Episode 3: "Tavern" by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Published: Nov. 22, 2021, 1 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 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."