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Subject: BUSINESSMEN
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A VERMONT CHICKEN BUYER, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When stronger grew november's cold
Last Line: With other chaps and chickens.
Subject(s): Business; Chickens; Holidays; Thanksgiving; Vermont; Businessmen; Businesswomen


ADOLPHUS BUSCH: AVE ATQUE VALE, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They brought his body to the shore
Last Line: Rose, spite that needle's eye, to god.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Beer; Busch, Adolphus (1839-1913); Business; Drinks & Drinking; Ale; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Wine


BUSINESS, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no money in breathing
Last Line: "breathing doesn’t give enough
Subject(s): Business; Debt; Businessmen; Businesswomen


BUSINESS MEN, by CH'EN TZU-ANG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Business men boast of their skill and cunning
Last Line: On the chariot of mutation entered the gate of immutability?
Alternate Author Name(s): Po-yu
Subject(s): Business; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Businessmen; Businesswomen


DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON TO THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER SR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis strange indeed to hear us plead
Last Line: When money clinks its story.
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Business; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915); Black Heritage; Businessmen; Businesswomen


ELBEE NOVELTY COMPANY INC., by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For I have seen louie berkie in his warehouse rows of plastic
Subject(s): Business; Businessmen; Businesswomen


FOOL'S GOLD, by HERBERT KAUFMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: See him there, cold and gray
Last Line: He can't play.
Subject(s): Ambition; Business; Gold; Investments; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Stocks; Bonds


HUDSON RIVER ANTHOLOGY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ran a store
Last Line: He's serving thirty years.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Business; Labor & Laborers; Money; Retail Trade; Wages; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Work; Workers; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Salaries


JUSTICE, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: John henry vanderdecken was a modern business man
Last Line: "will stick around ""in conference"" until the end of time!"
Subject(s): Business; Office Work; Businessmen; Businesswomen


MY LEGACY, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The business man the acquirer vast
Last Line: I bind together and bequeath in this bundle of songs.
Subject(s): Business; Businessmen; Businesswomen


OF THE UNIVERSAL LOVE OF PLEASURE; TO A FRIEND, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All human race, from china to peru
Last Line: Enjoy unlimited benevolence!
Subject(s): Business; Greed; History; Mankind; Pleasure; Travel; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Avarice; Cupidity; Historians; Human Race; Journeys; Trips


PRINT SHOP, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here are the pin-ups of the nude
Last Line: Queer for looking.
Subject(s): Business; Printing & Printers; Businessmen; Businesswomen


PUTTING THE CREAM IN THE WELL OF VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We all have seen a sultry spurt
Last Line: We storaged down the well.
Subject(s): Business; Vermont; Wells; Businessmen; Businesswomen


SALESMEN, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Throughout the town my wares I holler
Last Line: There's something lacking in his make-up, he cannot make a sale.
Subject(s): Business; Markets; Merchants; Salespersons; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Supermarkets; Selling


TAKING THE SHUTTLE WITH FRANZ, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A search for metaphors to describe the thick
Last Line: Vermin,' they think, imagining stamping us out
Subject(s): Air Travel; Business; Travel; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Journeys; Trips


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DAM, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All power is saved, having no end. Rises
Subject(s): Dams; Rivers; Business; Businessmen; Businesswomen


THE COTTAGER'S COMPLAINT, ON .. ENCLOSING SUTTON-COLDFIELD, by JOHN FREETH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How sweetly did the moments glide
Last Line: Who murders my content.
Alternate Author Name(s): Free, John
Subject(s): Business; Markets; Retail Trade; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Supermarkets; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


THE CURB-BROKERS, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hail, ye frenzied creatures, antic, mask-like figures
Last Line: And did ye ever walk among the rustling rows of corn?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence
Subject(s): Brokers; Business; Stock Exchange; Wall Street, New York City; Businessmen; Businesswomen


THE SHOEMAKER'S HOLIDAY, by THOMAS DEKKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: As wretches in a storm (expecting day)
Last Line: [exeunt.
Subject(s): Business; Fantasy; Shoes; Success; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


THE VILLAGE MUNITIONS CO., INC.; FORMERLY THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under spreading chestnut tree
Last Line: Has earned two thou. Per cent.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Business; Factories; Labor & Laborers; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Money; Wealth; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Work; Workers; Riches; Fortunes


THE WALL STREET PIT, MAY, 1901, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see a hell of faces surge and whirl
Last Line: And, under all, the silence of the dead!
Subject(s): Business; Stock Exchange; Wall Street, New York City; Businessmen; Businesswomen


TO A PUBLISHER, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the divine john out of heaven, great sir
Last Line: The city in great stillness is withdrawn.
Subject(s): Business; Publishing; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Publishers


TO THE RAILROAD MEN, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O brotherhood of engineers
Last Line: Of so-called sleeping cars at 8o?
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Business; Labor & Laborers; Railroads; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Work; Workers; Railways; Trains


TWO POINTS OF VIEW: 1, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Because you've mused on some old masterpiece
Last Line: The rest is nothing but exploded cant.
Subject(s): Business; Economics; Labor & Laborers; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Work; Workers


TWO POINTS OF VIEW: 2, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Because we have enjoyed the 'pure serene'
Last Line: Ideal truth would reconcile the two.
Subject(s): Business; Labor & Laborers; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Work; Workers


WE HAD SEEN A PIG, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One man held the huge pig down
Last Line: When we looked.
Subject(s): Business; Butchers; Murder; Pigs; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Boars; Hogs