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| Searching... Subject: BUREAUCRACY Matches Found: 17 BUREAU , by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is this the university? Last Line: I am calling about bureaus; their hearts and minds Variant Title(s): Bureau Subject(s): Bureaucracy; Universities & Colleges BUREAU 2, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Skunks fight under the house and keep us Last Line: Mr. Simms is animal health officer of this whole county %andhis chief interest is wolves Variant Title(s): Burea Subject(s): Bureaucracy BUREAUCRATIC LIMERICK, by WILLIAM HARMON Poem Source First Line: The bureau of labor statistics %has been taken over by mystics Last Line: Has no actual characteristics Subject(s): Bureaucracy; Statistics And Statisticians COMMITTEE, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So the committee met again, and again Last Line: That I should have to chairman, secretary, %and all the committee, all the one-man committee Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Bureaucracy DEPARTMENTAL, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: An ant on the table cloth Last Line: But how thoroughly departmental Subject(s): Ants; Bureaucracy; Insects; Bugs DEPARTMENTAL, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An ant on the table cloth Last Line: But how thoroughly departmental Subject(s): Ants; Bureaucracy; Insects FOLLOWING THE RHYMES OF SHAO-PAO HUANG'S POEM, by YANG SHIH-CH'I Poem Source First Line: There is a drought, the farmers have hard time finding food Last Line: What are we officials doing about it? %eating meat, growing old in the capital! Subject(s): Bureaucracy; Drought FRIGATE JONES, THE PUSSYFOOTER, by KENNETH BURKE Poem Source First Line: Firgate jones was very slow and fat Last Line: But give him rope enough, and I opine %he'll hang himself upon a party line Subject(s): Bureaucracy LAMENT OF A BUREAUCRAT, by A. E. FLETCHER Poem Source First Line: I find it odd how much I spend Last Line: But human weakness is infused %with self-infatuatum Subject(s): Bureaucracy OLD CHARCOAL SELLER, by PO CHU-YI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Dropped on the ox - is payment in full! Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Bureaucracy SUBURBAN BUREAUCRATIC MENTALITY POEM, by MICHAEL CERAOLO Poem Source First Line: The public parks and pools are policed as though they were private clubs Last Line: Creating a booming business in fake I.D.S for seven year olds Subject(s): Bureaucracy THE CHARCOAL-SELLER, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An old charcoal-seller Last Line: The courtiers have tied to the oxen's collar, as the price of a wagon of coal! Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Bureaucracy THE COMMITTEE, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So the committee met again, and again Last Line: Or be adjourned, sine die, their task half done? Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Bureaucracy THE NEW COMMITTEES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ten new committees, vigorous and fine Last Line: Fun got exhausted, and there was -- none. Subject(s): Bureaucracy THE SNUFF-BOXES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A village pedagogue announced one day Last Line: "round, sir, on sundays, square on other days" Subject(s): Bureaucracy;snuff (tobacco) THE UNKNOWN CITIZEN, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: He was found by the bureau of statistics to be Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Bourgeoisie; Bureaucracy; Conformity; Modern Man; Social Protest; Statistics & Statisticians; Middle Class UNKNOWN CITIZEN, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was found by the bureau of statistics to be Last Line: Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: %had anything been wrong, we should certainly hav Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Bourgeoisie; Bureaucracy; Conformity; Modern Man; Social Protest; Statistics And Statisticians |
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