I am a 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.

Edna St. Vincent Millay