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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: RETAIL TRADE Matches Found: 53 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PURCHASE, by MAY WILLIAMS WARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was bent and feeble Last Line: I bought a smile for dry discouraged lips. Subject(s): Kindness; Old Age; Retail Trade; Women; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers A VERMONT COUNTRY STORE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our village store will always be Last Line: Made thirteen thousand 'round that store. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Country Life; Merchants; Mountain Life - Vermont; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers ANTIQUE JEWELER, by FREDERICK HENRY HERBERT ADLER Poem Text First Line: Within his shop he gathered silver, gold Last Line: I loved among them, as of old, held high. Subject(s): Antiques; Jewelry & Jewelers; Retail Trade; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers AT THE NORTH MALL, EARLY, by GARY N. ATLIN Poem Source First Line: Real estate developers, glad and strong in their wise suits Last Line: As they stoop to the floor to unlock %the storefront grates Subject(s): Morning; Retail Trade CAREER CASHIER, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: I used to live next to this run-down grocery where the motto was: 'cleaner Last Line: Drawer was open, filled with mums Subject(s): Grocers; Mourning; Murder; Retail Trade CHANEL LIPSTICK, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daddy always said this many Last Line: Photo lipsticked like this Subject(s): Cosmetics; Passports; Retail Trade; Shopping; Travel; Vacation CLERK'S DREAM, by HERBERT SCOTT Poem Source First Line: I'm going to save Last Line: To give them less %fortunate Subject(s): Retail Trade CUPBOARD / SHRINE, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If I have %an image of mind Last Line: Honey and vinegar %on the shelf below Subject(s): Cupboards; Retail Trade DOLL SHOP ON RODEO DRIVE, by VIRGINIA WEBB JULAVITS Poem Source First Line: Dylan thomas, the bulbous Subject(s): Beverly Hills, California; Dolls; Retail Trade; Toys DREAM OF THE CITY SHOPWOMAN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twere sweet to have a comrade here Last Line: Their one life's time! Subject(s): Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers DRUG STORE, by JOHN VAN ALSTYN WEAVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon me, lady, but I wanta ast you Last Line: If I ever get it... Subject(s): Ambition; Medicine; Retail Trade; Drugs, Prescription; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers ESSAY: THE HANGING PARADOGS SLIP, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is an octave between us Last Line: To this you, you take it Subject(s): Cities; Essays; Retail Trade; Urban Life; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers FATHER, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You spent fifty-five years Subject(s): Fathers; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers FATHER, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You spent fifty-five years Last Line: We laughed till we cried Subject(s): Fathers; Retail Trade FROM THE FAIR LAVINIAN SHORE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Though you are threescore years old. Subject(s): Gold; Markets; Retail Trade; Salespersons; Supermarkets; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Selling GRAVEYARD SHIFT, 22ND & TUCSON BOULEVARD, by PEGGY SHUMAKER Poem Source First Line: Most nights, I liked the place Last Line: Then down %and down %and down Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Retail Trade HAZARDS OF IMAGERY: IN THE GIFT SHOP AT THE LUNATIC ASYLUM, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Always on sale, the figurines Last Line: I dare not say what! Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Retail Trade; Tourists HER POET-BROTHER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! What ef little childerns all Last Line: Wuz big as parunts is! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Parents; Retail Trade; Childhood; Parenthood; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers 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 IN THE GALLERY, by DANIEL GERARD HOFFMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here neither nymph nor naiad ever bathed Last Line: Please smile on us, who made this place your grove Subject(s): Religion; Retail Trade IRENE, by JOHN MARTIN SMITH Poem Text First Line: Life's charmed, restricted avenue Last Line: From such a kind and loving soul. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Figurines; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers ITALIAN QUATRAIN: HAIRDRESSING, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There on the littered streets she sits, and chats with Last Line: Plucks vermin from its curls; and sells her oranges to me. Me. Subject(s): Italy; Retail Trade; Italians; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers LAST SONG FOR THE MEND-IT SHOP, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today some buildings were blown up Last Line: It tasted like. Subject(s): Bakeries & Bakers; Buildings & Builders; Landmarks; Retail Trade; Singing & Singers; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Songs MALL OF THE AMERICAS, by RICHARD EPSTEIN Poem Source First Line: The mall of the americas is closed Last Line: Of baser stones all through the night, but now %the mall of the americas is closed Subject(s): Retail Trade MY DEAR AFFLUENT READER, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome to the pecanland mall. Sadly, the pecan grove had to be dozed to Last Line: Ready or not. 0 exceptions. %don't ask Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Change; Nature; Progress; Retail Trade NIGHTHAWKS, by JOHN+(1) LOGAN Poem Source First Line: A thick man with his back to us squats at the counter Last Line: Approach each other, almost touch Subject(s): Night; Retail Trade ODE TO THE BROWN PAPER BAG, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's be more specific Subject(s): Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers ODE TO THE INHABITANT OF A WELL-KNOWN DIRTY SHOP, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Who but has seen (if he can see at all) Last Line: Clear from thy house accumulated dirt, %new-paint the front and wear a cleaner shirt? Subject(s): London; Retail Trade ON LEXINGTON AVENUE, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: A tapestry hung on stone Last Line: As all the clocks restart Subject(s): Flowers; Retail Trade OPEN THE SHOE-STORE DOOR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Two shoehorns on a shoelace Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Retail Trade; Shoes OPENING UP, by GEORGE+(2) ROBERTS Poem Source First Line: Each morning, before the bells begin ringing, I unlock my classroom door Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Booksellers; Retail Trade OZARK ODES: BAIT SHOP, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Total sales today: 3 doz. Minnows, 1/2 doz. Crawdaddies, 4 lead lures Last Line: Loaf of light bread, pack of raleighs, 3 bags of barbecued pork skins Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Retail Trade PROTEST, by EUNICE CREAGER Poem Text First Line: I saw a girl one summer day Last Line: "while over her a lash; ""three mouths to feed." Subject(s): Girls; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers SALE OF THE 'COIN MUSARD.', by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Tobaccos, wines, liqueurs, grocery 'fancy foods' in sooth, bookshop Last Line: Rigid as a pole. Subject(s): Retail Trade; Salespersons; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Selling SHOE SALESMAN, by DANIEL BACHHUBER Poem Source First Line: He is like a psychic medium calling down shoes from the other world Last Line: Nonbeing into the flesh, and I say, 'yes I will yes I will yes.' Subject(s): Retail Trade; Salespersons; Shoes SHOE SHOP, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: I shut the door on the racket Last Line: When I step back out in the street %the city looks flimsy as a movie set Subject(s): Retail Trade; Shoes SHOPPING TRIP, by MIRIAM GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: I try on clothes with you and fifty other women in a mirrored room Last Line: And though I can't make love to you, I could make a turkey with her %watching Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Fashion; Retail Trade; Shopping; Vision SOLILOQUY ON AN EMPTY PURSE, by MARY JONES Poem Text First Line: Alas, my purse! How lean and low! Last Line: And gently rhyming rats to death. Subject(s): Retail Trade; Wealth; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Riches; Fortunes SPIRITS OF THE MALL, by BARON WORMSER Poem Source First Line: The ghosts of south florida gather at Last Line: Only in the human way - so fickle, so unaware Subject(s): Children; Miller, Arthur (b. 1915); Retail Trade STORE, by ELIZABETH MACKLIN Poem Source First Line: A shop like a boat - red tchotchkes! - and look Last Line: To leave there having, though not having bought Subject(s): Retail Trade STRAWBERRIES IN MEXICO, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At 14th street and first avenue Last Line: It's just a very blue sky I'm looking at Subject(s): Books; Madison Avenue, New York; Retail Trade; Reading; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers STRIP MALL, by JOHN GREY Poem Source First Line: It's another strip mall Last Line: In that bankrupt card shop Subject(s): Retail Trade SUMMER SHIRT SALE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer shirt sale of a downtown haberdasher is glorified Last Line: Challenge to the ghost who walks on paydays. Subject(s): Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers SWEET CURE, by GARDNER MCFALL Poem Source First Line: A man, with a dozen small pieces of paper Last Line: To the wall and fallen into night's dreams Subject(s): Medicine; Retail Trade 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 HERB SHOP, by GEORGIA DAY SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: I know a charming little shop Last Line: And breathe its faint perfume. Subject(s): Herbs; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers THE LITTLE FRUIT-SHOP, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: The little broadway fruit-shop bursts and glows Last Line: Lo, a swart faun-god mid his votive fruit. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Fruit; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers 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 SEAMSTRESS, by HENRI BARBUSSE Poem Text First Line: A glimmer of daylight through the rain Last Line: In invisible song. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Retail Trade; Seamstresses; Sewing; Work; Workers; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers THRIFT SHOP LADIES, by JENNIFER M. PIERSON Poem Source First Line: They carry their long, heavy bosoms inside old sweaters and wear Last Line: At three o'clock the lights go out and they go their separate ways Subject(s): Business; Clothing And Dress; Retail Trade; Shopping TRANSPOSITION, by AGNES MOORE FRYBERGER Poem Text First Line: I forget his name; but, oh, his smile Last Line: And put the cobbler in the music store? Subject(s): Human Behavior; Retail Trade; Shoes; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers TWILIGHT BY THE MALL, by SELDEN LINCOLN WHITCOMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moonlight creeps across yon gilded roof Last Line: Defiant, private note must pass away. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers VIEW FROM THE WOODS, by JACK BARRACK Poem Source First Line: Two shopping carts, runaways turned feral Last Line: Among neon signs in macaw-painted cold Subject(s): Leaves; October; Retail Trade |
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