The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver Poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Listen to Edna St. Vincent Millay's Pulitzer Prize-winning poem "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" (1922). This poem is about a poor mother and her son. She did not have anything to weave dresses for her son. The night before, she magically weaves several dresses for her son and dies with a smile at the corner of her lips.