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I created a new print featuring a line from Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Recuerdo: “And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold.” What an image!

It’s a bold, modern design, given the poem was published in 1919, but it reflects Millay’s fiery spirit.

Here’s the poem ‘Recuerdo‘ in its entirety, lifted from the Poetry Foundation site. It celebrates those shockingly-late nights where warm camaraderie and tasteful debauchery combine to create memories. Such recuerdos forever buoy the mind.

RECUERDO

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

We were very tired, we were very merry—

We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.

It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable—

But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table,

We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon;

And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon.

We were very tired, we were very merry—

We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry;

And you ate an apple, and I ate a pear,

From a dozen of each we had bought somewhere;

And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold,

And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold.

We were very tired, we were very merry,

We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.

We hailed, “Good morrow, mother!” to a shawl-covered head,

And bought a morning paper, which neither of us read;

And she wept, “God bless you!” for the apples and pears,

And we gave her all our money but our subway fares.

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