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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DOMESTICS Matches Found: 89 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DAUGHTER OF THE REVOLUTION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Arising slowly in his place Last Line: "'please, sir, to let you in'" Subject(s): Daughters;guests;household Employees;revolutions; Visiting;servants;domestics;maids A DECISION, by ARTHUR LLEWELLYN ENO Poem Text First Line: As a maid so nice Last Line: "third down; two feet to gain." Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids A GENUINE DIALOGUE BETWEEN A GENTLEWOMAN AT DERBY AND HER MAID, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mrs. Jenny, come here: I'm told that you have been / to see this man Last Line: She'll never part with jenny while she lives. Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids A GEOGRAPHIC QUESTION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a maiden once, with eyes of blue" Last Line: Degrees down there are n't bigger Subject(s): Geography;history;household Employees; Historians;servants;domestics;maids A LEGEND OF FLORENCE: DOMESTIC CHAT, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world seems glad after its hearty drink Last Line: Be pleased to think that settled. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Conversation; Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids A QUESTION, by CAROLYN WELLS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maid, with your cheeks and chin Last Line: Had he to sing you? Subject(s): Beauty; Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids A SWEET NOSEGAY: TO TWO OF HER YOUNGER SISTERS SERVING IN LONDON, by ISABELLA WHITNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good sisters mine, when I shal further from you dwell Last Line: So wyll I you, and thus I cease, tyll I your selves do see. Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids A TOAST, by HENRY MORGAN STONE Poem Text First Line: Clink, clink / fill up your glasses Last Line: Drink to the dearest of mortals, the ladies. Subject(s): Household Employees; Women; Servants; Domestics; Maids A WIFE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stretch out both my hands to you Last Line: For all their wistful prayer to you! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Household Employees; Marriage; Sexism; Slavery; Women; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Serfs AFTERNOON, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some one is coming to call Last Line: Down in the daffodil leaves Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Household Employees; Peasantry; Servants; Domestics; Maids ALCESTIS: SCENE 1, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Natheless before these gates mine eyes do mark Last Line: Down to the lord of hell. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Family Life; Household Employees; Marriage; Mourning; Mythology - Classical; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Relatives; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement AN 'OLD MAID', by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: There's a spinster of thirty-some years whose abode Last Line: And she didn't seem just to well, you understand! Subject(s): Household Employees; Single People; Solitude; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Bachelors; Unmarried People; Loneliness AN EPISTLE: 1726, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I pray, good lady harley, let jonathan know Last Line: Elkanah settle. Subject(s): Household Employees; Prayer; Servants; Domestics; Maids AN OLD CHAR-WOMAN, by CRANSTON STROUP Poem Text First Line: An old char-woman', the inscription read Last Line: Ancestral ages' suffering mars her face. Subject(s): Household Employees; Old Age; Servants; Domestics; Maids AS I WALKED FORTH, by ROBERT JOHNSON (1555-1626) Poem Text First Line: As I walked forth one summer's day Last Line: Alas, alas! With love her heart did break. Subject(s): Grief; Household Employees; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids AT THE LUXEMBOURG, by GUY-CHARLES CROS Poem Text First Line: I remember a maiden Last Line: And is the author of a baker's dozen volumes of light or delicate verse. Subject(s): Children; Grief; Household Employees; Luxembourg; Tears; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids AULD ROBIN THE LAIRD, by ALEXANDER MACLAGGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Auld robin, the laird, thocht o' changin' his life Last Line: "very weel, sir,"" quo' tibby, ""sae let it be!" Subject(s): Household Employees; Marriage; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BRONZEVILLE WOMAN IN A RED HAT, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They had never had one in the house before Last Line: Child, big black woman, pretty kitchen towels Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids CEREMONIES TO THE MAIDS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wash your hands, or else the fire Last Line: Dead the fire, though ye blow. Subject(s): Christmas; Household Employees; Nativity, The; Servants; Domestics; Maids CHARMAID, by MAUDE SMITH DELAVAN Poem Text First Line: Silver slippers beckon me Last Line: To tread, in silver slippers. Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids COTTAGE AND HALL, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With eyes to her sewing-work dropped down Last Line: And may be thinks of alexis. Subject(s): Domestics; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Death – Children DELL AND I, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a mansion grand, just over the way Last Line: For I love and am loved byone. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Happiness; Household Employees; Love; Wealth; Joy; Delight; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Riches; Fortunes DOMESTIC, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He picked a leaf, there just had to be Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids DOMESTICS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We've had about a thousand maids, who Last Line: For clarence, william, stephen, fred, adolphus, james and harry. Subject(s): Household Employees; Labor & Laborers; Marriage; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Work; Workers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ELEGY, by JOHN MACLAURIN Poem Text First Line: Nor hammond's love nor shenstone's was sincere Last Line: A country-wedding shall thy hopes deprive. Alternate Author Name(s): Dreghorn, Lord Subject(s): Household Employees; Love - Cultural Differences; Marriage; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ELIZABETH ANN, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the tale of elizabeth ann Last Line: Give her your charity, give her your prayers. Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids ELLEN HANGING CLOTHES, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The maid is out in the soft april light Last Line: Slim as the flags, and every whit as fair. Subject(s): Household Employees; Laundry & Laundering; Servants; Domestics; Maids EPIGRAM: 85. OF THE ABBOT AND HIS VALET, by CLEMENT MAROT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: His grace the abbot and his servynge ladde Last Line: Whyle in the bowle a single drop was left. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Household Employees; Wine; Servants; Domestics; Maids EUROPA, by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May the foemen's wives, the foemens' children Last Line: "henceforth shall bear." Subject(s): Household Employees; Mythology - Classical; Shame; Sin; Venus (goddess); Women; Servants; Domestics; Maids FRAGMENT; EVIDENTLY SUPPOSED TO BE SPOKEN BY MRS. REYNOLDS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, I believ'd you quick / but you're as deaf as any beedle Last Line: And I've no platebut that I'm used to. Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids 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 GERDA, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the long curving walk you trudge to the street Last Line: Gerda, come back, to nurse your desolate child. Subject(s): Abandonment; Caregivers; Children; Household Employees; Women; Women's Rights; Desertion; Childhood; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Feminism GRANNY'S RECEIPT, by HAZEL GOLDING Poem Text First Line: I found it deep in granny's trunk Last Line: And love and laughter in their eyes! Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids HOUSECLEANING DAY IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To clean a house is still some job Last Line: The day we cleaned the house. Subject(s): Cleanliness; Household Employees; Vermont; Servants; Domestics; Maids HOW LISA LOVED THE KING, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Six hundred years ago, in dante's time Last Line: Let us not fail to pay the grateful thanks we owe. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Household Employees; Love; Spain; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids IBIS; FOR LORI GOLDENSOHN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is the long dream in the afternoon Last Line: All of his new body away from me. Subject(s): Birds; Household Employees; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Rain; Sleep; Servants; Domestics; Maids IN THE SERVANTS' QUARTERS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man, you too, aren't you, one of these rough followers of the criminal? Last Line: And he droops, and turns, and goes. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids INSCRIPTION ON A STONE, IN THE CHURCH-YARD AT BOREHAM, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whate'er of praise, and of regret attend Last Line: To share the eternal triumph of the just. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids LAS DIAMONDS ARE UNA CHICA'S BEST AMIGA, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are you not that stray mignonette of my garden Last Line: Be at home in my arms Subject(s): Chicanos; Home; Household Employees; Mexican Border; Mexican Americans; Servants; Domestics; Maids LEDA'S HANDMAIDEN, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was leda's intimate, and slave Last Line: We share. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Household Employees; Slavery; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Serfs LINNA, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The church was heavy with the deep sweet scent of / roses Last Line: Amen. Subject(s): Churches; Death; Household Employees; Cathedrals; Dead, The; Servants; Domestics; Maids LOUISE, by BOB HICOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She said I looked like jesus and it was true. I looked Last Line: From a cross and think of anything but revenge Subject(s): Household Employees; Old Age; Servants; Domestics; Maids LOUISE SCHELPER; SERVANT AND FRIEND OF OBERLIN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fearless journeyer o'er the mountain-snow Last Line: When the glad human soul lifts a thanksgiving voice! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Advice; Children; Household Employees; Oberlin, Johann Friedrich (1740-1826); Childhood; Servants; Domestics; Maids MAID OF RED AND WHITE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Married to a maiden Last Line: Close the shutters tight. Subject(s): Death; Household Employees; Dead, The; Servants; Domestics; Maids MAMMY SUE, by MARY C. HERGET Poem Text First Line: In the dim days of the long ago Last Line: "hummin', hummin', hummin'." Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; Household Employees; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Songs MARGARETTA'S BOOK 1816, by KATHERINE VAN DER VEER Poem Text First Line: The ink grows pale upon the page Last Line: From one I never knew. Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids MARTHA; DIED JANUARY 7, 1861, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sexton! Martha's dead and gone Last Line: Toll the bell! Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids MARY, THE MAID OF THE TAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye banks and braes o' bonnie tay Last Line: For my lovely mary, the maid o' the tay. Subject(s): Death; Household Employees; Mourning; Dead, The; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Bereavement MAUD MULLER A-WHEEL, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER Poem Text First Line: Maud muller, on a summer's day Last Line: Be not allowed to block the way! Subject(s): Automobiles; Driving & Drivers; Household Employees; Social Classes; Wheels; Cars; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Caste MRS. CHOATE'S HOUSE-WARMING, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of rights and of wrongs Last Line: Of brave independence! Subject(s): Household Employees; Parties; Servants; Domestics; Maids NE SIT ANCILLAE TIBI AMOR PUDORI, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's just a twinkle in your eye Last Line: And sometimes catch your eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Household Employees; Love; Servants; Domestics; Maids ON MRS. NICELY; A PATTERN FOR HOUSEKEEPERS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was a woman peerless in her station Last Line: And polished floors and tables shine her back. Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids PEARL, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every thursday pearl arrived in her old model a Last Line: I was your murdered child. Subject(s): Household Employees; Mothers & Daughters; Women; Women's Rights; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Feminism PHILIP - A FRAGMENT, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peggy, his sole domestic, slowly grew Last Line: Old peggy sent the manuscript to me. Subject(s): Household Employees; Man-woman Relationships; Writing & Writers; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Male-female Relations PLAINT OF THE POET IN AN IGNORANT AGE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would I had a flower-boy! Last Line: "the no-bird that sings in the no-name tree?" Subject(s): Household Employees; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Feminism POEM, ON SUPPOSITION OF ADVERTISEMENT ...VOLUME OF POEMS, BY A SERVANT, by ELIZABETH HANDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tea-kettle bubbled, the tea things were set Last Line: Like courtiers contending for honours, sat down. Alternate Author Name(s): Daphne Subject(s): Advertising; Books; Household Employees; Social Classes; Women Writers; Reading; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Caste POEM, ON SUPPOSITION OF THE BOOK HAVING BEEN PUBLISHED AND READ, by ELIZABETH HANDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dinner was over, the tablecloth gone Last Line: And gave the discourse a definitive blow. Alternate Author Name(s): Daphne Subject(s): Books; Household Employees; Social Classes; Women Writers; Reading; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Caste POOL MAIDEN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the lilies / she lies, she lies Last Line: The heart of her crystal deeps. Subject(s): Happiness; Household Employees; Wales; Joy; Delight; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Welshmen; Welshwomen QUEEN OF HER HEART, by ELLIOTT FLOWER Poem Text First Line: The little rag doll is queen Last Line: It stands in her heart alone. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dolls; Household Employees; Solitude; Toys; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Loneliness SERVITORS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall not let a sorrow die Last Line: Equal servitors to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids SONG OF THE SUMMER GIRL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: You talk about some maiden fair Last Line: The girl with summer tan! Subject(s): Household Employees;singing & Singers; Servants;domestics;maids STOKLEWATH; OR, THE CUMBRIAN VILLAGE, by SUSANNA BLAMIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From where dark clouds of curling smoke arise Last Line: Let stoklewath be not the last that's nam'd! Alternate Author Name(s): Muse Of Cumberland; Sukey, Miss Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Household Employees; Hunger; Poverty; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE ATAVISTIC MAID, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, sweetheart, to my plea Last Line: Treat me rough, kid; treat me rough! Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE BONNIE LASS OF RUILY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the village of ruily there lived a bonnie lass Last Line: "then harry cried, ""merciful heaven, my heather belle is dead!" Subject(s): Courtship; Farewell; Household Employees; Love; Parting; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE BREAKAGE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the grey and dusty morn Last Line: I broke the china cup.' Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Accidents; Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE CLOCK, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you go to that grand hotel Last Line: "and london, with their chimes." Subject(s): Clocks; Guilt; Household Employees; Love; Time; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE CONSTANT FRIEND, by EUGENE FITCH WARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Human hopes and human creeds Last Line: That will keep her to the end. Alternate Author Name(s): Ironquill Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE FIRST-RATE WIFE, by CORNELIUS WHUR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This brief effusion I indite Last Line: To charm life's dreary day! Subject(s): Friendship - Selectivity; Household Employees; Marriage; Women; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HELLO GIRL, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We hear her silver voice, and mutter, 'that Last Line: "should bless the hello maid!" Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE HIRED MAN AND FLORETTY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hired man's supper, which he sat before Last Line: Of votaries, rounded by the hired man. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Food & Eating; Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE HOUSE IN WHICH WE NOW LIVED WAS OLD, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Family Life; Youth; Fear; Household Employees; Relatives; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE HOUSEKEEPER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I let myself in at the kitchen door Last Line: "who wants to hear your news, you -- dreadful fool?" Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE LEISURE CLASSES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There was a little beggar maid Last Line: "and, pleasing heaven, never will" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;household Employees;marriage;social Classes; Servants;domestics;maids;weddings;husbands;wives;caste THE MAID OF THE MOOR, OR THE WATER-FIENDS, SELECTION, by GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER Poem Text First Line: Cold blows the blast - the night's obscure Last Line: Lies in the bottom of a well. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Drowning; Grief; Household Employees; Solitude; Wells; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Loneliness THE MESSAGE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good servant! Up, and saddle quick Last Line: And mute and silent be. Subject(s): Castles; Courts & Courtiers; Household Employees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE MESSAGE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up, boy! Arise, and saddle quick Last Line: But never speak a word. Subject(s): Castles; Courts & Courtiers; Household Employees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE OLD NURSE, by GUSTAVE NADAUD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dame gudule is our ancient maid Last Line: The clock will soon be striking eight. Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE SERVANT OF THE PROPHET, by ABBIE HUSTON EVANS Poem Text First Line: I never read the story but I wonder Last Line: "yet sometimes, in broad daylight, -- ""what was that!" Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE SERVING MAID, by ARTHUR JOSEPH MUNBY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you go out at early morn Last Line: And sends it home -- and speeds it home. Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids THE SORROWS OF SUNDAY; AN ELEGY, SELECTION, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Susan, the constant slave to mop and broom Last Line: And ride themselves an airing with the devil. Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Grief; Household Employees; Labor & Laborers; Sabbath; Slavery; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Work; Workers; Sunday; Serfs THE THREE MAIDENS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were three maidens met on the highway Last Line: O the nightingale is dying for its mate. Subject(s): Birds; Household Employees; Night; Nightingales; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Bedtime THE WHITE SLAVES; 1860, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The household of a roman, in rome's luxurious time Last Line: Let every soul cry, 'liberty!' and 'liberty for all!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Household Employees; Rome, Italy; Slavery; U.s. - History; Liberty; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Serfs THIS MAIDEN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: This maiden is dead, is dead in love's play. Last Line: They have gone to the fields, to the fields like every day. Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Funerals; Household Employees; Dead, The; Burials; Servants; Domestics; Maids THREE BASKETS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bertha's basket: maiden bertha, with the / merry dancing eyes Last Line: Folding dearest work for others, whether she be maid or wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Grandparents; Household Employees; Love; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Servants; Domestics; Maids TO A MAID OF THIRTEEN, by CHRISTOPHER BANNISTER Poem Text First Line: How blithe you are, and tall Last Line: So tall, and unafraid! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Envy; Household Employees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids TO LOUISE SCHELPER; SERVANT AND FRIEND OF OBERLIN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For thou, a holy shepherdess and kind Last Line: Must wait thee, wanderer! On thy saviour's breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Household Employees; Oberlin, Johann Friedrich (1740-1826); Servants; Domestics; Maids TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 13. LOVE GOES ALL THE WAY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I summoned my two servants, both were strong Last Line: "duty so soon tireslove goes all the way." Subject(s): Household Employees; Love; Servants; Domestics; Maids UPON PRUE, HIS MAID, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this little urn is laid Last Line: Spring the purple violet. Variant Title(s): Upon Prew His Maid Subject(s): Cremation; Devonshire, England; Grief; Household Employees; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids WRITTEN BY DESIRE OF A LADY ON ANGRY, PETULANT, KITCHEN-MAID, by JANE CAVE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good mistress dishclout, what's the matter? Last Line: Which you in wisdom might think best. Alternate Author Name(s): Winscom, Mrs. Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids |
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