The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection  The Department of Special Collections is home to an impressive collection of the works of the American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950).  The collection includes several hundred books and a number of literary journals and photographs, and features Millay and several of her contemporaries.  Many of Millay's first editions are represented in the collection, as are several volumes signed by Millay and others. The collection was a gift to Skidmore by Frank T. Crohn in 1986. Later gifts, by Dalton Delan, Judith and George Lowry, and John Patton, have added to the collection.      The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection is fully cataloged and accessible through the library's on-line catalog, LUCY2.           ABOVE THESE CARES       by Edna St. Vincent Millay  Above these cares my spirit in calm abiding  Floats like a swimmer at sunrise, facing the pale sky;  Peaceful, heaved by the light infrequent lurch of the heavy wave  Serenely sliding  Under his weightless body, aware of the wide morning, aware of the gull  On the red buoy, bedaubed with guano, aware of the sharp cry;  Idly athirst for the sea, as who should say:  In a moment I will roll upon my mouth and drink it dry.  Painfully, under the pressure that obtains  At the sea's bottom, crushing my lungs and my brains  (For the body makes shift to breathe and after a fashion flourish  Ten fathoms deep in care,  Ten fathoms down in an element denser than air  Wherein the soul must perish)  I trap and harvest stilling my stomach's needs;  I crawl forever, hoping never to see  Above my head the limbs of my spirit no longer free  Kicking in frenzy, a swimmer enmeshed in weeds.   published in Harpers Magazine, December 1933

Dust Jacket.  Edna St. Vincent Millay, The King's Henchman. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1927.  Millay Collection.    Autographed title page. Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Lamp and the Bell. New York: Frank Shay, 1921.  Millay Collection.

Skidmore College would be interested in acquiring the following items through donations or otherwise. Please contact the Department of Special Collections by e-mail at Special Collections.

1. 1917 to 1919 Senior Parlor Opening (Vassar).

2. Aria de Capo, A Play in One Act, 4th edition, 1924.

3. The Lamp and the Bell, 2nd edition, 1922.

4. The Lamp and the Bell, 3rd edition, 1924.

5. The Lamp and the Bell, 4th edition, 1924.

6. Second April, 2nd edition, 1921.

7. The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems, 2nd edition, 1924.

8. Distressing Dialogues, 1924.

9. Three Plays, 1st edition, 1926.

10. Three Plays, 2nd edition, 1927.

11. The King's Henchman, 3rd edition [libretto], 1927.

12. The King's Henchman, 5th edition, 1927.

13. The Unbound Anthology, 1930.

14. Wine from These Grapes, 3rd edition, 1934.

15. Flowers of Evil, 2nd edition, 1962.

16. Mark Bright the Arrows, 2nd edition, 1941.

17. Invocation to the Muses, 1st edition, 1941.

18. Invocation to the Muses, 2nd edition, 1941.

19. Collected Sonnets, 1st edition, 1941.

20. Collected Sonnets, 2nd edition, 1959.

21. Collected Lyrics, 1st edition, 1943.

22. Collected Lyrics, 2nd edition, 1959.

23. Lyrics and Sonnets, 1945.

24. Collected Poems, 1956.

Also any Millay related letters.