A delicately sculptured laurel branch is woven into a victor's crown, and laid lightly on the tresses it scarcely seems to clasp.
Footnote 10: 'Thy tresses have I oftentimes compared to Ceres' yellow autumn sheaves, wreathed in curled bands around thy head.
Looked the overhanging trees, For beneath their bending branches Floated tresses in the breeze.
She went into the far corner of the apartment, where her bed stood, and with a quick movement loosened the floating wealth of tresses till they hung below her hips.
The head-dress had fallen on her neck, and the wild black tresses escaped, and waved in confusion about her sunburnt face.
In the enervation that had crept over him he would have stroked the black tresses which streamed across the pillow, only he lacked the strength to extricate his hands from hers.
Their hair hung in loose and very thick tresses on each side of their cheeks, falling quite down to the waist, and covering their shoulders behind.
These Titan remains are covered with green shrubbery, and long trailing vines sweep over the cornice and wave down liketresses from the architrave and arch.
Those tresses were quite powdered with diamonds, not displayed according to any studied arrangement, but as if carelessly scattered by handfuls among their flowing locks.
There I will hasten, where the trees and humankind With languor lull beside the hot and silent sea; Strong tresses bear me, be to me the waves and wind!
Her beauty (like her friends) had proved unfaithful under shame and sorrow, and little of it now remained except the long brown tresses and the large blue eyes.
Then Hipolita the Bride, lead by Pirithous, and another holding a Garland over her head (her Tresses likewise hanging.
Fair tresses oft ensnare a man, and cause him to seek Sindbad's diamond valley, of which the story-teller singeth.
For what Heart-Ravisht Maid Dost thou thy Hair in order set, Thy Wanton Tresses Braid?
Where all the Loves adorn you with such Care, Where dress your Smiles, where arm your lovely Eyes; Where deck the flowing Tresses of your Hair: How cause your snowy Breasts to fall and rise.
Not a cloud blotted the blue concave, not a breeze superinduced undulation over the verdant tressesof the trees.
But now the wretch, with low and wildered cries, Round and around revolving vacant eyes: Slow from the green departs, and pauses now, And gnaws her tresses and contracts her brow.
Glittered her tresseslike beams of sun, And snake-like over her neck did run.
Her tresses unadorn'd a braid controll'd, Her pastoral russet knew no civic gold.
My form is tall and aerial, my face Grecian, my tresses flaxen, my eyes blue and sleepy.
Renounce insatiable desires, and stroke the silken tresses of the fair and list the harmonies of the harp.
For thee, that which is best is to flee from the seeking of knowledge and devotion; to finger the tresses of thy ravishing friend; to pour into the cup the blood of the vine ere time has spilled thine own.
Perplext no more with Human or Divine, To-morrow's tangle to the winds resign, And lose your fingers in the tresses of The Cypress-slender Minister of Wine.
Forever shall they come to these two buttings; These from the sepulchre shall rise again With the fist closed, and these with tresses shorn.
He stands in the lap of patient Nature and twines her loosened tresses after a hundred wilful fashions, to see how she will look nicest in his song.
Not all the tresses that fair head can boast, 185 Shall draw such envy as the lock you lost.
With hairy springes we the birds betray, 25 Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey, Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.
With hairy springes we the birds betray, Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey, Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Not all the tresses that fair head can boast, Shall draw such envy as the Lock you lost.
The fragrant tressesare not stirr'd, That lie upon her charmed heart.
Her lover observed this, and that her cheek, ordinarily so full of bloom, was deadly pale, giving her dark brown tresses a still darker shade, and he parted from her with an ill divining soul.
And as the Douglas to his breast His darling Ellen closely pressed, Such holy drops her tresses steeped, Though 't was an hero's eye that weeped.
Loop up her tresses Escaped from the comb, Her fair auburn tresses; Whilst wonderment guesses Where was her home?
Thenne Florence rav'd as anie madde, And dydd hertresses tere; "Oh!
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