Elaine

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Oh, come again to Astolat!
  I will not ask you to be kind.
And you may go when you will go,
  And I will stay behind.

I will not say how dear you are,
  Or ask you if you hold me dear,
Or trouble you with things for you
  The way I did last year.

So still the orchard, Lancelot,
  So very still the lake shall be,
You could not guess—though you should guess—
  What is become of me.

So wide shall be the garden-walk,
  The garden-seat so very wide,
You needs must think—if you should think—
  The lily maid had died.

Save that, a little way away,
  I’d watch you for a little while,
To see you speak, the way you speak,
  And smile,—if you should smile.

Next 10 Poems

• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Elegy
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Elegy Before Death
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Epitaph
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Exiled
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : First Fig
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Four Sonnets: 01 ( Love, Though For This You Riddle Me With Darts )
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Four Sonnets: 02 ( I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently )
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Four Sonnets: 03 ( Oh, Think Not I Am Faithful To A Vow! )
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Four Sonnets: 04 ( I Shall Forget You Presently, My Dear )
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : God's World

Previous 10 Poems

• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Eel-grass
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Ebb
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Doubt No More That Oberon
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Dirge
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Daphne
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : City Trees
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Chorus
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Cherish You Then The Hope I Shall Forget
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Burial
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Bluebeard