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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: AUCTIONS Matches Found: 21 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CRATE OF STERLING SILVER LOVING CUPS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had gone to the freightyard auction of steel crates Subject(s): Auctions A NEW YEAR'S TIME AT WILLARDS'S, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's old man willards; an' his Last Line: "an' s'repty's good enough fer you!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Auctions; Christmas; Holidays; New Year; Nativity, The AFTER FORTY YEARS, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have loved your face for many a year Last Line: Alas! -- adieu! Subject(s): Aging; Auctions; Portraits AT CHRISTIE'S, by MARY M. SINGLETON CURRIE Poem Source First Line: They scowl and simper here in rows Last Line: Of what is wrong and what is right Alternate Author Name(s): Fane, Violet; Lamb, Mary Montgomerie; Singleton, Mrs. Subject(s): Auctions AUCTION, by LEO DANGEL Poem Source First Line: Not even a bid Subject(s): Auctions AUCTION, by CLAUDIA EMERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Some things bring nothing. Later there will be Last Line: Thick palms bared for this shallow, movable darkness Subject(s): Auctions AUCTION SALE - HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS, by ADELE DE LEEUX Poem Text First Line: Nothing much here!' they say. With careless glance Last Line: All her young married life in one small dray. Subject(s): Auctions; Treasures AUCTION STREET, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider the drum Last Line: The ground you walk is holy Subject(s): Slavery; Auctions AUCTION: ANDERSON GALLERIES, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lot 65: john keats to fanny brawne Last Line: "sold to this party for nine sixty five." Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Auctions AUCTIONEER'S SONG, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come up from the field Last Line: Bid up! Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Auctions; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers BAGS OF MEAT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a fine bag of meat Last Line: When the butcher wins, and he's driven from the place. Subject(s): Auctions; Butchers; Cattle COUNTRY SALE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the thin green sky, the twilight day Last Line: So beautiful, all went for an old song. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Auctions; Country Life; England; English IN AN AUCTION ROOM, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How about this lot? Said the auctioneer Last Line: Sold for eight hundred dollars -- doctor r.! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Auctions; Brawne, Fanny; Keats, John (1795-1821); Letters; Poetry & Poets; Rosenbach, Abraham Simon (1876-1952) MARILYN MONROE PHOTOGRAPHS, by PAGE DOUGHERTY DELANO Poem Source First Line: This article notes auctions of beatles and monroe things Subject(s): Auctions; Bands; Beatles, The; Monroe, Marilyn (1926-1962); Music And Musicians ON GETTING AN EDUCATION, by PHILIP RAISOR Poem Source First Line: Every muncie %provides the same texts Last Line: I'm coming home %to barbecue a fatted calf, %clean out my father's attic Subject(s): Auctions; Education; Life THE AUCTION, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once on returning home, purse-proud and hale Subject(s): Home; Auctions; Property; Possessions THE AUCTION SALE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her little head just topped the window-sill Last Line: All, all I see just heartbreak and despair. Subject(s): Auctions; Paris, France THE AUCTIONEER AND THE LAWYER, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A city auctioneer, one samuel stubbs Last Line: He knocked him down. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Auctions; Law & Lawyers THE CHRISTIAN SLAVE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A christian! Going, gone! Last Line: How long, o god, how long? Subject(s): Auctions; Christianity; Slavery; Serfs THE OLD VIOLON, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Going, going!' the voice was loud Last Line: To dust 'neath his touch the violon fell. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Auctions; Violone (musical Instrument); Violon TO HENRY WRIGHT, OF MOBBERLEY, ON BUYING THE PICTURE OF F. MALEBRANCHE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, dear mr. Wright, I must send you a line Last Line: Huzza! Father malebranche and shorthand for ever. Subject(s): Auctions; Books; Malebranche, Nicolas De (1638-1715); Portraits; Reading |
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