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Subject: WOMEN - SECLUDING
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` IN MEMORIAM, by MIQUEL MARTI I POL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since poems aren't always organized
Last Line: You, me, soledad gonzalez
Subject(s): Exiles; Memory; Women - Secluding


MISTRESS GLENARE, BY 'MARIAN', by ELIZABETH DOTEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A virtuous woman is mistress glenare
Last Line: That poor sinful woman is—mistress glenare.
Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie
Subject(s): Evil; Sin; Women - Secluding


MY LADY WITH THE DROOPING ROSE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: My lady's young, my lady's fair
Last Line: My lady, oh my lady.
Subject(s): Conformity; Women; Women - North Carolina; Women - Secluding


PURDAH, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jade / stone of the side
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Women - Secluding


PURDAH, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jade %stone of the side
Last Line: The cloak of holes
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Women - Secluding


PURDAH I, by IMTIAZ DHARKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: One day they said
Last Line: Inward and again %inward
Subject(s): Women - Secluding


PURDAH II, SELS., by IMTIAZ DHARKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The call breaks its back %across the tenements
Last Line: Only to scent its own small trail of blood
Subject(s): Women - Secluding


PURDAH, THE MUSLIM PRACTICE OF SECLUDING AND VEILING WOMEN, by ALICE GLARDEN BRAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: They sew in quick chain stitches at my feet
Subject(s): Women - Secluding


SMALL WOMAN ON SWALLOW STREET, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Four feet up, under the bruise-blue
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Prostitution; Women - Secluding; Harlots; Whores; Brothels


SMALL WOMAN ON SWALLOW STREET, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Four feet up, under the bruise-blue
Last Line: It will not escape. Do not look up. God is %on high. He can see you. You will die
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Prostitution; Women - Secluding


SOR JUANA'S LAST DREAM, by GAIL WRONSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tar of my heart, the melancholia
Last Line: What's been said. %you may read it
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Dreams; Faith; Freedom; Mexican American Families; Mothers; Silence; Women - Secluding; Women's Rights


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. I SAW A FAIR HOUSE, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a fair house standing in a garden, but no one moved about it
Last Line: Others a sound of weeping.
Subject(s): Grief; Houses; Selfishness; Solitude; Women - Secluding; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness