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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MONEY Matches Found: 196 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "THE TWEED RING, 1868", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The great moguls of gotham! Their proud purses Last Line: Sleeps in the throttles of this ruthless three Subject(s): "depressions, Economic;income Tax;money;social Classes;tammany Hall, New York City;tweed, William Marcy [boss] (1823-78);wealth;" Recessions;caste;riches;fortunes A BUSHMAN'S SONG, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm travelling down the castlereagh, and I'm a station hand Last Line: And we cross a lot of country at the old jig-jog. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Money; Singing & Singers A COIN, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your western heads here cast on money Last Line: Good-by. Subject(s): Money A HUNDRED COLLARS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The doctor slid a little down the pillow. Subject(s): Hotels; Relationships; Fear; Money; Collars; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses A LAWYER'S BILL, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a strange bill of costs do some lawyers indite Last Line: "and thinking your business over." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Money; Attorneys A LOCAL POLITICIAN FROM AWAY BACK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jedge is good at argyin'-- Last Line: Sence back in '56. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Judges; Money; Politics & Government A LOVE PLAYNT, by GODFREY TURNER Poem Text First Line: To yow, my purse, and to noon other wighte Last Line: Beethe hevy ageyne, or elles mote I die! Subject(s): Love; Money A PARLEY WITH HIS EMPTY PURSE, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Purse, who'll not know you have a poet's been Last Line: Gape on, as they do to be paid, gape on! Subject(s): Debt; Money A PROMISE TO PAY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said dick, 'the ten pound which you lent t'other day Last Line: "as much in the shape of ten pound as you can." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Money; Promises A SPLENDID FELLOW, by H. C. DODGE Poem Text First Line: Delmonico's is where he dines Last Line: "I'll turn the dress I made last year." Subject(s): Marriage; Money; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ABOUT MONEY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wonder of cherries Subject(s): Money ABOUT MONEY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wonder of cherries Last Line: My mind is green with anxiety %about money Subject(s): Money ABOUT THE MONEY, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the turn of the century Subject(s): Money AN AUTUMN REVERIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Beautiful summer now hath fled Last Line: In general they make a sudden retreat. Subject(s): Hunger; Money; Poverty ART VS. TRADE, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trade, trade versus art Last Line: He crushes those who cry for daily bread Subject(s): Art & Artists; Money; Social Commentary ART6 COUNCIL, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because there is no art Subject(s): Art & Artists; Money AUCTION, by LEONE RICE GRELLE Poem Text First Line: How much am I bid for a proud old wall Last Line: And what for a heart, when the sale is done? Subject(s): Money BALLAD TO THE TUNE OF 'I'LL HAVE MY LOVE, OR I'LL HAVE ONE', by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some praise the brown, and some the fair Last Line: I'll only tell to some choice friend. Subject(s): Likes & Dislikes; Love - Materialism; Money BETTY TO HERSELF, by EDWARD W. BANNARD Poem Text First Line: How kind they have been to their betty! Last Line: My cup is o'erflowing indeed! Subject(s): Greetings; Love; Money BLOWING IT IN, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the divers brands of joy that make our Last Line: Equals this—the blowing in of money! Subject(s): Money CHEAP BLUE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hill blue among the leaves I summer Subject(s): Blue (color); Money CONGRATULATIONS, CHARLES H. WEBB, YOU'VE JUST WON TEN MILLION DOLLARS, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Despite my ph.D. In clinical psych, despite my high sat and gre Last Line: As she tucks me in her bed where daddy snores, and I soon %burrow into blissful dreams Subject(s): Dreams; Money COUNTING, by FAITH SHEARIN Poem Source First Line: I spent the first years of my life in the most Last Line: Enough money in my hand to settle the bill Subject(s): Money DANCING ON THE GRAVE OF A SON OF A BITCH, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God damn it, / at last I am going to dance on your grave, Subject(s): Man-woman Relationship; Divorce; Farewell; Money; Dancing & Dancers; Graves; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones DAY'S END, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: For fifty years she has seen men drink Last Line: I have yeer money, boyos, and ye have yeer piss Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Money DEAR SIR, THOUGH MANY CHECKS PREVENT, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Be sent to messrs foord and dickenson Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Money; Tourists DEDICATION, by FRANCIS REGINALD SCOTT Poem Text First Line: From those condemned to labour Last Line: Nor any peace for spending. