Her Hair

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h2><SPAN name="HER_HAIR" id="HER_HAIR"></SPAN>HER HAIR</h2> <p>The beauty of her hair bewilders me&mdash;<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Pouring adown the brow, its cloven tide</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Swirling about the ears on either side</span><br/> And storming around the neck tumultuously:<br/> Or like the lights of old antiquity<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Through mullioned windows, in cathedrals wide,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Spilled moltenly o'er figures deified</span><br/> In chastest marble, nude of drapery.<br/> And so I love it.&mdash;Either unconfined;<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or plaited in close braidings manifold;</span><br/> Or smoothly drawn; or indolently twined<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">In careless knots whose coilings come unrolled</span><br/> At any lightest kiss; or by the wind<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Whipped out in flossy ravelings of gold.</span><br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />