Indifference

Edna St. Vincent Millay

I said,—for Love was laggard, O, Love was slow to come,—
  “I’ll hear his step and know his step when I am warm in bed;
But I’ll never leave my pillow, though there be some
  As would let him in—and take him in with tears!” I said.
I lay,—for Love was laggard, O, he came not until dawn,—
  I lay and listened for his step and could not get to sleep;
And he found me at my window with my big cloak on,
  All sorry with the tears some folks might weep!

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• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Inland
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Interim
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• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Journey
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Kin To Sorrow
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Lament
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• Edna St. Vincent Millay : If I Should Learn, In Some Quite Casual Way
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Grown-up
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : God's World
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Four Sonnets: 04 ( I Shall Forget You Presently, My Dear )
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Four Sonnets: 03 ( Oh, Think Not I Am Faithful To A Vow! )
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Four Sonnets: 02 ( I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently )
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Four Sonnets: 01 ( Love, Though For This You Riddle Me With Darts )
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : First Fig
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Exiled
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Epitaph