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. R. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Money; Social Classes; Social Protest; Work; Workers; Caste DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A firm there is, of civic fame Last Line: And spent their forty pounds at leisure. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Diamonds; Money; Police DISCRETIONARY INCOME, by BRIAN HENRY Poem Source First Line: Trying to find the center of it all Last Line: But the stakes, until there are no takers left %to wager against him Subject(s): Gambling; Money DIZAIN IN ANSWER TO THE FOREGOING, by CLEMENT MAROT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My dunnes that untoe dizains give small care Last Line: While I did sweare to borrowe—as before. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Money DOROTHY'S DOWER, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sweetest dorothy,' said john Last Line: "went for cigars and brandy!" Subject(s): Marriage; Money; Women's Rights; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism DOWN WITH MONEY EXCHANGE, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: Oh cibernetic fairy Last Line: Down with the silk-mart! Subject(s): Business - Failures; Depressions, Economic; Labor And Laborers; Money; Sugar ECLOGUE; CORYDON, CLOTTEN, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Corydon / rise, clotten, rise take up thy pipe and play Last Line: Not to abuse but to deserve thy love. Subject(s): Friendship; Money EPIGRAM FOR WALL STREET, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll tell you a plan for gaining wealth Last Line: Tis as plab as the light of the day that you double it! Subject(s): Money EPIGRAM ON WOOD'S BRASS MONEY, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Carteret was welcomed to the shore Last Line: Guns, trumpets, drums, and bells were drowned Subject(s): Money; Wood, William (1671-1730) EVERY MAN HIS HOBBY, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wealthy cit, intent to buy Last Line: "call it my picture, and excuse me." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Collectors & Collecting; Money; Paintings & Painters EVIL RENOWN, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What sort of man is henry hank?' I Last Line: "men will boost you while alive, and praise you when you die." Subject(s): Borrowers And Lenders; Debt; Money FACT, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's been an eagle on a nickel Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Money; Negroes; American Blacks FACT, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's been an eagle on a nickel Last Line: An eagle on a quarter, too. %but there ain't no eagle %on a dime Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Money FANNY: 111, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She long had known that in her father's coffers Last Line: One whose high destiny was to breathe Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Fathers; Money; Wealth FANNY: 147, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But as he trod to grandeur's pinnacle Last Line: The bank directors grinned, and shrugged their shoulders Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Business; Money FATIGUE; EPIGRAM, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm tired of love: I'm still more tired of rhyme Last Line: But money gives me pleasure all the time. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Money FIVE PER-CENT, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I have ten thousand pounds I sit upon my stern Last Line: And bless the mighty men who first -- invented interest Subject(s): Money GENTRIFIERS ARE IN PURSUIT, by FRED CHAPPELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of rafer barnstable born according Last Line: As soon as he gets his hands on the money Subject(s): Appalachia; Inheritance And Succession; Landlords And Tenants; Money; Progress GEO-BESTIARY: 28, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wallet is as big as earth Last Line: Tethered to these shadows dragging toward night. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Despair; Money GEO-BESTIARY: 28, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can I be alone when these brain cells Last Line: Around their bright cosmic bodies. