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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CLERKS Matches Found: 13 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DEATH AT THE OFFICE, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The news goes desk to desk Subject(s): Death; Office Employees; Dead, The; Clerks DOLOR, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils Variant Title(s): Dolour Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Grief; Office Employees; Social Protest; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Sorrow; Sadness; Clerks DRONE, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a clerk Last Line: I clerk Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Office Employees; Clerks IN RE ALFRED EMERY CATHIE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In 1887, alfred cathie / became the private clerk of samuel butler Last Line: "yes, there's tobacco in it -- you may go!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Butler, Samuel (1612-1680); Office Employees; Clerks OFFICE PARTY: DISTAFF VIEW, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mind is in the deep freeze Last Line: Stylized beyond reality. Subject(s): Facades; Marriage; Office Employees; Appearances; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Clerks OFFICE POLITICS, by WANDA COLEMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white boss / stops at my desk to see how I'm doing Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Office Employees; Clerks OFFICES, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of days / with numbers hung on them Last Line: At the holiday party? Subject(s): Office Employees; Office Work; Clerks POST OFFICE ETCHINGS: 11. POSTAL SURVEYOR'S 'TRAVELLING CLERK', by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: My man loads up. We start Last Line: Of zennor, sea-girt, sacred ... Zennor of my heart. Subject(s): Letters; Office Employees; Postal Service; Clerks; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE BANK CLERK AND THE STABLE KEEPERS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Showing how peter was undone Last Line: He had refused to lend a pound! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Office Employees; Stables; Clerks THE CLERK, by SCUDDER MIDDLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two and two are four, four and three are seven Last Line: Through the long celestial day. Subject(s): Heaven; Office Employees; Paradise; Clerks THE CLERKS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did not think that I should find them there Last Line: Clipping the same sad alnage of the years. Subject(s): Office Employees; Clerks THIRTY BOB A WEEK, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I couldn't touch a stop and turn a screw Last Line: And we fall, face forward, fighting, on the deck. Subject(s): Class Struggle; Freedom; Office Employees; Liberty; Clerks WHITE, WHITE COLLARS, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We work in this building and we are hideous Subject(s): Office Employees; Clerks |
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