Sorrowful dreams remembered after waking
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1892 to 1950
Track 1
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Weeping I wake; waking, I weep, I weep.
Sorrowful dreams remembered after waking
Drying the bud, curling the opened leaf.
Grief at the root, a dark and secret dolour,
Even as I read, the silly tears out-breaking
Shadow with dolour all the candid day;
Splash on my hands and shut the page away. . .
Deep is the pond—although the edge be shallow,
Frank in the sun, revealing fish and stone,
Clutching the rose, draining its cheek of colour,
Climbing ashore to turtle-head and mallow—
Desolate dreams pursue me out of sleep;
Harder to bear than wind-and-weather grief,
Black at the centre beats a heart unknown.
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