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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FASHION PLATES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poet's Biography First Line: Fashion plates are dainty dishes Last Line: Yes -- and bills! Subject(s): Fashion | |||
Fashion plates are dainty dishes Whence the ladies eat. What's upon 'em? Eggs and fishes? Solid bread and meat? No! the plates are heaped with folly, Indigestion's ills, Empty trifles of a dolly, Yes -- and bills! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MORNING PAPER, SOCIETY PAGE by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE TENDER BUTTONS: COLORED HATS by GERTRUDE STEIN THE RED TURTLENECK by KAREN SWENSON THE STRAPLESS by KAREN SWENSON THE CLOAK by ANNA LOUISE BARNEY THE FASHIONS, 1806 by LEWIS BEACH FASHION; A DIALOGUE by JAMES HAY BEATTIE THE FASHION by JOSEPH BEAUMONT A BATTLE SONG (WRITTEN IN THE WORLD WAR) by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS |
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