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Subject: PEDANTS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADDRESS FROM THE BOOK-COLLECTOR TO THE BOOK-READER, by J. BERESFORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ye pedants, burning to be known
Last Line: That persians but adore the sun %till taught to know our god- black-letter
Subject(s): Books; Pedants


GARDEN FANCIES: 2. SIBRANDUS SCHAFNABURGENSIS, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Plague take all your pedants, say I!
Last Line: Dry-rot at ease till the judgement-day!
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Pedants


MALEDICTI IN PLEBE SINT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pedants of deconstruction
Last Line: Read only as group masterbation
Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Deconstructionism; Pedants


OMENS AND AUGURIES, by JOHN HEWITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night from troy's high battlements
Last Line: I wonder who the pedants are %that weave time's dusty plots
Subject(s): Omens; Pedants


ON THE SPECTATOR'S CRITIQUE OF MILTON, by LAWRENCE EUSDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Look here, ye pedants, who deserve that name
Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Milton, John (1608-1674); Pedants; Spectator (periodical)


PROBLEM, by CAROLYN WELLS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a whimsey in my noodle, there's a maggot in my brain
Last Line: Let the enlightened cease enlightening and the cultured cult no more
Subject(s): Pedants


TONGUE-DOUGHTY PEDANT, by THOMAS EDWARDS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tongue-doughty pedant; whose ambitious mind
Last Line: Critic, must have a heart as well as head.
Subject(s): Pedants


YE PEDAGOGUE; A BALLAD, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Righte learned is ye pedagogue
Last Line: Ye pedagogue his wife!
Subject(s): Pedants