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Subject: KNITTING
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AUTUMN OVERLOOKED MY KNITTING, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For resembling me
Variant Title(s): Poem: 748; Poem: 78
Subject(s): Knitting


COPTIC SOCKS, by ROY FULLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fancy the copt %possessing socks!
Last Line: Then read they're coptic
Subject(s): Copts; Hosiery; Knitting


GRAY GOOSE AND GANDER / WAFT YOUR WINGS TOGETHER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Over the one-river strand
Subject(s): Knitting


IMAGERY, by RUTH IRVING CONNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Perhaps, a tree, a sweet slim tree
Last Line: Me knitting placidly.
Subject(s): Knitting


KNITTING, by BARBARA CROOKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My grandmother's needles
Last Line: I take words and knit them back in poems %something could be made of this
Subject(s): Aging; Knitting; Old Age; Women


KNITTING, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: E'en though her tongue may by its force
Last Line: And leaves his gold spread all about.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Knitting


KNITTING, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My muse is in the sulks to-day
Last Line: Will fly into the brain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): Knitting


KNITTING, by DEBRA MARQUART    Poem Source                    
First Line: You with the knit one purl two
Last Line: How to pick them up
Subject(s): Grandparents; Knitting


KNITTING NEEDLES, by KAREN WHITEHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's your way to keep stroking
Last Line: And the next, %and the one after that
Subject(s): Knitting


KNITTING SOCKS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Click, click! How the needles go
Subject(s): Hosiery; Knitting; World War I


MILADY KNITS, by OPAL BLAISDELL LENOX    Poem Text                    
First Line: Milady, at the open window, sits
Last Line: And world -- you must not hear milady swear!
Subject(s): Knitting


ON A GREY-HAIRED OLD LADY KNITTING, by FRANK WILMOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cast on 120 stitches
Last Line: And turn, lady, turn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Knitting; Symphonies; Concerts


ROUNDEL FOR THESE TIMES, by ADELIA DOOLITTLE BAUER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Resume your knitting, friend, drop useless care
Last Line: The storm tonight brings havoc in its track.
Subject(s): Knitting; Storms


SONG OF A SEABOOT STOCKING, by O. I. WARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Knit, knit, knit, in the watches of the night
Last Line: While overhead the fire guard keep their watch o'er london town.
Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Knitting; London; World War Ii; Second World War


SUBVERSIONS: PERRY KNITTING MILL, by ELIZABETH STOESSL    Poem Source                    
First Line: He moved down the line inspecting their work quickly so
Last Line: And to savor the women's laughter and their gratitude for %20 minutes of peace
Subject(s): Knitting; Labor And Laborers; Mills And Millers


THE WEE KNITTER, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Click! Click! Click!
Last Line: Click! Click! Click!
Subject(s): Knitting


WOMAN KNITTING, by HOANG THI Y NHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the cold afternoon %a woman sits by a window knitting
Last Line: Slowly unravels its circles
Subject(s): Grief; Knitting; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975