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Subject: OLD MAIDS
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First Line: Why have you come, o love, so near
Last Line: Whenever did you come to stay?
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Single People; Spinsters; Bachelors; Unmarried People; Old Maids


A SPINSTER'S STINT, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Six skeins and three, six skeins and three!
Last Line: And stop the bands, and stop the bands!
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Spinsters; Old Maids


ADVICE TO SOPHRONIA, by MARY LEAPOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When youth and charms have taken their wanton flight
Last Line: And bear her safely to her virgin grave.
Subject(s): Aging; Spinsters; Old Maids


AN OLD MAID, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gray hair softly, smoothly parting
Last Line: Love to read.
Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids


DOROTHY IN THE GARRET, by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the low-raftered garret, stooping
Last Line: And lifelong sorrow a breath on the pane.
Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Spinsters; Sorrow; Sadness; Old Maids


ELLEN MASON AND HER ELEVEN CATS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old ella mason keeps cats, eleven at last count
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Cats; Spinsters; Old Maids


EMILY HARDCASTLE, SPINSTER, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We shall come tomorrow morning, who were not to have her love
Last Line: Where the foreigner may take her for his gloomy halidom
Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids


HARK, HARK! O'ER THE PLAINS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark, hark! O'er the plains how the merry bells
Last Line: O then let me die an old maid.
Subject(s): Marriage; Spinsters; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Old Maids


JENNY DUNLEATH, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jenny dunleath coming back to the town?
Last Line: Despised of the world's favored women -- and wait.
Subject(s): Homecoming; Spinsters; Old Maids


LULLABY FOR A TIRED LADY, by ROBERT LEOPOLD WOLF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is there any need so deep
Last Line: Distant, sober, uniform.
Subject(s): Sleep; Spinsters; Old Maids


MEZZO CAMMIN, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Half of my life is gone, and I have let
Last Line: The cataract of death far thundering from the heights.
Subject(s): Middle Age; Spinsters; Old Maids


MY AUNT, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My aunt! My dear unmarried aunt! / long years have over her flown
Last Line: On my ancestral tree.
Subject(s): Aunts; Spinsters; Old Maids


MY MOTHER'S SISTER, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see her against the pearl sky of dublin
Last Line: How can gthis be justified? How can it / be justified?
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): Aunts; Spinsters; Old Maids


OLD MAID'S REVERIE, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'm tired of mirthless mirrors and their hostile heresies
Last Line: As one who missed the rubrics in the litanies of youth.
Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids


PASSPORT BLUES, by MALCOLM COWLEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was a virgin
Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids


POOR MARGARET, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We always called her 'poor margaret'
Last Line: She is rich in her father's house at last.
Subject(s): Heaven; Spinsters; Paradise; Old Maids


SOLILOQUY OF A MAIDEN AUNT, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The ladies bow, and partners set
Last Line: Than when I wore it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs.
Subject(s): Aunts; Dancing & Dancers; Spinsters; Old Maids


SOME FOREIGN LETTERS, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I knew you forever and you were always old
Subject(s): God; Religion; Spinsters; Theology; Old Maids


SONG, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, my caelia, why so coy
Last Line: Nor know a second spring.
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Spinsters; Youth; Male-female Relations; Old Maids


SONG OF A SPINSTER, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah me, life is so short
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Mortality; Spinsters; Old Maids


SPINSTER, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now this particular girl
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids


THE HARVEST-SUPPER (CIRCA 1850), by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nell and the other maids danced their best
Last Line: "mourned nell; ""and never wed!"
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Spinsters; Old Maids


THE LADY DOCTOR, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Saw ye that spinster gaunt and grey
Last Line: Disconsolate and lonely.
Subject(s): Physicians; Spinsters; Women; Doctors; Old Maids


THE OLD MAID, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Text                    
First Line: She gave her life to love. She never knew
Last Line: She loves him now her hair is growing gray.
Subject(s): Love; Spinsters; Old Maids


THE OLD MAID, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw her in a broadway car
Last Line: The woman I shall never be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids


THE ORPHANED OLD MAID, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wanted to marry, but father said, 'no
Last Line: And nobody flings me a thought or a care.
Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids


THE SPINSTER, by CLARISSA BUCKLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: ...Afraid?... Why, no...But
Last Line: And the first-star pierces the west.
Subject(s): Fear; Spinsters; Old Maids


THE SPINSTER'S SWEET-ARTS, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Milk for my sweet-arts, bess! Fur it mun be the time about now
Last Line: Till robby an' steevie 'es 'ed their lap -- an' it sarves ye right.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids


TO A PRODIGAL OLD MAID, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing now no hymn nor chant a dirge
Last Line: To have come a springtime since.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids


TWO HEADMISTRESSES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Miss buss and miss beale / cupid's darts do not feel
Last Line: How different from us / are miss beale and miss buss
Subject(s): Schools;spinsters; Students;old Maids


UPON HIMSELF (2), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I could [co'd] never love indeed
Last Line: Neither broke I'th whole, or part.
Subject(s): Self; Spinsters; Women; Old Maids