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A ghost in marble of a girl you knew Who would have loved you in a day or two.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

When you are corn and roses and at rest I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost To haunt the scene where I was happiest To bend above the thing I loved the most

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Heap not on this mound
Roses that she loved so well;
Why bewilder her with roses,
That she cannot see or smell?

Edna St. Vincent Millay

I find that I never lose Bach. I don't know why I have always loved him so. Except that he is so pure, so relentless and incorruptible, like a principle of geometry.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line....

Edna St. Vincent Millay

The heart grows weary after a little Of what it loved for a little while.

Edna St. Vincent Millay