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Despair; Money GIRL IN A CAGE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in a cage the dollars come down Last Line: A flame of silk at the throat. Subject(s): Money GOLD COIN, by DON FARRAN Poem Text First Line: Gold coin, gold coin Last Line: Who fought you near anoor! Subject(s): Gold; Money GOLDEN FREEDOM, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The love of money is a chain Last Line: From its cramping misery! Subject(s): Money GRAND EXPENSIVE VISTA, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: As we sipped and mingled, Last Line: Glass table, hunger was our guide Subject(s): Money GREENBACK DOLLAR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I don't want your greenback dollar Last Line: Where the heart will know no pain Subject(s): Money HAME CONTENT: A SATIRE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some fock, like bees, fu glegly rin Last Line: Wha mourn'd her fate, condol'd her woes. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Inheritance & Succession; Money; Heirs HEAVY FOLIO, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mathematics of intimate questions Subject(s): Love; Money; Death; Dead, The HIGH PRICES, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our forebears, whose bright shades are soaring Last Line: Went speedin', our fierce h. C. Of l. Subject(s): Cost Of Living; Money HONESTY, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Money doesn't grow on trees, my mother said Last Line: In water I waited for incoming tide. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Grandparents; Honesty; Money; Mothers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers HOW THE MONEY GOES, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How goes the money? - well Last Line: And that's the way the money goes! Subject(s): Money 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 I LOVE MY LOVE, by JAMES P. SAWYER Poem Text First Line: Every one thinks some face fairer Last Line: On a bright one dollar bill. Subject(s): Money IN A ROW, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The mailman handing me a letter Last Line: I paid for that one, that one belongs to me Subject(s): Money INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: That summer we were joey chitwood's thrill show Last Line: With ease. That's how I earned %my first kiss. It still shines Subject(s): Festivals; Luck; Money IT CAN BE DONE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She rides in a limousine Last Line: On $10 a week. / she writes them Subject(s): Money;writing & Writers IT FOLLOWS, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you had a lot of money Subject(s): Money; Surgery, Plastic; Life Choices; Cosmetic Sugery; Face Lifts JOBS AND MONEY, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: By the time manny graduates high school, he will have passed a dozen Last Line: Job so I can pay reant, hiet, phone, for the house. I have to have a nouf %money to biy gas for my t Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Money; Saving And Thrift; Teenagers; Unemployment JOHN THOMPSON'S DAUGHTER, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fellow near kentucky's clime Last Line: And he was left there minus. Subject(s): Elopements; Money LEDGERS IN THE DUST, by DAVID MIDDLETON Poem Source First Line: The locked front door holds firm though broken panes Last Line: Their worth the legal tender of your ways Subject(s): Money LINES WRITTEN ON A BANK NOTE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wae worth thy pow'r, thou cursed leaf Last Line: Never, perhaps, to greet old scotland more. Subject(s): Money; Scotland LOGIC (3), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I have a copper penny and another copper penny Subject(s): Cousins;money LOMBARD STREET, by BERT ALMON Poem Source First Line: I am charmed by lombard street, the ancient center of the italian money Last Line: The golden serpent ourobouros swalling his own tail Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Capitalism; Lombardy, Italy; Money LORD OF DOLLARS, by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Over kings and priests and scholars %rules the mighty lord of dollars Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De Subject(s): Business; Courts And Courtiers; Money; Wealth LULLABY, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good night; sweet dreams; the morfgage is asleep Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Money LURID LIVES: A CHICAGO RED (IN A GRAIN ELEVATOR), by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've got the sack, have I, and I can go? Last Line: So bloated with the fat of food and fortune! Subject(s): Communism; Money; Nations MARCO POLO, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was heroic, fugitive, in love with the machinery Last Line: Devoured by the oriental machinery of the silkworm Subject(s): Explorers; Insects; Money; Polo, Marco (1254-1324); Sea; Skeletons; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Bugs; Ocean MAYBE BECAUSE I STAND BEHIND, by SARAH MENEFEE Poem Source Last Line: Clutching their heavy burdens of shopping bags Subject(s): Money; Politics MEANING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: No money means no man Last Line: If you can find it anywhere Subject(s): Money; News MINDING THE DARKNESS: IV. I, by PETER DALE SCOTT Poem Source First Line: Eclogue on the federal reserve board Last Line: Most of us without thinking %carry round in our billfolds Subject(s): Government; Money; Religion MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER MORAL, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Last Line: And now of a bloody mary! Variant Title(s): The Ruling Power Subject(s): Gold; Money MONEY, by ALLISON BURKE Poem Source First Line: She had change in her back pocket Last Line: Just some place to put it all, %this money Subject(s): Money MONEY, by DANIEL CORRIE Poem Source First Line: The backs of dollars open in Last Line: Untils. Years roll away, like pennies Subject(s): Fortune; Money; Wealth MONEY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I had money, money, o! Last Line: My friends are real, though very few. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Money; Fair Weather Friends MONEY, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never ask of money spent Last Line: What he did with every cent Subject(s): Money MONEY, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quarterly, is it, money reproaches me Subject(s): Money MONEY, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quarterly, is it, money reproaches me Last Line: The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and mad %in the evening sun. It is intensely sad Subject(s): Money MONEY, by FRIEDRICH VON LOGAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whereunto is money good? Last Line: Who once has had it has despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Golaw, Salomon Von; Logau, Frederick Von Subject(s): Money MONEY, by JEHAN DU PONTALAIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who money has, well wages the campaign Last Line: They only are condemned who money lack. Alternate Author Name(s): Songecreux; Jean Espine Of Pont-alais Subject(s): Money MONEY, by AGNES M. SCHABERG Poem Text First Line: Be not too wise with money Last Line: It can be lead. Subject(s): Money MONEY, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Money is such a treat. Subject(s): Money MONEY BACK, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your money back if things don't suit' Last Line: Infant after him. Subject(s): Advertising; Grocers; Merchants; Money MONEY CRY, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter cries when we have to talk about money Last Line: Take it and pass it on. That stuff won't kill you Subject(s): Money MONEY GETS THE MASTERIE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'rcome Last Line: When no force else can get the masterdome. Subject(s): Money MONEY MAKES THE MIRTH, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When all birds els do of their musick faile Last Line: Money's the still-sweet-singing nightingale. Subject(s): Money MONEY TO LOAN, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, 'money to loan' is a common sign; it Last Line: The price, but not a rouble or yen or buck if peradventure you're out of luck. Subject(s): Borrowers And Lenders; Money MUIRKIRK LIGHT WEIGHTS, by ISOBEL (ISABEL) PAGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In muirkirk there lives a taylor Last Line: And aye when 'tis convenient, their standard they should mind. Subject(s): Duplicity; Money; Deceit MY FATHER TELLS THIS STORY ABOUT HIS BROTHER FRANK AND THE WICK, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Your grandpa marquart, he was a tight sonofabitch you know every Last Line: Your grandfather, I'm telling you, now there was a tight man Subject(s): Family Life; Grandparents; Money MY NEIGHBOUR, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My neighbour -- an eternal ninny -- Last Line: "he'll come, I warrant him, no more." Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Money; Neighbors MY POLITICS, by GEORGE WASHINTON PIERCE Poem Text First Line: I am for gold - her golden hair Last Line: Can e'er demonetize. Subject(s): Money NEW SONG OF WOOD'S HALFPENCE, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ye people of ireland, both country and city Subject(s): Money NO MAN WITHOUT MONEY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No man such rare parts hath, that he can swim Last Line: If favour or occasion helpe not him. Subject(s): Money NOTHING TO SPARE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hungry children cry for bread, and I Last Line: And gas. Subject(s): Cost Of Living; Depressions, Economic; Hunger; Money; Poverty; Recessions ODES II, 2. TO SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS ON THE USES AND ABUSES OF MONEY, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hidden in the avaricious earth Last Line: With an indifferent eye Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Money