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First Line: Only a baby's rattle
Last Line: Of such is the kingdom of heaven
Subject(s): Babies;toys; Infants


A DIVERTED TRAGEDY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gracie wuz allus a careless tot
Last Line: "an' cried, ""my child! My precious child!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Tears; Toys; Childhood


A GIRL PLAYING IN A SANDBOX, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She drops the plastic soldiers, the trucks
Subject(s): Girls; Toys


A HORRIBLE EXAMPLE, by OLIVER MARBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a man who put on airs
Last Line: Because they were too ladified.
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Dolls; Friends, Religious Society Of; Men; Prayer; Toys; Quakers


A MORTIFYING MISTAKE, by ANNA MARIA PRATT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: I studied my tables over and over, and backward and forward, too
Last Line: "answered, ""mary ann!"
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Errors; Mathematics; Toys; Childhood; Mistakes; Fallacies


A MOTHER'S HOPES, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes my mother confesses
Last Line: The things they will do when they grow.
Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Dolls; Mothers; Sewing; Toys; Childhood


A NURSERY RHYME, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "hushy baby, my doll, I pray you don't cry"
Last Line: "then to either your welcome, with my whole heart"
Subject(s): Dolls;toys


A ROMAN DOLL, by AGNES LEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How an image of paint and wood
Last Line: But I keep her kiss forevermore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dolls; Mothers; Toys


A SWEET-EYED CHILD, by AGNES LEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sweet - eyed child
Last Line: "was I your doll?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs.
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Girls; Mothers; Toys; Childhood


AN OLD DOLL, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Low on her little stool she sits
Last Line: Beyond the claims of kings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dolls; Mothers; Toys


ANTHROPOLOGY, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love my ordernery dolls the best
Last Line: To make 'em all americans like me.
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys; Childhood


BARBIE DOLL, by LAUREL SPEER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Verfluchte juden!
Last Line: Let them figure it out. I've forgotten
Subject(s): Barbie, Klaus (1913-1991); Dolls; Toys


BUCOLIC COMEDY: THE DOLL, by EDITH SITWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If cold grew visible again
Last Line: Play with my doll, though I'm in bed!
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


BURNING THE DOLLS, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That last night, unable to sleep
Last Line: I burned and burned and burned.
Subject(s): Dolls; Fire; Grief; Loss; Toys; Sorrow; Sadness


CHILD MARGARET, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The child margaret begins to write numbers on a saturday morning
Last Line: Millions of rag dolls, millions and millions of new rag dolls!!)
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys; Childhood


CHILD-PLAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As children play with toys
Last Line: Realities that choke them here.
Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Tears; Toys; Childhood; Nightmares


COMPRESSION, by MARTHA LARSON O'CONNOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Paper doll folds herself over head to toe
Last Line: Or the broom to sweep up, away %disappearing her forever
Subject(s): Dolls; Paper; Toys


DOLL, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sits upright in an ancient chest
Last Line: A toothless angel who doesn't know better
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys


DOLL HOUSE, by FRANCESCA ABBATE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I thought growing up meant I could live there
Last Line: Static. Little waves of leaf-echo, moth
Subject(s): Dollhouses; Houses; Memory; Toys


DOLL POEMS: 1. THE PICTURE, by WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is her picture -- dolladine
Last Line: What a beautiful buttoned-up mouth to kiss
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Matthew; Holbeach, Henry
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


DOLL POEMS: 2. THE LOVE STORY, by WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the doll with respect to whom
Last Line: I don't believe you will find him out
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Matthew; Holbeach, Henry
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


DOLL POEMS: 3. DRESSING THE DOLL, by WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the way we dress the doll
Last Line: If you had not seen, could you guess the doll?
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Matthew; Holbeach, Henry
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


DOLL SHOP ON RODEO DRIVE, by VIRGINIA WEBB JULAVITS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dylan thomas, the bulbous
Subject(s): Beverly Hills, California; Dolls; Retail Trade; Toys


DOLL'S CRADLE-SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "sleep, dolly, sleep"
Last Line: "sleep, my dolly, sleep!"
Subject(s): Dolls;toys


DOLL'S LULLABY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, you're so sleepy, dollie dear
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


DOLL'S WOOING, by EUGENE FIELD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The little french doll was a dear little doll
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Love; Toys


DOLLADINE, by WILLIAM BRIGHTY RANDS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Matthew; Holbeach, Henry
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


DOLLIE, by SAMUEL MINTURN PECK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She sports a witching gown
Last Line: Little rose!
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys; Youth


DOLLS, by DIANN BLAKELY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Those lolling china heads and rag-stuffed arms
Last Line: Still I undressed, a girl with other charms
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


DOLLS, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Betty has dolls that can almost talk
Last Line: And half of the sawdust out!
Subject(s): Dolls; Girls; Play; Toys


DOLLS, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night after night forever the dolls lay stiff
Last Line: Their eyes wide open forever, while all the children slept
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


DOLLS, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thought of eve, within me, is a doll
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


DOLLS, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thought of eve, within me, is a doll
Last Line: And of another, whom I must not name
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


DOLLS MUSEUM IN DUBLIN, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wounds are terrible. The paint is old
Last Line: With a terrible stare. But not feel it. And not know it
Subject(s): Dolls; Dublin, Ireland; Museums; Toys


DOLLY'S LULLABY, by JULIANA HORATIA GATTY EWING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hush-a-by, baby! Your baby, mamma
Last Line: Hush-a-by, dolly, of babies the best!
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


DOLLY'S LULLABY, by MARIANNA GRISWOLD VAN RENSSELAER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Sing, I must sing to my dear dolly, sing
Last Line: But I never can tell her of everything!
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Schuyler
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


ESSENCE, by DOROTHY BURNHAM EATON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why do little boys' pockets
Last Line: Are dusty with golden sand.
Subject(s): Toys


FICKLE, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: New dolly, you are very sweet!
Last Line: I re'lize, now, that she was plain.
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys; Childhood


FINGER PUPPETS IN THE ATTIC DOLLHOUSE, by JOHN REIBETANZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: If they, more petite
Last Line: Unraveling years %the tissue of apocalypse?
Subject(s): Dolls; Puppets; Toys


GIRL PLAYING IN A SANDBOX, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She drops the plastic soldiers, the trucks
Last Line: They are, for her alone, at her lightest touch
Subject(s): Girls; Toys


GLIMPSES OF CHILDHOOD: 3. THE DOLLS' HOSPITAL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a little old building, up under the roof
Last Line: But the mending of legs and arms!
Subject(s): Children; Dancing & Dancers; Dolls; Grief; Hospitals; Life; Toys; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness


GUATEMALAN WORRY DOLLS, by JAMES REISS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The handcrafted dolls %my friend gave guests at her wedding
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys; Worry


HAIKU, by PATRICIA NEUBAUER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Toy shop window
Last Line: At the doll house door
Subject(s): Dollhouses; Toys


IRONING DAY, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't see why the grown-ups care
Last Line: To wash and iron every day.
Subject(s): Children; Cleanliness; Dolls; Girls; Play; Toys; Childhood


KITE-TIME, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night me an' my brother made a kite
Last Line: A-hangin' in that elm tree down the street.
Subject(s): Children; Kites; Play; Toys; Childhood


LEAD SOLDIERS, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The nursery fire burns brightly
Subject(s): Toys; Soldiers


LIBERATION BARBIE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm visiting barbie again today
Last Line: Pretty soon, you'll just buy boxes of barbie hair %with no barbie at all
Subject(s): Beauty; Dolls; Girls; Toys


LULLABY, by LOUIS C. ELSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dollie, the night has come
Last Line: Good-night, good-night.
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


MEHITABLE ANN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love mehitable ann!
Last Line: Just loves mehitable ann!
Subject(s): Dolls; Girls; Toys


MENDING DAY, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How quickly children's clothes will rip and tear!
Last Line: Whose clothes are only painted on their skin.
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Play; Toys; Childhood


MUNECA, by GAIL WRONSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Doll and wrist %first limp, then preciosa
Last Line: Manipulate a pretty %spanish bit
Subject(s): Beauty; Dolls; Man-woman Relationships; Toys; Women


