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Poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay


Sonnets 04: Only Until This Cigarette Is Ended


Only until this cigarette is ended,
A little moment at the end of all,
While on the floor the quiet ashes fall,
And in the firelight to a lance extended,
Bizarrely with the jazzing music blended,
The broken shadow dances on the wall,
I will permit my memory to recall
The vision of you, by all my dreams attended.
And then adieu,—farewell!—the dream is done.
Yours is a face of which I can forget
The color and the features, every one,
The words not ever, and the smiles not yet;
But in your day this moment is the sun
Upon a hill, after the sun has set.



Edna St. Vincent Millay


Edna St. Vincent Millay's other poems:
  1. The Courage That My Mother Had
  2. The Heart Once Broken Is a Heart No More
  3. If to Be Left Were to Be Left Alone
  4. Apostrophe to Man
  5. Scrub


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