These poems were originally published together in the
anthology _Renascence and Other Poems_ by Edna St. Vincent
Millay in 1917.


     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;
   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.