Aside from the spate of albums, box sets and commemorative editions, there's the official clothing line, candles, sundry home furnishings and Marley Coffee Inc.
Given those lines – "candle to light you to" and "here comes a" – one worries for Busner's future in the concluding book.
The same year she published the verse collection A Few Figs from Thistles, from which the line "My candle burns at both ends" derives.
Millay and her husband, Eugen Jan Boissevain, moved there in 1923, the year she won a Pulitzer Prize and three years after the poem "First Fig" earned her a place in the language with its opening line, "My candle burns at both ends".
At the softly toned Web site, you can find handsomely packaged bereavement candles for sale with their own satin pouches, as well as candles for the loss of a child and a line of candles to mourn pets.
MarthaCelebrations will include Martha Stewart's party line with candles and balloons; another line, MarthaPantry, will sell her first packaged foods.
Ms. Merrifield, who lost her daughter Jacquelin Watson, 18, held hands with others arrayed behind a line of candles in the sand.
A line of candles ran from the tomb to the tall, white cross marking the spot where Pope John Paul II had given his first sermon in his native land as pontiff.
Another time, she joined a line of candle-bearing demonstrators walking slowly around the outskirts of Washington, each with the name of a dead G.I. — dead in Vietnam — hung around his or her neck.
A less flippant spirituality impelled Harry Slatkin, a fragrance entrepreneur, to introduce a line of candles, called simply Kabbalah, imbued with frankincense, cinnamon and myrrh and said to promote sexual energy, spiritual cleansing and the like.
