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Subject: SPINNING
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SPINNING SONG, by JOHN FRANCIS O'DONNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My love to fight the saxon goes
Last Line: Wheel.
Subject(s): Ireland; Patriotism; Spinning; Irish


A SPINNING SONG, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How many lilies be ablow?
Last Line: Oh, love's bitter!
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Spinning


A YEAR'S SPINNING, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He listened at the porch that day
Last Line: May see the spinning is all done.
Subject(s): Spinning


BESS AND HER SPINNING-WHEEL, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O leeze me on my spinning-wheel
Last Line: Of bessy at her spinnin' wheel?
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Spinning; Work; Workers


BIARTEY'S SPINNING SONG, FR. THE RIDING TO LITHEND, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They go by three
Last Line: The core slips out.
Subject(s): Spinning


BUCOLIC COMEDY: SPINNING SONG, by EDITH SITWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The miller's daughter
Last Line: "if the spinning-wheel time move slow or fast."
Subject(s): Spinning


DIZZY, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I thought whirling
Subject(s): Spinning


ERINNA'S SPINNING, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lesbian youths are all abroad today
Last Line: The silver rhythms I hum within my heart, %and so for ever leave my weary spinning!
Subject(s): Homosexuality; Spinning


FAIR ELEANOR, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the birds were mating and building
Last Line: I ween, to answer a word!
Subject(s): Spinning; Weddings; Love


GRANNY SPINS, by GREGOIRE LE ROY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At her wheel the old, old granny
Last Line: Of the flax have all been spun.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Spinning; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GRIEF, THOU HAST LOST AN EVER-READY FRIEND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The mantling triumphs of a day too blest
Subject(s): Loss; Spinning & Spinners


IRISH INTERIOR, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The woman sits and spins. She makes no sound
Subject(s): Spinning; Ireland; Irish


PRESENT HELP IN TROUBLE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: The memory of a simple tale, / called up from childhood's years
Last Line: "warding off despair."
Subject(s): Angels; Death; Legends; Mothers & Daughters; Poverty; Spinning; Dead, The


SHUTTLE SONG, by MARION CUMMINGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: As a weaver's shuttle
Last Line: "beyond the sun."
Subject(s): Spinning; Weaving & Weavers


SPINNING, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a blind spinner in the sun
Last Line: "thou poor blind spinner, work is done."
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Subject(s): Religion; Spinning; Theology


SPINNING WHEEL, by KIM OK    Poem Source                    
First Line: A spinning wheel %wheels in a moan
Last Line: Let my prince's tangled skein be disentangled. %o how can I undo his tangled skein?
Subject(s): Spinning


SPINSTER, by ELIZABETH GARRETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: This day beggars description
Last Line: That, from the outside in, %I shall consider the art of spinning
Subject(s): Spinning


THE BOUCHALEEN BAWN (THE FAIR-HAIRED LITTLE BOY); A SPINNING DUET, by PATRICK JOSEPH MCCALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I went to the wood when the morning was breaking
Last Line: Now find me and bind me my bouchaleen bawn!
Subject(s): Spinning


THE IRISH SPINNING-WHEEL, by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Show me a sight
Last Line: Aquals her sittin' and takin' a twirl at it.
Subject(s): Admiration; Spinning


THE MAIDS OF ELFIN-MERE, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas when the spinning-room was here
Last Line: And the tall reeds sighs as the wind doth blow.@!
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Lies; Spinning


THE SONG OF THE SPINNING-WHEEL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "just as we spin, of old 'tis said"
Last Line: "you for us and we for you. / we spin, my girl and I"
Subject(s): "payerne, Switzerland;spinning;


THE SPINNER, by CLARA DOTY BATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah, I think I hear a sound
Last Line: I did hear her spin and weave.
Subject(s): Spinning


THE SPINNER, by MARY AINGE DE VERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The spinner twisted her slender thread
Last Line: "in a winding-sheet!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Madeline
Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Spinning; Sorrow; Sadness


THE SPINNING WHEEL, by ISOBEL (ISABEL) PAGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I sit at my spinning wheel
Last Line: That takes this occupation.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Spinning; Work; Workers


THE SPINNING-WHEEL (YONDERLAND SONG), by LYA BERGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Children, children, where is it now?
Last Line: In glory glow on strasbourg's towers.
Subject(s): Children; Spinning; Childhood


THE SPINNING-WHEEL [SONG], by JOHN FRANCIS WALLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mellow the moonlight to shine is beginning
Last Line: Through the grove the young lovers by moonlight are roving.
Subject(s): Love; Spinning


TO THE LITTLE SPINNERS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yee pretty huswives, wo'd ye know
Last Line: To wrong a spinner or her loome.
Subject(s): Spinning