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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HAIR Matches Found: 165 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GIRL, by ARCHILOCHUS Poem Text First Line: Holding a myrtle-rod she blithely moved Last Line: Shadowed her shoulders, falling to her girdle. Alternate Author Name(s): Archilochos Subject(s): Girls; Hair A LOCK OF HER HAIR, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a hoodoo-voodoo, get-you-back-to-me tool, Subject(s): Hair; Love A MAIDEN AND HER HAIR, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Her cruel hands go in and out Last Line: And her simplicity of face. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Hair A SONG OF GOUNOD'S, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By a dim seacoast, long ago Last Line: Wedding us there eternally! Subject(s): Death; Hair; Hearts; Sea; Singing & Singers; Youth; Dead, The; Ocean; Songs A TRAGIC STORY, by ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There lived a sage in days of yore Last Line: The pigtail hangs behind him. Subject(s): Hair; Nonsense A TRESS OF HAIR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This tress of hair my sweetheart Last Line: This tress of hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): God; Hair; Love A VISION, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within an open curled sea of gold Last Line: Unless that he my vision can unfold. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Hair AFTER DEGAS' 'COMBING THE HAIR', by ALLISON BENNIS Poem Source First Line: The way a woman's hair is painful - pulled Last Line: And the usual death: their inverted embrace Subject(s): Degas, Edgar (1834-1917); Hair; Paintings And Painters; Women AMORETTI: 37, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What guile is this, that those her golden tresses Last Line: To covet fetters, though they golden bee. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): "what Guyle Is This, That Those Her Golden Tresses,""; Subject(s): Hair; Innocence; Love ANOTHER SONG WITHOUT WORDS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too red, too red the roses were Last Line: And of all things but you . . . But you. . . . Subject(s): Flowers; Hair; Roses; Singing & Singers AQUILEIA, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ropes, the ropes! Apollo send us ropes Last Line: Another day beheld the giant slain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Apollo; Death; Hair; Mothers; Mythology - Classical; Rome, Italy; Soldiers; Dead, The AT THE HAIRDRESSER (PHANTASMAGORIA), by NOVICA TADIC Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At night at the hairdresser's Last Line: Who does our hair so well Subject(s): Hair BALD, by BILL ZAVATSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the mirror it's plain to see Last Line: And even its teeth fall out Subject(s): Baldness; Hair BALD, by BILL ZAVATSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the mirror it's plain to see Subject(s): Baldness; Hair BEAUTY SHOP, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Named for the archangel michael Subject(s): Hair; Barbers BIT BY BITTER, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: His hair was so splendidly flaming Last Line: Hot words that he spoke. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Hair BOUGHT LOCKS, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The golden hair that gulla wears Last Line: For I know where she bought it. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Hair; Wigs; Toupees; Hairpieces BOY WITH HIS HAIR CUT SHORT, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunday shuts down on this twentieth-century evening Subject(s): Hair BOY WITH HIS HAIR CUT SHORT, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunday shuts down on this twentieth-century evening Last Line: The blue vein, bright on her temple, pitifully beating Subject(s): Hair BRAID, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Shoulders knobbed against Subject(s): Hair; Women BRAID, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shoulders knobbed against Last Line: And the tether cannot %be undone Subject(s): Hair; Women BRAIDS, by MARGO TAFT STEVER Poem Source First Line: Puttering, pouring wine, rummaging Last Line: She is reading her own mind Subject(s): Change; Hair; Memory BRIGHT HAIR, by CHARLES GUERIN Poem Text First Line: Amber, ripe rye, or honey full of light Last Line: Against her rosy heels. Subject(s): Hair; Sleep CHAMBER MUSIC: 24, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Silently she's combing Last Line: And many a negligence. Subject(s): Love; Hair CHANGEFUL BEAUTY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Whether I find thee bright with fair Last Line: When gold or sable turns to grey Variant Title(s): Love In Her Hair Subject(s): Beauty;hair;love CIRCE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hair so damn good it eclipsed Last Line: With wherever they were going— Subject(s): Pigs; Hair CLEARCUT, by JULIO CORTAZAR Poem Source First Line: Take away these eyes, little colored stones Last Line: It could happen, without my hands, I'll be able to reach your waist Subject(s): Hair COMBING, by GLADYS CARDIFF Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bending, I bow my head Last Line: Plaiting the generations. Subject(s): Hair; Women CURLY LOCKS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Curly locks! Curly locks! Wilt Last Line: And feast upon strawberries, sugar and cream. