Read full poem →With all the marks of reverend age appears,
His temples thinly spread with silver hairs:
Propp'd on his staff, and stooping as he goes,
Dictionary Entry
A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
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Common Phrases
. hairshairs roothairs grayhairs whitehairs greyhairs longhairs black
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Poetry examples for “hairs”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →To steal from rainbows, ere they drop in showers,
A brighter wash; to curl their waving hairs,
Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs;
Read full poem →But the time of youth is fled,
And grey hairs are on my head."
Read full poem →Say, will it, when our hairs are grey,
And wintry suns half light the day,
Read full poem →“See them?” he asked her. “Two hairs. See them?”
Read full poem →Whom Ilia pleased, though in her looks grief revelled,
Her cheeks were scratched, her goodly hairs dishevelled.
She, wailing Mar's sin and her uncle's crime,
Read full poem →Leave colouring thy tresses, I did cry;
Now hast thou left no hairs at all to dye.
But what had been more fair had they been kept?
Read full poem →And with rough claws your tender cheeks assail.
For woful hairs let piece-torn plumes abound,
For long shrild[267] trumpets let your notes resound.
Read full poem →To find what work my muse might move, I strove,
Elegia came with hairs perfumËd sweet,
And one, I think, was longer, of her feet:
Read full poem →And envious Fates great goddesses assail;
Sad Elegy,[409] thy woful hairs unbind:
Ah, now a name too true thou hast I find.