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Subject: STUDENTS Matches Found: 778 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "MY CHILD AND SCHOLLAR, TAKE GOOD HEED", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And eke obtain thy master's praise Subject(s): Discipline;schools; Students (FRENCH) PUBLIC TRANSIT, by ERIC WUBBELS Poem Source First Line: You carried your hair like a blanket Last Line: Light-giving pears that dangled from the boxcar roof Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers 1920, by KATINA ANTONIADES Poem Source First Line: In a blue and white dress Last Line: The rain %and the night as soft as a dog's ear Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers 1950S TELEVISED A-BOMB DRILL AIRED FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES, by LAUREN BROZOVICH Poem Source First Line: In the camera's field of view Last Line: In which no seed could grow Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers 4.5.199-235 (EXEUNT OPHELIA AND GERTRUDE), by REBECCA SCHONBERG Poem Source First Line: She would've regretted the step she took the second after she took it Last Line: Their crazy fish souls, all but lost %in the ripples she shed Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers A BOARD SCHOOL PASTORAL, by MAY EMMA GOLDWORTH KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alone I stay; for I am lame Last Line: Where ella passes. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Schools; Students A CERTAIN SWIRL, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The classroom was dark, all the desks were empty, Subject(s): Schools; Language; Students; Words; Vocabulary A CLASSIC MOMENT, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could accept the frayed basement parish Subject(s): Schools; Childhood Memories; Students A GIRL IN A LIBRARY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An object among dreams, you sit here with your shoes off Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Pushkin, Alexander (1799-1837); Schools; Sleep; Library; Librarians; Students A MOMENTARY LONGING TO HEAR SAD ADVICE FROM ONE LONG DEAD, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who was my teacher at harvard. Did not wear / overcoat Subject(s): Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Students; Educators; Professors A MOTHER'S PRAYER, by EDITH M. GEMMER Poem Text First Line: The sun is brightly shining Last Line: When our bobby goes to school. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Prayer; Schools; Childhood; Students A POET'S EDUCATION, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In fact, the classroom overlooked a street Last Line: His dusty classrom beckoned, high aloft Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Medical Students; Poetry & Poets; Education; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A REMARKABLE ADVENTURE, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was at my bedroom table Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students A REWARD OF MERIT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The father asked: 'how have you done' Last Line: They make me repeat my freshman year Subject(s): Schools; Students A SCHOOL COMPANIONSHIP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "seven years, seven happy, careless years" Last Line: "within my heart, still shared with you" Subject(s): Brotherhood;classmates;schools;togetherness; Schoolmates;students A SCHOOL ECLOGUE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hist, william! Hist! What means that air so gay Last Line: Before the prowess of his arm you feel. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Schools; Children; Students; Childhood A SONG FOR THE RAGGED SCHOOLS OF LONDON; WRITTEN IN ROME, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am listening here in rome Last Line: Let us take them into pity. Subject(s): London; Schools; Students A STUDENT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over an ancient scroll I bent Last Line: The fluttering of an angel's wings! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Past; Schools; Time; Nightmares; Students A VALEDICTORY ADDRESS, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dare to say you all do wonder Last Line: And so I make my manners. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Schools; Students A YOUNG MAN'S EPIGRAM ON EXISTENCE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A senseless school, where we must give Last Line: Lessons that leave no time for prizes. Subject(s): Schools; Students AARON LOUDERMILK (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Figured on droppin' outta school Last Line: And a whole lotta cows.' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns AARON LOUDERMILK (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My father and I have never talked much Last Line: I'd like to show him my farm Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns AARON LOUDERMILK: MICHAEL PERRIN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Great dance, wasn't it? Last Line: I got some beer in my truck %you drink? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns AARON WASHINGTON JR, TEACHER, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: The guy's brilliant, simply brilliant Last Line: The guy's brilliant, simply brilliant Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ADVICE TO YOUNG WRITERS, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of the things I've repeated to writing Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students AENEAS LEAVING HIS DIDO, by SARAH NOOTER Poem Source First Line: Inside his head %these words melted %then thickened like Last Line: And, really, had %never been like %pie to any man Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers AFTER RUMI, by NADJA BLAGOJEVIC Poem Source First Line: Have you seen the girl? %hands like sparrows, perfect pitch, capricious eyes Last Line: We want nothing more than a glance, and %a few wise words Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers AFTER SHE WAS A GIRL, by AMARA DANTE VERONA Poem Source First Line: The boy's hands move up her back Last Line: (she is only being irrational) he says: you've always been a girl Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers AFTER THE SCHOOL-FEAST, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The feast is o'er - the music and the stir Last Line: Next morn, may gleam in every track but mine! Subject(s): Schools; Students AFTER VACATION, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The first day at school is the very best Last Line: If all days were first days then school would be fun. Subject(s): Schools; September; Students AFTERMATH, by CAITLIN DOYLE Poem Source First Line: When I grow up %I want to specialize in aftermath Last Line: Seems like furniture, %or family Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers AIDS, by IAN DEMSKY Poem Source First Line: Then all at once a wrinkle somewhere in blood Last Line: As the caissons go rolling along Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers ALAN ZIEGEL, TEACHER, TOWER HIGH SCHOOL (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: All those wishing to spend a weekend in Last Line: Stereotypes at the door. Refreshments will %be served Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ALAN ZIEGEL, TEACHER, TOWER HIGH SCHOOL (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I am not burning out Last Line: Thus my northern adventure Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ALAN ZIEGEL, TEACHER, TOWER HIGH SCHOOL (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Just talk into the camcorder, kwame Last Line: The world awaits your words Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ALAN ZIEGEL, TEACHER, TOWER HIGH SCHOOL (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I was in school myself Last Line: Anyone seen kwame? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ALAN ZIEGEL, TEACHER, TOWER HIGH SCHOOL (5), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Officer erikson? Last Line: Can I see him now? