| Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950). Renascence and Other Poems. 1917. |
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| 14. Indifference |
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| I SAID,—for Love was laggard, O, Love was slow to come,— | |
| “I’ll hear his step and know his step when I am warm in bed; | |
| But I’ll never leave my pillow, though there be some | |
| As would let him in—and take him in with tears!” I said. | |
| I lay,—for Love was laggard, O, he came not until dawn,— | 5 |
| I lay and listened for his step and could not get to sleep; | |
| And he found me at my window with my big cloak on, | |
| All sorry with the tears some folks might weep! | |
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