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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CLOTHING & DRESS Matches Found: 168 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "TARRY WOO, TARRY WOO", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: With honest heart and tarry woo Subject(s): Clothing & Dress;shepherds & Shepherdesses 1941, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wore a large brim hat Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Memory; Relationships A STRANGE GARMENT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lassies unburdened with cares Last Line: The beautiful garment of thought. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Thought; Thinking A THOUGHT FOR WASHING DAY, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clothes-line is a rosary Last Line: Are love and toil and prayer. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Laundry & Laundering A TURN IN THE HIGHLANDS, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the highlands I'm off for a fortnight,' says jack Last Line: "why turn it, and then I can wear it for two." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Scotland; Travel; Journeys; Trips A VERMONT COUNTRY STORE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our village store will always be Last Line: Made thirteen thousand 'round that store. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Country Life; Merchants; Mountain Life - Vermont; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers AGAINST DRESS, TO A LADY, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why will neaera fondly deck Last Line: Untaught and artless charm the vale. Subject(s): Beauty; Clothing & Dress; Nature; Vanity APOLOGY FOR OLD CLOTHES, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cerulean tweed jacket, twenty years old, that blueprints Subject(s): Clothing & Dress ART ABOVE NATURE: TO JULIA, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I behold a forest spread Last Line: Dotes less on nature, then on art. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Cosmetics AS SOON AS FRED GETS OUT OF BED, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Boys ASKING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He stole from my bodice a rose Last Line: "when he asks me, I will not say so" Subject(s): Clothing & Dress AUNT FANNY; A LEGEND OF A SHIRT, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of a shirt that never was new! Last Line: And don't halloo before you're quite out of the wood!! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Variant Title(s): The Legend Of A Shirt Subject(s): Clothing & Dress BACK BAY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My adult unemployed son and I Subject(s): Boston; Clothing & Dress; Shopping BANGKOLIDYE, by BARRY PAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gimme my scarlet tie' Last Line: Says I. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Cynicism BE YOURSELF, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: I've got stays with long pink laces Last Line: Ever were blamed on me. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress BELLY DANCER, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can these movements which move themselves Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Dancing & Dancers; Desire; Women BLESSED VIRGIN (WHY IS THE B.V. CLAD IN BLUE?), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because when comes no cloud between Last Line: The livery of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary BRAID CLAITH, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye wha are fain to hae your name Last Line: O' gude braid claith. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Clothing & Dress CHINOISSERIE, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Http://www.Poetryfoundation.Org/poem/177301 Subject(s): Mothers; Clothing & Dress CLOATHES, ARE CONSPIRATORS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though from without no foes at all we feare Last Line: We shall be wounded by the cloathes we weare. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress CLOATHS FOR CONTINUANCE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those garments lasting evermore Last Line: Shall fray that silke, or fret this cloth. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress CLOTHES, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since the earliest days I have dressed myself Last Line: I would find out what I really am. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress CLOTHES DO BUT CHEAT AND COZEN US, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away with silks, away with lawn Last Line: Is wone with flesh, not drapery. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Love COATS FOR THE TOURNEY, by LEWIS WORTHINGTON SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The coat I loved was firm and fine, a splendor Last Line: And light my sword-hilt's clustered amethysts. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress COURTESY CALL, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My clothes leaped up when I came in Subject(s): Clothing & Dress COUSIN LUCRECE, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here where the curfew Last Line: Poor old lucrece. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Clothing & Dress COUTURE, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peony silks Subject(s): Beauty; Clothing & Dress CROSS-QUESTIONING, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His wardrobe from moses and son, spic and span Last Line: "I ne'er in my life saw a ham better drest." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Jokes CYPRIA: FLOWERY GARMENTS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She wrapped her flesh in raiment which the hours Last Line: Clothes that the scent of every season bore Subject(s): Clothing & Dress DEFIANCE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though the modern woman pants Last Line: Makes the breeches wider. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Women DELICIOUS DILEMMA, by M. LENNON Poem Text First Line: I cannot choose a brown sweater Last Line: "I think I'll take -- sky blue." Subject(s): Clothing & Dress DELIGHT IN DISORDER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sweet disorder in the dress Last Line: Is too precise in every part. Variant Title(s): Sweet Disorder;the Poetry Of Dress (1) Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Clothing & Dress; Love; Sex DRESSES: FOUR OF MINE FOR NAIMA BALAHI, by HETTIE JONES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So narrow they seem sewn Last Line: Unable to wear them, unable to part with them Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Women's Rights DRESSIN' UP, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's fun up in the attic, when mother lets us 'splore Last Line: "but the women say ""my gracious!"" an' the men folks say ""oh gee!" Subject(s): Children; Clothing & Dress; Play; Childhood DRESSING MY DAUGHTERS, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One girl a full head taller Last Line: They cry, “it’s not my fault.” Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Clothing & Dress DRESSING UP OUR PETS, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I sew a bright hood for my pet mouse Subject(s): Pets; Clothing & Dress DROPPED INTO THE ETHER ACRE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Riding to meet the earl Subject(s): Clothing & Dress DUTCHMAN'S BREECHES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the month when lilacs bloom Last Line: The garments of the great ten broeck. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Legends; May (month); Nature; New York City - Dutch Period EPICOENE; OR, THE SILENT WOMAN: FREEDOM IN DRESS, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still to be neat, still to be drest Last Line: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. Variant Title(s): Clerimont's Song;sweet Neglect;simplex Munditiis Subject(s): Art & Artists; Clothing & Dress; Cosmetics; Simplicity ESTHER: 43, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not so my little sponsor. She, with eyes Subject(s): Stores; Clothing & Dress FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE POET AND HIS PATRON, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, caelia, is your spreading waist Last Line: The arts that taught them first to rise. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Desire; Poetry & Poets; Women FASHION, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See those resplendent creatures, as they glide Last Line: The world's regeneration may begin. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress FASHION; A DIALOGUE, by JAMES HAY BEATTIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Consider, my good friend, the value Last Line: And that all honour him, who praise. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Fashion FAT SOUTHERN MEN IN SUMMER SUITS, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fat southern men in their summer suit Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Summer; Southern States; South (u.s.) FATHER'S OLD BLUE CARDIGAN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now it hangs on the back of the kitchen chair Last Line: Because he is riding backwards Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Fathers; Love - Unrequited FINERY, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In an elegant frock, trimm'd with beautiful lace Last Line: If her dress is but decent, though ever so plain. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress GETTING DRESSED, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the morning, I pull on Last Line: That wants to swallow you. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress GOING INTO BREECHES, by MARY LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Joy to philip! - he this day Last Line: Now the breeches are put on. Subject(s): Boys; Clothing & Dress HOSTESS, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All I remember from that party Last Line: Which I hope no one had seen Subject(s): Clothing & Dress IMPROMPTU UPON BEING OBLIGED TO LEAVE A PARTY .. WANT OF BREECHES, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between adam and me the great difference is Last Line: While, for want of my breeches, I'm banish'd from mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): Upon Being Obliged To Leave A Pleasant Party Subject(s): Clothing & Dress IN 'DESIGNING A CLOAK TO CLOAK HIS DESIGNS' YOU WRESTED FROM OBLIVION, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cowed by his uningenious will Last Line: To serve two masters. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Immortality IN THE FASHION, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: A lion has a mane and a very fine mane Last Line: And that's the style for me. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Fashion IN THE MIDDLE OF PRIEST LAKE, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sister margaret clare Last Line: Mother superior holds fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Nuns IN THE VOICE OF JANE TO HER MOTHER, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Caught myself / putting away four dresses Last Line: But I tell them all gettahellouttahere! / the western way Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Clothing & Dress INSPECT US, by EDITH DANIELL Poem Text First Line: Out of the clothes that cover me Last Line: I am the captain of my form. Subject(s): Bodies; Clothing & Dress INTIMATE APPAREL, by IRENE WILDE Poem Text First Line: She braids her hair in rivulets of sun Last Line: She wears a haircloth shirt. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress IT'S HARD TO KEEP A CLEAN SHIRT CLEAN, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full 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 JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 16, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Going to work in the subway Subject(s): Clothing & Dress JIM'S COATS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When jim has got a new coat Last Line: I think he'd straighten, too! Subject(s): Clothing & Dress JOCK WABSTER'S AULD COAT, by J. E. WATT Poem Text First Line: An auld gaberlunzie, jock wabster by name Last Line: Jist to get a fresh look o' jock wabster's auld coat. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress LA DERNIERE ROBE DE SOI, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, silken gown, all pink and pretty Last Line: Dear gown -- I hope you won't feel lonely! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Poverty; Socialism LATE FOR SUMMER WEATHER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He has on / an old light grey fedora Subject(s): Summer; Clothing & Dress LINES TO AN OLD DRESS, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! The time has come, old dress Last Line: To long gone joys and pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Memory MADRIGAL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My love in her attire doth show her wit Last Line: "but beauty's self she is, / when all her robes are gone" Variant Title(s): The Poetry Of Dress;seventeeth-century Madrigal Subject(s): Beauty;clothing & Dress;love MARIAN; AN OPERETTA: SONG (1), by FRANCES (MOORE) BROOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the osiers so dank Last Line: Alas! Must I wear the green willow? Subject(s): Clothing & Dress MEXICAN NURSERY RHYME: 6, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "go to sleep, my baby" Last Line: You may put it on Subject(s): Clothing & Dress MORE THEOLOGY, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And why these fig leaves hiding eden's riches? Last Line: Our parent got too big, see, for their britches Variant Title(s): Moon-landing Poetry, From Juvenal, I, 79 Subject(s): Eden; Clothing & Dress MOTHER'S PARTY DRESS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some day,' says ma, 'I'm goin' get Last Line: Because she can't afford it. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Mothers MUNDUS MULIEBRIS, SELECTION, by MARY EVELYN Poem Text First Line: In pin-up ruffles now she flaunts Last Line: Does with her vanity confound. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Hands; Women MY ANGEL-DRESS, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heavenly father, I would wear Last Line: Clothed, adopted I shall be. Subject(s): Angels; Clothing & Dress MY JACKET OLD, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Ere work, alack, came in with wail Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Clothing & Dress; Work; Workers MY OLD CLOTHES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I used to have a suit of clothes Last Line: Just wallow in the dirt! Subject(s): Clothing & Dress NEEDLEWORK, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes fate takes Last Line: In the butterfly's orange wings. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Convents; Needles; Nuns; Seamstresses NOT AS MUCH, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bracken and primrose Last Line: With her breasts Subject(s): Women; Clothing & Dress NOTHING TO WEAR', by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Miss flora mcflimsey, of madison square Last Line: Wear! Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; New York City; Women; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 8. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE FOURTH EPIGRAM, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All in satin oteny will be suited Last Line: Oteny sure will have the bastinado. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Cosmetics ODE TO A DRESSMAKER'S DUMMY, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: O my coy darling, still Last Line: Prim ghost the evening light shone through Subject(s): Clothing & Dress OLD COAT, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dressed in an old coat I lumber Subject(s): Clothing & Dress ON A GIRDLE, by EDMUND WALLER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That which her slender waist confined Last Line: Take all the rest the sun goes round! Subject(s): Admiration; Clothing & Dress; Girdles; Love ON AFRIC'S GOLDEN SANDS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A wild and warlike zulu chief Last Line: He simply wouldn't wear his trousers creased Subject(s): Clothing & Dress;zulus ON SENDING HOME MY CIVILIAN CLOTHES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: -good duds, goodbye before I shut Last Line: The postage to a lost address Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Veterans ON UPSTART, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upstart last term went up to town Last Line: There's cause; than thine it has been longer worn. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress ONLY THE CLOTHES SHE WORE, by NATHANIEL GRAHAM SHEPHERD Poem Text First Line: There is the hat Last Line: Then—will it be well? Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Death; Dead, The ORGAN SONGS: DORCAS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I might guess, then guess I would Last Line: And showed the coats she made. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Dorcas (bible); Women - Bible PADDY'S REMONSTRANCE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pat! Buy a trunk?' 'sure, for what'? He replied Last Line: "would you have me go naked entirely?"" said pat." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Jokes PASSING IT ON, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our son's shirts attend kindergarten Last Line: As original skin. Subject(s): Charity; Clothing & Dress; Salvation Army; Philanthropy PATTERNS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk down the garden paths Last Line: Christ! What are patterns for? Subject(s): Absence; Clothing & Dress; Fashion; Freedom; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Love - Loss Of; World War I; Separation; Isolation; Liberty; First World War PHOEBE, OR MY GRANDMOTHER WEST, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, phoebe! How slily, love's arrow to barb Last Line: A counterfeit true of her grandmamma west. