Love
Nuit Blanche
From The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (1923)
Love
I am a shepherd of those sheep
That climb a wall by night,
One after one, until I sleep,
Or the black pane goes white.
Because of which I cannot see
A flock upon a hill,
But doubts come tittering up to me
That should by day be still.
And childish griefs I have outgrown
Into my eyes are thrust,
Till my dull tears go dropping down
Like lead into the dust.
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MLA
Millay, Edna St. Vincent. “Nuit Blanche.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/millay/90/.
Chicago
Millay, Edna St. Vincent. “Nuit Blanche.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/millay/90/.
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