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Edna St. Vincent Millay

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The room is full of you As I came in	A
And closed the door behind me all at once	B
A something in the air intangible	C
Yet stiff with meaning struck my senses sick	D
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Sharp unfamiliar odors have destroyed	E
Each other room's dear personality	F
The heavy scent of damp funereal flowers	G
The very essence hush distilled of Death	H
Has strangled that habitual breath of home	I
Whose expiration leaves all houses dead	J
And wheresoe'er I look is hideous change	K
Save here Here 'twas as if a weed choked gate	L
Had opened at my touch and I had stepped	M
Into some long forgot enchanted strange	K
Sweet garden of a thousand years ago	N
And suddenly thought I have been here before	O
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You are not here I know that you are gone	P
And will not ever enter here again	Q
And yet it seems to me if I should speak	R
Your silent step must wake across the hall	S
If I should turn my head that your sweet eyes	T
Would kiss me from the door So short a time	U
To teach my life its transposition to	V
This difficult and unaccustomed key	F
The room is as you left it your last touch	W
A thoughtless pressure knowing not itself	X
As saintly hallows now each simple thing	Y
Hallows and glorifies and glows between	Z
The dust's grey fingers like a shielded light	A2
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There is your book just as you laid it down	B2
Face to the table I cannot believe	C2
That you are gone Just then it seemed to me	F
You must be here I almost laughed to think	D2
How like reality the dream had been	A
Yet knew before I laughed and so was still	E2
That book outspread just as you laid it down	B2
Perhaps you thought I wonder what comes next	F2
And whether this or this will be the end	G2
So rose and left it thinking to return	H2
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Perhaps that chair when you arose and passed	I2
Out of the room rocked silently a while	J2
Ere it again was still When you were gone	P
Forever from the room perhaps that chair	K2
Stirred by your movement rocked a little while	J2
Silently to and fro	N
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And here are the last words your fingers wrote	L2
Scrawled in broad characters across a page	M2
In this brown book I gave you Here your hand	N2
Guiding your rapid pen moved up and down	B2
Here with a looping knot you crossed a t	F
And here another like it just beyond	O2
These two eccentric e's You were so small	S
And wrote so brave a hand	N2
How strange it seems	P2
That of all words these are the words you chose	Q2
And yet a simple choice you did not know	N
You would not write again If you had known	R2
But then it does not matter and indeed	S2
If you had known there was so little time	U
You would have dropped your pen and come to me	F
And this page would be empty and some phrase	T2
Other than this would hold my wonder now	U2
Yet since you could not know and it befell	V2
That these are the last words your fingers wrote	L2
There is a dignity some might not see	F
In this I picked the first sweet pea to day	W2
To day Was there an opening bud beside it	X2
You left until to morrow O my love	Y2
The things that withered and you came not back	Z2
That day you filled this circle of my arms	A3
That now is empty O my empty life	B3
That day that day you picked the first sweet pea	F
And brought it in to show me I recall	S
With terrible distinctness how the smell	V2
Of your cool gardens drifted in with you	V
I know you held it up for me to see	F
And flushed because I looked not at the flower	C3
But at your face and when behind my look	D3
You saw such unmistakable intent	E3
You laughed and brushed your flower against my lips	F3
You were the fairest thing God ever made	G3
I think And then your hands above my heart	H3
Drew down its stem into a fastening	Y
And while your head was bent I kissed your hair	K2
I wonder if you knew Beloved hands	I3
Somehow I cannot seem to see them still	E2
Somehow I cannot seem to see the dust	J3
In your bright hair What is the need of Heaven	K3
When earth can be so sweet If only God	L3
Had let us love and show the world the way	W2
Strange cancellings must ink th' eternal books	M3
When love crossed out will bring the answer right	A2
That first sweet pea I wonder where it is	N3
It seems to me I laid it down somewhere	K2
And yet I am not sure I am not sure	O3
Even if it was white or pink for then	Q
'Twas much like any other flower to me	F
Save that it was the first I did not know	N
Then that it was the last If I had known	R2
But then it does not matter Strange how few	V
After all's said and done the things that are	P3
Of moment	Q3
Few indeed When I can make	R3
Of ten small words a rope to hang the world	S3
I had you and I have you now no more	O
There there it dangles where's the little truth	T3
That can for long keep footing under that	U3
When its slack syllables tighten to a thought	V3
Here let me write it down I wish to see	F
Just how a thing like that will look on paper	C3
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I had you and I have you now no more	O
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O little words how can you run so straight	L
Across the page beneath the weight you bear	K2
How can you fall apart whom such a theme	W3
Has bound together and hereafter aid	G3
In trivial expression that have been	A
So hideously dignified Would God	L3
That tearing you apart would tear the thread	J
I strung you on Would God O God my mind	X3
Stretches asunder on this merciless rack	Z2
Of imagery O let me sleep a while	J2
Would I could sleep and wake to find me back	Z2
In that sweet summer afternoon with you	V
Summer 'Tis summer still by the calendar	C3
How easily could God if He so willed	Y3
Set back the world a little turn or two	V
Correct its griefs and bring its joys again	Q
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We were so wholly one I had not thought	V3
That we could die apart I had not thought	V3
That I could move and you be stiff and still	E2
That I could speak and you perforce be dumb	Z3
I think our heart strings were like warp and woof	A4
In some firm fabric woven in and out	B4
Your golden filaments in fair design	C4
Across my duller fibre And to day	W2
The shining strip is rent the exquisite	D4
Fine pattern is destroyed part of your heart	H3
Aches in my breast part of my heart lies chilled	Y3
In the damp earth with you I have been torn	E4
In two and suffer for the rest of me	F
What is my life to me And what am I	F4
To life a ship whose star has guttered out	B4
A Fear that in the deep night starts awake	R3
Perpetually to find its senses strained	G4
Against the taut strings of the quivering air	K2
Awaiting the return of some dread chord	H4
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Dark Dark is all I find for metaphor	O
All else were contrast save that contrast's wall	S
Is down and all opposed things flow together	C3
Into a vast monotony where night	A2
And day and frost and thaw and death and life	B3
Are synonyms What now what now to me	F
Are all the jabbering birds and foolish flowers	G
That clutter up the world You were my song	I4
Now let discord scream You were my flower	C3
Now let the world grow weeds For I shall not	J4
Plant things above your grave the common balm	K4
Of the conventional woe for its own wound	L4
Amid sensations rendered negative	M4
By your elimination stands to day	W2
Certain unmixed the element of grief	N4
I sorrow and I shall not mock my truth	T3
With travesties of suffering nor seek	R
To effigy its incorporeal bulk	O4
In little wry faced images of woe	N
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I cannot call you back and I desire	C3
No utterance of my immaterial voice	P4
I cannot even turn my face this way	W2
Or that and say My face is turned to you	V
I know not where you are I do not know	N
If Heaven hold you or if earth transmute	W2
Body and soul you into earth again	Q
But this I know not for one second's space	Q4
Shall I insult my sight with visionings	Q4
Such as the credulous crowd so eager eyed	W2
Beholds self conjured in the empty air	K2
Let the world wail Let drip its easy tears	Q4
My sorrow shall be dumb	Z3
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What do I say	Q4
God God God pity me Am I gone mad	W2
That I should spit upon a rosary	F
Am I become so shrunken Would to God	W2
I too might feel that frenzied faith whose touch	W
Makes temporal the most enduring grief	N4
Though it must walk a while as is its wont	W2
With wild lamenting Would I too might weep	R4
Where weeps the world and hangs its piteous wreaths	Q4
For its new dead Not Truth but Faith it is	Q4
That keeps the world alive If all at once	Q4
Faith were to slacken that unconscious faith	S4
Which must I know yet be the corner stone	R2
Of all believing birds now flying fearless	Q4
Across would drop in terror to the earth	T4
Fishes would drown and the all governing reins	Q4
Would tangle in the frantic hands of God	W2
And the worlds gallop headlong to destruction	K3
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O God I see it now and my sick brain	U4
Staggers and swoons How often over me	F
Flashes this breathlessness of sudden sight	W2
In which I see the universe unrolled	W2
Before me like a scroll and read thereon	P
Chaos and Doom where helpless planets whirl	V4
Dizzily round and round and round and round	W2
Like tops across a table gathering speed	W2
With every spin to waver on the edge	W4
One instant looking over and the next	W2
To shudder and lurch forward out of sight	W2
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Ah I am worn out I am wearied out	W2
It is too much I am but flesh and blood	W2
And I must sleep Though you were dead again	Q
I am but flesh and blood and I must sleep	R4