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TO S. M. (IF HE SHOULD LIE A-DYING) by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Poet Analysis

First Line: I AM NOT WILLING YOU SHOULD GO
Last Line: YOU LEAVE ME MUCH AGAINST MY WILL.
Subject(s): MIDDLETON, SCUDDER (B. 1888);
I am not willing you should go
Into the earth, where Helen went;
She is awake by now, I know.
Where Cleopatra's anklets rust
You will not lie with my consent;
And Sappho is a roving dust;
Cressid could love again; Dido,
Rotted in state, is restless still:
You leave me much against my will.



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