Edna St. Vincent Millay: Ashes of Life 生命的灰烬

Love has gone and left me and the days are all alike;

Eat I must, and sleep I will, — and would that night were here!

But ah! — to lie awake and hear the slow hours strike!

Would that it were day again! — with twilight near!

Love has gone and left me and I don't know what to do;

This or that or what you will is all the same to me;

But all the things that I begin I leave before I'm through, —

There's little use in anything as far as I can see.

Love has gone and left me, — and the neighbors knock and borrow,

And life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse, —

And to-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow

There's this little street and this little house.

Edna St. Vincent Millay 埃德娜·圣文森特·米莱 (1892-1950)，美国诗人兼剧作家，是美国历史上第一位得到普利兹诗歌奖的女性。米莱生创作了大量优美的抒情诗，很多人认为，她代表上世纪20年代新的解放了的女性。米莱整个26年的婚姻期间與丈夫一直保持“性开放”，和男人还有与其他女人的恋爱故事向来令社会正统侧目甚至反目。