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Subject: SALARIES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LETTER FROM A FATHER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My dear daughter / you ask me if your husband.
Last Line: Since the upturn / your affectionate father
Subject(s): Wages; Salaries


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


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


LOOKING FOR TROUBLE, by ROQUE DALTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The night of my first cell meeting it was pouring rain
Last Line: Mother scolded me for coming home late
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Labor Unions; Strikes; Wages; Work; Workers; Labor Disputes; Lockouts; Salaries


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


RESIGNATION; AN ODE TO THE JOURNEYMEN SHOEMAKERS, SELECTION, by JOHN WOLCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sons of saint crispin, 'tis in vain! / indeed 'tis fruitless to complain
Last Line: A truth that grandeur wishes not to know.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Labor Unions; Oppression; Shoes; Strikes; Wages; Work; Workers; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers; Labor Disputes; Lockouts; Salaries


SQUATTERS AND THE REDUCTION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some squatters have commenced to shear
Last Line: "but if you want a thorough doing - / why, just try the overflow"
Subject(s): Deception;honesty;labor & Laborers;sheep;wages; Salaries


THE GRAIN-TRIBUTE, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There came an officer knocking by night at my door
Last Line: To return to others the corn in my great barn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Retirement; Taxes; Wages; Salaries


THE GRUNTER, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you're complaining of your task, and sighing
Last Line: His wages, will land some morning at the dump, and there he'll stay for ages.
Subject(s): Industrial Workers Of The World (i.w.w.); Labor & Laborers; Labor Unions; Wages; Work; Workers; Salaries


THE PAY ENVELOPE (1), by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it all in the envelope holding your pay?
Last Line: If you never can see past the pay envelope.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Wages; Salaries


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


WEEK'S END, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How sweet to rest serenely in the gloaming
Last Line: Heaps of mon.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Pride; Wages; Working Class - United States; Work; Workers; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Salaries


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


WOMENS' SUFFRAGE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fellow men! Why should the lords try to despise
Last Line: And ye will gain the parliamentary franchise before very long.
Subject(s): Elections; Freedom; Wages; Women - Employment; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Liberty; Salaries; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; Feminism


WORK, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here is the long-bided hour: the labor of years is accomplished
Last Line: Friend of the golden-haired dawn, friend of the gods of the hearth?
Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Wages; Work; Workers; Salaries


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