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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BUSINESS Matches Found: 79 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 |
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