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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WALL STREET, NEW YORK CITY Matches Found: 14 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 |
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