In one poem, this author asks, “Was it for this I uttered prayers…That now…I should retire at half-past eight?” The speaker and addressee eat apples and pears in a poem by this author that repeats the line, “We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.” One collection by this author ends with “Four Sonnets,” including “I shall forget you presently.” In a short poem by this author of “Recuerdo,” the speaker mentions (*) “ugly houses” standing on a “solid rock” before asking, “Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!” This author wrote that “Infinity pressed down upon the finite Me” in a poem that opens with the speaker seeing “three long mountains and a wood.” For 10 points, name this author of “Renascence” who wrote “my candle burns at both ends” in her collection A Few Figs from Thistles. ■END■
ANSWER: Edna St. Vincent Millay (The lead-in is “Grown-up” from A Few Figs from Thistles.)
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