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Subject: NEWTON, SIR ISAAC (1642-1727)
Matches Found: 6

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A POEM SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall the great soul of newton quit this earth
Last Line: Sleeps with her kings and dignifies the scene.
Subject(s): Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727)


BIOGRAPHY, by EDWARD HOFFMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sir isaac newton
Last Line: What possible use %could geometry have
Subject(s): Biography; Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727)


EPITAPH INTENDED FOR SIR ISAAC NEWTON, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature, and nature's laws lay hid in night
Last Line: God said, let newton be! And all was light.
Variant Title(s): Science
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727)


LINES WRITTEN IN SWITZERLAND, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What silence drear in england's oaky forest
Last Line: . . . . . .
Subject(s): Dramatists; England; Galileo (1564-1642); Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Pride; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Switzerland; Truth; English; Galileo Galilei; Dramatists; Self-este


WATCHERS OF THE SKY: 5. NEWTON, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I saw farther, 'twas because I stood
Last Line: We must await a mightier age to come.
Subject(s): Cosmology; Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727)


WORLDS, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For alexander there was no far east
Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Earth; Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727); World