by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
Love has gone and left me and the days...
Language: English
Love has gone and left me and the days are all alike; 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! Love has gone and left me and I don't know what to do; 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. Love has gone and left me, -- and the neighbors knock and borrow, 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.
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Text Authorship:
- by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), "Ashes of Life", appears in Renascence and Other Poems, first published 1917 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Carl Alette (b. 1922), "Ashes of Life", published 1963 [ medium voice and piano ], from Three Secular Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joel Balzun (b. 1990), "Love has gone and left me", 2011 [ vocal duet for tenor and baritone with piano ], from The strong, the strange, and the humble, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2004-06-04
Line count: 12
Word count: 133