Read full poem →Is not to be despaired of for our money;
And though fowl now be scarce, yet there are clerks,
The sky not falling, think we may have larks.
Dictionary Entry
One who occupationally works with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.
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. clerksclerks twoclerks lawclerks officeclerks sales
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Poetry examples for “clerks”
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Read full poem →“ at Christmas.” About twelve years afterwards, viz,
in 13C)0, the parish-clerks of Condon are said to have
played inferludesat Skinner’s Well, Julv 18, It), and
Read full poem →of dramatic entertainments. About twelve years after-
wards the parish clerks of London are said to have
acted the mysteries at Skinner’s Well. Which of
Read full poem →Living to get, and not to be discern'd.
But they that are great clerks, have nearer ways,
For learning sake to living them to raise;
Read full poem →What comes of all your visions and your fears?
Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time,
Tiering the same dull webs of discontent,
Read full poem →Where they saw too late the road they should have taken long ago:
There were thwarted clerks and fiddlers in the Valley of the Shadow,
The commemorative wreckage of what others did not know.
Read full poem →When Science armed and guided war,
And clerks the Janus-gates unbar,
When France, where poet never grew,
Read full poem →Manchester, and intended to have taken Orders; but, afterwards altering
his purpose, he purchased for £1,500 the place of one of the clerks of
the Council.
Read full poem →Promise us all our share in Agincourt
Say that our clerks shall venture scorns and death,
That future ant-hills will not be too good