PoemCounting-Out Rhyme
Author / PoetEdna St. Vincent Millay
TagsBark, Maple, Willow, Wood

Silver bark of beech, and sallow
Bark of yellow birch and yellow
Twig of willow.

Stripe of green in moosewood maple,
Colour seen in leaf of apple,
Bark of popple.

Wood of popple pale as moonbeam,
Wood of oak for yoke and barn-beam,
Wood of hornbeam.

Silver bark of beech, and hollow
Stem of elder, tall and yellow
Twig of willow.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 Feb 1892 - 19 Oct 1950
Region: North America
Period: Modernist
Movement: Modernism
Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

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Apostrophe To ManDestruction, Humanity, Irony
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