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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A RECORD IN STRIDE, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a vermont bedroom closet
Last Line: And got the united states stated
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


AN EXPEDIENT, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As my neat little feet will not fill them enough
Last Line: "since you are, as you tell us, deficient in toe."
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Feet; Shoes; Toes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


BABY'S SHOES, by WILLIAM COX BENNETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, those little, those little blue shoes!
Last Line: And whose sight makes such fond tears start!
Subject(s): Babies; Shoes; Infants; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


BLACK NIKES, by HARRYETTE MULLEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We need quarters like king tut needed a boat. A slave could row him to heaven from his crypt in
Subject(s): Egypt; Environment; Shoes; Homecoming; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


CAREY'S SHOES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My business is preaching the gospel
Last Line: To the father's home and his heart!
Subject(s): Clergy; Shoes; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


CHEZ LE CORDONNIER, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tiny shoe
Last Line: Little shoe.
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


CHOOSING SHOES, by FFRIDA WOLFE    Poem Text                    
First Line: New shoes, new shoes
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


CINQUAIN: OLD SHOES, by KENNETH CHING    Poem Text                    
First Line: What ghost
Last Line: "a cow."
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


CLOSE QUARTERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little toe, big toe, three toes between
Last Line: Nor so little room for the crew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


COMEDIAN TO COBBLER, by FRANCES INGALLS SHINN    Poem Text                    
First Line: He made his bow and put them out of mind
Last Line: Than making boots respectable again.
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


DERRICK POEM (THE LOST WORLD), by TERRANCE HAYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I take my $, buy a pair of very bright kicks for the game
Last Line: "even when he said, “we should go to the movies sometime,""
Subject(s): Shoes; African Americans; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers; Negroes; American Blacks


EL ZAPATERO, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I spoke to a shoemaker
Last Line: But not the duck-bill toe
Subject(s): Shoes;west (u.s.); Boots;sneakers;shoemakers;southwest;pacific States


EVENING SLIPPERS, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: When down the marble steps girls ran tonight
Last Line: Shoe butterflies by shining music chased.
Subject(s): Evening; Girls; Shoes; Sunset; Twilight; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


EXTEMPORE ON BEING SHOWN SHOE BUCKLES WORN BY DAVID GARRICK, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy buckles, o garrick, thy friend may now use
Last Line: But no mortal hereafter shall tread in thy shoes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Garrick, David (1717-1779); Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


FOR AL-TAYIB SALIH, by KHALED MATTAWA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I come here to retrieve a shoe
Subject(s): Moors (people); Ancestors & Ancestry; Shoes; Love; Spain; Heritage; Heredity; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


HIGH AND LOW, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A boot and a shoe and a slipper
Last Line: The slipper went off to the ball.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


LET ME UNLOOSE, by CLEMENT WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me unloose the satin shoe
Last Line: Take me and hold me so.
Subject(s): Love Affairs; Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


LIMERICK, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a young lady of twickenham
Last Line: And took 'em both off and was sick in 'em.
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


LIMERICK, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There once were some learned m.D.'s
Last Line: Allowed one to catch it with ease.
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


LIMERICK, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There once were some learned m.D.'s
Last Line: Allowed one to catch it with ease.
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


LIMERICK, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was an old man of the rhine
Last Line: "and eight and a quarter of nine."
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


LIMERICK, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a young man of the cape
Last Line: "but they keep such a beautiful shape."
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


LIMERICK, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a young man of laconia
Last Line: They buried her 'neath a begonia.
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


MY BOOTS, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Anon with gaping fearlessness they quaff
Last Line: Rather rubbed in than off.
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


MY MISTRESS'S BOOTS, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They nearly strike me dumb
Last Line: Put them on.
Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick
Variant Title(s): To My Mistress's Boots
Subject(s): Shoes; Women; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


MY OLD SHOES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They are dwellings of comfort and rest
Last Line: Unless I can wear my old shoes.
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


MY SHOES, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shoes, secret face of my inner life
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


ODE TO MY SOCKS, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Maru mori brought me
Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo
Subject(s): Feet; Poverty; Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


OH, MY GOLDEN SLIPPERS AM LAID AWAY, by JAMES A. BLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): African Americans; Marriage; Shoes; Negroes; American Blacks; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


OLD SHOES ARE BEST, by JENNIE ORR LEUI    Poem Text                    
First Line: You look so old and shabby where you rest
Last Line: Long after summer days have passed.
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


OLD SLIPPERS, by MARGUERITE E. ROSEBERY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I had not thought until today
Last Line: Why have I never told you so?
Subject(s): Marriage; Mortality; Shoes; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


ON A PAIR OF SPATS LAID AWAY FOR THE SUMMER, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little spats / down among the summer mothballs
Last Line: Little spats!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


ON ELLEN GOING WRONG, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tittle tattle!' said black shoes
Last Line: "tittle tattle!"" said black shoes."
Subject(s): Black (color); Gold; Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


POEM, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every morning I forget how it is
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


PUT ON THE SHOE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you heard the old saw of the persians
Last Line: "to him who is shod with content!"
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


RED SLIPPERS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A wicked cat, grown old and gray
Last Line: Than buy slippers of cats, however they talk.
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


RED SLIPPERS, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Red slippers in a shop-window; and outside in the street, flaws of gray, windy sleet!
Subject(s): Shoes; Shopping; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


