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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: EXAMINATIONS Matches Found: 16 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CAMPUS SONNET: BEFORE AN EXAMINATION, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little letters dance across the page Last Line: Ring icy-clear from the far deeps of night. Subject(s): Examinations; Universities & Colleges DAY OFF, by RICK CANNON Poem Source First Line: I'm carrying x-rays of my wife's breasts down the hall Last Line: Across her shoulders together we'll float out away %from the antiseptic expert into his holiday gift Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Examinations; Sickness; X-rays DEATH BY AESTHETICS, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the doctor, an abstracted lover Subject(s): Physicians; Examinations; Women Patients; Doctors EXAMINATION PAPER; THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mention any occasions on which it is specified that the Last Line: Who, besides mr. Pickwick, is recorded to have worn garters? Subject(s): Examinations FOR THE EXAMINATION ST HO-NAN-FU: SONGS OF TWELVE MONTHS: 1, by LI HO Poem Source First Line: Stars rest cold by shoals of cloud Last Line: Blazoned in brightness, the little dipper gleams Subject(s): Civil Service - Examinations IN MEMORIAM EXAMINATORIS CUIUSDAM, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, where yon undistinguished grave Last Line: Save b -- (?). Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Examinations; Oxford University IN THE GARDEN - FOR BOBBIE KEVELSON, by MICHAEL DAVID RILEY Poem Source First Line: Each day the old man clipped a leaf Last Line: And memory a life fallen leaf by leaf %into the garden of humility Subject(s): Examinations; Leaves; Plants ON A WINTER'S DAY, MY SON JUN TRAVELS NORTH TO TAKE THE EXAMINATIONS, by YANG WENLI Poem Source First Line: Young and unused to going to other places Last Line: Nods the jade pendants on his cap Subject(s): Examinations; Sons ON FAILING THE EXAMINATION, by MENG CHIAO Poem Source First Line: The dawn moon struggles to shine its light Last Line: These thoughts like wounds from a knife! Subject(s): Civil Service - Examinations; Grief PASSING OUT, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doctor fingers my bruise. Subject(s): Examinations SCHOOL EXAMINATION, by JULIAN MOSES DRACHMAN Poem Text First Line: There is a silent hour within these walls Last Line: Life has escaped its thralldom of an hour. Subject(s): Examinations THE REGENT'S EXAMINATION, by JESSIE WALLACE HUGHAN Poem Text First Line: Muffled sounds of the city climbing to me at the window Last Line: Neuter and safe shall it be? Or a flame to burst us asunder? Subject(s): Examinations; Immigrants; Racism; United States - Race Relations; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE VISION TEST, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My driver's license is lapsing and so I appear Last Line: For normal people who know where they want to go Subject(s): Literary Form; Examinations; Vision; Driving & Drivers THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY A COLLEGE EXAMINATION, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High in the midst, surrounded by his peers Last Line: The premium can't exceed the price they pay. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Examinations; Universities & Colleges TOPLESS, by CAROL MICKETT Poem Source First Line: I pose in a hot pick apron weighted with lead Last Line: Call lines up. Fishing is serious business Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Examinations VISITING THE SOUTHERN TOWER OF CHONG-ZHEN TEMPLE, by YU XUANJI Poem Source First Line: Cloud-covered hilltops fill my eyes Last Line: And lifting my head in vain I covet %the publicly posted name Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Examinations |
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