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Dear dead women, with such hair, too—what’s become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms? I feel chilly and grown old.
Dear dead women, with such hair, too—what’s become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms? I feel chilly and grown old.
Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- Robert Browning
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- Approximate author period: c. 1850 AD · industrial
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 269 · printed citation: R. Browning (A Toccata of Galuppi’s). · compiler notes excluded
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