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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, on February 22, 1892. Her mother, Cora, raised her three daughters on her own after asking her husband to leave...
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FURTHER READING
Poems About Difficult Love
A Love Song
by William Carlos Williams, read by Ron Silliman
Anna, Thy Charms
by Robert Burns
Be Near Me
by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Caboose Thoughts
by Carl Sandburg
Dregs
by César Vallejo
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder
by A. E. Housman
I Am Not Yours
by Sara Teasdale
I Do Not Love Thee
by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
Last Words to Miriam
by D. H. Lawrence
Love's Secret
by William Blake
Loving and Beloved
by Sir John Suckling
Never give all the heart
by W. B. Yeats
One Art
by Elizabeth Bishop
Opal
by Amy Lowell
Sonnet 102 [If no love is, O God, what fele I so?]
by Petrarch
Sonnet 12 [Alas, so all things now do hold their peace]
by Petrarch
The Barrier
by Claude McKay
The More Loving One
by W. H. Auden, read by Nick Laird
The Peace That So Lovingly Descends
by Noelle Kocot
To His Coy Love
by Michael Drayton
What Do I Care
by Sara Teasdale
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
by Walt Whitman
Witch-Wife
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Related Prose
Poetry Landmark: Edna St. Vincent Millay's hometown of Camden, ME
Groundbreaking Books: Collected Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1941)
Poetic Form: Sonnet
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Love Poems
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What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII)  
by Edna St. Vincent Millay

What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, 
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain 
Under my head till morning; but the rain 
Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh 
Upon the glass and listen for reply, 
And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain 
For unremembered lads that not again 
Will turn to me at midnight with a cry. 
Thus in winter stands the lonely tree, 
Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, 
Yet knows its boughs more silent than before: 
I cannot say what loves have come and gone, 
I only know that summer sang in me 
A little while, that in me sings no more.



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From Collected Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, published by Harper & Brothers Publishers. Copyright © 1956 by Norma Millay Ellis.
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