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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MATHEMATICS Matches Found: 63 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CORRECTION, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we told you minus twenty Last Line: What we found was minus forty. Subject(s): Mathematics A MORTIFYING MISTAKE, by ANNA MARIA PRATT Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: I studied my tables over and over, and backward and forward, too Last Line: "answered, ""mary ann!" Subject(s): Children; Dolls; Errors; Mathematics; Toys; Childhood; Mistakes; Fallacies A PROBLEM IN MATHEMATICS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suspended o'er geometry Last Line: What is acute in angling. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Mathematics ALGEBRA, by LINDA PASTAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to solve equations easily Last Line: At a fixed rate Subject(s): Mathematics APPLIED MATHEMATICS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'my daughter,' and his voice was stern" Last Line: For a quarter of eight is two Subject(s): Ignorance;mathematics; Dullness;stupdity ARITHMETIC, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head Subject(s): Mathematics ARITHMETIC, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head Last Line: Two fired eggs and you eat both of them, who is better in arithmetic, %you or your mother? Subject(s): Mathematics BANNEKER, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What did he do except lie / under a pear tree Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Banneker, Benjamin (1731-1806); Mathematics; Racial Equality BENJAMIN BANNEKER SENDS HIS 'ALMANAC' TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old now, / your eyes nearly blank Subject(s): Banneker, Benjamin (1731-1806); Stars; Mathematics BY THE NUMBERS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What number do you start with Last Line: Hope that we may count on them Subject(s): Godel, Kurt (1906-1978); India; Mathematics; Rexroth, Kenneth (1905-1982) CALCULATOR, by REBECCA KAI DOTLICH Poem Source First Line: Pocket-size tutor Last Line: Mini-magician Subject(s): Mathematics CHAIRS, by SUSAN HELENE CASE Poem Source First Line: Actually it is the history of the furniture that matters Last Line: Not to take a seat Subject(s): Furniture; Jews; Mathematics; Poland - German Occupation CHANG MCTANG MCQUARTER CAT, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Cats; Mathematics COUNTING BIRDS, by FELICE HOLMAN Poem Source First Line: Instead of counting herds of sheep Last Line: Merlin, mud hen, m %o %u %r %I %n %g %d %o %v %e Subject(s): Mathematics DAVIDEIS, A SACRED POEM OF THE TROUBLES OF DAVID, SELS., by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Homosexuality; Mathematics EPITAPH ON DIOPHANTUS, by JAMES HAY BEATTIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: With diagrams no more to daunt us Last Line: The life and death: required the age. Subject(s): Diophantus (3rd Century); Epitaphs; Mathematics FEW BEERS AT THE STATION, by SUSAN HELENE CASE Poem Source First Line: The first doctoral candidate from lvov Last Line: Elegant solutions Subject(s): Lvov, Poland; Mathematics; Poland - Wars With Germany FRACTIONS, by LEE BENNETT HOPKINS Poem Source First Line: Broken number pieces %disconnected Last Line: Once more %again Subject(s): Mathematics FUNDAMENTAL DISAGREEMENT WITH TWO CONTEMPORARIES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From any event intervals radiate in Last Line: Their jaws were broken, they died %and lay unburied Subject(s): Mathematics; Thought FUSION, by SUSAN HELENE CASE Poem Source First Line: Ulam in america Last Line: The chestnut trees of lvov Subject(s): Homesickness; Lvov, Poland; Mathematics; Poles In America; Teaching And Teachers GEOMETRY IS THE MIND OF GOD, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A point is that which has no part Last Line: I'd say it's a green thorn in the heart Subject(s): Geometry; God; Mathematics HARD LESSONS, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Multiplication is vexation Last Line: And practice drives me mad Variant Title(s): Lamentation: 13 Subject(s): Mathematics HOURGLASS, by J. THOMAS SPAROUGH Poem Source First Line: Lonely waves %without a clock Last Line: Now estimated %in grains of sand Subject(s): Mathematics IF DY/DX = 4X3+X2-12/2X2-9, THEN, by AMY QUAN BARRY Poem Source First Line: You are standing at the ocean Last Line: The sieves of the lungs like two cones Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Mathematics INFINITE POSSIBILITIES, by SUSAN HELENE CASE Poem Source First Line: Banach at a meeting in georgia Last Line: The proof in the mathematics Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Georgia (republic); Mathematics INVENTION OF ZERO, by CONSTANCE URDANG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Without it, nothing exists Last Line: At the inexhaustible fertility of the natural world Subject(s): Mathematics LONG ISLAND, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The things I did, I did because of trees Last Line: And life in the upturned bellies of the fishkill in the creek. Subject(s): Children; Long Island (n.y.); Mathematics; Memory; Childhood MARVELOUS MATH, by REBECCA KAI DOTLICH Poem Source First Line: How fast does a new york taxi go? Last Line: Mathematics knows it all! Subject(s): Mathematics MATH MAKES ME FEEL SAFE, by BETSY FRANCO Poem Source First Line: Math isn't just adding Last Line: Math makes me feel safe Subject(s): Mathematics MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION OF ALL TIME, by SUSAN HELENE CASE Poem Source First Line: It is a difficult question that his teacher asks Last Line: By the stick of mathematics Subject(s): Mathematics NATURE KNOWS ITS MATH, by JOAN BRANSFIELD GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: Divide %the year Last Line: Orange poppies %multiply Subject(s): Mathematics NEAR THE WINDOW TREE, SELS, by KARLA KUSKIN Poem Source First Line: Is six times one a lot of fun? Last Line: And start playing again Subject(s): Mathematics NEW MATHS, by TOM LEHRER Poem Source First Line: You can't take three from two, two is less than three Subject(s): Mathematics; Mnemonics NO ROSES, by ELLEN GLINES Poem Text First Line: Drop down no roses for me, saint dorothy Last Line: The true-cut marble tetragon . , . Subject(s): Mathematics NUMBERS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Numbers are the queerest things! Last Line: Look at 5 and see him wink! Subject(s): Children; Mathematics; Numbers; Childhood OF THE MATHEMATICIAN, by ALICE CLEAR MATTHEWS Poem Source First Line: Enamored so of form, of calculation Subject(s): Mathematics ONE TO TEN, by JANET S. WONG Poem Source First Line: Yut yee sam see Last Line: Could you say that again? Subject(s): Chinese Language; Mathematics PI WIRELESS, by GABY ROUGHNEEN Poem Source First Line: The brown wireless sat on a shelf Last Line: Just multiply the radius squared by pye Subject(s): Mathematics PILGRIM'S GUIDE TO CHAOS IN THE HEARTLAND: 4. C7OUNTING BACKWARDS, by JESSICA GOODFELLOW Poem Source First Line: 05181261 %the tall08 grass p5rairie states Last Line: 73548768095909 %1173929274 %1705 Subject(s): Counting; Mathematics; Numbers; United States PLANE GEOMETRY, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: In front of the blackboard in your plaid shirtwaist Last Line: Do parallel lines finally meet Subject(s): Geometry; Mathematics; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA: EINSTEIN'S EXILE IN AN OLD DUTCH WINTER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My theory withstood the light of the hyades Last Line: The rose of all roses! Subject(s): Descartes, Rene (1596-1650); Einstein, Albert (1879-1955); Imagination; Mathematics; Order; Fancy PYTHAGORAS, by MADELEINE COMORA Poem Source First Line: Watching four birds fly by, %two Last Line: Like the beating %wings %of birds Subject(s): Mathematics RAIN FALLS ON HER GLYPTIC EYELIDS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The breaking bones of your wrist and knee Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Mathematics RAISINS, by SUSAN HELENE CASE Poem Source First Line: Orlicz is a regular at the scottish cafe Last Line: To prevent burning Subject(s): Mathematics; Poland - German Occupation; Raisins SCHAUDER'S CONJECTURE, by SUSAN HELENE CASE Poem Source First Line: He was a teenager tossing cherry pits Last Line: Without sufficient evidence of proof Subject(s): Mathematics; Poland - German Occupation; Survival SCOTTISH BOOK, by SUSAN HELENE CASE Poem Source First Line: It's a puzzle Last Line: With brilliance Subject(s): Lvov, Poland; Mathematics SKY, by LEE BENNETT HOPKINS Poem Source First Line: Decimal point %meteors Last Line: Mathematic-filled %sky Subject(s): Mathematics SOLVING FOR X, by ROBERT B. SHAW Poem Source First Line: Protean emblem, how to pin you down Last Line: Sturdy tape bracing each starting window %in the gray lull before the hurricane hits Subject(s): Mathematics; Secrets SONG OF THE SCREW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A moving form or rigid mass Subject(s): Mathematics SONNETS OF A GEOMETER; THE CIRCLE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Few things are perfect: we bear eden's scar Last Line: Determine every circle: q. E. D. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Mathematics SOS, by BEVERLY MCLOUGHLAND Poem Source First Line: Sammy's head is pounding Last Line: Stuck in his brain Subject(s): Mathematics ST. FRANCIS EINSTEIN OF THE DAFFODILS (FIRST VERSION), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In march's black boat / einstein and april Last Line: Shaking the flowers! Subject(s): Mathematics; Statue Of Liberty SYM-BALL-ISM, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The symbol of the number ten Last Line: In any least degree Subject(s): Mathematics SYM-BALL-ISM, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The symbol of the number ten Last Line: You ask the heroine and hero Subject(s): Mathematics TAKE A NUMBER, SELS, by MARY O'NEILL Poem Source First Line: Imagine a world %without mathematics Last Line: To live like that? Subject(s): Mathematics THE COLLEGIAN TO HIS BRIDE: BEING A MATHEMATICAL MADRIGAL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "charmer, on a given straight line" Last Line: "equal, - o, divine ecstatics, - / based on hutton's mathematics!" Subject(s): Ingenuity;mathematics THE MATHEMATICIAN, by NELSON ANTRIM CRAWFORD Poem Text First Line: Stranger alike to traffic's clamor crude Last Line: And in a graph he finds eternity. Subject(s): Mathematics TIME PASSES, by ILO ORLEANS Poem Source First Line: Sixty seconds Last Line: Keeps passing away! Subject(s): Mathematics TO A LOGICIAN, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold man, in whom no animating ray Last Line: You shall be marble, who were never blood. Subject(s): Mathematics; Poetry & Poets TO A MATHEMATICIAN, by JAN KOCHANOWSKI Poem Source First Line: He discovered the age of the sun and he knows Last Line: But he doesn't see that his wife is a whore Subject(s): Fools; Mathematics TO BUILD A HOUSE, by LILLIAN M. FISHER Poem Source First Line: Here on this plot Last Line: Against the hill %beneath blue skies? Subject(s): Mathematics WHO HASN'T PLAYED GAZINTAS?, SELS, by DAVID MCCORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In your arithmetics %the problem is what sticks Last Line: Computers work at a faster rate Subject(s): Mathematics ZITO THE MAGICIAN, by MIROSLAV HOLUB Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: To amuse his royal majesty he will change Subject(s): Mathematics |
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