What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why
Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed” reflects on memory, loss, and the quiet ache of vanished love.
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6 poems
Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed” reflects on memory, loss, and the quiet ache of vanished love.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet 43 explores the depth and endurance of love that transcends both time and death.
A bracing sonnet against distraction and commerce — Wordsworth pleads for a restored capacity to see the world as sacred.
Shelley’s “Ozymandias” unveils the ruins of empire and the irony of power’s impermanence beneath desert sands.
Milton’s Sonnet XIX reframes vocation through patience: “They also serve who only stand and wait.”
Frost’s sonnet “Design” frames beauty and predation to ask whether darkness, not benevolence, orders nature’s smallest scenes.