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Hair of man, man-hair, hair of
breast and groin, marking contour as
silverpoint marks in cross-
hatching ...
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "A Psalm Praising the Hair of Man's Body.")
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Blown hair is sweet, brown hair over the mouth blown,
Lilac and brown hair;
(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American critic, poet. Ash Wednesday (l. 112-113). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)
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Your golden hair Margarete
your ashen hair Shulamith.
(Paul Celan [Paul Antschel] (1920-1970), Austrian poet. Trans. 1980, Persea Books (1989). Poems of Paul Celan, "Death Fugue," (1948).)
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This loss of interest, hair, and enterprise ...
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Continuing to Live.")
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Especially when the October wind
With frosty fingers punishes my hair,
(Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. Especially When the October Wind (l. 1-2). . .
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas, 1934-1952 (1953, rev. ed. 1956) New Directions.)
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hopes dance best on bald men's hair
(E.E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894-1962), U.S. poet. As Freedom Is a Breakfastfood (l. 9). . .
Complete Poems, 1904-1962 [E. E. Cummings]. George J. Firmage, ed. (1991) Liveright.)
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'Why do you wear your hair like a man,
(Henry Duff Traill (1842-1900), British journalist. After Dilettante Concetti (l. 1). . .
Faber Book of Comic Verse, The. Michael Roberts and Janet Adam Smith, eds. (Rev. ed., 1974; paperback 1978) Faber and Faber.)
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The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
(Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. "Song of Myself," sct. 6, Leaves of Grass (1855).)
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Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair—
(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American critic, poet. La Figlia Che Piange (l. 3). . .
Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.)
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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Experience," Essays, Second Series (1844).)
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