One Girl Revolution

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 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; Renascence And Other Poems