The Red Dress by Dorothy Parker

The Red Dress 
by Dorothy Parker

I always saw, I always said

If I were grown and free

I'd have a gown of reddest red

As fine as you could see.

To wear out walking, sleek and slow

Upon a Summer's day

And there'd be one to see me so

And flip the world away.

And he would be a gallant one

With stars behind his eyes

And hair like metal in the sun

And lips too warm for lies.

I always saw us, gay and good

High honored in the town.

Now I am grown to womanhood

I have the silly gown. 

I like this poem...about growing older and letting go of idealism and other childish things. If I had a daughter, I'd have it framed for her.