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Subject: DRESS MAKERS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EVENING, BY A TAILOR, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Day hath put on his jacket, and around
Last Line: Where I can coil them in their wonted fashion.
Subject(s): Tailors; Dress Makers


OF A PRECISE TAILOR, by JOHN HARRINGTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A tailor, a man of an upright dealing
Last Line: "of such-a-coloured silk in all the flag."
Alternate Author Name(s): Harington, John
Subject(s): Life; Tailors; Dress Makers


THE IMPORTANCE OF GREEN, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Small towns are for knowing who's poor
Last Line: No more than the dress itself / of green
Subject(s): Green (color); Poverty; Tailors; Towns; Dress Makers


THE OVIPAROUS TAILOR, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wee, wee tailor, / nobody was paler
Last Line: Wee, wee tailor.
Subject(s): Birds; Death; Devil; Pain; Sin; Tailors; Witchcraft & Witches; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Suffering; Misery; Dress Makers


THE TAILOR, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Few footsteps stray when dusk droops o'er
Last Line: He'll mutter half a seam away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Tailors; Dress Makers


TWO OF A TRADE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pedestrians! Buy your pantaloons at sixteen shillings new
Last Line: Though scarce ten yards apart, the two are miles and miles asunder.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Tailors; Dress Makers


YE TAILYOR-MAN; A CONTEMPLATIVE BALLAD, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Right jollie is ye tailyor-man
Last Line: But never, never payes!
Subject(s): Tailors; Dress Makers