Poems (Millay)/Humoresque

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Humoresque

"Heaven bless the babe!" they said;"What queer books she must have read!"(Love, by whom I was beguiled,Grant I may not bear a child.)

"Little does she guess to-dayWhat the world may be," they say.(Snow, drift deep and coverTill the spring my murdered lover.)