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A Jamaican Schoolboy’s Memory of Elizabeth the Queen Karl Constantine FOLKES	My father, a policeman with some rank, In starched white uniform, quite swank, His bayonet and sword in shield, Their symbol not at...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Castaway Augusta Davies Webster	washed and starched and freshened with new bows, and take tea out to meet the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Hundred Collars Robert Lee Frost	in the light, Fumbling the buttons in a well-starched shirt. "I'm moving into a size-larger shirt. I've felt mean lately; mean's no name for it. I just...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Another Visit to Bob Johnson’s Department Store Sandra Nelms-Ludwig	An Argo laundry starched, and pressed church dress covered a candy cane...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Arranged Marriage Hina Qidwai	Stiff old aunts stiff in starched saris, crusty vermilion in their hair as flaking proof of marriages that...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ballad of the Moon Federico García Lorca	"Let me be, my little one, don't step on me, all starched and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Batting Prodigy Nikhil Parekh	pads, gloves, starched white flannels, crash helmet the only make up, along with spiked shoes, flexible wrist...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Definitions Nikhil Parekh	with curry of white starched curd, with fine sprinkle of pungent mustard powder, beaten to jelly with wooden...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Forsaking All Others Part 5 Alice Duer Miller	That older angel of dark despair Stiff starched angels, a trifle curt Trained nurses, trained nurses...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Free Of Doubt Kurt Philip Behm	Your collar goes on, white starched and unblessed Your sermon made ready, for those still to behest And what might you...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Haiku (16-20) James Kirkpatrick	the monarched milkweeds sleeps in starched cotton 19 dirt-borne seedlings yearn sunward, some day to become ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Jewels of Vermont Lee A Szydlowski	Fields of linen freshly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Memento Kai Johnson	I am the starched and folded, uncataloged...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Negress In Notre Dame Robert William Service	And then a starched and snotty dame Who sat the other side of me Said: "Monsieur, is it not a shame Such things...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
On Mistress Nicely, a Pattern for Housekeepers Thomas Hood	, grass-bleached in her fame; And pure and clear-starched in her conversation; Thence in my Castle of Imagination She dwells for evermore, the dainty...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Peasant Wedding William Carlos Williams	present women in their starched headgear are gabbing all but the bride hands folded in her lap is awkwardly silent...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Speculum Tuscanismi Gabriel Harvey	French camarick ruffs, deep with a whiteness starched to the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Ballad Of William Sycamore Stephen Vincent Benet	And some remember a white, starched lap And a ewer with silver handles; But I remember a coonskin cap And the smell of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
THE GESTAPO Phil Roberts	Wearing starched white uniforms The Gestapo haunts this...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Story of the Dreadful Griffin. (Prose) Michael Fairless	and had their tails crimped and their whiskers starched; and they danced at the wedding, and everybody lived happily ever...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Wedding Dance In The Open Air William Carlos Williams	by the women in their starched white headgear they prance or go openly toward the wood's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Things Possessed Lawrence S. Pertillar	Worn over a starched shirt with a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Victory Henry Lawson	Oh, starched white frocks and sashes and suits that high schools wear, The boy scout and the boy lout and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)