The Ballad of the Harp Weaver

At 9.5 feet, the house where Edna St. Vincent Millay lived during 1923–24 is said to be New York City's narrowest house. That was the year when she wrote *The Ballad of the Harp Weaver* and won the Pulitzer Prize for it. I hadn't heard of the poem when I stood before the house during a walk in Greenwich Village in New York City this month. A red plaque on its wall announces the fact, the feat. After locating the poem through Google, I found also this recital of it by Johnny Cash: it is powerfully delivered in his clear baritone voice, and moved me very much in the first listening. The recitation lacks a little in fidelity to the original, Cash improvises through the performance—but that may be easily forgiven.