To Helen About Her Hair by Robinson Jeffers

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend November 16, 2014   To Helen About Her Hair   Robinson Jeffers

Your hair is long and wonderful; It is dark, with golden Lights in the length of it.   Long, lovely, liquid, glorious Is your hair, and lustrous, Scented with summertime.   Beware when you are combing it, In the nights and mornings, Shaking its splendor out.   I bid you comb it carefully, For my soul is caught there, Wound in the web of it.            This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   “To Helen About Her Hair” was originally published in Jeffers’s first book, Flagons and Apples (Grafton Publishing, 1912).   Robinson Jeffers was born on January 10, 1887, in Pennsylvania. Jeffers’s verse, much of which is set in the Carmel/Big Sur region, celebrates the beauty of the coastal hills and ravines. He died in 1962. Poetry by Jeffers   The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers (Stanford University Press, 2000) "She Walks in Beauty" by George Gordon Byron "Yours" by Daniel Hoffman "From the Telephone" by Florence Ripley Mastin Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038