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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LEARNING Matches Found: 88 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DIALOGUE ON NATUREM POWER AND USE OF HUMAN LEARNING, IN RELIGION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rust. Yes, academicus, you love to hear Last Line: Can set in a more proper lightpray do. Subject(s): Learning; Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools ACADEMIA, SELS., by ALICIA D'ANVERS Poem Source First Line: Now being arrived at his colledge Last Line: Outcome they like a flock of geese Subject(s): Devil; Learning; Universities & Colleges ACADEMIC TECTONICS, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: I used to live on the other side Last Line: As if they came off the top of my head Subject(s): Academia; Learning; Teaching And Teachers; Universities & Colleges ADVANTAGES OF LEARNING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a man with no ambitions Last Line: Nymphomaniacs of my imagination Subject(s): Learning; Self-criticism AFTERWARDS, YOU LEARN, by JUDITH MCCOMBS Poem Source First Line: Afterwards, you learn to say Last Line: Like fur on your unscarred neck %and perfect right arm Subject(s): Learning ANOTHER SONG OF A FOOL, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This great purple butterfly Last Line: To take the roses for his meat. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Wisdom; Learning; Fools AT THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, by RICHARD BRAUTIGAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): California Institute Of Technology; Knowledge; Learning BEING TAUGHT, by DICK ALLEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once a novelist showed me how a whole life might be caught Last Line: Figures on glass surfaces, insubstantial, passing Subject(s): Learning CONFUSED INDIVIDUAL: E7, A7, B7, by MARK SONNENFELD Poem Source First Line: My blues-note is some natural and flat key of cmi eights Last Line: A porch light is on over a ways, a pitch, a sound, a frequency everyday bombed Subject(s): Learning; Music And Musicians DANCE TIME, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's I live in a very wise town Last Line: "than once upon a time!" Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Books; Learning; Towns; Wisdom; Reading DEAD LANGUAGE LESSON, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: They lift their half-closed eyes out of the grammar Last Line: Turning glib boys into swine Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Language; Learning DIASPORA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The forsythia bush is made of yellow fire Subject(s): Learning; Nature DIASPORA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The forsythia bush is made of yellow fire Last Line: More and more will be expected of you Subject(s): Learning; Nature DREAMING OF PRAGUE, by CATHRYN HANKLA Poem Source First Line: I float without volition, and I know I am dreaming of prague. I Last Line: Shrouded in snow. Below it, vladimir has written: 'this is prague %you do not know' Subject(s): Dreams; Learning DRIVER EDUCATION, by MARK VINZ Poem Source First Line: I must have been the only boy Last Line: On the road ahead Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Driving And Drivers; Learning; Roads DRIVING LESSONS, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Before our town dump became first a landfill then a waste transfer Last Line: Pine tree, my glasses fly off my face and manny utters the one word %he's never said in front of me Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Driving And Drivers; Learning; Teenagers EDUCATION BY STONE, by JOAO CABRAL DE MELO NETO Poem Source First Line: An education by stone: through lessons Last Line: Born stone, penetrates the soul Subject(s): Education; Learning; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ENOUGH, by IRENE SHERLOCK Poem Source First Line: I like to cut circles out of wax paper Last Line: Isn't it enough the cake rose today? Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Insanity; Learning EVERY GOOD BOY DOES FINE, by JARED LEISING Poem Source First Line: Hey, it's just a piano, baby Last Line: Have never quit taking %those lessons Subject(s): Learning; Musical Instruments; Pianos FALSE, NOCTURNE, by LAWRENCE RAAB Poem Source First Line: Learning how to play the piano, I favored Last Line: Why not try to feel in time? Subject(s): Learning; Musical Instruments; Pianos FAMILIAR EPISTLES TO A FRIEND: 6, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By 'reformation from the church of rome' Last Line: May be the subject of succeeding rhimes. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Christianity; Churches; Learning; Religious Reformers; Religious Education; Wisdom; Reading; Cathedrals; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools FANNY: 120, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words, to the witches in macbeth unknown Last Line: Also, why frogs, for want of air, expire; %and how to set the tappan sea on fire! Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Language; Learning; Literature; Plays And Playwrights; Polish Language FIELDS OF LEARNING, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we go out into the fields of learning Subject(s): Coming Of Age; Learning FIRST BROTHER LESSON OF THE WORLD, by PHILIP TERMAN Poem Source First Line: In the room without heat the desk's cherry wood Last Line: Half of the secret of how to live a righteous life on earth? Subject(s): Learning; Life; Religion FIRST DAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: In the land of no rule, breasts and belly Last Line: Is the art of beginning Subject(s): Learning; Morning; Schools FURTHER ADVANTAGES OF LEARNING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day in the library Subject(s): Buddhism; Learning; Libraries & Librarians; Buddha; Buddhists FURTHER ADVANTAGES OF LEARNING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day