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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: QUILTS Matches Found: 33 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ALASKA, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The phone rang in the middle of the fairbanks night and was always a Last Line: The beer is on us. Subject(s): Alaska; Dreams; Quilts; Sleep; Telephones; Nightmares CENTENNIAL QUILTING, by DORIS BIRCHAM Poem Source First Line: Her hands shake a little Last Line: Stitching both sides %of the fabric together Subject(s): Quilts; Ranch Life DESIGN FOR A QUILT, by JOHN ORMOND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First let there be a tree, roots taking ground Last Line: With luck I'll help her make beneath it Subject(s): Quilts MAKING QUILTWORK, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like the coat of many colors, the letters, scraps Last Line: Like the coat of many colors, the letters, scraps Subject(s): Quilts; Native Americans MIRACLE, by CLAIRE PATTERSON Poem Text First Line: Grandma made it very plain to me Last Line: And the pretty design. Subject(s): Quilts MY MOTHER PIECED QUILTS, by TERESA PALOMO ACOSTA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: They were just meant as covers Subject(s): Mothers; Quilts MY MOTHER PIECED QUILTS, by TERESA PALOMO ACOSTA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They were just meant as covers Last Line: Knotted with love %the quilts sing on Subject(s): Mothers; Quilts MY MOTHER'S QUILT, by MARGARET RUSHMER Poem Text First Line: My mother cut the pieces Last Line: That handiwork of love-time. Subject(s): Mothers; Quilts OLD MRS. COURT AND HER QUILT, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: She is raggedy ann at seventy-six Last Line: Though your lives are in pieces, love one another Subject(s): Old Age; Quilts; Sewing ON A QUILT IN THE BENNINGTON COLLEGE LIBRARY, by DAVE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What should we see in this artifact? Incredible Last Line: Groaning and bleeding until she was colorless, %a dark space no one looked at or questioned Subject(s): Quilts PATCH WORK, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH Poem Text First Line: My patch work quilt lies, finished, on the chair Last Line: The comfort of my days of quietness. Subject(s): Quilts PATCHWORK QUILT, by ELIZABETH+(1) FLEMING Poem Source First Line: She mixes blue and mauve and green Subject(s): Quilts PATCHWORK QUILT, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is this patchwork quilt I've made %of patterned silks and old brocade Last Line: That never decked white sheets before, %blame my dazed head,blame bloody war Subject(s): Quilts; World War I PATCHWORK QUILT, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In an ancient window seat Last Line: Shine out from the deepening gloom Subject(s): Quilts QUILT, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blue and sudden as beginning Last Line: Her face a smooth blankless %titlted up at birds %that fall like flames from the sky Subject(s): India; Quilts QUILT, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think it is all light at the end, I think it is air Subject(s): Quilts QUILT, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are my lovers Last Line: Split open like a book %where the names are written Subject(s): Quilts QUILT, by JEAN MALLEY Poem Source First Line: With golden curlicues (rather tarnished), bright Last Line: Are not so clean. He dies. The quilt lives on Subject(s): Quilts QUILT, by MARY EFFIE LEE NEWSOME Poem Source First Line: I have the greatest fun at night Alternate Author Name(s): Newsome, Effie Lee Subject(s): Quilts QUILT SONG, by MARK VINZ Poem Source First Line: A mist of snowflakes swirling in the street Last Line: Warmed again, you wait %while snowflakes swirl in golden double loops Subject(s): Quilts QUILTING, by JO ANNE TRINKLE Poem Source First Line: Overhead invisible forces reign Last Line: And sew it up %all new! Subject(s): Quilts; Sewing QUILTS, by STEPHEN DALE COREY Poem Source First Line: One woman wept, they say Last Line: Joseph is gone, but even coldest nights %my kansas troubles brings me through till dawn Subject(s): Quilts QUILTS, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thought nest where secrets bubble Subject(s): Quilts QUILTS, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thought nest where secrets bubble Last Line: Off in his prime, dropped like silk into calico scraps, %one of the losses of all time Subject(s): Quilts QUILTS: MAPLE LEAF, by KATHLEEN PEIRCE Poem Source First Line: You have to quit talking. You have to Last Line: The colors won't pool into groups of like kinds, %the leaves will not fall and they point toward you Subject(s): Quilts THE CENTURY QUILT, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sister and I were in love Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Quilts THE PATCHWORK QUIZ, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sheen of silken splendor Last Line: When mother dear was there. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Clothing & Dress; Family Life; Fashion; Mothers; Quilts; Relatives THE QUILT, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think it is all light at the end, I think it is air Subject(s): Quilts THE QUILT, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alive in a brown stucco house Last Line: She smoothed the quilt across their bed. Subject(s): Quilts; Sewing; Women THE QUILTING, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dolly sits a-quilting by her mother, stitch by stitch Last Line: Love will do the stitching if she'll only be my match. Subject(s): Quilts TO A QUILT IN A FRAME, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: It is such an awkward task, the quilting it Last Line: In this quaint-patterned, touched-with-magic cover. Subject(s): Quilts; Sewing; Women TO MRS. KING ON HER KIND PRESENT TO THE AUTHOR, A ... QUILT, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bard, if e'er he feel at all Last Line: Who put the whole together. Subject(s): Quilts WHEN MOTHER QUILTED, by HAZEL GRANT FISHER Poem Text First Line: In the evening after supper Last Line: Of the quilt that she loved best. Subject(s): Quilts |
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