StoryTitle("caps", "To Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Amarantha sweet and fair,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ah, braid no more that shining hair!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As my curious hand or eye", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hovering round thee, let it fly!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let it fly as unconfined ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As its calm ravisher the wind,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who hath left his darling, th' East,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To wanton o'er that spicy nest.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Every tress must be confest,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But neatly tangled at the best; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like a clew of golden thread", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Most excellently ravelléd.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Do not then wind up that light", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In ribbands, and o'ercloud in night,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like the Sun in 's early ray; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But shake your head, and scatter day!", "") ?>
Poet("Richard Lovelace", "1618–1658") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>