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Subject: SELLING
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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


A COSMOPOLITAN WOMAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: She went round and asked subscriptions
Subject(s): Cosmetics;salespersons;travel;women; Selling;journeys;trips


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


IT MUST BE FINE TO STAND AND SELL, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Full Text                    
Last Line: The things the people like so well
Subject(s): Selling


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


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


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