Prayer to Persephone

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

An illustration for the story Prayer to Persephone by the author Edna St. Vincent Millay — 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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