Short glass bowl of fresh flowers with one visibly wilted bloom and a detached petal

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What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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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Our interpretation.

The speaker cannot recount which loves have come and gone. What they do know is that for a short time summer sang inside them, and that the song is now silent. Past feeling is remembered as a season that has ended, without any explanation for why.

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