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Subject: FEET
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A MAN GOES BY, by HAZEL HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where his sure feet pass
Last Line: As he walks upon a street.
Subject(s): Feet; Walking


AN EXPEDIENT, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As my neat little feet will not fill them enough
Last Line: "since you are, as you tell us, deficient in toe."
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Feet; Shoes; Toes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


AND THEN THERE WERE THE FEET, by WILLIAM KISTLER    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Out from the darkening body of evening
Subject(s): Feet; Night; Play


BABY'S FEET AND HANDS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink
Subject(s): Babies; Feet; Hands


BOUND FEET, by DEBORAH BURNHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Golden lilies, golden lotus, the chinese called the feet
Last Line: Who rise at dawn and carry dinner to the hungry town
Subject(s): China; Feet


CHARMS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Prune your corn in the gray of the
Last Line: Ilka freckle's gang awa!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Corn; Feet; Rain


DANCE, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And I dance submerged
Last Line: Because if today is the end of the world %who would dare to stop dancing?
Subject(s): Applause; Audiences; Dancing And Dancers; Feet; Music And Musicians


ETUDE REALISTE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink
Last Line: A baby's eyes.
Subject(s): Babies; Children; Feet; Mothers; Roundels; Infants; Childhood


FEET, by NEAL BOWERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The foot has 26 bones
Subject(s): Feet


FEET, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the sun shines in the street
Last Line: "and told them, ""you are seeking god!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie
Variant Title(s): Seeking
Subject(s): Feet; God


FEET, by MARILYN KRYSL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They are the last to leave
Last Line: Feet are the last thing you see %before your eyes close
Subject(s): Feet


FEET, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Feet are very special things %for special kinds of fun
Last Line: On sundays they just do the things %that other people like
Subject(s): Feet


FEET, by CATHERINE HARNETT SHAW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Size 12 1/2, my nephew boasts
Subject(s): Feet


FEET, by IRENE THOMPSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Big feet
Subject(s): Feet


FEET, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the vehicles we meet
Last Line: Till I can buy a touring-car!
Subject(s): Feet


FETISH, by LORETTA COLLINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A shoe is valued highly if it is
Last Line: Seen as an imprint in flesh
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Feet


FLOWER WILL NOT TROUBLE HER, IT HAS SO SMALL A FOOT, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Hers is the smallest boot
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1621; Poem: 164
Subject(s): Feet


FOOT-WASHING, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now you have come
Last Line: Forgive me wakened now
Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R.
Subject(s): Bible; Feet; Religion


FOOT-WASHING, by GEORGE ELLA LYON    Poem Source                    
First Line: They kneel on the slanting floor
Subject(s): Feet


GOIN' BAREFOOT, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's more fun goin' barefoot than anythin' I know
Last Line: Er else I wisht I was so poor I hadn't none t' lose!
Subject(s): Boys; Children; Feet; Play; Childhood


HER LITTLE FEET, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Her little feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Feet


HIS FOOTSTEP, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The boy will come no more
Last Line: Like an old tune.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Death; Feet; Footprints; Homecoming; Loss; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War


HOME FROM A WALK, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Assassinated by the sky
Last Line: Assassinated by the sky
Subject(s): Feet; Travel; Walking


IN PRAISE OF FEET, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some can walk over burning coals
Last Line: Then stretch. When in ecstasy, the toes arch %instinctively upward
Subject(s): Feet; Travel


LITTLE FEET, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA    Poem Source                    
First Line: O tiny feet of children
Last Line: And see you not?
Subject(s): Children; Feet; Homeless; Poverty; Roads


LITTLE FEET, by ELIZABETH HARCOURT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where have you gone, little feet
Last Line: "I dance down a silvery street!"
Subject(s): Feet


LONG FEET PEOPLE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pliny relates in his natural history that
Last Line: Their feet to shade themselves from heat
Subject(s): Feet; Pentastichs


MY GRANDMOTHER WASHES HER FEET, by FRED CHAPPELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see her still, unsteadily riding the edge
Last Line: I never had the guts to stir that earth
Subject(s): Farm Life; Feet; Grandparents


