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Daniel Reeders (onekind@beige.party)'s status on Saturday, 26-Jul-2025 13:42:38 JST Daniel Reeders

Excerpt from 'Dirge Without Music' by Edna St Vincent Millay, published in 1928.
Source and full poem: https://www.instagram.com/p/DMhCGkHRi0I/
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1. Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned. #ednastvincentmillay 1927.
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  @poetryisnotaluxury on Instagram: "Edna St.Vincent Millay excerpt from the poem “Dirge Without Music” by Edna St. Vincent Millay From Buck In The Snow HarperCollins, 1928. Full Poem: Dirge Without Music I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned. Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you. Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust. A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew, A formula, a phrase remains,—but the best is lost. The answers quick and keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love,— They are gone. They are gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve. More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world. Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned. #ednastvincentmillay 1927. #poetryisnotaluxury #pokerface #poems"
  
  6,592 likes, 27 comments - poetryisnotaluxury on July 24, 2025: "Edna St.Vincent Millay excerpt from the poem “Dirge Without Music” by Edna St. Vincent Millay From Buck In The Snow HarperCollins, 1928. Full Poem: Dirge Without Music I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned. Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you. Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust. A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew, A formula, a phrase remains,—but the best is lost. The answers quick and keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love,— They are gone. They are gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve. More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world. Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned. #ednastvincentmillay 1927. #poetryisnotaluxury #pokerface #poems".

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