Explore "Song for Young Lovers in a City" by Edna St. Vincent Millay on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Though less for love than for the deep / Though transient death that follows it
These childish mouths grown soft in sleep / Here in a rented bed have met, / They have not met in love's despite . . .
Such tiny loves will leap and flare / Lurid as coke-fires in the night, / Against a background of despair.
To treeless grove, to grey retreat / Descend in flocks from corniced eaves
The pigeons now on sooty feet, / To cover them with linden leaves.