Skip to main content

Ashes by Edna St. Vincent Millay: Shrine20220401 29728 1f817ht

Ashes by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Shrine20220401 29728 1f817ht
    • Notifications
    • Privacy
  • Project HomePoetry/Speech Database
  • Projects
  • Learn more about Manifold

Notes

Show the following:

  • Annotations
  • Resources
Search within:

Adjust appearance:

  • font
    Font style
  • color scheme
  • Margins
table of contents
This text does not have a table of contents.

Ashes of Life by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love has gone and left me and the days are all alike;

Eat I must, and sleep I will,--and would that night were here!

But ah!--to lie awake and hear the slow hours strike!

Would that it were day again!--with twilight near!

Love has gone and left me and I don't know what to do;

This or that or what you will is all the same to me;

But all the things that I begin I leave before I'm through,--

There's little use in anything as far as I can see.

Love has gone and left me,--and the neighbors knock and borrow,

And life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse,--

And to-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow

There's this little street and this little house.

Annotate

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Powered by Manifold Scholarship. Learn more at
Opens in new tab or windowmanifoldapp.org