Millay’s fourth collection, dedicated to her mother, holds the title ballad about a poor mother who weaves clothes for her son on a magic harp, along with songs, lyrics of departure and return, and a long run of love sonnets. It closes with Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree, a stark sequence about a New England woman caring for her dying husband.
The title ballad was among the poems that won Millay the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Download the free EPUB.