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Subject: AGENTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BLOODY MURDER, by DAVID RYTMAN SLAVITT    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beauty and truth may dally together
Last Line: This is my body, this is my blood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, Henry Benjamin; Slavitt, David R.
Subject(s): Cleansing Agents; Murder; Detergents; Soap; Cleansing Compounds; Disinfection And Disinfectants


DOCUMENT, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wait in the house for the arrival of an important person. I pace
Last Line: It's worthless. You're on your own. You always were
Subject(s): Insurance And Insurance Agents; Paper


DUTCH CLEANSER, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandmother used it, dutch cleanser
Last Line: The hour hand pushes around
Subject(s): Cleansing Agents; Detergents; Soap; Cleansing Compounds; Disinfection And Disinfectants


DUTCH CLEANSER, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My grandmother used it, dutch cleanser
Last Line: Around the can, like a minute hand %the hour hand pushes around
Subject(s): Cleansing Agents


HOW A CAKE OF SOAP SAVED MADAGASCAR, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, in heathen madagascar, to the missionary band
Last Line: And honor, not the least of all, to that fine cake of soap!
Subject(s): Cleansing Agents; Madagascar; Missions & Missionaries; Detergents; Soap; Cleansing Compounds; Disinfection And Disinfectants


IN THE BLACK CAMARO, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the orange glow of taillights, I crossed
Last Line: A truck in a thicket a half-mile downstream.
Subject(s): Conspiracy; Insurance & Insurance Agents; Popular Culture - United States; Worry


INSURANCE, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When you insure your life it's a bet for your heirs, which you win by
Last Line: Ity, in its own time. A bet in the dark, the beneficiaries always in doubt
Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen
Subject(s): Insurance And Insurance Agents; Life


INSURED, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I come home at close of day
Last Line: If I some night should not come home.
Subject(s): Family Life; Insurance And Insurance Agents; Relatives


MRS. SMALL, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mrs. Small went to the kitchen for her pocketbook
Last Line: Of the world's business
Subject(s): Women's Rights; African Americans – Women; Insurance & Insurance Agents


PUBLICITY MEN, by BOYCE HOUSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Does the skylark sing as gloriously as shelley says?
Last Line: And, by the way, he did a swell job, too.
Subject(s): Publicity; Public Relations; Press Agents


RIDDLE (2), by JANE AUSTEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Divided, I'm a gentleman
Last Line: That gentleman devours
Subject(s): Agents; Language; Riddles


SOAP, by M. R. PEACOCKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lady, this alabaster ... %having in the course of my travels (peregrinations?)
Last Line: If in the common parlance %your ladyship's most (etc.) %soap, madam. Soap
Subject(s): Cleansing Agents


SOAP SUDS, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: This brand of soap has the same smell as once in the big
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Cleansing Agents; Holidays; New Year; Detergents; Soap; Cleansing Compounds; Disinfection And Disinfectants


SOAP SUDS, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This brand of soap has the same smell as once in the big
Last Line: Under the running tap that are not the hands of a child
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Cleansing Agents; Holidays; New Year


SOAP, THE OPPRESSOR, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The folks at my house half the time are thinkin' about dirt
Last Line: An' no one could complain about the parts of me that show.
Subject(s): Children; Cleanliness; Cleansing Agents; Childhood; Detergents; Soap; Cleansing Compounds; Disinfection And Disinfectants


SOAP-BUBBLES, by HERBERT MULLER HOPKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: As a little child at play
Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Cleansing Agents


SUDS, by LULU MINERVA SCHULTZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: O would you dream of poems in a wash-tub
Last Line: Portraits clean cut, her swinging line of clothes.
Subject(s): Cleansing Agents; Dreams; Laundry & Laundering; Poetry & Poets; Detergents; Soap; Cleansing Compounds; Disinfection And Disinfectants; Nightmares


THERE IS NOTHING IN VAIN: A THOUGHT, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a mission, no doubt, for the mole in the dust
Last Line: And the agents are needed, for god has supplied.
Subject(s): Agents; Missionaries & Missions; Pride; Thought; Trust; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Thinking


TO WORKMAN'S COMP, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: When asked for last words before the noose
Last Line: Of how much my tail is worth
Subject(s): Accidents; Business; Insurance And Insurance Agents; Labor And Laborers; Poetry And Poets


WASHING DISHES, by MARCENE STOOPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like a pool of sunny sea
Last Line: Dishes old and dishes new.
Subject(s): Cleansing Agents; Washing Machines; Detergents; Soap; Cleansing Compounds; Disinfection And Disinfectants