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ON HAIR FALLING OFF AFTER AN ILLNESS by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Poet Analysis

First Line: CONON WAS HE WHOSE PIERCING EYES
Last Line: A BROW SERENE WHICH HAPPIER MEN ADORE.
Subject(s): HAIR; SICKNESS; ILLNESS;
Conon was he whose piercing eyes
Saw Berenice's hair surmount the skies,
Saw Venus spring away from Mars
And twirl it round and fix it 'mid the stars.
Then every poet who had seen
The glorious sight sang to the youthful queen,
Until the many tears were dried,
Shed for that hair by that most lovely bride.
Hair far more beauteous be it mine
Not to behold amid the lights divine,
But gracing, as it graced before,
A brow serene which happier men adore.



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