Sonnet 02: Time Does Not Bring Relief; You All Have Lied - A poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay


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Edna St. Vincent Millay - Sonnet 02: Time Does Not Bring Relief; You All Have Lied

Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
   Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
   I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,
   And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane;
   But last year's bitter loving must remain
Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide

There are a hundred places where I fear
   To go,—so with his memory they brim
And entering with relief some quiet place
Where never fell his foot or shone his face
I say, "There is no memory of him here!"
   And so stand stricken, so remembering him!

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Poet: Edna St. Vincent Millay (Edna St. Vincent Millay Art) Poem: 2. Sonnet 02: Time Does Not Bring Relief; You All Have Lied Volume: Renascence and Other Poems - Sonnets Year: Published/Written in 1917 Comment 6 of 6, added on May 31st, 2009 at 7:38 PM. I first discoverd this poem a few months after my dearly loved husband of 28 years left me for another woman. I had recorded a programme about poetry and there it was. I remember playing and replaying the programme until I had the poem by heart... how sad am I! 8 yaers later I am still lonely and this poem still talks to me. I don't think it's about death as others do, but that's my opinion and if this sonnet sums up how desolate you feel as it does for me then that's good. Would that I had never been able to understand the feelings it conveys! Julie Flisher from United Kingdom Comment 5 of 6, added on April 18th, 2008 at 3:01 PM. Really , it`s wonderful poem .It expresses our emotions when we loose someone.I like it . Reem from Palestine Comment 4 of 6, added on June 10th, 2007 at 7:02 PM. this poem makes me want to poop all over the place!!! franz haroldson from Australia More Comments >> Are you looking for more information on this poem? Perhaps you are trying to analyze it? The poem, Sonnet 02: Time Does Not Bring Relief; You All Have Lied, has received 6 comments. Click here to read them, and perhaps post a comment of your own. Of course you can also always discuss poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay with others on the American Poems poetry forum!

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Poet: Edna St. Vincent Millay Poem: 2. Sonnet 02: Time Does Not Bring Relief; You All Have Lied Volume: Renascence and Other Poems - Sonnets Year: Published/Written in 1917 Last read: Dec 10 2009, 3:34AM Viewed 9276 times. Added on June 10th, 2007 at 7:02 PM.

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