The poem may have been influenced by Millay’s childhood experience of nearly drowning. Battie in Camden, Maine (where a plaque now commemorates the writing of the poem). At some point, Millay wrote “Renascence” while looking out from the summit of Mt. Nicholas, a children’s magazine, throughout her teen years, and had become a proficient poet. Millay had written and published poetry in St. In 1912, the nineteen-year-old Millay, encouraged by her mother, entered her poem “Renascence” in a poetry contest in The Lyric Year. This poem appeared in Renascence and Other Poems (1917) and is in the public domain. Rolls, twinkling, from its grass-blade top. Perished with each,-then mourned for all! That, sick’ning, I would fain pluck thence Through which my shrinking sight did pass
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