I know what my heart is like
Since your love died:
It is like a hollow ledge
Holding a little pool
Left there by the tide,
A little tepid pool,
Drying inward from the edge.

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) American poet
“Ebb,” The Nation (UK), Vol. 27, No. 4 (1920-04-24)
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Collected in Second April (1921).

 
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