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Subject: EDISON, THOMAS ALVA (1847-1931)
Matches Found: 4

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AND YET FOOLS SAY, by GEORGE SANFORD HOLMES    Poem Source                    
First Line: He captured light and caged it in a glass
Subject(s): Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931)


EDISON, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A thousand leagues on the arctic sea
Last Line: Whose master-thought is the joy of man.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931); Praise


EDISON FILMS AN EXECUTION, by GEORGE BILGERE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jumbo finally put his foot down
Last Line: Of their own fixed frame to vanish %far down the line %in our remote perspective
Subject(s): Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931); Motion Pictures


MODERN COLUMBUS, by ELEANOR ROBBINS WILSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Favored was he as that great genoese
Subject(s): Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931)