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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DAUGHTER OF THE REVOLUTION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Arising slowly in his place
Last Line: "'please, sir, to let you in'"
Subject(s): Daughters;guests;household Employees;revolutions; Visiting;servants;domestics;maids


A DECISION, by ARTHUR LLEWELLYN ENO    Poem Text                    
First Line: As a maid so nice
Last Line: "third down; two feet to gain."
Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids


A GENUINE DIALOGUE BETWEEN A GENTLEWOMAN AT DERBY AND HER MAID, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mrs. Jenny, come here: I'm told that you have been / to see this man
Last Line: She'll never part with jenny while she lives.
Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids


A GEOGRAPHIC QUESTION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "a maiden once, with eyes of blue"
Last Line: Degrees down there are n't bigger
Subject(s): Geography;history;household Employees; Historians;servants;domestics;maids


A LEGEND OF FLORENCE: DOMESTIC CHAT, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The world seems glad after its hearty drink
Last Line: Be pleased to think that settled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh
Subject(s): Conversation; Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids


A QUESTION, by CAROLYN WELLS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maid, with your cheeks and chin
Last Line: Had he to sing you?
Subject(s): Beauty; Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids


A SPINSTER, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why have you come, o love, so near
Last Line: Whenever did you come to stay?
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Single People; Spinsters; Bachelors; Unmarried People; Old Maids


A SPINSTER'S STINT, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Six skeins and three, six skeins and three!
Last Line: And stop the bands, and stop the bands!
Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Spinsters; Old Maids


A SWEET NOSEGAY: TO TWO OF HER YOUNGER SISTERS SERVING IN LONDON, by ISABELLA WHITNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good sisters mine, when I shal further from you dwell
Last Line: So wyll I you, and thus I cease, tyll I your selves do see.
Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids


A TOAST, by HENRY MORGAN STONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Clink, clink / fill up your glasses
Last Line: Drink to the dearest of mortals, the ladies.
Subject(s): Household Employees; Women; Servants; Domestics; Maids


A WIFE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I stretch out both my hands to you
Last Line: For all their wistful prayer to you!
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Household Employees; Marriage; Sexism; Slavery; Women; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Serfs


ADVICE TO SOPHRONIA, by MARY LEAPOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When youth and charms have taken their wanton flight
Last Line: And bear her safely to her virgin grave.
Subject(s): Aging; Spinsters; Old Maids


AFTERNOON, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some one is coming to call
Last Line: Down in the daffodil leaves —
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns
Subject(s): Household Employees; Peasantry; Servants; Domestics; Maids


ALCESTIS: SCENE 1, by EURIPIDES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Natheless before these gates mine eyes do mark
Last Line: Down to the lord of hell.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Family Life; Household Employees; Marriage; Mourning; Mythology - Classical; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Relatives; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement


AN 'OLD MAID', by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a spinster of thirty-some years whose abode
Last Line: And she didn't seem just to — well, you understand!
Subject(s): Household Employees; Single People; Solitude; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Bachelors; Unmarried People; Loneliness


AN EPISTLE: 1726, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I pray, good lady harley, let jonathan know
Last Line: Elkanah settle.
Subject(s): Household Employees; Prayer; Servants; Domestics; Maids


AN OLD CHAR-WOMAN, by CRANSTON STROUP    Poem Text                    
First Line: An old char-woman', the inscription read
Last Line: Ancestral ages' suffering mars her face.
Subject(s): Household Employees; Old Age; Servants; Domestics; Maids


AN OLD MAID, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gray hair softly, smoothly parting
Last Line: Love to read.
Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids


AS I WALKED FORTH, by ROBERT JOHNSON (1555-1626)    Poem Text                    
First Line: As I walked forth one summer's day
Last Line: Alas, alas! With love her heart did break.
Subject(s): Grief; Household Employees; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids


AT THE LUXEMBOURG, by GUY-CHARLES CROS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I remember a maiden
Last Line: And is the author of a baker's dozen volumes of light or delicate verse.
Subject(s): Children; Grief; Household Employees; Luxembourg; Tears; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids


AULD ROBIN THE LAIRD, by ALEXANDER MACLAGGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Auld robin, the laird, thocht o' changin' his life
Last Line: "very weel, sir,"" quo' tibby, ""sae let it be!"
Subject(s): Household Employees; Marriage; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


BRONZEVILLE WOMAN IN A RED HAT, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They had never had one in the house before
Last Line: Child, big black woman, pretty kitchen towels
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids


CEREMONIES TO THE MAIDS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wash your hands, or else the fire
Last Line: Dead the fire, though ye blow.
Subject(s): Christmas; Household Employees; Nativity, The; Servants; Domestics; Maids


