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FORGOTTEN GIRLHOOD: IN LADDERY STREET: AROUND THE CORNER by LAURA RIDING

Poet Analysis

First Line: BUT DON'T CALL MOTHER DAMNABLE NAMES
Last Line: SUCH NONSENSE IS DISGRACEFUL AMONG THIEVES. %OFF, WENCH, OFF'
Subject(s): CHILDREN;

Poem Sources:

THE RATTLE BAG.
  HEANEY, SEAMUS, & HUGHES, TED (EDS.)
  (1982)
 
A SELECTION OF THE POEMS OF LAURA RIDING. ROBERT NYE (ED.)
  RIDING, LAURA
  (1996)
 



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