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" With their heaped locks, or his own Delphic wreath. There seems a love in hair, though it be dead. It is the gentlest, yet the strongest thread Of our frail plant, - a blossom from the tree Surviving the proud trunk; - as if it said, Patience and Gentleness... "
Foliage, Or, Poems Original and Translated - Page cxxx
by Leigh Hunt - 1818 - 150 pages
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The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt

Leigh Hunt - 1832 - 438 pages
...Adam and his bride With their heaped locks, or his own Delphic wreath. There seems a love in hair, though it be dead. It is the gentlest, yet the strongest...blossom from the tree Surviving the proud trunk ; — as though it said Patience and Gentleness is Power. In me Behold affectionate eternity. TRANSLATIONS....
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The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt

Leigh Hunt - 1832 - 448 pages
...Adam and his bride With their heaped locks, or his own Delphic wreath. There seems a love in hair, though it be dead. It is the gentlest, yet the strongest...blossom from the tree Surviving the proud trunk ; — as though it said Patience and Gentleness is Power. In me Behold affectionate eternity. TRANSLATIONS....
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Rambles and Reveries

Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1841 - 564 pages
...my finger." It is the surviving memorial of our physicial existence : " There seems a love in hair, though it be dead — It is the gentlest, yet the...gentleness is power. In me Behold affectionate eternity." D'Israeli paints Contarini Fleming, the creature of passion, after his wife's death, as clipping off...
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Rambles and Reveries

Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1841 - 988 pages
...my finger." It is the surviving memorial of our physicial existence : " There seems a love in hair, though it be dead — It is the gentlest, yet the...the tree, Surviving the proud trunk ; as if it said, 0 Patience and gentleness is power. In me Behold affectionate eternity." D'Israeli paints Contarini...
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The Ladies' Companion, Volumes 14-15

1841 - 646 pages
...in hair, though it be dead — It U the gentlest, yet the strongest thread Of our frail plant — B blossom from the tree, Surviving the proud trunk ; as if it said, Patience and ventleneas is power, lu me Behold affectionate eternity." Disraeli paints Contarini Fleming, the creature...
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The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt: Containing Many Pieces Now First Collected

Leigh Hunt - 1844 - 314 pages
...locks, or his own Delphic wreath. And saw, in fancy, Adam and his bride There seems a love in hair, though it be dead. It is the gentlest, yet the strongest thread Of our frail plant,—a blossom from the tree Surviving the proud trunk ;—as though it said Patience and Gentleness...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 12

1847 - 650 pages
...of times of yore. Tait's Magazine. Pram Fra«r's Magazine. HAIR-LOVE. " There seems a lore in hair, though it be dead ; It is the gentlest, yet the strongest...thread Of our frail plant — a blossom from the tree, Survivmg the proud trunk." — LEIGH HUNT. DURING a late excursion to the sea side we were struck with...
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The Sibyl: Or, New Oracles from the Poets

Caroline Howard Gilman - 1848 - 320 pages
...wants to be a man. TAYLOR — Philip Van Artevclrk. 59. There seems a love in hair though from the dead, It is the gentlest yet the strongest thread...blossom from the tree Surviving the proud trunk ; — as though it said, Patience and Gentleness is Power ; in me Behold affectionate eternity. LEIGH HUNT....
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The poetical works of Leigh Hunt, containing many pieces now first collected

Leigh Hunt - 1849 - 320 pages
...fancy, Adam and his bride With their rich locks, or his own Delphic wreath. There seems a love in hair, though it be dead. It is the gentlest, yet the strongest...blossom from the tree Surviving the proud trunk ;— as though it said Patience and Gentleness is Power. In me Behold affectionate eternity. QUIET EVENINGS....
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The Optimist

Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1850 - 298 pages
...enwreathed its tiny curl About my finger." It is the surviving memorial of our physical existence : " It is the gentlest, yet the strongest thread Of our...gentleness is power. In me Behold affectionate eternity." D'Israeli paints Contarini Fleming, the creature of passion, after his wife's death, as clipping off...
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