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Subject: WALL STREET, NEW YORK CITY
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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


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


DOWNTOWN IN A BREEZE, by CHRIS STROFFOLINO    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is, I think, a writhing volition in every
Last Line: And letting them flirt with you
Subject(s): Change; Wall Street, New York City


LOEW'S BRIDGE: A BROADWAY IDYL, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For hours I stood upon the bridge
Last Line: "I leave thee love and hope."
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): Bridges; Broadway, New York City; Loew, Charles E.; New York City; Wall Street, New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


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


SKYSCRAPERS OF THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT DANCE WITH GASMAN, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The skyscrapers are dancing by the river
Subject(s): Skyscrapers; Wall Street, New York City


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 SKYSCRAPERS OF THE FINANCIAL DISTRICT DANCE WITH GASMAN, by MARGE PIERCY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The skyscrapers are dancing by the river
Subject(s): Skyscrapers; Wall Street, New York City


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


WALL STREET, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strait river, with its hoarse and feverous flood
Last Line: Christ above mammon, love before the world.
Subject(s): Money; Rivers; Wall Street, New York City


WALL STREET, by ROBERT WINNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Getting money, not poems
Last Line: %can never deny me %its voice
Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Poetry And Poets; Wall Street, New York City


WALL STREET WAIL, by ENID CRAWFORD PIERCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Up and down where wall street is a - rumbling
Last Line: But -- let this woolly lamb escape the shearing.
Subject(s): Wall Street, New York City


WASHINGTON IN WALL STREET, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sublime, where traffic's billows beat
Last Line: Their father blesses them.
Subject(s): Love; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Presidents, United States; Wall Street, New York City; Washington, George (1732-1799)


YUPPIE INVESTMENT BROKER, by JOSEPH S. SALEMI    Poem Source                    
First Line: How hard you worked for wall street cash
Last Line: The blue chips of your fantasy
Subject(s): Investments; Wall Street, New York City