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Subject: MERCHANTS
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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