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Hair; Love CUTTING HAIR, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She pays attention to the hair, not her fingers, and cuts herself Subject(s): Hair; Hands; Single People; Women; Bachelors; Unmarried People DEATH AND MEMORY, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When poor women died Subject(s): Funerals; Poverty; Women; Hair; Burials DECEPTION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Among her curls with wanton glee Last Line: Among her curls Subject(s): Hair DECRYPTING THE MESSAGE, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It came to me in the bathroom Last Line: Reclaim the topn / and stand tall Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Bodies; Self; Hair DON'T EAT THE TREES, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL Poem Source First Line: An old man's hair in a cloth pouch Last Line: Breathed as a mist across %the earliest morning Subject(s): Aging; Hair; Mankind DOROTHY, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her eyes hold black whips Last Line: Under the flame. Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Eyes; Hair; Hands DYE JOBS, by JENNIFER SNYDER Poem Source First Line: At sixteen Last Line: Like black roots under a blond sun Subject(s): Colors; Hair EDDIE PRIEST'S BARBERSHOP & NOTARY, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is music ... Is men / off early from work ... Is waiting Subject(s): Barbers; Hair ELEGY, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad nymphs of u l, u have much to cry for Last Line: They lately brought fresh bricks the walls to 10 (heighten.) Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Hair; Memory; Tears; Dead, The ELLA WITH THE SHINING HAIR, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through many a fragrant cedar grove Last Line: "our ella, sits and waits." Subject(s): Hair EVASIVE ACTION, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: ...The clip ped possessive moment, the barber on his porch Subject(s): Hair; Past FIGURES OF AUTHORITY, by EDWARD WATKINS Poem Source First Line: Everyone grows younger; my thinning hair Last Line: A taste of death, yet look! He has such hair! Subject(s): Hair FLOWERS OF EVIL: HER HAIR, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O fleece that down her nape rolls, plume on plume Last Line: Deep draughted wines of memory will flow Subject(s): Hair FOR ANNE GREGORY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Never shall a young man Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Hair; Love FOR ANNE GREGORY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never shall a young man Last Line: Could love you for yourself alone %and not your yellow hair Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Hair; Love GAMBLER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She's gambling with the darkness now Last Line: When she shakes her hair like feisty rain %she'll win. Subject(s): Gambling; Hair; Victory GATHER ROSE-BUDS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While this green month is fleeting Last Line: All joys expire. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Hair; Life; Roses; Time; Dead, The GIRL WITH THE DARK HAIR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Turning your ebon hair Subject(s): Hair GIRL'S HAIR, by DAFYDD AB EDMWND Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Shall I have the girl I love Last Line: And this bush hold life's sunshine, %no bush under sun's so fine Subject(s): Hair GOLD HAIR; A STORY OF PORNIC, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the beautiful girl, too white Last Line: The corruption of man's heart. Subject(s): Death; Hair; Greed; Christianity; Dead, The; Avarice; Cupidity GOOD HAIR, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hey, indian boy, why (why!) did you slice off your braids? Last Line: Hey, indian boy, why (why!) did you slice off your braids? Subject(s): Hair; Native Amertican HAIR, by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sat on the stool waiting Last Line: Of her there Subject(s): Hair HAIR, by MARK DOTY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a scene in the film Subject(s): Hair; Motion Pictures; Concentration Camps; Movies; Cinema HAIR, by VANDANA KHANNA Poem Source First Line: Always the sound of knots tearing Last Line: In our hands, humming and igniting against skin Subject(s): Hair HAIR, by KELLY LE FAVE Poem Source First Line: Five minutes, maybe, I had known her when Last Line: There was hardly any blood left in her Subject(s): Conversation; Hair HAIR, by FREYA MANFRED Poem Source First Line: I'll never forget Last Line: Its hair aflame, aflame Subject(s): Hair HAIR CUT, by NIN ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: The day you left me, I chopped off my hair. The inkly black hair you Last Line: Make love again. They never will. This much I know, now that you %have left me Subject(s): Abandonment; Hair HAIRCUT, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wonderful nonsense of lotions of lucky tiger Subject(s): Barbers; Hair