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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HOUSEWIVES Matches Found: 48 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A VERMONT KITCHEN, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That lady some call 'mrs. Looz' Last Line: No stranger, though a tramp, could stifle. Subject(s): Farm Life; Housewives; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers 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 BEATITUDES FOR A HOUSEWIFE, by MARY MAE OESCH Poem Text First Line: Blessed is she whose daily tasks are a labor of love Last Line: With dignity. Subject(s): Housewives CLIFF DWELLER LYRICS: ANY HOUSEWIFE'S LAMENT, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I don't mind the cooking, I don't mind the Last Line: That glower at me from the sink! Subject(s): Housewives COOKING THE RICE, by ANGELIKA MECHTEL Poem Source Subject(s): Housewives; Women's Rights CORNELIA'S REPLY, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cornelia, a matron of ancient rome Last Line: The pure quenchless light of a mother's love! Subject(s): Family Life; Housewives; Love; Mothers & Sons; Rome, Italy; Wealth; Relatives; Riches; Fortunes DIVINE OFFICE OF THE KITCHEN, SELS., by CECILY HALLACK Poem Source First Line: Lord of all pots and pans and things, since I've no time Last Line: Accept this service that I do, I do it unto thee Subject(s): Housewives; Religion 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 GOODWIFE PLAYING THE VIRGINALS; AFTER A PAINTING BY DE WITTE, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman's hands are hungry birds Last Line: The man is trapped by the open door. Subject(s): Housewives; Marriage; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives HOUSERULES, by MACDARA WOODS Poem Source First Line: Hoop-la said my working wife Last Line: Amd thinking with envy %of my neighbour and his empire of cabbages Subject(s): Housewives; Labor And Laborers HOUSEWIFE, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Occasional mornings when an earyl fog Subject(s): Housewives; Suburbs HOUSEWIFE, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Occasional mornings when an earyl fog Last Line: A lifeline, how it chooses to run obscurely %in her hand, before her Subject(s): Housewives; Suburbs HOUSEWIFE, by ATHINA PAPADAKI Poem Source First Line: Time to rest Subject(s): Housewives HOUSEWIFE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a certain quiet joy Last Line: I find that god has come. Subject(s): Housewives HOUSEWIFE, by SUSAN FROMBERG SCHAEFFER Poem Source First Line: What can be wrong Last Line: Do others feel like this? Where do they go? Subject(s): Housewives; Jews - Women HOUSEWIFE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some women marry houses Subject(s): Housewives HOUSEWIFE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some women marry houses Last Line: A woman is her mother. %that's the main thing Subject(s): God; Housewives; Religion; Women HOUSEWIVES, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: Housewives as the nights came in Last Line: To salt %their evening broth Subject(s): Death; Housewives; Widows And Widowers HOW MANY TIMES THESE LOW FEET STAGGERED, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Indolent housewife — in daisies — lain! Subject(s): Housewives I SIT UP HERE AT MIDNIGHT, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Her heart is on the deep Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Housewives I STOP WRITING THE POEM, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: To fold the clothes. No matter who lives Last Line: Watching to see how it's done Subject(s): Housewives; Poetry & Poets; Women I STOP WRITING THE POEM, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To fold the clothes. No matter who lives Last Line: Standing next to her mother %watching to see how it's done Subject(s): Housewives; Poetry And Poets; Women MATRIMONIAL MELODIES: 3. SYSTEM, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll clean my desk up bye and bye Last Line: I wish you wouldn't do it! Subject(s): Housewives; Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love MAY WALTERS, by HOLLIS WILLIAM SCHREIBER Poem Text First Line: May walters had no special claim on life Last Line: One can't help feeling sorry for her, though. Alternate Author Name(s): Schreiber, H. W. Subject(s): Housewives NEXT DAY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Moving from cheer to joy, from joy to all Subject(s): Aging; Housewives; Middle Age; Wisdom NEXT DAY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moving from cheer to joy, from joy to all Last Line: Confused with my life, that is commonplace and solitary Subject(s): Aging; Housewives; Middle Age; Wisdom OCCUPATION: HOUSEWIFE, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her health is good. She owns to