Classic Poetry: "Eel-Grass" (Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892-1950)

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Edna St. Vincent Millay, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933.
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No matter what I say,

All that I really love

Is the rain that flattens on the bay,

And the eel-grass in the cove;

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Millay, 1914, a publicity photograph (per Daniel Mark Epstein, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay, p. 135), taken 1914.

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The jingle-shells that lie and bleach

At the tide-line, and the trace

Of higher tides along the beach:

Nothing in this place.

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All About Eel-grass Restoration



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Save The Bay - Narragansett Bay's Wenley Ferguson explains how we restore eelgrass and why it is so important. Recorded at King's Beach, Newport Rhode Island, May 29, 2008.

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