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Girls; Grandparents; Love; Time; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers POLLY BE-EN UPZIDES WI' TOM, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Yesterday, d'ye know, I voun' / tom dumpy's cwoat an' smock-frock, down Last Line: Cut hoss-heäir down my neck. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Practical Jokes; Revenge; Summer; Pranks PREMONITION, by MARIE TODD Poem Text First Line: I'm saving this for john,' he used to say Last Line: As he the thing that he had come to tell. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Knowledge PRESENT DAY SONNETS: OUR LOOMS, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rich stuffs our looms weave for fair ladies' wear.' Last Line: The brutish engine like all tyrants blind. Subject(s): Class Struggle; Clothing & Dress; Labor & Laborers; Weaving & Weavers; Work; Workers RITA, A RED ROSE, HATES HER CLOTHES, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where I am's a roomful of clothes Subject(s): Clothing & Dress ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: MARIE ANTOINETTE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The plate-glass windows gleam in the sun Last Line: He starts in fearful amazement. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Marie Antoinette, Queen Of France; Women ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE APOLLO GOD, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The convent stands high on the rocky steep Last Line: "head-dress, they 'the green sow' call her." Subject(s): Apollo; Clothing & Dress; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Rhine (river), Europe; Singing & Singers; Songs SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 12. AT THE DRAPER'S, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood at the back of the shop, my dear Last Line: I left you to your adorning.' Subject(s): Clothing & Dress SCARLET T-SHIRT: THE LYRIC MUSE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know I'm vulgar, but so Last Line: And will not let it rest Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Taste (esthetics) SHALLOW WATERS, by ELVA R. RAY Poem Text First Line: She thinks I'm narrow-minded Last Line: Where hers are bound to go. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress SHIRT, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The back, the yoke, the yardage, lapped seams Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers SHOES AND STOCKINGS, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: There's a shop upon the avenue where old men clerk Last Line: Chatter. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers SIDNEY'S ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: CANTO SECUNDO. LOVE'S PILGRIMS, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What fair pomp have I spied of glittering ladies Last Line: Come, we'll associate this jolly pilgrimage! Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Cosmetics SILVER AND LAVENDER, by WILLIAM SHATTUCK Poem Text First Line: The asters now put on the lavender Last Line: Silver and lavender clothes earth and sky. Subject(s): Asters; Clothing & Dress; Flowers; Grief; Lavender; Silver; Sorrow; Sadness SKIN, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Obedient daily dress Last Line: Till the fashion changes Subject(s): Skin; Clothing & Dress SONGS FOR MY MOTHER: 1. HER CLOTHES, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was small, my mother's clothes Last Line: So comfortable are they. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Mothers SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 10C. VANITY FAIR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some ladies dress in muslin full and white Last Line: Go to the bason, poke them o'er the rim. -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Women; Youth THE ARABIAN SHAWL, by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is cold outside, you will need a coat Last Line: "let me take off my arabian shawl!" Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Clothing & Dress THE BLUE FLANNEL SHIRT, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am eager once more to feel easy Last Line: That's born of a blue flannel shirt. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Clothing & Dress THE BLUE SCARF, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale, with the blue of high zeniths, shimmered over with silver, brocaded Last Line: How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone! Subject(s): Infatuation; Love - Unrequited; Scarves; Clothing & Dress; Flowers; Kisses; Women THE BLUE SCARF, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale, with the blue of high zeniths, shimmered over with silver, brocaded Last Line: How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone! Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Flowers; Kisses; Women THE BOAST OF THE SILVER DRESS, by PEGGY WILLIAMS POWERS Poem Text First Line: The silver dress was speaking low Last Line: "I cover her heart. I know." Subject(s): Clothing & Dress THE BUTTERFLY AND THE BEE, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Methought I heard a butterfly Last Line: "the vanity of dress." Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Vanity THE CATCH, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the dress-box's plashing tis- Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations THE CONSPIRACY OF THE CLOTHES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother called, and I called, and father called, and kate Last Line: But he never understood it, for the clothes their secret kept. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress THE CUT-DOWN TROUSERS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When father couldn't wear them mother cut them down for me Last Line: For I missed those good old pockets that my father's trousers had. