Love Is Not All
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain,
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink,
And rise and sink, and rise and sink again;
Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want, past resolution's power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. I do not think I would.
- RC 5152
Selected Poems: The Centenary Edition, (Sandra Kazan,
narrator; NLS)
- BRA05268 Mine the Harvest: A Collection of New Poems (braille;
NLS)
- Wa-BPH (CBA 4494) Renascence and Other Poems
(Pamela Weinberg; narrator)
- NNRB (AD0704(02)) Collected Lyrics of Edna St. Vincent Millay (narrator not listed; RFB&D)
- NNRB (TG0039(01)) Collected Sonnets
(narrator not listed, RFB&D)
- NLC 005686604 Collected Sonnets (braille;
CNIB)
- BRA03805 Collected Sonnets of Edna
St. Vincent Millay (braille;
NLS)
- BRA02064 Edna St. Vincent Millay's Poems Selected for Young People
(braille; NLS)
- RC 31885
Gurko, Miriam. Restless Spirit; The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Alexander Scourby, narrator; NLS)
- BRA07104 Gurko, Miriam. Restless Spirit; The Life
of Edna St. Vincent Millay (braille;
NLS)
- RD 06593
Dash, Joan. A life of One's Own; Three Gifted Women and the Men
They Married. (Mary Jane Higby, narrator; NLS talking disc)
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