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Subject: WEAVING & WEAVERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BLIND GIRL WEAVING, by HELEN CHLADEK    Poem Text                    
First Line: All day she sits and works before her loom
Last Line: And slowly pulls the threads back, one by one.
Subject(s): Blindness; Weaving & Weavers; Visually Handicapped


CREEL, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We sentimentalize the weaver, the hands
Subject(s): Weaving & Weavers


GRANNY'S LITTLE FLOCK, by CHARLES J. HANFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The lamp's dim, the fire's low
Last Line: To her sleepy flock.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Shadows; Weaving & Weavers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


KIVERS, by ANN COBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yes, I've sev'ral kivers you can see
Last Line: "the kiver's favoring your face today!"
Subject(s): Kentucky; Weaving & Weavers


MY HEART WAS ANCE, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart was ance as blythe and free
Last Line: To the weaver's, &c.
Subject(s): Weaving & Weavers; Seduction


OCTAVES, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know a weaver and his wife
Last Line: I hesitate, the weaver smiles.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Weaving & Weavers


OUR PATTERN, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A weaver sat one day at his loom
Last Line: "at our pattern up above!"
Subject(s): Religion; Weaving & Weavers; Theology


PRESENT DAY SONNETS: OUR LOOMS, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rich stuffs our looms weave for fair ladies' wear.'
Last Line: The brutish engine like all tyrants blind.
Subject(s): Class Struggle; Clothing & Dress; Labor & Laborers; Weaving & Weavers; Work; Workers


ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE SILESIAN WEAVERS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No tears from their gloomy eyes are flowing
Last Line: "we're weaving, we're weaving!"
Subject(s): Freedom; Weaving & Weavers; Liberty


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


SONG, by STODDARD KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My love goes clad in panvelaine
Last Line: She's in them, boy, she's in them.
Subject(s): Weaving & Weavers


THE CURSE UPON EDWARD, by THOMAS GRAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Weave the warp, and weave the woof
Last Line: (the web is wove. The work is done.)
Variant Title(s): The Bard: 2.1
Subject(s): Edward V, King Of England (1470-1483); Weaving & Weavers


THE DACCA GAUZES, by AGHA SHAHID ALI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those transparent dacca gauzes
Last Line: It absently through her ring
Subject(s): Bangladesh; Weaving & Weavers


THE FLEECE: BOOK 3, by JOHN DYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Proceed, arcadian muse; resume the pipe
Last Line: Lo, from the simple fleece, how much proceeds.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Trade; Weaving & Weavers; Work; Workers


THE FLEECE: BOOK 4, by JOHN DYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, with our wooly treasures amply stored
Last Line: Or as air's vital fluid o'er the globe.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Merchants; Trade; Travel; Weaving & Weavers; Work; Workers; Journeys; Trips


THE GALLANT WEAVER, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where cart rins rowin to the sea
Last Line: I love my gallant weaver.
Subject(s): Weaving & Weavers


THE LOOM, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My brother, the god, and I grow sick
Last Line: I see and believe.
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Weaving & Weavers


THE TAPESTRY WEAVERS, by ANSON G. CHESTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let us take to our heart a lesson, no braver lesson can be
Last Line: And god shall give him gold for his hire -- not coin, but a crown!
Subject(s): Religion; Tapestries; Weaving & Weavers; Theology


THE TASK, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As if god were an old man
Subject(s): Christianity; God; Spiritual Life; Weaving & Weavers; Women & Religion


THE WEAVER, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The shuttles of the sun fly fast
Last Line: Are shuttles, weaving dreams.
Subject(s): Weaving & Weavers


THE WEAVER, by GLADYS ELOISE HAMILTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: This quiet persian seated at her loom
Last Line: I see a quiet persion at a loom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Eloise
Subject(s): Weaving & Weavers


THE WEAVER, by E. J. V. HUIGINN    Poem Text                    
First Line: How hard it is to weave a wreath
Last Line: He feels, though he weave his whole life long.
Subject(s): Weaving & Weavers


THE WEAVER'S DREAM, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He sat all alone in his dark little room
Last Line: Grown wise was the weaver.
Subject(s): Weaving & Weavers


WEAVERS ALL, by MINNIE KEITH BAILEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: At lifes loom we work
Last Line: We'd scarce begun.
Subject(s): Weaving & Weavers


WEAVING, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day she stands before her loom
Last Line: "thy sister's keeper know thou art!"
Subject(s): Life; Nature; Weaving & Weavers; Women


WEBS, by MARY SINTON LEITCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I weave a web of song to snare
Last Line: Will flash a word, a song, a wing.
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Weaving & Weavers; Bugs