OF MONEY, by BARNABY (BARNABE) GOOGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give money me, take frienship whoso list Last Line: Finds ways enough to ease thine heaviness. Alternate Author Name(s): Goche, Barnaby; Goghe, Barnaby; Gouche, Barnaby Subject(s): Friendship; Luck; Money OH THE DARK, RANK, BRACKISH RUT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is fine. Outside, a sucking cold vacuum Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Money; Nature ON A HALFPENNY WHICH A YOUNG LADY GAVE A BEGGAR, WHICH AUTHOR REDEEMED, by HENRY FIELDING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear little, pretty, favourite ore Last Line: Tho' he should keep me out of heaven. Variant Title(s): Written Extempore On A Halfpenny Subject(s): Money ON BILLS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: At the first of the month I grow morbid and sad Last Line: Tis more blessed to give than receive Subject(s): Money ON ROBERT RIDDELL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To riddell, much-lamented man Last Line: This ivied cot revere. Subject(s): Death; Life; Money ON THE RECENTLY MINTED HUNDRED-CENT PIECE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatg have they done to our dollar, darling Last Line: Have done done our doll dollar Subject(s): Money OWED' TO MY POCKET-BOOK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "how fair thou art, o little book" Last Line: Will carry all my money Subject(s): Books;money;russia; Reading;soviet Union;russians PARS DE HAT EROUN', by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ef yer wants ter gain de kingdom,' Last Line: The end. Subject(s): African Americans; Clergy; Deception; Money; Public Worship; Salvation; Negroes; American Blacks; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Church Attendance PASSING THE SHOP AFTER SCHOOL, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Passing the shop after school, he would look up at the sign Subject(s): Jobs; Money; Life Change Events; Food & Eating PAYDAY, by MELODY GOETZ Poem Source First Line: Cpr railway today, labourers, greasy boots; the man from hungary looks like Last Line: He won't wake them, and outside into the cold grey air of most of his life Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Money PAYMENT PLAN, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clunker. Junker. The fizzlemobile. Everybody Last Line: And coaxing juice enough for the uphills Subject(s): Automobiles; Freedom; Money PENNY, A PENNY, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Source First Line: A penny, a penny Last Line: And no old nick Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Money PETITION OF A SCHOOLBOY TO HIS FATHER, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most honour'd sir, I must confess Last Line: And your petitioner shall pray. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Money; Schools; Poetry & Poets; Students POET AND MERCHANT, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT Poem Text First Line: The poet goes ragged Last Line: "of the merchant, ""he is dead." Subject(s): Art & Artists; Fame; Money; Reputation POETS, by MORRIS ABEL BEER Poem Text First Line: If a poet sings because he must Last Line: He should polish pans instead of verse! Subject(s): Money; Poetry & Poets PORTIUS LICINIUS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "if you are phoebus' sister delia, pray" Last Line: Where he whose purse is empty may fill Subject(s): Money;portius Licinius (1st Century B.c.) POUR UN JEUNE CHALAMOUN QUI SE VEND DANS LA RUE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Powerful white teeth Last Line: Give my soul, just to take the money and not give my soul Subject(s): Capitalism; Money; Peasantry; Trade POVERTY, by DOROTHY WHITEHEAD HOUGH Poem Text First Line: It is my fate to be Last Line: Of jewels and tapestry. Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Money; Poverty; Recessions POVERTY, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: I wandered through her eyebrows Last Line: The only language I knew Subject(s): Charity; Money; Poverty PRODUCT OF EVOLUTION, I INVEST IN A MUTUAL FUND, by AMANDA PECOR Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I feel like my money's gone to heaven Last Line: Just as my money, wherever it is, can there be neither forgotten nor loved Subject(s): Evolution; Money PROMETHEUS; ON WOOD THE PATENTEE'S IRISH HALFPENCE, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As, when the squire and tinker, wood Last Line: For want of vultures, we have crows Subject(s): Money; Wood, William (1671-1730) PROMPT PAY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man runs up a little bill, and when it's Last Line: Reputation, some day that rep will knock you down, and hurt like all creation. Subject(s): Cost Of Living; Merchants; Money; Poverty; Wages; Salaries PROSPERITY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When man is poor, and wealth or fame Last Line: Turns good fellows into bores. Subject(s): Fortune; Money; Upper Classes PROSPERITY, by FRED VOSS Poem Source First Line: The big company bought the little company Last Line: Became clear to the workers Subject(s): Corporate Life; Industrial Workers Of The World (i.w.w.); Industry; Labor And Laborers; Labor Unions; Money PROVE TO ME, by UNKNOWN+12 Poem Source First Line: In a single blizzard more snowflakes fall Last Line: A hand full of sand %running through my fingers? Subject(s): Money RECOGNITION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: What am I to make of the pusher's Last Line: He sells poison like slices of bad luck Subject(s): Drugs And Drug Abuse; Money; Morality; Salespersons RHYMES FOR THE TIMES: 4. 