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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SONG FOR OCCUPATIONS, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I do of men and women like you
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Business; United States – Politics & Government


A VERMONT CHICKEN BUYER, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When stronger grew november's cold
Last Line: With other chaps and chickens.
Subject(s): Business; Chickens; Holidays; Thanksgiving; Vermont; Businessmen; Businesswomen


ADOLPHUS BUSCH: AVE ATQUE VALE, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They brought his body to the shore
Last Line: Rose, spite that needle's eye, to god.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Beer; Busch, Adolphus (1839-1913); Business; Drinks & Drinking; Ale; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Wine


ANOTHER FALL, by KEVIN DURKIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Higgledy-piggledy %william the conqueror
Last Line: Counterproductively %way oversold
Subject(s): Autumn; Business; Seasons


AZRAEL'S CALL, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: That, which seemed so far away
Last Line: Then throws back his head, to take me in
Subject(s): Business; Family Life; Spring; Telephones


BRIGHT LEAF, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like words put to a song, the bunched tobacco leaves
Subject(s): Tobbaco Farms; Women - Employment; Children; Farm Life; Southern States; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; South (u.s.)


BUSINESS, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no money in breathing
Last Line: "breathing doesn’t give enough
Subject(s): Business; Debt; Businessmen; Businesswomen


BUSINESS IS BAD: 1, by JAMES A. AUTRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: How do you know when you've gone too far
Last Line: Don't they know, don't they know? %business is bad
Subject(s): Business - Failures


BUSINESS IS BAD: 2, by JAMES A. AUTRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He did not look well
Last Line: That last profit forcast was rotten, %really a killer
Subject(s): Business - Failures


BUSINESS MAN, by GAIL RUDD ENTREKIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The company, like a small herd of brilliant sheep
Last Line: The current takes you, slides you back, pulls you in again
Subject(s): Business


BUSINESS MEN, by CH'EN TZU-ANG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Business men boast of their skill and cunning
Last Line: On the chariot of mutation entered the gate of immutability?
Alternate Author Name(s): Po-yu
Subject(s): Business; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Businessmen; Businesswomen


CARTEL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Crime in the street
Last Line: We love competitors. Customers we hate.'
Subject(s): Business; Competition; Crime And Criminals


CHAPTER ELEVEN, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As in a thousand novels bur I'll never as long as I live get used to this
Last Line: He says finally: 'I'm on such a short leash with the bank, I can't make a dime'
Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K.
Subject(s): Business - Failures; Labor And Laborers


COAL, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He made a living selling land and coal
Last Line: He made a living
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): Family Life; Business; Fathers; Relatives


CORPORATE MEETING, by STANLEY MARCUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not an oblong, as one would envision
Last Line: Unfathomable hours that seem %to glide from coffee to coffee
Subject(s): Business; Corporate Life


DOWN WITH MONEY EXCHANGE, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh cibernetic fairy
Last Line: Down with the silk-mart!
Subject(s): Business - Failures; Depressions, Economic; Labor And Laborers; Money; Sugar


DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON TO THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER SR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis strange indeed to hear us plead
Last Line: When money clinks its story.
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Business; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915); Black Heritage; Businessmen; Businesswomen


ELBEE NOVELTY COMPANY INC., by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For I have seen louie berkie in his warehouse rows of plastic
Subject(s): Business; Businessmen; Businesswomen


ELBEE NOVELTY COMPANY INC., by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For I have seen louie berkie in his warehouse rows of plastic
Last Line: The silence, right? I know, I live alone. Here, shake my hand on it
Subject(s): Business


EVERY DAY THERE ARE NEW MEMOS, by RODNEY JONES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fact-fluffed, appended with dates, they drift down, o bountiful accountings
Last Line: And dreaded more than stitches the roll approaching my name
Subject(s): Business


EXECUTIVE, by JOHN BETJEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am your executive. No cuffs than mine are cleaner
Last Line: Will settle any buildings that are standing in our way - %the modern style, sir, with respect, has r
Subject(s): Business


EXECUTIVE, by JEREMY REED    Poem Source                    
First Line: The pace increases; one hand on his head
Last Line: Raging his banners' formula- %everything's convertible to money
Subject(s): Business


EXECUTIVE HEALTH, by JAMES A. AUTRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Something happens, %a dizziness when you stand up
Last Line: And vow to make another start this weekend
Subject(s): Business


FANNY: 138, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bond, mortgage, title-deed, and all completed
Last Line: Then filled his rooms with servants, and whatever %is necessary for a 'genteel liver'
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Business; Debt; Houses; Mortgages


FANNY: 146, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He was a trustee of a savings bank
Last Line: Past fifty years of age, and five feet nine
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Business; Wealth


FANNY: 147, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But as he trod to grandeur's pinnacle
Last Line: The bank directors grinned, and shrugged their shoulders
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Business; Money


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


GOLDFISH FLOATS TO THE TOP OF HIS LIFE, by TED KOOSER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: They all would prefer to have died in their sleep
Subject(s): Business; Death


