The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During …

Edna St. Vincent Millay
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The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief or grief has drained me clean; Still it seems a pity No one saw,—it must have been Very pretty. ✨ Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). Millay: Poems, p.45, Everyman's Library
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The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief or grief has drained me clean; Still it seems a pity No one saw,—it must have been Very pretty. ✨ Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). Millay: Poems, p.45, Everyman's Library

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