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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: EDUCATORS Matches Found: 99 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LANGUAGE, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I had heard the story before Subject(s): Language; Teaching & Teachers; Miscarriage; Words; Vocabulary; Educators; Professors A MOMENTARY LONGING TO HEAR SAD ADVICE FROM ONE LONG DEAD, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who was my teacher at harvard. Did not wear / overcoat Subject(s): Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Students; Educators; Professors A PRAYER FOR TEACHERS, by MARGUERITE EMILIO Poem Text First Line: As to the seer in ancient time Last Line: "you, too, have spoken in god's name." Subject(s): Prayer; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors A TEACHER, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go praise the hero, ye who may Last Line: Ye childless mothers of the race! Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors A VOTE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lest the misconst'ring world should chance to say Last Line: Or in clouds hide them; I have lived to-day. Variant Title(s): A Wish;of Myself Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Gardens & Gardening; Law & Lawyers; Nature; Teaching & Teachers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Attorneys; Educators; Professors ADVENTURERS OF SCIENCE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a microscope and a butterfly net and a specimen case they go Last Line: Fare forth on the trail of truth! Subject(s): Knowledge; Microscopes; Science; Teaching & Teachers; Scientists; Educators; Professors ANNIVERSARIES: CLAREMONT AVENUE, FROM 1945, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sitting on a bench at one hundred and fifteenth Last Line: No place to go. Subject(s): Chinese Language; Death; Grief; Memory; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); Teaching & Teachers; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Educators; Professors; Feminism BEATEN TO DEATH, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: At depth of night, this thought on home had shone Last Line: Was dying through two hours -- beaten to death. Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Death - Children; Murder; Teaching & Teachers; Death - Babies; Educators; Professors CASTLE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She forgot. She has to make one for her class Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Castles; Educators; Professors CHILDREN: THE BOY-CHILD, by MARY AINGE DE VERE Poem Text First Line: Show him the bird in its daring flight Last Line: Oh, pray for the boy-child — mother, pray! Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Madeline Subject(s): Boys; Children; Mothers; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Educators; Professors CONSUMMATION, by MORRIS HURLEY Poem Text First Line: Abundant life is nature's law Last Line: To take you through the gates of heaven. Subject(s): Caregivers; Mothers; Parents; Teaching & Teachers; Parenthood; Educators; Professors DOMESDAY BOOK: ALMA BELL TO THE CORONER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What my name is, or where I live, or if Last Line: Of gregory wenner first: Subject(s): Life; Love; Soul; Teaching & Teachers; Undertakers; Educators; Professors EASY LESSONS, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, little children, come with me Last Line: So plain that a child can read them. Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors EPISTLE TO WILLIAM SIMPSON OF OCHILTREE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gat your letter, winsome willie Last Line: In robert burns. Variant Title(s): To William Simson, Ochiltree Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors EPITAPH ON A CLEISH SCHOOLMASTER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lie willie michie's banes Last Line: For clever deils he'll mak them! Subject(s): Epitaphs; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors EPITAPH ON NICOL OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, EDINBURGH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye maggots, feed on nichol's brain Last Line: For deil a bit o't's rotten. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Nicol, William (1744-1797); Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 1, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A strange discourse, in all impartial views Last Line: A god-like love embracing ev'ry man. Subject(s): Advice; Friends, Religious Society Of; Mankind; Reason; Religious Education; Sermons; Teaching & Teachers; Quakers; Human Race; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Educators; Professors FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 2, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No office seems more sacred and august Last Line: And from the sermon vindicate the text. Subject(s): Advice; Holy Ghost; Religious Education; Sermons; Speech; Talk; Teaching & Teachers; Holy Spirit; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Oratory; Orators; Educators; Professors FLASH CARDS, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In math I was the whiz kid, keeper Subject(s): Education; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Students; Educators; Professors FRIENDS, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even after j.B. Left and went to a better house Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Editors; Educators; Professors GOD THE ONLY TRUE TEACHER, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lord is my light; by his teaching I learn Last Line: That can give me instruction, and make himself known. Subject(s): God; Learning; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors GRATITUDE TO OLD TEACHERS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we stride or stroll across the frozen lake Last Line: Beneath us the teachers, and around us the stillness. Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Education; Faith; Growth; Maturity; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Belief; Creed; Students; Educators; Professors HAMMER, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every wednesday when I went to the shared office Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors HER MONOLOGUE OF DARK CREPE WITH EDGES OF LIGHT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mistress adrienne, I have been given a bed with a pink dresser Last Line: Don't hear from you I will try to understand. Chloe. Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; American Revolution; Girls; Librarians & Libraries; Murder; Teaching & Teachers; Library; Librarians; Educators; Professors HIMALAYA APE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Now listen, evolutionists Last Line: Or of the missing link. Subject(s): Animals; Apes; Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Evolution; Pets; Science; Teaching & Teachers; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Scientists; Educators; Professors HIS FATHER CARVED UMBRELLA HANDLES, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Ghettos; Teaching & Teachers; Family Life; Poverty; Despair; Educators; Professors; Relatives IDYLL 3. THE TEACHER TAUGHT, by BION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By me in my fresh prime did cypris stand Last Line: But his love-ditties—I forget them not. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors IF MY WIFE TAUGHT SCHOOL, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I had a wife 'at taught school I would go Last Line: Enny way, what would you do? Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Marriage; Suicide; Teaching & Teachers; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Educators; Professors; Journeys; Trips IN ENGLISH IN A POEM, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am giving a lecture on poetry Last Line: I'll drive you home Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her class invents angels Last Line: They have nothing to do with you. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students; Educators; Professors JAMES MCCOSH, by ROBERT BRIDGES (1858-1941) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Young to the end through sympathy with youth Last Line: "sorrow will shadow those he called ""my boys""!" Alternate Author Name(s): Droch Subject(s): Mccosh, James (1811-1894); Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors LIVES OF THE POETS, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was fortunate enough to have Subject(s): Poetry & Poetgry; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors LUCK'S SHINING CHILD, by GEORGE PALMER GARRETT JR. Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because I am broke again Alternate Author Name(s): Garrett, George Subject(s): Poverty; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors MODERN THOUGHTS OF A LAYMAN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: In these days of new thought and interpretation Last Line: For the goats, then will open the great jaws of hell. Subject(s): Clergy; Religious Education; Sermons; Teaching & Teachers; Thought; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Educators; Professors; Thinking MORNING GLORY, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The faces of the teachers Last Line: Together, if we hover long enough. Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors MRS. SNOW, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Busts of the great composers glimmered in niches Last Line: Ah, those were the days Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors OF POLITICS, & ART, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, on the farthest point of the peninsula Last Line: God-rendering voice of a storm. Subject(s): Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Nostalgia; Politics & Government; Storms; Teaching & Teachers; Tuberculosis; Women; Educators; Professors; Consumption (pathology) OLD 'PROF' DICKSON DIES, by CARL HOLLIDAY Poem Text First Line: Old 'prof' dickson's dead at last Last Line: But my! What cheers rocked heaven's wall! Subject(s): Death; Teaching & Teachers; Dead, The; Educators; Professors ON DR. BAMBRIGG [BAINBRIGG], MASTER OF CHRIST'S, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were but this marble vocal, there Last Line: These ashes might prove eloquent. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors ON FLUNKING A NICE BOY OUT OF SCHOOL, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I could teach you how ugly Last Line: These sheepfaces to tuesday Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Timidity; Educators; Professors ON JAMES GRACIE, DEAN OF GUILD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gracie, thou art a man of worth Last Line: Who fauts thy weight or measure! Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors ON MR. CRUIKSHANK OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, EDINBURGH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Honest will to heaven's away Last Line: In english nane e'er kent them. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors ON RETURNING TO TEACH, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At a distance. Young voices are whooping Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors ON THE DEATH OF MR. JORDAN, MASTER AT WESTMINSTER SCHOOL, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hence, and make room for me, all you who come Last Line: For what I ow'd his life, I'll pay his grave. Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors ON THE DEATH OF MR. PURCELL, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mark how the lark and linnet sing Last Line: Nor know to mend their choice. Variant Title(s): An Ode On The Death Of Mr Henry Purcell;an Ode, On The Death Of Mr. Henry Purcell, Late Servant To His Majesty Subject(s): Death; Music & Musicians; Purcell, Henry (1659-1695); Teaching & Teachers; Dead, The; Educators; Professors OUR SCHOOLMASTER, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We used to think it was so queer Last Line: And read love-verses tenderly. Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors POST-MODERNISM, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pinup of rita hayworth was taped Last Line: Do I know him? Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Bombs; Death; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Actresses; Dead, The; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Students; Educators; Professors PROF OF PROFS, by GEOFFREY BROCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors PROFESSOR RAVEN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: What is man that thou art mindful Last Line: Death remains the wage for sin. Subject(s): Knowledge; Ravens; Science; Teaching & Teachers; Scientists; Educators; Professors RALPH WALDO EMERSON, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the cloud that dimmed his sunset light Last Line: Itself, and stamps it with the seal of heaven. Subject(s): Death; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Life; Philosophy & Philosophers; Soul; Teaching & Teachers; Dead, The; Educators; Professors REJECTED, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a nawful pretty teacher at our school, an' Last Line: If I do what I've been plannin', an' I die in her front yard. Subject(s): Admiration; Boys; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors REUNION, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For more than thirty years we hadn't met Last Line: Grateful, my dear, that I escaped from you. Subject(s): Disappointment; Reunions; Teaching & Teachers; Women; Women's Rights; Educators; Professors; Feminism SCHOOLTEACHER, by ANGELO PHILIP BERTOCCI Poem Text First Line: She acts routine of ancient lessons taught Last Line: A little more and she will fall asleep. Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors SEVERAL MEASURES FOR THE LITTLE LOST, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lesson begins in a heated room Last Line: After all of the lamb has left the bone it warned. Subject(s): History; Hunger; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Teaching & Teachers; Historians; Educators; Professors SIC FRATRES HELENAE, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O where is the pastor and master Last Line: Instructors of schools! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors SIFTER, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When our english teacher gave Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors SPECIAL MESSAGE TO THE VERMONT LEGISLATURE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We folks that went to district schools Last Line: While we look on. Subject(s): Country Life; Education; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Vermont - Legislature; Students; Educators; Professors SPIRIT-RAPPING; TO THE NEW PROFESSOR SPIRITUAL RAPOLOGY, GLASGOW, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou abjured the worship of old mammon Last Line: The secret soon you'll know you may not tell. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Mediums; Spiritual Life; Supernatural; Teaching & Teachers; Spiritualists; Educators; Professors TEACHER, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes there's gravel on the bend Last Line: While they wait for evening thaw Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors TEACHER, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I make my children promises in wintry afternoons Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Education; Mothers & Daughters; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Women; Students; Educators; Professors THE AUTHOR'S LAST WORDS TO HIS STUDENTS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive what I, adventuring highest themes Last Line: The voice of your devotion. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Tokyo Imperial University; Educators; Professors THE BUILDER, by ISABELLE LOAR Poem Text First Line: To build with stone: to fashion here Last Line: A splendid, shining tower! Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Western Illinois University; Educators; Professors THE CORRESPONDENCE-SCHOOL INSTRUCTOR SAYS GOODBYE TO HIS POETRY STUDENTS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goodbye, lady in bangor, who sent me Last Line: Their solitude given away in poems, only their loneliness kept Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Poetry & Poets; Educators; Professors THE DEAD TEACHER, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: Ah! But yesterday we saw him there in the familiar / place Last Line: Where thou restest from thy labors in the hearing of the pines! Subject(s): Bowdoin College; Death; Funerals; Teaching & Teachers; Dead, The; Burials; Educators; Professors THE DEAN OF FACULTY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dire was the hate at old harlaw Last Line: The more they're to your liking. Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors THE IMMORTAL, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're shivering my memory Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Memory; Time; Memory; Educators; Professors THE IRISH SCHOOLMASTER, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alack! 'tis melancholy theme to think Last Line: But wears a floury head, and talks in flow'ry speech! Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors THE MEGALOPSYCHIAD, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great and good is the typical don, and of evil and wrong the foe Last Line: Behold the large and liberal views of megalopsychus brown!' Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Oxford University; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors THE ORDINATION, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kilmarnock wabsters, fidge and claw Last Line: Like oil, some day. Subject(s): Beattie, James (1735-1803); Clergy; Poetry & Poets; Scotland; Teaching & Teachers; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Educators; Professors THE PARADISE OF LECTURERS, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you might be a name for the world to acclaim, and when opulence dawns on Last Line: All the gold of klondike isn't anything like to the sums that are made in the states! Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Literature; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 216, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A child who doesn't have a teacher Last Line: Don't become a laughingstock Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Education; Teaching & Teachers; Virtue; Educators; Professors THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 34, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old buddha road is deserted Last Line: Need to see my teacher Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Roads; Teaching & Teachers; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity; Paths; Trails; Educators; Professors THE PROFESSOR'S FINAL ADDRESS, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He tries to keep up Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors THE SCHOLAR OF HIS OWN PUPIL; THIRD IDYLLIUM, by BION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt, by me I saw fair venus stand Last Line: And learn'd of him, by songs, the art of love. Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Love; Cupid; Educators; Professors; Eros THE SCHOOL MASTER, by ALBERT INGBERG Poem Text First Line: I am a school master Last Line: "shouting for their battle cry, my dictum, ""for others""!" Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors THE SEVEN STARS: A CONSTELLATION OF SCOTTISH POETS: BEATTIE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet minstrel! From thy hermit's cell Last Line: Thy harp is tuned to numbers glowing. