Edna St. Vincent Millay (Эдна Сент-Винсент Миллей)

Sonnet (Women Have Loved Before As I Love Now)

Women have loved before as I love now;
At least, in lively chronicles of the past—
Of Irish waters by a Cornish prow
Or Trojan waters by a Spartan mast
Much to their cost invaded—here and there,
Hunting the amorous line, skimming the rest,
I find some woman bearing as I bear
Love like a burning city in the breast.
I think however that of all alive
I only in such utter, ancient way
Do suffer love; in me alone survive
The unregenerate passions of a day
When treacherous queens, with death upon the tread,
Heedless and willful, took their knights to bed.

1. My Most Distinguished Guest And Learned Friend
2. Assault
3. Grown-up
4. The Spring and the Fall
5. Night Is My Sister, And How Deep In Love

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