Portrait By A Neighbor

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Before she has her floor swept
  Or her dishes done,
Any day you’ll find her
  A-sunning in the sun!

It’s long after midnight
  Her key’s in the lock,
And you never see her chimney smoke
  Till past ten o’clock!

She digs in her garden
  With a shovel and a spoon,
She weeds her lazy lettuce
  By the light of the moon.

She walks up the walk
  Like a woman in a dream,
She forgets she borrowed butter
  And pays you back cream!

Her lawn looks like a meadow,
  And if she mows the place
She leaves the clover standing
  And the Queen Anne’s lace!

Next 10 Poems

• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Prayer To Persephone
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Recuerdo
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Renascence
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Rosemary
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Second Fig
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : She Is Overheard Singing
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Song Of A Second April
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Sorrow
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Spring
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Tavern

Previous 10 Poems

• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Pastoral
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Passer Mortuus Est
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Only Until This Cigarette Is Ended
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Once More Into My Arid Days Like Dew
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Oh, My Beloved, Have You Thought Of This
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Ode To Silence
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Not With Libations, But With Shouts And Laughter
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Not In This Chamber Only At My Birth
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : No Rose That In A Garden Ever Grew
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Mindful Of You The Sodden Earth In Spring