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Subject: WOMEN WRITERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN EPISTLE TO LADY BOWER [BOWYER], by MARY JONES    Poem Text                    
First Line: How much of paper's soiled! What floods of ink!
Last Line: An honest heart is worth its weight in gold.
Subject(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Women Writers


CELEBRATION: BIRTH OF A COLT, by LINDA HOGAN    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When we reach the field
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans; Ranch Life; Women Writers; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


ON A LADY'S WRITING, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her even lines her steady temper show
Last Line: That form her manners and her footsteps guide.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Women Writers


PHRYNE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They stripped to win the jury once, those languorous sweet greek bitches
Subject(s): Women Writers


POEM, ON SUPPOSITION OF ADVERTISEMENT ...VOLUME OF POEMS, BY A SERVANT, by ELIZABETH HANDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tea-kettle bubbled, the tea things were set
Last Line: Like courtiers contending for honours, sat down.
Alternate Author Name(s): Daphne
Subject(s): Advertising; Books; Household Employees; Social Classes; Women Writers; Reading; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Caste


POEM, ON SUPPOSITION OF THE BOOK HAVING BEEN PUBLISHED AND READ, by ELIZABETH HANDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dinner was over, the tablecloth gone
Last Line: And gave the discourse a definitive blow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Daphne
Subject(s): Books; Household Employees; Social Classes; Women Writers; Reading; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Caste


PRO FEMINA: THREE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will speak about women of letters, for I'm in the racket
Last Line: And the luck of our husbands and lovers, who keep free women.
Subject(s): Juvenal (decimus Junius Juvenalis); Literary Form; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Progress; Women; Women Writers; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Male-female Relations; Feminism


PUBLISHER'S PARTY, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At tea in cocktail weather
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs.
Subject(s): Publishing; Women Writers; Publishers


THE CONCLUSION OF A LETTER TO THE REV. MR. C --., by MARY BARBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis time to conclude; for I make it a rule
Last Line: And find, in your wife, a companion and friend.'
Subject(s): Letters; Women Writers; Women's Rights; Feminism


TO MISS ANNA MARIA TRAVERS. AN EPISTLE FROM SCOTLAND, by CHARLOTTE BRERETON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I rise about eight, if the morning is warm
Last Line: Your friend most sincere, and true humble servant.
Subject(s): Child Care; Women Writers; Baby Sitters; Governesses


UPON HER PLAY BEING RETURNED TO HER STAINED WITH CLARET, by MARY LEAPOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome, dear wanderer, once more
Last Line: For idiots, like thee and I.
Subject(s): Women Writers


WORLD'S BLISS, by ALICE NOTLEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The men & women sang & played
Subject(s): Women Writers; Poetry & Poets; Death; Dead, The