HAPPY HOUR WITH LEARY, by JEFFREY SKINNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the middle of distant conversation
Last Line: Seventeen years old, not even the need %to shave yet every morning
Subject(s): Ambition; Business


HER POEM, by EVA JONES MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: She looked to find a poem
Last Line: "your poem -- 'tis your home."
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Employment; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers


HIDDEN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY, by ROBERT MICHAEL O'HEARN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hidden equal opportunity questionaire
Last Line: Ge too big.. Wink! Oink! Wink!
Subject(s): Business; Equality


HUDSON RIVER ANTHOLOGY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ran a store
Last Line: He's serving thirty years.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Business; Labor & Laborers; Money; Retail Trade; Wages; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Work; Workers; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Salaries


IMMUNE TO LOVE, by VIRGINIA BRADY YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: When love came tapping at my heart
Last Line: I wonder: am I -- queer?
Subject(s): Love; Women - Employment; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers


JUST DOING IT!, by CARL STILLWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: When it comes %to getting endorsements
Last Line: Nike - %they just do it!
Subject(s): Business; Stars


JUSTICE, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: John henry vanderdecken was a modern business man
Last Line: "will stick around ""in conference"" until the end of time!"
Subject(s): Business; Office Work; Businessmen; Businesswomen


KID'S PLAY, by ROSARIUS LEONARDI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The southern coalition
Last Line: Doing as they are told, some one so naive, %it might as well be kids
Subject(s): Business; Children


KOZY KORNER MOTEL, by JORDAN MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Easy, the franchise-man had said,
Last Line: Bending to the breeze.
Subject(s): Business; Hotels; Travel


LEAVING IT ALL BEHIND, by JAMES A. AUTRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There were days when we still didn't get it
Last Line: Before all that, %we would get out
Subject(s): Business; Competition


LORD OF DOLLARS, by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over kings and priests and scholars %rules the mighty lord of dollars
Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De
Subject(s): Business; Courts And Courtiers; Money; Wealth


MILKING THE RASPBERRY COW, by UNKNOWN+12    Poem Source                    
First Line: Each july morning I'm to be found
Last Line: I've never been raspberries more than now!
Subject(s): Business; Fruit; Grocers; Raspberries


MR. KYLE THE BANKER, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Takes the jack out of his new mercedes
Last Line: Cranking as his ship sinks under him
Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Business - Failures; Labor And Laborers


MS, by JUDITH BERKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: This desk is an antique: it's dainty
Last Line: And the jacket, like another person, %in back of her
Subject(s): Business; Women


MY CORPORATE LIFE, by ROBERT MCDOWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: So steve just wants to get ahead. Who don't
Last Line: Fat chance,' he tells himself, 'and no regrets'
Subject(s): Business; Competition


MY LEGACY, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The business man the acquirer vast
Last Line: I bind together and bequeath in this bundle of songs.
Subject(s): Business; Businessmen; Businesswomen


MYSELF AND I, by BARBARA E. KNITTEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: A small, mean someone
Last Line: Happily.
Subject(s): Self; Women - Employment; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers


NOTE TO TONY TOWLE (AFTER WS), by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: One must have breakfasted often on automobile primer
Last Line: Rather than attribute, towards the brush with open sea
Subject(s): Business; Tourists; Trade; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001)


OF THE UNIVERSAL LOVE OF PLEASURE; TO A FRIEND, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All human race, from china to peru
Last Line: Enjoy unlimited benevolence!
Subject(s): Business; Greed; History; Mankind; Pleasure; Travel; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Avarice; Cupidity; Historians; Human Race; Journeys; Trips


ON A BAD PAINTING IN THE LOBBY OF IBM INTERNATIONAL, by JEFFREY SKINNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sly artist knew what he was doing
Last Line: My forehead and my fingers smear a thin %line of moisture. The receptionist is waving
Subject(s): Business; Paintings And Painters


OPENING THE MAIL, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She used to work down in the copy center, and
Subject(s): Women - Employment; Ambition; Automobile Racing; Postal Service; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; Race Car Driving; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


PICKING UP A JOB APPLICATION, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A spring wind hustles hundreds of pages into the street
Subject(s): Women - Employment; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers


PIET, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How strange to see a career straight as an arrow!
Last Line: That proved his dream to be (bull's-eye!) the fact
Subject(s): Business; Labor And Laborers


PRINT SHOP, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here are the pin-ups of the nude
Last Line: Queer for looking.
Subject(s): Business; Printing & Printers; Businessmen; Businesswomen


PUTTING THE CREAM IN THE WELL OF VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We all have seen a sultry spurt
Last Line: We storaged down the well.
Subject(s): Business; Vermont; Wells; Businessmen; Businesswomen


QUARTERLY MEETING, by GARY N. ATLIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the board members greet you
Last Line: On the other end of the line, something is on fire
Subject(s): Business


