What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,I have forgotten,
and what arms have lainUnder my head till morning;
but the rainIs full of ghosts tonight,
that tap and sighUpon the glass and listen for reply,
And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain
For unremembered lads that not again Will turn to me at midnight with a cry.
Thus in winter stands the lonely tree,
Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,
Yet knows its boughs more silent than before:
I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay
i have been looking for this poem since high school and now i found it
in my brit lit class i remember reading the first and last 2 lines
in our text book. and they summed up the summer before my senior year so
perfectly, that i have been looking for this poem ever since