Love Is Not All Poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love Is Not All

Rating: 3.9


Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want past resolution's power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. I do not think I would.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
* Sunprincess * 06 June 2014

.......I truly believe love is God and love can do all things.....supply us with food and drink.....a roof against the rain....a floating spar for the men who rise and sink, rise and sink....even repair our broken bones and give us the air we breathe....and yes truly life is not worth living without God (love)

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Gary Novosielski 17 May 2024

YeeaahhNo.

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bentley 03 September 2018

This trash, i dont understand how people like this.

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Gary Novosielski 17 May 2024

That you don't understand I have no doubt.

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Maya Hanson 14 February 2014

this is so amazing! ! ! ! ! ! I love it

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MAHTAB BANGALEE 02 January 2023

Love is not all and love is not goal but love is pearl of heart expression; nice to read

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Kumarmani Mahakul 02 January 2023

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink........ beginning done with a true dictum. Beautiful poem. Five stars.

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Chinedu Dike 02 January 2023

A beautiful rendition of words...

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Dr Dillip K Swain 30 August 2021

A unique composition! Loved the way things have been expressed!

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Rockland / Maine / United States
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