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Subject: LACE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BIT OF LACE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It lay upon a pillow white
Last Line: The bit of lace
Subject(s): Lace


CHILDREN'S LACE-MAKING SONG OR TELL FROM BEDFORDSHIRE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twenty pins have I to do
Last Line: They built a bower upon the tower, %and covered it with rushes
Subject(s): Lace


CHILDREN'S LACE-MAKING SONG OR TELL FROM BEDFORDSHIRE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Needle pin, needle pin, stitch upon stitch
Last Line: Hang her up for half an hour, %cut her down just like a flower
Subject(s): Lace


DREARY SONG, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When ragged is the country and tawdry is / the town
Last Line: "but nobody is listening—let's die and disappear."
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Queen Anne's Lace; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


FOR NEW YEAR'S DAY 1703, by NAHUM TATE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark, how the muses call aloud
Last Line: England's protecting george, and guardian of the main.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Great Britain - Wars With France; Happiness; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Queen Anne's Lace; Joy; Delight


LACEMAKER'S SONG FROM WESTON UNDERWOOD, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A lad down at olney looked over a wall
Last Line: But sit on a cushion and sew a fine seam, %eat white bread and butter and strawberries and cream
Subject(s): Lace


LOLA WEARS LACE, by HELEN BIRCH-BARTLETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: What rare dark woman of my world
Last Line: Scornful day!
Subject(s): Lace


MILE-A-MINUTE LACE, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Callie lives with lonesome
Last Line: And makes lace on a hairpin
Subject(s): Lace


OLD FLEMISH LACE, by AMELIA WALSTIEN JOLLS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A long, rich breadth of holland lace
Last Line: Dear hal, -- with thee!
Subject(s): Lace


POINT LACE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Kate, when you lace-work undertake
Last Line: But none in what you say.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Lace; Silence; Talk; Work; Workers


QUEEN ANNE'S LACE, by JESSIE JANE HUSSEY CASKEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: So beautiful the bloom this crowding weed
Last Line: Of human could create in all the land.
Subject(s): Queen Anne's Lace


QUEEN ANNE'S LACE, by MARY LESLIE NEWTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Queen anne, queen anne, has washed her lace
Last Line: Each weed-entangled way!
Subject(s): Queen Anne's Lace


QUEEN ANNE'S LACE, by SUSAN PETERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I see that flower
Subject(s): Queen Anne's Lace


QUEEN ANNE'S LACE, by ROBERT SCHAEFFER PHILLIPS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I came to the end of long island to gather
Subject(s): Queen Anne's Lace


QUEEN-ANNE'S-LACE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her body is not so white as
Subject(s): Queen Anne's Lace


QUEEN-ANNE'S-LACE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her body is not so white as
Last Line: A pious wish to whiteness gone over - %or nothing
Subject(s): Queen Anne's Lace


STRING, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At certain hours we may rest assured that nearly everyone inside
Last Line: Although we did not live in that house
Subject(s): Lace; Togetherness


THE LACE-MAKER, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Late sunday morning gilds the pins and needles,
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): Lace


TO ANOTHER POET, by ELLA STRATTON COLBO    Poem Text                    
First Line: You filled a bowl with queen anne's lace
Last Line: Making poems with flowers!
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Queen Anne's Lace


WILD, by KATHRYN STRIPLING BYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Carrot, it rises
Last Line: Among yellow milkwort and lowliest meadowrue
Subject(s): Queen Anne's Lace