Hard, hard it is, this anxious autumn To lift the heavy min… - Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Hard, hard it is, this anxious autumn
To lift the heavy mind from its dark forebodings;

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She was also known for her unconventional, bohemian lifestyle and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work.

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Night falls fast. Today is in the past.

Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before: I cannot say what loves have come and gone, I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.

Hard, hard it is, this anxious autumn To lift the heavy mind from its dark forebodings; - Edna St. Vincent Millay

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