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| Searching... Subject: DOLLS Matches Found: 85 A CALCULUS OF READINESS, by LIZ WALDNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I, too, come from the city of dolls. Subject(s): Dolls; Fish & Fishing; Anglers A DIVERTED TRAGEDY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gracie wuz allus a careless tot Last Line: "an' cried, ""my child! My precious child!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Tears; Toys; Childhood A HORRIBLE EXAMPLE, by OLIVER MARBLE Poem Text First Line: There was a man who put on airs Last Line: Because they were too ladified. Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Dolls; Friends, Religious Society Of; Men; Prayer; Toys; Quakers A MORTIFYING MISTAKE, by ANNA MARIA PRATT Poem Text First Line: I studied my tables over and over, and backward and forward, too Last Line: "answered, ""mary ann!" Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Errors; Mathematics; Toys; Childhood; Mistakes; Fallacies A MOTHER'S HOPES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes my mother confesses Last Line: The things they will do when they grow. Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Dolls; Mothers; Sewing; Toys; Childhood A NURSERY RHYME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hushy baby, my doll, I pray you don't cry" Last Line: "then to either your welcome, with my whole heart" Subject(s): Dolls;toys A ROMAN DOLL, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How an image of paint and wood Last Line: But I keep her kiss forevermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Dolls; Mothers; Toys A SWEET-EYED CHILD, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sweet - eyed child Last Line: "was I your doll?" Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Girls; Mothers; Toys; Childhood AN OLD DOLL, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low on her little stool she sits Last Line: Beyond the claims of kings. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Dolls; Mothers; Toys ANNIVERSARY, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The big doll being broken and the sawdust fall Subject(s): Dolls ANTHROPOLOGY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love my ordernery dolls the best Last Line: To make 'em all americans like me. Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys; Childhood BARBIE DOLL, by LAUREL SPEER Poem Source First Line: Verfluchte juden! Last Line: Let them figure it out. I've forgotten Subject(s): Barbie, Klaus (1913-1991); Dolls; Toys BUCOLIC COMEDY: THE DOLL, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If cold grew visible again Last Line: Play with my doll, though I'm in bed! Subject(s): Dolls; Toys BURNING THE DOLLS, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That last night, unable to sleep Last Line: I burned and burned and burned. Subject(s): Dolls; Fire; Grief; Loss; Toys; Sorrow; Sadness CHILD MARGARET, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The child margaret begins to write numbers on a saturday morning Last Line: Millions of rag dolls, millions and millions of new rag dolls!!) Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys; Childhood COMPRESSION, by MARTHA LARSON O'CONNOR Poem Source First Line: Paper doll folds herself over head to toe Last Line: Or the broom to sweep up, away %disappearing her forever Subject(s): Dolls; Paper; Toys DOLL, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sits upright in an ancient chest Last Line: A toothless angel who doesn't know better Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys DOLL POEMS: 1. THE PICTURE, by WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is her picture -- dolladine Last Line: What a beautiful buttoned-up mouth to kiss Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Matthew; Holbeach, Henry Subject(s): Dolls; Toys DOLL POEMS: 2. THE LOVE STORY, by WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the doll with respect to whom Last Line: I don't believe you will find him out Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Matthew; Holbeach, Henry Subject(s): Dolls; Toys DOLL POEMS: 3. DRESSING THE DOLL, by WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the way we dress the doll Last Line: If you had not seen, could you guess the doll? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Matthew; Holbeach, Henry Subject(s): Dolls; Toys DOLL SHOP ON RODEO DRIVE, by VIRGINIA WEBB JULAVITS Poem Source First Line: Dylan thomas, the bulbous Subject(s): Beverly Hills, California; Dolls; Retail Trade; Toys DOLL'S CRADLE-SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sleep, dolly, sleep" Last Line: "sleep, my dolly, sleep!" Subject(s): Dolls;toys DOLL'S LULLABY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, you're so sleepy, dollie dear Subject(s): Dolls; Toys DOLL'S WOOING, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The little french doll was a dear little doll Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Love; Toys DOLLADINE, by WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Matthew; Holbeach, Henry Subject(s): Dolls; Toys DOLLIE, by SAMUEL MINTURN PECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sports a witching gown Last Line: Little rose! Subject(s): Dolls; Toys; Youth DOLLS, by DIANN BLAKELY Poem Source First Line: Those lolling china heads and rag-stuffed arms Last Line: Still I undressed, a girl with other charms Subject(s): Dolls; Toys DOLLS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Betty has dolls that can almost talk Last Line: And half of the sawdust out! Subject(s): Dolls; Girls; Play; Toys DOLLS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Night after night forever the dolls lay stiff Last Line: Their eyes wide open forever, while all the children