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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SPINSTERS Matches Found: 53 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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 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 BARBARA BLUE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old lady named barbara blue Last Line: Apples and all! Subject(s): Spinsters; Avarice; Apples 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 ELLEN MASON AND HER ELEVEN CATS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full 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 Full 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 EMILY HARDCASTLE, SPINSTER, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We shall come tomorrow morning, who were not to have her love Last Line: And seal her to the stranger for his castle in the gloom Subject(s): Spinsters 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 I'LL NOT MARRY AT ALL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I'm determined to live an old maid Subject(s): Spinsters I'M 'WIFE' - I'VE FINISHED THAT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "I'm ""wife""! Stop there!" Subject(s): Spinsters; Youth 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 LABYRINTH, by KIM YOJONG Poem Source First Line: My niece past marriageable age Last Line: Her eyes opening brightly %like a gardenia in the moonlight Subject(s): Spinsters LEFTOVER BLESSINGS, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His dinner on the stove, grandpa smirked at our jar Last Line: For just showing up, being young, being born %the granddaughter of a man someone married Subject(s): Spinsters LIZZIE, by NANCY VIEIRA COUTO Poem Source First Line: A spinster with a mouth like a dam and a heart Last Line: Or menstrual blood, or blood, %or whether it matters Subject(s): Spinsters 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 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 MISS GEE, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me tell you a little story Last Line: And a couple of oxford groupers %carefull dissected her knee Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Spinsters 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 MY MOTHER'S SISTER, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see her against the pearl sky of dublin Last Line: How can this be justified, how can it %be justified? Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Aunts; Spinsters OLD LADIES, by COLIN ELLIS Poem Source First Line: They walked in straitened ways Last Line: Kept safe until they died %and handed on unbroken Subject(s): Spinsters OLD MAID, by FREDERICK FEIRSTEIN Poem Source First Line: You're flirting with me, though I'm half-alive Last Line: I've got to run. Have a good time tonight Subject(s): Spinsters OLD MAID, by AMELIA B. WELBY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why sits she thus in solitude? Alternate Author Name(s): Coppuck, Amelia B. Subject(s): Spinsters 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 OLD MAIDS, by LUIS CARLOS LOPEZ Poem Source First Line: Come susanna: I want Subject(s): Spinsters PASSPORT BLUES, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a virgin Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids 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 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 Full 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 SOME FOREIGN LETTERS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew you forever and you were always old Last Line: To mumble your guilty love while your ears die Subject(s): God; Religion; Spinsters 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 A SPINSTER, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah me, life is so short Last Line: While I ... Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Mortality; Spinsters SPINSTER, by ELEANOR DAVIDSON CALENDA Poem Source First Line: Pearl hair %undone Last Line: Waiting %in this house Subject(s): Spinsters SPINSTER, by GREG JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: I didn't plan this, you know. The greening Last Line: Ears, my reddened eyes. So keep your pity, stranger. %my bed was narrow, but now you lie in it Subject(s): Spinsters SPINSTER, by HANNAH KAHN Poem Source First Line: The room is quiet. I alone Last Line: Seeks cloister in the depths of sleep, %sobs penance like a child Subject(s): Spinsters SPINSTER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full 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 SPINSTER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now this particular girl Last Line: With curse, fist, threat %or love, either Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Spinsters SPINSTER'S LULLABY, by VASSAR MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Clinging to my breast, no stronger Last Line: Both our hearts, imperiled petals %trembling on the pulse of god Subject(s): Spinsters 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 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 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 MAID'S STORY, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, many and many a year's gone by Last Line: But it was too late to weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Love – Loss Of; Spinsters; Grief 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 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 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 TUNNEL, by NICANOR PARRA Poem Source First Line: In my youth I lived for a time in the house of some aunts Subject(s): Aunts; Spinsters; Youth 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 |
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