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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INVESTMENT SECURITY, by F. W. H. First Line: I'd like to have a ticker which would carry Last Line: And save myself some unpropitious starts. Subject(s): Investments; Love; Stocks; Bonds | |||
I'd like to have a ticker which would carry Quotations of my love stock every day, For then I'd know just who and when to marry Dan Cupid's bears and bulls I'd watch at play. If Evelyn Preferred should slump on selling, I'd send around a bunch of orchids quick; If Agnes Common spurted, there's no telling, I might go buy a ring and turn the trick. If dividends were coming via Esther, I'd put myself on record right away; But if a statement showed a bankrupt Hester, I'd sell the poor girl short without delay. Ah, what a comfort I should find this ticker, To guide me in life's stock exchange of hearts! For with its help I'd know just how to pick her, And save myself some unpropitious starts. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HIKING TOWARD LAUGHING GULL POINT by DAVID BOTTOMS THE ANNUITANTS ANSWER by ROBERT CHAMBERS THE PEAU DE CHAGRIN OF STATE STREET by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES FOOL'S GOLD by HERBERT KAUFMAN OWL AGAINST ROBIN by SIDNEY LANIER A SPIRITUAL by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR RIDDLE: A BLACKSMITH by MOTHER GOOSE GO NOW' by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS THE LEPRECAUN, OR THE FAIRY SHOEMAKER by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM SONG OF SEID NIMETOLLAH OF KUHISTAN by AMIR NURU'D-DIN NI'MATU'LLAH |
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