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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ECONOMICS Matches Found: 24 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LITTLE SONG ABOUT CHARITY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boss came around at christmas Subject(s): Charity; Communism; Economics; Irony; Labor Unions; Socialism; Philanthropy AN EQUALIZER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is as true as caesar's name was kaiser Last Line: We now and then should take an equalizer Subject(s): Economics; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes ECLOGUE: THE TIMES, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, tom, how be'st? Zoo thou'st a-got thy neame Last Line: You'll goo vor wool, an' then come hwome a-sheär'd. Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Economics; Fables; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Pigs; Politics & Government; Social Protest; Wages; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Boars; Hogs; Salaries ECONOMIES, by RENEE WEISS Poem Source First Line: At the foot of a cloud Last Line: That run, for the time being, %permanently Subject(s): Economics ECONOMISIN', by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dad was tickled when I went Last Line: At my 'conomisin' so. Subject(s): Children; Economics; Fathers & Sons; Gifts & Giving; Childhood EQUALIZER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is as true as caesar's name was kaiser Last Line: So that the poor won't have to steal by stealth, %we now and then should take an equalizer Subject(s): Economics; Wealth EZRA POUND'S PROPOSITION, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty is sexual, and sexuality Last Line: Across her cheekbones and her lovely skin Subject(s): Economics GOD'S ECONOMY, by KARY WAYSON Poem Source First Line: The fish are horrible: %burnt by forst, exhausted with shipment Last Line: The window makes flight %look easy like snow Subject(s): Economics; God; Markets INFLATION, by NICANOR PARRA Poem Source First Line: Bread goes up so bread goes up again Last Line: Outside are only great stretches of freedom Subject(s): Inflation (economics) ON THE INFLATION OF THE CURRENCY, 1919, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pain of seeing ten cents turned to five! Last Line: They know what's best for them too well to laugh. Subject(s): Inflation (economics) PRAISES IV: ON THE BEAUTY AND THE WONDERS OF WOMEN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wake in the early dawn and my hand has fallen asleep Last Line: "more of these shennhandigans could change the world without Subject(s): Beauty; Economics; Politics & Government; Sex; Women SCIENCE REVEALED: A DIVINE MISSION, by GEORGE EVELEIGH Poem Text First Line: If, then, the state will but assistance lend Last Line: The company an extra dividend. Subject(s): Capitalists & Financiers; Economics; Government; Missionaries & Missions SOMETHING IS DYING HERE, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a hundred places in north dakota Last Line: The poison of their own sweet country has brought them here Subject(s): Economics; Poverty; Socialism TAKING IT FROM THE BOY, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Old caspar took it from the boy Last Line: "who fell for planned economy." Subject(s): Economics THE MONEY GOES, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I spent a pfennig for a rose, a groschen for Last Line: "it's blowing coin for useless traps that breaks an old fat poet." Subject(s): Cost Of Living; Economics; Money THE NEW HUDIBRAS, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: When prints grew bluer than the sky Last Line: Call for his cudgel and his beaver. Subject(s): Economics; Hudibras (butler); Revolutions; Utopia TRICKLE DOWN, by CARL STILLWELL Poem Source First Line: Corporate downsizing Last Line: If it doesn't dribble through Subject(s): Corporate Downsizing; Economics; Social Protest 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 UNDERNEATH THE BOUGH, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When omar smote his bloomin' lyre Last Line: The royalty on a book of verses. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Economics VISION OF THREE ANGELS VIEWING THE PROGRESS OF SOCIALISM, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And the first with his hands folded and a money belt for a truss Last Line: So I'll stick around until judgment. Heaven is a sometime thing Subject(s): Angels; Economics; Labor & Laborers; Politics & Government; Socialism; Work; Workers VOODOO ECONOMICS, by FRANCIS W. ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: Told that they are better Subject(s): Economics WHAT DO YOU WANT, MEANINGFUL DIALOGUE, OR SATISFACTORY TALK?, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bad money drives out good Last Line: Just trying to tell it like it is Subject(s): Economics WHAT WE SAY, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another poem about a bunch of press. Another Last Line: That glow and disappear, and the words %we repeat, owning at least what we say Subject(s): Capitalism; Economics; Labor And Laborers ZERO, by DOROTHEA TANNING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that legal tender has Subject(s): Money; Economics |
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