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Subject: PRIVACY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PRIVATE SPACE; FOR STEPHANIE SUGIOKA, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the space where
Last Line: Beyond suspicion.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Privacy


AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Autobiography! So you say
Last Line: Till then, the secrets of our lives are ours and god's alone.
Subject(s): Privacy


BOOKBINDER, MARY L. REYNOLDS, 1891-1950: BODY VALISE, by GLORI SIMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: This knot inside me is my undoing
Last Line: Keep the boxes & casings together
Subject(s): Bodies; Privacy


EAVESDROPPER, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your brother will trim my hedges!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Privacy


FALLEN, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A friend had a minnesota catalogue company
Last Line: In a glass jar, and place it under the word fallen.
Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dahlias; Poetry & Poets; Privacy; Redemption; Inspiration; Creativity


HANGING BLINDS, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is a headrail, anyway -- and a valance
Last Line: Drag the sun from where it hides behind earth's skirts, %and make it do the dance of light!
Subject(s): Blindness; Privacy


HER BODY IS PRIVATE, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In spite of all
Last Line: Has the shield, and the last word.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Privacy


HIS WISH TO PRIVACIE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me a cell
Last Line: In teares.
Subject(s): Privacy


I SPY, OR THE DEPRAVITY OF PRIVACY, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My voice is a minor one, but I must raise it
Last Line: And something there is that does not love it: namely, the pry family, pauline and paul
Subject(s): Privacy


I'M NOBODY! WHO ARE YOU, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To an admiring bog!
Subject(s): Modesty; Privacy


IN THE LOCKER ROOM, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I surprise the women
Last Line: And bring on the body in person.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Nudity; Privacy; Nakedness


INTERVIEW, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you believe that actors are dumb? Writers?
Last Line: Are there things you would say to one sex but not to the other?
Subject(s): Death; Ignorance; Privacy; Torture; Dead, The; Dullness; Stupdity


MY JEWEL CASE, by BESSE BURNETT BELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've the queerest, quaintest jewel case
Last Line: That wondrous love of mother!
Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; Love; Mothers; Privacy; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces


OUR MASTERPIECE IS THE PRIVATE LIFE, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is there something down by the water keeping itself from us,
Subject(s): Privacy


PRIVACY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dense fog shuts down
Last Line: A man and a woman cry out with love
Subject(s): Forests; Privacy; Sex


PRIVATE, by MORRIS WEISSMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The buck private %obeys orders
Last Line: Private sector -- synonomous with profit %ever greater profit
Subject(s): Army Life; Privacy


PRIVATE ROOM, by DAVID CHORLTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: An old pastoral painted
Last Line: Better to hear the snap %of a prostitute's brassiere
Subject(s): Privacy; Prostitution; Rooms


PRIVATE SCHOOL, by STEPHANIE BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mothers' wait
Last Line: A mother needs to be a powerful player, o child. Endure. Beware. No one %plays fair
Subject(s): Mothers; Privacy; Schools


SEXUAL PRIVACY OF WOMEN ON WELFARE, by PINKIE GORDON LANE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The aclu mountain states regional office came across a %welfare application
Last Line: Of a city street whose perspective %darkens with the morninglight? %document
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Privacy; Sex; Welfare


THERE IS A SOLITUDE OF SPACE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Finite infinity
Subject(s): Solitude; Privacy


TO MY QUICK EAR THE LEAVES CONFERRED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To make me visible
Subject(s): Privacy


UNMENTIONABLE, by LIZ ROSENBERG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us agree to draw down the shades
Last Line: Because the doors are clsed, and this is private
Subject(s): Privacy