Ashes of Life
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1892 to 1950
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Love has gone and left me and the days all alike;
Eat I must, and sleep I will, — and would that night were here!
But ah! — lie awake and hear the slow hours strike!
Would it were day again! — with twilight near!
Love gone and left me and I don't know what do;
This or that or what you will is the same to me;
But all the things that begin I leave before I'm through, —
There's little in anything as far as I can see.
Love gone and left me, — and the neighbors knock borrow,
And life goes on forever like the gnawing a mouse, —
And to-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow to-morrow
There's this little street and this little house.
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