\xa0But I will rouse at midnight\n\xa0 \xa0 The falling fire to tend.\n\nAye, 'tis a curious fancy\u2014\n\xa0 \xa0 But all the good I know\n\xa0Was taught me out of two grey eyes\n\xa0 \xa0 A long time ago.