NEGLIGENT MARY, by ISAAC TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah, mary! What, do you for dolly not care?
Last Line: And of far more importance than she.
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


NOCTURNAL TOY PEDDLER, by ROBERT THOMAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes you hear him in the distance, the tin bells of his cart
Last Line: Your own father? Enough of this craft. Take me home
Subject(s): Night; Peddlers And Peddling; Toys


OF THIS CLOTH DOLL WHICH (SARAH'S FOURTH), by MICHAEL PALMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of this cloth doll which
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


OF THIS CLOTH DOLL WHICH (SARAH'S FOURTH), by MICHAEL PALMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of this cloth doll which
Last Line: To out of the whale's mouth
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


OZARK ODES: GIRLHOOD, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother had one. She and bernice racing for the river
Last Line: To hear what their paperdolls were fixing to say
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D.
Subject(s): Dolls; Play; Toys; Youth


PARENTAL CHRISTMAS PRESENTS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Parunts don't git toys an' things
Last Line: She know he ever saw!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Parents; Toys; Parenthood


PERLA AT THE MEXICAN BORDER ASSEMBLY LINE OF DOLLS, by RIGOBERTO GONZALEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her job was to sort through the eyes
Last Line: Threatening to thrust back the fury of its nail
Subject(s): Dolls; Mexican Border; Toys


PIRATE DOLL, by MERRY WIGGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come, tattered little pirate doll
Last Line: For always while I live I shall remember.
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


PLASTIC BEATITUDE, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our neighbors, the pazzotis, live in a long
Last Line: To their last temptation.
Subject(s): Blessings; Electricity; Extermination & Exterminators; Family Life; Insects; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Neighbors; Toys; Women In The Bible; Relatives; Bugs; Virgin Mary


POEM, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A mule kicked out in the trees. An early
Last Line: And drove some more — unable to sleep in missouri.
Subject(s): Dolls; Funerals; Girls; Grief; Missouri; Toys; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness


PRAYERS, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When it is bedtime, every day
Last Line: There is so little that they need.
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Play; Toys; Childhood


PROBABLE PERMANENCE OF TOYS, by GARY FINCKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The government is looking for landfills
Last Line: Until it tumbles my house to fill it
Subject(s): Life; Politics; Toys


PUMPKIN RIND DOLLS, by JANET KIMPSTON HERZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Make me a doll from a pumpkin rind
Last Line: The dolls you made from a pumpkin rind.
Subject(s): Dolls; Girls; Pumpkins; Toys


PUTTING DOLLY TO BED, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A mother has so many cares
Last Line: And rock our babes to sleep.
Subject(s): Babies; Children; Dolls; Mothers; Toys; Infants; Childhood


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


SENRYU (85), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A doll as well
Last Line: In the newly-weds' house
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


SEX TOYS, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lined up like toy soldiers
Last Line: Raise temples beneath reason & skin
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr.
Subject(s): Sex; Toys


SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 106, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a poll parrot
Last Line: Trembled for the doll.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


SPINNERS, by OVIE PEDIGO TANNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Spider - spinning up and down
Last Line: When he weathered ocean gales.
Subject(s): Children; Tops (toys); Childhood


SPINNING TOPS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All day, all day, the village lads are out
Last Line: Day-long, week-long, they spin their tops together.
Subject(s): Children; Tops (toys); Childhood


SUSIE, KIKI, ANNIE: 2, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The situation is an image of her gathering a toy horse from
Last Line: The horse takes a small jump in the air, and her head and shoulders arch back
Subject(s): Animals; Girls; Horses; Toys


SUSIE, KIKI, ANNIE: 2, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The situation is an image of her gathering a toy horse from
Last Line: The horse takes a small jump in the air, and her head and %shoulders arch back
Subject(s): Animals; Girls; Horses; Toys


THAUMATROPE, by WYATT PRUNTY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And sometimes there's this parlor trick
Subject(s): Toys


THE BECKETT KIT, by LINDA GREGG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I finally found a way of using the tree
Last Line: How can you go on saying you’re happy?
Subject(s): Toys; Happiness; Social Commentaries