SALESMEN, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Throughout the town my wares I holler
Last Line: There's something lacking in his make-up, he cannot make a sale.
Subject(s): Business; Markets; Merchants; Salespersons; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Supermarkets; Selling


SWEAT-SHOP SLAVES, FR. THE POET IN THE DESERT, by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see my white-faced sisters of the foul tenements
Last Line: The devil-dance of the shuttles!
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Sweatshops; Women - Employment; Work; Workers; Sweating System; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers


TAKING THE SHUTTLE WITH FRANZ, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A search for metaphors to describe the thick
Last Line: Vermin,' they think, imagining stamping us out
Subject(s): Air Travel; Business; Travel; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Journeys; Trips


TAKING THE SHUTTLE WITH FRANZ, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A search for metaphors to describe the thick
Last Line: Throbs within them, under cashmere and cambric: %'vermin,' they think, imagining stamping us out
Subject(s): Air Travel; Business; Travel


TEMPORARY JOB, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Women - Employment; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DAM, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All power is saved, having no end. Rises
Subject(s): Dams; Rivers; Business; Businessmen; Businesswomen


THE COTTAGER'S COMPLAINT, ON .. ENCLOSING SUTTON-COLDFIELD, by JOHN FREETH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How sweetly did the moments glide
Last Line: Who murders my content.
Alternate Author Name(s): Free, John
Subject(s): Business; Markets; Retail Trade; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Supermarkets; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


THE CURB-BROKERS, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hail, ye frenzied creatures, antic, mask-like figures
Last Line: And did ye ever walk among the rustling rows of corn?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence
Subject(s): Brokers; Business; Stock Exchange; Wall Street, New York City; Businessmen; Businesswomen


THE MEETING, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: She was a blossoming slip of english may
Last Line: "he holds her fast -- ""my rose! My little rose...."
Subject(s): Women - Employment; World War I; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; First World War


THE SHOEMAKER'S HOLIDAY, by THOMAS DEKKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: As wretches in a storm (expecting day)
Last Line: [exeunt.
Subject(s): Business; Fantasy; Shoes; Success; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


THE TRUSTS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A noble word gone wrong! O men of might
Last Line: When to your trust will you be grandly true?
Subject(s): Business - Monopolies; Trust


THE VILLAGE MUNITIONS CO., INC.; FORMERLY THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under spreading chestnut tree
Last Line: Has earned two thou. Per cent.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Business; Factories; Labor & Laborers; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Money; Wealth; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Work; Workers; Riches; Fortunes


THE WALL STREET PIT, MAY, 1901, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see a hell of faces surge and whirl
Last Line: And, under all, the silence of the dead!
Subject(s): Business; Stock Exchange; Wall Street, New York City; Businessmen; Businesswomen


THE WOMEN TOILERS, by GRACE BOWEN EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw them from our car today
Last Line: As I was passing by their fields today!
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Women - Employment; Work; Workers; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers


THRIFT SHOP LADIES, by JENNIFER M. PIERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: They carry their long, heavy bosoms inside old sweaters and wear
Last Line: At three o'clock the lights go out and they go their separate ways
Subject(s): Business; Clothing And Dress; Retail Trade; Shopping


TO A PUBLISHER, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the divine john out of heaven, great sir
Last Line: The city in great stillness is withdrawn.
Subject(s): Business; Publishing; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Publishers


TO MR. SIMPSON, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm a friend to your theatre
Last Line: And hopper and maywood, a promising pair
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Business; Critics And Criticism; Theater And Theaters


TO THE RAILROAD MEN, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O brotherhood of engineers
Last Line: Of so-called sleeping cars at 8o?
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Business; Labor & Laborers; Railroads; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Work; Workers; Railways; Trains


TO WORKMAN'S COMP, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: When asked for last words before the noose
Last Line: Of how much my tail is worth
Subject(s): Accidents; Business; Insurance And Insurance Agents; Labor And Laborers; Poetry And Poets


TWO POINTS OF VIEW: 1, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Because you've mused on some old masterpiece
Last Line: The rest is nothing but exploded cant.
Subject(s): Business; Economics; Labor & Laborers; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Work; Workers


TWO POINTS OF VIEW: 2, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Because we have enjoyed the 'pure serene'
Last Line: Ideal truth would reconcile the two.
Subject(s): Business; Labor & Laborers; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Work; Workers


WE HAD SEEN A PIG, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One man held the huge pig down
Last Line: When we looked.
Subject(s): Business; Butchers; Murder; Pigs; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Boars; Hogs


WHAT IS A 'GOOD TRUST'?, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A good trust' holds the goods in trust
Last Line: It is not made by law.
Subject(s): Business - Monopolies


WHEN THE COMPUTERS HAVE CRASHED, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And beading their lips
Subject(s): Business; Computers


WOMENS' SUFFRAGE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fellow men! Why should the lords try to despise
Last Line: And ye will gain the parliamentary franchise before very long.
Subject(s): Elections; Freedom; Wages; Women - Employment; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Liberty; Salaries; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; Feminism