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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: 10, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow Last Line: I am most faithless when I most am true. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Variant Title(s): "oh, I Think Not I Am Faithful To A Vow!; Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men | |||
Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow! Faithless am I am save to love's self alone. Were you not lovely I would leave you now; After the feet of beauty fly my own. Were you not still my hunger's rarest food, And water ever to my wildest thirst, I would desert you--think not but I would!-- And seek another as I sought you first. But you are mobile as the veering air, And all your charms more changeful than the tide, Wherefore to be inconstant is no care: I have but to continue at your side. So wanton, light and false, my love, are you, I am most faithless when I most am true. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FEMALE MASCULINITY by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM THE ASS FESTIVAL by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM THE BOOK OF SCAPEGOATS by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM DOSSIER OF IRRETRIEVABLES by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM THIS ONE'S FOR YOU by JAN HELLER LEVI I KNOW MY HUSBAND'S BODY by TIMOTHY LIU AFTERNOON ON A HILL by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY |
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