By Edna St. Vincent Millay
Submitted by Rhetoric
Date: 2002 Jan 05
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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!