Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HER HAIR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY


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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


THE beauty of her hair bewilders me --
Pouring adown the brow, its cloven tide
Swirling about the ears on either side
And storming round the neck tumultuously:
Or like the lights of old antiquity
Through mullioned windows, in cathedrals wide,
Spilled moltenly o'er figures deified
In chastest marble, nude of drapery.
And so I love it. -- Either unconfined;
Or plaited in close braidings manifold;
Or smoothly drawn; or indolently twined
In careless knots whose coilings come unrolled
At any lightest kiss; or by the wind
Whipped out in flossy ravelings of gold.





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