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Subject: STORES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PURCHASE, by MAY WILLIAMS WARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She was bent and feeble
Last Line: I bought a smile for dry discouraged lips.
Subject(s): Kindness; Old Age; Retail Trade; Women; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


A VERMONT COUNTRY STORE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our village store will always be
Last Line: Made thirteen thousand 'round that store.
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Country Life; Merchants; Mountain Life - Vermont; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


AMERICAN TRIPTYCH: 1. AT THE STORE, by JANE KENYON    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clumps of daffodils along the storefront
Last Line: Pulley in the doorway of a country store
Subject(s): Country Stores


ANTIQUE JEWELER, by FREDERICK HENRY HERBERT ADLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Within his shop he gathered silver, gold
Last Line: I loved among them, as of old, held high.
Subject(s): Antiques; Jewelry & Jewelers; Retail Trade; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


BEANS AND FRANKS, by DONALD HALL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: When newberry's closed
Subject(s): Novelty Stores; Store Closings; City & Town Life


DAKOTA: FIVE TIMES SIX, by JOSEPH HANSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nobody painted mrs. Alherne's store
Last Line: But mrs. Alherne sold taste rainbows at %two for one cent, and from her shelves rained sugar
Subject(s): Candy Stores


DREAM OF THE CITY SHOPWOMAN, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twere sweet to have a comrade here
Last Line: Their one life's time!
Subject(s): Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


DRUG STORE, by JOHN VAN ALSTYN WEAVER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pardon me, lady, but I wanta ast you
Last Line: If I ever get it...
Subject(s): Ambition; Medicine; Retail Trade; Drugs, Prescription; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


ESSAY: THE HANGING PARADOGS SLIP, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is an octave between us
Last Line: To this you, you take it
Subject(s): Cities; Essays; Retail Trade; Urban Life; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


ESTHER: 43, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not so my little sponsor. She, with eyes
Subject(s): Stores; Clothing & Dress


FATHER, by TED KOOSER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You spent fifty-five years
Subject(s): Fathers; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


FIXTURE, by MAY SWENSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Women, women, %women, women
Last Line: She is the best dressed
Subject(s): Department Stores; Women


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


GOLDEN MOMENT, by JACK ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Arriving early for a dentist's appointment one morning
Last Line: I realize I have just experienced a golden moment of epiphany
Subject(s): Contentment; Department Stores; Music And Musicians


HER POET-BROTHER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! What ef little childerns all
Last Line: Wuz big as parunts is!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Parents; Retail Trade; Childhood; Parenthood; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


HI-FASHION GIRL, by ELAINE EQUI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm swinging through a department store of the future
Subject(s): Department Stores


HUDSON RIVER ANTHOLOGY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ran a store
Last Line: He's serving thirty years.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Business; Labor & Laborers; Money; Retail Trade; Wages; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Work; Workers; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Salaries


IN THE DEPARTMENT STORE, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lady of the porcelain department
Last Line: It is not possible for me to make her happy
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Department Stores; Life


IN THE DEPARTMENT STORE, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The women who work at cosmetics
Subject(s): Department Stores


IRENE, by JOHN MARTIN SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Life's charmed, restricted avenue
Last Line: From such a kind and loving soul.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Figurines; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


ITALIAN QUATRAIN: HAIRDRESSING, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There on the littered streets she sits, and chats with
Last Line: Plucks vermin from its curls; and sells her oranges to me. Me.
Subject(s): Italy; Retail Trade; Italians; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


LADDERS, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Filene's department store
Last Line: Monkey? Girl? Answer me
Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life; Department Stores


LAST SONG FOR THE MEND-IT SHOP, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today some buildings were blown up
Last Line: It tasted like.
Subject(s): Bakeries & Bakers; Buildings & Builders; Landmarks; Retail Trade; Singing & Singers; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Songs


ODE TO THE BROWN PAPER BAG, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let's be more specific
Subject(s): Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


PLACES EVERYONE, by JIM DANIELS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The best-looking woman %working in bedding
Last Line: Not even trying %to match their anger
Subject(s): Department Stores


PROTEST, by EUNICE CREAGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw a girl one summer day
Last Line: "while over her a lash; ""three mouths to feed."
Subject(s): Girls; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


ROANOKE AND WAMPUMPEAG, by SUSAN WHEELER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Child, entering ye olde trading post, takes the pegs upon the walls
Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue
Subject(s): Country Stores


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


SOLILOQUY ON AN EMPTY PURSE, by MARY JONES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Alas, my purse! How lean and low!
Last Line: And gently rhyming rats to death.
Subject(s): Retail Trade; Wealth; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Riches; Fortunes


STRAWBERRIES IN MEXICO, by RON PADGETT    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At 14th street and first avenue
Last Line: It's just a very blue sky I'm looking at
Subject(s): Books; Madison Avenue, New York; Retail Trade; Reading; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


SUMMER SHIRT SALE, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The summer shirt sale of a downtown haberdasher is glorified
Last Line: Challenge to the ghost who walks on paydays.
Subject(s): Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


THE COTTAGER'S COMPLAINT, ON .. ENCLOSING SUTTON-COLDFIELD, by JOHN FREETH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How sweetly did the moments glide
Last Line: Who murders my content.
Alternate Author Name(s): Free, John
Subject(s): Business; Markets; Retail Trade; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Supermarkets; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


THE HERB SHOP, by GEORGIA DAY SHERWOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know a charming little shop
Last Line: And breathe its faint perfume.
Subject(s): Herbs; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


THE LITTLE FRUIT-SHOP, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The little broadway fruit-shop bursts and glows
Last Line: Lo, a swart faun-god mid his votive fruit.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Fruit; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


THE PURCHASE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Small and red and goggling with anxious eyes
Last Line: —slinking and licking my fingers and ready to cry.
Subject(s): Money; Poverty; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


THE SEAMSTRESS, by HENRI BARBUSSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A glimmer of daylight through the rain
Last Line: In invisible song.
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Retail Trade; Seamstresses; Sewing; Work; Workers; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


TRANSPOSITION, by AGNES MOORE FRYBERGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I forget his name; but, oh, his smile
Last Line: And put the cobbler in the music store?
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Retail Trade; Shoes; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers


TWILIGHT BY THE MALL, by SELDEN LINCOLN WHITCOMB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moonlight creeps across yon gilded roof
Last Line: Defiant, private note must pass away.
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers