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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: AUTHORS & AUTHORSHIP Matches Found: 48 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HINT TO A YOUNG PERSON, .. IMPROVEMENT, BY READING OR CONVERSATION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In reading authors, when you find Last Line: That socrates does now speak truth. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Reason; Reading; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals A PLEA FOR AUTHORS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Failing impartial measure to dispense Last Line: Source! Subject(s): Authors & Authorship AFTER READING A CHAPTER BY HENRY JAMES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "and after angelina, laying down" Last Line: "sank back upon her pillows, quite fagged out" Subject(s): "authors & Authorship;books;james, Henry (1843-1916);" Reading ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: PART 2. PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They who write ill, and they who ne'r durst write Last Line: Will prove a dowdy, with a face to fright you. Variant Title(s): Prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 5 Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Critics & Criticism; Imagination; Plays & Playwrights ; Fancy; Dramatists AMORETTI: 1, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy ye leaves! When as those lily hands Last Line: Whom if ye please, I care for other none. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): "to His Book;""happy Ye Leaves When As Those Lilly Hands,""; Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Reading AUTHORS IN LONDON, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: If shakespeare is the abbey, a shrine and shell Last Line: It shall be—where the shining horse guards are. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; London AUTHORS, WE GREET THEE, by LULA ENSLEY HATTON Poem Text First Line: Authors, today as a nation we bring Last Line: Let only love remain. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Writing & Writers BRIGHTON ROCK BY GRAHAM GREENE, by BILL KNOTT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pinky brown must marry rose wilson Last Line: And read brighton rock by graham greene. Alternate Author Name(s): Saint Geraud; Knott, William Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Crime & Criminals; Murder; Reading DIALOGUE BETWEEN A POOR POET AND THE AUTHOR, by PONCE-DENIS ECOUCHARD LEBRUN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have just been robbed of papers! - I am sorry for your grief Last Line: Yes, of all my hand-writ verses!—o! I'm sorry for the thief. Alternate Author Name(s): Lebrun Pindare; Le Brun, Pierre Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Crime & Criminals; Poetry & Poets DOVE RIVER ANTHOLOGY, BY OWN WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: LUCY GRAY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She dwelt among the untrodden ways Last Line: Eh, william wordsworth? Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850) EPILOGUE: HURLO-THRUMBO; A PLAY BY SAMUEL JOHNSON, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hurlo: ladies and gentlemen, my lord of flame Last Line: Their looks make sense or nonsense in our isle. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Supernatural; Writing & Writers FROG, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First memory / of swimming underwater Last Line: And croaking in the reeds. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Authors & Authorship; Frogs; Poetry & Poets HYMN TO THE AUTHOR OF THESE HYMNS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: O'er realms of song an uncrowned king all things beneath the sun I Last Line: Wood! It is your shade, your shade, your shade, o dreaming wood! . . . Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Singing & Singers; Songs IZAAC WALTON, COTTON, AND WILLIAM OLDWAYS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Son cotton! These light idle brooks Last Line: Just like these idle waves, son cotton! Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Literature; Walton, Izaak (1593-1683); Writing & Writers; Reading LINES WRITTEN IN THE AUTHOR'S COPY OF 'FROM THE FOUR WINDS', by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wrote this book and certify Last Line: I write these words, and send her out. Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Reading LITTLE BLANCO RIVER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're only a foot deep Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Poetry & Poets LOVE'S INTERPRETATION, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: A maiden sat beside the sea Last Line: Fall in love with the author of the book! Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Writing & Writers; Reading MADRIGAL; IN PRAISE OF MR. BULLEN ON HIS EDITION OF WORKS OF CAMPION, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He comes again! Last Line: Whose brain and lute are dust. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Bullen, Arthur Henry (1857-1920); Poetry & Poets MY GHOSTS, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My house is filled with ghosts Last Line: In payment for my reverent love of them. Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Ghosts; Supernatural; Reading ON SEEING ON THE SAME BOOKSHELF JOHNSON'S LIVES OF THE POETS ..., by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See british bards and british cut-throats made Last Line: Dryden on wings or turpin on a hack! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Reading ON SOME SOUTH AFRICAN NOVELISTS, by IGNATIUS ROYSTON DUNNACHIE CAMPBELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You praise the firm restraint with which they write Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, Roy Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; South Africa PEELING AN ORANGE, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tearing the skin carelessly Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Poetry & Poets POETS ARE BORN NOT MADE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My nose is out of joint Last Line: Anything they write. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Poetry & Poets; Twins REMARKS ON DR. BROWN'S 'ESTIMATE OF THE MANNERS OF THE TIMES', by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The book appears to my perusing sight Last Line: All-bearing meekness, and all-conq'ring love. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; England; Writing & Writers; Reading; English SING OUT IN THE SUNLIGHT, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Sing out in the sunlight, ye poets of men! Last Line: Filtered out of the fireside, with flocks in the fold. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship SONNET, TO THE AUTHOR OFR 'THE REVOLT OF ISLAM', by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: Percy! When from thy wild and mighty lyre Last Line: Hold its high course—itself its fittest praise! Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Percy, Thomas (1729-1811) THE ACHARNIANS: IN PRAISE OF THE POET, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since first to exhibit his plays began Last Line: But teachings the things that are best. Variant Title(s): Aristophane's Defence [or, The Poet And The People] Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Authors & Authorship; Critics & Criticism THE APOLOGY; ADDRESSED TO THE CRITICAL REVIEWERS, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: Laughs not the heart when giants, big with pride Last Line: If reason's for me, god is for me too. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Critics & Criticism; Defamation; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Smollett, Tobias George (1721-1771); Slander; Libel THE ARGUMENT OF HIS BOOK, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of brooks, of blossoms, of birds, and bowers Last Line: Of heaven, and hope to have it after all. Variant Title(s): His Theme;lyric Argument;preface To Hesperides;the Argument Of Hesperides;hesperides Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; Writing & Writers; Reading THE AUTHOR, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Accursed the man, whom fate ordains, in spite Last Line: And will, though poor without, have peace within. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Christianity; Education; Hypocrisy; Smollett, Tobias George (1721-1771); Virtue THE AUTHOR TO HER BOOK, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain Last Line: Which caused her thus to send thee out of door. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Children; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE AUTHOR'S COAT OF ARMS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some sire of ours, beloved kinsfolk, chose Last Line: "which makes its god the centre of its joy." Subject(s): Authors & Authorship THE BOOK TO THE READER, by WILLIAM BOSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. Author vow'd to prattle forth his loves Last Line: His hawk may please you with a fairer flight. Alternate Author Name(s): William Boxworth Subject(s): Authors & Authorship THE METRE COLUMBIAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: This is the metre columbian. The soft-flowing trochees and dactyls Last Line: "breaks, and in accents mellifluous, follows the thoughts of the author" Subject(s): "authors & Authorship;longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); THE PAPER KNIFE, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Belinda! Deem not this, my shining blade Last Line: Till I my entrance and my exit make. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Knives; Daggers THOMPSON'S VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The book, by george! I'd rather own Last Line: "in zadock thompson's book ""vermont." Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; History; Native Americans; Travel; Vermont; Reading; Historians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips TO A FRIEND IN THE MAKING, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You wild, uncooked young fellow! Last Line: Your candor compensates me for my old bouquet. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship TO A FRIEND. ON RECEIVING HIS COMPLETE POEMS, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not yet 'complete,' old friend, not yet! Last Line: Still hides in every horoscope! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Authors & Authorship TO EDMUND GOSSE, WITH EIGHT VOLUMES OF THE AUTHOR'S WORK, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eight volumes! - all well-polished prose Last Line: Crown me, melpomene, my dear! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Authors & Authorship TO HIS MUCH AND WORTHILY ESTEEMED FRIEND THE AUTHOR, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who takes thy volume to his virtuous hand Last Line: To understand, he may at length admire. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship TO MRS ALICE SUTCLIFFE, ON HER DIVINE MEDITATIONS, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I had read your holy meditations Last Line: Must celia be, the anagram of alice. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship TO MY DEAR SON, RIGHT-LEARNED FRIEND, MASTER JOSEPH RUTTER, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You look, my joseph, I should something say Last Line: Concluded from a carract to a dram. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship TO THE MEMORY OF GRACE AGUILAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "and thou art gone, grace aguilar" Last Line: Who sing that 'god is love' Subject(s): Authors & Authorship;jews;memory; Judaism TO THE WORTHY AUTHOR ON THE HUSBAND, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It fits not only him that makes a book Last Line: She need not blush upon the marriage day. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship VISIONS IN VERSE; AN EPISTLE TO THE READER, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Authors, you know, of greatest fame Last Line: You can't in conscience think me wrong. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Poetry & Poets WILLIAM MILLIGAN SLOANE, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY Poem Text First Line: As on the blissful fields musaeus stood Last Line: Old plutarch would have loved and envied him. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; History; Sloane, William Milligan (1906-1974); Teaching & Teachers; Reading; Historians; Educators; Professors WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Parry seeks the polar ridge Last Line: The public little knows -- the publisher too much. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; North Pole; Parry, William Edward (1790-1855) YELLOW GLOVE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can a yellow glove mean in a world of motorcars and / governments? Subject(s): Arabs - Women; Authors & Authorship; Poetry & Poets |
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