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Beattie, James (1735-1803); Poetry & Poets; Scotland; Stars; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors THE TEACHER, by LEONARD FEENEY Poem Text First Line: I drudge and toil-but I have my hour Last Line: And the grocery store? Subject(s): Aulis, Greece; Endymion; Teaching & Teachers; Troy; Educators; Professors THE TEACHER'S MONOLOGUE, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The room is quiet, thoughts alone Last Line: To suffer to the end! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors THE TURNED LESSON, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought I knew it!' she said Last Line: The hardest is found all clear and sweet! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Love; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors TO A CLASS IN SHAKESPEARE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Gossip of swains befooled by fairy charm Last Line: Because they've walked together and with him. Subject(s): Dramatists; Happiness; Humanity; Music & Musicians; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Teaching & Teachers; Joy; Delight; Dramatists; Educators; Professors TO A PHOEBE-BIRD, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the eaves, out of the wet Last Line: What eloquence you teach! Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Birds; Eloquence; Messages & Messengers; Phoebe (bird); Silence; Singing & Singers; Teaching & Teachers; Songs; Educators; Professors TO AN 'INSTRUCTOR', by HARRY S. FURBUR JR. Poem Text First Line: Treat not with such wanton disdain Last Line: Professors who are not instructors. Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors TO HIS TUTOR, MASTER PAWSON: AN ODE, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, come away Last Line: And point the haven where we may securely lie. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors TO THE PRINCIPAL AND PROFESSORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS ....., by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St andrews town may look right gawsy Last Line: Will mend your prose and heal my rhyme. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Universities & Colleges; Students; Educators; Professors TO THE REV. W.J. HORT, WHILE TEACHING A YOUNG LADY ... ON HIS FLUTE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! Ye clamorous cares! Be mute Last Line: And I will thank thee with a raptur'd tear. Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors TO THE TEACHERS OF AMERICA, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Teachers of teachers! Yours the task Last Line: To flower in years unborn. Subject(s): National Educational Association; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors TO THE WORSHIPFUL, MY VERY LOVING MASTER, LAMBERT OSBALSTON, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My childish muse is in her spring; and yet Last Line: The best, and first fruites, of her gratefull pen. Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors TWO RAMAGES FOR OLD MASTERS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent in the moonlight, no beginning or end Last Line: By the torah and the bible inside the naked seed. Subject(s): Immortality; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Teaching & Teachers; Time; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Male-female Relations; Theology; Educators; Professors TWO RAMAGES FOR OLD MASTERS, by ROBERT BLY Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Silent in the moonlight Last Line: By the torah and the bible inside the naked seed. Subject(s): Immortality; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Teaching & Teachers; Time; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Male-female Relations; Theology; Educators; Professors UNDER THE SURFACE: PRELUDE, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take it, o father! This new book be thine Last Line: Shall all be thine for evermore. Amen. Subject(s): Praise; Prayer; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors UPON SAMUEL WARD, D.D., THE LADY MARGARET'S PROFESSOR IN CAMBRIDGE, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were't not peculiar to weep for thee Last Line: But the sweet breathing smoke still upward go. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Cambridge University; Puritans; Teaching & Teachers; Ward, Samuel (d. 1643); Educators; Professors VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF DR. LLOYD (2), by VINCENT BOURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Th' old man, our amiable old man is gone Last Line: Nor ev'n a stone to chronicle thee, dead. Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors VERSES UNDER A PRINT, REPRESENTING CHRIST IN THE MIDST OF THE DOCTORS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Engag'd amidst the doctors here, behold Last Line: The teacher jesus, in the midst of all. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Teaching & Teachers; Wisdom; Educators; Professors VISION OR DREAM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: On a bed of soft mosses, I lay 'neath the trees Last Line: He went as he came—in vision or dream. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Dreams; Knowledge; Modern Man; Religious Education; Teaching & Teachers; Reading; Nightmares; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Educators; Professors WHAT MY FATHER BELIEVED, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man of his age, he believed in the things Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Teaching & Teachers; Patriotism; Educators; Professors WHY DISTRICT SCHOOL USED TO KEEP IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When district school was almost done Last Line: From which she bought her watch and chain. Subject(s): Children; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Vermont; Childhood; Students; Educators; Professors 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 WORKS AND DAYS, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: Dare I this task? Ah! Mightier hands than / mine Last Line: "as stars do in the fulness of the day!" Subject(s): Anniversaries; Bowdoin College; Death; Prayer; Teaching & Teachers; Dead, The; Educators; Professors YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR: 2. ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The underpaid young teacher Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): English As A Second Language; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors |
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