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Subject: WOMEN - EMPLOYMENT
Matches Found: 14

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BRIGHT LEAF, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like words put to a song, the bunched tobacco leaves
Subject(s): Tobbaco Farms; Women - Employment; Children; Farm Life; Southern States; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; South (u.s.)


DOG ROAD WOMAN, by A. A. HEDGE COKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: They called you
Last Line: We fashioned stars
Subject(s): Butchers; Labor And Laborers; Women - Employment


ELEANOR, by MIQUEL MARTI I POL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eleanor was
Last Line: And said 'yes sir' and 'good afternoon'
Subject(s): Factories; Labor And Laborers; Women - Employment


HER POEM, by EVA JONES MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: She looked to find a poem
Last Line: "your poem -- 'tis your home."
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Employment; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers


IMMUNE TO LOVE, by VIRGINIA BRADY YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: When love came tapping at my heart
Last Line: I wonder: am I -- queer?
Subject(s): Love; Women - Employment; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers


LADY SENATOR, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The men about her are barking and biting
Last Line: She goes down shouting
Subject(s): Politics; Women - Employment


MYSELF AND I, by BARBARA E. KNITTEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: A small, mean someone
Last Line: Happily.
Subject(s): Self; Women - Employment; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers


OPENING THE MAIL, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She used to work down in the copy center, and
Subject(s): Women - Employment; Ambition; Automobile Racing; Postal Service; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; Race Car Driving; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


PICKING UP A JOB APPLICATION, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A spring wind hustles hundreds of pages into the street
Subject(s): Women - Employment; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers


SWEAT-SHOP SLAVES, FR. THE POET IN THE DESERT, by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see my white-faced sisters of the foul tenements
Last Line: The devil-dance of the shuttles!
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Sweatshops; Women - Employment; Work; Workers; Sweating System; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers


TEMPORARY JOB, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Women - Employment; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers


THE MEETING, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: She was a blossoming slip of english may
Last Line: "he holds her fast -- ""my rose! My little rose...."
Subject(s): Women - Employment; World War I; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; First World War


THE WOMEN TOILERS, by GRACE BOWEN EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw them from our car today
Last Line: As I was passing by their fields today!
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Women - Employment; Work; Workers; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers


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