THE BOY SHEPHERD'S SMILE, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wind rose cold under our robes, and straw blew loose
Last Line: For this we shivered in adoration. We bore the cold.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Dolls; Imagination; Toys; Childhood; Nativity, The; Fancy


THE DEAD DOLL, by MARGARET THOMPSON JANVIER    Poem Text                    
First Line: You needn't be trying to comfort me - I tell you my dolly is dead!
Last Line: "in her head."
Alternate Author Name(s): Vandergrift, Margaret
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys; Childhood


THE DOLL, by AGNES LEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's something strange about the child tonight
Last Line: When she comes looking, and it isn't here!
Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dolls; Family Life; Poverty; Toys; Relatives


THE DOLL, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I carry you in a glass jar
Last Line: Dead child.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Dolls; Toys; Death - Babies


THE DOLL BELIEVERS, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This lifeless construction
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Parents; Toys; Childhood; Parenthood


THE DOLLS, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night after night forever the dolls lay stiff
Subject(s): Dolls; Dolls; Toys


THE DOLLS, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whenever you dress me dolls, mammy
Last Line: But one I love too well.'
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


THE DOLLS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: A doll in the doll-maker's house
Last Line: It was an accident.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


THE DOLLS MUSEUM IN DUBLIN, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wounds are terrible. The paint is old
Last Line: With a terrible stare. But not feel it. And not know it
Subject(s): Dolls; Dublin, Ireland; Museums; Toys; Art Gallerys


THE LITTLE GIRL TO HER DADDY, by JANE TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There, go to sleep, dolly, in your own mother's lap
Last Line: For I think it's high time to have done with bye bye.
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


THE LONELY BABY, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whose dolly is you?
Last Line: Whose dolly is you?
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys; Childhood


THE NEW TOY, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She cannot leave it alone
Last Line: May so be inclined to believe.
Subject(s): Toys


THE PLAYBOX; TO THE TRINKET, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The toys of a tutankhamen
Last Line: For luxor had nothing like these.
Subject(s): Dollhouses; Toys


THE SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR: DECEMBER, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Glad christmas comes, and every hearth
Last Line: "to drink the christmas eve's ""good bye."
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Gifts; December; Toys; Nativity, The


THE TOY OF THE GIANT'S CHILD, by ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Burg niedeck is a mountain in alsace, high and strong
Last Line: "the peasant is no plaything, child, — no, — god forbid he were!"
Subject(s): Children; Toys; Childhood


THE TOY PENNY-DOG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ma put my penny-dog
Last Line: Little girl no more!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Toys


THE TOY SOLDIER'S VALENTINE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was valentine day and the toy folk were gay
Last Line: Ran away with each other. I'm glad, are n't you?
Subject(s): Holidays; Soldiers; Toys; Valentine's Day


THE TOY SOLDIERS, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep on, little boy, and sleep secure
Last Line: Sleep, then, for we all keep guard.
Subject(s): Boys; Children; Play; Toys; Childhood


THE TOY-BALLOON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They wuz a big day wunst in town
Last Line: "columby, happy land!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Balloons; Toys


THE TOY-MAKER, by JAMES BRANCH CABELL                        Poet's Biography
First Line: From the dawn of the day to the dusk he toiled
Subject(s): Toys


THE TOY-STREWN HOUSE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me the house where the toys are strewn
Last Line: When he rests where a baby plays.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Toys


THE TOYS, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The crippled lady will forgive the boy
Subject(s): Pain; Toys; Suffering; Misery


THE TOYS' COMPLAINT, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: We sheltered women, love-enwrapt
Last Line: This burden is too great to bear.
Subject(s): Toys


THE WATER-BABIES: SONG. MY LITTLE DOLL, by CHARLES KINGSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I once had a sweet little doll, dears
Last Line: The prettiest doll in the world.
Variant Title(s): My Childhood's Love;the Lost Doll;song Of Madam-do-as-you Would-be
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


THE WOODEN DOLL AND THE WAX DOLL, by ADELAIDE O'KEEFFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There were two friends, a very charming pair!
Last Line: And wronged brunette she clasp'd within her arms.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'keefe, Adelaide
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


THE WOODEN TOY, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The brightly-painted horse
Subject(s): Toys; Childhood Memories


