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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MERCHANTS Matches Found: 26 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FIG FOR TRADE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: A fig for trade!' the maiden said Last Line: A fig, for trade! Subject(s): Food & Eating; Merchants; Trade A VERMONT COUNTRY STORE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our village store will always be Last Line: Made thirteen thousand 'round that store. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Country Life; Merchants; Mountain Life - Vermont; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers AMBOYNA: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As needy gallants, in the scrivener's hands Last Line: As much improper as would honesty. Variant Title(s): Satire On The Dutch Subject(s): Cruelty; Great Britain - Dutch War (1672-1678); Merchants; Plays & Playwrights ; Religion; Dramatists; Theology BREAKING THE RULES, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a merchant Last Line: And yet he is not successful. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Merchants FRIENDSHIP (2), by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now we are partners in such legal trade Last Line: For current stock and not for dividends. Subject(s): Friendship; Merchants; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes INITIATION, by LAURENT TAILHEDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At saint mande. Amid the merry-makers Last Line: "said, ""you may touch it, sir; it will not bite." Subject(s): Merchants; Prostitution; Tents; Harlots; Whores; Brothels LONDONS NONSUCH; OR, THE GLORY OF THE ROYAL EXCHANGE, by HENRY DUKE Poem Text First Line: Well done deare, honest, ehver kynd Last Line: For he is ehver kynd. Subject(s): London Fire (1666); Merchants; Royal Exchange, London; Great Fire Of 1666 MERCHANT ADVENTURERS (WITH ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO SIMEON STRUNSKY), by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Merchant adventurers sending their galleys Last Line: Merchant adventurers still! Subject(s): Merchants; Trade MERCHANT'S JOY, by LU YU (1125-1210) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wide wide yangtze, dragons in deep pools Last Line: See what heaven gives me - luck thin as paper! %now I know that merchants are the happiest of men! Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You Subject(s): Merchants MERCHANTMEN, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long ago I stood by the sea Last Line: The fated ship that I loved so well. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Merchants; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping MERCHANTMEN, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All honour be to merchantmen Last Line: All honour be to merchantmen while sun and moon do shine! Subject(s): Merchants; World War I; First World War MERCHANTS, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I came by the town, the townsmen Subject(s): Merchants; Red Cross MONEY BACK, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your money back if things don't suit' Last Line: Infant after him. Subject(s): Advertising; Grocers; Merchants; Money PROMPT PAY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man runs up a little bill, and when it's Last Line: Reputation, some day that rep will knock you down, and hurt like all creation. Subject(s): Cost Of Living; Merchants; Money; Poverty; Wages; Salaries 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 STAND-BYS, by LAURENT TAILHEDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maupassant, loti, and bourget Last Line: Are sold at all the stations. Subject(s): Merchants SUNDAY, by JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: Fruit-vender church Last Line: Comes scampering out of church Subject(s): Churches; Markets; Merchants; Sabbath THE ADVENTURES OF SIMON SWAUGUM, A VILLAGE MERCHANT, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sprung from a race that had long till'd the soil Last Line: "and still, thro' mercy, may enjoy the smell!" Subject(s): Merchants THE ARBUTUS SELLER, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: Into the city on this april day Last Line: To bring unto the famished town his beauty! Subject(s): Merchants THE CHESHIRE CHEESE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A cheshire man sailed unto spain Last Line: To dance a cheshire round Subject(s): Cheese;merchants THE FLEECE: BOOK 4, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, with our wooly treasures amply stored Last Line: Or as air's vital fluid o'er the globe. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Merchants; Trade; Travel; Weaving & Weavers; Work; Workers; Journeys; Trips THE GOUTY MERCHANT AND THE STRANGER, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In broad street building (on a winter night) Last Line: Leaving the gouty merchant in the dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Merchants THE MERCHANTS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the frost Last Line: Happy the few who will buy of the rain. Subject(s): Children; Games; Merchants; Childhood; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements THE PURCHASE, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a gold may morning Last Line: "despair's was what you took!" Subject(s): Despair; Merchants WHEN MERCHANTS COME, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The witnesses wanted to know if I was happy Last Line: Wishing them well, not erasing them %from the horizon Subject(s): Merchants; Pain; Trucks And Trucking WINDOW, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: The wind has no soul, not even a body! Last Line: They supposedly don't exist! %the woodpile as high as the pantheon collapses Subject(s): Cattle; Labor And Laborers; Merchants |
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