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WITCH-WIFE by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

Poet Analysis

First Line: SHE IS NEITHER PINK NOR PALE
Last Line: AND SHE NEVER WILL BE ALL MINE.
Subject(s): LOVE - MARITAL; MARRIAGE; WEDDED LOVE; MARRIAGE - LOVE; WEDDINGS; HUSBANDS; WIVES;
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.






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