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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHARMAID, by MAUDE SMITH DELAVAN First Line: Silver slippers beckon me Last Line: To tread, in silver slippers. Subject(s): Household Employees; Servants; Domestics; Maids | |||
Silver slippers beckon me Offering to climb the stair, To forbidden everywhere. Silver slippers? Ecstasy! Fairyland for one like me! In my clumsy rubber pair, Made with zippers, I scrub down the golden stair, That other maids may find it fair, To tread, in silver slippers. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IBIS; FOR LORI GOLDENSOHN by NORMAN DUBIE PLAINT OF THE POET IN AN IGNORANT AGE by CAROLYN KIZER LEDA'S HANDMAIDEN by ELEANOR WILNER THE HOUSEKEEPER by ROBERT FROST THE REVEALER by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON TO MY EXCELLENT LUCASIA, ON OUR FRIENDSHIP. 17TH JULY 1651 by KATHERINE PHILIPS LILIES: 4. BLOSSOMS ABOVE A TOMB by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |
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