65 Portrait by Her Neighbor
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Before she has her floor swept
Or her dishes done,
Any day you’ll find her
A-sunning in the sun!
It’s long after midnight
Her key’s in the lock,
And you never see her chimney smoke
Till past ten o’clock!
She digs in her garden
With a shovel and a spoon,
She weeds her lazy lettuce
By the light of the moon,
She walks up the walk
Like a woman in a dream,
She forgets she borrowed butter
And pays you back cream!
Her lawn looks like a meadow,
And if she mows the place
She leaves the clover standing
And the Queen Anne’s lace!
“Portrait by Her Neighbor” by Edna St. Vincent Millay was originally published in A Few Figs from Thistles. It is in the public domain and was accessed through Project Gutenberg at: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4399/pg4399.html.