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Subject: DISCIPLINE
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Last Line: And eke obtain thy master's praise
Subject(s): Discipline;schools; Students


A BUSY MORNING, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One morning mother had to be away
Last Line: I've had one day of life, at any rate.
Subject(s): Children; Discipline; Childhood


A USEFUL HINT, by AARON HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tender-handed stroke a nettle
Last Line: And the rogues obey you well.
Variant Title(s): How To Deal With Common Natures;grasp It Like A Man!
Subject(s): Discipline


ALCATRAZ, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was a girl, I knew I was a man
Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Children; Discipline; Convicts; Childhood


ANIMAL AND INSECT ACT, by CECIL RAJENDRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Finally, in order to ensure
Last Line: There was now total security
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Discipline; Human Rights; Law And Lawyers; Riots


DISCIPLINE, by BROOKE ASTOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am old and I have had
Last Line: But it's better far than 'I' and 'me.'
Subject(s): Aging; Discipline


DISCIPLINE, by ALICE VAN LEER CARRICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: In summer when I go to say at grandpa's farm in maine
Subject(s): Discipline


DISCIPLINE, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These forty days I fasted in
Last Line: My tempted loneliness.
Subject(s): Discipline


DISCIPLINE, by DICK DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Such hunger, such unhappiness
Last Line: Quick in a stranger's eye: look, she %appraises you and turns away
Subject(s): Discipline


DISCIPLINE, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Throw away thy rod
Last Line: Throw away thy wrath.
Subject(s): Discipline; Repentance; Penitence


DISCIPLINE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is stormy, and raindrops cling like silver bees to the panes
Last Line: Is complete for the moment, yet wait, and you'll see that my flower will live.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Discipline; Youth


DISCIPLINE, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I guess we ought to tan them more
Last Line: Perhaps I was -- but I don't know.
Subject(s): Discipline


DISCIPLINE, by BETTY COOK ROTTMANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: You look at me with hurt, defiant eyes
Last Line: Should make of you a parent, you may learn, %these tyrants, too, shed tears
Subject(s): Discipline


DISCIPLINE, by MICHAEL WURSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The children are coming to you
Last Line: They are singing a song about adult sex. You %are thinking about discipline
Subject(s): Discipline; Sex


EXCUSES, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes when I'm special naughty
Last Line: Just how bad I was!)
Subject(s): Children; Discipline; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood


FREEDOM AND DISCIPLINE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Saint harmony, many / years I have stript
Subject(s): Discipline; Freedom; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Liberty


IMPORTANT QUERIES, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why this hurrying to and fro
Last Line: Adorn and bless the nation.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Children; Discipline; Labor & Laborers; Mothers; Parents; Childhood; Work; Workers; Parenthood


INCORRIGIBLE, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I guess I'm bad as I can be
Last Line: The fun I had before they caught me.
Subject(s): Children; Discipline; Childhood


LESSON, by PAUL MARIANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silent, my jaws working, I knew
Subject(s): Discipline


MAKERS, by DAVID GALLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: What could I make,' socrates might have asked
Last Line: Fashioned by waves perhaps - though this entailed %replacingthe sea. He made that craft his art
Subject(s): Creative Ability; Discipline


MOTHER AND DAUGHTER; AN UNCOMPLETED SONNET SEQUENCE: 7, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her father lessons me I at times am hard
Last Line: I watch one treasured pearl for me and him.
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Discipline; Mothers & Daughters


MY FATHER'S VOICE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even as I rage, I see my daughter
Last Line: Weathers the shaping blast.
Subject(s): Anger; Children; Discipline; Fathers; Childhood


PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: PARENTHOOD, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My son was insolent to me
Last Line: I hit him: libery is to defend
Subject(s): Discipline; Fathers & Sons


PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: PARENTHOOD, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My son was insolent to me
Last Line: I hit him: liberty is to defend
Subject(s): Discipline; Fathers And Sons


RADIO UNDER THE BED, by REED WHITTEMORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why was a radio sinful? Lord knows. But it was
Last Line: And will play me, %tum-te-tum, tum-te-tum, into my grave
Subject(s): Discipline; Radio


RELIGIO NOVISSIMA, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is an order by a northern sea
Last Line: And undispensed sustain its discipline!
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Discipline; Law & Lawyers; Order; Prisons & Prisoners; Attorneys; Convicts


SPOILING THEM, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You're spoiling them!' the mother cries
Last Line: "those little tykes are spoiling me."
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Discipline


THE GREAT DIGEST OF CONFUCIUS, by EZRA POUND    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The great learning (adult study, grinding corn in the head's mortatr to fit it
Last Line: "happen. ""take not cliff for morass and treacherous bramble."
Subject(s): Confucius And Confucianism; Discipline; Education; Order; Self-control


THE LESSON, by PAUL MARIANI            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silent, my jaws working, I knew
Subject(s): Discipline


THE SPY, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yesterday mother she spanked me so hard
Last Line: I'll find where you live, an' I'll tell my old cat.
Subject(s): Children; Discipline; Mothers; Childhood