Some asked how pearls did grow, and where?

Then spoke I to my girl

To part her lips, and showed them there

The quarelets of pearl.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674): The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls.

An unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractised;

Happy in this, she is not yet so old

But she may learn.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.

With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans,

And sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): The Princess. Prologue. Line 141.