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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BOOKSELLERS Matches Found: 21 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BOOKSTORE, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ask the clerk to show me children's books. I say Last Line: To her shoulders, and the names of the missing are clear Subject(s): Booksellers; Bookstores BOOKSTORE, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ask the clerk to show me children's books. I say Last Line: To her shoulders, and the names of the missing are clear Subject(s): Booksellers BOOKSTORE, by BRENDA LYNN HILLMAN Poem Source First Line: We were clerks in a shop at the edge of america Subject(s): Booksellers BOOKSTORE, by SYBIL KOLLAR Poem Source First Line: In the bookstore I walk quietly as if barefoot. There is the smell of dust Last Line: Of dead, painted birds Subject(s): Booksellers; Photography And Photographers; Picture Books DEMONSTRATION: WOMEN'S HOUSE OF DETENTION, 1965, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Blood-inked political leaflets pelted village streets Last Line: Women's house of d Subject(s): Booksellers; Exhibitions; History; Macdougal Street, New York City; Prisons And Prisoners; Revolutions; Tourists EPIGRAM: ON AUTHORS AND BOOKSELLERS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What authors lose, their booksellers have won Last Line: So pimps grow rich, while gallants are undone. Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Booksellers; Bookstores EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shut, shut the door, good john! Fatigued I said Last Line: Thus far was right, the rest belongs to heav'n. Variant Title(s): Prologue To The Satires Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735); Booksellers; Critics & Criticism; Gay, John (1685-1732); Hate; Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Writing & Writers; Bookstores; Doctors FOR MY SAKE, by ERIC PAUL SHAFFER Poem Source First Line: There was no line at the bookstore. At noon, I read Last Line: As words for these lines, but for my sake Subject(s): Booksellers; Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings FROM A LONDON BOOKSHOP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "holy scripture, writ divine" Last Line: Bibles sold as cheap as these Subject(s): Bible;booksellers;mnemonics; Bookstores IRISES, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Mike and sandy %this is just to say Last Line: Arced into my coffee cup Subject(s): Booksellers; Poetry And Poets MAN SELLING PENCILS OUTSIDE THE B. DALTON BOOKSTORE, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: I blink, but there he sits, unreal Last Line: Unless we speak, until we touch Subject(s): Blindness; Booksellers; Pity MY FIRST TIME IN NEW YORK CITY, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source Last Line: Into the sky %like a star ed their heads Subject(s): Booksellers; Central Park, New York City; Poetry And Poets; Travel OLD BOOKSELLER, by GILANI KAMRAN Poem Source First Line: Ranged in the trees Last Line: Where lies medinah, the bride of the cities? Subject(s): Booksellers; Muslims ON THE ROAD TO LARRY ROBIN'S BOOKSTORE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are many monsters -- the ashes of the members Last Line: 100 poets reading for robin's Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Booksellers; Language; Literature; Pornography; Bookstores; Words; Vocabulary OPENING UP, by GEORGE+(2) ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: Each morning, before the bells begin ringing, I unlock my classroom door Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Booksellers; Retail Trade POETIC VOICE, by REBECCA ANN SEIFERLE Poem Source First Line: Where is poetry for the people? Last Line: I speak for him, for you and you and you Subject(s): Booksellers; Poetry And Poets; Sandburg, Carl (1878-1967) RAPID TRANSIT (TO STEPHEN VINCENT BENET), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Climbing is easy and swift on parnassus! Last Line: My pipe was still warm in my hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Booksellers; Bookstores READING DICKENS, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not long after the war, my father Last Line: Saving the ending for tomorrow Subject(s): Books; Booksellers; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Librarians And Libraries; Poetry And Poets SALESMAN AND A LIBRARIAN, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mom smelled of books, even dad admitted Last Line: Their bristly mustaches; too tired to raise, %on brontosaurus necks, their plastic hammer-heads Subject(s): Books; Booksellers; Librarians And Libraries; Salespersons SKETCH - PORTRAIT OF CREECH THE BOOKSELLER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little, upright, pert, tart, tripping wight Last Line: Still making work his selfish craft must mend. Subject(s): Booksellers; Bookstores THE DOMESTIC PHILOSOPHER, by A LADY [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: Huge glaring maps the walls surround Last Line: "the model of a parish horse, / that all the parish ride" Alternate Author Name(s): A Lady Subject(s): Booksellers; Bookstores |
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