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Subject: GRADUATION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PARTING HYMN, by CHARLOTTE L. FORTEN GRIMKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When winter's royal robes of white
Last Line: Are blest and freed from every thrall.
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Commencement; Farewell; Graduation; Parting


A PARTING WORD, by E. LYTTLETON FOX    Poem Text                    
First Line: We've worked a little, jim, my boy
Last Line: Before we say good-by.
Subject(s): Commencement; Farewell; Yale University; Graduation; Parting


AT GRADUATION, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: While looking down the green highway
Last Line: While looking down!
Subject(s): Commencement; Upper Classes; Women; Graduation


BABEL, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We loved your lime-strained lecturns
Last Line: And watch the halos rise.
Subject(s): Commencement; Graduation


BOARDING: 6. GRADUATION, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today I notice how lush it is since I came when doorways
Last Line: Phoned, her parents had already traded beauty for his land
Subject(s): Commencement; Schools; India; Graduation; Students


CLASS HYMN, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a nook among the alders
Last Line: "as thought-stones stir our heart's ""farewell!"
Subject(s): Commencement; Graduation


CLASS SONG (A.H.S.), by MARJORIE H. DICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now on this day of days
Last Line: Class of twenty-four!
Subject(s): Commencement; Graduation


COLLEGE DAYS, by CARLETON HUNNEMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear fellow, when our college days are over
Last Line: Our mother fair!
Subject(s): Commencement; Friendship; Graduation


COLLEGE UNDER WATER, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who are these women and offices
Last Line: Lies on the other side of the poem.
Subject(s): Commencement; Exchange Students; Universities & Colleges; Writing & Writers; Graduation; Foreign Exchange Programs


EXTRACT FROM A POEM .. DEPARTURE OF THE SENIOR CLASS, YALE, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We shall go forth together. There will come
Last Line: Who hath the living waters shall be there!
Subject(s): Commencement; Yale University; Graduation


GRADUATION, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My ex-wife comes over
Subject(s): Graduation & Graduates; Divorce; Parents; Parenthood


GRADUATION, by DOROTHEA TANNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He told us, with the years, you will come
Subject(s): Graduation


GRADUATION DAY, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: June, o thou magical, whimsical june
Last Line: Fair, even fair as these lilies to-night.
Subject(s): Commencement; Women; Graduation


IN CAP AND GOWN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In cap and gown I saw her go
Last Line: "with the new maid ye cannot know,- / in cap and gown"
Subject(s): Admiration;commencement; Graduation


INTRODUCTORY AND VALEDICTORY, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our patrons all! In form of simple lay
Last Line: Fare you well.
Subject(s): Commencement; Life; Schools; Soul; Graduation; Students


THE LAST MAN, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Back at commencement time he came
Last Line: Reunion in another clime.
Subject(s): Commencement; Dartmouth College; Reunions; Scholarship & Scholars; Graduation


THE SENIOR, by IRENE H. WILSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: You will go out this june from cloistered halls
Last Line: And you are gone.
Subject(s): Commencement; Universities & Colleges; Graduation


VALEDICTORY POEM, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gambol and song and jubilee are done
Last Line: And may god speed our perilous career!
Subject(s): Commencement; Harvard University; Graduation


VERSES READ AT DINNER OF CLASS OF '82 OF BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL, by GEORGE SANTAYANA            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I fear that you would think me too affected
Subject(s): Commencement; Graduation