HAIRCUT, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wonderful nonsense of lotions of lucky tiger Last Line: And lie on the flat of my temples as proud as a wreath Subject(s): Barbers; Hair HAIRS ON BEARS, by GERALDINE RYAN-LUSH Poem Source First Line: Hairs on bears Last Line: Now guests can come %and now they'll stay Subject(s): Hair HER HAIR, by DAVID ONKINERAH Poem Source First Line: O peerless beauty, veil your hair Subject(s): Hair HER HAIR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beauty of her hair bewilders me Last Line: Whipped out in flossy ravelings of gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Hair HER HAIR THE NET OF GOLDEN WIRE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Than break one hair to gain her libery Subject(s): Hair HER HAIR; ODE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, blest symptom of consent Last Line: My youthful love shall flourish still. Subject(s): Beauty; Hair HER WAITING FACE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In some strange place Last Line: Set moonwise in the midnight of her hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faces; Hair HOW THE POPE IS CHOSEN, by JAMES TATE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Any poodle under ten inches high is a toy. Subject(s): Dogs; Popes; Hair; Wit & Humor; Papacy I AM ALWAYS BEHIND, by JO SHAPCOTT Poem Source Last Line: Of myself in your wake Subject(s): Hair; Riddles IN REPLY, by MIKATA NO SAMI Poem Source First Line: Everyone says 'it's so long - put it up.' Subject(s): Hair IN THE DAMP PLACES, by NIJOLE MILIAUSKAITE Poem Source Last Line: Grasses %of oblivion Subject(s): Hair KEEPING HAIR, by RAMONA WILSON Poem Source First Line: My grandmother had braids Last Line: Washed my hair in willows %may also keep my heart Subject(s): Hair LADY IN THE BARBERSHOP, by RAPHAEL RUDNICK Poem Source First Line: Finally, among the bottles shining Last Line: She sweeps herself into the line %of darkness that is her discipline Subject(s): Hair; Manicurists LILIA'S TRESS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It failed, past misty distances Last Line: "a fearsome, weirdsome, faerie tress!" Subject(s): Hair LITTLE EGO, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You mustn't smile when I stroke your hair Last Line: Well, what are you smiling at now? Subject(s): Egoism & Egotism; Hair LONG-GONE SUN: 1, by CLAIRE MALROUX Poem Source First Line: Chignon undone %the fine black silky waves of hair Last Line: Inherited by her elder daughter and her children %lost by the younger and all of hers Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Claire Sara Subject(s): Hair; Women LOVE POEMS: 2. ON A LADY'S YELLOW HAIR, POWDERED WITH WHITE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, why on your hair yet stays Last Line: And made their sacrifice. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Hair; Love LOVE'S COMPARINGS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Carnations and lilies are hueless Last Line: Wherever her feet may fare. Subject(s): Carnations; Faces; Flowers; Hair; Laughter; Lilies; Love; Spring LOVE'S DAY, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tide of dawn silently Last Line: Sing bride! Sing blossom! Sing bird! Subject(s): Beauty; Hair; Life; Love; Passion LUCKY, by DOROTHEA TANNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ever imagining the dire, the sudden Subject(s): Luck; Surgery; Food & Eating; Hair LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 69, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night lay upon mine eyelids Last Line: And lo! -- from sleep I woke. Subject(s): Dreams; Eyes; Graves; Hair; Night; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime MEXICAN NURSERY RHYME: 4, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My bald-headed baby girl Last Line: Ta-ron-ton-ton! Subject(s): Hair MORNING SONGS, SELS., by UNKNOWN Subject(s): Hair MORNING, NIGHT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Meet a red-haired woman in the morning Last Line: Red-haired woman moving on the floor, %dancing time will never ask for more. Subject(s): Hair; Love; Red (color); Women MY LADY'S WONDROUS HAIR, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I sometimes think I'm on the brink Last Line: "say ""hope,"" sweet lady mine!" Subject(s): Hair; Love; Women MY MOTHER'S HAIR, by NGUYEN QUANG THIEU Poem Source First Line: One of your hairs fell out last night Last Line: And sing of hair-clouds flying from night to day Subject(s): Hair; Mothers NANCY WALSH (1), by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not on her gown Last Line: And I will go with thee. Subject(s): Beauty; Hair OBSESSION, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bring you a bit of seaweed which was tangled Last Line: But your neatly fixed hair has the shape of a hand Subject(s): Surrealism; Hair ODI PROFANUM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O braid thy tresses helen-wise Last Line: Make sweet the air. Subject(s): Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Hair; Muses; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Roses; Sea; Ulysses; Ocean; Odysseus OH WHO IS THAT YOUNG SINNER WITH HANDCUFFS ON HIS WRIST, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: He can curse the god that made him for the