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Subject: SILK
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` HISTORY OF SILK, by GARY FINCKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In seventh grade, when we were alone for
Last Line: Without once opening their damp, pale wings
Subject(s): Silk; Silkworms


LIAO-LING, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Liao-ling, sheer patterned silk - what is it like?
Last Line: You singers and dancers of the chao-yang palace, %could you see her weaving, you'd pity her too!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): Silk


MISERICORD, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out at the end of a high promontory
Subject(s): Girls; Mountains; Pain; Silk; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Suffering; Misery


RESTORED SILK MILL APARTMENT, by GLEN MAZIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: As I try to sleep, the glowing angels
Last Line: How others can make their home %in the spinning of the body
Subject(s): Mills And Millers; Silk


SAND HILLS, by HENRY BELLAMANN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is spread with rough grained silk
Last Line: Flecked by the dim fire of giant stars.
Subject(s): Old Age; Silk


SILK, by PAULA MEEHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You dance in a lengthof shiny silk
Last Line: Dancing wantonly in silk
Subject(s): Silk


SILK, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas the shroud of many a worm-like thing
Last Line: Who went to the worms again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Silk


SONG OF THE VENETIAN SILK-SPINNERS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Poor silk-spinners
Subject(s): Silk; Women's Rights


UPON JULIA'S CLOTHES, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whenas in silks my julia goes
Last Line: O how that glittering taketh me!
Variant Title(s): The Poetry Of Dress (2);whenas In Silks My Julia Goes
Subject(s): Admiration; Clothing & Dress; Innocence; Love; Sex; Silk