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First Line: High-brow house was furnished well
Last Line: And there you'll find it still.
Subject(s): Grail; Housekeeping; Houses; Story-telling; Holy Grail; Graal


ACCOUNTING, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nights too warm for tv
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


ACCOUNTING, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nights too warm for tv
Last Line: The crawlspace filling up, packed solid %as any foundation
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


AMATEUR FIGHTER, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Boxing & Boxers; Fathers; Housekeeping


AMATEUR FIGHTER, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What's left is the tiny gold glove
Last Line: Holding his body up to pain
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Boxing And Boxers; Fathers; Housekeeping


ASK MARTHA, by ELIZABETH THELEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear reader, %mildew is your punishment
Last Line: Will be gleaming soon enough, %thanks to you
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Home; Housekeeping; Housewives; Magazines


AT THE OWL CLUB, NORTH GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI, 1950, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What's left is the tiny gold glove hanging from his key chain. But, before that, he had come to boxi
Variant Title(s): At The Owl Club, North Gulfport, Mississippi 1950
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


AT THE OWL CLUB, NORTH GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI, 1950, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing idle here-the men
Last Line: Regal quarts in hand- %it's payday man
Variant Title(s): At The Owl Club, North Gulfport, Mississippi 195
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


AT THE STATION, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The man, turning, moves away
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


AT THE STATION, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The man, turning, moves away
Last Line: No words. His mind on fire
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


BROOM, by VERN RUTSALA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like the feather duster it feels incomplete, a creature only
Last Line: A creature only %half evolved, and anxiously scurries everywhere trying to find %the rest of itself
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Housekeeping


CAMEO, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As a child, I would awaken dark mornings
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


CAMEO, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As a child, I would awaken dark mornings
Last Line: Of her throat, hard enough to bruise.
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


CARPENTER BEE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All winter long I have passed
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


CARPENTER BEE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All winter long I have passed
Last Line: Each in its separate cell-snug, ordered, certain
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


COLLECTION DAY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Saturday morning, motown / forty-fives and thick seventy-eights
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Baby Boom Generation; Housekeeping; Women


COLLECTION DAY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Saturday morning, motown %forty-fives and thick seventy-eights
Last Line: Something to last: patch of earth, %view of sky
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Baby Boom Generation; Housekeeping; Women


DOMESTIC WORK, 1937, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All week she's cleaned
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


DOMESTIC WORK, 1937, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All week she's cleaned
Last Line: A wish for something better
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


DOMESTICITY, by ELEANOR GOODSON MITCHELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: In this secluded, sheltered life
Last Line: And leaves unruffled a smooth surface.
Subject(s): Housekeeping


DRAPERY FACTORY, GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI, 1956, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She made the trip daily, though
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


DRAPERY FACTORY, GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI, 1956, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She made the trip daily, though
Last Line: On one white man's face, his hand %deep in knowledge
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


DUST MOP, by VERN RUTSALA    Poem Source                    
First Line: This creature is some curious by-product in the evolution of
Last Line: This creature is some curious by-product in the evolution of the unicorn
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Dust; Housekeeping


EARLY EVENING, FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is 1965. I am not yet born, only
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


EARLY EVENING, FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is 1965. I am not yet born, only
Last Line: Dead center of her life
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


EXPECTANT, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nights are hardest, the swelling
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


EXPECTANT, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nights are hardest, the swelling
Last Line: Carrying her, slightly swaying home
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


FAMILY PORTRAIT, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the picture man comes
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


FAMILY PORTRAIT, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the picture man comes
Last Line: As-years later-I'd itch for what's not there
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


FLAMES LIGHT UP THE ROUGH WALLS AND EARNEST FACES, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With none among the travelers about you
Last Line: A little chapel in a housedress of windless pink dawn
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dinners & Dining; Housekeeping; Housewives; Estrangement; Outcasts


FLOUNDER, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, she said, put this on your head
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


FLOUNDER, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, she said, put this on your head
Last Line: I stood there watching that fish flip-flop, %switch sides with every jump
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


FORTRESS, by PATRICIA HOOPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ironing shirts this morning
Last Line: Not with her books and weaving %but a shield
Subject(s): Housekeeping


GATHERING, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through tall grass heavy / from rain, my aunt and I wade
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


GATHERING, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through tall grass heavy %from rain, my aunt and I wade
Last Line: Handpicked days in memory, %our minds' dark pantry
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


GESTURE OF A WOMAN-IN-PROCESS, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the foreground, two women / their squinting faces
Variant Title(s): Gesture Of A Woman In Process
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


GESTURE OF A WOMAN-IN-PROCESS, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the foreground, two women %their squinting faces
Last Line: The white blur of her apron %still in motion
Variant Title(s): Gesture Of A Woman In Proces
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


