Prayer to Persephone

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Prayer to Persephone was published in Millay's collection, Second April (1921).

Kore (Persephone, goddess of the underworld), 525 - 500 BCE

　　Be to her, Persephone, All the things I might not be; Take her head upon your knee. She that was so proud and wild, Flippant, arrogant and free, She that had no need of me, Is a little lonely child Lost in Hell,—Persephone, Take her head upon your knee; Say to her, "My dear, my dear, It is not so dreadful here."

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