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.
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In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Poem (1885), “Bed in Summer,” st. 1, A Child’s Garden of Verses
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