GIVE AND TAKE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I come here once a month to dig
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


GIVE AND TAKE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I come here once a month to dig
Last Line: Waist of your panties, even %the corners of your mouth
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


HIS HANDS, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Will never be large enough
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


HIS HANDS, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Will never be large enough
Last Line: Whatever his hands will give
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


HISTORY LESSON, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am four in this photograph standing
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


HISTORY LESSON, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am four in this photograph standing
Last Line: Of a cotton meal-sack dress
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


HOT COMBS, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the junk shop, I find an old pair
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


HOT COMBS, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the junk shop, I find an old pair
Last Line: Her face made strangely beautiful %as only suffering can do
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


HOUSE CLEANING, by CARRIE W. BRONSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here's a tale [or, sing a song] of cleaning house
Subject(s): Housekeeping


HOUSEKEEPING, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We mourn the broken things, chair legs
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


HOUSEKEEPING, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We mourn the broken things, chair legs
Last Line: For the mail, some news from a distant place
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


HOUSEWIFE, by CATHERINE CATE COBLENTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jesus, teach me how to be
Last Line: Grant me wisdom mary had %when she taught her little lad
Subject(s): Housekeeping; Jesus Christ; Religion


HUSWIFERY, by EDWARD TAYLOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Make me, o lord, thy spinning wheele compleate
Last Line: That I am cloathd in holy robes for glory.
Variant Title(s): Housewifery
Subject(s): Housekeeping; Labor & Laborers; Prayer; Puritans In Literature; Religion; Sewing; Work; Workers; Theology


I LIKE HOUSE CLEANING, by DOROTHY BROWN THOMPSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's fun to clean house
Last Line: Among the house cleaning %for new things to play
Subject(s): Housekeeping; Play


IRONING BOARD, by VERN RUTSALA    Poem Source                    
First Line: It can fold its legs like a crane and is thus clearly some variety of bird
Last Line: Up tightly against its bill
Subject(s): Housekeeping


KEEPING THINGS NEAT, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You plant a rosebush by your door, and
Last Line: Hide.
Subject(s): Admiration; Cleanliness; Gardens & Gardening; Housekeeping; Neighbors; Tools


LIMEN, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All day I've listened to the industry
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping; Nature; Trees


LIMEN, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All day I've listened to the industry
Last Line: Tireless, making the green hearts flutter
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping; Nature; Trees


MICROSCOPE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In sixth grade, science was a puzzle
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


MICROSCOPE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In sixth grade, science was a puzzle
Last Line: Up close could lose its luster
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


MINDEN HOUSE, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twer when the vo'k wer out to hawl
Last Line: There's now noo mwore a fanny deäne.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Housekeeping; Love; Marriage; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


MYTHMAKER, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We lived by the words / of gods, mythologies
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


MYTHMAKER, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We lived by the words %of gods, mythologies
Last Line: Not like now. Not like now
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


NABBY, THE NEW YORK HOUSEKEEPER, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well, nanny, I am sorry to find, since you write us
Last Line: The beefe is half raw—and the bell rings for dinner!
Subject(s): Friendship; Housekeeping; New York City - Revolutionary Period; United States - Congress


NAOLA BEAUTY ACADEMY, NEW ORLEANS, 1945, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Made hair? The girls here
Variant Title(s): Naloa Beauty Academy, New Orleans, Louisiana 1943
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


NAOLA BEAUTY ACADEMY, NEW ORLEANS, 1945, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Made hair? The girls here
Last Line: Light, slight, and polite. %not a one out of place
Variant Title(s): Naloa Beauty Academy, New Orleans, Louisiana 194
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


NORA, by ELIZABETH WEST PARKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I came back from nora's burial
Last Line: "oh, let me be like her!"
Subject(s): Death; Housekeeping; Dead, The


ODE TO HOUSECLEANING, by LOUISE WILT SAYRE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Housecleaning has begun for this springtime
Last Line: "the time for the cleaning to start."
Subject(s): Housekeeping


ON A DEAF HOUSEKEEPER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Of all life's plagues I recommend to no man
Subject(s): Deafness;housekeeping;life


PICTURE GALLERY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a tight corner of the house, we'd kept
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Art & Artists; Housekeeping; Paintings & Painters


PICTURE GALLERY, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a tight corner of the house, we'd kept
Last Line: Our lives suddenly beautiful, then
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Art And Artists; Housekeeping; Paintings And Painters


SATURDAY DRIVE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Saturdays, uncle son drives slow
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


SATURDAY DRIVE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Saturdays, uncle son drives slow
Last Line: Still shiny enough to see her face
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


SATURDAY MATINEE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I first see imitation of life
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


