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Subject: CHILD CARE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BABYSITTERS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is ten years, now, since we rowed to children's island
Last Line: And from opposite continents we wave and call. %everything has happened
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Child Care; Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)


BABYSITTING TO THELONIOUS MONK, by ELIZABETH NEARY SHOLL    Poem Source                    
First Line: My niece wants eggs, now, please, and I swirl
Last Line: Pooling in her small dark hands, spilling through fingers %till spilling, child, is what it's about
Subject(s): Child Care; Monk, Thelonious (1917-1982)


DAD OF MINE, by MARY M. JONES    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I was just a little tot / I always sat
Last Line: When I was a kid, dad of mine.
Subject(s): Child Care; Baby Sitters; Governesses


ELEVEN A.M. ON DAY OFF, SISTER .. DESPERATE FOR BABYSITTER, by SHARON HASHIMOTO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sitting in sunlight, the child
Last Line: She eats the core but saves the seeds %to plant in the soft earth of my yard
Subject(s): Aunts; Child Care


FAWN BEFORE DOW SEASON, by JOAN LARKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day I went to work,
Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Child Care; Baby Sitters; Governesses


FROM THE COOK'S LITTLE ROOM, by CLAIRE PATTERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sometimes she tells him ghost stories
Last Line: As I am.
Subject(s): Child Care; Household Employees; Baby Sitters; Governesses; Servants; Domestics; Maids


GOVERNESS WANTED, by MARIA ABDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our governess left us, dear brother
Last Line: And head with it -- 'wanted a wife!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Maria; Abdy, Mira; M. A.
Subject(s): Child Care


MY OTHER MOTHER, by EVA JOOR WILLIAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When did I know you first? I cannot say
Last Line: "mah lil w'ite chilluns of mah earthly home?"
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Child Care; Mothers; Baby Sitters; Governesses


NURSES, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There isn't anythin' that's worse
Last Line: They're awful ignerunt of boys!
Subject(s): Boys; Child Care; Children; Nurses; Baby Sitters; Governesses; Childhood


SONG OF THE NEW FOOL, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the sea and all her women
Last Line: And my hands are tender
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Child Care; Food And Eating; Homeless; Hunger; Poverty


THE BABYSITTERS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is ten years, now, since we rowed to children's island
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Child Care; Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963); Baby Sitters; Governesses


THE CARELESSE NURSE MAYD, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sawe a mayd sitte on a bank
Last Line: The momente that her care was drownd!
Subject(s): Child Care; Drowning; Baby Sitters; Governesses


THE GIRL, by SCUDDER MIDDLETON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That house in which you lived was not you home
Last Line: A child no longer.
Subject(s): Child Care; Children; Growth; Baby Sitters; Governesses; Childhood


THE SHELL TO THE PEARL, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grow not so fast, glow not so warm
Last Line: Cling close, my child.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Child Care; Youth; Baby Sitters; Governesses


THE UNFROCKED GOVERNESS, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Text                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Round of face, with dimpled chin and cheeks
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Child Care; Poetry & Poets; Baby Sitters; Governesses


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


TO MY INFANT DAUGHTER, E. C. M., by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no sound upon the night
Last Line: Be all my soul desires to see!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Babies; Child Care; Fathers & Daughters; Gentility; Infants; Baby Sitters; Governesses