Ebb

I know what my heart is like
    Since your love died: 
It is like a hollow ledge
Holding a little pool
    Left there by the tide, 
A little tepid pool,
Drying inward from the edge.

Authorship

by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) , "Ebb", from Second April, published 1921

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Harrison Kerr (1897-1978) , "Ebb", published 1975 [soprano and piano], from Three Songs, no. ?

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