“I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Sonnet XLIII: "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why" (1923), Collected Poems", 1931
Context: Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree,
Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,
Yet knows its boughs more silent than before:
I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.

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American poet 1892–1950

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“I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.”