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Poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay


Grown-up


WAS it for this I uttered prayers,
And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs,
That now, domestic as a plate,
I should retire at half-past eight? 



Edna St. Vincent Millay


Edna St. Vincent Millay's other poems:
  1. I See So Clearly Now My Similar Years
  2. Still Will I Harvest Beauty
  3. Lord Archer, Death
  4. So She Came Back
  5. From the Wan Dream


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