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Edna St. Vincent Millay · Early Poems

Poem 85 of 141 · A Few Figs from Thistles

To S. M.

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If he should lie a-dying

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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