Sara Teasdale, comp. (1884–1933).
The Answering Voice: One Hundred Love Lyrics by Women. 1917.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Eat I must, and sleep I will,—and would that night were here!
But ah!—to lie awake and hear the slow hours strike!
Would that it were day again!—with twilight near!
This or that or what you will is all the same to me;
But all the things that I begin I leave before I ’m through,—
There ’s little use in anything as far as I can see.
And life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse,—
And to-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow
There ’s this little street and this little house.