A sonnet of heartbreak, addressed from Millay to a lover leaving her. We all know that feeling, Edna. Call me if you need anything.
Love me no more, now let the god depart,
If love be grown so bitter to your tongue!
Here is my hand; I bid you from my heart
Fare well, fare very well, be always young.
As for myself, mine was a deeper drouth:
I drank and thirsted still; but I surmise
My kisses now are sand against your mouth,
Teeth in your palm and pennies on your eyes.
Speak but one cruel word, to shame my tears;
Go, but in going, stiffen up my back
To meet the yelping of the mustering years —
Dim, trotting shapes that seldom will attack
Two with a light who match their steps and sing:
To one alone and lost, another thing.
Edna St. Vincent Millay released Love me no more, now let the god depart (Sonnet XXXIX) on Thu Jan 01 1931.