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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO S. M. (IF HE SHOULD LIE A-DYING), by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I am not willing you should go
Last Line: You leave me much against my will.
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Middleton, Scudder (b. 1888)
First Line: I am not willing you should go
Last Line: You leave me much against my will.
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
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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