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Subject: AUCTIONS
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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