Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LOVELOCKS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE



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First Line: I watched the lady caroline
Last Line: Her beauteous hair about.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter


I watched the Lady Caroline
Bind up her dark and beauteous hair;
Her face was rosy in the glass,
And 'twixt the coils her hands would pass,
White in the candleshine.

Her bottles on the table lay,
Stoppered, yet sweet of violet;
Her image in the mirror stooped
To view those locks as lightly looped
As cherry-boughs in May.

The snowy night lay dim without,
I heard the Waits their sweet song sing;
The window smouldered keen with frost;
Yet still she twisted, sleeked and tossed
Her beauteous hair about.





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