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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CLEANLINESS Matches Found: 49 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 |
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