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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CALCULUS OF READINESS, by LIZ WALDNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I, too, come from the city of dolls.
Subject(s): Dolls; Fish & Fishing; Anglers


A DIVERTED TRAGEDY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gracie wuz allus a careless tot
Last Line: "an' cried, ""my child! My precious child!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Tears; Toys; Childhood


A HORRIBLE EXAMPLE, by OLIVER MARBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a man who put on airs
Last Line: Because they were too ladified.
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Dolls; Friends, Religious Society Of; Men; Prayer; Toys; Quakers


A MORTIFYING MISTAKE, by ANNA MARIA PRATT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: I studied my tables over and over, and backward and forward, too
Last Line: "answered, ""mary ann!"
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Errors; Mathematics; Toys; Childhood; Mistakes; Fallacies


A MOTHER'S HOPES, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes my mother confesses
Last Line: The things they will do when they grow.
Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Dolls; Mothers; Sewing; Toys; Childhood


A NURSERY RHYME, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "hushy baby, my doll, I pray you don't cry"
Last Line: "then to either your welcome, with my whole heart"
Subject(s): Dolls;toys


A ROMAN DOLL, by AGNES LEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How an image of paint and wood
Last Line: But I keep her kiss forevermore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dolls; Mothers; Toys


A SWEET-EYED CHILD, by AGNES LEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sweet - eyed child
Last Line: "was I your doll?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs.
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Girls; Mothers; Toys; Childhood


AN OLD DOLL, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Low on her little stool she sits
Last Line: Beyond the claims of kings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dolls; Mothers; Toys


ANNIVERSARY, by MARIE PONSOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The big doll being broken and the sawdust fall
Subject(s): Dolls


ANTHROPOLOGY, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love my ordernery dolls the best
Last Line: To make 'em all americans like me.
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys; Childhood


BARBIE DOLL, by LAUREL SPEER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Verfluchte juden!
Last Line: Let them figure it out. I've forgotten
Subject(s): Barbie, Klaus (1913-1991); Dolls; Toys


BUCOLIC COMEDY: THE DOLL, by EDITH SITWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If cold grew visible again
Last Line: Play with my doll, though I'm in bed!
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


BURNING THE DOLLS, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That last night, unable to sleep
Last Line: I burned and burned and burned.
Subject(s): Dolls; Fire; Grief; Loss; Toys; Sorrow; Sadness


CHILD MARGARET, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The child margaret begins to write numbers on a saturday morning
Last Line: Millions of rag dolls, millions and millions of new rag dolls!!)
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys; Childhood


COMPRESSION, by MARTHA LARSON O'CONNOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Paper doll folds herself over head to toe
Last Line: Or the broom to sweep up, away %disappearing her forever
Subject(s): Dolls; Paper; Toys


DOLL, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sits upright in an ancient chest
Last Line: A toothless angel who doesn't know better
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys


DOLL POEMS: 1. THE PICTURE, by WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is her picture -- dolladine
Last Line: What a beautiful buttoned-up mouth to kiss
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Matthew; Holbeach, Henry
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


DOLL POEMS: 2. THE LOVE STORY, by WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the doll with respect to whom
Last Line: I don't believe you will find him out
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Matthew; Holbeach, Henry
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


DOLL POEMS: 3. DRESSING THE DOLL, by WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the way we dress the doll
Last Line: If you had not seen, could you guess the doll?
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Matthew; Holbeach, Henry
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


DOLL SHOP ON RODEO DRIVE, by VIRGINIA WEBB JULAVITS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dylan thomas, the bulbous
Subject(s): Beverly Hills, California; Dolls; Retail Trade; Toys


DOLL'S CRADLE-SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "sleep, dolly, sleep"
Last Line: "sleep, my dolly, sleep!"
Subject(s): Dolls;toys


DOLL'S LULLABY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, you're so sleepy, dollie dear
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


DOLL'S WOOING, by EUGENE FIELD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The little french doll was a dear little doll
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Love; Toys


DOLLADINE, by WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Matthew; Holbeach, Henry
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


DOLLIE, by SAMUEL MINTURN PECK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She sports a witching gown
Last Line: Little rose!
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys; Youth


DOLLS, by DIANN BLAKELY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Those lolling china heads and rag-stuffed arms
Last Line: Still I undressed, a girl with other charms
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


DOLLS, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Betty has dolls that can almost talk
Last Line: And half of the sawdust out!
Subject(s): Dolls; Girls; Play; Toys


