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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WAGES Matches Found: 21 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LETTER FROM A FATHER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My dear daughter / you ask me if your husband. Last Line: Since the upturn / your affectionate father Subject(s): Wages; Salaries ECLOGUE: THE TIMES, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, tom, how be'st? Zoo thou'st a-got thy neame Last Line: You'll goo vor wool, an' then come hwome a-sheär'd. Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Economics; Fables; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Pigs; Politics & Government; Social Protest; Wages; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Boars; Hogs; Salaries FATHER, MOTHER, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source Last Line: Or an owl's Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Peru; Poverty; Wages 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 LOOKING FOR TROUBLE, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night of my first cell meeting it was pouring rain Last Line: Mother scolded me for coming home late Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Labor Unions; Strikes; Wages; Work; Workers; Labor Disputes; Lockouts; Salaries LOOKING FOR TROUBLE, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night of my first cell meeting it was pouring rain Last Line: Mother scolded me for coming home late Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Labor Unions; Strikes; Wages O HADA CIBERNETICA: 15, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: Father, mother, %how much you struggled Last Line: The face of an elm %or an owl's Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Humanity; Wages PAPER, SCISSORS, STONE, by TOM WAYMAN Poem Source First Line: An executive's salary for working with paper Last Line: With paper, with scissors, and with stone Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Wages PAY ENVELOPE (2), by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas just a yellow envelope ... Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Wages PROMPT PAY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man runs up a little bill, and when it's Last Line: Reputation, some day that rep will knock you down, and hurt like all creation. Subject(s): Cost Of Living; Merchants; Money; Poverty; Wages; Salaries RESIGNATION; AN ODE TO THE JOURNEYMEN SHOEMAKERS, SELECTION, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sons of saint crispin, 'tis in vain! / indeed 'tis fruitless to complain Last Line: A truth that grandeur wishes not to know. Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Labor Unions; Oppression; Shoes; Strikes; Wages; Work; Workers; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers; Labor Disputes; Lockouts; Salaries SQUATTERS AND THE REDUCTION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Some squatters have commenced to shear Last Line: "but if you want a thorough doing - / why, just try the overflow" Subject(s): Deception;honesty;labor & Laborers;sheep;wages; Salaries THE GRAIN-TRIBUTE, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There came an officer knocking by night at my door Last Line: To return to others the corn in my great barn. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Retirement; Taxes; Wages; Salaries THE GRUNTER, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you're complaining of your task, and sighing Last Line: His wages, will land some morning at the dump, and there he'll stay for ages. Subject(s): Industrial Workers Of The World (i.w.w.); Labor & Laborers; Labor Unions; Wages; Work; Workers; Salaries THE PAY ENVELOPE (1), by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it all in the envelope holding your pay? Last Line: If you never can see past the pay envelope. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Wages; Salaries TWO KINDS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lad who'd prosper well, and rise, to Last Line: Neglects his stunt, should the old man disappear. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Money; Wages; Work; Workers; Salaries WEEK'S END, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet to rest serenely in the gloaming Last Line: Heaps of mon. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Pride; Wages; Working Class - United States; Work; Workers; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Salaries WHEN PAY DAY COMES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: When pay day comes what transports thrill Last Line: When pay day comes! Subject(s): Greed; Grief; Happiness; Money; Wages; Avarice; Cupidity; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Salaries WOMENS' SUFFRAGE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fellow men! Why should the lords try to despise Last Line: And ye will gain the parliamentary franchise before very long. Subject(s): Elections; Freedom; Wages; Women - Employment; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Liberty; Salaries; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; Feminism WORK, by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the long-bided hour: the labor of years is accomplished Last Line: Friend of the golden-haired dawn, friend of the gods of the hearth? Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Wages; Work; Workers; Salaries WORKERS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's good to work, with might and main, until Last Line: Friends. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Money; Wages; Work; Workers; Salaries |
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