Songs of Wall Street : an anthology of verse for literary investors / written by Michael Silverstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Silverstein, Michael.

Contributor:

Rekulak, Jason, editor.

Jay, Molly, editor.

Running Press, publisher.

Running Press Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parodies.

English poetry.

Money--Poetry.

Money.

Humorous poetry, American.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)

Physical Description:

144 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : Running Press, 2001.

Contents:

Introduction

Christopher Marlowe. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love/The Passionate Broker to His Client

Philip Sidney. Desire/Retire

Edmund Spenser. My Love is Like Ice/I Never Throw Dice

William Shakespeare. Shall I Compare Thee/Shall I Declare Thee; Who is Silvia?/Who is Bill Gates?

Ben Jonson. To Celia/To Alan; The Hour Glass/The Patek Philippe

John Donne. Death Be Not Proud/Debt's No Dark Cloud

Sir John Suckling. The Constant Lover/The Constant Loser

Robert Herrick. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time/To New Investors, with Swollen Portfolios; Delight in Disorder/Profit from Chaos

William Cartwright. No Platonic Love/High Colonic Sham

Richard Lovelace. To Lucasta, Going to the Wars/Honey, I'm Off to the Futures Pits

Alexander Pope. Solitude/Home Alone

William Oldys. On a Fly Drinking Out of His Cup/On a Financial Advisor Taking His Cut

Oliver Goldsmith. Woman/Internet Investor

William Cowper. Light Shining Out of Darkness/Keeping the Faith

Robert Burns. The Cares o' Love/The Fears o' Loss

Thomas Gray. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard/An Updated Epitaph

William Blake. The New Jerusalem/The New Economy; The Scoffers/The Market Scoffers

Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Kubla Khan/Irwin Khan; Cologne/Wall Street

Jane Taylor. The Star/The Station

Walter Savage Landor. On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday/On Retirement at Fifty

William Wordsworth. The World is Too Much with Us, Late and Soon/Globalization's Coming, Too Damn Fast; Composed Upon Westminster Bridge (September 3, 1802)/Composed When the Nasdaq First Hit 5,000 (March 7, 2000)

George Gordon, Lord Byron. She Walks in Beauty Like the Night/She Walks to Work at Goldman Sachs

John Keats. On First Looking into Chapman's Homer/On First Hearing of the World Bank's Boners; When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be/When I Have Fears That I May Lose My Stash

Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ozymandias/Bradymandias; Music, When Soft Voices Die/Mergers, That Will Never Fly

Sir Walter Scott. Innominatus/Ingraticus

Leigh Hunt. Jenny Kiss'd Me/Greenspan Stiff'd Me.

(Continued) John Clare. Written in Northampton County Asylum/Smitten at a Hamptons, L.I. Lawn Party

Edward Fitzgerald. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; Omar's Rubiettes

Alfred Lord Tennyson. Break, Break, Break/Rake, Rake, Rake; The Charge of the Light Brigade/The Plight of the Charge Brigade

Arthur Hugh Clough. The Latest Decalogue/The Ten Market Commandments; Say Not the Struggle/Say Not Your Gold Fund

Matthew Arnold. Dover Beach/Over Reach

Adelaide Anne Proctor. The Lost Chord/The Lost Hoard

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. How Do I Love Thee?/Where Went My Money?

Robert Browning. Meeting at Night/Doing the Deal; Pippa's Song; Prozac's Song

Christina Rossetti. When I Am Dead, My Dearest/What I Most Dread, Dear Client

Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The Woodspurge/The Wind Farm Splurge

William Ernest Henley. Invictus/Convictus

Algernon Charles Swinburne. Before the Beginning of Years/Before the Opening Gong

Thomas Hardy. Hap/Pap

Robert Louis Stevenson. Requiem/Chapter 11; Happy Thought/What We're Taught

Francis William Bourdillon. The Night Has a Thousand Eyes/Each Day Brings a Thousand Lies

George Pope Morris. Woodman, Spare That Tree!/FASB, Change No Regs!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Excelsior/Alka-Seltzer; The Arrow and the Song/The Broker and the Kid; The Ride Rises, the Tide Falls/The Dow Rises, The Dow Falls

John Greenleaf Whittier. Maud Muller/Blown Changes

Edgar Allan Poe. Annabel Lee/Neverwash Sox

Emily Dickinson. I Died for Beauty/I Tanked on Options; I Never Saw a Moor/I Never Met Al Gore

Walt Whitman. When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer/When I Schmoozed the Technical Analyst; O Captain, My Captain!/O Euro, My Euro!

Richard Hovey. The Sea Gypsy/The Market Dipsy

Joyce Kilmer. Trees/T's.

Notes:

"Cover and interior design by Mary Ann Liquori. Edited by Jason Rekulak and Molly Jay."--Title page verso.`

"In the right column is the poet's original verse; in the left column, a contemporary market-oriented rendering of this same poem appears"--Page 10.

Local Notes:

Running Press Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.

ISBN:

076240938X

9780762409389

OCLC:

48014985

Online:

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