There are 227 Poems about Money & Economics

$2.50
By Kenneth Fearing

1932
By Frederick Morgan

50-50
By Langston Hughes

XII Mon. February [1746] hath xxviii days.
By Benjamin Franklin

A Contract. (For the Destruction and Rebuilding of Paterson
By Amiri Baraka

A Home
By Sarah C. Woolsey

A Lame Begger
By John Donne

A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard’s Shack
By James Wright

A Poem for the Cruel Majority
By Jerome Rothenberg

A Way to Make a Living
By James Wright

A Winter Night
By Robert Burns

Abandoned Farmhouse
By Ted Kooser

Advertisement
By Wisława Szymborska

Affekt Funereal / Affekt Jamboree
By Rodrigo Toscano

After the Industrial Revolution, All Things Happen at Once
By Robert Bly

After working sixty hours again for what reason
By Bob Hicok

American Future
By Peter Bethanis

American Income
By Afaa Michael Weaver

An Immigrant Woman
By Anne Winters

Angels Grieving over the Dead Christ
By Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Anniversaries
By Thomas McGrath

Apologies to All the People in Lebanon
By June Jordan

Application for a Grant
By Anthony Hecht

Art vs. Trade
By James Weldon Johnson

Aunt Helen
By T. S. Eliot

“Teach Us to Number Our Days”
By Rita Dove

Ballad of a Hanged Man
By George Elliott Clarke

Barter
By Sara Teasdale

Box of Cigars
By Gerald Stern

Brass Spittoons
By Langston Hughes

from Briggflatts
By Basil Bunting

Bright Leaf
By Ellen Bryant Voigt

Buick
By Karl Shapiro

Butchering Crabs
By Henry Carlile

Canned Food Drive
By Kathleen Lynch

Chinoisserie
By Lynn Emanuel

Chomei at Toyama
By Basil Bunting

Christ Among the Moneychangers, 1929
By William Logan

City Elegies
By Robert Pinsky

Confession
By Reginald Gibbons

Contentment
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

Cozy Apologia
By Rita Dove

Daily Bread
By John Reibetanz

Day Job and Night Job
By Andrew Hudgins

Debtor’s Prison Road
By Heather McHugh

Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg
By Richard F. Hugo

Dejection
By David Baker

Depression
By Charles Reznikoff

Depression Glass
By Ted Kooser

Der Gilgul (The Possessed)
By Jerome Rothenberg

Despotisms
By Louise Imogen Guiney

Dr. Booker T. Washington to the National Negro Business League
By Joseph Seamon Cotter

Dust to Dust
By David Baker

East of New Haven
By Carolyn M. Rodgers

Eclogue the Second: HASSAN; or, the Camel-driver.
By William Collins

Empty Pitchforks
By Thomas Lux

Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle IV
By Alexander Pope

Essay on Psychiatrists
By Robert Pinsky

Everyone Has a House
By Kate Gale

Everything Is Free
By George Elliott Clarke

Failed Tribute to the Stonemason of Tor House, Robinson Jeffers
By James Tate

Figures in the Carpets
By David Schloss

For a' That and a' That
By Robert Burns

Formerly Communist Love Sonnet
By Connie Deanovich

Foster Care
By Terry Wolverton

from Four Good Things
By James McMichael

Government
By Carl Sandburg

Graceland
By Carl Sandburg

Gwine to Run All Night, or De Camptown Races
By Stephen C. Foster

Hard-time blues
By William Waring Cuney

Harrison Street Court
By Carl Sandburg

He Thinks of His Children
By Hittan of Tayyi

Home Federal
By Rae Armantrout

How Evolution Came to Indiana
By Philip Appleman

How Things Work
By Gary Soto

How to Enter a Big City
By Thomas James Merton

How to get RICHES
By Benjamin Franklin

Humanity i love you
By E. E. Cummings

Hymn of Not Much Praise for New York City
By Thomas James Merton

Ice Plant in Bloom
By W. S. Di Piero

Idleness
By Cesare Pavese

Immigrants in Our Own Land
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

In A Row
By Stephen Dobyns

In A/C with Ghosts
By Kenneth Slessor

Internal Migration: On Being on Tour
By Alan Dugan

It Follows
By Ruth Stone

January, 1795
By Mary Robinson

Jessie Mitchell’s Mother
By Gwendolyn Brooks

John Sutter
By Yvor Winters

Junk
By Richard Wilbur

kitchenette building
By Gwendolyn Brooks

Lambert Hutchins
By Edgar Lee Masters

Land
By Agha Shahid Ali

Laundry
By Bruce Smith

Letter from a Distant Land
By Philip Booth

Like New
By Linda Gregerson

Lincoln
By Delmore Schwartz

Long House Valley Poem
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Looking Forward
By Robert Louis Stevenson

