¶ Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1)
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Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland and reared in Camden at the foot Mt. Megunticock in the years before World War I. Looking out on the islands of the bay, she frequently wrote poems about that inspiring scene. In the early twenties, having moved inland, she wrote the poem ‘Mist in the Valley’ which laid bare her love for the Penobscot Bay scene.
"These hills to hurt me more,
Than am hurt already enough,
Having left the sea behind,
Having turned suddenly and left the shore
That I loved beyond all words,
Even a song’s words, to convey.
"And built me a house on upland acres,
Sweet with the pinxter, bright and rough
With rusty blackbird long before winter’s done
But smelling never of bayberry hot in the sun,
Nor ever loud with the pounding of the long white breakers–
“These hills, beneath the October moon,”