MY MOTHER'S FEET, by STANLEY PLUMLY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How no shoe fit them
Subject(s): Mothers; Feet


NAKED FOOT OF AVA GARDNER, by ROLF-DIETER BRINKMANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is %a nightmare, when it refuses
Last Line: The memory is the one side %the other side we'll never know
Subject(s): Feet; Memory


ODE TO MY SOCKS, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Maru mori brought me
Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo
Subject(s): Feet; Poverty; Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


ODE TO MY SOCKS, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maru mori brought me
Last Line: When it is a matter of two socks %made of wool %in winter
Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo
Subject(s): Feet; Poverty; Shoes


ODE TO MY SOCKS, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maru mori brought me
Last Line: Woolen socks %in wintertime
Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo
Subject(s): Feet; Hosiery


ON MY FEET, by JAY HOPLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: They will never be mistaken for mosquitoes
Last Line: They affect the weather
Subject(s): Feet; Self


PHYLLIS'S SLIPPERS, by H. A. RICHMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Before the firelight's genial glow
Last Line: To clasp so close such dainty feet.
Subject(s): Feet


REFLECTION ABOUT MY FEET, by DAISY ZAMORA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have my father's feet
Subject(s): Feet


SACRED RUM TOES, by ED PAVLIC    Poem Source                    
First Line: On sundays, %dips her feet in
Last Line: The nightly brick %she carries %home
Subject(s): Feet; Murder


SHOES, by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Magic, these little boats we sail, riding
Last Line: Long-nailed fingers into forbidden dark
Subject(s): Feet; Shoes


SHOES, by GRACE LORENTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old grey shoes lie on the floor
Last Line: He would smile at her
Subject(s): Feet; High School Students; Shoes; Teenagers


SHOES AND STOCKINGS OFF, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bare feet, bare feet
Last Line: And you shall still fare sweet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Feet


SOCKS, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She thinks she's silly, making love in them
Last Line: Around the globe, forlorn as single socks %until they make a pair
Subject(s): Cold; Feet; Hosiery


SPIRIT SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Are my feet big enough
Last Line: O the things that hold me up
Subject(s): Eskimos; Feet; Native Americans


THE CHILD, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The little feet running upon the floor
Last Line: And even the sweets the heart thought past recover.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Children; Feet; Kisses; Mothers; Youth; Childhood


THE CORN ON JOSIE'S TOE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The board walk, atlantic city
Last Line: Tis a corn on josie's toe.
Subject(s): Accidents; Atlantic City, New Jersey; Feet; Toes; Walking


THE FOOT, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sing the foot. Let every muse's wing
Last Line: Assist me to immortalize the foot.
Subject(s): Feet


THE MESSENGER, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The messenger runs, not carrying the news
Last Line: And again, on his way?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Feet; News; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE RUSHES, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rushes nod by the river
Last Line: My feet in rhyme with her feet.
Subject(s): Fairies; Feet; Elves


THE SHOEMAKER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou poet, who, like any lark
Last Line: Upon his latest tramp.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Feet; Poetry & Poets; Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


THE WHITE FEET OF ATTHIS, by HENRY ANDERSON LAFLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Then atthis to her lover-poet said
Last Line: Her cold, sweet finger-tips.
Subject(s): Feet; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Male-female Relations


TO THE FOOT FROM ITS CHILD, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The child's foot is not yet aware it's a foot
Last Line: Or so that it could become %an apple
Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo
Subject(s): Feet


TO THE FOOT FROM ITS CHILD [AL PIE DESDE SU NINO], by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The child's foot still doesn't know it's a foot
Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo
Subject(s): Feet


TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 2: 7. TO THE BODY, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Creation's and creator's crowning good
Last Line: Quick, tender, virginal, and unprofaned!
Subject(s): Bible; Elijah; Feet; Hair; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary


UPON MISTRESS SUSANNA SOUTHWELL HER FEET, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her pretty feet
Last Line: Did soon draw in again.
Variant Title(s): Upon Her Feet
Subject(s): Feet


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


ZEN AND THE ART OF TYING SHOELACES, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like trying to bring order to a dish of noodles
Last Line: I swear I won't need anywhere to go
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Beauty; Cinderella; Feet; Shoes