Four Sonnets: 03 ( Oh, Think Not I Am Faithful To A Vow! )

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow!
Faithless am I 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.

Next 10 Poems

• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Four Sonnets: 04 ( I Shall Forget You Presently, My Dear )
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : God's World
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Grown-up
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : If I Should Learn, In Some Quite Casual Way
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Indifference
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Inland
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Interim
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Into The Golden Vessel Of Great Song
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Journey
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Kin To Sorrow

Previous 10 Poems

• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Four Sonnets: 02 ( I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently )
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Four Sonnets: 01 ( Love, Though For This You Riddle Me With Darts )
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : First Fig
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Exiled
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Epitaph
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Elegy Before Death
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Elegy
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Elaine
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Eel-grass
• Edna St. Vincent Millay : Ebb