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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SPEECH Matches Found: 117 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1959, LOOMIS AVENUE, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: The intimate smell that belongs Last Line: Calling us home Subject(s): Bible; Jesus Christ; Preaching And Preachers; Religion; Sermons; Speech 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 ALICE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sisters! There's music here Last Line: To welcome thee I wait -- blest mother! Come to me. Subject(s): Deafness; Fathers & Daughters; Speech Disorders; Stuttering; Muteness 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 AN INVITATION TO THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I have found out a gig-gig-gift for my fuf-fuf-fair Last Line: To witness the bub-bub-beautiful pip-pip-pelican swallow the l-l-live fuf-fuf-fish! Subject(s): Speech Disorders;zoos; Stuttering;muteness 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 BEGINNINGS OF SPEECH, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: You sling your voice Last Line: As you stamp at the rim of your canyon Subject(s): Speech; Voices BORN DUMB, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little love! My little speechless child! Last Line: The child of our enchantment is born dumb! Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Speech Disorders; Stuttering; Muteness BOTH SILENCE AND SPEECH TRANSGRESS, by JAMES CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: Goods can be defined as final product Last Line: Forgotten music, forgotten food in every day, %memorable in every sunrise Subject(s): Silence; Speech CIRCLING THE FLOWERS: 1, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So this must be a mouth Last Line: Impossible words, look %at me Subject(s): Healing; Hospitals; Physicians; Speech Disorders; Surgery CIRCLING THE FLOWERS: 2, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He could spend an hour Last Line: Made of water, woke convinced %he'd never been who he was Subject(s): Language; Speech Disorders COULD MORTAL LIP DIVINE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Light swung the silver fleeces Subject(s): Speech COYOTE'S ANTHRO, by PETER BLUE CLOUD Poem Source First Line: The anthropologist was very excited. He'd just received his Last Line: Weren't sure of. And you, my friend, forgot to sing Subject(s): Anthropology; Native Americans - History; Speech COYOTE'S DISCOURSE ON POWER, MEDICINE, AND WOULD-BE SHAMANS, by PETER BLUE CLOUD Poem Source First Line: Good evening, friends. You notice this long, straight branch I'm Last Line: Money, it will be a very happy basket. %thank you Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Creation; Native Americans - Genealogy & Heritage; Speech DE RERUM NATURA: BOOK 5. THE ORIGIN OF SPEECH, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But it is nature constrained men to utter Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Speech 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 FANNY: 54, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And who, that ever slumber'd at the forum Last Line: Had dwindled into second-rate civilians Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.c.); Speech 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 FOG-HORN, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surely that moan is not the thing Last Line: As our cries were swallowed up and all hands lost Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Speech Disorders; Voices FOR THE MUTE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They will blow from your mouth one morning Last Line: Too many languages for %one mortal tongue Subject(s): Speech Disorders 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 GENTLEMAN WHO SNEAKED IN, by RICHARD KELL Poem Source First Line: Women! Persons! Please! Allow me to speak Last Line: You're very kind - thank you. I wish you well Subject(s): Speech; Women's Rights GIVEN THE GIFT OF SPEECH AND ONLY ONE WORD, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: To whom should I have turned when the lily spoke? Last Line: Somebody must have heard - the lily spoke %you must have heard the lily say my name Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Flowers; Lilies; Nature; Speech 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 HIS NAME WAS KEKO, by THEODORE BRIDGMAN Poem Text First Line: Under the kiawe he lies - Last Line: Sleep well -- little keko -- Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Seashore; Speech Disorders; Beach; Coast; Shore; Stuttering; Muteness HYMNS AND FRAGMENTS, SELS., by JOHANN CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But speech - %god speaks in Last Line: It pertain to mortals Alternate Author Name(s): Holderlin, J. C. F.; Holderlin, Friedrich Subject(s): Speech I FEAR A MAN OF FRUGAL SPEECH, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I fear that he is grand Variant Title(s): Poem: 543; Poem: 66 Subject(s): Speech I OFTEN REPEAT REPEAT MYSELF, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Speech; Oratory; Orators IF I CAN BE BY HER, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I d-d-don't c-c-c-are how the r-r-r-obin sings Last Line: B-b-b-because I'll b-b-b-be by her. