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

To One Who Might Have Borne a Message

Had I known that you were going
I would have given you messages for her,
Now two years dead,
Whom I shall always love.

As it is, should she entreat you how it goes with me,
You must reply, as well as with most, you fancy;
That I love easily, and pass the time.
And she will not know how all day long between
My life and me her shadow intervenes,
A young thin girl,
Wearing a white skirt and a purple sweater
And a narrow pale blue ribbon about her hair.

I used to say to her, “I love you
Because your face is such a pretty color,
No other reason.”
But it was not true.

Oh, had I only known that you were going,
I could have given you messages for her!

1. Euclid Alone Has Looked
2. That Love at Length Should Find
3. I See So Clearly Now My Similar Years
4. Your Face Is Like a Chamber Where a King
5. I, Being Born a Woman

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