To S. M.

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Title:     To S. M.
Author: Edna St Vincent Millay [More Titles by Millay]

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.

[The end]
Edna St Vincent Millay's poem: To S. M

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