1865, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Juist noo there are mony wha rin to an' fro Last Line: To the body?—then what for the soul an' for heaven? Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Money; Reform & Reformers; Work; Workers RIDDLE (3), by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You may lie on my first, by the side of a stream Last Line: And affection diminish, think of her no more Subject(s): Language; Money; Riddles ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 5. RASCALITY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rich people only can be won Last Line: And earn a bellyful again. Subject(s): Money; Praise RULE OF MONEY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In earth is a little thing Last Line: The poor are aye put behind, %where he comes in place Subject(s): Freedom; Money SERVICE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dime %in the slot Last Line: And who knows at what price? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Africa; Money; Plantation Life; Service; Smoking SHINING MONEY OF LOVE, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: We wear small white handkerchiefs Last Line: Seeing the shining money %of love inside, begins to sing Subject(s): God; Love; Money; Public Worship; Religion SICK-BED SOLILOQUY TO AN EMPTY PURSE, SELS., by JOSEPH+(1) MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: While baleful fever, with progressive rage Last Line: Mean'st thou t'enchance and aggravate my woe Subject(s): Money SLAVE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He is so enslaved by money Last Line: In every weather Subject(s): Money; Relationships SLIPPING ON HIS COAT, HE SAID, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When I was a slave, I made money Last Line: The company of slaves.' Subject(s): Ambition; Freedom; Money; Slavery SONG FOR THE FIRST OF THE MONTH, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Money cannot fill our needs Last Line: Laugh the landlord off with that! Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Money SONG FOR THE SQUEEZE BOX, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Gambling; Money; Loss; Unemployment; Wine; Wagering; Betting SONS AND FATHERS, by RABINDRA K. SWAIN Poem Source First Line: Mahajanpur Last Line: The shore they are forgetting Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Life; Money SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 80, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Black curse upon money Last Line: Are not in my house Subject(s): Ambition; Money SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HENRY PHIPPS, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was the sunday school superintendent Last Line: Moved me on with a push. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Money STANZAS: WRITTEN AT NIGHT IN RADIO CITY, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If money made the mind more sane, Subject(s): Money; Sex STATE OF THE UNION: 16. NEW CURRENCY, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gold has rolled into a pit Last Line: Will the young ever find it? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Gold; Money; Trade STATE OF THE UNION: 25. THE SOVEREIGN, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was never a union. It was at best Last Line: This counterfeit coin called a sovereign Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Duplicity; Money SUBJECT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She has noticed that when the subject comes up Last Line: For once, he's the customer. Subject(s): Money SUCCESS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Success is in thinking and not in mere wealth Last Line: He measures in money his thought of success. Subject(s): Money; Success; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes TERRIBLE PEOPLE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't ... Last Line: Have you ever tried to buy them without money? Subject(s): Money THE AMERICAN DREAM, by WANDA COLEMAN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): United States; Money; America THE BANK ACCOUNT, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, happy day when I began to put my Last Line: He desires, who puts his rupees in the bank. Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Money THE BANKER, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To blow in wealth I sometimes hanker, on Last Line: Cautious village banker, who sizes up the snares and fakes. Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Money; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes THE BEGGAR, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day, all the day, in the dust, in the heat Last Line: These cry out unheard, and must die on the street. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Charity; Homeless; Money; Poverty; Philanthropy THE CIRCUS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: In my purse there was gold Last Line: But grace went to the circus. Subject(s): Circus; Money; Spendthrifts; Women THE COMEBACK, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He made a rep in the minors, and he thought Last Line: "(and it's cost you a lot of money) that at last you are wanting me!" Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Conceit; Money; Sports THE DREAM RANGE, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, young, I slept in a cold bed Last Line: To hell! With life on the dream range! Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Money; Sleep; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FINAL MORBIDITY OF THE INTERIOR EMBEZZLER, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've made a little sluice-gate in the flow Last Line: And writing down what I need to forget Subject(s): Money; Wit & Humor THE GOLDEN NICKEL, by JOSEPH FRANCIS CARLIN MACDONNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I had a nickel Last Line: As those that are good. Alternate Author Name(s): Carlin, Francis Subject(s): Money; Wishes THE HAPPY LIFE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We'll purge, my friend, the humors that still devour Last Line: This is my kingdom -- to live contented. Subject(s): Life; Money; Muses; Soul THE HOROSCOPE POEMS: JANUARY 1ST, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daddy played the market Last Line: With poems that think they're money Subject(s): Familylife; Stock Exchange; Money; Speculation THE INHERITANCE, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like well diggers Last Line: Will drink the darkness Subject(s): Inheritance And Succession; Money THE LINCOLN CENT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pleasant is the mellow tinkle Last Line: Hats off to the lincoln cent! Subject(s): Money THE LOVER PLEADS, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I had guineas many a one Last Line: The last word said, and all over. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Money THE MILLION DOLLAR RAIN, by HELEN PURCELL ROADS Poem Text First Line: Dawn after dawn flung up the sky Last Line: To watch the miracle. Subject(s): Dawn; Money; Rain; Sunrise 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 MONEY-KING; A POEM DELIVERED ... YALE UNIVERSITY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As landsmen, sitting in luxurious ease Last Line: And for his kindness bless the money-king! Subject(s): Money THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 182, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No matter how lofty your spirit Last Line: You'll be no warmer than ice Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Heat; Money THE PURCHASE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Small and red and goggling with anxious eyes Last Line: —slinking and licking my fingers and ready to cry. Subject(s): Money; Poverty; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers THE RECKONING, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All profits disappear; the gain Subject(s): Money; Problems THE RICH MAN, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rich man, in the diatribes of virtuous Last Line: Godless crimes. Subject(s): Gold; Money; Upper Classes; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes THE SONG OF THE DUCATS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O my golden ducats dear Last Line: Hold you safely in their claws. Subject(s): Money; Singing & Singers; Songs THE TRAVELLER, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As she rides to the station Last Line: She gives no answer Subject(s): Railroad Stations; Money; Terrorism 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 WEAVERS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many a time your father gave me aid Last Line: -- and pay for them -- I'll pay you for your shirt! Subject(s): Money; Poetry & Poets; Weavers And Weaving THOSE WONDROUS DAYS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: They talk about the good old days, when every sportsman rolled Last Line: Those were the days, the glorious days, and money flowed—like glue! Subject(s): Money; Past; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes TITHES, by HARRIET SAMPSON Poem Text First Line: One tenth of what their acreage had grown Last Line: Would buy a mansion in the heavenly state. Subject(s): Money; Religion; Theology TO GERON, by HILDEBRAND JACOB Poem Text First Line: So prudent and so young a wife! / old geron, thou art blest for life Last Line: That you may leave to her—or me. Subject(s): Jewelry & Jewelers; London; Money; Wealth; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Riches; Fortunes TO KO UNG, THE GODDESS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My fortune has been great, I grant Last Line: And keep an eye upon my bank account. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Fortune; Goddesses & Gods; Money; Mythology TO LADY B- W-, PRESENTING THE AUTHOR WITH A MOIETY OF A LOTTERY TICKET, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This ticket is to be divided;' - well Last Line: Nor blanks the grateful sentiments efface. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Lotteries; Money; Numbers TO MASTER JOHN BURGES, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father john burges Last Line: If the 'chequer be empty, so will be his head. Subject(s): Money TO MY AULD BREEKS, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now gae your wa's-tho' anes as gude Last Line: For philip was, like him, a man. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Money; Old Age TO THE MONEY-GETTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O man of morbid soul and small Last Line: Think'st thou this narrow world is all? Subject(s): Money;wealth; Riches;fortunes TO THE MOST HONOURABLE THE EARL OF OXFORD, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm no more to converse with the swains Last Line: Pray, my lord, how much money will do? Subject(s): Harley, Robert. 1st Earl Of Oxford; Money; Mortimer, Earl Of TURNED OUT FOR RENT, by M. L. S. BURKE Poem Text First Line: Out, out in the night, in the chill wintry air Last Line: -- gaunt poverty fills all her measure of blame. Subject(s): Homeless; Money; Poverty TWO KINDS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lad who'd prosper well, and rise, to Last Line: Neglects his stunt, should the old man disappear. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Money; Wages; Work; Workers; Salaries VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 5: SATIRE: 4, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Villius the wealthy farmer left his heir Last Line: That fourtie pounds serue not the farmers heyre. Subject(s): Farm Life; Inheritance & Succession; Money; Wealth; Agriculture; Farmers; Heirs; Riches; Fortunes WALL STREET, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strait river, with its hoarse and feverous flood Last Line: Christ above mammon, love before the world. Subject(s): Money; Rivers; Wall Street, New York City WALL STREET PRAYER, by ALFRED MORANG Poem Text First Line: Make them well, brothers Last Line: The gracious keeper of your sons. Subject(s): Money WAY MEN EMPTY THEIR POCKETS AT NIGHT, by KAREN HOLDEN Poem Source Last Line: Wind up on a dresser with some change Subject(s): Money WE HAVE DREAMED TOO MUCH OF GOLD, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: We have followed the monster mammon on the broad Last Line: While out in the lovelit gardens the lonely roses blow. Subject(s): Dreams; Gold; Money; Nightmares WEALTH, by MARION SCHMIDT Poem Text First Line: I never had an orchid in all my life Last Line: For I have had a son for sixteen years. Subject(s): Money WEE WEE HUSBAND, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Comfits, nor honey Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Marriage; Money WHAT SHALL I BUY?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I have a penny Last Line: Now what shall I buy? Subject(s): Money;toys WHEN PAY DAY COMES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: When pay day comes what transports thrill Last Line: When pay day comes! Subject(s): Greed; Grief; Happiness; Money; Wages; Avarice; Cupidity; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Salaries WHERE IS PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS?, by JACK BERNIER Poem Source First Line: Isn't there something Last Line: Income tax with a stock broker %who advises million dollar clients Subject(s): Brokers; Money WINTER KNOWS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: When a man's pockets %are empty Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Money; Nature; Poverty; Winter WOMAN'S WILES, by HENRY SMITH CHAPMAN Poem Text First Line: Two snowy arms around his neck Last Line: He knew it was a check she yearned. Subject(s): Flirtation; Money WORDLY WISE (9), by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Penny and penny Last Line: Shall never have many. Subject(s): Money WORKERS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's good to work, with might and main, until Last Line: Friends. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Money; Wages; Work; Workers; Salaries 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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