A Few Figs from Thistles

poetry by Millay

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In Edna St. Vincent Millay
…she published the verse collection A Few Figs from Thistles, from which the line “My candle burns at both ends” derives. The poem was taken up as the watchword of the “flaming youth” of that era and brought her a renown that she came to despise. In 1921 she published…
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