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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WASHERWOMEN Matches Found: 22 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ECHOES: APPENDIX, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pretty washermaiden Last Line: To kiss her dainty head? Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Washerwomen EPITAPH FOR CATHERINE ALSOPP, WASHERWOMAN, HANGED HERSELF, by CATHERINE ALSOPP Poem Source First Line: Here lies a poor woman who always was tired Last Line: I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever Subject(s): Suicide; Washerwomen FOR PUNCH AND JUDY, by CHUCK MILLER Poem Source First Line: The washerwoman has gone Subject(s): Washerwomen HAIKU: 448, by RICHARD WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A washerwoman Last Line: The sunlit spring wind! Subject(s): Washerwomen LONG BEACH SUITE 1. THE WASHERWOMAN, by TOM WAYMAN Poem Source First Line: Wind Last Line: Pail after pail: %the washerwoman Subject(s): Washerwomen NECESSARY THINGS, by YVETTE CHRISTIANSE Poem Source First Line: A brief dream in the mouth of all this %noise: he was flogging the ocean Last Line: The washerwoman knew as she laid %his sheets out to the bleaching wind Subject(s): Washerwomen REPETITION OF WORDS AND WEATHER, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A basket of dirty clothes Subject(s): Words; Weather; Washerwomen; Poetry & Poets THE SCRUB-WOMAN, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time has placed his careful insult Subject(s): Time;washerwomen THE WASHERWOMAN, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the north end of our village stands Last Line: In marriage-robes, I trust. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Laundry & Laundering; Soul; Washerwomen; Work; Workers THE WASHERWOMAN, by MARY WESTON FORDHAM Poem Text First Line: With hands all reddened and sore Last Line: From the saviour's wounded side. Subject(s): Life; Love; Washerwomen TO A SANTIAGO WASHERWOMAN, by OSCAR HAHN Poem Source First Line: My cousin who lived off her tubs Last Line: Could never clean their uniforms Subject(s): Washerwomen WASHERWOMAN, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The washerwoman is a member of the salvation army Last Line: Rubbing underwear she sings of the last great washday. Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering; Washerwomen WASHERWOMAN, by LINARDS (ARNOLDS BERZS) TAUNS Poem Source First Line: Three puddles mirror Subject(s): Washerwomen WASHERWOMAN, by VERONICA VOLKOW Poem Source First Line: She feels her hands, scabrous as fish Last Line: Looking for only, perhaps, a fidelity Subject(s): Laundry And Laundering; Washerwomen WASHERWOMAN UNDER A SHADY TREE, by SHLOMO AVAYOU Poem Source First Line: Your obedient forearms raise trunks Last Line: And upon their heads, turbans the color of the sea Subject(s): Washerwomen WASHERWOMAN'S FIRE, by HERBERT WOODWARD MARTIN Poem Source First Line: My immigrant mother cooked her white clothes alive Last Line: I think what a sudden, sudden ordering that fire made of thesouthtown, %celebrating my seventh birth Subject(s): Laundry And Laundering; Mothers; Washerwomen WASHERWOMAN'S FRIEND [OR SONG], by EUGENE FITCH WARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a very humble cot Alternate Author Name(s): Ironquill Subject(s): Washerwomen WASHERWOMAN: 2, by VELIMIR VLADIMIROVICH KHLEBNIKOV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We don't live in castles Last Line: Aee it's nice, it's nice %knife Alternate Author Name(s): Vladimirovich, Viktor Subject(s): Washerwomen WASHERWOMAN: 26, by VELIMIR VLADIMIROVICH KHLEBNIKOV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Writers of the knife are we Last Line: God's children are we Alternate Author Name(s): Vladimirovich, Viktor Subject(s): Washerwomen WASHERWOMAN: 7, by VELIMIR VLADIMIROVICH KHLEBNIKOV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tsar! Send out a shot Last Line: And burst in steaming field Alternate Author Name(s): Vladimirovich, Viktor Subject(s): Washerwomen WASHERWOMEN, by ANDREA ZANZOTTO Poem Source First Line: All the women go to the wash-house Last Line: And the small book of the grandmothers and of their times was closed Subject(s): Washerwomen WASHERWOMEN AT THE GRIJALVA, by ROSARIO CASTELLANOS Poem Source First Line: Handkerchief of good-bye Last Line: Where I can wash my days Subject(s): Mexico; Washerwomen |
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