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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: KNOWLEDGE Matches Found: 167 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A COLLEGELANDS CATECHISM, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Which is known as the orchard county? Subject(s): Knowledge; New Jersey A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High on his watershelf Last Line: He is reading a chapter on deserts. Subject(s): Dreams; Fish & Fishing; Knowledge; Nightmares A PARIS BLACKBIRD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the seine's left bank, near the pont-neuf, on the mansard roof Last Line: The scruffy blackbird -- and listen for the cry caught in her bronze throat. Subject(s): Bird-watching; Blackbirds; Creative Ability; Knowledge; Louvre, Paris; Museums; Paris, France; Seine (river), France; Inspiration; Creativity; Art Gallerys A WOMAN'S KNOWLEDGE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rose to smell a moment, then to leave Last Line: Since your chance gift you cannot take away. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Knowledge; Women ADVENTURER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The old priest back from africa Last Line: The wild adventure of being alone Subject(s): Clergy; Explorers; Knowledge; Solitude 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 AFTER READING A CHILD'S GUIDE TO MODERN PHYSICS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If all a top physicist knows Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Knowledge; Physics AFTER READING A CHILD'S GUIDE TO MODERN PHYSICS, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If all a top physicist knows Last Line: Or politicizing nature %be altogether wise, %is something we shall learn Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Knowledge; Physics AGE OF DISCOVERY, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the 182nd day of the 34th year Subject(s): Knowledge; Galileo (1564-1642); Galileo Galilei ANTI-ROMANTIC, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I exlpain ontology, mathematics, theophily Subject(s): Knowledge; Trees APACHE PLUME; 8. ANAMNESIS, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wind erases our footprints on a transverse dune Last Line: One by one they flare off into indigo air. Subject(s): Desire; Knowledge; Nature ASK DADDY, HE WON'T KNOW, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that they've abolished chrome work Last Line: Should you ask me when chicago was founded I could only reply I didn't even know it was losted Subject(s): Knowledge AT THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, by RICHARD BRAUTIGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): California Institute Of Technology; Knowledge; Learning AT WOODWARD'S GARDENS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A boy, presuming on his intellect Last Line: That blinking could not seem to blink away Subject(s): Monkeys; Knowledge AZTEC SONG, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the edge of war near the bonfire Last Line: We taste knowldge Subject(s): Aztecs; Knowledge BONE FRAGMENTS, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stray frays of virga. In the wood grain: line graph of annual rainfall Last Line: Or perhaps a gray fox’s or a dog’s? The cracked femur spills sand Subject(s): Bones; Knowledge BOOKS, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, fatal fruits, nurtured with tears and blood! Last Line: And aspiration more than happiness. Subject(s): Books; Knowledge; Reading CHARITY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did sweeter sounds adorn my flowing tongue Last Line: For ever blessing, and for ever blessed. Subject(s): Bible; God; Heaven; Knowledge; Moses; Religion; Paradise; Theology COMMON KNOWLEDGE, by CAROL V. DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Not easy to pluck Last Line: From memory, from absolute trust Subject(s): Knowledge COSMIC NOTE, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Not to mock us Last Line: Where no thought is? Subject(s): Knowledge DECEMBER STAR, by SHARON KOUROUS Poem Source First Line: What the rock seeks to know the river Last Line: Still sift of water past the unmoved shore %awakes the child whom distant stars adore Subject(s): Knowledge; Seashore; Water DEMETER'S PRAYER TO HADES, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This alone is what I wish for you: knowledge Subject(s): Knowledge DESIRE WE PAST ILLUSIONS TO RECALL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Flesh to exalt than prove its nothingness Subject(s): Knowledge; Science DO YOU KNOW?, by GRACE BROWN FRINK Poem Text First Line: About ten or fifteen years ago Last Line: Then honestly and frankly tell them so. Subject(s): Humility; Knowledge DOOR TO DOOR, by