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ALBERT GOODSON, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 5 (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I must respectfully disagree with the good doctor Last Line: If not, we stand adjourned Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ALBERT GOODSON, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 5 (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Duly noted, oliver Last Line: Good night, lady and gentlemen Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ALISSA HAYLEY (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I'd like to go home, please Last Line: And tell her to call my mother %please Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ALISSA HAYLEY (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I hate ms. Greely Last Line: I hope I never see her again Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ALISSA HAYLEY (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My father runs a shoe store Last Line: Is too much for me to bear Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ALISSA HAYLEY, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I couldn't choose a date for the prom Last Line: I wish I had danced with him all night Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ALISSA HAYLEY, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Oh, no, this is too much Last Line: I kinda hope so Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ALISSA HAYLEY, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: It figures Last Line: I'm sure gonna miss her next year Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ALISSA HAYLEY, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Oh, god, I got her again Last Line: But I hope I never see her again Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ALMAE MATRES (ST. ANDREWS, 1862; OXFORD, 1865), by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St. Andrews by the northern sea Last Line: That is a haunted town to me! Subject(s): Oxford University; Schools; St. Andrews University (scotland); Youth; Students ALONG MAIN STREET, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Did you hear 'bout the dance? Last Line: Keep this under your hat, no sense spreading stories. %you bet Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ALONG MAIN STREET 2, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Can you believe it? Last Line: You're about the only one Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns AMONG CHILDREN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk among the rows of bowed heads Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I walk through the long schoolroom questioning Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Schools; Vision; Childhood; Fancy; Students AMY, by WILLIAM LOPEZ Poem Source First Line: Amy is a tiny woman Last Line: Know why he likes it Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers; Women AMY, by GEORGE EDWARD PENDRAY Poem Text First Line: The schoolhouse squatted close against a hill Last Line: Into the barley slop. Subject(s): Classmates; Girls; Schools; Schoolmates; Students AMY SWINTON (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: While my friends can't wait to leave town Last Line: Modeling just for me Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns AMY SWINTON (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: That's my mother Last Line: My mother will have no time to reach me %then Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns AMY SWINTON (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My mother outmaneuvers martha stewart Last Line: It's a wonder to see how she covers everything up Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns AMY SWINTON: JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Tc erickson? %hope I'm not bothering you Last Line: I see that hat practically every day in town Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns AMY SWINTON: KATIE FUNG, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: See this camera? Last Line: In its proper focus Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLASS ROOM IN A SLUM, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far far from gusty waves, these children's faces Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Children; Schools; Slums; Social Protest; Childhood; Students; Tenements ANDREW CURRAN (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Why didn't I do anything Last Line: That doesn't help me Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ANDREW CURRAN (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Only a few more days Last Line: There's andrew curran, I knew him when Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ANDREW CURRAN, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I told my father I had just won Last Line: Like a prizewinner in life Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ANDREW CURRAN, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: A last august memory Last Line: Just thinking and waiting Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ANDREW CURRAN, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: People say that junior year is the toughest Last Line: In a varsity basketball game Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ANDREW CURRAN, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I want to be a nasa scientist Last Line: Are out of this world Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ANDREW CURRAN, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Hunched over my microscope in advanced biology Last Line: Adjusting the fine tuning Subject(s): Biology And Biologists; High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ANGIE PERRY (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Most people in school don't know Last Line: And find a real family of my own Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANGIE PERRY (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I'm sittin' on the bus Last Line: To experience the luxury of complaint Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANGIE PERRY (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Mr. Z., what do you mean, I can't see him? Last Line: Man, what they're doin' to him is an american tragedy Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANGIE PERRY: BECKY BEAUCLAIRE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: You eat like that all the time?' Last Line: I'll take my chances.' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANNIE GARDINER, TEACHER, HUDSON LANDING CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I just got tenure Last Line: This is my northern adventure Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANNIE GARDINER, TEACHER, HUDSON LANDING CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Let's go, hornets, let's go! Last Line: Let's go, hornets, let's go! Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANNIE GARDINER, TEACHER, HUDSON LANDING CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Do not go to italy, my friends warned me Last Line: I wish I had given my dream lover more to %apologize for Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANNIE GARDINER, TEACHER, HUDSON LANDING CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My mother believes in total honesty Last Line: I wish she were a little more dishonest Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANNIE GARDINER, TEACHER, HUDSON LANDING CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL (5), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: How wonderful you all look tonight! Last Line: And may you remember this night for a long, long time Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANNIE GARDINER, TEACHER, HUDSON LANDING CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL (6), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I'm young, but I'm old inside Last Line: And dance the night away under the roman stars Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANTHONY LA BLANCA (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I'll score in the nba Last Line: With my dreams Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANTHONY LA BLANCA (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Friday nights I cruise the avenue Last Line: Puttin' my car and my body into overdrive Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ANTHONY LA BLANCA: BUDDY ERIKSON, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Boy, this schmuck's a loser; he never says a word Last Line: What can you tell me about her?' %not much.' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns APRIL SHOWERS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves are fresh after the rain Last Line: To be alive on such a day. Subject(s): Rain; Schools; Students AS THE CHILD PRODIGY GROWS UP, by GEMMA COOPER-NOVAK Poem Source First Line: He wonders about his children Last Line: At the moment of climax %instead of her name? Subject(s): Children; Growth; High School Students; Teenagers ASSEMBLING BODIES, by AMARA DANTE VERONA Poem Source First Line: So you work assembling dolls?' he says Last Line: And that-that-is when they really start to look human' Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers ASSIGNMENT, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then write,' she said. 'by all means, if that's Subject(s): Schools; Students AT NAVAJO MONUMENT VALLEY TRIBAL SCHOOL, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The football field rises Last Line: Wild horses, wild horses, wild horses Subject(s): Americans; Education; Schools; United States; Students; America AT SCHOOL-CLOSE; BOWDOIN STREET, BOSTON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The end has come, as come it must Last Line: "and proudly whisper, ""these were mine!" Subject(s): Schools; Students AT THE CLOSE OF SCHOOL, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As to-day I sit and muse Last Line: Will haunt in my memory still. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Schools; Students AT THE JUNIOR PROMENADE, by CAREY CULBERTSON Poem Text First Line: The stars were out and the moon was bright Last Line: At the junior promenade. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; High School Students AT THE METRO: OLD IRRELEVANT IMAGES, by JACK A. MAPANJE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are still so anthropologically tall here Last Line: How are the jacarandas I left blooming, otherwise? Subject(s): Students, Foreign AT THIS FAREWELL; COMPOSED IN ANTICIPATION OF LEAVING SCHOOL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear native regions, I foretell Last Line: On the dear hills where first he rose. Subject(s): Schools; Students AT TRINITY COLLEGE, by MAUREEN OWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In trinity's front square Last Line: My projected major is monogamy Subject(s): Ireland; Students, Foreign; Trinity College, Cambridge ATTIRE, by RYAN HAGAN Poem Source First Line: I remember %the tweed jacket Last Line: And attire became %unimportant Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers AUTOBIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a child Subject(s): Children; Education; Poetry & Poets; Schools; Childhood; Students BALLADE OF THE GIRTON GIRL, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had just 'put her gown on' at girton Last Line: But—her forte's to evaluate π. Subject(s): Girls; Schools; Students BARBARA GILCHRIST, TEACHER, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: The guy's nuts, simply nuts Last Line: The guy's nuts, simply nuts Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BECKY BEAUCLAIRE (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I've known the same group of kids for so long Last Line: I figure it's time for me and my friends to check %her out Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BECKY BEAUCLAIRE (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Nothin' to do in this town Last Line: There's got to be more to life than screwin' around Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BECKY BEAUCLAIRE (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: After buddy erikson, my one true love Last Line: When he realizes he ain't gonna find nobody better Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BECKY BEAUCLAIRE (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Was who at the dance? Last Line: Personally I couldn't care less Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BEGINNERS, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year miss tynes enrolled our class Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students BEGINNING, by JULIE ANNE SCHARPER Poem Source First Line: Of spring - wild Last Line: It is night. This %changes everything Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers BICYCLERS, by ALEXIS LOVE GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: I saw them today, two of them, seven to nine, I'd venture to guess Last Line: In the attic with all the rest Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers BICYCLING, by PAT GRAY Poem Source First Line: The medical student who rides home on the gitane he took Subject(s): Bicycles; Medical Students BIG BANG, by BENJAMIN LERNER Poem Source First Line: A fourth grader %touches the sticky stuff of creation Last Line: He mouths the words like a sacred obscenity %'cock...Pussy...Big bang' Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers BILL PAXELL, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 2, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My friend ollie, you should stay in your store on %main street Last Line: White bread only. %I vote yes Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BLISS, by EMMA STRAUB Poem Source First Line: These shit-covered lakes, empty driving ranges Last Line: Strike me down now if this isn't perfectly lovely Subject(s): High School Students; Nature; Peace; September; Teenagers BOARDING: 1. MUSSOORIE, UTTAR PRADESH, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the himalayas, I ran faster than any girl Last Line: Then the mountain soldiers drove us up Subject(s): Railroads; Schools; Travel; India; Railways; Trains; Students; Journeys; Trips BOARDING: 2. HOLIDAYS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In maths, geeta's long black plait Last Line: When jesus was born, it was quiet like this Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Schools; India; Nativity, The; Students BOARDING: 6. GRADUATION, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I notice how lush it is since I came when doorways Last Line: Phoned, her parents had already traded beauty for his land Subject(s): Commencement; Schools; India; Graduation; Students BOOKS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're standing on the high school steps Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Schools; Women; Reading; Library; Librarians; Students BORDER TOWN: 1938, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She counts cement tracks Subject(s): Schools; Chicanos; Segregation; Students; Mexican Americans BOXING THE FEMALE, by NATASHA LE BEL Poem Source First Line: I saw myself inside again I saw Last Line: Myself I am the naked light inside Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers BRAD MCCALL (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Varsity letter: track Last Line: Fly %like a bird Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BRAD MCCALL (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Hey %there goes mr. Wiedermeyer Last Line: Wanna shoot a few hoops with me later? Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BRAD MCCALL, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Varsity letter: swimming Last Line: I %score Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BRAD MCCALL, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Varsity letter: basketball Last Line: And shoot a few hoops Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BRAD MCCALL, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Varsity letter: baseball Last Line: I pow! %home %run Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BRAD MCCALL, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Varsity letter: tennis Last Line: Best player %6-0 - 6-0 Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BRAMBLES, by WILLIAM LOPEZ Poem Source First Line: Rough brambles in the yard Last Line: Shoving through the brambles, rough %and veteran Subject(s): High School Students; Nature; Teenagers BRIAN PAXELL (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Got my first brother when I was eight Last Line: Anyone or anything %to get Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BRIAN PAXELL (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I love the smell of manure in the morning Last Line: And perfectly pick them all off, one by one Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BRIAN PAXELL (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My mother drags me to box socials Last Line: Another box soial in my life %sorry, mom Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BRIAN PAXELL (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Did I see her at the dance? Last Line: Could have been anyone Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BRIAN PAXELL: TOMMY LA BLANCA, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Hey, tommy, don't this dance suck? Last Line: I just feel like shooting something. Or someone Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BRIGHT SNOW COLD, by MARK TANNO Poem Source First Line: Out into the bright snow cold Last Line: The mouth of night swallows me whole Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers BROTHER ALVIN, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the seat that we shared in the second grade Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students BRUNO WILLIS, SPECTATOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Man, this is borin' Last Line: Know what I'm sayin? Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BUDDY ERIKSON (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I was ten Last Line: It's gonna be some time before you're a man,' he said Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BUDDY ERIKSON (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My father is the town constable Last Line: I know I would Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns BULLY, by MARTIN ESPADA Poet's Biography First Line: In the school auditorium / the theodore roosevelt statue Subject(s): Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Hispanic Americans; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Latinos; Students BY ANY OTHER NAME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First the teacher called the roll Last Line: Nearly killed her daddy! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Schools; Strangers; Teaching & Teachers; Students CAMPO SANTO, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I learned to say no I the old language Last Line: Backroads, humming, they are blind Subject(s): Electricity; Schools; Students CAPITOL HILL: OMAHA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, by VICTOR CONTOSKI Poem Source First Line: High on capitol hill Last Line: And lost him Subject(s): Capitol, Washington, D.c.; High School Students; Nebraska CASEY, by BETH KINDERMAN Poem Source First Line: She hasn't said three words to me yet Last Line: Her whole boys stretched toward the ceiling lights, %poised and hollow, not ready to fly Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers CHERISE GRAHAM, CHANNEL 5, LOCAL NEWS ANCHOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: We interrupt our regular broadcast to Last Line: And now back to our regular program Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CHESTNUT, by JENNY JONES Poem Source First Line: You've got your cheek pressed to the window. The twentieth of Last Line: There in vinegar and leave it out to dry and wrinkle in the closing of %the sunshine Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers CHIGWELL, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: School that, in burford's honoured time Last Line: Tho' not quite all vexation. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Nature; Schools; Writing & Writers; Destiny; Students CHILDHOOD IDEOGRAM, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lay my head sideways on the desk Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students CHILDREN WALKING HOME FROM SCHOOL THROUGH GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are like figures held in some glass ball Subject(s): Children; Schools; Childhood; Students CHRIST CHURCH MEADOWS, OXFORD, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often I saw, as on my balcony Subject(s): Oxford University; Students, Foreign CHRIST CHURCH MEADOWS, OXFORD, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often I saw, as on my balcony Last Line: Who cast her, as I told them, on the waters Subject(s): Oxford University; Students, Foreign CIRCUITRY, by SAMARA ADSIT HOLTZ Poem Source First Line: The dress made of poppies Last Line: Skin reflects green as heat collects between %the floor and my spine Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers CLASS PARTY, NOME, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Fourteen people, eight sites Last Line: I'd written for those who had dropped, %who had earlier dismissed themselves Subject(s): Eskimos; Exchange Students; Music And Musicians; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Schools CLASS SONG (WHICH WILL BE SUNG ON THE 22ND OF FEBRUARY), by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're sober men and true Last Line: Will go home with us as before. Subject(s): Schools; Students COFFEE SHOP TALK, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Of course he did it Last Line: Of course he did it Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns COINCIDENCES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Isn't it very lucky,' I once heard a youngster say Last Line: "we somehow never spoil it by poor lessons or by folly?" Subject(s): Luck; Schools; Students COLD, by CAROLINE HAGOOD Poem Source First Line: It was a window of a conversation because they both leaned out of it Last Line: Always, but she thought it would be more refreshing to want Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers COLLEGE UNDER WATER, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who are these women and offices Last Line: Lies on the other side of the poem. Subject(s): Commencement; Exchange Students; Universities & Colleges; Writing & Writers; Graduation; Foreign Exchange Programs COMING FORTH OF OSIRIS JONES: REPORT BY MEDICAL STUDENT, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Facies %sallow and somewhat haggard; thin and pallid Last Line: Then brown and black; scaled off; and disappeared Subject(s): Medical Students CONFESSIONS FROM GILCREASE, by ELIZABETH BEAR Poem Source First Line: Sitting on the steps of the museum porch Last Line: How long will we regret that? Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers CONSIDERATIONS, by JEFFREY CHIU Poem Source First Line: Let's sit under that tree,' suggests joe Last Line: That what is nameless will always exist Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers CONTINUAL USAGE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No wonder we felt weighted walking in those halls. The blackboards Last Line: Returned to her classroom to pay a different kind of attention, this time. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Past; Schools; Childhood; Students COOKIE MALDONADO (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Is the camera on? Last Line: Would you like a cookie from cookie, mr. Ziegel? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns COOKIE MALDONADO (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I think I see her! Last Line: Would anybody like a cookie? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns COOKIE MALDONADO (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Kristen, kristen, %where are you? Last Line: I don't think he's your type Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns COOKIE MALDONADO: KRISTEN CLARKE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Girl, you think you're fat? Last Line: What's the matter with you, girl? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns CORE, by CAROLINE HAGOOD Poem Source First Line: The way I want that which is clutter and that which is emptiness Last Line: The official spot of the in-between %the unsteady Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL INSTRUCTOR SAYS GOODBYE ... STUDENTS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goodbye, lady in bangor, who sent me Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Schools; Students CORY DESHAYES (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Kathleen, don't leave me Last Line: I don't wanna be alone %now Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CORY DESHAYES (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Michelle who? Last Line: Kathleen, is there room next to you? Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CORY DESHAYES (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Yearbook line? Last Line: Her name is kathleen Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CORY DESHAYES, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Hi %how's it goin' Last Line: Within the right school Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CORY DESHAYES, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: At the pool hall all the girls Last Line: Nah, I don't have time for such crap Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CORY DESHAYES, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Hey michelle Last Line: What do you mean, don't bother Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CORY DESHAYES, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Last week at a friend's party Last Line: Is somethin' you never forget Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers COSMO GENNARO, PARENT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I'm glad the bastard's been shot Last Line: He got what he deserved Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers COUNTRY, by CHRISTOPHER LEW Poem Source First Line: On sunday mornings, dad %puts on country music Last Line: And listens to that song about %old love Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers COUNTRY SCHOOLROOM, ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turn to page ten in your arithmetics' Last Line: As numberless and nameless as their calls. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Schools; Students CRUSH, by BOB MEYER Poem Source First Line: Her nervous eyes %reflect warm water Last Line: And see the jungle %not the furniture Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers DAVID KHALIL (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When we lived in the islands Last Line: Maybe then I can heal the hole in my heart Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns DAVID KHALIL (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Before we arrive, they have asked us Last Line: Just a family atlas? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns DAVID KHALIL: JOHNNY NESBITT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My host, johnny, seems nice enough Last Line: Or must I cover my eyes while he drives himself %to drink? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns DAVID RUSH, TV REPORTER (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: This just in! The hostage crisis at tower Last Line: Thank god this story has a happy ending Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DAVID RUSH, TV REPORTER (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: We are standing here, a block away from Last Line: Those dreams? For now, we can only wait Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DAVID RUSH, TV REPORTER; HARRY BALINGER, POLICE CAPTAIN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Channel has just learned a shot or shots Last Line: Terrific blaze in midtown. We'll get back to you -- I promise Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEAD MOTHS, by JESSICA BULMAN Poem Source First Line: There are dead moths in the bathroom Last Line: And then as I turned the faucet %one flew away Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers DEAR TONY, by ERICA MAGREY Poem Source Last Line: I choked anyway %instinctively, I guess Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers DENISE SLATTERY (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Kevin Last Line: And take me to grammy's house, now Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DENISE SLATTERY (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Hey, watch where you're goin', pal Last Line: Believe me, the baby's father could learn somethin' from you Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DENISE SLATTERY (JUNIOR); KEVIN SLATTERY, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: How come you're home? Last Line: Please don't go Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DENISE SLATTERY, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My boyfriend won't wear a condom Last Line: I swear, I ain't gonna take his crap, anymore %lyin' down Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DENISE SLATTERY, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I swear, little darlin' Last Line: Because of who's inside of me Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DENISE SLATTERY, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I don't need nobody Last Line: Cept joey right now Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DENISE SLATTERY, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I saw him with another girl -- again Last Line: She can have %what's left of him Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEREK BAIN (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Hey, man, no sweat Last Line: Is this gonna be on tv Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEREK BAIN (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My new stepfather's not too bad Last Line: We were doin' all right, just the two of us Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEREK BAIN, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I'm not sure if he left Last Line: I still miss him Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEREK BAIN, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Hey, man, I'm chill Last Line: Put that thing down Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEREK BAIN, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I wish I had my own car Last Line: Then maybe I'll do a little math homework Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEREK BAIN, RHONDA ELLIS, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: We gotta wait out here Last Line: Think he'll go for that Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEREK BAIN, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Hallelujah! %startin' tomorrow %I'll have my Last Line: For a long, long drive Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DESTINATION, by ERICA EHRENBERG Poem Source First Line: Back east %I ask about evangelists Last Line: It is only in the car %you are moving Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers DEVONNE ELLIOT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Shows you, man Last Line: And pretend this was a bad dream Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEVONNE ELLIOT, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My name has a shadow attached to it Last Line: Would devon have brought home Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEVONNE ELLIOT, JUNE 16, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Come on, devon Last Line: It's not fair, not fair at all Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEVONNE ELLIOT, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: It's not too early to think about college Last Line: Will they like me Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEVONNE ELLIOT, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Welcome parents, friends, and teachers Last Line: Come on, devon, you and I are going to college Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEVONNE ELLIOT, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: There are people in my class Last Line: I guess I will just have to %carrion Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEVONNE ELLIOT; EDDIE KELLERMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: He's the best history teacher I ever had Last Line: Hey, here come the yearbooks Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DOUGLAS ATHERTON (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: What would I like Last Line: I don't remember what happened %none of it Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DOUGLAS ATHERTON (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My father drives a cab Last Line: Is too much for me to bear Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DOUGLAS ATHERTON, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: They sked me to run for treasurer Last Line: If it wasn't so boring Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DOUGLAS ATHERTON, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I couldn't get a date for the prom Last Line: I wish I had danced with her all night Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DOUGLAS ATHERTON, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: They asked me to run for vice-president Last Line: If you can get them to listen to you Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DOUGLAS ATHERTON, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: They asked me to run for president Last Line: If most people would just listen to me Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DOUGLAS ATHERTON, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: They asked me to run for secretary Last Line: If you an convince more people to get involved Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DOVECOTT MILL: 6. THE SCHOOL, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swiftly the seasons sped away Last Line: Dust to dust, till the judgment day! Subject(s): Schools; Time; Students DR. ADOLPHUS HICKS, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 4 (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Let's be practical here, folks Last Line: Before we show it off to the world. %I vote no Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns DR. ADOLPHUS HICKS, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 4 (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I walk the streets at night Last Line: And walk with me late at night back to my office Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns DR. ADOLPHUS HICKS, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 4 (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: The boy? %nothing serious, a sprained wrist Last Line: Who did not find a home in our town Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns DREAMING GRANDFATHER'S FUNERAL, by SARA A. NEWLAND Poem Source First Line: We thought she'd be the first to go Last Line: The mouse in her hand is squeaking %but none of them faint Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers DRIFTER, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Home is where my harley roars Last Line: I can take yu away from all this.' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns DRIVING HOME AT NIGHT AFTER PICKING UP THE MILK, by ELIZABETH BEAR Poem Source First Line: A heron flew over the road and the car Last Line: One more unknown in the rearview mirror Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers DRIVING MISS DAISY (PG 13), by JULIA SCHAFFER Poem Source First Line: We were on a date and I'd never been on one before Last Line: Movie theater. We knew they'd let us in to see joe versus the volcano Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers DROPOUT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: You don't want to know my name Last Line: Nobody knows my name %I'm nobody Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns DUEL, by AMY KENNA Poem Source First Line: Roughly three-quarters crazy %you face me Last Line: And everything %is in pieces again Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers DURING THIS MOVIE, by REBECCA GIVENS Poem Source First Line: Here I am at this movie someone said I should watch Last Line: Clutching an armrest instead of a hand Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers DWIGHT HENDERSON, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Hey, wu Last Line: And see me standin' right next to the star quarterback? Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DWIGHT HENDERSON, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Lion in bed at night Last Line: But first I gotta make the high school team Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DWIGHT HENDERSON, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: No division I school knockin' at my door Last Line: What's he gonna do if I don't show up %shoot me? Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DWIGHT HENDERSON, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: You look terrible, my mother said Last Line: Where else you gonna find that Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DWIGHT HENDERSON, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: The bench may be the best seat in the house Last Line: Showings every day Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DWIGHT HENDERSON, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I first came to football camp Last Line: I never had a better time in my life Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers EAST JORDAN, by DAVID J. KONIECZKOWSKI Poem Source First Line: When my father would fly out of hopkins airport with me sitting Last Line: And here we soar above them Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers EDDIE KELLERMAN (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: What are those lights for Last Line: I don't muich freakin' care Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers EDDIE KELLERMAN (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Where are yu going? My mother asked Last Line: Mom, I got something to tell you Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers EDDIE KELLERMAN, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: At my bar mitzvah last year Last Line: The fountain pen the rabbi gave me Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers EDDIE KELLERMAN, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Can't believe I'm graduating in a few days Last Line: He's gonna kill us all Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers EDDIE KELLERMAN, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My parents hassle me about everything Last Line: There's no way I'm getting into harvard Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers EDDIE KELLERMAN, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I've been grounded for two weeks Last Line: It was worth it Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers EDITH FROMER, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 3 (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Whether we like it or not Last Line: Of course I vote yes Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns EDITH FROMER, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 3 (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Do I have any doubts? Last Line: We aren't animals, no doubt about it Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns EGO, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I just didn't get it Subject(s): Schools; Self; Students END OF FUN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Rover lies all in a heap Last Line: School began to-day! Subject(s): Children; Schools; September; Childhood; Students END OF OUR MANIFEST DESTINIES, by REBECCA GIVENS Poem Source First Line: This land of course was once like a galaxy Last Line: Our eyes brisk with fear's milky ways Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers ENTERING THE STUDENT'S POEM, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The most beautiful videos / come from reading poetry Last Line: The blood rushing to her forehead. Subject(s): Exchange Students; Language Poetry; Poetry Readings; Foreign Exchange Programs EPIGRAM: 14. TO WILLIAM CAMDEN, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe Last Line: But for their powers, accept my piety. Subject(s): Camden, William (1551-1623); Schools; Students ERIK SEMLER, STUDENT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: They didn't tell us much Last Line: I'm gonna show them all Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ESTHER TORRES (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Dear, sweet jesus Last Line: I will wait patiently for you Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ESTHER TORRES (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Omar, you stop playin' Last Line: Yeah, yeah. I can see the line's not movin' Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ESTHER TORRES, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My mother sleeps around Last Line: One I don't have to share Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ESTHER TORRES, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I wonder what death is like Last Line: I promise I'll be ready Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ESTHER TORRES, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Sunday %when %I %went Last Line: Prayed %for %god's %forgiveness Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ESTHER TORRES, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I found a man, a real man Last Line: And jesus is his name Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ESTHER TORRES, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When my french teacher asked me Last Line: Everything's my own damn fault Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers EVERYDAY ESCAPES, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My poor students, all I ask of them Subject(s): Students EXECUTION, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last time I saw my high school football coach Subject(s): Education; Schools; Sports; Students EXPERT, by NADJA BLAGOJEVIC Poem Source First Line: I am an expert Last Line: Cuticles %tendons and %small bones Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FACULTY CHRISTMAS PARTY AT WEBSTER MIDDLE SCHOOL, by CHRISTOPHER LEW Poem Source First Line: Mr. Davids, 7th grade english, stands before the bowl of nachos Last Line: Mr. Lebowitz, 8th grade english, wants to get crazy drunk %forget christmas, new year's is coming Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers 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 FARMACY, by MATTHEW MOSES Poem Source First Line: Down on the farmacy Last Line: The farmacies are the backbone of %this beautiful nation Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FEARS OF THE EIGHTH GRADE, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I ask what things they fear Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students FIDA FIDA FIDA FIDA, by ROBERT ELSTEIN Poem Source First Line: They say that firemen are good chefs Last Line: Some rookie must have burned the muffins Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FIELD, by SAMARA ADSIT HOLTZ Poem Source First Line: Wind moved through %the field like flood Last Line: Land. Grass blew against %it, brittle and even Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FIELD TRIP TO THE ROLLING MILL, 1950, by PATRICIA DOBLER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sister monica has her hands full Subject(s): Education; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Schools; Work; Workers; Students FIGURE IT OUT, by DREW TARLOW Poem Source First Line: I remember she told me %you just stick out your %tongue Last Line: As we rolled around %on the wooden floor, %exploring Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FINDING THE BODY, by SARA A. NEWLAND Poem Source First Line: We found them under the furniture Last Line: As small as the mice the cats spent all night killing %then placed at my sleeping feet Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FINDING THE SKY, by VANESSA KOGAN Poem Source First Line: I've found that small piece of sky between %the two roofs -- I've needed it Last Line: And I can't see far enough down my back %to lock the strands together Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FINGERPRINTS, by ALEXIS KIELB Poem Source First Line: He ended up coming to dinner %it wasn't exactly as I had planned Last Line: Inching toward my place %and retreating Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FIRST GRADE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the play amy didn't want to be Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students FIRST PRACTICE, by GARY GILDNER Poem Full Text First Line: After the doctor checked to see / we weren't ruptured Subject(s): Education; Hate; Poetry & Poets; Schools; Sports; Students FIRST TIME, by ERICA MAGREY Poem Source Last Line: Of taste buds %in bittersweet exchange Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FLASH CARDS, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In math I was the whiz kid, keeper Subject(s): Education; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Students; Educators; Professors FOOT FIRE BURN DANCE, by NATASHA LE BEL Poem Source First Line: I do the black boot stomp Last Line: Hard breaking %the angry night Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FOR A SCHOOL MAGAZINE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blithe boyhood! Shall a jaded muse Last Line: To gain the best. Subject(s): Schools; Students FOR A SCHOOL REGISTER, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear school, grey church, which dim years since I knew Last Line: Link a bright future with a cherished past. Subject(s): Schools; Students FOR A STUDENT SLEEPING IN A POETRY WORKSHOP, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've watched his eyelids sag, spring open Subject(s): Classmates; Dreams; Schools; Sleep; Teaching & Teachers; Schoolmates; Nightmares; Students FOR DAN, by JENNIFER BONHOMME Poem Source First Line: He was confused. %callus-fingered, nostrils ripe red Last Line: Begging him to hold me %on top of the plastic sheets Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FOR MICHAEL, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Somewhere before the end Last Line: It wasn't nearly enough Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FOR THE INAUGURATION OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL, CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old man's thought of school Last Line: To girlhood, boyhood look, the teacher and the school. Subject(s): Camden, New Jersey; Memory; Old Age; Schools; Students FOUR O'CLOCKS, by LILLIAN B. QUIMBY Poem Text First Line: It was that they loved the children Last Line: Still open the four-o'clocks. Subject(s): Schools; Students FOUR PIECES OF TRANSITION: 1. DREAMING IS A SPECTATOR SPORT, by JESSE DALBACKA Poem Source First Line: I had a dream the other night Last Line: I've found there are very few soliloquies in my subconscious Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FOUR PIECES OF TRANSITION: 2. BEING NECESSARILY DISTRACTED, by JESSE DALBACKA Poem Source First Line: So, my mom an dad were yelling at each other Last Line: And still not knowing what to do Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FOUR PIECES OF TRANSITION: 3. SENSELESS VIOLENCE OR RECCURING THEMES, by JESSE DALBACKA Poem Source First Line: The dream progressed, and it was nearly time to eat Last Line: Any mature person takes responsibility for their geese still running around the house Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FOUR PIECES OF TRANSITION: 4. NEGATIVE GRAVITY AND OTHER FORCES, by JESSE DALBACKA Poem Source First Line: I used to have a lot of those falling dreams Last Line: What is the opposite of falling, is it flying? Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers FOUR VALENTINES, by CHARLES KELLOGG FIELD Poem Text First Line: Tomorrow is the day for valentines Last Line: The old-maid sister of my major prof. Subject(s): Holidays; Schools; Universities & Colleges; Valentine's Day; Students FOURTEEN, by NORA LAWRENCE Poem Source First Line: Shouting back at the macho men Last Line: But the bullshit excited me anyway Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Teenagers FRANK AND MARILYN LANGER, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Honey, I know you're tired Last Line: Picking up our package marked 'special delivery.' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns FRANK PICARDI, EMERGENCY UNIT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Captain balinger Last Line: You know, there's nothing more %you could've done Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FRANKLIN WATERS, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My moms once read me a poem Last Line: In every room of the house Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FRANKLIN WATERS, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Hey, pal, do I look like the waitress Last Line: Lookin' at wiedermeyer got to be better than %lookin' at this grill Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FRANKLIN WATERS, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: School's ok, but kind of borin' Last Line: It don't matter much Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FRANKLIN WATERS, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: It's all messed up Last Line: It ain't worth it; I'm outta here %I quit Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FRANKLIN WATERS, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I live with my mother Last Line: Without gettin' caught in the crossfire Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers GEE, YOU'RE SO BEAUTIFUL THAT IT'S STARTING TO RAIN, by RICHARD BRAUTIGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, marcia / I want your long blonde beauty Last Line: "marcia’s long blonde beauty Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students GEOGRAPHY JOURNEYS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: We do not take a car at all, and yet we Last Line: But never stay abroad to play. Subject(s): Children; Exchange Students; February; Geography; Travel; Childhood; Foreign Exchange Programs; Journeys; Trips GEORGE AND EMILY GIBSON, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Honey, I know you're tired Last Line: It'll be all right, you'll see Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns GINGER ALE, by JAIME HALLA Poem Source First Line: Dozing in the corner of your love seat Last Line: I'll be with you to find out Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers GIRLS' MIDDLE SCHOOL ORCHESTRA, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Girls; Schools; Music & Musicians; Students GLIMMERER, by JULIA KATE JARCHO Poem Source First Line: You'll meet him soon Last Line: Who brings night on Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers GOING IN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are going in the water for the rest of the day Last Line: So bad being here, alive and wet all over and you along. Subject(s): Exchange Students; Travel; Venice, Italy; Foreign Exchange Programs; Journeys; Trips GRADESCHOOL'S LARGE WINDOWS, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weren't built to let the sunlight in Subject(s): Schools; Students GRASSY MEADOW SCHOOL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: In the grassy meadow school Last Line: That the best thing is to grow! Subject(s): Books; Knowledge; Scholarship & Scholars; Schools; Summer; Reading; Students GRATITUDE TO OLD TEACHERS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we stride or stroll across the frozen lake Last Line: Beneath us the teachers, and around us the stillness. Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Education; Faith; Growth; Maturity; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Belief; Creed; Students; Educators; Professors GREEK BANISHED FROM THE SCHOOLS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Calm speech of sophocles, ethereal clear Last Line: Through dog's-eared pages on a hopeless quest. Subject(s): Greek Language; Schools; Students HARLAN JONES, EDITOR, HUDSON VALLEY SENTINEL (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Editorial: %at last week's town council meeting, we noted with inter Last Line: Have much to show and tell them. We hope it will be a week- %end they never forget Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns HARLAN JONES, EDITOR, HUDSON VALLEY SENTINEL (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Editorial %one death, %one life Last Line: The one that did not take care of its children Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns HARLAN JONES, EDITOR, HUDSON VALLEY SENTINEL (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Editor's note Last Line: Named 'the a tones' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns HARRY BALINGER, POLICE CAPT.; FRANK PICARDI, EMERGENCY UNIT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Everyone out of the building Last Line: No last name? %no Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers HARRY BALINGER, POLICE CAPTAIN (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: You read the headlines in the newspaper Last Line: We are all safe now Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers HARRY BALINGER, POLICE CAPTAIN (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I want this room secure Last Line: Anyone who screws this up will have me in his face %got that Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers HARRY BALINGER, POLICE CAPTAIN (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: That's it, that's our in Last Line: We got anybody like that? Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers HARRY BALINGER, POLICE CAPTAIN (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: You read the headlines Last Line: The evil and craziness within us all Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers HARRY BALINGER, POLICE CAPTAIN; FRANK PICARDI, EMERGENCY, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: What do we know Last Line: If we rush in now, he might kill everyone Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers HE REVISITS HIS FIRST SCHOOL, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should not have shown in the flesh Last Line: I may right it - some day. Subject(s): Schools; Students HEADLIGHTS, by NORA LAWRENCE Poem Source First Line: The lights from the fdr drive streak by Last Line: They're not thinking about me Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Teenagers HEAT, by DEBORAH STEIN Poem Source First Line: Hot boys, she says, are sweet in the summertime Last Line: Sweat gleaming just beneath their skin Subject(s): Heat; High School Students; Passion; Teenagers HENRY MADDOX, PASTOR, NEW DELIVERENCE CHURCH (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: God loves a cheerful giver.' Last Line: He should be made of whole cloth Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns HENRY MADDOX, PASTOR, NEW DELIVERENCE CHURCH (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I've come down to the jail to see Last Line: I got a few vcrs to fix, winter's comin' soon Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns HICKS MANOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I sit just north of town Last Line: You can hear me breathing Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns HIGH SCHOOL AS A DEAD GIRL, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High school was us and we. We learned our grammar there. Subject(s): High School Students HIGH SCHOOL RODEO PARADE, by TERESE SVOBODA Poem Source First Line: It starts when the cop drops the wax paper Subject(s): High School Students; Parades; Rodeos HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For seventeen years, her breath in the house Subject(s): High School Students; Mothers & Daughters HIGH WAY, by OLIVIA OPHELIA HARMAN Poem Source First Line: Plain talk he said Last Line: And gassed the pedal, %merging lanes Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; High School Students; Roads; Teenagers HOLLY LESTER (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Let me outta here Last Line: The music's never