A sports fan of the meadows and the woods,
And mountains; and of all that we behold
From this green earth; of all the mighty instauration
Of eye, and ear, - both what they half create,
And what perceive; well pleased to recognise
In nature and the language of the sense
The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,
The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul
Of all my moral universe (http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww138.html).
For Edna St. Vincent Millay, writing a collection of sonnets a carbon and a quarter after Wordsworth penned "Tintern Abbey", the romance of the natural world had faded.
Her work is fundamentally Modernist; her Sonnet III from Renascence and different Poems also reflects something of the despair of the time in which she was writing
Today Steepletop is a National Historic Landmark, and the website of The Millay Colony for the Arts. Begun by her sister, Norma Millay, in 1973, the Millay Colony provides writers, composers and painters a haven for creativity in a setting of rich elegant heritage.
Up paths that only mist and morning knew,
I move o'er the mountains, by the sides
Ri tattle of the round moon, all throats that sing
Of thy wild eyes. Oh! yet a little while
And all the flowers that in the springtime grow,
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