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The Child In Me
by May Riley Smith

She follows me about my House of Life
(This happy little ghost of my dead Youth!)
She has no part in Time's relentless strife
She keeps her old simplicity and truth --
And laughs at grim Mortality,
This deathless Child that stays with me --
(This happy little ghost of my dead Youth!)

My House of Life is weather-stained with years --
(O Child in Me, I wonder why you stay.)

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Sestina
by Dante Alighieri

I have come, alas, to the great circle of shadow,
to the short day and to the whitening hills,
when the colour is all lost from the grass,
though my desire will not lose its green,
so rooted is it in this hardest stone,
that speaks and feels as though it were a woman.

And likewise this heaven-born woman
stays frozen, like the snow in shadow,
and is unmoved, or moved like a stone,

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Cousin Kate
by Christina Georgina Rossetti

I was a cottage maiden
Hardened by sun and air
Contented with my cottage mates,
Not mindful I was fair.
Why did a great lord find me out,
And praise my flaxen hair?
Why did a great lord find me out,
To fill my heart with care?

He lured me to his palace home -

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Sonata
by Pablo Neruda

Neither the heart cut by a piece of glass
in a wasteland of thorns
nor the atrocious waters seen in the corners
of certain houses, waters like eyelids and eyes
can capture your waist in my hands
when my heart lifts its oaks
towards your unbreakable thread of snow.

Nocturnal sugar, spirit
of the crowns,

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The Princess In The Tower
by Sara Teasdale

I

The Princess sings:

I am the princess up in the tower
And I dream the whole day thro'
Of a knight who shall come with a silver spear
And a waving plume of blue.

I am the princess up in the tower,

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Recent Hair Poems
A Sonnet 06: Keep Moving Forward
by Ayatullah Nurjati

This age is increasing
There are still many things that have not been achieved
It's similar to my hair which is changing more and more every day—white like the dry season that leaves the leaves on the tops of the trees, it's so heartbreaking
Although very few expectations are achieved

Like nails and hair that fall off and grow back
It is different with the enemy—friends come and go
The only thing missing is the teeth that never go back
Nothing left with the family, which was never outdated even Though the country was under an embargo


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Whistling Wind in My Hair
by Evelyn Judy Buehler

tunefully tousling
where I go you shall follow
summertime caress

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Hair
by Rumi Ullidov

Balconies of Babylon - where, within a lucid dream,
A vivid memory was born anew.
Grammar structure obsolete.
Rules and obedience forgotten.
Save the shadow of a ginger head,
A ginger hair
In a ginger land...
Of Samson origin or of Helen of Troy
(Of disobedience).
It smells not of ginger,

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A Ballad Of The Two Knights
by Sara Teasdale

Two knights rode forth at early dawn
A-seeking maids to wed,
Said one, "My lady must be fair,
With gold hair on her head."

Then spake the other knight-at-arms:
"I care not for her face,
But she I love must be a dove
For purity and grace."


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I Shall Not Care
by Sara Teasdale

When I am dead and over me bright April
Shakes out her rain-drenched hair,
Though you shall lean above me broken-hearted,
I shall not care.

I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful
When rain bends down the bough;
And I shall be more silent and cold-hearted
Than you are now.

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    William Butler Yeats (63 poems about Hair)
    W.B. Yeats] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939 / County Dublin / Ireland
  • William Schwenck Gilbert
    William Schwenck Gilbert (23 poems about Hair)
    1836 - 1911 / London / England
  • Oscar Wilde
    Oscar Wilde (23 poems about Hair)
    1854-1900 / Dublin / Ireland
  • Lewis Carroll
    Lewis Carroll (19 poems about Hair)
    27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898 / Cheshire
  •  Anonymous Americas
    Anonymous Americas (9 poems about Hair)
    1000-1950 / United States
  •  Ovid
    Ovid (9 poems about Hair)
    43 BCE - 17 CE / Rome / Italy
  • Li Ching Chao
    Li Ching Chao (8 poems about Hair)
    1084 - 1151
  • James Joyce
    James Joyce (8 poems about Hair)
    2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941 / Dublin / Ireland
  • Kalidasa
    Kalidasa (7 poems about Hair)
    4th Century - 5th Century / Ujjain / India
  •  Li-Young Lee
    Li-Young Lee (7 poems about Hair)