colour of his hair Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Hair; Homosexuality; Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) ON A DISCOVERED CURL OF HAIR, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When your soft welcomings were said Last Line: Till I had reached your old abode. Subject(s): Hair ON GETTING A NATURAL, by DUDLEY RANDALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She didn't know she was beautiful Last Line: I know %I'm black %and %beautiful Subject(s): Brooks, Gwendolyn (1917-2000); Hair ON HAIR FALLING OFF AFTER AN ILLNESS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Conon was he whose piercing eyes Last Line: A brow serene which happier men adore. Subject(s): Hair; Sickness; Illness ON LUCRETIA BORGIA'S HAIR, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Borgia, thou once wert almost too august Last Line: Calm hair, meandering in pellucid gold. Variant Title(s): On Seeing A Hair Of Lucretia Borgia Subject(s): Borgia, Lucrezia [lucretia] (1480-1519); Hair ON THE GROWTH OF HAIR IN MIDDLE AGE, by KJELL HJERN Poem Source First Line: No poem has yet been written Last Line: These wretched scenes of everyday life Subject(s): Aging; Growth; Hair; Science OPENING HER JEWEL BOX, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She discovers a finish Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): School; Cats; Jewels; Memory; Hair OPPOSITES: 12, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite two? Last Line: A lonely me, a lonely me Subject(s): English Language; Hair; Synonyms & Antonyms; Togetherness; Solitude OPPOSITES: 23, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to have any hair is called Last Line: And must be patted on their pores Subject(s): English Language; Hair; Synonyms & Antonyms OPPOSITES: 23, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to have any hair is called Last Line: And must be patted on their pores Subject(s): English Language; Hair; Synonyms And Antonyms PERMANENT, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: The wind blew me from the porch Last Line: That's going to be permanent Subject(s): Accidents; Children; Grandparents; Hair; Permanence PONTIUS AND PONTIA, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pontius (who loves, you know, a joke Last Line: Pray bring your brother wits to see 't. Subject(s): Hair; Jokes; Love; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PORTRAIT WITH BROWN HAIR, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The days, the days! Last Line: In mexico, still a virgin Subject(s): Hair; Sex PUS'HTO: THE BALLADE OF MUHAMMAD DIN TILAI, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A twist of fresh flowers on your dark hair Last Line: And your hair is a panther's shadow Subject(s): Beauty;hair QUATRAIN: THE COME-BACK, by CHARLES A. GALT Poem Text First Line: Most women facing trouble Last Line: And face the world again. Subject(s): Hair; Women ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: INTRODUCTION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good fortune quite a fickle miss is Last Line: Sits down beside thy bed and knits. Subject(s): Fortune; Hair; Kisses ROSE AYLMER'S HAIR, GIVEN BY HER SISTER, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful spoils! Borne off from vanquisht death! Last Line: Retaining youth, rewarding constancy. Subject(s): Hair SEATS OF THE FLIGHTY: THE SECOND CHAIR, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: I'm getting used to the barber's chair Last Line: My head will resemble a knob. Subject(s): Barbers; Chairs; Hair SIGN, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first white hair coils in my hand Subject(s): Aging; Hair; Self-pity SONG (2), by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When corydon went to the fair Last Line: & made herself look very fess Subject(s): Hair SONG CALLED HIS HIDE IS COVERED WITH HAIR, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dog is a faithful, intelligent friend Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Variant Title(s): East And Wes Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hair SONNET: 81. ON A LOCK OF MISS SARAH SEWARD'S HAIR WHO DIED 20TH YEAR, by ANNA SEWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My angel sister, though thy lovely form Last Line: From the resistless ravage of the grave! Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy Subject(s): Death; Hair; Sisters; Dead, The SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 19, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soul's rialto hath its merchandise Last Line: No natural heat till mine grows cold in death. Subject(s): Love; Hair; Gifts & Giving SPRING, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my grey hairs Last Line: You are truly white as plum blossoms. Subject(s): Aging; Hair STRANDS, FOUR POEMS, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The key warmed in your hand and you knew the password Subject(s): Male-female Relationships; Hair STYLES & FASHIONS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "good people all both old and young, I hope you will be easy" Last Line: And tells me to mind my own affairs - the child is in the fashion Subject(s): Fashion;hair;singing & Singers;women SYMBOLS, by CHARD POWERS SMITH Poem Text First Line: It has