Back to Index

Witch-Wife

by Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1917

She is neither pink nor pale,
  And she never will be all mine;
She learned her hands in a fairy-tale,
  And her mouth on a valentine.

She has more hair than she needs;
  In the sun 'tis a woe to me!
And her voice is a string of colored beads,
  Or steps leading into the sea.

She loves me all that she can,
  And her ways to my ways resign;
But she was not made for any man,
  And she never will be all mine.

Published in Renascence, and Other Poems
Tags:

Any corrections or public domain poems I should have here? Email me at poems (at) this domain.