CHARMAID, by MAUDE SMITH DELAVAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Silver slippers beckon me
Last Line: To tread, in silver slippers.
Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids


DELL AND I, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a mansion grand, just over the way
Last Line: For I love and am loved by—one.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Happiness; Household Employees; Love; Wealth; Joy; Delight; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Riches; Fortunes


DOMESTIC, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He picked a leaf, there just had to be
Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids


DOMESTICS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We've had about a thousand maids, who
Last Line: For clarence, william, stephen, fred, adolphus, james and harry.
Subject(s): Household Employees; Labor & Laborers; Marriage; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Work; Workers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


DOROTHY IN THE GARRET, by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the low-raftered garret, stooping
Last Line: And lifelong sorrow a breath on the pane.
Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Spinsters; Sorrow; Sadness; Old Maids


ELEGY, by JOHN MACLAURIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nor hammond's love nor shenstone's was sincere
Last Line: A country-wedding shall thy hopes deprive.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dreghorn, Lord
Subject(s): Household Employees; Love - Cultural Differences; Marriage; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


ELIZABETH ANN, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the tale of elizabeth ann
Last Line: Give her your charity, give her your prayers.
Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids


ELLEN HANGING CLOTHES, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The maid is out in the soft april light
Last Line: Slim as the flags, and every whit as fair.
Subject(s): Household Employees; Laundry & Laundering; Servants; Domestics; Maids


ELLEN MASON AND HER ELEVEN CATS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old ella mason keeps cats, eleven at last count
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Cats; Spinsters; Old Maids


EMILY HARDCASTLE, SPINSTER, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We shall come tomorrow morning, who were not to have her love
Last Line: Where the foreigner may take her for his gloomy halidom
Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids


EPIGRAM: 85. OF THE ABBOT AND HIS VALET, by CLEMENT MAROT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: His grace the abbot and his servynge ladde
Last Line: Whyle in the bowle a single drop was left.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Household Employees; Wine; Servants; Domestics; Maids


EUROPA, by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: May the foemen's wives, the foemens' children
Last Line: "henceforth shall bear."
Subject(s): Household Employees; Mythology - Classical; Shame; Sin; Venus (goddess); Women; Servants; Domestics; Maids


FRAGMENT; EVIDENTLY SUPPOSED TO BE SPOKEN BY MRS. REYNOLDS, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mary, I believ'd you quick / but you're as deaf as any beedle
Last Line: And I've no plate—but that I'm used to.—
Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids


FROM THE COOK'S LITTLE ROOM, by CLAIRE PATTERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sometimes she tells him ghost stories
Last Line: As I am.
Subject(s): Child Care; Household Employees; Baby Sitters; Governesses; Servants; Domestics; Maids


GERDA, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the long curving walk you trudge to the street
Last Line: Gerda, come back, to nurse your desolate child.
Subject(s): Abandonment; Caregivers; Children; Household Employees; Women; Women's Rights; Desertion; Childhood; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Feminism


GRANNY'S RECEIPT, by HAZEL GOLDING    Poem Text                    
First Line: I found it deep in granny's trunk
Last Line: And love and laughter in their eyes!
Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids


HARK, HARK! O'ER THE PLAINS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark, hark! O'er the plains how the merry bells
Last Line: O then let me die an old maid.
Subject(s): Marriage; Spinsters; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Old Maids


HOUSECLEANING DAY IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To clean a house is still some job
Last Line: The day we cleaned the house.
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Household Employees; Vermont; Servants; Domestics; Maids


HOW LISA LOVED THE KING, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Six hundred years ago, in dante's time
Last Line: Let us not fail to pay the grateful thanks we owe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Household Employees; Love; Spain; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids


IBIS; FOR LORI GOLDENSOHN, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is the long dream in the afternoon
Last Line: All of his new body away from me.
Subject(s): Birds; Household Employees; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Rain; Sleep; Servants; Domestics; Maids


IN THE SERVANTS' QUARTERS, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Man, you too, aren't you, one of these rough followers of the criminal?
Last Line: And he droops, and turns, and goes.
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids


INSCRIPTION ON A STONE, IN THE CHURCH-YARD AT BOREHAM, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whate'er of praise, and of regret attend
Last Line: To share the eternal triumph of the just.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids


JENNY DUNLEATH, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jenny dunleath coming back to the town?
Last Line: Despised of the world's favored women -- and wait.
Subject(s): Homecoming; Spinsters; Old Maids