Madam’s Past History
By Langston Hughes

Making Money: Drought Year in Minkler, California
By Gary Soto

Manufacturing
By Alan Shapiro

Manufacturing
By Rae Armantrout

Market Forecast
By Alexa Selph

Michael: A Pastoral Poem
By William Wordsworth

Money
By Howard Nemerov

Money
By Reginald Gibbons

Money
By Philip Larkin

Money Won’t Change It (but time will take you on)
By Cornelius Eady

Monologue of a Commercial Fisherman
By Alan Dugan

Night Wash
By Anne Winters

Nightwatchman's Song
By W. D. Snodgrass

Nineteen-twenty-nine
By William Waring Cuney

Northern Farmer: New Style
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

October, 1803
By William Wordsworth

Ode on the Facelifting of the "statue" of Liberty
By Edward Dorn

Ode to Big Trend
By Terrance Hayes

from Odes: 14. Gin the Goodwife Stint
By Basil Bunting

from Odes: 6. What the Chairman Told Tom
By Basil Bunting

Ol’ Doc’ Hyar
By James Edwin Campbell

Old People’s Holiday
By Mary Kinzie

On Being a Householder
By Alan Dugan

On the Loss of Energy (and Other Things)
By June Jordan

Paterson
By Allen Ginsberg

Philadelphia Flowers
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Pink Slip at Tool & Dye
By Dave Smith

Poem to the Detroit River
By Terry Wolverton

Posthumous
By Jean Nordhaus

Poverty
By Jane Taylor

Prayer
By Alan Dugan

Proverbs
By Thomas James Merton

Rarefied
By Albert Goldbarth

Remembering an Account Executive
By Alan Dugan

Report from Paradise
By Zbigniew Herbert

Requests for Toy Piano
By Tony Hoagland

Richard Cory
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Russell Market
By Maurya Simon

Sales
By W. S. Di Piero

Satire IV
By John Donne

Satires of Circumstance in Fifteen Glimpses VIII: In the Study
By Thomas Hardy

Self-Inquiry Before the Job Interview
By Gary Soto

Seventh Street
By Jean Toomer

Shell
By Terry Wolverton

Shirt
By Robert Pinsky

Simone Weil: The Year of Factory Work (1934-1935)
By Edward Hirsch

Skunk Hour
By Robert Lowell

Soliloquy on an Empty Purse
By Mary Jones

Song
By Mark Defoe

Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle upon the Restoration of Lord Clifford, the Shepherd, to the Estates and Honours of his Ancestors
By William Wordsworth

Song of the Two Crows
By Hayden Carruth

Sower
By Bei Dao

Spree
By Maxine W. Kumin

Sunflower Sutra
By Allen Ginsberg

Swerve
By Kelle Groom

Tar
By C. K. Williams

Teaching English from an Old Composition Book
By Gary Soto

Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons
By Diane Wakoski

The 167th Psalm of Elvis
By Tony Barnstone

The Birth-day
By Mary Robinson

The Buffalo Coat
By Thomas McGrath

The Campus on the Hill
By W. D. Snodgrass

The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Chain Letter (An American Tragedy)
By David Lee

The Chaste Stranger
By James Tate

The Composer’s Winter Dream
By Norman Dubie

The Cry of the Children
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Deserted Village
By Oliver Goldsmith

the difference between a bad poet and a good one is luck
By Charles Bukowski

The Executive’s Death
By Robert Bly

The Farm
By David Lee

The Final Morbidity of the Interior Embezzler
By Henry Taylor

The Friar's Prologue and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The General Prologue from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Golden Schlemiel
By Irving Feldman

The Good, Great Man
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Great Society
By Robert Bly

The Hackney Coachman: Or the Way to Get a Good Fare
By Hannah More

The Horses Run Back To Their Stalls
By Linda Gregerson

The Kingfishers
By Charles Olson

The Last Bargain
By Rabindranath Tagore

The Lights at Carney’s Point
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

The Little Match Girl
By William McGonagall

The Little Orphan
By Edgar Albert Guest

The Lovers of the Poor
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Men
By Pablo Neruda

The Mill-Race
By Anne Winters

The Minneapolis Poem
By James Wright

The Old Cumberland Beggar
By William Wordsworth

The Pardoner's Introduction, Prologue, and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Prospector
By Robert W. Service

The Raggedy Man
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Road
By Herbert Morris

The Shipman's Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Shopping-Bag Lady
By Linda Gregg

The Sign in My Father’s Hands
By Martín Espada

The Spell of the Yukon
By Robert W. Service

The Summoner's Prologue and Tale in the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

from The Task, Book VI: The Winter Walk at Noon
By William Cowper

The Town Dump
By Howard Nemerov

The Trickle-Down Theory of Happiness
By Philip Appleman

The Truth about Small Towns
By David Baker

The Two Boys
By Mary Lamb

The View from Here
By W. S. Di Piero

The Waste Carpet
By William Matthews

The Witnesses
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The World Is Too Much With Us
By William Wordsworth

There Came a Soul
By Rita Dove

They Will Say
By Carl Sandburg

Things
By Louis Simpson

To a Poor Old Woman
By William Carlos Williams

To Elsie
By William Carlos Williams

To My Brother
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

To the Executive Director of the Actual:
By Bruce Smith

To the Garbage Collectors in Bloomington, Indiana, the First Pickup of the New Year
By Philip Appleman

Torcello
By Catherine Sasanov

Train Above Pedestrians
By Reginald Gibbons

Truth
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Two Quits and a Drum, and Elegy for Drinkers
By Alan Dugan

Video Cuisine
By Maxine W. Kumin

What Grieving Was
By Lynn Emanuel

Who Understands Me but Me
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Wi’-gi-e
By Elise Paschen

Wish for an Overcoat
By Alfred Islay Walden

Work Shy
By Alex Phillips

Worm Either Way
By D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Worth
By Marilyn Nelson

[His father carved umbrella handles...]
By Charles Reznikoff