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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ORATORY Matches Found: 51 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 800,000 VIBRATIONS TO THE SECOND, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: This detail from the thesis falls Last Line: Neat understatement of god's ways. Subject(s): Speech; Oratory; Orators A HYMN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: In the steps of christ I follow Last Line: And three crosses on the hill. Subject(s): Christianity; Galilee, Palestine; Jesus Christ - Legends; Sermons; Speech; Oratory; Orators A LANCASHIRE DIALOGUE, OCCASIONED BY A PREACHER WITHOUT NOTES, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wus yo at church o' sunday morning, john? Last Line: James. If onny comes, I'll tak it; john,—good bye! Subject(s): Clergy; Lancashire, England; Language; Preaching & Preachers; Speech; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Words; Vocabulary; Oratory; Orators A MODERN PREACHER, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was a preacher of the modern sort Last Line: And well reported in the daily press. Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Religious Press; Sermons; Speech; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Oratory; Orators A SIMPLIFICATION, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those great rough ranters, branns Last Line: Maggot off a dead beetle Subject(s): Bryan, William Jennings (1860-1925); Religion; Speech; Theology; Oratory; Orators A VOICE FROM THE SWEAT-SHOPS (A HYMN WITH RESPONSES), by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praise god from whom all blessings / flow Last Line: When will he make it plain? Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Revivals; Social Protest; Speech; Voices; Religious Revivals; Oratory; Orators AMERICA SPEAKING, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Speech; Immigrants; United States; Oratory; Orators; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; America AN EXCELLENT NEW SONG, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An orator dismal of nottinghamshire Last Line: And be a true whig, while I'm not in game. Subject(s): Politics & Government; Speech; Oratory; Orators AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL BROADCASTING CORPORATION, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eight years behind a microphone -- blip Last Line: Then bid farewell to normal speak Subject(s): Microphones; Radio; Speech; Oratory; Orators EFFECT OF ORATORY UPON A MULTITUDE, by GEORGE CROLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His words seem'd oracles Last Line: The beating of your pulses while he spoke. Subject(s): Lectures; Speech; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking; Oratory; Orators FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 2, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No office seems more sacred and august Last Line: And from the sermon vindicate the text. Subject(s): Advice; Holy Ghost; Religious Education; Sermons; Speech; Talk; Teaching & Teachers; Holy Spirit; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Oratory; Orators; Educators; Professors FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 3, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You wonder'd much, why any man of parts Last Line: By these important verses of st. John. Subject(s): Bible, N.t. Gospels; Religious Education; Schools; Speech; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Students; Oratory; Orators FLOWERY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was walking in the garden, and incautiously he spoke Last Line: And I have just related what the zephyr told to me. Subject(s): Speech; Oratory; Orators FOUR VARIATIONS ON THE HISTORY OF SPEECH, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen the sabotage of the body Subject(s): Speech; Language; Oratory; Orators; Words; Vocabulary HERE IS MUSIC: LIP-SERVICE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: In shocked surprise Last Line: At peace, long since, with god. Subject(s): Churches; Clergy; Mouths; Protestantism; Sermons; Speech; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Oratory; Orators I OFTEN REPEAT REPEAT MYSELF, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Speech; Oratory; Orators ILLOGICAL, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They're as proud as they can be Last Line: Make me have so big a voice? Subject(s): Babies; Children; Speech; Infants; Childhood; Oratory; Orators IMPROMPTU SPEECHES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sudden audience, strikes a blow Last Line: A torrent oratorical! Subject(s): Speech; Oratory; Orators IN THE LIBRARY, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the oriels one by one Last Line: Premonitions of the morn! Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Speech; Reading; Oratory; Orators LEARNING TO SPEAK, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was the quietest thing I'd ever seen Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Speech; Babies; Oratory; Orators; Infants LINES: RECITED AT A MASONIC BANQUET, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From a plan by the wisest of sages Last Line: A place in that high wall. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Speech; Oratory; Orators MOTHER TONGUE, by RANDY BLASING Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was growing up my mother lip- Subject(s): Mothers; Speech; Oratory; Orators MUTE, by NELLE GRAVES MCGILL Poem Text First Line: I cannot speak the thoughts Last Line: It seems that I must speak, or I shall die! Subject(s): Speech; Oratory; Orators NO SUMMER AS YET, by LAURIE SHECK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And no summer as yet, but it will come with its bright pieces of whatever Subject(s): Disability; Speech; Body, Human; Oratory; Orators ON A LONG-WINDED ORATOR; EPIGRAM, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three parts compose a proper speech Last Line: "could he contrive to make an ""end!" Subject(s): Speech; Oratory; Orators ONE SPEAKS, by KATHARINE A. JENKINS Poem Text First Line: To you - someone to pass you a book Last Line: You would pass me by unknowing. Subject(s): Conversation; Love - Beginnings; Mouths; Speech; Talk; Oratory; Orators ORATOR PUFF, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. Orator puff had two tones in his voice Last Line: One voice for an orator's surely enough. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Speech; Oratory; Orators OUR BOB, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With humor as sweet as our basin Last Line: In a genius that's ours—our bob! Subject(s): Lectures; Memory; Speech; Taylor, Robert Love (1850-1912); Thought; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking; Oratory; Orators; Thinking PRACTICE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world arrived / so carefully packed Last Line: With speech Subject(s): Bible; Speech; Oratory; Orators RECITED BY A CHINESE INFANT, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If-itty-teshi-mow jays Last Line: And threw the whole lot in the flames. Subject(s): Speech; Oratory; Orators SATIRE: 1, by AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS Poem Text First Line: I never did on cleft pernassus dream Last Line: On dice, and drink, and drabs, they spend their afternoon. Alternate Author Name(s): Persius Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Speech; Oratory; Orators SAY SOMETHING TO ME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say something to me! I've waited so long Last Line: Over the deeps of the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Heaven; Love; Speech; Paradise; Oratory; Orators SPEECH, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the speech of the hills? - 'god's temples are we!' Last Line: It ranges through all of the changes of life and of death! Subject(s): God; Speech; Oratory; Orators TALE: 1. THE DUMB ORATORS; OR, THE BENEFIT OF SOCIETY, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That all men would be cowards if they dare Last Line: With high applauding voice, that gain'd him high applause. Subject(s): Speech; Oratory; Orators THE BIRTH OF SPEECH, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was't awaken'd first the untried ear Last Line: Or his own voice awake him with its sound? Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Speech; Oratory; Orators THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#13): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THUNDER, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the dead man hears thunder, he thinks someone is speaking Last Line: The dead man speaks god's language. Subject(s): Death; God; Language; Religion; Speech; Spirituality; Thunder; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary; Theology; Oratory; Orators THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#13): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THUNDER, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man counts the seconds between lightning and thunder to Last Line: Smell of solder at the junction of earth and sky. Subject(s): Death; God; Lightning; Religion; Speech; Spirituality; Thunder; Dead, The; Lightning Rods; Theology; Oratory; Orators THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#6), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will the dead man speak? Speak, says the lion, and the dead man Last Line: Anvils. Subject(s): Death; Nature; Speech; Dead, The; Oratory; Orators THE COCKNEY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was in my foreign travel Last Line: That was mentioned in the bill! Subject(s): Speech; Travel; Oratory; Orators; Journeys; Trips THE MYSTIFIED QUAKER IN NEW YORK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Respected wife: by these few lines my whereabouts thee'll learn Last Line: So I left them in disgust: plain-spoken men like me / with such perverters of our tongue can have no Subject(s): "friends, Religious Society Of;new York City;speech;" "quakers;manhattan;new York, New York;the Big Apple;oratory;orators; THE ORATION; AFTER CAVAFY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boldest thing I ever did was to save a savior Last Line: It was the speech of my life. Subject(s): Life; Speech; Women; Women's Rights; Oratory; Orators; Feminism THE PHILOSOPHER'S ORATION, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Meanwhile, though nations in distress Last Line: Informs him now and gave him birth. Subject(s): Speech; Oratory; Orators THE POOR LISTENER, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit in the grocery store, discoursing of current Last Line: Other fellows a chance. Subject(s): Grocers; Labor & Laborers; Public Meetings; Speech; Work; Workers; Oratory; Orators THE PROPHETIC BARD'S ORATION, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be warned! I feel the world grow old Last Line: When universe cowers at infinite! Subject(s): Speech; Oratory; Orators THE STORY OF TWO SPEECHES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An eloquent word -- for the master Last Line: Yea, venture to fail -- for him. Subject(s): Speech; Worship; Oratory; Orators THWARTED UTTERANCE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should my clumsy speech so fall astray Last Line: Perhaps too proud, too sweet! Subject(s): Speech; Love; Oratory; Orators TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. I HEARD THE VOICE OF THE WOODS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the voice of the woods and of the grass Last Line: Walk: and leave all to me. Subject(s): Democracy; Speech; Voices; Oratory; Orators TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. WINGS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wings, wings Last Line: And I understood the meaning of the wings. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Freedom; Speech; Wings; Liberty; Oratory; Orators VERSES ON PREACHING EXTEMPORE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hint I gave some time ago Last Line: But ex Æternitate too. Subject(s): Advice; Poetry & Poets; Preaching & Preachers; Speech; Talk; Oratory; Orators VERSES: THE MASTER'S SPEECH, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our worthy founder, gentlemen, this day Last Line: Take what you like, sirs, and excuse the rest. Subject(s): Plagiarism; Poetry & Poets; Speech; Oratory; Orators WHEN GOD SPEAKS, by CLARA COX EPPERSON Poem Text First Line: God does not speak in crowded rooms Last Line: And your heart find. Subject(s): God; Speech; Oratory; Orators |
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