“Thou Art Not Lovelier Than Lilacs” Edna St. Vincent Millay Born in Rockland, Maine in 1892, Edna St. Vincent Millay was one of three sisters, and had been gifted with the talent to write. When growing up she was an avid reader of St. Nicholas magazine, and it was through that magazine that Millay first found her welcome as a poet (Perkins, 708). At the age of nineteen, Millay had written what is considered her first major …showed first 75 words of 1628 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1628 total…feel for the person she speaks of. This person is not beautiful, but according to the poem, one cannot judge by looks. The persona can deal with the fact that this person is not good-looking, because she knows that beauty is not everything. However, she just cannot decide what to do because she obviously has feelings towards this person, but she just does not know how to interpret them and what to do with them.