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Subject: BONDS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BONDS -- AND BONDS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Buy a bond to break a bond
Last Line: Fettering your brothers!
Subject(s): War Bonds; World War I; First World War


BONDS FOR ALL, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Buy a bond for grandma --
Last Line: With war bonds for all
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; War Bonds


FOOL'S GOLD, by HERBERT KAUFMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: See him there, cold and gray
Last Line: He can't play.
Subject(s): Ambition; Business; Gold; Investments; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Stocks; Bonds


HIKING TOWARD LAUGHING GULL POINT, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I saw a gull catch a bait in midair
Last Line: A hook, the end of the line.
Subject(s): Investments; Sea; Seashore; Stocks; Bonds; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore


INVESTMENT SECURITY, by F. W. H.    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'd like to have a ticker which would carry
Last Line: And save myself some unpropitious starts.
Subject(s): Investments; Love; Stocks; Bonds


JIM, by GEORGE VERE HOBART    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hear the drum roll, rub-a-dub, dub
Last Line: If jim — poor jim — marched, too!
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Grief; Soldiers; War Bonds; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


L. BOND, RECRUITING SERGEANT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You are old? Your cash is young'
Last Line: Says sergeant bond.
Subject(s): War Bonds


OPTIMIST AND PESSIMIST, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The right will triumph,' jones declared
Last Line: "it's what a fellow does."
Subject(s): Hope; Pessimism; War Bonds; Optimism


SELLING MAGRITTE'S HOUSE, by BOB HICOK    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The train in the fireplace
Last Line: The owner? A very regular man
Subject(s): Allen, Ethan (1738-1789); Houses; Investments; Landlords & Tenants; Soldiers; Stocks; Bonds


TELLING THEM OF TAMPA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "weary months I've spent in tampa, where the luscious hardtack grows"
Last Line: Down at -- o! Confound old tampa. Sister! Won't you pass / the cake!
Subject(s): Camping;war Bonds;weariness; Camps;summer Camps;fatigue


THE ANNUITANTS ANSWER, by ROBERT CHAMBERS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: My certy! But it sets him weel
Last Line: For me and my annuity.
Subject(s): Investments; Salespersons; Stocks; Bonds; Selling


THE PEAU DE CHAGRIN OF STATE STREET, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How beauteous is the bond
Last Line: Anywhere!
Subject(s): Investments; Stocks; Bonds