Sonnet XXX // „Fatal Interview" by Edna S. Vincent Villay

Love is not all: It is not meat nor drink

Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain,

Nor yet floating spar to men that sink

And rise and sink and rise and sink again.

Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath

Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;

Yet many a man is making friends with death 

Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.......................................................

Sources:

Edna S. Vincent Millay, Sonnet XXX (fragment) from "Fatal Interview" (1931),

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