LAS DIAMONDS ARE UNA CHICA'S BEST AMIGA, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Are you not that stray mignonette of my garden
Last Line: Be at home in my arms
Subject(s): Chicanos; Home; Household Employees; Mexican Border; Mexican Americans; Servants; Domestics; Maids


LEDA'S HANDMAIDEN, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was leda's intimate, and slave
Last Line: We share.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Household Employees; Slavery; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Serfs


LINNA, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The church was heavy with the deep sweet scent of / roses
Last Line: Amen.
Subject(s): Churches; Death; Household Employees; Cathedrals; Dead, The; Servants; Domestics; Maids


LOUISE, by BOB HICOK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She said I looked like jesus and it was true. I looked
Last Line: From a cross and think of anything but revenge
Subject(s): Household Employees; Old Age; Servants; Domestics; Maids


LOUISE SCHELPER; SERVANT AND FRIEND OF OBERLIN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A fearless journeyer o'er the mountain-snow
Last Line: When the glad human soul lifts a thanksgiving voice!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Advice; Children; Household Employees; Oberlin, Johann Friedrich (1740-1826); Childhood; Servants; Domestics; Maids


LULLABY FOR A TIRED LADY, by ROBERT LEOPOLD WOLF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is there any need so deep
Last Line: Distant, sober, uniform.
Subject(s): Sleep; Spinsters; Old Maids


MAID OF RED AND WHITE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Married to a maiden
Last Line: Close the shutters tight.
Subject(s): Death; Household Employees; Dead, The; Servants; Domestics; Maids


MAMMY SUE, by MARY C. HERGET    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the dim days of the long ago
Last Line: "hummin', hummin', hummin'."
Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Household Employees; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Songs


MARGARETTA'S BOOK 1816, by KATHERINE VAN DER VEER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The ink grows pale upon the page
Last Line: From one I never knew.
Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids


MARTHA; DIED JANUARY 7, 1861, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sexton! Martha's dead and gone
Last Line: Toll the bell!
Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids


MARY, THE MAID OF THE TAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye banks and braes o' bonnie tay
Last Line: For my lovely mary, the maid o' the tay.
Subject(s): Death; Household Employees; Mourning; Dead, The; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Bereavement


MAUD MULLER A-WHEEL, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Maud muller, on a summer's day
Last Line: Be not allowed to block the way!
Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving & Drivers; Household Employees; Social Classes; Wheels; Cars; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Caste


MEZZO CAMMIN, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Half of my life is gone, and I have let
Last Line: The cataract of death far thundering from the heights.
Subject(s): Middle Age; Spinsters; Old Maids


MRS. CHOATE'S HOUSE-WARMING, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of rights and of wrongs
Last Line: Of brave independence!
Subject(s): Household Employees; Parties; Servants; Domestics; Maids


MY AUNT, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My aunt! My dear unmarried aunt! / long years have over her flown
Last Line: On my ancestral tree.
Subject(s): Aunts; Spinsters; Old Maids


MY MOTHER'S SISTER, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see her against the pearl sky of dublin
Last Line: How can gthis be justified? How can it / be justified?
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): Aunts; Spinsters; Old Maids


NE SIT ANCILLAE TIBI AMOR PUDORI, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's just a twinkle in your eye
Last Line: And sometimes catch your eye.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Household Employees; Love; Servants; Domestics; Maids


OLD MAID'S REVERIE, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'm tired of mirthless mirrors and their hostile heresies
Last Line: As one who missed the rubrics in the litanies of youth.
Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids


ON MRS. NICELY; A PATTERN FOR HOUSEKEEPERS, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was a woman peerless in her station
Last Line: And polished floors and tables shine her back.
Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids


PASSPORT BLUES, by MALCOLM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was a virgin
Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids


PEARL, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Every thursday pearl arrived in her old model a
Last Line: I was your murdered child.
Subject(s): Household Employees; Mothers & Daughters; Women; Women's Rights; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Feminism


PHILIP - A FRAGMENT, by ANN TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Peggy, his sole domestic, slowly grew
Last Line: Old peggy sent the manuscript to me.
Subject(s): Household Employees; Man-woman Relationships; Writing & Writers; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Male-female Relations


PLAINT OF THE POET IN AN IGNORANT AGE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would I had a flower-boy!
Last Line: "the no-bird that sings in the no-name tree?"
Subject(s): Household Employees; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Feminism


POEM, ON SUPPOSITION OF ADVERTISEMENT ...VOLUME OF POEMS, BY A SERVANT, by ELIZABETH HANDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tea-kettle bubbled, the tea things were set
Last Line: Like courtiers contending for honours, sat down.
Alternate Author Name(s): Daphne
Subject(s): Advertising; Books; Household Employees; Social Classes; Women Writers; Reading; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Caste


