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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BABY SITTERS Matches Found: 12 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DAD OF MINE, by MARY M. JONES Poem Text First Line: When I was just a little tot / I always sat Last Line: When I was a kid, dad of mine. Subject(s): Child Care; Baby Sitters; Governesses FAWN BEFORE DOW SEASON, by JOAN LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day I went to work, Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Child Care; Baby Sitters; Governesses FROM THE COOK'S LITTLE ROOM, by CLAIRE PATTERSON Poem Text First Line: Sometimes she tells him ghost stories Last Line: As I am. Subject(s): Child Care; Household Employees; Baby Sitters; Governesses; Servants; Domestics; Maids MY OTHER MOTHER, by EVA JOOR WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: When did I know you first? I cannot say Last Line: "mah lil w'ite chilluns of mah earthly home?" Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Child Care; Mothers; Baby Sitters; Governesses NURSES, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There isn't anythin' that's worse Last Line: They're awful ignerunt of boys! Subject(s): Boys; Child Care; Children; Nurses; Baby Sitters; Governesses; Childhood THE BABYSITTERS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is ten years, now, since we rowed to children's island Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Child Care; Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963); Baby Sitters; Governesses THE CARELESSE NURSE MAYD, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sawe a mayd sitte on a bank Last Line: The momente that her care was drownd! Subject(s): Child Care; Drowning; Baby Sitters; Governesses THE GIRL, by SCUDDER MIDDLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That house in which you lived was not you home Last Line: A child no longer. Subject(s): Child Care; Children; Growth; Baby Sitters; Governesses; Childhood THE SHELL TO THE PEARL, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grow not so fast, glow not so warm Last Line: Cling close, my child. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Child Care; Youth; Baby Sitters; Governesses THE UNFROCKED GOVERNESS, by PETER DAVISON Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Round of face, with dimpled chin and cheeks Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Child Care; Poetry & Poets; Baby Sitters; Governesses TO MISS ANNA MARIA TRAVERS. AN EPISTLE FROM SCOTLAND, by CHARLOTTE BRERETON Poem Text First Line: I rise about eight, if the morning is warm Last Line: Your friend most sincere, and true humble servant. Subject(s): Child Care; Women Writers; Baby Sitters; Governesses TO MY INFANT DAUGHTER, E. C. M., by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no sound upon the night Last Line: Be all my soul desires to see! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Babies; Child Care; Fathers & Daughters; Gentility; Infants; Baby Sitters; Governesses |
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