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Friday, 31 July 2009

Sonnets, more of.

Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,
And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year's bitter loving must remain
Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide

There are a hundred places where I fear
To go,—so with his memory they brim
And entering with relief some quiet place
Where never fell his foot or shone his face
I say, "There is no memory of him here!"
And so stand stricken, so remembering him!
-Edna St. Vincent Millay

[via The Writer's Almanac and Sonnets.Org]

3 comments:

  1. You have a talent for finding painfully appropriate verse.

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  2. waaaaa-Angela
    too beautiful, yet too acutely painful.

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  3. @Pebble, isn't it just? Breaks my heart every time I read it.

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