been hard to learn that hair Last Line: He sits his throne. I climb to mine. Subject(s): Hair; Language; Love; Words; Vocabulary SZENRYU, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hair washed Subject(s): Hair TANGLED HAIR, by IZUMI SHIKIBU Poem Source First Line: With not a thought Last Line: Have so ofter brushed it smooth Subject(s): Hair TANGLED HAIR, SELS., by YOSANO AKIKO Poem Source First Line: A thousand lines %of black black hair Last Line: This long black hair! Subject(s): Hair TEMPO CHANGE, by H. TOTMAN Poem Text First Line: I can remember days when time Last Line: Her sad reflection there. Subject(s): Hair THE ALARM, by HILDEBRAND JACOB Poem Text First Line: What is't, good prying friend, you say? Last Line: Tis time to be in haste, to live! Subject(s): Barbers; Clocks; Hair; Old Age; Time THE BLONDE SONATA, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green grizzle day, the soft erotic weather Subject(s): Waiters & Waitresses; Hair; Desire THE CHANGE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With brunettes I now have finish'd Last Line: Klopstock wrote some time ago? Subject(s): Change; Faith; Hair; Soul; Belief; Creed THE CHINAMAN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Centre of earth!' a chinaman he said Last Line: His tail: those flames became its funeral-pyre. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): China; Hair; Maps THE CURLING TONGS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Who can describe the dainty curls Last Line: Dodo' will do - and a curling tongs Subject(s): Hair;vanity THE DARK HAIR'D GIRL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "my dark hair'd girl, thy ringlets deck" Last Line: "the pride of being loved by my dark hair'd girl / and oh, etc" Subject(s): Beauty;girls;hair;love THE FIRST HAIR CUT, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jimmy's had a hair cut! Last Line: Just to smell his head. Subject(s): Barbers; Boys; Hair THE FLOOD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I thought my true love slept Last Line: She heard a mercy-cry. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Hair THE GIRL IN THE GLASS, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've stood there long enough.' I said Subject(s): Time; Hair THE GUILD OF HER BEAUTY, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: What cunning craftsman coin'd the thread Last Line: I'm all consumed with desire? Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Hair; Lips THE HEALING IMPROVISATION OF HAIR, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Hair THE LAST GIFT, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I leave thee, love! In vain hast thou Last Line: This little lock of hair! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Hair; Love THE MAGIC BOW, by CHARLES CROS Poem Text First Line: Her hair was blond as autumn wheat Last Line: Until its tresses touched her feet. Subject(s): Death; Hair; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Male-female Relations THE NEW MAGDALENE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: She turns her with sick heart Last Line: Can work her no more harm. Subject(s): Grief; Hair; Hearts; Tears; Worship; Sorrow; Sadness THE POET EXPATIATES ON THE BEAUTY OF DELIA'S HAIR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The comb between whose ivory teeth she strains Last Line: The ringlets rob for faery fiddle-strings. Variant Title(s): Love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 3 Subject(s): Beauty; Cupid; Hair; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Obsessions; Women; Eros; Male-female Relations THE POET RELATES HOW HE STOLE A LOCK OF DELIA'S HAIR, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Be the day accurst that gave me birth! Last Line: "you stupid puppyyou have spoil'd my wig!" Variant Title(s): Love Elegies Of Abel Shufflebottom: 4 Subject(s): Anger; Crime & Criminals; Despair; Hair; Man-woman Relationships; Obsessions; Wigs; Male-female Relations; Toupees; Hairpieces THE RAPE OF THE LOCK, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What dire offence from amorous causes springs Last Line: And mid'st the stars inscribe belinda's name! Subject(s): Hair; Mothers THE RINGLET, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your ringlets, your ringlets Last Line: Burn, burn. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hair THE SECRET OF LIGHT, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am sitting contented and alone in a little park near the palazzo scaligere in Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Hair; Light THE SILVER LOCKS; TO JOHN FOULKES, ESQ., by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though youth may boast the curls that flow Last Line: His mildest ray! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Aging; Hair THE SONG CALLED HIS HIDE IS COVERED WITH HAIR, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dog is a faithful, intelligent friend Last Line: Whose hide is covered with hair Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Variant Title(s): East And West Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hair THE TAMING OF TYRO, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At fierce sidero's word the thralls drew near Last Line: And tossed the curls like fire that flew and shone! Subject(s): Hair THE TRESSES, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the air was damp Last Line: Or sun uphold!' Subject(s): Hair THE TWO LOCKS OF HAIR, by GUSTAV PFIZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A youth, lighthearted and content Last Line: I wish that I were dead. Subject(s): Hair; Love THE WOMEN OF AUSCHWITZ, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Were not treated so well as I. Last Line: To work a miracle with everything left to her Subject(s): Women; Concentration Camps; Hair THE WOMEN WITH FABLED HAIR, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the life to come I unravel and let down Last Line: Dense longing. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Variant Title(s): The Woman With Fabled Hair Subject(s): Hair; Longing THIS SONG, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In an afternoon bright with Last Line: Murmurs from high in the old pine trees Subject(s): Hair; Women TO A LADY WHO PRESENTED THE AUTHOR WITH THE VELVET BAND WHICH BOUND HER TRESSES, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This band, which bound thy yellow hair Last Line: Beneath columbia's fervid zone. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Hair TO A LADY WHO PRESENTED TO THE AUTHOR A LOCK OF HAIR, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These locks, which fondly thus entwine Last Line: But curse my fate for ever after. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Hair TO A LADY WHO WORE A LOCK OF HIS HAIR SET WITH DIAMONDS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The star that beams on anna's breast Last Line: But all the honour mine. Subject(s): Hair TO AMARANTHA, THAT SHE WOULD DISHEVEL HER HAIR, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amarantha, sweet and fair Last Line: That joys so ripe so little keep. Variant Title(s): Her Golden Hair;song Subject(s): Hair; Love TO BELINDA ON THE RAPE OF THE LOCK, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pleas'd in these lines, belinda, you may view Last Line: To have the rape recorded by his muse. Subject(s): Hair; Jervas, Charles (1675-1739); Paintings And Painters; Poetry & Poets TO HER HAIR, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black beamy hairs, which so seem to arise Last Line: With the sunbeams below. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Hair TO HIS WIFE, WHEN HE FELL ILL SHORTLY AFTER MARRYING, by MIKATA NO SAMI Poem Source First Line: Your hair comes undone when you put it up Subject(s): Hair TO MY CHILDREN: 4. HER HAIR, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each morning, as the day begins Last Line: And dies away. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Hair; Childhood TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 2: 7. TO THE BODY, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Creation's and creator's crowning good Last Line: Quick, tender, virginal, and unprofaned! Subject(s): Bible; Elijah; Feet; Hair; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary UPON A BRAID OF HAIR IN A HEART, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this small character is sent Last Line: Bequeath'd it as my legacy. Subject(s): Hair; Love UPON COMBING HER HAIR, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Breaking from under that thy cloudy veil Last Line: And strike out day from thy yet fairer eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Hair UPON JULIA'S HAIR FILLED WITH DEW, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dew sate on julia's hair Last Line: Daunc't by the streames. Subject(s): Dew; Hair UPON JULIA'S HAIRE, BUNDLED UP IN A GOLDEN NET, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, what needs those rich deceits Last Line: Lesse set for them, then spred for me. Subject(s): Hair VERSES FOUND IN BOTHWELL'S POCKET-BOOK, FR. OLD MORTALITY, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy hue, dear pledge, is pure and bright Last Line: If thou hadst lived, and lived to love me Variant Title(s): To A Lock Of Hai Subject(s): Hair VICTORY PARADE, by FREDERICK SEIDEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My girlfriend is a miracle. Subject(s): Osama Bin Laden (1957-2011); Beauty; Hair; Sex VILLANELLE TO HIS HAIR, by LORIE ALLRED Poem Source First Line: It was your hiar I loved, not you Last Line: Whatever else there was to know I never knew Subject(s): Hair; Love WHEN MOTHER COMBED MY HAIR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When memory, with gentle hand Last Line: For I've a wife that combs it now. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Hair; Mothers WHETHER YOU HAVE COLORED YOUR HAIR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: In it when it is gray Subject(s): Hair WIG, by ANN LAUINGER Poem Source First Line: I hated that styrofoam skull, your faceless, white Last Line: This was war. But where could a daughter hide? Subject(s): Family Life; Hair WIG, by ALISON STINE Poem Source First Line: Melanie who lost her hair Last Line: Close Subject(s): Hair WITHIN THE VEIL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She holds a lily in her hand Last Line: But sure one day to be mine own. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Hair; Jesus Christ; Lilies; Roses |
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