THOSE ALTERNATE SUNDAYS, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When my daughter's tugged %home-diminishing yellow skull
Last Line: Breath, willing my daughter to return %to murmur her secret name
Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Dolls; Toys


THOSE WILFUL TOYS, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My house is quite full of such curious things
Last Line: But they think that the toys are quite sure to obey.
Subject(s): Children; Toys; Childhood


THRESHING TIME, by NEIL MEILI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember at crhistmas getting a great toy threshing machine
Last Line: And the old hands laughed, and the new hands laughed %and they were men together
Subject(s): Ranch Life; Toys


TO LADY ANNE FITZPATRICK, WHEN ABOUT FIVE YEARS OLD, by HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O nymph, compar'd with whose young bloom / hebe's herself an ancient fright
Last Line: —and some years hence he'll send the rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Orford, 4th Earl Of
Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sea; Shells; Toys; Youth; Childhood; Ocean; Conchology


TO W. S. - ON HIS WONDERFUL TOYS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Lend me your precious toys
Last Line: To keep his childhood till he dies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Children; Toys; Childhood


TOP-TIME, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wisht I knew what makes the top-time come
Last Line: Each time I spin 'er on the kitchen floor.
Subject(s): Children; Play; Toys; Childhood


TOY DAY, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not dreams, not fairy tales, but deeds
Last Line: Of what shall be the paradise.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Toys; Childhood; Nativity, The


TOY FACTORY, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother works here
Subject(s): Toys; World War Ii; Second World War


TOY FACTORY, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother works [or, is] here
Last Line: Their spades are heavy, %their spades are much too heavy. %perhaps that's how %it's supposed to be?
Subject(s): Toys; World War Ii


TOYLAND, by PAMELA GEMIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Midnight exactly my momma snores
Last Line: This is toyland. I'm belinda. I'm the babe
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Girls; Toys


TOYMAKER GLOOMY BUT THEN AGAIN SOMETIMES HAPPY, by MICHAEL BENEDIKT    Poem Source                    
First Line: (1) how can a person practically drowning in the seas of circumstance
Last Line: Which, every now & then, sometimes even dances
Subject(s): Children; Creative Ability; Factories; Toys


TOYS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I can pass up the lure of a jewel to wear
Last Line: When I'm left in a toy shop alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Toys


TOYS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have laid you away as we lay
Last Line: With the toys of a little dead child.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Toys; Death - Babies


TOYS AND LIFE, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You can learn a lot from boys
Last Line: Keeping it as good as new.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Toys


TWO PEOPLE, by PRISCILLA LEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandma gave me lulu when I was five
Last Line: One of us has to carry the other
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys


UPON A DYING LADY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With the old kindness, the old distinguished grace
Last Line: It is about to die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Courage; Death; Dolls; Toys; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The


UPSTAIRS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I too have a garret of old playthings
Last Line: I too have a garret of old playthings.
Subject(s): Attics; Toys


VISIBLE WOMAN, by HEID E. ERDRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Was her name -- %that plastic model of anatomy
Last Line: Thumb-pinkie-index-fore meld to raise you like wings
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Toys; Women


WHAT MAKES ME INVISIBLE, by JENNIFER M. PIERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sit on the hard chair at the mayflower coffee shop, my feet dangling
Last Line: A madame alexandre doll,' my fifth
Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Mothers And Daughters; Single Parents; Toys


WHAT SHALL I BUY?, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have a penny
Last Line: Now what shall I buy?
Subject(s): Money;toys


WITH SISTER'S DOLLS, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dolls are silly things to play with
Last Line: If you never say your prayers?
Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Dolls; Toys


WORD POWER, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: First doll, I rocked her blue-eyed blink in my lap
Last Line: "I proclaimed, ""dirty."
Subject(s): Dolls; Language; Names; Toys; Words; Vocabulary


WORK WANTED, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'd like to work for santa claus
Last Line: Jim.
Subject(s): Christmas; Christmas Gifts; December; Santa Claus; Toys; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


YO-YO, by ANTONIO VALLONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The day I quit
Last Line: The backward way %most people do
Subject(s): Smoking; Yo-yos (toys)