in the library Last Line: Busy place of a better world Subject(s): Buddhism; Learning; Librarians And Libraries GAME AT CHESS: FERDINAND AND MIRANDA DISCOVERED PLAYING CHESS, by DAVID SOLWAY Poem Source First Line: How should she mind if ferdinand had played Last Line: His talk of strategy, his abstract look Subject(s): Chess; Learning; Play 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 HONORING THE SAND; IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH CAMPBELL, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: December's foolishness, embers fall, tempters Last Line: Forget the flower; learn to know the sand. Subject(s): Campbell, Joseph (1904-1987); Learning; Legacies; Soul; Time I'VE NEVER LEARNED FROM EXPERIENCE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: How about ninety billion galaxies Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Experience; Learning; Nature; Universe INDELICACY EXPOSED, by MORDECAI MARCUS Poem Source First Line: Professor marcus finds more sex in shakespeare Subject(s): Dramatists; Learning; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) IT'S HARD TO SAY, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are no feathers on a whale Last Line: And talk and think about! Subject(s): Learning JUNIOR LIFESAVING, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Class, I say, this is %the front head release Last Line: I tell you what I know: %go down to save Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Learning; Lifeguards; Survival; Swimming; Teaching And Teachers; Water KURAL: LEARNING, by TIRUVALLUVAR Poem Source First Line: Be thorough in your scholarship Last Line: All other wealth will perish Subject(s): Knowledge; Learning LAKE EFFECT, by LOUIS MCKEE Poem Source First Line: You want for a moment to piss Last Line: What I need, I know now, is behind me. %in the morning I am going home Subject(s): Lakes; Learning LEARNING, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Tiny body, massive helmet, she comes each day Last Line: Child to the broad, blackleathered back. Subject(s): Girls; Learning; Swimming LEARNING HOW TO LOOK: RILKE & RODIN, by STEPHEN ORLEN Poem Source First Line: The tiny snails dripping from the underarms Last Line: And taking notes on learning how to look Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve Subject(s): Facades; Learning LEARNING THE NAMES, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sunday afternoons we learned to love nature Last Line: As though deer had slept there Subject(s): Learning; Names LEARNING TO DRIVE, by MARK VINZ Poem Source First Line: My daughter swerves, then struggles with Last Line: Not even on those routes you know the best Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Driving And Drivers; Learning LEARNING TO LIVE WITHS TONE, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A shore of washed stones Last Line: A step to climb. %carve Subject(s): Learning; Stones LEARNING TO SHAVE, by NICK BARRETT Poem Source First Line: She knew I would have preferred Last Line: But unscarred dome of her knee Subject(s): Learning; Shaving LESSON, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: I go out to the bars Last Line: Says you almost %got us killed. Then slaps me, hard Subject(s): Danger; Fear; Hitchhikers; Learning LESSON LEARNED, by WILLIAM SCOTT GALASSO Poem Source First Line: A much beloved uncle Last Line: I'd shot, hot just off the grill Subject(s): Learning LESSONS, by BENJAMIN W. HOWARD Poem Source First Line: Late august finds tomatoes on the vine Last Line: And its shape were cut in stone Subject(s): Learning; Summer LESSONS OF WATER, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When given a palce to wait, it fills that place Last Line: For the wind to begin again Subject(s): Learning; Water LEST I LEARN, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lest I learn, with clearer sight Last Line: And make a fool of me! Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Learning LINES ADDRESSED TO MRS. BUCHANAN, OF DRUMPELLIER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Gentle lady, with the bounteous hand Last Line: Long after thou art laid in hallowed rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Children; God; Learning; Religion; Sabbath; Childhood; Theology; Sunday 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 OF STUDY, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And wherefore does the student trim his lamp Last Line: Like fountains in the early days of spring. Subject(s): Learning; Scholarship & Scholars MERRY ANDREW, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sly merry andrew, the last southwark fair Last Line: Drive on (he cried); this fellow is no fool. Subject(s): Fools; Learning; Sleep; Idiots MIXER, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: Angus the mixer stood above us Last Line: And how we raced around for stones to hit it %when the beer was gone Subject(s): Conversation; Ice Cream; Learning MR. WADE, TYPING TEACHER, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At henry t. Gage junior high school Subject(s): Learning; Schools; Typewriters; Students MR. WADE, TYPING TEACHER, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At henry t. Gage junior high school Last Line: Each time wiser, stronger, ready for words to take flight Subject(s): Learning; Schools; Typewriters MUSIC LESSON, by BARRY SILESKY Poem Source First Line: All this time and I haven't Last Line: Fingers the bow, and plays Subject(s): Learning; Music And Musicians MY :03 VIOLA, by MARK SONNENFELD Poem Source First Line: Study-drug. Leastways to study pieces on the ground and no Last Line: Standing at the door %so much as thanks for nothing Subject(s): Learning; Violas NOW I HAVE LEARNED, by GUY-CHARLES CROS Poem Text First Line: Now I have learned what women mean by love Last Line: But who at length will crush the head of woman? Subject(s): Betrayal; Disappointment; Learning; Women OBJECT LESSON, by FERENC RAKOCZY Poem Source First Line: Does one want to know the origin of this echo between the trees Last Line: So tiny that might be on the face of the hours Subject(s): Learning OF LEARNING, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rosy chaplets which my head adorn Subject(s): Learning; Learning OF LEARNING, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rosy chaplets which my head adorn Last Line: When all things else forsake me, stays behind. Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Learning ON THE GRASS, by LUCIE MCKEE Poem Source First Line: Things happen so suddenly, so unexpectedly Last Line: For death's beautiful arithmetic Subject(s): Children; Learning; Nature PAGE ONE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When the anger at grammar had subsided Last Line: The wondrous opening sentence on page one Subject(s): Books; Future; Language; Learning PAINTING LESSON, by MARIAN DE ZEEUW Poem Source First Line: Facing surgery I found myself thinking Last Line: Here, give me your hand, and I will show you %how to hold the brush Subject(s): Learning; Memory; Paintings And Painters POEM: AT CENTENNIAL DINNER OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three paths there be where learning's favored sons Last Line: Ye served your brothers; ye have served your lord! Subject(s): Learning; Physicians; Doctors POSTPONED, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: God! Did I hear you call? Yesterday? Today? Last Line: You see, I'm busy, because you made me that way. Subject(s): Ambition; Death; God; Hope; Learning; Prayer; Dead, The; Optimism PROGRESS IN LEARNING, by MYUNG MI KIM Poem Source First Line: May be called Last Line: Polity harvest other human constructs Subject(s): Immigrants; Korea; Learning SCHOOL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The stars are children going to school Last Line: Trying to learn why Subject(s): Children; Learning; Stars SNAP THE WHIP, by STEVEN REESE Poem Source First Line: Centrifugal, those first places: circles Last Line: This time. More than ever like lash, like snap Subject(s): Children; Games; Learning SO MUCH TO LEARN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So much to learn! Old nature's ways Last Line: So brief the time, so much to learn! Subject(s): Learning; Life; Nature; Soul; Wisdom SOLE SCHOLAR OF YOUR COLLEGE I APPEAR, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And make my bow before our lady dean Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Speeches & Addresses; Universities & Colleges; Learning; Poetry & Poets SUSPICIOUS WIFE PLATE, by NAN COHEN Poem Source First Line: For canapes or pastries in frilled jackets Last Line: Sardine-small, is open, isn't telling Subject(s): Children; Food And Eating; Learning SYLLABLE UPON SYLLABLE, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: I am learning a grammar of exile, on the slopes of silence. It Last Line: There I place them, syllable upon syllable. From the rising to the setting of the sun Subject(s): Exiles; Learning TAM LIN IN REVERSE, by JOHN THELIN Poem Source First Line: My younger brother screams at his clarinet Last Line: In shiny silk sleeves, a canopy of lust untouched Subject(s): Learning; Music And Musicians THE ADVANTAGES OF LEARNING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a man with no ambitions Subject(s): Learning; Self-criticism THE GREAT MIGRATION, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The third question in spanish class is: de donde eres tu? Subject(s): Learning; Migration THE LAMENT OF TOBY, THE LEARNED PIG, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O heavy day! Oh day of woe! Last Line: According to bell's system. Subject(s): Learning THE LESSONS OF WATER, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When given a place to wait, it fills that place Subject(s): Learning; Water THE MOONLIGHT SONATA: INTRODUCTION, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ills we see Last Line: In after life and light all shall be plain and clear. Subject(s): Learning THE PURSUIT OF LEARNING, by JOHN HERMAN MERIVALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whoso with patient and inquiring mind Last Line: Of undiscover'd worlds -- vast regions of delight. Subject(s): Learning THERE IS STILL SOMETHING, by LUCIANO ERBA Poem Source First Line: There is still something to be learned Last Line: Vertical, like the pupils of their eyes Subject(s): Learning; Rain TO MY DAUGHTER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Learn to live, and live to learn Last Line: Reckless joys are fugitive! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Daughters; Learning; Nature UPON T.R., A VERY LITTLE MAN, BUT EXCELLENTLY LEARNED, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Makes nature maps? Since that in thee Last Line: Nature both thrift and prodigal. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Learning; Size & Shape; Height VERSES WRITTEN IN THE LEAVES OF AN IVORY POCKET-BOOK, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Accept, my dear, this toy, and let me say Last Line: And all your praise is but -- to copy well. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Youth; Learning VISUAL LEARNER, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Rody doesn't do much Last Line: Known to watch a good %one more than once Subject(s): Learning WE LEARN IN THE RETREATING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It was — before Subject(s): Learning WHAT HAVE I LEARNED, by GARY SYNDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What have I learned but Subject(s): Learning WHAT I WANT TO LEARN, by BOB VANCE Poem Source First Line: Horses steam Last Line: Before the beavers came and %I want to learn them too Subject(s): Learning; Life YE SCHOLAR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Ho! Ye scholar recketh not Last Line: And pour our laughter out most tenderly. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Books; Learning; Scholarship & Scholars; Reading |
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