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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INDIFFERENCE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said, for love was laggard, o, love was slow Last Line: All sorry with the tears some folks might weep! Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Indifference | |||
I said, -- for Love was laggard, O, Love was slow to come, -- "I'll hear his step and know his step when I am warm in bed; But I'll never leave my pillow, though there be some As would let him in -- and take him in with tears!" I said. I lay, -- for Love was laggard, O, he came not until dawn, -- I lay and listened for his step and could not get to sleep; And he found me at my window with my big cloak on, All sorry with the tears some folks might weep! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE STATE OF THE NATION by KENNETH PATCHEN GREEN AWNINGS by BARBARA GUEST EPIGRAM: TO FOOL, OR KNAVE by BEN JONSON AGAINST INDIFFERENCE by CHARLES WEBBE THE MISSING ALL PREVENTED ME by EMILY DICKINSON FLOS LUNAE by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON THE CORDIAL. IN THE YEAR 1657. A SONG by THOMAS FLATMAN AFTERNOON ON A HILL by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY |
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