The heart once broken is a heart no more by Edna St. Vincent Millay
I just realized that it’s been over a month since the last ESVM. I have a boatload of sonnets marked for future posting, and here’s one of them. P.S. I also realized that I have posted at least one poem by ESVM starting with every letter of the alphabet except Q, X, Y, and Z. Impressive!
The heart once broken is a heart no more
By Edna St. Vincent Millay
The heart once broken is a heart no more,
And is absolved from all a heart must be;
All that is signed or chartered heretofore
Is cancelled now, the bankrupt heart is free;
So much of duty as you may require
Or shards and dust, this and no more of pain,
This and no more of hope, remorse, desire,
The heart once broken need support again.
How simple ’tis, and what a little sound
It makes in breaking, let the world attest:
It struggled, and it fails; the world goes round,
And the moon follows it. Heart in my breast,
‘Tis half a year now since you broke in two;
The world’s forgotten well, if the world knew.
