“I shall forget you presently, my dear” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Edna St. Vincent Millay in 1914 (Arnold Genthe/Wikimedia Commons)
Edna St. Vincent Millay in 1914 (Arnold Genthe/Wikimedia Commons)

Amanda Holmes reads Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem, “I shall forget you presently, my dear,” Sonnet IV in Four Sonnets (1922). Have a suggestion for a poem? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.

This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.

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Amanda Holmes, the author of the novel I Know Where I Am When I’m Falling, is a columnist and poetry editor for the Washington Independent Review of Books.

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