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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GIRL IN A LIBRARY, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An object among dreams, you sit here with your shoes off
Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Pushkin, Alexander (1799-1837); Schools; Sleep; Library; Librarians; Students


BECAUSE OF LIBRARIES WE CAN SAY THESE THINGS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She is holding the book close to her body
Last Line: Her life starts here.
Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians


BOOKS, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You're standing on the high school steps
Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Schools; Women; Reading; Library; Librarians; Students


BOOKS, by GERALD STERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How you loved to read in the snow and when your
Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians


BUILDING THE LIBRARY, TOKYO UNIVERSITY; NIGHT SCENE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like men of fire, in painful night
Last Line: For the great muse to come!
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Tokyo Imperial University; Library; Librarians


EPIGRAM PROPOSED FOR THE NEW LIBRARY, by R. T. KERLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Something for all, invention's myriad kinds
Last Line: The silent banquet hall of moths and minds.
Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Yale University; Library; Librarians


FOR THE DEDICATION OF THE NEW CITY LIBRARY, BOSTON, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Proudly, beneath her glittering dome
Last Line: The queen, the handmaid of them all!
Subject(s): Boston; Librarians & Libraries; Library; Librarians


HER MONOLOGUE OF DARK CREPE WITH EDGES OF LIGHT, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mistress adrienne, I have been given a bed with a pink dresser
Last Line: Don't hear from you I will try to understand. Chloe.
Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; American Revolution; Girls; Librarians & Libraries; Murder; Teaching & Teachers; Library; Librarians; Educators; Professors


IN A LIBRARY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A wealth of silence, that is all. The air
Last Line: The valor, bloom, and wisdom of a world.
Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Librarians & Libraries; Life; Silence; Reading; Library; Librarians


IN A LIBRARY, by LENORE MAUDE CROUDACE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Silence more eloquent than noise or sound
Last Line: For thought transcending our little human span.
Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians


IN A LIBRARY: 1, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In my friend's library I sit alone
Last Line: And adds a soul they own not of themselves.
Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Library; Librarians


IN A LIBRARY: 2, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A miracle - that man should learn to fill
Last Line: For them they talk and sing like uncaged birds.
Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians


IN THE LIBRARY, by HARRIET A. JENNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like cells in a prison
Last Line: The lad is prospero.
Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians


IN THE PUBLIC LIBRARY, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Library; Librarians


IN THE READING ROOM, by DAVID FERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone in the library room, even when others
Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Library; Librarians


IN THE READING-ROOM OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Praised be the moon of books! That doth above
Last Line: While in this liberal house thy face is bright.
Subject(s): British Museum, London; Librarians & Libraries; Museums; Library; Librarians; Art Gallerys


LA PAMPA, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dead truck sits in the shimmering wheat
Last Line: In white pajamas and turquoise slippers.
Subject(s): Brothers; Fathers; Graves; Librarians & Libraries; Half-brothers; Tombs; Tombstones; Library; Librarians


LENDING LIBRARY, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between the valentines and birthday greetings
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs.
Subject(s): Books; Women; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians


LIBRARY, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time clock to the moral prim-mouth female
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Library; Librarians


LOVE POEM FOR THE FORTY-SECOND STREET LIBRARY, by DAVID IGNATOW            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With my eyes turned to the sky
Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; New York City; Library; Librarians; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC LIBRARY, by EMMA BELLE YOURDON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here magic windows behind brownstone walls
Subject(s): Minneapolis Public Library


MORGAN LIBRARY, by TONY TOWLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Up, gracing the void with intellect, I noticed a ring
Last Line: But at times I feel that there are other women %who wait for me in vain
Subject(s): Morgan Library, New York


PINDARIC ODE: TO THE UNVERSITY LIBRARY AT OXFORD, by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail learning's pantheon! Hail, the sacred ark
Last Line: As the best blood of man's employ'd in generation.
Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Oxford University; Library; Librarians


THE BOOK LINE; RIVINGTON STREET BRANCH, NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, ye that despair of the land
Last Line: Yet shall rear to the skies!
Subject(s): Future; Legends; Librarians & Libraries; Nations; New York City; Library; Librarians; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE COLLECTOR TO HIS LIBRARY, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brown books of mine, who never yet
Last Line: This, more than other good, I pray.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Variant Title(s): The Final Word
Subject(s): Books; Collectors & Collecting; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians


THE FATHER OF PREDICAMENTS, by HEATHER MCHUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He came at night to each of us asleep
Subject(s): Fathers; Self; Librarians & Libraries; Library; Librarians


THE LIBRARIAN, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The somber librarian believes he's kafka
Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); Librarians & Libraries; Library; Librarians


THE LIBRARIAN, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The landscape (the landscape!) again: gloucester
Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts; Librarians & Libraries; Poetry Readings; Homecoming; Family Life; Library; Librarians; Relatives


THE LIBRARY, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the sad soul, by care and grief oppressed
Last Line: And tell them, such are all the toys they love.'
Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians


THE ROWFANT CATALOGUE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Friends had he many, neighbours next to none
Last Line: Reading it, see, the tears come and I stop.
Subject(s): Catalogs; Librarians & Libraries; Locker-lampson, Frederick (1821-1895); Library; Librarians


TO THE OLD LIBRARY, by SAMUEL N. HOLLIDAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our fathers drank of knowledge in thy halls
Last Line: As thou hast served. Farewell, beloved pile!
Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Yale University; Library; Librarians


TO THOMAS STANLEY, ON MY LIBRARY, by WILLIAM HAMMOND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A hundred here together buried lie
Last Line: Is kinder far when actuated by life.
Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Stanley, Thomas (1625-1678); Library; Librarians


UPON THE CHAIR MADE OUT OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE'S SHIP ..., by ABRAHAM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To this great ship, which round the globe has run
Last Line: To her in oxford, and to him in heaven.
Subject(s): Chairs; Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); Librarians & Libraries; Oxford University; Library; Librarians


VALEDICTORY; THE SCHOLAR TO THE ASHES OF HIS LIBRARY, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gone the books of many names
Last Line: Be the man that they should make.
Subject(s): Death; Fire; Librarians & Libraries; World War Ii; Dead, The; Library; Librarians; Second World War


VIEW OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS FROM PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL, by THOMAS SAYERS ELLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A white substitute teacher
Last Line: Ones I could see, ones I could not
Subject(s): Hayden, Robert (1913-1980); Library Of Congress; Teaching And Teachers