“…Saw you not at the beginning of evening the antlered buck and his doe
Standing in the apple-orchard? I saw them. I saw them suddenly go…

…Now lies he here, his wild blood scalding the snow.”

The title poem of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s The Buck in the Snow and Other Poems is one of several in the collection that contemplate death and loss. Others include poems lamenting the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. Millay’s book passes to the public domain in 37 days. #PublicDomainDayCountdown