Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.
Edna St. Vincent MillayYouth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.
Edna St. Vincent MillayI shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll.
Edna St. Vincent MillayAnd what are you that, missing you, I should be kept awake As many nights as there are days With weeping for your sake? And what are you that, missing you, As many days as crawl I should be listening to the wind And looking at the wall? I know a man thatโs a braver man And twenty men as kind, And what are you, that you should be The one man in my mind? Yet womenโs ways are witless ways, As any sage will tell,โ And what am I, that I should love So wisely and so well?
Edna St. Vincent Millay