The Spinning-Wheel (Henry Baker Poems)
This comes to let you knowI'm well, thank God, and hope you're so:In Truth, I'm very much perplext,For something fine ...
Poems about spinning-wheel (18 Poems)
The Shepherd’s Week : Friday; or, The Dirge (John Gay Poems)
Bumkinet, GrubbinolBumkinet.Why, Grubbinol, dost thou so wistful seem?There's sorrow in thy look, if right I deem.'Tis true, yon oaks with ...
King Volmer and Elsie (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
After the Danish of Christian WinterWhere, over heathen doom-rings and gray stones of the Horg,In its little Christian city stands ...
Dorothy In The Garret (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
In the low-raftered garret, stooping Carefully over the creaking boards,Old Maid Dorothy goes a-groping Among its dusty and cobwebbed hoards;Seeking some bundle ...
Spinning in April (Josephine Preston Peabody Poems)
Moon in heaven's garden, among the clouds that wander, Crescent moon so young to see, above the April ways, Whiten, ...
The Spinner (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
As I calmly sat and span,Toiling with all zeal,Lo! a young and handsome manPass'd my spinning-wheel.And he praised,—what harm was ...
The Kalevala – Rune XV (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
LEMMINKAINEN'S RESTORATION.Lemminkainen's aged motherAnxious roams about the islands,Anxious wonders in her chambers,What the fate of Lemminkainen,Why her son so long ...
Ernest: The Rule Of Right – Book IV (Capel Lofft Poems)
BOOK IV.So did that youth choose Duty before Love:And so determination drove awayThe doubts that held him with ungainly checkWavering—for ...
The Gold-Spinner (Clara Doty Bates Poems)
"A miller had a daughter,And lovely, too, she was;Her step was light, her smile was bright,Her eyes were gray as ...
Kathleen’s Charity (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
God bless the work, said young Kathleen, She bent her golden head, And in her cheek that was so pale ...
A Looking-Glass For Ladies, Or A Mirrour For Married Women. Tune, Queen Dido, Or Troy Town (Anonymous British Poems)
When Greeks and Trojans fell at strife,And lords in armour bright were seen,When many a gallant lost his lifeUlysses, general ...
The Sale of Rebellious House-hold Stuff. To the tune of Old Simon the King (Anonymous British Poems)
Rebellion hath broken up house,And hath left me old lumber to sell;Come hither and take your choice,I'll promise to use ...
Huswifery (Edward Taylor Poems)
Make me, O Lord, Thy spinning-wheel complete.Thy holy word my distaff make for me.Make mine affections Thy swift flyers neatAnd ...
When You Are On The Sea (Dora Sigerson Shorter Poems)
How can I laugh or dance as others do, Or ply my rock or reel? My heart will still return ...
Beauty’s Song (Charles Lamb Poems)
What's Life still changing ev'ry hour?Tis all the seasons in a Day!The Smile, the Tear, the Sun, the Show'r"Tis now ...
THE SPINNER. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
As I calmly sat and span, Toiling with all zeal, Lo! a young and handsome man Pass'd my spinning-wheel. And ...
43. Song-O Leave Novels! (Robert Burns Poems)
O LEAVE novels, 1 ye Mauchline belles, Ye're safer at your spinning-wheel; Such witching books are baited hooks For rakish ...
Work And Contemplation (Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems)
The woman singeth at her spinning-wheel A pleasant chant, ballad or barcarole; She thinketh of her song, upon the whole, ...