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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GREATNESS Matches Found: 10 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CRY ON THE WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pity the great with love, they are deaf, they are blind Last Line: Since oisin's mother fled to the hill a spellbound hind. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Greatness; Love; Mothers & Sons; Mythology - Celtic; Pity; Visually Handicapped A PRAYER FOR GREAT MEN OF THE NATIONS, by MAE BAKER HENLINE Poem Text First Line: Carve not, oh lord, the cypress at this hour Last Line: "a great man died." Subject(s): Greatness; Prayer GREAT MEN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider greatness Last Line: While far down the long slope gleams the pale sea Subject(s): Greatness; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945) GREAT MEN HAVE BEEN AMONG US, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great men have been among us; hands that penned Last Line: But equally a want of books and men! Subject(s): Greatness; France GREY COMPANY, by JESSIE MACKAY Poem Source First Line: O the grey, grey company Subject(s): Greatness THE TRULY GREAT, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I think continually of those who were truly great Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Freedom; Greatness; Heroism; Life Change Events; Men; War; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 23. THE FEAR OF BEING GREAT, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The fear of being great is what keeps men Last Line: Can understand what living truly is. Subject(s): Fear; Greatness; Men TRUE GREATNESS, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If laureled heroes could eliminate Last Line: The dross refiners separate from gold. Subject(s): Greatness; Heroism; Humility; Heroes; Heroines TRULY GREAT, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think continually of those who were truly great Last Line: And left the vivid air signed with their honour Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Freedom; Greatness; Heroism; Life Change Events; Men; War WHO GIANTS KNOW, WITH LESSER MEN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Do not comprpomise the skies Variant Title(s): Poem: 796; Poem: 84 Subject(s): Greatness |
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