The Skulldigger has a question bothering her, and since I’m the one logged in on the Straight Dope, I’m posting it in her behalf.
Back in 1968, the TV show The Mod Squad had an episode entitled “A Time for Hyacinths” in which Vincent Price played a sailor who interacts with Julie (one of the lead characters) in a counseling sort of role. (I didn’t see the episode, and Barb’s memory is hazy, even though she encountered it back in 1997.)
In any case, he recites a poem with the same title as the episode to her. Lines from it include:
I’m guessing, from the style and point, that it was an American woman poet of the early 20th century, in the group that includes Edna St. Vincent Millay or Sara Teasdale. But we don’t have any further clue than those lines and the title, and no reference seems to link to it.
Anybody know the poem, or can find it? (If it’s copyright and not available online, wouldja please e-mail the text to us, to avoid raising a copyright issue on the board.)
Note: If the above text is the whole of the poem, and copyright adheres, please report this post, so that a moderator can replace my quote with a link.
