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Poem of the Day: ‘I Shall Go Back Again to the Bleak Shore’ 

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s fourteen-line pentameter repudiation of all lake isles of sentimentality.

Portrait photograph of Edna St. Vincent Millay, detail, by Arnold Genthe, 1914.
Portrait photograph of Edna St. Vincent Millay, detail, by Arnold Genthe, 1914. Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons

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