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= **__Edna St. Vincent Millay__** = ==

Sonnet XLIII

@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 the 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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@I. Being Born a Woman and Distressed

I, being born a woman and @distressed By all the @needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your @propinquity to find Your person fair, and feel a certain zest To bear your @body's weight upon my breast: So subtly is the @fume of life designed, To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind, And leave me once again @undone, possessed. Think not for this, however, the poor @treason Of my @stout blood against my staggering brain, I shall remember you with @love, or season My scorn with pity, -- let me make it plain: I find this frenzy insufficient reason For @conversation when we meet again.

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