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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 light—pray 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