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By Esther Lombardi, About.com Guide to Classic Literature since 2000

Lovely Light: Edna St. Vincent Millay

Friday February 22, 2008
Sex, jazz, literature - Edna St. Vincent MillayEdna St. Vincent Millay received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923 for The Ballad of the Harp Weaver. Other works include: Renascence (1917) and Second April (1921). She was born on February 22, 1892. Read more about the life and works of Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Here are a few lines from Edna St. Vincent Millay:

"My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -
It gives a lovely light."
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