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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SHOPS Matches Found: 35 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 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 EX-BASKETBALL PLAYER, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pearl avenue runs past the high-school lot Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Basketball; Sports; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops FAST GAS; FOR RICHARD, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the days of self service Last Line: Is come close and touch me. Subject(s): Accidents; Automobiles - Service Stations; Baby Boom Generation; Love; Women; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops 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 FILLING STATION, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, but it is dirty! Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops 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 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 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 MOON OF HUNGER, MOON OF COYOTE HOWL, by JUDY JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heat waves rose with gas fumes from the pump Last Line: Earth this dark, dark star Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; African Americans; Family Life; Poverty; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives 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 POEM FOR BOB, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Protected by a .357 / magnum out of sight Last Line: Cheap / no tricks!! Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops 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 RUBBER TIRES, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some soothing balm the soul requires, when Last Line: "as they leave, on learning bent, they whisper, ""what a sinful gent!" Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Labor & Laborers; Youth; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops; Work; Workers 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 SELF-SERVICE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always I wanted to do it myself Last Line: I pinch off my share, and pay Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops 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 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 STUDY IN BLACK & WHITE, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven days a week, six till ten, Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Fathers & Sons; Childhood Memories; Friendship; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops 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 TEXACO, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nozzle of the gas pump Last Line: From some strange thirst Subject(s): Automobiles - Service Stations; Gasoline Stations; Filling Stations; Automobile Repair Shops 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 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 |
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