Episode 1: The Unexplorer by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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English - November 21, 2021 00:00 - 45 seconds - 1.07 MB - ★★★★ - 1 rating
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Photograph Info:
Edna St. Vincent Millay, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933
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The Poem:

The Unexplorer

There was a road ran past our house
Too lovely to explore.
I asked my mother once—she said
That if you followed where it led
It brought you to the milk-man’s door.
(That’s why I have not traveled more.)

“The Unexplorer” was published in A Few Figs From Thistles (Harper & Brothers, 1922). This poem is in the public domain.