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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BARBERS Matches Found: 29 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 7 SOURPUSSES OF OKOLONA, IL: THE DOUR BARBER, by GRAY JACOBIK Poem Source First Line: Silence shields him, he's laconic Last Line: Hurry his burial--and skip the funeral Subject(s): Barbers A BARBER, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a barber, and I'd have you know Last Line: I with a powder send him straight away. Subject(s): Barbers AERIE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By following many a color-coded corridor Last Line: And nimbly reached for his bag of old bread and his scissors Subject(s): Barbers; Hospitals AERIE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By following many a color-coded corridor Last Line: And nimbly reached for his bag of old bread and his scissors Subject(s): Barbers; Hospitals ARS GRATIA ARTIS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the next chair in the barber- Last Line: At home with his electric razor Subject(s): Barbers BARBER, by B. H. FAIRCHILD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have been waiting so long...Little pocks Last Line: And reaches up to stroke my silken chin Subject(s): Barbers; Shaving BARBER WHO LIVED IN MORAVIA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Barbers; Moravia And Moravians BEAUTY SHOP, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Named for the archangel michael Last Line: And sense the pillars / shake Subject(s): Hair; Barbers DA WHEESTLIN' BARBER, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Las' night you hear da op'ra? Last Line: Ha! W'at you theenk of dat? Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Barbers EDDIE PRIEST'S BARBERSHOP & NOTARY, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is music ... Is men / off early from work ... Is waiting Last Line: Your turn - you are next Subject(s): Barbers; Hair EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here lies the barber hick Last Line: He killed himself with drinking rum Subject(s): Alcohol & Alcoholics;barbers;epitaphs EVERYBODY WHO IS DEAD, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a man knows another man Last Line: The old men line up by the chair / and the barber pours a little / in each of their hands Subject(s): Death; Barbers; Dead, The FIRST HAIR CUT, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The barber's rough bristles brushed Last Line: The fluorescent light licked %my bare neck to stone Subject(s): Barbers; Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States HAIRCUT, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I get off the irt in front of the schomburg center Last Line: Dying every day Subject(s): Barbers; Harlem (new York City) HAIRCUT, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wonderful nonsense of lotions of lucky tiger Last Line: The other day. This plot would tickle rabelais. A pubic hair turned silver grey Subject(s): Barbers; Hair HAIRCUT, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wonderful nonsense of lotions of lucky tiger Last Line: And lie on the flat of my temples as proud as a wreath Subject(s): Barbers; Hair IN CHARIDEMUM, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, charidemus, who my cradle swung Last Line: And your own mistress hails me for a man. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Aging; Barbers PICAZO'S BARBERSHOP, by RICARDO PAU-LLOSA Poem Source First Line: I am a few minutes early %and picazo is around the corner Last Line: To sprinklings and not to weather mandates Subject(s): Barbers RULES FOR SEEMLY BEHAVIOUR; A BARBER'S FORFEITS VERSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: First come, first serve - then come not late Last Line: But mark, who is already in drink, %the cannikin must never clink Subject(s): Barbers SEATS OF THE FLIGHTY: THE SECOND CHAIR, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: I'm getting used to the barber's chair Last Line: My head will resemble a knob. Subject(s): Barbers; Chairs; Hair SPRING AND ALL, XIV, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of death / the barber Last Line: Entrance - still, the profound change / has come upon them: rooted, they / grip down and begin to aw Subject(s): Barbers; Death; Dead, The THE ALARM, by HILDEBRAND JACOB Poem Text First Line: What is't, good prying friend, you say? Last Line: Tis time to be in haste, to live! Subject(s): Barbers; Clocks; Hair; Old Age; Time THE BARBER, by EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some people make the barber bring Last Line: They miss the fragrant brilliantine. Subject(s): Barbers THE BARBER ABROAD, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said crimp the hair-dresser, when he Last Line: His hankering for greece! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Barbers; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE BARBER'S, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gold locks, and black locks Last Line: In the bright, blue day. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Barbers THE FIRST HAIR CUT, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jimmy's had a hair cut! Last Line: Just to smell his head. Subject(s): Barbers; Boys; Hair THE MAN FROM IRONBARK, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the man from ironbark who struck the sydney town Last Line: That flowing beards are all the go way up in ironbark. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Barbers; Jokes; Murder THE SPANISH BARBER, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What sights abound the world around, let tourists live and learn Last Line: And, conscious of a triumph, said, servito, señor. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Barbers; Beards; Spain TO A CHILD TRAPPED IN A BARBER SHOP, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've gotten in through the transom Last Line: It's just begun Subject(s): Barbers; Children |
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