forty-one, Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Housewives POSTSCRIPT, by ANNE GRANT Poem Text First Line: Jean, fetch that heap of tangled yarn Last Line: To plant in vain the barren laurel! Alternate Author Name(s): Grant Of Laggan, Mrs.; Mac Vigar, Anne; Macvicar, Anne Subject(s): Housewives; Labor & Laborers; Rhyme; Work; Workers PROMETHEA, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Before the february day / yellows the window-pane once more Last Line: His equal, who brought fire to earth! Subject(s): Housewives RIGHT NOW, by JANE ELLEN BARNES Poem Source First Line: You're out in a village in the berkshires Last Line: I lay two pillows alongside me in bed Subject(s): Housewives SICK-THOUGHTED VENUS SOLILOQUIZES, by L. J. STANTON Poem Text First Line: To think / the churl should prove to be Last Line: To think! Subject(s): Housewives SUBURBAN WIFE'S SONG, by ROBERT HUTCHINSON Poem Source First Line: When you are gone, I lie upon your bed Last Line: And do not know how far away you are Subject(s): Housewives; Suburbs SUNLIT SUDS, by MARGARET WHEELER ROSS Poem Text First Line: I do not see the homely kitchen sink Last Line: Catch rainbow visions in the sunlit suds. Subject(s): Housewives THE FARMER'S BRIDE, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three summers since I chose a maid Last Line: The brown of her -- her eyes, her hair, her hair! Subject(s): Farm Life; Housewives; Love; Marriage; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HOUSEWIFE, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the house to hold me - cradle of all the race Last Line: I cover the earth with my children-each with a housewife's brain. Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Housewives THE HOUSEWIFE; ADDRESSED TO LYSANDER, by ELIZABETH MOODY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou that with deciding voice oft sways Last Line: When woman's knowledge own'd its boundary here! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenly, Elizabeth Subject(s): Housewives; Mythology; Women THE MOTHER AT HOME, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A voice deep and solemn is sounding abroad! Last Line: Best help, truest cure, from the mother at home. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): England; Housewives; Mothers; Women; English THE OWL AND THE NIGHTINGALE, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To know the mistress' humour right Last Line: An owl is scorn'd alike by both.' Subject(s): Birds; Fables; Housewives; Nightingales; Owls; Women; Allegories THE WIFE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her washing ended with the day Last Line: And went to making pies. Subject(s): Housewives THE WOMAN AT HOME, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Please note this little fact, I beg: it is the Last Line: Softly smiles, for she's content with a reflected glory. Subject(s): Housewives; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE YOUNG HOUSEWIFE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: At ten a.M. The young housewife Last Line: Dried leaves as I bow and pass smiling. Subject(s): Housewives TO A SHRED OF LINEN, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would they swept cleaner! Last Line: Thine apotheosis immortalise. Subject(s): Housewives; Linen; Youth TO ANOTHER HOUSEWIFE, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember how we went Last Line: With knife and fork in either hand Subject(s): Housewives WASHING-DAY, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The muses are turned gossips; they have lost Last Line: And verse is one of them -- this most of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering; Hot-air Balloons; Housewives; Laundry & Laundering; Montgolfier, Jacques Etienne (1745-1799); Montgolfier, Joseph Michael (1740-1810); Poetry & Poets WASHING-DAY, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The muses are turned gossips; they have lost Last Line: And verse is one of them -- this most of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Hot-air Balloons; Housewives; Laundry & Laundering; Montgolfier, Jacques Etienne (1745-1799); Montgolfier, Joseph Michael (1740-1810); Poetry & Poets WHEN I WAS A HOUSEWIFE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me a second to get caught up with fashion Last Line: Afternoons fly like a saturday Subject(s): Housewives WIFERY, by SUZANNE MATSON Poem Source First Line: After the gentle click of the latch behind him Last Line: Glistening in their nudity, filling the simmering %pot to its fragrant hissing lip Subject(s): Housewives WOMAN, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is an element of power Last Line: A careful mother, virtuous wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Children; Housewives; Marriage; Mothers; Parents; Women; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood |
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