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Subject: PROFESSIONS
Matches Found: 15

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABANDONING MY PROFESSION, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All of you leave me
Last Line: Where I will stay
Subject(s): Books; Professions; Writing And Writers


ADVANCING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A bank yesterday
Last Line: A prison tomorrow
Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Hotels; Prisons And Prisoners; Professions


AMBITION, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've shoed my horse and fed my cow
Last Line: Perhaps I'll grow to be them all.
Subject(s): Ambition; Children; Professions; Childhood


AN ACTOR'S REMINISCENCES, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Text                    
First Line: You want to follow in my steps?
Last Line: To play othello: 'tis my benefit.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Professions; Theater & Theaters; Actresses; Stage Life


DIFFERENCE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Did you open his eyes? Did you think he was unfriendly?
Last Line: Wanted to know if it's much warmer down south %and if there is much difference between footprints
Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Labor And Laborers; Professions


I YIELD TO MY LEARNED BROTHER, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The doctor gets you when you're born
Last Line: One beacon doth their paths illumine, %to wit: to err is always humine
Subject(s): Professions


MEDICAL TYRO WAITING FOR PATIENTS, by C. S. ELDRIDGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The young doctor sits through his advertised hours
Last Line: And call number one he hails with delight.
Subject(s): Medical Students; Medicine; Patience; Physicians; Professions; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors


NIGHT SCHOOL, by ELAINE EQUI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No one knows %what mind is %or how to get there
Last Line: The stars so pretty %to look at %while driving home
Subject(s): Education; Professions; Progress; Universities & Colleges


PROVIDER, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let's say he's at the company christmas party
Last Line: No place to call home
Subject(s): Fathers; Houses; Men; Paranoia; Professions; Worry


PURSUING A CAREER: 2. WORD PROCESSING, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Intern(m)e(n)t
Subject(s): Computers; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Professions


THE RECANTATION, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Young, saucy, shallow in my views
Last Line: From honour's pole diverges.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Honor; Professions


TO F.A.B., A VIRTUOUS YOUNG PHYSICIAN ABOUT TO PRACTISE, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Frank, young in years, but no unworthy heir
Last Line: The master whom luke served is also thine.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Physicians; Professions; Work; Workers; Doctors


VERSES, RESPECTFULLY & AFFECTIONALLY INSCRIBED TO PROFESSIONAL FRIEND, by BERNARD BARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art not one of those, who, by retreating
Last Line: A wreath more deathless far than I have woven thee?
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): Advice; Professions


WHAT'S MY LINE?, by J. PATRICK LEWIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Psychiatrist: a member of
Last Line: Who owns a mouse; a devotee %of virtual reality
Subject(s): Professions


WORKING DAY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hands of the clock go'round
Last Line: Broken moon plunges through blowing fog
Subject(s): Day; Labor And Laborers; Professions