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Subject: SEAMSTRESSES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AGNES, by ELIZA KEARY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's hard, but I don't wonder at mother
Last Line: Only find the good-bye and the violet.
Subject(s): Flowers; Seamstresses; Violets


DEAR LITTLE LADY WITH SNOW WHITE HAIR, by PAULINE KUNDERD MANLY    Poem Text                    
Last Line: I hope to see you again over there.
Subject(s): Death; Labor & Laborers; Retirement; Seamstresses; Dead, The; Work; Workers


HOOKS AND EYES, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Irish lace and linen
Last Line: Again, and sewed me in.
Subject(s): Seamstresses; Sewing; Women


HOUSE GUEST, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sad seamstress
Last Line: An our hems crooked forever?
Subject(s): Seamstresses


HOUSE GUEST, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sad seamstress
Last Line: And our fates will be like hers, %and our hems crooked forever?
Subject(s): Seamstresses


LIKENESS, by PETER T. INMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Seamstresses' lungs %that she shelves to rock
Last Line: Finished 11/11/91 watching von trotta's film rosa with tina
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Seamstresses


NEEDLEWORK, by ELAINE TERRANOVA    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes fate takes
Last Line: In the butterfly's orange wings.
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Convents; Needles; Nuns; Seamstresses


SEAMSTRESS, by MARY KAY RUMMEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember a sewing machine
Last Line: And walk away on thin legs %solid like mirrors %with eyes wide open
Subject(s): Seamstresses


THE SEAMSTRESS, by HENRI BARBUSSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A glimmer of daylight through the rain
Last Line: In invisible song.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Retail Trade; Seamstresses; Sewing; Work; Workers; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


THE SEAMSTRESS TO THE POET, by PAULINE FOULSTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I work with fabrics coarse and fine
Last Line: I, too, make beauty from my dreams!
Subject(s): Seamstresses