Sorrowful dreams remembered after waking
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1892 to 1950
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Sorrowful dreams remembered after waking
Shadow with dolour all candid day;
Even as I read, the silly tears out-breaking
Splash on my hands and shut the page away. . .
Grief at the root, a dark and secret dolour,
Harder to bear than wind-and-weather grief,
Clutching the rose, its cheek of colour,
Drying the bud, curling the leaf.
Deep is the pond—although the edge be shallow,
in the sun, revealing fish and stone,
Climbing ashore turtle-head and mallow—
Black at the centre beats a unknown.
Desolate dreams pursue me out of sleep;
Weeping wake; waking, I weep, I weep.
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