DOLLS, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night after night forever the dolls lay stiff
Last Line: Their eyes wide open forever, while all the children slept
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


DOLLS, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They are so like
Subject(s): Dolls


DOLLS, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thought of eve, within me, is a doll
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


DOLLS, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thought of eve, within me, is a doll
Last Line: And of another, whom I must not name
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


DOLLS MUSEUM IN DUBLIN, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wounds are terrible. The paint is old
Last Line: With a terrible stare. But not feel it. And not know it
Subject(s): Dolls; Dublin, Ireland; Museums; Toys


DOLLY'S LULLABY, by JULIANA HORATIA GATTY EWING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hush-a-by, baby! Your baby, mamma
Last Line: Hush-a-by, dolly, of babies the best!
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


DOLLY'S LULLABY, by MARIANNA GRISWOLD VAN RENSSELAER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Sing, I must sing to my dear dolly, sing
Last Line: But I never can tell her of everything!
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Schuyler
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


FICKLE, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: New dolly, you are very sweet!
Last Line: I re'lize, now, that she was plain.
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys; Childhood


FINGER PUPPETS IN THE ATTIC DOLLHOUSE, by JOHN REIBETANZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: If they, more petite
Last Line: Unraveling years %the tissue of apocalypse?
Subject(s): Dolls; Puppets; Toys


GLIMPSES OF CHILDHOOD: 3. THE DOLLS' HOSPITAL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a little old building, up under the roof
Last Line: But the mending of legs and arms!
Subject(s): Children; Dancing & Dancers; Dolls; Grief; Hospitals; Life; Toys; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness


GUATEMALAN WORRY DOLLS, by JAMES REISS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The handcrafted dolls %my friend gave guests at her wedding
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys; Worry


I MUST HAVE LEARNED THIS SOMEWHERE, by MOLLY PEACOCK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I loved an old doll made of bleached
Subject(s): Comfort; Dolls; Mothers


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


LIBERATION BARBIE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm visiting barbie again today
Last Line: Pretty soon, you'll just buy boxes of barbie hair %with no barbie at all
Subject(s): Beauty; Dolls; Girls; Toys


LULLABY, by LOUIS C. ELSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dollie, the night has come
Last Line: Good-night, good-night.
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


MEHITABLE ANN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love mehitable ann!
Last Line: Just loves mehitable ann!
Subject(s): Dolls; Girls; Toys


MENDING DAY, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How quickly children's clothes will rip and tear!
Last Line: Whose clothes are only painted on their skin.
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Play; Toys; Childhood


MUNECA, by GAIL WRONSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Doll and wrist %first limp, then preciosa
Last Line: Manipulate a pretty %spanish bit
Subject(s): Beauty; Dolls; Man-woman Relationships; Toys; Women


NEGLIGENT MARY, by ISAAC TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah, mary! What, do you for dolly not care?
Last Line: And of far more importance than she.
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


OF THIS CLOTH DOLL WHICH (SARAH'S FOURTH), by MICHAEL PALMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of this cloth doll which
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


OF THIS CLOTH DOLL WHICH (SARAH'S FOURTH), by MICHAEL PALMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of this cloth doll which
Last Line: To out of the whale's mouth
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


OZARK ODES: GIRLHOOD, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother had one. She and bernice racing for the river
Last Line: To hear what their paperdolls were fixing to say
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Dolls; Play; Toys; Youth


PERLA AT THE MEXICAN BORDER ASSEMBLY LINE OF DOLLS, by RIGOBERTO GONZALEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her job was to sort through the eyes
Last Line: Threatening to thrust back the fury of its nail
Subject(s): Dolls; Mexican Border; Toys


PIRATE DOLL, by MERRY WIGGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come, tattered little pirate doll
Last Line: For always while I live I shall remember.
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


POEM, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A mule kicked out in the trees. An early
Last Line: And drove some more — unable to sleep in missouri.
Subject(s): Dolls; Funerals; Girls; Grief; Missouri; Toys; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness


PRAYERS, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When it is bedtime, every day
Last Line: There is so little that they need.
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Play; Toys; Childhood


PUMPKIN RIND DOLLS, by JANET KIMPSTON HERZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Make me a doll from a pumpkin rind
Last Line: The dolls you made from a pumpkin rind.
Subject(s): Dolls; Girls; Pumpkins; Toys


PUTTING DOLLY TO BED, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A mother has so many cares
Last Line: And rock our babes to sleep.
Subject(s): Babies; Children; Dolls; Mothers; Toys; Infants; Childhood


