Love

Nuit Blanche

by Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892–1950

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.

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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