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| Edna St. Vincent Millay |
Poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, on
February 22, 1892. Her mother, Cora, raised her three daughters on her own after
asking her husband to leave... More > |
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| Witch-Wife
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by Edna St. Vincent Millay |
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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 coloured 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. |
From Collected Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, published by Harper & Brothers Publishers. Copyright © 1956 by Norma Millay Ellis. |
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