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A LADY FAIR John Lars Zwerenz	He looked upon the tresses of her hair With a grave and solemn, longing stare, For never was a beauty so ravishing...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Her Beautiful Hands James Whitcomb Riley	Of your brown tresses; and ribbons will twine, Under mysterious touches of thine, Into such knots as entangle the...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Petrarch to Laura Mary Darby Robinson	Her auburn tresses veil'd her spotless breast...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Hound of Heaven Francis Thompson	Wantoning with our Lady Mother's vagrant tresses, Banqueting with her in her wind walled palace, Underneath her azured dai:s, Quaffing, as...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Promise Mary Slimmer	Your tresses twirl in the wind, Slapping against your long, luring...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Spirit of Poetry, The Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Her hair Is like the summer tresses of the trees, When twilight makes them brown, and on her cheek Blushes the richness of an...	Rate it (4.00 / 1 vote)
Change Hanford Lennox Gordon	blue of heaven Is in her eyes; her loosened tresses fall A shower of gold on shoulders tinged with rose; Her form a seraph's and her gladsome face...	Rate it (2.00 / 1 vote)
A Ballad of Death Algernon Charles Swinburne	The weight of colour in her tresses...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed Jonathan Swift	A Pigeon pick'd her Issue-Peas; And Shock her Tresses fill'd with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed. Jonathan Swift	A pigeon pick'd her issue-pease: And Shock her tresses fill'd with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Bridal In The Bois De Boulogne. Mathilde Blind	They have crowned her brown tresses with hawthorn in blossom, They have made her a necklace of daisies for pearls; They have set...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Broken Prayer George MacDonald	Lifts up her leafy tresses in the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Corymbus For Autumn Francis Thompson	An inarticulate prayer, A hand on the soothed tresses of the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Day At Tivoli - Prologue John Kenyon	(Or so they feign) her tresses to the breeze; And careless, for a while, of coral bower, Basks on the sunny sands till...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dedication Adam Lindsay Gordon	Where, with fire and fierce drought on her tresses, Insatiable Summer oppresses Sere woodlands and sad wildernesses, And faint flocks and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Fable For Critics James Russell Lowell	the day breaking through, the long night of her tresses; So whenever he wished to be quite irresistible, Like a man with eight trumps in his hand at...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Fantasy Mathilde Blind	Bind me with tresses, Clasp with a curl; And in caresses Stifle me,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Farewell. Fanny Kemble	Through their tresses dark, with a mellow...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A History of the Lyre Letitia Elizabeth Landon	"—Mournfully She shook the raven tresses from her brow, As if she felt their darkness...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Leave-Taking James Whitcomb Riley	But my caresses Meet not hers, O golden tresses That thread my...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Letter From A Girl To Her Own Old Age Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell	Upon the evening as the morning tresses, Her summers breathe the same unchanging...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Letter From Italy Alfred Austin	With her bare black tresses twined Into massive coils behind, And her snowy-pleated vest Folded o'er mysterious breast,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Lily And A Lute. Jean Ingelow	And the waterweeds' long tresses, And the overlapping cresses, Sullied its admired...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Litany Algernon Charles Swinburne	As the tresses and wings of the wind Are scattered and shaken, I will scatter all them that have sinned,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Lost Dream Paul Laurence Dunbar	For I have dreamed of her and seen Her red-brown tresses, ruddy sheen, Have known her sweetness, lip to lip, The joy of her...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)