Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!
Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem “Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!” is the 8th in a sequence of 22 sonnets. It was published in Millay’s 1923 collection “The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems”.
Edna St. Vincent Millay was born on 22 February 1892 in Rockland, Maine, US, and she died on 19 October 1950 in Austerlitz, New York, US, at the age of 58.Poet and playwright, Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. She wrote much of her prose and verse under the pseudonym Nancy Boyd. Winning the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her poem “Ballad of the Harp-Weaver”, she was the first woman and second person to win the award. Highly regarded in her lifetime, she was described by critic Edmund Wilson as “one of the only poets writing in English in our time who have attained to anything like the stature of great literary figures”.
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Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word! Give back my book and take my kiss instead. Was it my enemy or my friend I heard, “What a big book for such a little head!” Come, I will show you now my newest hat, And you may watch me purse my mouth and prink! Oh, I shall love you still, and all of that. I never again shall tell you what I think. I shall be sweet and crafty, soft and sly; You will not catch me reading any more: I shall be called a wife to pattern by; And some day when you knock and push the door, Some sane day, not too bright and not too stormy, I shall be gone, and you may whistle for me.