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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LAUNDRY & LAUNDERING Matches Found: 30 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FEW LAST LINES OF LAUNDRY, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This ragged shining Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering 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 AT THE CLOTHESLINE, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Millies was in the backyard hanging Subject(s): Love; Pleasure; Laundry & Laundering BENDIX, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This porthole overlooks a sea Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering; Washing Machines DAYS THROUGH STARCH AND BLUING, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mondays, sweating the flat smell Last Line: Of tonight's dinner. Tomorrow's pressing Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering; Grandparents DEGAS'S LAUNDRESSES, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You rise, you dawn Last Line: It’s your winding sheet Subject(s): Degas, Edgar (1834-1917); Laundry & Laundering; Paintings & Painters; Women ELLEN HANGING CLOTHES, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The maid is out in the soft april light Last Line: Slim as the flags, and every whit as fair. Subject(s): Household Employees; Laundry & Laundering; Servants; Domestics; Maids IN AN IRIDESCENT TIME, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother, when young, scrubbed laundry in a tub Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering; Women LOVE CALLS US TO THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The eyes open to a cry of pulleys Subject(s): Christianity; Laundry & Laundering; Love; Mourning; Religion; Soul; Bereavement; Theology MAR QUONG, CHINESE LAUNDRYMAN, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like the chinese laundryman Last Line: And thinks of the yang-tse-kiang. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering MONDAY, WASH-DAY, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will twiddle my thumbs Last Line: And monday week. Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering; Thumbs NEW AGE AT AIRPORT MESA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My husband was hanging wet sheets, almost in disbelief Last Line: I told her I was done feeling sorry for myself. Subject(s): Canyons; Hearts; Gays & Lesbians; Laundry & Laundering; Self-pity; Widows & Widowers; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men STAIN, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She scrubbed as hard as she could with a stone Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering; Women - Old Age 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 THE ARMY LAUNDRESS, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Beside a somber sally port upon a bastioned isle Last Line: The bravest of the cavaliers of sheila shanahan. Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering; War THE CHINESE LAUNDRYMAN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is a librarian of laundry Last Line: To make, one more time, the fabric hold. Subject(s): China; Laundry & Laundering THE LAUNDROMAT, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My clothes somersault in the dryer. At thirty Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering THE MAD SCENE, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again last night I dreamed the dream called laundry Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering THE WASHERWOMAN, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the north end of our village stands Last Line: In marriage-robes, I trust. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Laundry & Laundering; Soul; Washerwomen; Work; Workers THE WET WASH, by MARIANA BACHMAN Poem Text First Line: We washed our clothes and put them out to dry Last Line: Owes no apology to folks who roam. Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering THE YOUNG LAUNDRYMAN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies, I crave your indulgence for Last Line: Your husband's shirts to wash, please, for wu kee. Subject(s): Asian Americans; Laundry & Laundering THINGS I SAY TO MYSELF WHILE HANGING LAUNDRY, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If an ant, crossing on the clothesline Subject(s): Einstein, Albert (1879-1955); Laundry & Laundering WASH, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For seven days it rained that june Last Line: With hosannas of cotton and hallelujahs of wool Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering WASHER-WOMAN, by CONSTANCE CRANE Poem Text First Line: I am a washer-woman Last Line: Wiping toil's damp brow? Subject(s): Cleanliness; Laundry & Laundering WASHERWOMAN, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The washerwoman is a member of the salvation army Last Line: Rubbing underwear she sings of the last great washday. Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering; Washerwomen WASHING-DAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: While mother is tending baby Last Line: But dolly'll have to wait Subject(s): Babies;laundry & Laundering;mothers; Infants WASHING-DAY, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The muses are turned gossips; they have lost Last Line: And verse is one of them -- this most of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering; Hot-air Balloons; Housewives; Laundry & Laundering; Montgolfier, Jacques Etienne (1745-1799); Montgolfier, Joseph Michael (1740-1810); Poetry & Poets WASHING-DAY, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The muses are turned gossips; they have lost Last Line: And verse is one of them -- this most of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Hot-air Balloons; Housewives; Laundry & Laundering; Montgolfier, Jacques Etienne (1745-1799); Montgolfier, Joseph Michael (1740-1810); Poetry & Poets WORK, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The voice of the laundry says, hang me Last Line: Eating, always eating, in order to waste away Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering; Activities; Shrews (animals) 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 |
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