RELIGION, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The last thing the old dog brought home
Subject(s): Dogs; Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


RESIGNATION; AN ODE TO THE JOURNEYMEN SHOEMAKERS, SELECTION, by JOHN WOLCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sons of saint crispin, 'tis in vain! / indeed 'tis fruitless to complain
Last Line: A truth that grandeur wishes not to know.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Labor Unions; Oppression; Shoes; Strikes; Wages; Work; Workers; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers; Labor Disputes; Lockouts; Salaries


RIDDLE: 2, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "tie them, and they go away"
Last Line: "loosen them, and they will stay"
Subject(s): Riddles;shoes; Boots;sneakers;shoemakers


SALE, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Went into a shoestore to buy a pair of shoes
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


SELLA, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear now a legend of the days of old
Last Line: The stone engraved with sella's honored name.
Subject(s): Shoes; Mothers; Brides; Travel; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers; Journeys; Trips


SHOES, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot put the old shoes on
Last Line: Barefoot for a while.
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


SHOES AND STOCKINGS, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a shop upon the avenue where old men clerk
Last Line: Chatter.
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


SNEAKERS, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When there were cracks
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


THE BOSS'S BOOTS, by HENRY HERTZBERG LAWSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The shearers squint along the pens, they squint along the shoots
Last Line: But pink 'em nice and pretty when you see the boss's boots.
Subject(s): Deception; Labor & Laborers; Sheep; Shoes; Work; Workers; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


THE BROKEN SANDAL, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dreamed the thong of my sandal broke.
Subject(s): Shoes; Uncertainty; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


THE BUCKLE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had a silver buckle
Last Line: May tell of it at all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


THE COBBLER AND THE RICH MAN, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A cobbler sang from morn till night
Last Line: "and take the money, every pound!"
Variant Title(s): The Cobbler And The Financier
Subject(s): Fables; Shoes; Sleep; Wealth; Allegories; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers; Riches; Fortunes


THE FURY OF OVERSHOES, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They sit in a row / outside the kindergarten
Subject(s): Children; God; Kindergarten; Religion; Shoes; Childhood; Theology; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


THE GOLDEN SHOES, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The winds are lashing on the sea
Last Line: God saw that I was young!
Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs.
Subject(s): Shoes; Wellesley College; Youth; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


THE JOVIAL COBBLER OF SAINT HELEN'S, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "I am a jovial cobbler, bold and brave"
Last Line: "I am the happiest mortal, mortal of them all"
Subject(s): Happiness;shoes; Joy;delight;boots;sneakers;shoemakers


THE LOST SHOE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor little lucy
Last Line: For her lost shoe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


THE SATIN SHOES, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If ever I walk to church to wed
Last Line: Like flute-notes softly blown.
Subject(s): Marriage; Shoes; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


THE SHOE-COBBLER IN HEAVEN, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Near the white heart of heaven's blaze of glory
Last Line: "his were the plane and saw; mine were the leather and awl."
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


THE SHOEMAKER, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the hickory with its hum
Last Line: To his eyes, then work the faster.
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


THE SHOEMAKER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou poet, who, like any lark
Last Line: Upon his latest tramp.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Feet; Poetry & Poets; Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


THE SHOEMAKER'S HOLIDAY, by THOMAS DEKKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: As wretches in a storm (expecting day)
Last Line: [exeunt.
Subject(s): Business; Fantasy; Shoes; Success; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


THE SHOEMAKERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho! Workers of the old time styled / the gentle craft of leather
Last Line: Fling out his blazoned banner!
Subject(s): Cobblers; Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


THE SHOES, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No one throws away
Last Line: The way, by being more intensely upon it
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


THE SHOES, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a pair of new shoes
Last Line: "they are nice. They have low heels."
Subject(s): Shoes; Soul; Stars; Tears; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


THE SHOES THAT DANCED, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blossoms perish in the snow
Last Line: Even to destruction and to utter death.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Paintings & Painters; Shoes; Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721); Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


THE SHOOE TYING, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Anthea bade me tye her shooe
Last Line: Had not her blush rebuked me.
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


TO BE SAID OVER AND OVER AGAIN, by GYORGY PETRI                        Poet's Biography
First Line: I glance down at my shoe and - there's the lace!
Subject(s): Human Rights; Prisons & Prisoners; Shoes; Convicts; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


TOIL, by KENNETH HARRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah, woe is me! Each dewy morn
Last Line: And take them off at night!
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


TRACKS, by TED KOOSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Using a cobbler's shoe last
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


TRANSPOSITION, by AGNES MOORE FRYBERGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I forget his name; but, oh, his smile
Last Line: And put the cobbler in the music store?
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Retail Trade; Shoes; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


TWO LITTLE BOOTS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two little boots all rough an' wo'
Last Line: Two little boots.
Subject(s): Shoes; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


UPON A ROW OLD BOOTS AND SHOES IN A PAWNBROKER'S WINDOW, by FRANK WILMOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! No! / you are not a soldierly upright now!
Last Line: Far, far from here.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Pawnshops; Shoes; Pawnbrokers; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


VELVET SHOES, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us walk in the white snow
Last Line: We shall walk in the snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Shoes; Silence; Snow; Walking; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers