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Audio Recording Norma Millay reading poems of her sister, Edna St. Vincent Millay, in the Recording Laboratory, Dec. 8, 1959

Norma Millay reading poems of her sister, Edna St. Vincent Millay, in the Recording Laboratory, Dec. 8, 1959
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Title

  • Norma Millay reading poems of her sister, Edna St. Vincent Millay, in the Recording Laboratory, Dec. 8, 1959

Names

  • Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950.
  • Millay, Norma. prf
  • Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • 1959.

Contents

  • The cult of the occult is not adult -- Alchemy can work both ways -- Strange that a woman with money -- Time is never now -- Pharos, Pharos, O Angelus, light for sailors -- In the dawn the cockcrow -- Tell me, Lesbia, who wert thou -- Do not believe my hatred, dear -- Come with me at dusk, my dear -- I decline to weigh down my head with scholarship -- If you ever held apart -- There is a reason for treason -- For we were nursed upon the selfsame hill -- I cannot get in -- My hair I cut myself -- Myrmidons, myrmidons -- The splendor falls from castle walls -- Hear nothing, see nothing, taste nothing, touch nothing, say all -- Men who are blind and deaf --
  • I have a frog in my tree -- To despair is to impair the fuunctions of the brain -- Allah Akbar -- Valerian, I and my cat met you -- Vegetation except for the scent of lilacs I deplore -- This was not my guilt -- Not poppy, not mandragora, not all the apple mint -- What terror should I be considered not free from error -- From Collected poems: Three sonnets in tetrameter: I. See how these masses mill and swarm ; II. His stalk the dark delphinium ; III. No further from me than my hand -- Epitaph for the race of man: II. When death was young and bleaching bones were few ; III. Cretaceous bird, your giant claw no lime ; IV. O Earth, unhappy planet born to die ; VI. See where Capella with her golden kids ; XV. Now set his foot upon the eastern sill ; XVIII. Here lies, and none to mourn him but the sea.

Notes

  • -  Recorded for the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature.
  • -  Literary recording, rev., enl. ed., p. 161.

Medium

  • 1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 track, mono. ; 10 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LWO 2999

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 95770411

Online Format

  • audio

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Chicago citation style:

Millay, Edna St. Vincent, Norma. Prf Millay, and Archive Of Recorded Poetry And Literature. Norma Millay reading poems of her sister, Edna St. Vincent Millay, in the Recording Laboratory, Dec. 8. 1959. Audio. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/95770411/.

APA citation style:

Millay, E. S. V., Millay, N. P. & Archive Of Recorded Poetry And Literature. (1959) Norma Millay reading poems of her sister, Edna St. Vincent Millay, in the Recording Laboratory, Dec. 8. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/95770411/.

MLA citation style:

Millay, Edna St. Vincent, Norma. Prf Millay, and Archive Of Recorded Poetry And Literature. Norma Millay reading poems of her sister, Edna St. Vincent Millay, in the Recording Laboratory, Dec. 8. 1959. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/95770411/>.