poem, my little auburn

poem, my little auburn
   Used by a male speaker to a young woman in Girl with Green Eyes, by Edna O’Brien. ‘Poem’ has been used in a figurative sense, of something as near perfect of its kind as possible, since the seventeenth century.

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