{"id":918,"date":"2011-04-02T07:50:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T07:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=918"},"modified":"2014-06-24T07:27:17","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T07:27:17","slug":"only-a-womans-hair-by-lewis-carroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/only-a-womans-hair-by-lewis-carroll\/","title":{"rendered":"Only A Woman’s Hair by Lewis Carroll"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/h1>\n

Only A Woman’s Hair<\/h1>\n

by Lewis Carroll<\/p>\n

Only a woman’s hair! Fling it aside!
\nA bubble on Life’s mighty stream:
\nHeed it not, man, but watch the broadening tide
\nBright with the western beam.<\/p>\n

Nay! In those words there rings from other years
\nThe echo of a long low cry,
\nWhere a proud spirit wrestles with its tears
\nIn loneliest agony.<\/p>\n

And, as I touch that lock, strange visions throng
\nUpon my soul with dreamy grace?
\nOf woman’s hair, the theme of poet’s song
\nIn every time and place.<\/p>\n

A child’s bright tresses, by the breezes kissed
\nTo sweet disorder as she flies,
\nVeiling, beneath a cloud of golden mist,
\nFlushed cheek and laughing eyes<\/p>\n

Or fringing, like a shadow, raven-black,
\nThe glory of a queen-like face
\nOr from a gipsy’s sunny brow tossed back
\nIn wild and wanton grace<\/p>\n

Or crown-like on the hoary head of Age,
\nWhose tale of life is well-nigh told?
\nOr, last, in dreams I make my pilgrimage
\nTo Bethany of old.<\/p>\n

I see the feast the purple and the gold
\nThe gathering crowd of Pharisees,
\nWhose scornful eyes are centred to behold
\nYon woman on her knees.<\/p>\n

The stifled sob rings strangely on mine ears,
\nWrung from the depth of sin’s despair:
\nAnd still she bathes the sacred feet with tears,
\nAnd wipes them with her hair.<\/p>\n

He scorned not then the simple loving deed
\nOf her, the lowest and the last;
\nThen scorn not thou, but use with earnest heed
\nThis relic of the past.<\/p>\n

The eyes that loved it once no longer wake:
\nSo lay it by with reverent care
\nTouching it tenderly for sorrow’s sake?
\nIt is a woman’s hair.<\/p>\n

Feb. 17, 1862.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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