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Subject: STOCK EXCHANGE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FAUN IN WALL STREET, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What shape so furtive steals along the dim
Last Line: Hymettus and the hills of hellas rise.
Subject(s): Stock Exchange; Wall Street, New York City


A SONG OF THE TICKER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The ticker is a tricker: in its paltry paper coils
Last Line: A game that has no gaining but a groan.
Subject(s): Stock Exchange


AMERICAN SONNET (55), by WANDA COLEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down to the stingy stingy marrow of my mojo rant
Last Line: Inflames my vigilant soul denies it rest
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda
Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 55
Subject(s): African Americans; Stock Exchange; Wylie, Elinor (1885-1928); Negroes; American Blacks


AT THE CLOSED GATE OF JUSTICE, by JAMES DAVID CORROTHERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To be a negro in a day like this
Last Line: "merely a negro"" - in a day like this!"
Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Stock Exchange; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


CRASH; OCTOBER, 1987, WALL STREET, by JONATHAN HOLDEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Passion was supposed to be great fun
Last Line: Because he's neither here nor there
Subject(s): Stock Exchange; Wall Street, New York City


CRISPUS ATTUCKS, by OLIVA WARD BUSH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The nation's heart beat wildly
Last Line: That attucks died for liberty.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bush-banks, Oliva Ward
Subject(s): African Americans; Attucks, Crispus (1723-1770); Boston Massacre; Stock Exchange; Negroes; American Blacks


ELEGY ON A NORDIC WHITE PROTESTANT, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lazy petals of magnolia-bloom float down the sluggish river
Last Line: Rising, forever, rising!
Subject(s): African Americans; Stock Exchange; Negroes; American Blacks


JOSHING, by ALFRED L. WOODS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When joe louis knocked out schmeling
Last Line: Jackie robinson %can you hit another ball
Subject(s): African Americans; Baseball; Boxing And Boxers; Louis, Joe (1914-1981); Robinson, Jackie (1919-1972); Sports; Stock Exchange


PAN IN WALL STREET, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just where the treasury's marble front
Last Line: The quarter sounded from the steeple.
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Stock Exchange; Wall Street, New York City


POEM TO NEGRO AND WHITES, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The elevator rises, negro men
Last Line: The mutual rescues, quiet, understood.
Subject(s): African Americans; Racial Equality; Stock Exchange; Negroes; American Blacks


RANGE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The crow's croak has the melodic range
Last Line: Of morning in the stock exchange
Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Stock Exchange


SIX BUILDINGS: 6. STOCK EXCHANGE, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ideally, nothing visible above ground level. Elevation out
Last Line: Moment of his leave
Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Stock Exchange


THE CURB-BROKERS, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hail, ye frenzied creatures, antic, mask-like figures
Last Line: And did ye ever walk among the rustling rows of corn?
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence
Subject(s): Brokers; Business; Stock Exchange; Wall Street, New York City; Businessmen; Businesswomen


THE FAVORITE SLAVE'S STORY, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Well son de story of my life
Last Line: She's told her ma you see.
Subject(s): African Americans; Slavery; Stock Exchange; Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs


THE HOROSCOPE POEMS: JANUARY 1ST, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My daddy played the market
Last Line: With poems that think they're money
Subject(s): Familylife; Stock Exchange; Money; Speculation


THE INTERRUPTED REPROOF, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Zella wheeler! Did I evah?
Last Line: Mussy sakes! Go bresh yo' ha'
Subject(s): African Americans; Stock Exchange; Negroes; American Blacks


THE WALL STREET PIT, MAY, 1901, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see a hell of faces surge and whirl
Last Line: And, under all, the silence of the dead!
Subject(s): Business; Stock Exchange; Wall Street, New York City; Businessmen; Businesswomen


TICKER TAPE, by ELIZABETH KELTY BEITEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I sit and watch the figures glide along
Last Line: What message brings your ticker tape to me?
Subject(s): Stock Exchange


WHATEVER THE STOCK EXCHANGE, by MABEL GILBERT LARIMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Life will carry me! Astonishment!
Last Line: But I am the power that directs my course.
Subject(s): Stock Exchange


WHEN THE DUST SETTLED THE DOW ...', by CHUCK WACHTEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: One clear source of distress
Last Line: Funds for aids research.'
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Stock Exchange