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HER WAITING FACE by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: IN SOME STRANGE PLACE
Last Line: SET MOONWISE IN THE MIDNIGHT OF HER HAIR.
Subject(s): FACES; HAIR;
IN some strange place
Of long-lost lands he finds her waiting face --
Comes marveling upon it, unaware,
Set moonwise in the midnight of her hair.



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