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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CAREERS Matches Found: 16 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BRIGHT LEAF, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full 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.) CHOOSING A PROFESSION, by MARY LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A creole boy from the west indies brought Last Line: Were dancing in the street the first of may. Subject(s): Boys; Careers; West Indies; Caribbean Islands 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 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 MONOLOGUE, by BILL ZAVATSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you, but since you Subject(s): Transience; Friendship; Careers; Farewell; Disappointment; Impermanence; Parting 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 OPENING THE MAIL, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full 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 Full 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 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 TEMPORARY JOB, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Women - Employment; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers THANK YOU, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh thank you for giving me the chance Subject(s): Advertising; Teeth; Self; Careers; Toothaches THE BOY DECIDES, by RICKMAN MARK Poem Text First Line: I'd like to be a p'liceman Last Line: And blow my whistle hard. Subject(s): Boys; Careers 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 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 TO MY FATHER'S BUSINESS, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leo bends over his desk Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Careers 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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