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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AUNT JENNIFER'S TIGERS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH            Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aunt jennifer's tigers prance across a screen
Subject(s): Animals; Aunts; Imagination; Love - Marital; Tapestries; Tigers; Women's Rights; Fancy; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Feminism


AUNT JENNIFER'S TIGERS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Aunt jennifer's tigers prance across a screen
Last Line: Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid
Subject(s): Animals; Aunts; Imagination; Love - Marital; Tapestries; Tigers; Women's Rights


BEYOND THE TAPESTRIES, by NORMA FARBER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Someone has opened and undone
Subject(s): Tapestries


CHARITY OVERCOMING ENVY, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you time for a story
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Charity; Tapestries; Philanthropy


CHARITY OVERCOMING ENVY, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you time for a story
Last Line: The gordian knot need not be cut
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Charity; Tapestries


DAYS THAT ARE TAPESTRIES, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some days go by
Last Line: A rapturous, singing mirth!
Subject(s): Flowers; Nature; Singing & Singers; Tapestries


KNITTING NEEDLES, NEEDLE AND THREAD, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old lace bears a fragrance of innocence
Last Line: From the pillow. A letter %someone stitched there with faded yarn
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Needles; Tapestries; Weavers And Weaving


MIRACULOUS INSTRUMENTS: THE CHINESE TAPESTRY, by GLADYS SWAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It hangs on our wall now, this tapestry
Last Line: Its occasion, to rest here on the wall, %speaking its illumination
Subject(s): China; Tapestries


ON A PIECE OF TAPESTRY, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hold high the woof, dear friends, that we may see
Last Line: All the long labor of some captive queen.
Subject(s): Tapestries


POMONA, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the ancient apple-queen
Last Line: From out the heart of summer's joy.
Variant Title(s): Border Inscription On An Embroidery Of Pomona, Roman Goddess Of Fruit Trees
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Tapestries


TAPESTRIES, by ANNA HANSEN HAYES    Poem Source                    
First Line: My neighbor owns a tapestry
Subject(s): Tapestries


TAPESTRIES, by GEORGE WASHINGTON WRIGHT HOUGHTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By giddy stairway led
Subject(s): Tapestries


TAPESTRY, by FORREST GANDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Me, when I think of you I see
Last Line: To let their dragonfly bodies %escape from human shells
Subject(s): Tapestries


TAPESTRY, by STEFAN GEORGE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Framed by a silken fringe, in strange accord
Subject(s): Tapestries


TAPESTRY, by HOWARD NEMEROV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On this side of the tapestry
Last Line: A forest of loose ends %where sewing never mends
Subject(s): Tapestries


TAPESTRY, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It hangs from heaven to earth
Subject(s): Tapestries


TAPESTRY, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It hangs from heaven to earth
Last Line: They'll shave his beard, nose, ears and hair, %to make him look like everyone else
Subject(s): Tapestries


THE CHINESE NIGHTINGALE; A SONG IN CHINESE TAPESTRIES, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How, how,' he said. 'friend chang,' I said
Last Line: Said the chinese nightingale.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Birds; China; Nightingales; Tapestries


THE TAPESTRY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These tapestries have hung fading around my hall
Last Line: Whether for good or ill—it was them or nothing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Tapestries


THE TAPESTRY, by FORREST GANDER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Me, when I think of you I see
Subject(s): Tapestries


THE TAPESTRY WEAVERS, by ANSON G. CHESTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let us take to our heart a lesson, no braver lesson can be
Last Line: And god shall give him gold for his hire -- not coin, but a crown!
Subject(s): Religion; Tapestries; Weaving & Weavers; Theology


UNICORN AND THE LADY, by JEAN GARRIGUE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Christ! These are her angels!
Last Line: And the small heart sparkles amidst the leaves %of the one thousand flowers, and flares
Variant Title(s): An Improvisation Upon The Theme Of The Lady And The Unicor
Subject(s): Tapestries


VERSES WORKED ON TAPESTRY MAP OF WARWICKSHIRE ..., by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On this side which the sonne doth warme, with his declini beames
Last Line: Thine ey wold make thin harte rejoyce, to see so pleasant grounde
Subject(s): Tapestries


VERSES WORKED ON TAPESTRY MAP SHOWING THE THAMES VALLEY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This worke thus wrought with curious hand and rare invented arte
Last Line: Moste fertill hilles for sheepe and w ... Yre not in this land
Subject(s): Tapestries