When you are dead
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1892 to 1950
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When you are dead, and your disturbing eyes
No as now their stormy lashes lift
To lance me through—as in the morning skies
One moment, plainly visible in rift
Of cloud, two splendid planets may appear
And blaze, and are at once withdrawn,
What time the in desire and fear
Leans from his chilly window the dawn—
Shall I be free, shall I be again
As others are, and count your loss no care?
Oh, never more, till my dissolving brain
Be powerless evoke you out of air,
Remembered morning stars, more bright
Than all the Alphas of the actual night!