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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.