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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MAIDS Matches Found: 119 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 SPINSTER, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Why have you come, o love, so near Last Line: Whenever did you come to stay? Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Single People; Spinsters; Bachelors; Unmarried People; Old Maids A SPINSTER'S STINT, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Six skeins and three, six skeins and three! Last Line: And stop the bands, and stop the bands! Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Spinsters; Old 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 ADVICE TO SOPHRONIA, by MARY LEAPOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When youth and charms have taken their wanton flight Last Line: And bear her safely to her virgin grave. Subject(s): Aging; Spinsters; Old Maids 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 AN OLD MAID, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: Gray hair softly, smoothly parting Last Line: Love to read. Subject(s): Spinsters; Old 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 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 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 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 DOROTHY IN THE GARRET, by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the low-raftered garret, stooping Last Line: And lifelong sorrow a breath on the pane. Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Spinsters; Sorrow; Sadness; Old Maids 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 ELLEN MASON AND HER ELEVEN CATS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old ella mason keeps cats, eleven at last count Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Cats; Spinsters; Old Maids EMILY HARDCASTLE, SPINSTER, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We shall come tomorrow morning, who were not to have her love Last Line: Where the foreigner may take her for his gloomy halidom Subject(s): Spinsters; Old 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 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 HARK, HARK! O'ER THE PLAINS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, hark! O'er the plains how the merry bells Last Line: O then let me die an old maid. Subject(s): Marriage; Spinsters; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Old 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 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 JENNY DUNLEATH, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jenny dunleath coming back to the town? Last Line: Despised of the world's favored women -- and wait. Subject(s): Homecoming; Spinsters; Old 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 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 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 LULLABY FOR A TIRED LADY, by ROBERT LEOPOLD WOLF Poem Text First Line: Is there any need so deep Last Line: Distant, sober, uniform. Subject(s): Sleep; Spinsters; Old 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 MEZZO CAMMIN, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half of my life is gone, and I have let Last Line: The cataract of death far thundering from the heights. Subject(s): Middle Age; Spinsters; Old Maids 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 MY AUNT, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My aunt! My dear unmarried aunt! / long years have over her flown Last Line: On my ancestral tree. Subject(s): Aunts; Spinsters; Old Maids MY MOTHER'S SISTER, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see her against the pearl sky of dublin Last Line: How can gthis be justified? How can it / be justified? Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Aunts; Spinsters; Old 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 OLD MAID'S REVERIE, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: I'm tired of mirthless mirrors and their hostile heresies Last Line: As one who missed the rubrics in the litanies of youth. Subject(s): Spinsters; Old 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 PASSPORT BLUES, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a virgin Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids PEARL, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem 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 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 POOR MARGARET, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We always called her 'poor margaret' Last Line: She is rich in her father's house at last. Subject(s): Heaven; Spinsters; Paradise; Old Maids 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 SOLILOQUY OF A MAIDEN AUNT, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ladies bow, and partners set Last Line: Than when I wore it. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Aunts; Dancing & Dancers; Spinsters; Old Maids SOME FOREIGN LETTERS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew you forever and you were always old Subject(s): God; Religion; Spinsters; Theology; Old Maids SONG, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, my caelia, why so coy Last Line: Nor know a second spring. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Spinsters; Youth; Male-female Relations; Old Maids SONG OF A SPINSTER, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah me, life is so short Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Mortality; Spinsters; Old 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 SPINSTER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now this particular girl Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Spinsters; Old 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 HARVEST-SUPPER (CIRCA 1850), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nell and the other maids danced their best Last Line: "mourned nell; ""and never wed!" Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Spinsters; Old Maids 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 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 LADY DOCTOR, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Saw ye that spinster gaunt and grey Last Line: Disconsolate and lonely. Subject(s): Physicians; Spinsters; Women; Doctors; Old 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 MAID, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: She gave her life to love. She never knew Last Line: She loves him now her hair is growing gray. Subject(s): Love; Spinsters; Old Maids THE OLD MAID, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw her in a broadway car Last Line: The woman I shall never be. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Spinsters; Old 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 ORPHANED OLD MAID, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to marry, but father said, 'no Last Line: And nobody flings me a thought or a care. Subject(s): Spinsters; Old 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 SPINSTER, by CLARISSA BUCKLIN Poem Text First Line: ...Afraid?... Why, no...But Last Line: And the first-star pierces the west. Subject(s): Fear; Spinsters; Old Maids THE SPINSTER'S SWEET-ARTS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Milk for my sweet-arts, bess! Fur it mun be the time about now Last Line: Till robby an' steevie 'es 'ed their lap -- an' it sarves ye right. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Spinsters; Old Maids 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 A PRODIGAL OLD MAID, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing now no hymn nor chant a dirge Last Line: To have come a springtime since. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Spinsters; Old 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 TWO HEADMISTRESSES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Miss buss and miss beale / cupid's darts do not feel Last Line: How different from us / are miss beale and miss buss Subject(s): Schools;spinsters; Students;old Maids UPON HIMSELF (2), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could [co'd] never love indeed Last Line: Neither broke I'th whole, or part. Subject(s): Self; Spinsters; Women; Old 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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