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Subject: GLOVES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A RELIC, by J. B. S.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Only a woman's right-hand glove
Last Line: With its yearning eyes of love!
Subject(s): Gloves; Mittens; Muffs


AN EMPTY GLOVE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An empty glove - long withering
Last Line: The poor husk of the hand I loved -- and love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Gloves; Love; Time; Mittens; Muffs


DI'S MITTEN, by WILLIAM CLYDE FITCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tho' a crumpled glove it be
Last Line: But her glove.
Alternate Author Name(s): Fitch, Clyde
Subject(s): Gloves; Mittens; Muffs


ELINDA'S GLOVE, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou snowy farm with thy five tenements!
Last Line: Are still allow'd to fiddle with the case.
Variant Title(s): The Glove
Subject(s): Fiddles; Gloves; Musical Instruments; Mittens; Muffs


GLOVE, by HAROLD BOND    Poem Source                    
First Line: In its absence it has become beautiful
Last Line: Cowhide, rabbit fur, the five fingers of my hand
Subject(s): Gloves


GLOVE, by PHILIP BOOTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A good leather left one
Subject(s): Gloves; Mittens; Muffs


GLOVE, by ANDREW GREIG    Poem Source                    
First Line: This room need not speak of her
Last Line: Even for their absence
Subject(s): Gloves


GLOVES, by MARGARET RANDALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yes we did march around somewhere and yes it was cold
Last Line: The gloves are still there, in the cold, %passing from hand to hand
Subject(s): Gloves; New York City; Politics; Social Protest


HER MUFF, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas not for some calm blessing to receive
Last Line: But still contemplate must the hidden muff.
Subject(s): Gloves; Mittens; Muffs


IN FREIBURG STATION, by RUPERT BROOKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In freiburg station, waiting for a train
Last Line: I saw a bishop with puce gloves go by.
Subject(s): Clergy; Gloves; Railroad Stations; Soldiers' Writings; Travel; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Mittens; Muffs; Journeys; Trips


LETTER FROM MISS PRICE TO LORD CHESTERFIELD, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My lord, / these are the gloves that I did mention
Last Line: But only for your recreation.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Gloves; Price, Henrietta Maria; Stanhope, Philip Dormer (1694-1773); Mittens; Muffs; Chesterfield, 4th Earl Of


MITTEN SONG, by MARIE LOUISE ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thumbs in the thumb-place
Last Line: Fingers all together
Subject(s): Gloves


MY MOTHER LEFT ME, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: 24 pairs of unmatched white gloves
Last Line: She left me.
Subject(s): Death; Gloves; Legacies; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The; Mittens; Muffs


ON AN OLD MUFF, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time has a magic wand
Last Line: Hard in my garden.
Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick
Subject(s): Gloves; Women; Mittens; Muffs


OPEN AND CLOSED ROOMS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man touches the world with his trade for a glove
Last Line: Stand still. %no, fly on
Subject(s): Gloves; Human Rights; Sky; Wind


SIMPLE ENGLISH, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ofttimes when I put on my gloves
Last Line: All right if I am deft.
Variant Title(s): Simple English; Tongue-twister
Subject(s): Gloves; Humor; Mittens; Muffs


SPRING FASHION-NOTE, by MYNA A. RUSSELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was delicate laughter
Last Line: The warmest day in spring!
Subject(s): Gloves; Spring; Mittens; Muffs


THE MITTEN SONG, by MARIE LOUISE ALLEN    Poem Full Text                    
First Line: Thumbs in the thumb-place
Subject(s): Gloves; Mittens; Muffs


THE ROMANCE OF A GLOVE, by HENRY SAVILE CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here on my desk it lies
Last Line: This my romance is.
Subject(s): Gloves; Man-woman Relationships; Past; Romance; Mittens; Muffs; Male-female Relations


TOUCH, by REBA RAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I like to go with hands ungloved that I
Last Line: To clasp a hand I love in love's belief.
Subject(s): Compassion; Gloves; Touch (sense); Mittens; Muffs