POEM, ON SUPPOSITION OF THE BOOK HAVING BEEN PUBLISHED AND READ, by ELIZABETH HANDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dinner was over, the tablecloth gone
Last Line: And gave the discourse a definitive blow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Daphne
Subject(s): Books; Household Employees; Social Classes; Women Writers; Reading; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Caste


POOL MAIDEN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the lilies / she lies, she lies
Last Line: The heart of her crystal deeps.
Subject(s): Happiness; Household Employees; Wales; Joy; Delight; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Welshmen; Welshwomen


POOR MARGARET, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We always called her 'poor margaret'
Last Line: She is rich in her father's house at last.
Subject(s): Heaven; Spinsters; Paradise; Old Maids


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


SERVITORS, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I shall not let a sorrow die
Last Line: Equal servitors to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids


SOLILOQUY OF A MAIDEN AUNT, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The ladies bow, and partners set
Last Line: Than when I wore it.
Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs.
Subject(s): Aunts; Dancing & Dancers; Spinsters; Old Maids


SOME FOREIGN LETTERS, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I knew you forever and you were always old
Subject(s): God; Religion; Spinsters; Theology; Old Maids


SONG, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, my caelia, why so coy
Last Line: Nor know a second spring.
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Spinsters; Youth; Male-female Relations; Old Maids


SONG OF A SPINSTER, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah me, life is so short
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Mortality; Spinsters; Old Maids


SONG OF THE SUMMER GIRL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: You talk about some maiden fair
Last Line: The girl with summer tan!
Subject(s): Household Employees;singing & Singers; Servants;domestics;maids


SPINSTER, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now this particular girl
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids


STOKLEWATH; OR, THE CUMBRIAN VILLAGE, by SUSANNA BLAMIRE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From where dark clouds of curling smoke arise
Last Line: Let stoklewath be not the last that's nam'd!
Alternate Author Name(s): Muse Of Cumberland; Sukey, Miss
Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Household Employees; Hunger; Poverty; Servants; Domestics; Maids


THE ATAVISTIC MAID, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen, sweetheart, to my plea
Last Line: Treat me rough, kid; treat me rough!
Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids


THE BONNIE LASS OF RUILY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the village of ruily there lived a bonnie lass
Last Line: "then harry cried, ""merciful heaven, my heather belle is dead!"
Subject(s): Courtship; Farewell; Household Employees; Love; Parting; Servants; Domestics; Maids


THE BREAKAGE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the grey and dusty morn
Last Line: I broke the china cup.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Accidents; Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids


THE CLOCK, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do you go to that grand hotel
Last Line: "and london, with their chimes."
Subject(s): Clocks; Guilt; Household Employees; Love; Time; Servants; Domestics; Maids


THE CONSTANT FRIEND, by EUGENE FITCH WARE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Human hopes and human creeds
Last Line: That will keep her to the end.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ironquill
Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids


THE FIRST-RATE WIFE, by CORNELIUS WHUR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: This brief effusion I indite
Last Line: To charm life's dreary day!
Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Household Employees; Marriage; Women; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE HARVEST-SUPPER (CIRCA 1850), by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nell and the other maids danced their best
Last Line: "mourned nell; ""and never wed!"
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Spinsters; Old Maids


THE HELLO GIRL, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We hear her silver voice, and mutter, 'that
Last Line: "should bless the hello maid!"
Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids


THE HIRED MAN AND FLORETTY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hired man's supper, which he sat before
Last Line: Of votaries, rounded by the hired man.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids


THE HOUSE IN WHICH WE NOW LIVED WAS OLD, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Family Life; Youth; Fear; Household Employees; Relatives; Servants; Domestics; Maids


THE HOUSEKEEPER, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I let myself in at the kitchen door
Last Line: "who wants to hear your news, you -- dreadful fool?"
Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids


THE LADY DOCTOR, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Saw ye that spinster gaunt and grey
Last Line: Disconsolate and lonely.
Subject(s): Physicians; Spinsters; Women; Doctors; Old Maids


THE LEISURE CLASSES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a little beggar maid
Last Line: "and, pleasing heaven, never will"
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;household Employees;marriage;social Classes; Servants;domestics;maids;weddings;husbands;wives;caste


THE MAID OF THE MOOR, OR THE WATER-FIENDS, SELECTION, by GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cold blows the blast - the night's obscure
Last Line: Lies in the bottom of a well.
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Drowning; Grief; Household Employees; Solitude; Wells; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Loneliness


