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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 puppy—you 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