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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: UNEMPLOYMENT Matches Found: 36 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 10/6/02 JOB INTERVIEW, by RICHARD VARGAS Poem Source First Line: It's been 4 yrs since my last one Last Line: Cold beer would taste %right about then Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Unemployment 534, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For ages you were rock, far below light Last Line: Of those who speed your launching come to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Queen Mary (ship); Sea; Unemployment; Recessions; British Empire; England - Empire; Ocean BETWEEN AN UNEMPLOYED ARTIST AND HIS WIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hard is my fate, thus to want bread; / curse on the day that I did not wed" Last Line: "thither we all, alas! Must go, / where death will quickly end my woe" Subject(s): Unemployment CALLING HIM BACK FROM LAYOFF, by HICOK. BOB Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I called a man today. After he said Last Line: Other people staring at their phones / hear? Subject(s): Unemployment DEPARTMENT OF LABOR HAIKU, by CHERYL SAVAGEAU Poem Source First Line: In the winter snow Last Line: And men out of work Subject(s): Politics; Unemployment DEPRESSION, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So proudly she came into the subway car Subject(s): Unemployment; Disappointment; Poverty; Indifference; Depressions, Economic; Recessions ELEGY FOR THE UNEMPLOYED, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: I sit on my back porch at noon Last Line: That takes deep breaths Subject(s): Unemployment FOUR WEEKS UNEMPLOYED: I FAIL WATER DEPARTMENT'S ... EXAM, by SHARON HASHIMOTO Poem Source First Line: My cheek feels the rough touch Last Line: My cheek fells the rough touch %of burlap. Two minutes to finish, %a man repeats the warning Subject(s): Unemployment HOUSE-BUILDER VARIATIONS, by ANDREW GREIG Poem Source First Line: Unemployed? Growing rusty? You want Last Line: I love you though the drill be rusty %and the state confused Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Unemployment 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 MINI-JABBERWOCKY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most people would find rising unemployment Last Line: I don't want to argue or squabble, %but that gook I won't gobble Subject(s): Unemployment MINIMUM WAGE, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No one called but a cat Last Line: With the eraser of a chewed pencil [or, I never got a single step closer] Subject(s): Animals; Cats; San Joaquin Valley, California; Unemployment NO WORK POEM #1, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What hurt my father most after his accident Subject(s): Fathers; Unemployment PER DIEM, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spherically wondrous sunbeam Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Women; Unemployment; Wine PRAYER, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: God, I need a job because I need money Last Line: I need a job again. I’m caught in a steel cycle Subject(s): Poverty; Unemployment PRAYER, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God, I need a job because I need money Subject(s): Poverty; Unemployment PRAYER OF AN UNEMPLOYED MAN, by W. C. ACKERLY Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: Here in the quiet of my room Last Line: Abide with me and be my friend. Subject(s): Religion; Unemployment; Theology PRAYER OF THE UNEMPLOYED, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, I do not ask for houses of steel Last Line: Work for these hands to do. Subject(s): Prayer; Religion; Unemployment; Theology RED APPLES, by KARL E. MUNDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He tries to sell red apples in the street Last Line: Cannot remember belleau wood. Subject(s): Apples; Belleau Wood, France; Fruit; Social Problems; Soldiers; Unemployment; War SENTIMENTAL DANGERS, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When out of work and fierce with self-pity Last Line: And the river smelled like a wet, unwanted dog Subject(s): Unemployment; Dogs 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 THE EXPLORER, by LLOYD DAY Poem Text First Line: There was no bread the night he left Last Line: To where we are. Subject(s): Unemployment THE UNEMPLOYED, DISABLED, AND INSANE, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stands alone at the city corner, Subject(s): Unemployment THEIR WORK, by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the ones who don't Last Line: For there is no work more difficult %than theirs, sitting and waiting Subject(s): Idleness; Unemployment; Waiting THEN AND NOW, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember those mornings after the blitzes Last Line: Make real, of glory, common wealth, and home. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Factories; Labor & Laborers; Labor Unions; Memory; News; Strikes; Surrey, England; Unemployment; Work; Workers; Labor Disputes; Lockouts TOM'S GARLAND: UPON THE UNEMPLOYED, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tom - garlanded with squat and surly steel Last Line: Manwolf; worse; and their packs infest the age. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Unemployment; Work; Workers TRINITY PLACE, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pigeons that peck at the grass in trinity churchyard Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Pigeons; Unemployment; Work; Workers TRINITY PLACE, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pigeons that peck at the grass in trinity churchyard Last Line: It is only the men who are hungry. The pigeons are fed Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Pigeons; Unemployment UNEMPLOYED WOMAN BEGGING: KOLN, 1930, by ELIZABETH WEBER Poem Source First Line: Her face is a field where crops forgot to come up Last Line: But corridors in a dream she once had %where she woke screaming and her mother rubbed her back Subject(s): Unemployment UNEMPLOYMENT, by TOM WAYMAN Poem Source First Line: The chrome lid of the coffee pot Last Line: Or selling it. %or waiting Subject(s): Industry; Labor And Laborers; Unemployment UNEMPLOYMENT DROPS, by RICHARD CLOKE Poem Source Last Line: All statisticians %are liars Subject(s): Unemployment UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES ARE DOWN, by JACK BERNIER Poem Source First Line: America is creating jobs Last Line: Transmittable epidemic of lockjaw Subject(s): Unemployment UNEMPLOYMENT LINE BLUES, by SAM CORNISH Poem Source First Line: The ship %yard Last Line: Jelly roll %blues Subject(s): Unemployment UNEMPLOYMENT OFFICE, CA. 1991, by CAROLYN GREGORY Poem Source First Line: Here we all sit facing forward Last Line: When will I tell my story? Subject(s): Unemployment UNEMPLOYMENT POEM, by LORRAINE SCHEIN Poem Source First Line: I have joined the ranks of the unemployed Last Line: Our job is making the air circulate Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Unemployment; Women WHEN A MAN'S OUT OF A JOB, by SAM WALTER FOSS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All nature is sick from her heels to her hair Last Line: W'en a feller is out of a job. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Unemployment; Work; Workers |
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