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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PUBLISHER TO HIS CLIENT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear doctor, I have read your play
Last Line: John murray.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Variant Title(s): Epistle From Mr. Murray To Dr. Polidori
Subject(s): Murray, John (1745-1793); Polidori, John William; Publishing; Publishers


AS YOU LIKE IT, by ALICE NOTLEY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm so with it I can't believe it
Last Line: Boogie boogie boogie.
Subject(s): Editors; Poetry & Poets; Publishing; Publishers


ASSOCIATE, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would read until I was sure
Last Line: He would day, 'about my life'
Subject(s): Publishing


BURNING LEAVES, NOVEMBER, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These are folios of april
Last Line: New editions every year.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Leaves; Publishing; Publishers


CLASSIFIED AD, by MIHALY LADANYI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'd like to make the acquaintance
Last Line: I'd like to make the acquaintance
Subject(s): Publishing; Writing And Writers


DANCE OF THE HOURS, OR, IT'S A LIVING, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Each hour workaday fits just as well
Last Line: We stare at one another through a window %and wonder which will be the first to sell
Subject(s): Publishing


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 23, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though as a republic hamburg was ne'er
Last Line: "yes, even to hell in a canter!"
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Hamburg, Germany; Publishing; Publishers


HARPER TO MIFFLIN TO CHANCE, by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come harper, come schuster, come appleton all
Last Line: They'll kiss you goodbye for the first pretty royalty. %comeon, pater
Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B.
Subject(s): Baseball; Publishing; Sports


LINES IN REPLY TO THE BEAUTIFUL POET, WHO WELCOMED NEWS OF MCGONAGALLS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear johnny, I return my thanks to you
Last Line: Or else you'll get the famous weekly news a bad name.
Subject(s): Gratitude; News; Newspapers; Poetry & Poets; Publishing; Journalism; Journalists; Publishers


LINES ON THE PORTRAIT OF A CELEBRATED PUBLISHER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A moony breadth of virgin face
Last Line: Preserved in slavery's amber!
Subject(s): Publishing; Slavery; Publishers; Serfs


MARKETING, by TOM WAYMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A book isn't a tv dinner
Last Line: When they read it. After all, %a book is not a tv dinner
Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Publishing


ON CREECH THE BOOKSELLER, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Auld chuckie reekie's sair distrest
Last Line: Fleet wing awa!
Subject(s): Creech, William (1745-1815); Publishing; Publishers


ON THE IMPRINT OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION ..., by HENRY MAXIMILIAN BEERBOHM    Poem Source                    
First Line: London: john lane, the bodley head %new york: charles scribner's sons
Last Line: This plain announcement, nicely read, %iambically runs
Alternate Author Name(s): Beerbohm, Max
Subject(s): Publishing


PUBLISHER'S PARTY, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At tea in cocktail weather
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs.
Subject(s): Publishing; Women Writers; Publishers


PUBLISHER'S PARTY, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At tea in cocktail weather
Last Line: Away in haste I slither, %feeling I need a breather
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs.
Subject(s): Publishing; Women - Writers


PUBLISHING 2001, by BOB ROSENTHAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: It had to be a big book to be a whale
Subject(s): Publishing


PUBLISHING POEMS, by HANK MALONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Somewhere in this world
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Publishing


REGINALD SMITH, K.C.; IN MEMORIAM, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A house in london's heart. A first-floor room
Last Line: I stay. And not I, only ... Publisher and friend.
Subject(s): Editors; Friendship; Publishing; Publishers


REJECTIONS, by I. V.    Poem Text                    
First Line: I laughed when envelopes, self-addressed
Last Line: A levee-breaking flood of tears!
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Publishing; Publishers


REQUIRED ACCOMPANYING COVER LETTER, by RICHARD J. FEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear editor: %I'm no ancient hittite toady
Last Line: To behold my immortal scribbles
Subject(s): Letters; Publishing; Writing And Writers


SCHEHERAZADE, by CALVIN WILLLIAM TRUESDALE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The translations at least survived, and the published travel essays, gor
Last Line: He had ever really come into what he was meant to be
Subject(s): Books; Essays; Paper; Publishing; Writing And Writers


SONNET, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The song itself! Thus the bright-templed rhyme
Last Line: In this black ink his love shall still shine bright.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Publishing; Smart, Christopher (1722-1771); Publishers


SUN THE BLOND OUT, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That's my mind out nines in coke
Last Line: Rich pieces of orchestra shimmer in this century only.
Subject(s): Publishing; Writing & Writers; Publishers


THE ASSOCIATE, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I would read until I was sure
Subject(s): Publishing; Publishers


THE CENSOR, by MAUDE HICKS HICKMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who is it, I should like to know
Last Line: Then, surely, they are good.
Subject(s): Publishing; Writing & Writers; Publishers


THE DOUBLE STANDARD, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Important is the nation's health
Last Line: Says advertising mr. Hyde
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Editors; Newspapers; Publishing; Writing & Writers; Journalism; Journalists; Publishers


TO A FRIEND ON HIS DESIRING ME TO PUBLISH, by MARY JULIA YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: With artless muse, and humble name
Last Line: The artless muse, the humble name?
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Publishing; Publishers


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 AN EDITOR (ON THE RETURN OF A MANUSCRIPT), by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: So my 'lines are too heavy'-you 'want something / light'
Last Line: Than reams of the stuff you are printing for verse.
Subject(s): Editors; Poetry & Poets; Printing & Printers; Publishing; Publishers


TO MR. MURRAY (2), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For orford and for waldegrave
Last Line: My murray.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Murray, John (1745-1793); Publishing; Publishers


TO THE PUBLISHER OF 'THE MONTHLY REVIEW', by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the first days of this review
Last Line: As goldsmith's play and tale and song!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): Publishing; Publishers


UNPUBLISHED MAN, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Due to an urgent trip and a lack of foresight on my part, it
Last Line: Memory isn't so good, and I'm afraid I've forgotten it'
Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Books; Printing And Printers; Publishing


WHAT DID HAPPEN?, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do I ask you , reader, if that's your own hair?
Last Line: Or did I see them in a coffee-table book? %what's the difference? Now they belong to you
Subject(s): Books; Critics And Criticism; Newspapers; Publishing


WORKSHOP: WRITING THE PUBLISHABLE HIGH-END POEM, by MICHAEL ATKINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The title should be reflexive somehow
Last Line: You see, it isn't easy, it's art, try again
Subject(s): Editors; Language; Publishing; Writing And Writers


YOUR BOOKCASES ARE CRAMMED WITH MANUSCRIPTS, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Isn't it time you publlished and perished?
Alternate Author Name(s): Martial
Subject(s): Publishing; Writing And Writers