Was it for this I uttered prayers,
And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs,
That now, domestic as a plate,
I should retire at half-past eight?

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) American poet

Poem (1920), “Grown-Up,” A Few Figs from Thistles, (1921, expanded ed.)
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The poem was not in the original 1920 publication.