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References
- ↑ "I, Being born a Woman and Distressed (Sonnet XLI) by Edna St. Vincent Millay - Poems | Academy of American Poets".
- ↑ "Edna St. Vincent Millay". Poetry Foundation. Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
- ↑ Miller, Nina. "Millay's Poetry in a Greenwich Village Context". Modern American Poetry. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
- ↑ Hubbard, Stacy Carson. "Love's "Little Day": Time and the Sexual Body in Millay's Sonnets". Modern American Poetry. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved 26 September 2014.