SpokenVerse | The Betrothal by Edna St. Vincent Millay (read by Tom O'Bedlam) @SpokenVerse | Uploaded December 2013 | Updated October 2024, 19 minutes ago.
This rueful soliloquy obviously isn't intended for her suitor's ears. It is what most guys would fear most, the very worst reason she might have for accepting his proposal. "I might as well have you because I can't have who I want." It is very like Edna, she did have a tendency to rationalise her love-life.

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OH, come, my lad, or go, my lad,
And love me if you like.
I shall not hear the door shut
Nor the knocker strike.

Oh, bring me gifts or beg me gifts,
And wed me if you will.
I'd make a man a good wife,
Sensible and still.

And why should I be cold, my lad,
And why should you repine,
Because I love a dark head
That never will be mine?

I might as well be easing you
As lie alone in bed
And waste the night in wanting
A cruel dark head.

You might as well be calling yours
What never will be his,
And one of us be happy.
There's few enough as is.