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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SALESPERSONS Matches Found: 39 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 9, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A salesman is an it that stinks excuse Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Hate; Salespersons; Selling 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 9, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A salesman is an it that stinks excuse Last Line: Or think we've met subhuman rights before Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Hate; Salespersons A COSMOPOLITAN WOMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She went round and asked subscriptions Subject(s): Cosmetics;salespersons;travel;women; Selling;journeys;trips APPLICANT, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First, are you our sort of a person? Last Line: Will you marry it, marry it, marry it Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Salespersons BARGAIN, by MABEL NATALIE ERICKSEN Poem Text First Line: Thirty pieces ... I will sell' Last Line: Mocks the bargain with a rope. Subject(s): Salespersons; Selling BUSINESS LIFE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When someone hangs up, having said Last Line: To your ear, your senses and your dignity Subject(s): Hate; Salespersons BUYING AND SELLING, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the way across the bay bridge I sang Subject(s): Cities; Salespersons; Urban Life; Selling BUYING AND SELLING, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the way across the bay bridge I sang Last Line: Themselves, who having been abandoned believe %their parents will return before dark Subject(s): Cities; Salespersons CALLER HERRIN', by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Wha'll buy my caller herrin'? Last Line: Truth will stand when a' thing's failin'. Alternate Author Name(s): Lady Nairne; Oliphant, Carolina; Nairne, Baroness Subject(s): Herring; Salespersons; Selling CIGARETTE SALESMAN, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT Poem Source First Line: In winged-tip shoes Subject(s): Salespersons; Smoking DAYS OF PIE AND COFFEE, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A motorist once said to me Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Conduct Of Life; Salespersons; Selling DOOR TO DOOR, by MARTHA RONK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He came to the door selling knowledge Last Line: Eager to have what he had to sell Subject(s): Salespersons; Books; Knowledge ELAINE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elaine, the counter-girl from the hat department Last Line: Nor the toes of the silver slippers worn Subject(s): Girls; Salespersons; Selling ELAINE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elaine, the counter-girl from the hat department Last Line: Nor the toes of the silver slippers worn Subject(s): Girls; Salespersons FROM THE FAIR LAVINIAN SHORE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Though you are threescore years old. Subject(s): Gold; Markets; Retail Trade; Salespersons; Supermarkets; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Selling GYPSY'S SELLING SONG, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My good man -- he's an old, old man Last Line: Buy, maids, buy Subject(s): Gypsies; Salespersons INDIANS SELL THINGS ALONG OUR STREETS, by EVELYN MABEL WATSON Poem Text First Line: Watercress from a wind-blown mountain fall Last Line: With wind-flowers in my exquisite bouquet. . . . Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Native Americans; Salespersons; Streets; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Selling; Avenues ON FIRING A SALESMAN, by JAMES A. AUTRY Poem Source First Line: It's like a little murder Last Line: That young disregard for even the thought %of a salesman's mortality Subject(s): Salespersons RECOGNITION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: What am I to make of the pusher's Last Line: He sells poison like slices of bad luck Subject(s): Drugs And Drug Abuse; Money; Morality; Salespersons SALE OF THE 'COIN MUSARD.', by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Tobaccos, wines, liqueurs, grocery 'fancy foods' in sooth, bookshop Last Line: Rigid as a pole. Subject(s): Retail Trade; Salespersons; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Selling SALES TALK, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Better than to kill each other off Last Line: To unity and morale Subject(s): Salespersons; Selling SALES TALK, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Better than to kill each other off Last Line: The knotted tie under a white collar add up %to unity and morale Subject(s): Salespersons SALESMAN, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today he's wearing his vinyl shoes Last Line: Then crawls in under the basement steps, %making the jingle of coin with its tags Subject(s): Salespersons SALESMAN AND A LIBRARIAN, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mom smelled of books, even dad admitted Last Line: Their bristly mustaches; too tired to raise, %on brontosaurus necks, their plastic hammer-heads Subject(s): Books; Booksellers; Librarians And Libraries; Salespersons 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 SHOE SALESMAN, by DANIEL BACHHUBER Poem Source First Line: He is like a psychic medium calling down shoes from the other world Last Line: Nonbeing into the flesh, and I say, 'yes I will yes I will yes.' Subject(s): Retail Trade; Salespersons; Shoes SNAP CHAT: MARRAKECH, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He says, would you like to have a loo Last Line: Who said anything about going home Subject(s): Salespersons; Flirtation; Shopping SPARROWS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where roof-ends rise up into dragons Last Line: To be caged once again in the dark. Subject(s): Buddhism; Salespersons; Sparrows; Buddha; Buddhists; Selling SPENDTHRIFT NANCY, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So what do you own at the end, nancy Last Line: "I never gave dreams away!" Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Salespersons; Selling THE ANNUITANTS ANSWER, by ROBERT CHAMBERS Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: My certy! But it sets him weel Last Line: For me and my annuity. Subject(s): Investments; Salespersons; Stocks; Bonds; Selling THE APPLICANT, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: First, are you our sort of a person? Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Salespersons; Selling THE BUSINESS LIFE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When someone hangs up, having said Last Line: To your car, your senses and your dignity Subject(s): Hate; Salespersons; Selling THE JOY-VENDER, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Giovanni carbone, lame and old Last Line: And your breezy stand, when the day is sunny. Subject(s): Salespersons; Selling THE PENCIL SELLER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pencil, sir; a penny - won't you buy? Last Line: I hope you'll find me, sir; good-night, good-night. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Paris, France; Poverty; Salespersons; Selling THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 29, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silver stars dot the beam Last Line: Up your butt he'll stick a broom Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Markets; Salespersons; Buddha; Buddhists; Supermarkets; Selling THE RAZOR-SELLER, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fellow in a market-town Last Line: "sell." Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Razors; Salespersons; Selling THE SALESMAN, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today he's wearing his vinyl shoes Last Line: Making the jingle of coin with its tags Subject(s): Salespersons; Selling THE SUGAR-CANE: THE SHAME OF FRANCE, by JAMES GRAINGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: False gallia's sons, that hoe the ocean isles Last Line: And, with abhorrence, reprobate the name. Subject(s): France; Grocers; Plants; Salespersons; Sugar; Planting; Planters; Selling WEIGHT, by WESLEY MCNAIR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of course, the ones Last Line: They carried like a weight Subject(s): Life; Salespersons |
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