QUEEN OF HER HEART, by ELLIOTT FLOWER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The little rag doll is queen
Last Line: It stands in her heart alone.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dolls; Household Employees; Solitude; Toys; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Loneliness


SENRYU (85), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A doll as well
Last Line: In the newly-weds' house
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 106, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a poll parrot
Last Line: Trembled for the doll.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


THE ADVANCE, by TOM SLEIGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out the barred window sandbags
Subject(s): Lebanon; War; Dolls; Death - Children; Death - Babies


THE BOY SHEPHERD'S SMILE, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind rose cold under our robes, and straw blew loose
Last Line: For this we shivered in adoration. We bore the cold.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Dolls; Imagination; Toys; Childhood; Nativity, The; Fancy


THE DEAD DOLL, by MARGARET THOMPSON JANVIER    Poem Text                    
First Line: You needn't be trying to comfort me - I tell you my dolly is dead!
Last Line: "in her head."
Alternate Author Name(s): Vandergrift, Margaret
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys; Childhood


THE DOLL, by AGNES LEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's something strange about the child tonight
Last Line: When she comes looking, and it isn't here!
Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dolls; Family Life; Poverty; Toys; Relatives


THE DOLL, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I carry you in a glass jar
Last Line: Dead child.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Dolls; Toys; Death - Babies


THE DOLL BELIEVERS, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This lifeless construction
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Parents; Toys; Childhood; Parenthood


THE DOLLS, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night after night forever the dolls lay stiff
Subject(s): Dolls; Dolls; Toys


THE DOLLS, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whenever you dress me dolls, mammy
Last Line: But one I love too well.'
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


THE DOLLS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: A doll in the doll-maker's house
Last Line: It was an accident.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


THE DOLLS MUSEUM IN DUBLIN, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wounds are terrible. The paint is old
Last Line: With a terrible stare. But not feel it. And not know it
Subject(s): Dolls; Dublin, Ireland; Museums; Toys; Art Gallerys


THE HOARDER, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is something there
Last Line: "I am not an idler
Subject(s): Family Life; Dolls


THE LITTLE GIRL TO HER DADDY, by JANE TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There, go to sleep, dolly, in your own mother's lap
Last Line: For I think it's high time to have done with bye bye.
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


THE LONELY BABY, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whose dolly is you?
Last Line: Whose dolly is you?
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys; Childhood


THE LONG AFTERNOON, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind the glass door
Last Line: Dear brother, I do!
Subject(s): Dolls; Time; Play


THE WATER-BABIES: SONG. MY LITTLE DOLL, by CHARLES KINGSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I once had a sweet little doll, dears
Last Line: The prettiest doll in the world.
Variant Title(s): My Childhood's Love;the Lost Doll;song Of Madam-do-as-you Would-be
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


THE WOODEN DOLL AND THE WAX DOLL, by ADELAIDE O'KEEFFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There were two friends, a very charming pair!
Last Line: And wronged brunette she clasp'd within her arms.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'keefe, Adelaide
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


THOSE ALTERNATE SUNDAYS, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When my daughter's tugged %home-diminishing yellow skull
Last Line: Breath, willing my daughter to return %to murmur her secret name
Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Dolls; Toys


THOSE TIMES, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At six / I lived in a graveyard full of dolls
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dolls


TOYLAND, by PAMELA GEMIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Midnight exactly my momma snores
Last Line: This is toyland. I'm belinda. I'm the babe
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Girls; Toys


TWO PEOPLE, by PRISCILLA LEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandma gave me lulu when I was five
Last Line: One of us has to carry the other
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys


UPON A DYING LADY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With the old kindness, the old distinguished grace
Last Line: It is about to die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Courage; Death; Dolls; Toys; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The


VISIBLE WOMAN, by HEID E. ERDRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Was her name -- %that plastic model of anatomy
Last Line: Thumb-pinkie-index-fore meld to raise you like wings
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys; Women


WHAT MAKES ME INVISIBLE, by JENNIFER M. PIERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sit on the hard chair at the mayflower coffee shop, my feet dangling
Last Line: A madame alexandre doll,' my fifth
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Mothers And Daughters; Single Parents; Toys


WITH SISTER'S DOLLS, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dolls are silly things to play with
Last Line: If you never say your prayers?
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Dolls; Toys


WORD POWER, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: First doll, I rocked her blue-eyed blink in my lap
Last Line: "I proclaimed, ""dirty."
Subject(s): Dolls; Language; Names; Toys; Words; Vocabulary