Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) spent the last decades of her life adjacent to the Berkshires at her Steepletop estate in Austerlitz, NY.
Ms. Millay was born in Maine and moved to Greenwhich Village after graduating from Vassar College in 1917. Her poetry, which first won prizes in her teens, led to becoming began recipient of the first two Pulitzer Prizes awarded to a woman, thus her stature in the literary world is unquestioned.
Poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Ebb
I know what my heart is like
Since your love died:
It is like a hollow ledge
Holding a little pool
Left there by the tide,
A little tepid pool,
Drying inward from the edge.