Saturday, June 14, 2003

Some lovely hair quotes

She knows her man, and when you rant and swear,

Can draw you to her with a single hair.

--- John Dryden, Persius.

Give me a look, give me a face,

That makes simplicity a grace;

Robes loosely flowing, hair as free, -

Such sweet neglect more taketh me

Than all the adulteries of art:

They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.

---Ben Jonson, Epicoene Or the Silent Woman.

Those curious locks so aptly twin'd,

Whose every hair a soul doth bind.

---Thomas Carew

Tying her bonnet under her chin,

She tied her raven ringlets in;

But not alone in the silken snare

Did she catch her lovely floating hair,

For, tying her bonnet under her chin,

She tied a young man's heart within.

--- Nora Perry, The Love-knot.

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