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Subject: RUGS
Matches Found: 12

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMISH RUG, by MICHAEL LONGLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As if a one-room schoolhouse were all we knew
Last Line: We shall step over it as over a flowerbed
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Rugs


CHARADE: 3, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From his ruby pavilion phoebus arose
Last Line: While such haughty tempers so often I see.
Subject(s): Rugs; Carpets


FALL FIELDS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sober-golden fields lie soaked in light
Last Line: Turns paler blue above such tapestry.
Subject(s): Autumn; Fields; Light; Rugs; Seasons; Fall; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Carpets


FIGURES IN THE CARPETS, by DAVID SCHLOSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We buy what we cannot control the rugs
Last Line: And we can buy it yet articulate or %not with each new freeing of our hearts
Subject(s): Freedom; History; Rugs


HISTORY LESSONS: MAGIC CARPET, by SIDNEY WADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ahmet and I were out of town one day, buying
Last Line: We are flying, ahmet abi, we are flying!'
Subject(s): Magic; Rugs


MIDSUMMER MADNESS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am a hearthrug
Subject(s): Rugs;solitude;summer; Carpets;loneliness


PORTRAIT SONNETS: 4, by HENRY BELLAMANN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes when eastern carpets wear so thin
Last Line: The ultimate design of his own soul.
Subject(s): Rugs; Carpets


PRAYER RUG, by AGHA SHAHID ALI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: She weeps holding on / to the pillars
Subject(s): Prayer Rugs


RAG RUG, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Rugs; Carpets


RED EMBROIDERED CARPET, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Please be sparing in robbing people of clothes to cover the ground!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): Rugs; Weavers And Weaving


THE BIG RUG, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That so many of the poor should suffer from cold what can we do to prevent?
Last Line: Which at one time could cover up every inch of the city.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Poverty; Rugs; Carpets


TURKISH CARPET, by PAUL DURCAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: No man could have been more unfaithful
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Erotic Love; Rugs