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Subject: AGASSIZ, LOUIS (1807-1873)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FAREWELL TO AGASSIZ; WRITTEN ON EVE OF JOURNEY TO BRAZIL, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How the mountains talked together
Last Line: Bless them now and evermore!
Subject(s): Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873); Brazil; Farewell; Science; Brazilians; Parting; Scientists


AGASSIZ, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The electric nerve, whose instantaneous thrill
Last Line: Than ours whose sense familiar wont makes numb.
Subject(s): Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873); Friendship; Science; Scientists


THE FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY OF AGASSIZ; MAY 28, 1857, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was fifty years ago
Last Line: "and my boy does not return!"
Subject(s): Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873); Science; Scientists


THE PRAYER OF AGASSIZ, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the isle of penikese
Last Line: From the master's silent prayer.
Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873); Penikese Island, Massachusetts; Science; Scientists


THREE FRIENDS OF MINE: 3; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stand again on the familiar shore
Last Line: Why art thou silent? Why shouldst thou be dead?
Variant Title(s): Agassiz
Subject(s): Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873); Science; Scientists