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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BOOKSTORES Matches Found: 8 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 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 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 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 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 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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