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| Searching... Subject: SEWING Matches Found: 40 A MOTHER'S HOPES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes my mother confesses Last Line: The things they will do when they grow. Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Dolls; Mothers; Sewing; Toys; Childhood AT THE KESA EXHIBIT: 1. SONG OF A ROBE'S MAKING, by KELLY PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Between each stitch there is %the mudra pause, the ritual %pose Last Line: The needle of the invisible %and I am sewing myself %into your rooms Subject(s): Exhibitions; Sewing AT THE KESA EXHIBIT: 2. I WILL ASK FOR BIRDS, by KELLY PARSONS Poem Source First Line: When I enter the gallery %I remember that I am Last Line: White cranes circling %the cliffs of my body. %I want a song I can wear Subject(s): Exhibitions; Sewing AT THE LOOM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She stood at the clumsy loom Last Line: And wrought him into his web again Subject(s): Sewing BUTTONS, by ELISABETH MURAWSKI Poem Source First Line: She took to using ever stronger Last Line: Waiting for her hand to anchor %what he'd torn loose again Subject(s): Marriage; Sewing CONTRAST, by GRACE YOKE WHITE Poem Text First Line: One woman may play Last Line: Than the other one knows. Subject(s): Sewing DON'T PUT UP MY THREAD AND NEEDLE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Still surmise I stitch Variant Title(s): Poem: 617; Poem: 68 Subject(s): Americans; Sewing; United States GIFT, by NANCY NAOMI CARLSON Poem Source First Line: The light leaves early these days Last Line: Yet as slow to resolve as my thimbled need Subject(s): Aids (disease); Death; Sewing; Sickness HOOKS AND EYES, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Irish lace and linen Last Line: Again, and sewed me in. Subject(s): Seamstresses; Sewing; Women HUSWIFERY, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Make me, o lord, thy spinning wheele compleate Last Line: That I am cloathd in holy robes for glory. Variant Title(s): Housewifery Subject(s): Housekeeping; Labor & Laborers; Prayer; Puritans In Literature; Religion; Sewing; Work; Workers; Theology I SIT AND SEW, by ALICE RUTH MOORE DUNBAR-NELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit and sew - a useless task it seems Last Line: It stifles me -- god, must I sit and sew? Alternate Author Name(s): Nelson, Alice Dunbar (moore) Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Americans; Sewing; United States; War; America JOURNEYS, by AGNES MACCARTHY HICKEY Poem Text First Line: Not the speediest of coaches Last Line: And they not know! Subject(s): Dreams; Labor & Laborers; Sewing; Travel; Nightmares; Work; Workers; Journeys; Trips JUNIOR HIGH, HOME ECONOMICS, by BARBARA CROOKER Poem Source First Line: My best friend and I were in love with sewing Last Line: We couldn't alter, darn, or patch, %somehow make it right Subject(s): Schools; Sewing MARY WARREN'S SAMPLER, by NICOLE COOLEY Poem Source First Line: Reversible stitches: my mother and I leaned over a single piece of english line Last Line: To me - as witness my hand mary warren Subject(s): Family Life; Mothers; Sewing MY MOTHER'S CREATION, by LISA MCMONAGLE Poem Source First Line: With my mother's approval I chose the floral Last Line: Nudging me toward her ideal daughter Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Sewing MY MOTHER'S NEEDLES, by HARRY HUMES Poem Source First Line: Sitting in her chair that faced away Last Line: Voice still sharp, stitching it all together Subject(s): Repairing; Sewing NEEDLE, by JOSEPH+(2) GREEN Poem Source First Line: My mother had a black singer %sewing maching when I was young Last Line: Without thinking of that thread %still connecting us Subject(s): Mothers; Sewing NEEDLE TRAVEL, by MARGARET FRENCH PATTON Poem Text First Line: I sit at home and sew Last Line: Is not the path I tread. Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Thomas Archer, Mrs. Subject(s): Sewing OLD MRS. COURT AND HER QUILT, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: She is raggedy ann at seventy-six Last Line: Though your lives are in pieces, love one another Subject(s): Old Age; Quilts; Sewing OPENWORK, by LUISA IGLORIA Poem Source First Line: The woman bends %at her embroidery, counting Last Line: Edged with fine %openwork Subject(s): Sewing PENELOPE, by MOIRA LINEHAN Poem Source First Line: Mother's on her knees fitting a skirt-let's say it's that blue Last Line: Vow and need my memory fixed on the horizon where last %I saw him piecework in my hands these pins I Subject(s): Sewing POCKETS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The point of clothes was line Last Line: To find both hands and pockets empty. Subject(s): Legacies; Mothers & Daughters; Sewing PRETTY BLOUSES, by HELEN MINTUS Poem Source First Line: In a factory room %dark, dreary and stifling Last Line: Each stitch blocks the sun, %making pretty blouses Subject(s): Factories; Labor And Laborers; Sewing QUILTING, by JO ANNE TRINKLE Poem Source First Line: Overhead invisible forces reign Last Line: And sew it up %all new! Subject(s): Quilts; Sewing REPETITIONS, by HAZEL HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I plunge at the rearing hours Last Line: (who has not waked may not yet sleep.) Subject(s): Sewing; Spring ROADSIDE POEMS: AN OLD SERMON WITH A NEW TEXT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My wife contrived a fleecy thing Last Line: That holdeth fast thy life. Subject(s): Children; Education; Family Life; God; Sermons; Sewing; Childhood; Relatives SEWIN' BUTTONS ON, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every time my mother sews Last Line: But she says it is the nicest plan she ever, ever heard! Subject(s): Buttons; Children; Mothers; Sewing; Childhood SEWING CIRCLE, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: Use the long curving needle Last Line: Strands of bloody wool in the catch Subject(s): Ranch Life; Sewing SEWING MACHINE MUSIC, by JEANNE WAGNER Poem Source First Line: It's my primal machine Last Line: Pounding out the circuit of the blood Subject(s): Sewing SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 41, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pocket-handkerchief to hem Last Line: And after work is play! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Stitching Subject(s): Sewing; Time THE OLD SPINNING WHEEL, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember the old spinning wheel Last Line: "from grandmother's old spinning wheel." Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Grandparents; Sewing; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE QUILT, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alive in a brown stucco house Last Line: She smoothed the quilt across their bed. Subject(s): Quilts; Sewing; Women THE SEAMSTRESS, by HENRI BARBUSSE Poem Text First Line: A glimmer of daylight through the rain Last Line: In invisible song. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Retail Trade; Seamstresses; Sewing; Work; Workers; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers THE SEWING-GIRL, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The humble garret where I dwell Last Line: To hear her singing, singing, singing. Subject(s): Paris, France; Sewing THINGS, by ADA SIMPSON SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: Her little workbox - needle, thread Last Line: When my little girl has wings? Subject(s): Sewing THIS LITTLE BAG', by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This little bag I hope will prove Last Line: You'll recollect your friend Subject(s): Farewell; Gifts And Giving; Sewing THREAD FOR A NEEDLE, by MARJORIE ALLEN SEIFFERT Poem Text First Line: I had walked a long way Last Line: As I trudged along. Alternate Author Name(s): Cypher, Angela; Hay, Elijah Variant Title(s): Ballad Of Thread For A Needle Subject(s): Sewing TO A QUILT IN A FRAME, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: It is such an awkward task, the quilting it Last Line: In this quaint-patterned, touched-with-magic cover. Subject(s): Quilts; Sewing; Women TOGETHER, BABE, WE COULD HAVE HAD THE WORLD SEWN UP, by OLIVE SENIOR Poem Source Last Line: Everything - as you did me - up in knots Subject(s): Riddles; Sewing YOU, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sunlight passes through the window into the room Last Line: Still heavy with its desire to be the cloud. Subject(s): Desire; Light; Love; Sewing; Water |
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