15. Witch-Wife. Millay, Edna St. Vincent. 1917. Renascence and Other Poems

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950). Renascence and Other Poems. 1917.

15. Witch-Wife


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;	5
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;	10
But she was not made for any man,
And she never will be all mine.