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Subject: PENS & PENCILS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LETTER, ON HIS DEPARTURE FORM LONDON; TO R.L., ESQ., by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear peter, your absence at present I rue
Last Line: If so, I'll go see it, or 'twill be a hard case.
Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Letters; News; Pens & Pencils; Writing & Writers


A LITERARY MISS, by OLIVER MARBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There once was a lit'rary miss
Last Line: Thirty days to describe half a kiss.
Subject(s): Literature; Pens & Pencils; Writing & Writers


A NEW POET, by WILLIAM CANTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I write. He sits beside my chair
Last Line: We two have made the angels smile!
Subject(s): Pens & Pencils; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Writing & Writers


A PLEA, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yes, I have idled my time away
Last Line: But the heart perceives it,—and understands.
Subject(s): Pens & Pencils; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme


A WORN-OUT PENCIL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Welladay! / here I lay
Last Line: With his dead songs by his side.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Memory; Pens & Pencils; Dead, The


ALWAYS BRING A PENCIL, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There will not be a test
Last Line: To move around.
Subject(s): Pens & Pencils; Writing & Writers


ART, by DAVID MERRITT CARLYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He wrote of a folk imagined
Last Line: "a wonderful work of art!"
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Fables; Pens & Pencils; Writing & Writers; Allegories


CHARGE OF THE ROUGH WRITERS, by HAROLD MACGRATH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pens by the hundred
Last Line: Of parnassus, and smoke their dope!
Subject(s): Pens & Pencils; Writing & Writers


LINES FOR A SUN-DIAL, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With shadowy pen I write
Last Line: Some far off sun.
Subject(s): Light; Pens & Pencils; Writing & Writers


LOVE'S INSPIRATION, by TRISTAN LECLERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sit at the rosewood table
Last Line: And swiftly from my pen the pages darken.
Alternate Author Name(s): Klingsor, Tristan
Subject(s): Creative Ability; Paper; Pens & Pencils; Singing & Singers; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity; Songs


MY FOUNTAIN PEN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fairies, fill my fountain pen!
Last Line: But for lads and lasses!
Subject(s): Pens & Pencils


ODE TO PERRY, THE INVENTOR OF THE PATENT PERRYAN PEN, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O! Patent, pen-inventing perrian perry
Last Line: Perch'd on the proudest peak of penman mawr!
Subject(s): Penn, William (1644-1718); Pens & Pencils


PENCILS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pencils / telling where the wind comes form
Subject(s): Pens & Pencils


PENS MAKE WORD PICTURES, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pens make word pictures in a row
Last Line: At work or play or taking tea
Subject(s): Pens & Pencils


PLUMA, by GERALD STERN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, when there were no riches, somewhere in southern
Last Line: A dog had started to bark arid lights were burning
Subject(s): Mexico; Pens & Pencils; Writing & Writers


SONG OF THE PEN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not for the love of women toil we, we of the craft
Last Line: Work is its own reward!
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Pens & Pencils; Singing & Singers; Writing & Writers


SONG: 57, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My pen, take pain a little space
Last Line: My pen, I prithee write no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): To His Pen
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Pens & Pencils; Writing & Writers


THE BALLPOINT PENGUINS, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ballpoint penguins, black and white
Last Line: They aim their beaks and write and write
Subject(s): Pens & Pencils


THE PEN, by MARY WESTON FORDHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mightier than the sword thou art
Last Line: Mightier than the sword art thou.
Subject(s): Life; Pens & Pencils


THE PEN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Within my pen what words are pent
Last Line: Open the door and set them free!
Subject(s): Pens & Pencils


THE POETASTER, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When a poet, as poetry goes now-a-days
Last Line: The man, after all, is but just where he was.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Pens & Pencils; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Reading


THE SCHOOLROOM OF POETS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An autumn dusk darkened my window-panes
Last Line: Boy-dreamers by the fireside, arm on arm!
Subject(s): Literature; Pens & Pencils; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers


TO A YOUNG LADY WHO STOLE A PEN FROM THE PRINCE OF WALES'S STANDISH, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet nymph, who art, it seems, accused
Last Line: Worth more than all his crest.
Subject(s): Pens & Pencils


TO AN OLD QUILL OF LORD DUNSANY'S, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before you leave my hands' abuses!
Last Line: Over the dark rubicon.
Subject(s): Pens & Pencils; Plunkett, Edward [dunsany] (1878-1957)


TO MY PEN, by MARY JULIA YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Say, spotless plume, if damon bade thee go
Last Line: Of all mankind I love but him alone.
Subject(s): Pens & Pencils


TO THE EARL OF OXFORD, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pen, ink, and wax, and paper send
Last Line: Thoughts which angels may approve.
Subject(s): Inkstands; Letters; Love; Paper; Peace; Pens & Pencils