What lips my lips have kissed

Edna St. Vincent Millay

1892 to 1950

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Will turn to me at midnight with a cry.
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.
Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh
I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain
Under my head till morning; but the rain
Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,
Upon the glass and listen for reply,
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
Yet knows its boughs more silent than before:
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain
For unremembered lads that not again
Thus in winter stands the lonely tree,