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Subject: LINEN
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CONVENT AT HAARLEM, by JANE YEH    Poem Source                    
First Line: We go out
Last Line: The blond-wood boards of the floor of your room, an original %bit of nonsense, your doll
Subject(s): Linen


LAVENDER, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a clump of lavender
Last Line: Had such sweet strewings, said he.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Gardens & Gardening; Jesus Christ; Lavender; Linen; Sin


LINEN, by KAY RYAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are charms / that forestall harm
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Linen


LINEN INDUSTRY, by MICHAEL LONGLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pulling up flax after the blue flowers have fallen
Last Line: A butterfly attending the embroidered flowers
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Industry; Linen; Love


LINEN SHIRT, by FERENC RAKOCZY    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the edge of the inner suburbs we pick healer herbs
Last Line: We huddle up to keep warm in a shirt that's over-large
Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Linen


ROYALTY, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In purple and fine linen
Last Line: Frederic lawrence knowles.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L.
Subject(s): Flowers; Houses; Lilacs; Linen


THE LINEN INDUSTRY, by MICHAEL LONGLEY    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pulling up flax after the blue flowers have fallen
Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Industry; Linen; Love


THE LINEN WEAVER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: On saturday with joy bill dubs his half
Last Line: "to slave for upstart gentry. I'll go serve, / with willing mind, his majesty king george"
Subject(s): Linen;weavers & Weaving


TO A SHRED OF LINEN, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Would they swept cleaner!
Last Line: Thine apotheosis immortalise.
Subject(s): Housewives; Linen; Youth


WREATHS: THE LINEN WORKERS, by MICHAEL LONGLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Christ's teeth ascended with him into heaven
Last Line: And into his dead mouth slip the set of teeth
Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Linen