“When I have found a way to express the inexpressible, I will tell you how I love you.”
— Edna St. Vincent Millay, diary entry circa 1911

Photo: Edna St. Vincent Millay in Mamaroneck,[4] New York, 1914, by Arnold Genthe.
“When I have found a way to express the inexpressible, I will tell you how I love you.”
— Edna St. Vincent Millay, diary entry circa 1911

Photo: Edna St. Vincent Millay in Mamaroneck,[4] New York, 1914, by Arnold Genthe.
My good friend Jaine Sirieys posted this yesterday. It’s powerful, and I love it.
“What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why”
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain
Under my head till morning; but the rain
Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh
Upon the glass and listen for reply,
And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain
For unremembered lads that not again
Will turn to me at midnight with a cry.
Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree,
Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,
Yet knows its boughs more silent than before:
I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.