"Sorrow like a ceaseless rain / Beats upon my heart."
— Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950)
Work Title
Date
November 1914
Metaphor
"Sorrow like a ceaseless rain / Beats upon my heart."
Metaphor in Context
Sorrow like a ceaseless rain
Beats upon my heart.
People twist and scream in pain, --
Dawn will find them still again;
This has neither wax nor wane,
Neither stop nor start.
People dress and go to town;
I sit in my chair.
All my thoughts are slow and brown:
Standing up or sitting down
Little matters, or what gown
Or what shoes I wear.
Beats upon my heart.
People twist and scream in pain, --
Dawn will find them still again;
This has neither wax nor wane,
Neither stop nor start.
People dress and go to town;
I sit in my chair.
All my thoughts are slow and brown:
Standing up or sitting down
Little matters, or what gown
Or what shoes I wear.
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
First published in Forum, November 1914. Millay, Edna St. Vincent. "Sorrow." Renascence and Other Poems. New York and London: Harper, 1917. p. 43. 15th printing. <Link to RPO>
Date of Entry
01/07/2010