THE MESSAGE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good servant! Up, and saddle quick
Last Line: And mute and silent be.
Subject(s): Castles; Courts & Courtiers; Household Employees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids


THE MESSAGE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up, boy! Arise, and saddle quick
Last Line: But never speak a word.
Subject(s): Castles; Courts & Courtiers; Household Employees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids


THE OLD MAID, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Text                    
First Line: She gave her life to love. She never knew
Last Line: She loves him now her hair is growing gray.
Subject(s): Love; Spinsters; Old Maids


THE OLD MAID, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw her in a broadway car
Last Line: The woman I shall never be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids


THE OLD NURSE, by GUSTAVE NADAUD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dame gudule is our ancient maid
Last Line: The clock will soon be striking eight.
Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids


THE ORPHANED OLD MAID, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wanted to marry, but father said, 'no
Last Line: And nobody flings me a thought or a care.
Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids


THE SERVANT OF THE PROPHET, by ABBIE HUSTON EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I never read the story but I wonder
Last Line: "yet sometimes, in broad daylight, -- ""what was that!"
Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids


THE SERVING MAID, by ARTHUR JOSEPH MUNBY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you go out at early morn
Last Line: And sends it home -- and speeds it home.
Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids


THE SORROWS OF SUNDAY; AN ELEGY, SELECTION, by JOHN WOLCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Susan, the constant slave to mop and broom
Last Line: And ride themselves an airing with the devil.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John
Subject(s): Grief; Household Employees; Labor & Laborers; Sabbath; Slavery; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Work; Workers; Sunday; Serfs


THE SPINSTER, by CLARISSA BUCKLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: ...Afraid?... Why, no...But
Last Line: And the first-star pierces the west.
Subject(s): Fear; Spinsters; Old Maids


THE SPINSTER'S SWEET-ARTS, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Milk for my sweet-arts, bess! Fur it mun be the time about now
Last Line: Till robby an' steevie 'es 'ed their lap -- an' it sarves ye right.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids


THE THREE MAIDENS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There were three maidens met on the highway
Last Line: O the nightingale is dying for its mate.
Subject(s): Birds; Household Employees; Night; Nightingales; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Bedtime


THE WHITE SLAVES; 1860, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The household of a roman, in rome's luxurious time
Last Line: Let every soul cry, 'liberty!' and 'liberty for all!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Household Employees; Rome, Italy; Slavery; U.s. - History; Liberty; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Serfs


THIS MAIDEN, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: This maiden is dead, is dead in love's play.
Last Line: They have gone to the fields, to the fields like every day.
Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Funerals; Household Employees; Dead, The; Burials; Servants; Domestics; Maids


THREE BASKETS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bertha's basket: maiden bertha, with the / merry dancing eyes
Last Line: Folding dearest work for others, whether she be maid or wife.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Household Employees; Love; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Servants; Domestics; Maids


TO A MAID OF THIRTEEN, by CHRISTOPHER BANNISTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: How blithe you are, and tall
Last Line: So tall, and unafraid!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Envy; Household Employees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids


TO A PRODIGAL OLD MAID, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing now no hymn nor chant a dirge
Last Line: To have come a springtime since.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids


TO LOUISE SCHELPER; SERVANT AND FRIEND OF OBERLIN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For thou, a holy shepherdess and kind
Last Line: Must wait thee, wanderer! On thy saviour's breast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Household Employees; Oberlin, Johann Friedrich (1740-1826); Servants; Domestics; Maids


TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 13. LOVE GOES ALL THE WAY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I summoned my two servants, both were strong
Last Line: "duty so soon tires—love goes all the way."
Subject(s): Household Employees; Love; Servants; Domestics; Maids


TWO HEADMISTRESSES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Miss buss and miss beale / cupid's darts do not feel
Last Line: How different from us / are miss beale and miss buss
Subject(s): Schools;spinsters; Students;old Maids


UPON HIMSELF (2), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I could [co'd] never love indeed
Last Line: Neither broke I'th whole, or part.
Subject(s): Self; Spinsters; Women; Old Maids


UPON PRUE, HIS MAID, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In this little urn is laid
Last Line: Spring the purple violet.
Variant Title(s): Upon Prew His Maid
Subject(s): Cremation; Devonshire, England; Grief; Household Employees; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids


WRITTEN BY DESIRE OF A LADY ON ANGRY, PETULANT, KITCHEN-MAID, by JANE CAVE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good mistress dishclout, what's the matter?
Last Line: Which you in wisdom might think best.
Alternate Author Name(s): Winscom, Mrs.
Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids