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Subject: CLEANLINESS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADVANTAGES OF WASHING, by JOHN ARMSTRONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let those who from the frozen arctos reach
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Mnemonics


ANGLE OF ASCENT, by JR. WILLIAM HENRY GREENWAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: How the earth keeps cleansing itself
Last Line: Window, tossing layers of old laundry, %the slow rinse cycle of rock
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Earth


ASK MARTHA, by ELIZABETH THELEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear reader, %mildew is your punishment
Last Line: Will be gleaming soon enough, %thanks to you
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Home; Housekeeping; Housewives; Magazines


BROOM, by VERN RUTSALA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like the feather duster it feels incomplete, a creature only
Last Line: A creature only %half evolved, and anxiously scurries everywhere trying to find %the rest of itself
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Housekeeping


BUD DISCUSSES CLEANLINESS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First thing in the morning, last I hear at night
Last Line: We will not chase our boy away to wash his neck and ears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Cleanliness


CARWASH, by LEANNE AVERBACH    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's a strange thing
Last Line: Of guys and my own %unfathomable misfortunes
Subject(s): Automobiles; Cleanliness


CLEAN CLARA, by WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What! Not know our clean clara?
Last Line: She brings out her broom at six o'clock.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Matthew; Holbeach, Henry
Subject(s): Cleanliness


CLEANERS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: At four in the morning the women gather
Last Line: Will foul it once again
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Morning; Rites And Ceremonies


CLEANING, by AARON ANSTETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: That's my face grapin in the hygienist's goggles, extra-simian
Last Line: Wipes a wet rag. The head that governs it looks at me and grins
Subject(s): Cleanliness


CLEANING FISH, by ROLAND SODOWSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Almost ninety now, my father marvels
Last Line: Their eyes glazed and backs bowed. %'I doubt it. Not for long.'
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Fathers; Fishing And Fishermen


CLEANLINESS, by CHARLES LAMB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, my little robert, near
Last Line: When a little water does it?
Alternate Author Name(s): Elia
Subject(s): Cleanliness


COME CLEAN, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yellow as paint
Last Line: Now we are trying %not to try not to try
Subject(s): Cleanliness


DIRTY JIM, by JANE TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was one little jim
Last Line: Although they are ever so poor.
Subject(s): Boys; Cleanliness


DUST, by ALICE R. FRIMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lawn rolled back like a rug
Last Line: Watch the dust rise. See him run
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Dirt


DUST MOP, by VERN RUTSALA    Poem Source                    
First Line: This creature is some curious by-product in the evolution of
Last Line: This creature is some curious by-product in the evolution of the unicorn
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Dust; Housekeeping


FROM HERE TO THERE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Everything needs readiness
Last Line: To shine.
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Order


GETTIN' WASHED, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At breakfast, when I'm kinder late an' hurry to my / place
Last Line: But you just bet I'll let alone that place behin' my ears!
Subject(s): Boys; Children; Cleanliness; Childhood


GRIME, by ANNE HARLEY AVILA    Poem Text                    
First Line: You might have paled bernhardt's camille
Last Line: Is grime.
Subject(s): Cleanliness


HOUSECLEANING DAY IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To clean a house is still some job
Last Line: The day we cleaned the house.
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Household Employees; Vermont; Servants; Domestics; Maids


IMMACULATE, by UARDA ROSAMOND GARRETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have always admired women
Last Line: It shelters a hungry heart.
Subject(s): Childlessness; Cleanliness; Home


IRONING DAY, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't see why the grown-ups care
Last Line: To wash and iron every day.
Subject(s): Children; Cleanliness; Dolls; Girls; Play; Toys; Childhood


IT'S HARD TO KEEP A CLEAN SHIRT CLEAN, by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It’s a sunlit morning
Last Line: It’s hard to keep a clean shirt clean
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Cleanliness


KEEPING THINGS NEAT, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You plant a rosebush by your door, and
Last Line: Hide.
Subject(s): Admiration; Cleanliness; Gardens & Gardening; Housekeeping; Neighbors; Tools


LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was an old lady of winchelsea
Last Line: That exhaustive old lady of winchelsea
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Household Employees


OH SEE DISORDER, by WYN COOPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Heathenmobiles made of rust and sin
Last Line: About what I do: not this
Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Cleanliness; Labor And Laborers


POLISH AND BALM, by KAY RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dust develops / from inside
Subject(s): Abandonment; Dust; Cleanliness; Desertion


RODNEY DYING: 3, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I vacuumed your bedroom
Last Line: Everything is sad but what's real
Variant Title(s): Rodney Dying (3)
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Death; Dead, The


RODNEY DYING: 3, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I vacuumed your bedroom
Last Line: Took off your heavy shoes and socks and swam
Variant Title(s): Rodney Dying (3
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Death


SMALL HELP, by VERNA TOMLINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I knew you wouldn't mind if I sat upon the fence and watched you dig
Last Line: And saw you grin.
Subject(s): Cleanliness


SOAP, THE OPPRESSOR, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The folks at my house half the time are thinkin' about dirt
Last Line: An' no one could complain about the parts of me that show.
Subject(s): Children; Cleanliness; Cleansing Agents; Childhood; Detergents; Soap; Cleansing Compounds; Disinfection And Disinfectants


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 8, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What do you wash your face with?
Last Line: God does the rest
Subject(s): Cleanliness


SPRING CLEANING, by SIMON JACKSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ah, to walk the five paces
Last Line: This is spring clean
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Spring


STATE OF THE UNION: 3. THE CLEANERS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look at the crew
Last Line: And cast so freely at a few
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Dirt


STRICTLY GERM-PROOF, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The antiseptic baby and the prophylactic pup
Last Line: The bunny and the baby and the prophylactic pup.
Subject(s): Cleanliness


SWEEPING HEAVEN, by HEID E. ERDRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Someone has to sweep these million golden
Last Line: It showers like the wheeling prairie sky
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Housekeeping; North Dakota


TEMPERAMENT, by ELEANOR STANLEY LOCKWOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Martha dusts an empty room
Last Line: Men string along with mary.
Subject(s): Cleanliness


THE DOG'S TURN, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They're at me all the day
Last Line: I guess what's good for baby boys is good for doggies too.
Subject(s): Animals; Baths & Bathing; Boys; Cleanliness; Dogs; Showers & Showering


THE GROOMING, by PATTIANN ROGERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the branches of the elm
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Bodies; Cleanliness; Soul; Showers & Showering


THE PERNICKETY WIFE, by J. KNOX CHRISTIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My wife's a weary, waefu' wife
Last Line: My wife is sae pernickety.
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE ROADMAN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He is a man with stubbled, lean, grey face
Last Line: Whether I keep a road clean ... For anyone.
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Labor & Laborers; Refuse & Refuse Disposal; Wales; Work; Workers; Welshmen; Welshwomen


THE SIX-O'CLOCK RUSH, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come on! The day's work's done
Last Line: Wash up before you go!
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Cleanliness


THE SWEEPER OF THE FLOOR, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Methought that in a solemn church I stood
Last Line: It is the lord! I cried, and saw no more.
Subject(s): Churches; Cleanliness; Labor & Laborers; Religion; Cathedrals; Work; Workers; Theology


THE SWEEPERS, by WILLIAM WHITEHEAD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I sing of sweepers, frequent in thy streets, / augusta, as the flowers
Last Line: And perished in the streets from whence she sprung.
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Pensions; Work; Workers


TIDY, by EMELDA DESHAIES    Poem Text                    
First Line: She keeps her dresses clean and stylish
Last Line: About as fast as she can think.
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Gossip


TUBBY HOOK, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mevrouw von weber was brisk though fat
Last Line: That super-cleanliness may go wrong!
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Love; New York City - Colonial Period; Witchcraft & Witches


WASHER-WOMAN, by CONSTANCE CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am a washer-woman
Last Line: Wiping toil's damp brow?
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Laundry & Laundering


WASHING AND DRESSING, by ANN TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! Why will my dear little girl be so cross
Last Line: I thought you'd be good after this.
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Mnemonics


WASHING YOU FEET, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Washing you feet is hard when you get fat
Last Line: It is sad to be fat and to have dirty feet
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Feet; Obesity


WIND WILL COME FROM THE SOUTH, by CIRCE MAIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: A wind will come from the south with unleashed rain
Last Line: Down the stairs, from the balconies, %calling to each other
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Human Rights; Rain; Storms; Wind