April is National Poetry Month! Edna St. Vincent Millay: "Siege"

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Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Siege."


This I do, being man:
Gather baubles about me,
Sit in a circle of toys, and all the time
Death beating the door in.

White jade and an orange pitcher.
Hindu idol, Chinese God,--
Maybe next year, when I'm richer--
Carved beads and a lotus pod...

And all this time
Death beating the door in.