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Subject: CLEANSING AGENTS
Matches Found: 11

BLOODY MURDER, by DAVID RYTMAN SLAVITT    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beauty and truth may dally together
Last Line: This is my body, this is my blood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, Henry Benjamin; Slavitt, David R.
Subject(s): Cleansing Agents; Murder; Detergents; Soap; Cleansing Compounds; Disinfection And Disinfectants


DUTCH CLEANSER, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandmother used it, dutch cleanser
Last Line: The hour hand pushes around
Subject(s): Cleansing Agents; Detergents; Soap; Cleansing Compounds; Disinfection And Disinfectants


DUTCH CLEANSER, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandmother used it, dutch cleanser
Last Line: Around the can, like a minute hand %the hour hand pushes around
Subject(s): Cleansing Agents


HOW A CAKE OF SOAP SAVED MADAGASCAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, in heathen madagascar, to the missionary band
Last Line: And honor, not the least of all, to that fine cake of soap!
Subject(s): Cleansing Agents; Madagascar; Missions & Missionaries; Detergents; Soap; Cleansing Compounds; Disinfection And Disinfectants


SOAP, by M. R. PEACOCKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lady, this alabaster ... %having in the course of my travels (peregrinations?)
Last Line: If in the common parlance %your ladyship's most (etc.) %soap, madam. Soap
Subject(s): Cleansing Agents


SOAP SUDS, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: This brand of soap has the same smell as once in the big
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Cleansing Agents; Holidays; New Year; Detergents; Soap; Cleansing Compounds; Disinfection And Disinfectants


SOAP SUDS, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This brand of soap has the same smell as once in the big
Last Line: Under the running tap that are not the hands of a child
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Cleansing Agents; Holidays; New Year


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


SOAP-BUBBLES, by HERBERT MULLER HOPKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: As a little child at play
Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Cleansing Agents


SUDS, by LULU MINERVA SCHULTZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: O would you dream of poems in a wash-tub
Last Line: Portraits clean cut, her swinging line of clothes.
Subject(s): Cleansing Agents; Dreams; Laundry & Laundering; Poetry & Poets; Detergents; Soap; Cleansing Compounds; Disinfection And Disinfectants; Nightmares


WASHING DISHES, by MARCENE STOOPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like a pool of sunny sea
Last Line: Dishes old and dishes new.
Subject(s): Cleansing Agents; Washing Machines; Detergents; Soap; Cleansing Compounds; Disinfection And Disinfectants