Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes about Grief

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Life must go on; I forget just why.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Grief, Goes On, Forget

Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.176, eBookIt.com

The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief or grief has drained me clean; Still it seems a pity No one saw,—it must have been Very pretty.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Grief, Rose, Tree

Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). “Millay: Poems”, p.45, Everyman's Library

For my omniscience paid I toll In infinite remorse of soul. All sin was of my sinning, all Atoning mine, and mine the gall Of all regret. Mine was the weight Of every brooded wrong, the hate That stood behind each envious thrust, Mine every greed, mine every lust. And all the while for every grief, Each suffering, I craved relief With individual desire, – Craved all in vain! And felt fierce fire About a thousand people crawl; Perished with each, — then mourned for all!

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Regret, Hate, Grief

Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “Renascence and Other Poems”, p.3, Courier Corporation