Sorrow
Sorrow
Original Text
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence and Other Poems (New York and London: Harper, 1917): 43. 15th printing. PS 3525 I495R4 Robarts Library.
1Sorrow like a ceaseless rain
2 Beats upon my heart.
3People twist and scream in pain, --
4Dawn will find them still again;
5This has neither wax nor wane,
6 Neither stop nor start.
7People dress and go to town;
8 I sit in my chair.
9All my thoughts are slow and brown:
10Standing up or sitting down
11Little matters, or what gown
12 Or what shoes I wear.
Publication Start Year
1914
Publication Notes
Published in Forum
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
RPO 1998.
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