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Clothing & Dress THE DRESSMAKER'S WORKROOM, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dressmakers' dummy Subject(s): Clothing & Dress THE FLEECE: BOOK 2, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now of the severed lock begin the song Last Line: Who toil and wealth exchange for sloth and pride. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Clothing & Dress; Hunting; Labor & Laborers; Sheep; Trade; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Hunters; Work; Workers THE GIRL WITH EIGHTEEN NIGHTGOWNS, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And each one to the advantage of her breasts Last Line: That only come out at night. Subject(s): Breasts; Clothing & Dress; Girls; Night; Bedtime THE GLAMOUR OF IT, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The glamour of it to a child all sniffing Last Line: Curiosity fattened on those scraps Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Nostalgia; Ancestors & Ancestry THE KING'S DAUGHTER, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No rich and costly gown Last Line: Are the garments of her soul. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Courts & Courtiers; Daughters THE LADY'S DRESSING ROOM, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Five hours, (and who can do it less in?) Last Line: Such gaudy tulips rais'd from dung. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances THE LAST DITCH, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, through your varied views on art Last Line: That laurence housman's people wear! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Art & Artists; Clothing & Dress; Housman, Laurence (1865-1959); Love; Socialism THE LITTLE VELVET SUIT, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I got to thinkin' of the pleasant long Last Line: And be as proud of me right now as she was always then. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Clothing & Dress THE MONKEY-TOURIST; FROM YRIARTE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A monkey clad in cloth-of-gold Last Line: That men as well as monkeys make! Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Monkeys THE MYSTERY OF EMILY DICKINSON, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the weather goes on for days Last Line: Unless there was time, and eternity's plenty. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Poetry & Poets; Women THE NEW BLOOMER COSTUME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "listen, females all, no matter what your trade is" Last Line: "oh dear, what shall we do, when women wear the breeches" Subject(s): Change;clothing & Dress;women THE NEW COSTUME OF THE MINISTERS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Having sent off the troops of brave major camac Last Line: And first puts in hand my lord chancellor eld -- n. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Politics & Government THE NEW VESTMENTS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There lived an old man in the kingdom of tess Last Line: "any more, any more, any more, never more!'" Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Nonsense THE PATCHWORK QUIZ, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sheen of silken splendor Last Line: When mother dear was there. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Clothing & Dress; Family Life; Fashion; Mothers; Quilts; Relatives THE PINK FROCK, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my pretty pink frock Last Line: And not so cheated!' Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Mourning; Bereavement THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 258, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Get your own clothes if you're cold Last Line: There's never enough food and clothes Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Clothing & Dress; Food & Eating; Self-reliance THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 83, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a coat Last Line: Yearlong only this Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Clothing & Dress THE RED SHIRT, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I gave 5 birds Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Poetry & Poets THE ROBE OF THEMIS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How justice in her courts may best be clothed Last Line: Ermine set off with motley. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Clothing & Dress THE SHIRT, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The shirt touches his neck Last Line: Lucky shirt Subject(s): Love; Clothing & Dress THE SWEATER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will lose you. It is written Last Line: His death into the sweater. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Loss; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE TEA-GOWN, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lady has a tea-gown Last Line: Of that gown at two pounds ten! Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE THINGS IN BLACK MEN?ÇÖS CLOSETS, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the top shelf Subject(s): African Americans; Death; Clothing & Dress; Negroes; American Blacks; Dead, The THE THREE FLAPPERS, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: Three little flappers in near-silver foxes Last Line: And rolled down their stockings till they looked like soxes. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Women THE TOILETTE; A TOWN ECLOGUE, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now twenty springs had cloath'd the park with green Last Line: And at the play-house harry keeps her box. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Cosmetics THE TRAMP, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He came from where he started Last Line: "oh, I come from where I started!" Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Poverty; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE UNFINISHED GOWN, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sat a long time quietly Last Line: And with white fingers snapped the thread. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress THE UNIFORM, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the sleeves, I remember their weight, like wet wool Last Line: A wounded eardrum wasn't much in the scheme. Subject(s): Army - United States; Clothing & Dress; Military THE WEDDING GARMENT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old coat, the easy coat Last Line: What's the harm? Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WHILE THEY CRADLE CLOTHES...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And those who do their washing in a stream Last Line: That men who labour gather while they toil. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Labor & Laborers; Sea; Work; Workers; Ocean THOUGHTS ABOUT THE CARIBOU'S VELVET, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You hate to look at it Last Line: And recoiling from you heart? Subject(s): Clothing & Dress TO A LADY VERY HANDSOME BUT TOO FOND OF DRESS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Prythee who so fantastic and vain? Last Line: Because that thy teeth are so white? Subject(s): Clothing & Dress;vanity TO A NEW YORK SHOP-GIRL DRESSED FOR SUNDAY, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Today I saw the shop-girl go Last Line: Surely his angels lay their kiss. Subject(s): Beauty; Clothing & Dress; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TO HER GOWN; ON LAYING IT BY, by GRACE E. TOLLEMACHE Poem Text First Line: Dear gown, that he has known me in Last Line: Those dreams that had so soon an end! Subject(s): Clothing & Dress TO JULIA IN SHOOTING TOGS, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenas to shoot my julia goes Last Line: And lo! I tremble in my boots! Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Love TO MRS. LEIGH UPON HER WEDDING DAY, by GEORGE CANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While all to this auspicious day Last Line: Not wear herself, the breeches. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO WILLIAM THEODORE PETERS ON HIS RENAISSANCE CLOAK, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cherry-coloured velvet of your cloak Last Line: The elder, brighter age of pomp and pride. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress TUNICA PALLIO PROPRIOR, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My coat is nearer than my cloak Last Line: My coat is an integument of pride. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress TWO GOWNS, by MARY L. VIGER Poem Text First Line: My soul is clothed in black velvet Last Line: Though I pretend I love it. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress TWO OF A TRADE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pedestrians! Buy your pantaloons at sixteen shillings new Last Line: Though scarce ten yards apart, the two are miles and miles asunder. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Tailors; Dress Makers UNBUTTONING, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The buttons lie jumbled in a tin Last Line: Left by vanished flesh Subject(s): Death – Mothers; Clothing & Dress; Body, Human UNDRESSING, by LAURIE SHECK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He dreams she is a room Subject(s): Transience; Clothing & Dress; Impermanence UPON ELECTRA, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When out of bed my love doth spring Last Line: Tis then broad day throughout the east. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress UPON JULIA'S CLOTHES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whenas in silks my julia goes Last Line: O how that glittering taketh me! Variant Title(s): The Poetry Of Dress (2);whenas In Silks My Julia Goes Subject(s): Admiration; Clothing & Dress; Innocence; Love; Sex; Silk VERSES, SPOKEN EXTEMPORE AT THE MEETING OF A CLUB, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our president in days of yore Last Line: Provided that the brain be sound. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress VICTORIAN LADIES, by MILDRED HATTON BRYAN Poem Text First Line: This picture that you see, sir, on the wall Last Line: "you've seen her often here. My daughter, sir!" Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Irony; Youth VIOLIN SONGS: GOING TO SLEEP, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little one, you must not fret Last Line: Saith the little brother. Subject(s): Children; Clothing & Dress; Death; God; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood; Dead, The VOGUE, by CORA FREAR HAWKINS Poem Text First Line: Summer dons a flowered hat, with dress in rosy tints Last Line: While spring, hair blowing in the wind, wears flower- sprigged chintz. Subject(s): Autumn; Clothing & Dress; Seasons; Summer; Fall WEDDING CAKE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a plane Last Line: Was funnier than the whole arm. Subject(s): Babies; Brides; Clothing & Dress; Marriage; White (color); Infants; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WELCOME, HUSBANDS, by MARCELLA ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: We extend to you a welcome hearty Last Line: Bestow. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WHAT IF?, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What if we hadn't women's clothes to laugh at? Last Line: Absurd, divine, kaleidoscopic woman! Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Women WHEN THE TOADS BEGIN TO RING, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or off your petticoats fling Subject(s): Clothing & Dress WISH FOR AN OVERCOAT, by ALFRED ISLAY WALDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Had I now an overcoat Last Line: But partly bread and butter. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Poverty YARD, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Persons among the flapping clothes Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Laundry & Laundering YOU WERE WEARING, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were wearing your edgar allan poe printed cotton blouse Subject(s): Clothing & Dress |
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