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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: STOCK EXCHANGE Matches Found: 20 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 |
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