MARTHA RONK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He came to the door selling knowledge Last Line: Eager to have what he had to sell Subject(s): Salespersons; Books; Knowledge EAGLE SONNETS: 1, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have been sure of three things all my life Last Line: Know, man is sure of three, and never more. Subject(s): Knowledge EARTHLY COURSE OF JUSTICE, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: We learned it in this way Last Line: Da vinci dissecting a womb Subject(s): Books; Justice; Knowledge; Lucretius (99-55 B.c.); Wisdom EDUCATION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had lived many years when first I met Last Line: But oh, to feel the youth my age could hold! Subject(s): Death; Education; Experience; Grief; Knowledge; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness EDUCATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Bifurca, a species of fruit fly Last Line: A fly may educate a man Subject(s): Biology And Biologists; Flies; Knowledge; Reproductive System; Sex EDUCATION, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now to the dry hillside Subject(s): Education; Knowledge; Nature; Teaching & Teachers EDUCATION, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now to the dry hillside Last Line: Your speaking lips and moving hand Subject(s): Education; Knowledge; Nature; Teaching And Teachers ENLIGHTENMENT, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish we could take a statistic with more grace, beloved Subject(s): Knowledge EXILE, by NELS JENSEN HERBY Poem Text First Line: Give me the fruit of eden's knowledge-tree Last Line: In exile glad, despising paradise. Subject(s): Exiles; Knowledge; Sonnet (as Literary Form) FABLES: 1ST SER. INTRO.: THE SHEPHERD AND THE PHILOSOPHER, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remote from citys liv'd a swain Last Line: To make men moral, good and wise. Subject(s): Knowledge FACT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chirotherium tracks occur Last Line: Mainly in the middle bunter Subject(s): Knowledge FANNY: 122, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: French and italian equally as well Last Line: Was quite familiar in low dutch and spanish, %and thought of studying modern greek and danish Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Education; Knowledge; Language FANNY: 141, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And for 'resources,' both of purse and head Last Line: And lavished guineas like a prince of wales Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Integrity; Knowledge; Success FANNY: 46, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We owe the ancients something. You have read Last Line: They were an ignorant set of men at best Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Knowledge; Literature FEELINGS ON REMEMBERING THE DAY I FIRST PRODUCED THE MIND, by HSU YUN Poem Source First Line: Drawn some sixty years ago by karma Last Line: Alone I walk through the cosmos, %connecting the past and its people Subject(s): Knowledge; Mediums; Reason; Zen Buddhism FOREVER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do know that birds continue to live and procreate as long as Last Line: This that I have written, for the sake of living with questions %forever Variant Title(s): With Questions Foreve Subject(s): Curiosities And Wonders; Knowledge FOSSIL KNOWLEDGE, by MOLLY MCQUADE Poem Source First Line: The lavishness is what I'd criticize Last Line: In a scribble-scrabble %on a flat stone Subject(s): Fossils; Knowledge GATES ARE BREACHED, by ROBERT R. HENTZ Poem Source First Line: If too little knowledge is a dangerous thing, %no knowledge is a catastrophe' Last Line: Spreading the plague of another dark age Subject(s): Civilization; Knowledge GATHERING, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Knowledge GLORY OF PROGRESS, by SALOME URENA DE HENRIQUEZ Poem Source First Line: It is not enough for a free people to put on the crown of Last Line: Amid the applause of thinkers, sing to the world the great %hosanna of progress! Subject(s): Knowledge; Poetry And Poets; Progress; Wisdom; Youth GOING SOMEWHERE', by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My science-friend, my noblest woman-friend Last Line: All bound as is befitting each—all surely going somewhere Subject(s): Life; Knowledge GRASSY MEADOW SCHOOL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: In the grassy meadow school Last Line: That the best thing is to grow! Subject(s): Books; Knowledge; Scholarship & Scholars; Schools; Summer; Reading; Students HANDFISHING RETABLO: 1, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Leftover shoofly pie charred baby bed Last Line: Media naranja pray keep us in contact with our ground Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Knowledge; Life HER HEART BREADS SILENCE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Because that thou art pale and cold and still Last Line: His holiest honour in this faithful breast! Subject(s): Knowledge; Love; Pain; Secrets; Winter; Suffering; Misery HIS KNOWLEDGE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No one will love you if you're naughty,' said Last Line: "he answered, ""mother will." Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Advice; Children; Knowledge; Love; Mothers; Sons; Childhood HOW DO YOU KNOW?, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is simple, look: statue is huge in the hall Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Knowledge I CANNOT READ HIM, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Simon tries to add color Last Line: Because we know it's artificial Subject(s): Knowledge IF WE BUT ONLY KNEW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: I wrote a verse and sent it forth Last Line: Through all eternity. Subject(s): Future Life; Knowledge; Poetry & Poets; Retribution; Eternity; After Life IF WE ONLY KNEW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: If we only knew what the others know Last Line: If we only knew! Subject(s): Knowledge INFLUENCE, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As in the deeps of embryonic night Last Line: And to full birth and instant knowledge come. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Knowledge INSCRIPTION, by LESLIE NELSON JENNINGS Poem Text First Line: What has been written secretly in these Last Line: The faint, fantastic scripture of the stars. Subject(s): Knowledge INTELLECT, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rule which by obeying grows Last Line: Makes him to his own blood strange Subject(s): Knowledge INTELLECT, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Intellect / gravely broods apart on joy Subject(s): Knowledge INTELLECTUAL, by JUDY DIGREGORIO Poem Source First Line: I'd rather be clever than dumb Last Line: But the words that pop out are ho hum Subject(s): Knowledge; Reason INTELLIGENCE, GIVE ME, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source Last Line: And theirs and mine, for things Subject(s): Knowledge IT TROUBLED ME AS ONCE I WAS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And tumble -- blue -- on me Variant Title(s): Poem: 600; Poem: 51 Subject(s): Knowledge KEY, by DELPHINE LEDOUX Poem Source First Line: Knowledge is your key Subject(s): Knowledge KNOW-NOTHING, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I think I know nothing about sex Subject(s): Knowledge; Sex KNOW-NOTHING, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I think I know nothing about sex Last Line: In the balance with birth, and ignorance with love Subject(s): Knowledge; Sex KNOWLEDGE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Knowledge - who hath it? Nay, not thou Last Line: Now he knows all. O wondrous miracle! Subject(s): Knowledge KNOWLEDGE, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: They list for me the things I can not know Last Line: What death shall mean, some sunny morn shall see. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Knowledge; Life; Dead, The; Belief; Creed KNOWLEDGE, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Now there is no confusion in our love Last Line: These moons know nothing of. Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Knowledge; Love - Loss Of KNOWLEDGE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said pound (out of homer) Last Line: Hath yet his mind entire Subject(s): Knowledge; Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) KNOWLEDGE, by CAMILLE MAUCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter mine, open the door Last Line: By the trembling of my breasts. Subject(s): Knowledge KNOWLEDGE, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw people trambled on, oppressed Last Line: My name is knowledge -- and I conquer all!' Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Knowledge; Socialism KNOWLEDGE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild swan over the marshes knows Last Line: Across the glaciers of eternity! Subject(s): Birds; Future Life; Happiness; Hawks; Hope; Knowledge; Owls; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Joy; Delight; Optimism KNOWLEDGE OF FORGOTTEN THINGS (AT A FAMILY REUNION), by DIXIE LEE HENDERSON PARTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Everyone says you saved Last Line: According to all its separate cells of knowledge Subject(s): Knowledge KNOWN HAD I (SONG), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Known had I what I knew not Last Line: Have known what I know now. Subject(s): Knowledge KNOWS HOW TO FORGET!, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Don't you know? Variant Title(s): Poem: 391; Poem: 43 Subject(s): Knowledge KURAL: LEARNING, by TIRUVALLUVAR Poem Source First Line: Be thorough in your scholarship Last Line: All other wealth will perish Subject(s): Knowledge; Learning LIEUTENANT SHELLBACK, R.N.R., by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He has learnt the ways of the ships at sea Last Line: But lieutenant shellback will carry it through. Subject(s): Imperialism; Knowledge; Ships & Shipping LOOKS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What knowledge do my ears provide Last Line: Stirs to her treachery. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Books; Eyes; Knowledge; Learning; Sight; Reading LOVE VERSUS LEARNING, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, for the blight of my fancies! Last Line: For that is his knock at the door! Subject(s): Knowledge; Love MARIN HEADLANDS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grief as we know it Last Line: Bugless and treeless and airless and waterless and sunless. Subject(s): California; Conversation; Knowledge METHOD, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Knowledge to date is knowing with more than mind Last Line: But of the fruit-fly in its generations. Subject(s): Knowledge MISUNDERSTOOD, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People do not understand me Last Line: And you will be understood. Subject(s): Knowledge; Language; Schools; Words; Vocabulary; Students MYSTERIES, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds, with a little light between Last Line: The beating of my heart. Subject(s): Trust; Faith; Knowledge NEW PARNASSIANS, by BENJAMIN DOWNING Poem Source First Line: That this is the way it's always been done Last Line: They who teach us what we'd otherwise forget Subject(s): Knowledge; Teaching And Teachers NO SWEET LAND, by JOHN Z. GUZLOWSKI Poem Source First Line: Sarah says Last Line: You know he's leaving Subject(s): Children; Knowledge NOSCE TEIPSUM: OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE, by JOHN DAVIES (1569-1626) Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Why did my parents send me to the schools Last Line: Which is a proud, and yet a wretched thing Variant Title(s): The Folly Of Knowledge; Man (1 Subject(s): Knowledge NOTES, by INGRID FICHTNER Poem Source First Line: Notes relating to time Last Line: That after the rain there %will be air Subject(s): Knowledge NOW THEN, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For a moment I know Last Line: The other side known Subject(s): Knowledge; Homecoming O HADA CIBERNETICA, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: When the brain is like a grain of sand Last Line: Nothing's stayed in the head Subject(s): Books; Knowledge ODIN'S RAVENS, by TOM RILEY Poem Source First Line: Odin's ravens speak no nevermore Last Line: With his lone eye what we %have denied - that we'll lose the last war Subject(s): Knowledge; Loss; War OF BEING NUMEROUS, 22, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Clarity / in the sense of transparence Subject(s): Silence; Knowledge OLD FAIRINGDOWN, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft as a treader on mosses Last Line: There is that in the village that never will sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Boys; Dwarfs; Farewell; Insomnia; Knowledge; Pain; Sleep; Villages; Parting; Sleeplessness; Suffering; Misery OLD TOM TUSSER'S ADVICE, by ERNEST L. VALENTINE Poem Text First Line: Back 'mid the baltic's sleet and snow Last Line: "for christmas comes but once a year!" Subject(s): Advice; Christmas; Knowledge; Wisdom; Nativity, The OMNISCIENCE, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've been to school at least a hundred days Last Line: And, maybe, god. Subject(s): Children; Knowledge; Childhood ON SAFARI, by JENNIFER FRANKLIN Poem Source First Line: What you have come for you will not Last Line: For a moment you are witness to this life and then %leave it forever have you hurt yourself enough Subject(s): Knowledge; Nature; Wilderness ONLY ONE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: A big book, a very big book Last Line: Knows the whole story Subject(s): Bible; Books; Knowledge; Scholarship And Scholars OVER-SIZED ELSE TO HILT, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Could all standards so halo blazers Last Line: Of our humble sky reunion Subject(s): Knowledge; Poetry And Poets PHYSIOLOGUS, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the mind is dark with the multiple shadows of facts Subject(s): Knowledge POIHNATION; FOR J. P., by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was in pleasant derbyshire Last Line: "tap o' th' hill! Tap o' th' hill!" Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Knowledge; Names PREMONITION, by MARIE TODD Poem Text First Line: I'm saving this for john,' he used to say Last Line: As he the thing that he had come to tell. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Knowledge 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 QUEST, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning, I was the termite on the tree Last Line: With two fiery arrows from her little red bow Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Fathers And Sons; Knowledge RED LION INN, by E. J. MILLER LAINO Poem Source First Line: This is what I know today and will know Last Line: Of guards, what changes outside a window Subject(s): Hotels; Knowledge REMOTE RESULTS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the countless crystals Last Line: The reasons and results of all. Subject(s): Christmas; God; Knowledge; Nativity, The ROADSIDE POEMS: AFTER THOMAS KEMPIS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who follows jesus shall not walk Last Line: Of the one thing needful! Subject(s): God; Humility; Jesus Christ; Knowledge; Life; Pride; Truth; Vanity; Self-esteem; Self-respect ROMANCE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wildly-beauteous form Last Line: Although by all unheard the melodies expire. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Knowledge; Love; Pain; Travel; War; Inspiration; Creativity; Suffering; Misery; Journeys; Trips SATIRE: 10. CELESTIAL WISDOM, by DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS Poem Text First Line: Must hapless man, in ignorance sedate Last Line: And makes the happiness she does not find. Alternate Author Name(s): Juvenal Subject(s): Death; Knowledge; Love; Dead, The SELF-CRITICISM IN FEBRUARY, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bay is not blue but sombre yellow Last Line: Justice will prevail. I can tell lies in prose Subject(s): Self-defeat; Self-knowledge; Disappointment SEVEN SONGS FOR MARTHE, MY WIFE: 1., by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my childhood when I first Last Line: Golden fires and lamps of years Subject(s): Knowledge; Self; Relationships SOLOMON ON THE VANITY OF THE WORLD: BOOK 1. KNOWLEDGE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of men, with just regard attend Last Line: Which flaming swords and angry cherubs guard. Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Happiness; Knowledge; Nature; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Joy; Delight SONGS OUT OF SORROW: LESSONS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unless I learn to ask no help Last Line: Why was I ever given birth? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Self; Knowledge; Conduct Of Life SONNET ON LAUNCHING BOTTLES FILLED WITH KNOWLEDGE INTO BRISTOL CHANNEL, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vessels of heavenly medicine! May the breeze Last Line: To see their night of ignorance dispersed. Subject(s): Knowledge SONNET: 37, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through vales of thrace, peneus' stream is flowing Last Line: Stars, dawn, shall find us here together lying. Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Knowledge; Mythology - Classical; Night; Silence; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Bedtime STARS AND THE SOUL (TO CHARLES A. YOUNG, ASTRONOMER), by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two things,' the wise man said, 'fill me with awe Last Line: And inward light that helps us all to live. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Knowledge; Science; Young, Charles Augustus (1834-1908); Scientists STUDYING, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: American lit. Is beside you Last Line: And what you are Subject(s): Self; Knowledge SUMMER KNOWLEDGE, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer knowledge is not the winter's truth, the truth of fall Subject(s): Knowledge; Summer SUMMER KNOWLEDGE, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer knowledge is not the winter's truth, the truth of fall Last Line: In the consummation and the annihilation of the blaze of fall Subject(s): Knowledge; Summer TAKING A WALK WITH YOU, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My misunderstandings: for years I thought muno bello meant Subject(s): Language; Knowledge; Words; Vocabulary TERMS, UNUSED ANTICIPATIONS, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: The good required, %their proverb secret Subject(s): Knowledge; Poetry And Poets; Proverbs; Wisdom THE AXIS, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear on the radio that anastasio somoza Last Line: And the others appear infinite. Subject(s): History; Knowledge; Historians THE BEAR AND THE MAN, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose there were a bear and a man. The bear Last Line: Coming from far up there, near the north pole. Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Fathers & Sons; Knowledge THE BLACKSMITH'S DAUGHTER, by JAMES H. STODDART Poem Text First Line: Away, philosophy and creeds! Last Line: Thy dawn of love, fair musing maid! Subject(s): Beauty; Daughters; Knowledge THE BOOK OF BOOKS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We search the world for truth Last Line: Is in the book our mothers read. Variant Title(s): Knowledge;the Bible;the Book Our Mothers Read Subject(s): Bible; Knowledge; Mothers THE CLOUDS OF MAGELLAN (APHORISMS OF MR. CANON ASPIRIN), by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I once dreamt that cezanne lectured on the circumnavigation of a pear Last Line: And peace. Subject(s): Creative Ability; God; Knowledge; Metaphor; Philosophy & Philosophers; Poetry & Poets; Revolutions; Truth; Inspiration; Creativity; Similes THE ETERNAL QUESTION, by IYDA REBECCA HIRSH Poem Text First Line: How long, o father, must we wait Last Line: Your fruit of knowledge taste? Subject(s): Knowledge THE FALCONER OF GOD, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I flung my soul to the air like a falcon flying Last Line: My soul still flies above me for the quarry it shall find. Subject(s): Knowledge THE GOOD HOW CAN WE TRUST?, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Whose knowledge is their sympathy Subject(s): Wisdom; Knowledge THE INAUGURATION OF THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, DUNDEE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good people of dundee, your voices raise Last Line: And may all good angels guard her while living and hereafter when dead. Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Inaugural Poem; Knowledge; Teaching & Teachers; Universities & Colleges - Faculty THE LAST MAN: SPEAKER'S MEANING DIMLY DESCRIBED, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know not wether Last Line: Than the pure white of hebe's pinkish nail. Subject(s): Knowledge THE LIGHT THAT CAME TO LUCILLE CLIFTON, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The truth is furiously knocking Subject(s): Self; Knowledge; Truth THE LIMITATIONS OF KNOWLEDGE, by EMPEDOCLES Poem Text First Line: For knowledge must make shift by narrow ways Last Line: You'll learn what springs from mortal wits, -- not more. Subject(s): Knowledge THE LORD SPOKE, by CHARLES VAN LERBERGHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lord said to his child Last Line: Be it all your truth. Subject(s): Advice; Knowledge; Truth; Voices THE LOST HERITAGE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty gone, and beauty gone Last Line: And loveliness its toy. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Beauty; History; Knowledge; Love; Time; Historians THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 89. THE LIMIT OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a vice in the world's reasoning. Man Last Line: A fly-blown carrion festering 'neath the sod. Subject(s): Knowledge THE MOTHS: 1. CIRCA 1952, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Indians stood on a hill in bath and watched Last Line: Into tomorrow. Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Knowledge; Moths; Native Americans; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Women; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE OLD PITCHER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He hobbles lamely from the bench Last Line: Those boys with iron hand! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Knowledge; Old Age; Sports THE QUEST, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning, I was the termite on the tree Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Fathers & Sons; Knowledge THE SCIENTIST, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With what fidelity and yearning care Last Line: He asks no grace except the grace to see. Subject(s): Knowledge; Science; Scientists THE SECRET KNOWLEDGE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen god Last Line: And go thy way. Subject(s): God; Knowledge; Secrets THE SEEKERS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our grandfathers were strangers and their absurd notions Last Line: We'll have to walk because we're going farther Subject(s): Fathers; Grandparents; Knowledge; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE SOUL'S ARMAGEDDON, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not where I go Last Line: With immeasurable fear. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Knowledge; Messengers; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE TRADE-OFF, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words make the thoughts. Subject(s): Language; Knowledge; Words; Vocabulary THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I plucked the blossoms of delight Last Line: Of all enlightening things! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Knowledge THE UNDISCOVERED PLANET, by NORMAN NICHOLSON Poet's Biography First Line: Out on the furthest tether let it run Subject(s): Knowledge THE UNKNOWN WIND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the day darkens Last Line: When the dew is falling? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dusk; Knowledge; Silence; Wind THE WAY OF KNOWLEDGE, by PARMENIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far as the utmost reach of heart's desire Last Line: Avenging justice holds the double key. Subject(s): Knowledge THOUGHT, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thought is fragrant like shining grass Last Line: Or the feathery line of a fir-tree spray. Subject(s): Knowledge; Thought; Thinking TICKLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: A prosperous light Last Line: Nothing at all Subject(s): Details; Evening; Knowledge; Spring; Violence TO DAVID, ABOUT HIS EDUCATION, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is full of mostly invisible things Last Line: And teaches small children to do this in their turn Subject(s): Knowledge TO DOCTOR ALABLASTER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nor art thou lesse esteem'd, that I have plac'd Last Line: And wonder at those things that thou dost know. Subject(s): Knowledge TO SCIENCE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Let others in false pleasure's court be found Last Line: And be the gift of learning ever mine. Subject(s): Knowledge; Science; Scientists TOMB POND; FOR DAVE SMITH, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Farmer drags two lashed poles through a storm Last Line: As an old pond once built to solemnize a tomb. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Introspection; Knowledge; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TOMES, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Put up the tomes that help to spell Last Line: Have put my heart in chains. Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Knowledge TOO MUCH KNOWLEDGE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, if we had but eyes to see Last Line: And ignorance indeed is blest! Subject(s): Knowledge TREE OF KNOWLEDGE. THAT THERE IS NO KNOWLEDGE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sacred tree 'midst the fair orchard grew Last Line: Instead of mounting high, shall creep upon the dust. Subject(s): Knowledge TREES OF KNOWLEDGE, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: It's all about the trees, then Last Line: It's all about the trees now Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Apple Trees; Bible; God; Knowledge; Religion; Trees UNDISCOVERED PLANET, by NORMAN NICHOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Out on the furthest tether let it run Last Line: Only by a bend in the known Subject(s): Knowledge USELESS KNOWLEDGE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To trap a chipmunk put a bait of nuts Last Line: It is useless knowledge, but what other is there? Subject(s): Knowledge 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 I LEARNED TODAY, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never heard john bernard flannagan Subject(s): Knowledge WHAT I LEARNED: DOGS WALK UPSTAIRS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Tonight the moon owns this river Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Knowledge; Nature; Self WHAT IS THIS KNOWLEDGE? FR. NOSCE TEIPSUM, by JOHN DAVIES (1569-1626) Poem Source Poet Analysis Subject(s): Knowledge WHEN I KNEW EVERYTHING, by ALEXANDER LEHRMAN Poem Source First Line: When I was twenty and knew everything Last Line: I felt the ease of coming softly down Subject(s): Aging; Change; Knowledge WHO KNOWS?, by JESSIE V. KERR Poem Text First Line: If when the day has been sped with laughter Last Line: Who knows? Subject(s): Knowledge WHO LEARNS MY LESSON COMPLETE?, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And that they balance themselves with the sun and stars is equally wonderfu Subject(s): Time; Knowledge WHY KNOWING IS (& MATISSE'S WOMAN WITH A HAT, by MARTHA RONK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why knowing is a quality out of fashion and no one can decide to Subject(s): Knowledge; Paintings & Painters XENOPHANES, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: You said it, I see it Last Line: Asking is so much nobler than knowing %that I pity all that I know Subject(s): Knowledge; Wisdom YOU'LL KNOW - AS YOU KNOW 'TIS NOON, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Consult your eye! Variant Title(s): Poem: 420; Poem: 42 Subject(s): Knowledge YOUTH AND KNOWLEDGE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What price, child, shall I pay for your bright eyes Last Line: The wit to teach youth's zeal to use its wings. Subject(s): Knowledge; Youth |
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