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Speech Disorders; Stuttering; Muteness IF WE COULD JUST FORGET HOW TO SPEAK, by JASON DEWINETZ Poem Source First Line: Like the newly deaf Last Line: How does anyone sleep Subject(s): Speech 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 IMITATOR OF BILLY SUNDAY, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: Billy sunday, the fear-inspiring preacher Last Line: Sweating and waving his arms, in his baseball sermon Subject(s): Mouths; Preaching And Preachers; Speech; Sunday, William A. (billy) (1862-1935) 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 ORDER TO SPEAK, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In order to revitalize the roaring of phosphenes Last Line: To the point of firevomiting / its mouth Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Speech; Anger 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 INARTICULATE, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Touching your face, I am like a boy Last Line: In the moment, fulfilled but unable to speak Subject(s): Markets; Shopping; Speech Disorders 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 LISPING IN NUMBERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We' got a' uncle writes poetry Last Line: "it's a purty good little poetry-piece!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Numbers; Poetry & Poets; Speech Disorders; Uncles; Stuttering; Muteness LOST LANGUAGE, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How and where shall we begin to Last Line: Looking out at the sea Subject(s): Books; Language; Speech; Tongues; Writing And Writers MAGIC, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Her speech was magic, the most magical bit Last Line: What she left out Subject(s): Magic; Silence; Speech 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 MOUTH, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: To speak of an obvious thing Last Line: With an icelandic kitchen mouth Subject(s): Language; Speech; Truth MUMBLIN' MOTT, by VIRGINIA MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Delightedly devoid of useless brain Last Line: Who had the sense to be an idiot! Alternate Author Name(s): Untermeyer, Louis, Mrs. Subject(s): Fools; Speech Disorders; Idiots; Stuttering; Muteness 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 MUTE GIRL SPEAKS, by S. MARDIROSIAN Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I can smell the ocean Last Line: No one knows yet Subject(s): Speech Disorders MUTENESS, by OLDRICH MIKULASEK Poem Source First Line: It is not necessary and some things one shouldn't Last Line: Woman condemned to love %for live Subject(s): Language; Speech Disorders MY SANCTIFIED GRANDMOTHER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Not my own. Theirs Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandparents; Speech NEVER AGAIN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: At what moment in that town Last Line: Never to speak a word again? Subject(s): Pain; Silence; Speech Disorders; Towns 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 ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE, by MILAN DEKLEVA Poem Source First Line: Women talk the jargon of shattered flowerbeds Last Line: The hundred times safeguarded secret %of worthlessness Subject(s): Alphabets; Language; Speech; Voices 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 PARAPHRASE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The master of the manor house each morn Last Line: I only s-s-stack the hay. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Speech Disorders; Stuttering; Muteness POET AS ORACLE, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: She speaks in the voice of flowers, forgotten gods Last Line: Worlds to fit in the palm of her hand Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Speech 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 PRELIMINARY STUDIES FOR THE FRANKFURT READINGS 1984, by ERNST JANDL Poem Source First Line: The mouth should allow itself to open and shut Last Line: It is a trusted servant of the mouth Subject(s): Speech 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 REVELATION, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The man on the corner Last Line: The traffic cop riding his pale horse Subject(s): Speech; Story-telling RHAPSODY OF THE DEAF MUTE, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: The expert said: 'all right. You needn't come any more' Last Line: And nothing can disturb the conversation. Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Deafness; Physical Disabilities; Physicians; Speech Disorders; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples; Doctors; Stuttering; Muteness ROAD OPEN AT BOTH ENDS, by JAMES TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What would a mute be doing in a phone booth Last Line: Drive slowly by in cars impossible to see Subject(s): Speech Disorders SACRED EPIGRAM: HE TOUCHED HIS TONGUE, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ, you command the mute lips to speak; the mute lips speak Last Line: If then you used a finger, loosing the sealed lips? %don't you need to use your whole hand now, o ch Subject(s): Miracles; Speech Disorders SACRED EPIGRAM: MARK 7:32-36, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Christ, you used your voice and hand together for loosing the tongue Last Line: The voice sets it loose, but nothing but the whole hand will stop it Subject(s): Speech Disorders 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 SHE DOES NOT HEAR, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sh-sh-sh-sh-she does not hear the r-r-r-r-robin sing Last Line: Her b-b-b-b-by g-g-gosh! She's p-p-plaster paris! Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Nature; Speech Disorders; Turkey; Stuttering; Muteness SILENCES, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: The three-year-old seemed puzzled Last Line: Your teeth are clenched Subject(s): Child Molesting; Grief; Silence; Speech Disorders; Tragedy SIMPLIFICATION, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those great rough ranters, branns Last Line: Voiced people lack eloquence to blow a sick %maggot off a dead beetle Subject(s): Bryan, William Jennings (1860-1925); Religion; Speech SPEECH, by MATHER THOMAS SCHNEIDER Poem Source First Line: There is this speech Last Line: Disappearing line on which to sign my name Subject(s): Speech 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 SPEECH ALONE, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: It happens that one pronounces Last Line: Blaze in a sun of glory Subject(s): Language - Pronunciation; Poetry And Poets; Speech SPEECH AND SILENCE, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The words that pass from lip to lip Last Line: That's deeper than all speech! Subject(s): Friendship; Speech SPEECH IS A SYMPTOM OF AFFECTION, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Yet had not seen! Subject(s): Speech; Silence; Apostles STUDENT, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She never spoke, which made her obvious Last Line: For the body to blossom into speech Subject(s): Mouths; Silence; Speech Disorders; Voices; Women STUTTERER, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Courage: your tongue has left Last Line: Where lies of love are fair Subject(s): Speech Disorders; Stuttering; Muteness STUTTERER, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Courage: your tongue has left Last Line: Down to the old mill stream %where lies of love are fair Subject(s): Speech Disorders STUTTERER, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No matter where he looks Subject(s): Speech Disorders; Stuttering; Muteness STUTTERER, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No matter where he looks Last Line: Says 'all americans are non- %european in soweto.' Subject(s): Speech Disorders SYNESTHESIA, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: What sound does sunlight make when it strikes Last Line: The body of a five pointed star Subject(s): Language; Speech; Voices 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 LISPER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elsie mingus lisps, she does! Last Line: "ner thup thoop so awful loud!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Speech Disorders; Childhood; Stuttering; Muteness THE MUTE SINGER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning sun seemed fair as Last Line: Sang gloriously. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Night; Singing & Singers; Speech Disorders; Bedtime; Stuttering; Muteness 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 STAMMERING WIFE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, deeply in love with miss emily pryne Last Line: "a dam-age instead of a blessing!" Variant Title(s): The Stuttering Lass Subject(s): Speech Disorders; Stuttering; Muteness 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 THE STUDENT, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She never spoke, which made her obvious Subject(s): Mouths; Silence; Speech Disorders; Voices; Women; Stuttering; Muteness THEM & [UZ], by TONY HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, ay! - stutterer demosthenes Last Line: Automatically made for tony anthony! Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Self; Speech THIS IS MY OWN, MY NATIVE TONGUE, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often I leave my television set to listen to the wireless Last Line: Would god I were a tender apple blawssom Subject(s): Speech 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 TO SIR GODFREY KNELLER, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I beheld the fairest of her kind Last Line: And give more beauties, than he takes away. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Kneller, Sir Godfrey (1649-1723); Nature; Paintings & Painters; Speech Disorders; Voices; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Kniller, Gottfried; Stuttering; Muteness TOURETTE'S, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: The curse // he cannot cut Last Line: Jismed jazz // language the stick %//his head the rattled cage Subject(s): Disease; Sickness; Speech 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 TWENTY POET SKETCHES: 18, by PETER BLUE CLOUD Poem Source First Line: The poet of standing when Last Line: As well %sit the next one out Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Speech 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 WORLD SHIFTS, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: Ceaselessly cautioning, veering, %touching speech Subject(s): Language Poetry; Speech |
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