SATURDAY MATINEE, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I first see imitation of life
Last Line: An empty screen, pale blue, diamonds falling %until it's all covered up
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


SECULAR, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Work-week's end and there's enough
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


SECULAR, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Work-week's end and there's enough
Last Line: Like gospel, like gold
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


SELF-EMPLOYMENT, 1970, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who to be today? So many choices
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


SELF-EMPLOYMENT, 1970, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who to be today? So many choices
Last Line: Up under that wig, her head %sweating, hot as an idea
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


SIGNS, OAKVALE, MISSISSIPPI, 1941, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first time she leaves home is with a man
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


SIGNS, OAKVALE, MISSISSIPPI, 1941, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first time she leaves home is with a man
Last Line: Nothing but cotton and road signs-stop or slow
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


SPECULATION, 1939, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First, the moles on each hand
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


SPECULATION, 1939, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First, the moles on each hand
Last Line: Not that elevator lurching up, then down
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


SWEEPING HEAVEN, by HEID E. ERDRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Someone has to sweep these million golden
Last Line: It showers like the wheeling prairie sky
Subject(s): Cleanliness; Housekeeping; North Dakota


TABLEAU, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At breakfast, the scent of lemons
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


TABLEAU, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At breakfast, the scent of lemons
Last Line: That has begun to split the bowl in half
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


THE COMING WOMAN, by MARY WESTON FORDHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Just look, 'tis a quarter past six, love
Last Line: Exist, without a man cook.
Subject(s): Housekeeping; Women's Rights; Feminism


THE EMPRESS HOTEL POEMS, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just get up / and sit down again. Then
Last Line: In the other poem.
Subject(s): Hotels; Housekeeping; Language; Rooms; Tourists; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Words; Vocabulary


THE GOOD HOUSEKEEPER, by FLORENCE MCKEEN KEPHART    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've ironed from my conscience the wrinkles
Last Line: My house in order at last.
Subject(s): Faith; Housekeeping; Belief; Creed


THE HOUSEWIFE'S LAMENT, by ELOISE STORY    Poem Text                    
First Line: From morning till night and all through the day
Last Line: Is heard in service, whether great or small.
Subject(s): Housekeeping


THE HOUSEWIFE'S PRAYER, ON THE MORNING PRECEDING A FETE; TO ECONOMY, by ELIZABETH MOODY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Goddess adored! Who gained my early love
Last Line: And guard, o goddess, guard each candle's end!
Alternate Author Name(s): Greenly, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Housekeeping; Parties


THE KETTLE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's many a house of grandeur
Last Line: And the water would be hot.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Housekeeping


THE MACHINATIONS OF THE MIND, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The car crash we passed when I was five
Last Line: What spins and claws in our rearview mirrors.
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Habits; Housekeeping; Memory; Order; Reason; Selectivity; Violence; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE MOTHER'S CHARGE, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She raised her head. With hot and glittering eye
Last Line: Her daughter died in turn, and made one more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins
Subject(s): Housekeeping; Mothers; Women


THE THREE WISHES, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Well, now,' drawled the fairy, 'I'll grant you three wishes
Last Line: "for self-washing dishes -- the thing's -- bolshe-vistic!"
Subject(s): Fairies; Housekeeping; Wishes; Elves


THREE PHOTOGRAPHERS: 3. WASH WOMEN, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The eyes of eight women / I don't know
Variant Title(s): Three Photographs
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


THREE PHOTOGRAPHERS: 3. WASH WOMEN, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The eyes of eight women %I don't know
Last Line: Their ready gaze through him, %to me, straight ahead
Variant Title(s): Three Photograph
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


THREE PHOTOGRAPHS: 1. DAYBOOK, APRIL 1901, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What luck to find them here!
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


THREE PHOTOGRAPHS: 1. DAYBOOK, APRIL 1901, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What luck to find them here!
Last Line: Too full with new graves %and no flowers
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


THREE PHOTOGRAPHS: 2. CABBAGE VENDOR, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Natural, he say. / what he want from me?
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


THREE PHOTOGRAPHS: 2. CABBAGE VENDOR, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Natural, he say. %what he want from me?
Last Line: Like he be seeing me- %distant and small-forever
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


VERMONT HOUSEKEEPING, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I shan't forget how much I learnt
Last Line: To book the dates for carrie nation.
Subject(s): Housekeeping; Vermont


WASHING THE DISHES, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When we on simple rations sup
Last Line: If you should drop a willow cup!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Housekeeping


WE AND THE WEEKEND, by ALMA DENNY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When do we say we'll do it
Subject(s): Housekeeping


WHITE LIES, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lies I could tell
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping


WHITE LIES, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lies I could tell
Last Line: Thinking they'd work %from the inside out
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Housekeeping