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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BIOGRAPHY Matches Found: 29 A SUMMARY HISTORY OF LORD CLIVE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: About a hundred and fifty years ago Last Line: But the greatest of them all was robert clive. Subject(s): Biography; Clive, Robert, Baron (1725-1774); History; India; Biographers; Historians AN AMERICAN BEAUTY; FOR ANN LONDON, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As you described your mastectomy in calm detail Last Line: Your last wedding day. Subject(s): Biography; Death; Friendship; Surgery; Women; Women's Rights; Biographers; Dead, The; Feminism AUTOBIOGRAPHIA LITERATA, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like coffee, %there were tricks I used Last Line: Want to sleep, early %and I have to write this down Subject(s): Biography; Literature AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To describe your life Last Line: When jesus thought this, he ascended Subject(s): Biography BIG JIM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The only man I ever knew who put Last Line: Under the sagging springs, just in case. Subject(s): Biography; Men; Biographers BIOGRAPHY, by EDWARD HOFFMAN Poem Source First Line: Sir isaac newton Last Line: What possible use %could geometry have Subject(s): Biography; Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) CHARLES HARPER WEBB, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Manly, my mother said my first name meant Last Line: Gallop past, %followed by the purple passage of a king Subject(s): Biography; Music And Musicians CLERIHEW, by EDMUND CLERIHEW BENTLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The art of biography %is different from geography Last Line: Geography is about maps, %but biography is about chaps Alternate Author Name(s): Bentley, E. C. Subject(s): Biography; Geography DORIS ULLMANN, CONFINED TO BED BY ILLNESS (AGAIN)......, by LEATHA KENDRICK Poem Source First Line: I have never been able to come to rest here Last Line: Like light and like the light %giving something back Subject(s): Biography; Life EPIGRAM: LADY BIOGRAPHER, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She devotes her life to the lives of others, Subject(s): Biography; Women - Writers; Biographers EUGENE FIELD BORN SEPTEMBER 3, 1850, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: At night when the rockaby lady comes Last Line: And wrote it out plain in a small book for you. Subject(s): Biography; Field, Eugene (1850-1895); September; Story-telling; Biographers FRAGMENTS FOR MY VOYEURISTIC BIOGRAPHER, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Write that I started in barcelona Last Line: I leave you the fragments the furniture the horrible fatigue Subject(s): Biography; Gays & Lesbians; Promiscuity; Truth; Biographers LIFE OF BRIAN, by RICHARD KELL Poem Source First Line: Brian, employed in saudi arabia, favours %rigorous laws Last Line: Yes. Quite soon. When I'm feeling up to it Subject(s): Biography; Life LIFE STORY, by JOE CISLO Poem Source First Line: Join the army,' my grampa said Last Line: Finding a clean, quiet place to do my thing Subject(s): Biography; Idleness; Life; Youth MY GOOD FATHER, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pierone's inc. / riverside and post - spokane, washington 99201 Last Line: Carolyn Subject(s): Biography; Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Marriage; Virtue; Women; Women's Rights; Biographers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Feminism MY LIFE BY SOMEBODY ELSE, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have done what I could but you avoid me. Subject(s): Biography; Biographers MY SECRET LIFE, by NATASHA SAJE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That gent in victoria's england who screwed Last Line: The thought of drowning is a century away Subject(s): Biography; Books; Childhood Memories ON ANTI-BIOGRAPHY, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For me, biography is a lantern, burning in the midst of parenthetical opaqueness. In a Last Line: Into the ecstasy of x-rays and blackness Subject(s): Biography; Biographers ON THE MATERIALS NECESSARY FOR HIS 'LIFE OF NAPOLEON', by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When with poetry dealing Last Line: Ere I grapple, god bless me! With emperor nap. Subject(s): Biography; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Biographers PEARL, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: She was nothing much, this plain-faced girl from texas Subject(s): Biography; Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Women; Biographers PEARL, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was nothing much, this plain-faced girl from texas Last Line: In a storm on a blackened stage like a house %on fire Subject(s): Biography; Joplin, Janis (1943-1970); Women READING ROBERT CREELEY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He adored skating on that small river as a boy Last Line: Holding to what one loves – a triumph of faithfulness Subject(s): Biography; Children; Creeley, Robert (1926-2005); Biographers; Childhood READING ROBERT CREELEY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He adored skating on that small river as a boy Last Line: Holding to what one loves - a triumph of faithfulness Subject(s): Biography; Children SAM AND JIM, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When old sam johnson sat in state, that Last Line: Pompous prodigies lie down, and, dying, kill off their renown. Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Biography; Old Age; Writing & Writers; Biographers SCRIBE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is listening and writing Last Line: Life that never happended Subject(s): Biography; Zarin, Cynthia TO EDWARD DOWDEN (ON RECEIVING A COPY OF 'THE LIFE OF SHELLEY'), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First, ere I slake my hunger, let me thank Last Line: Struck from man's lyric heartstrings, shall survive. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Biography; Dowden, Edward (1843-1913); Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Biographers UGO BASSI, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fra ugo bassi, servant of our lord Last Line: That when I meet him, I may meet thee too! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Subject(s): Bassi, Ugo (1801-1849); Biography; Catholic Church - Clergy; Firing Squads; Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1882); Italy - Revolutions; Rome, Siege Of (1849); Biographers; Catholic Priests WRITTEN IN SIR SIDNEY LEE'S LIFE OF SHAKESPEARE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lee, who in niggard soil hast delved, to find Last Line: Glorious with casual sprinklings of the foam. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Biography; Dramatists; Lee, Sidney (1859-1926); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Biographers YOU MIGHT SAY: THIS IS THE STORY OF MY LIFE, by STEPHEN DUNNING Poem Source First Line: The dark bruise of the august storm touches down near blue earth, snaps Last Line: People here care what you say.' Subject(s): Biography; Life |
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