slept Subject(s): Dolls; Toys DOLLS, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are so like Subject(s): Dolls DOLLS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The thought of eve, within me, is a doll Subject(s): Dolls; Toys DOLLS, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The thought of eve, within me, is a doll Last Line: And of another, whom I must not name Subject(s): Dolls; Toys DOLLS MUSEUM IN DUBLIN, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wounds are terrible. The paint is old Last Line: With a terrible stare. But not feel it. And not know it Subject(s): Dolls; Dublin, Ireland; Museums; Toys DOLLY'S LULLABY, by JULIANA HORATIA GATTY EWING Poem Text First Line: Hush-a-by, baby! Your baby, mamma Last Line: Hush-a-by, dolly, of babies the best! Subject(s): Dolls; Toys DOLLY'S LULLABY, by MARIANNA GRISWOLD VAN RENSSELAER Poem Text First Line: Sing, I must sing to my dear dolly, sing Last Line: But I never can tell her of everything! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Schuyler Subject(s): Dolls; Toys FICKLE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: New dolly, you are very sweet! Last Line: I re'lize, now, that she was plain. Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys; Childhood FINGER PUPPETS IN THE ATTIC DOLLHOUSE, by JOHN REIBETANZ Poem Source First Line: If they, more petite Last Line: Unraveling years %the tissue of apocalypse? Subject(s): Dolls; Puppets; Toys GLIMPSES OF CHILDHOOD: 3. THE DOLLS' HOSPITAL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a little old building, up under the roof Last Line: But the mending of legs and arms! Subject(s): Children; Dancing & Dancers; Dolls; Grief; Hospitals; Life; Toys; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness GUATEMALAN WORRY DOLLS, by JAMES REISS Poem Source First Line: The handcrafted dolls %my friend gave guests at her wedding Subject(s): Dolls; Toys; Worry I MUST HAVE LEARNED THIS SOMEWHERE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I loved an old doll made of bleached Subject(s): Comfort; Dolls; Mothers IRONING DAY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I don't see why the grown-ups care Last Line: To wash and iron every day. Subject(s): Children; Cleanliness; Dolls; Girls; Play; Toys; Childhood LIBERATION BARBIE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I'm visiting barbie again today Last Line: Pretty soon, you'll just buy boxes of barbie hair %with no barbie at all Subject(s): Beauty; Dolls; Girls; Toys LULLABY, by LOUIS C. ELSON Poem Text First Line: Dollie, the night has come Last Line: Good-night, good-night. Subject(s): Dolls; Toys MEHITABLE ANN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love mehitable ann! Last Line: Just loves mehitable ann! Subject(s): Dolls; Girls; Toys MENDING DAY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How quickly children's clothes will rip and tear! Last Line: Whose clothes are only painted on their skin. Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Play; Toys; Childhood MUNECA, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: Doll and wrist %first limp, then preciosa Last Line: Manipulate a pretty %spanish bit Subject(s): Beauty; Dolls; Man-woman Relationships; Toys; Women NEGLIGENT MARY, by ISAAC TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Ah, mary! What, do you for dolly not care? Last Line: And of far more importance than she. Subject(s): Dolls; Toys OF THIS CLOTH DOLL WHICH (SARAH'S FOURTH), by MICHAEL PALMER Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Of this cloth doll which Subject(s): Dolls; Toys OF THIS CLOTH DOLL WHICH (SARAH'S FOURTH), by MICHAEL PALMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of this cloth doll which Last Line: To out of the whale's mouth Subject(s): Dolls; Toys OZARK ODES: GIRLHOOD, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mother had one. She and bernice racing for the river Last Line: To hear what their paperdolls were fixing to say Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Dolls; Play; Toys; Youth PERLA AT THE MEXICAN BORDER ASSEMBLY LINE OF DOLLS, by RIGOBERTO GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: Her job was to sort through the eyes Last Line: Threatening to thrust back the fury of its nail Subject(s): Dolls; Mexican Border; Toys PIRATE DOLL, by MERRY WIGGS Poem Text First Line: Come, tattered little pirate doll Last Line: For always while I live I shall remember. Subject(s): Dolls; Toys POEM, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mule kicked out in the trees. An early Last Line: And drove some more — unable to sleep in missouri. Subject(s): Dolls; Funerals; Girls; Grief; Missouri; Toys; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness PRAYERS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When it is bedtime, every day Last Line: There is so little that they need. Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Play; Toys; Childhood PUMPKIN RIND DOLLS, by JANET KIMPSTON HERZ Poem Text First Line: Make me a doll from a pumpkin rind Last Line: The dolls you made from a pumpkin rind. Subject(s): Dolls; Girls; Pumpkins; Toys PUTTING DOLLY TO BED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mother has so many cares Last Line: And rock our babes to sleep. Subject(s): Babies; Children; Dolls; Mothers; Toys; Infants; Childhood QUEEN OF HER HEART, by ELLIOTT FLOWER Poem Text First Line: The little rag doll is queen Last Line: It stands in her heart alone. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dolls; Household Employees; Solitude; Toys; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Loneliness SENRYU (85), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A doll as well Last Line: In the newly-weds' house Subject(s): Dolls; Toys SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 106, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a poll parrot Last Line: Trembled for the doll. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dolls; Toys THE ADVANCE, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out the barred window sandbags Subject(s): Lebanon; War; Dolls; Death - Children; Death - Babies THE BOY SHEPHERD'S SMILE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind rose cold under our robes, and straw blew loose Last Line: For this we shivered in adoration. We bore the cold. Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Dolls; Imagination; Toys; Childhood; Nativity, The; Fancy THE DEAD DOLL, by MARGARET THOMPSON JANVIER Poem Text First Line: You needn't be trying to comfort me - I tell you my dolly is dead! Last Line: "in her head." Alternate Author Name(s): Vandergrift, Margaret Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys; Childhood THE DOLL, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's something strange about the child tonight Last Line: When she comes looking, and it isn't here! Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Dolls; Family Life; Poverty; Toys; Relatives THE DOLL, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I carry you in a glass jar Last Line: Dead child. Subject(s): Death - Children; Dolls; Toys; Death - Babies THE DOLL BELIEVERS, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This lifeless construction Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Parents; Toys; Childhood; Parenthood THE DOLLS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night after night forever the dolls lay stiff Last Line: Their eyes wide open forever. While all the children slept Subject(s): Dolls; Toys THE DOLLS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night after night forever the dolls lay stiff Subject(s): Dolls; Dolls; Toys THE DOLLS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever you dress me dolls, mammy Last Line: But one I love too well.' Subject(s): Dolls; Toys THE DOLLS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A doll in the doll-maker's house Last Line: It was an accident.' Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Dolls; Toys THE DOLLS MUSEUM IN DUBLIN, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wounds are terrible. The paint is old Last Line: With a terrible stare. But not feel it. And not know it Subject(s): Dolls; Dublin, Ireland; Museums; Toys; Art Gallerys THE HOARDER, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is something there Last Line: "I am not an idler Subject(s): Family Life; Dolls THE LITTLE GIRL TO HER DADDY, by JANE TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There, go to sleep, dolly, in your own mother's lap Last Line: For I think it's high time to have done with bye bye. Subject(s): Dolls; Toys THE LONELY BABY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whose dolly is you? Last Line: Whose dolly is you? Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys; Childhood THE LONG AFTERNOON, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the glass door Last Line: Dear brother, I do! Subject(s): Dolls; Time; Play THE WATER-BABIES: SONG. MY LITTLE DOLL, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I once had a sweet little doll, dears Last Line: The prettiest doll in the world. Variant Title(s): My Childhood's Love;the Lost Doll;song Of Madam-do-as-you Would-be Subject(s): Dolls; Toys THE WOODEN DOLL AND THE WAX DOLL, by ADELAIDE O'KEEFFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were two friends, a very charming pair! Last Line: And wronged brunette she clasp'd within her arms. Alternate Author Name(s): O'keefe, Adelaide Subject(s): Dolls; Toys THOSE ALTERNATE SUNDAYS, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When my daughter's tugged %home-diminishing yellow skull Last Line: Breath, willing my daughter to return %to murmur her secret name Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Dolls; Toys THOSE TIMES, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At six / I lived in a graveyard full of dolls Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dolls TOYLAND, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Midnight exactly my momma snores Last Line: This is toyland. I'm belinda. I'm the babe Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Girls; Toys TWO PEOPLE, by PRISCILLA LEE Poem Source First Line: Grandma gave me lulu when I was five Last Line: One of us has to carry the other Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys UPON A DYING LADY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With the old kindness, the old distinguished grace Last Line: It is about to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Courage; Death; Dolls; Toys; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The VISIBLE WOMAN, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: Was her name -- %that plastic model of anatomy Last Line: Thumb-pinkie-index-fore meld to raise you like wings Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys; Women WHAT MAKES ME INVISIBLE, by JENNIFER M. PIERSON Poem Source First Line: I sit on the hard chair at the mayflower coffee shop, my feet dangling Last Line: A madame alexandre doll,' my fifth Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Mothers And Daughters; Single Parents; Toys WITH SISTER'S DOLLS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dolls are silly things to play with Last Line: If you never say your prayers? Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Dolls; Toys WORD POWER, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First doll, I rocked her blue-eyed blink in my lap Last Line: "I proclaimed, ""dirty." Subject(s): Dolls; Language; Names; Toys; Words; Vocabulary |
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