gonna stop Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers HOLLY LESTER (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Only a few more days Last Line: There's holly lester, I knew her when Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers HOLLY LESTER, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: While other girls want to be Last Line: The full measure of my love Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers HOLLY LESTER, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I could feel the passion Last Line: Wake me up later, I'm dead %tired Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers HOLLY LESTER, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: And now, live and in person Last Line: I guess he liked the music Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers HOLLY LESTER, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Never go out with a musician Last Line: Never go out with musicians %they're all losers Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers HOLLY LESTER, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My music teacher, mr. Loomis Last Line: Man, is he sharp Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Music Teachers; Schools HOME, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I neither remember / the first time Last Line: And shot me with / america Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students HOME FROM SCHOOL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The western sun comes softly in Last Line: The children home from school! Subject(s): Schools; Students HOME TOWN, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the evil broomstick and the narrow pointed hat Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Home; Schools; Students HOMECOMING, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the high school football game, the boys Last Line: Smelling the flowers pressed against her neck. Subject(s): Education; Fathers & Daughters; Homecoming; Schools; Students HOTEL NIGHTS WITH MY MOTHER, by LINDA MCCARRISTON Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The hometown flophouse Subject(s): Education; Flop-houses; Schools; Students HUDSON VALLEY SENTINEL (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Body found in lake Last Line: Down a ravine, killing three and injuring ten Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns HUDSON VALLEY SENTINEL (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Manager of grand royale set to leave Last Line: Manager until a replacement for mr. Clarke can be found Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns HUDSON VALLEY SENTINEL: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INSERT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Antiques and christmas shop Last Line: It hasn't been made yet.' %lake st Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns HUNGARIAN MEDICAL STUDENT: 1928, by EVELYN POSAMENTIER Poem Source First Line: Perhaps he is of medium height Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Medical Students HUSTLER LEAVES AT DAWN, by PHILIP CLARK Poem Source First Line: Some days I want Last Line: Begging the city %to swallow my steps Subject(s): Dawn; High School Students; Teenagers I HAD TO STOP, by ALEXIS LOVE GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: I had to stop today, on the way home from school, and check my reflection Last Line: Perhaps the guise of maturity disappeared when I lied about my age Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers I LOSE CONSTELLATIONS IN FOREIGN CITIES, by REBECCA GIVENS Poem Source Last Line: You map laid of true-blood stars? Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers ICONOGRAPHY, by JULIA KATE JARCHO Poem Source First Line: At night the supermarket Last Line: Sophie, or violet Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers IMAGE RETENTION, by JENNY JONES Poem Source First Line: She had turned her head away, but I could still see the distant look Last Line: She put down the mug Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers IN A GIRLS' SCHOOL, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These walls will not forget, through later days Last Line: Of swaying girls and lifted, tossing heads. Subject(s): Girls; Schools; Students IN MICHAEL ROBINS?ÇÖS CLASS MINUS ONE, by HICOK. BOB Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the desk where the boy sat, he sees the chicago river. Last Line: And the river promises to never surrender the boy’s shape to the ocean Subject(s): Schools; Nature; Students IN MRS. TILSCHER'S CLASS, by CAROL ANN DUFFY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You could travel up the blue nile Last Line: As the sky split open into a thunderstorm Subject(s): Geography; Schools; Students IN MY GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE, by BENJAMIN LERNER Poem Source Last Line: But the thin jacket she brought with her from phoenix Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers IN MY UNCLE'S KITCHEN, by PHOEBE PRIOLEAU Poem Source First Line: You wipe your hands on the apron Last Line: But say nothing. It's not my turn %to talk Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers IN SCHOOL-DAYS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Still sits the school-house by the road Last Line: Like her, -- because they love him. Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Schools; Childhood; Students IN THE BASEMENT, by RACHEL SCHWARTZ Poem Source First Line: Under the kitchen floor Last Line: Just enough so they can't see Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHOIR, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had never seen a cornfield in my life Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts; Students IN THE GIRLS' DRESSING ROOM BEFORE THE GULLING OF BEATRICE SCENE..., by LAUREN BROZOVICH Poem Source First Line: ...Does anyone have a %hair band? Bobby Last Line: Bowls of freezing water Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her class invents angels Last Line: They have nothing to do with you. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students; Educators; Professors INDIAN BLOOD (2), by MARY TALLMOUNTAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blackbird teacher / white claw waving Last Line: Indian blood Alternate Author Name(s): Randle, Mary Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans - Children; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations; Students INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL: THE RUNAWAYS, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Home's the place we head for in our sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans - Education; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Students INSIDE THE CITY, by AMY KENNA Poem Source First Line: You wake up one morning %you realize that you are in a city. The sprawl Last Line: And then you %stop worrying Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Teenagers INTERIM REPORT, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The schoolhouse closet was my favorite house of prayer Subject(s): Memory; Schools; Students INTRODUCTORY AND VALEDICTORY, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our patrons all! In form of simple lay Last Line: Fare you well. Subject(s): Commencement; Life; Schools; Soul; Graduation; Students INVESTIGATING 1: JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I didn't see her all night.' Last Line: Maybe her father picked her up.' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns INVESTIGATING 2: JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: So what do I have? Last Line: I'll be right down, you just stay put Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns IS BURNING, by MIKE LIVSHITS Poem Source First Line: Tonight I sit on the kitchen %table, the lightbulb's warm breath Last Line: The light is burning the hair %on the back of my neck Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers JAKE, by EMILY CARMICHAEL Poem Source First Line: Can't leave for school without me when it's colder Last Line: I say to him you watch it he's my brother Subject(s): Brothers; Children; Family Life; High School Students; Teenagers JAMES SANCHEZ, POLICE OFFICER, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: He was at his desk when I entered Last Line: The water he had wanted for his class Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers JASON PALMER (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I've known the same group of kids for so long Last Line: I figure it's time for me and my friends to check %her out Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JASON PALMER (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Kwame? %what kind of name is that? Last Line: Not that there's anything wrong with that Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JASON PALMER (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: The train track Last Line: And he takes the next train back home? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JESSICA RUIZ, STUDENT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: They didn't tell us nothin' Last Line: But maybe I'll just go home and sleep Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers JOE FROMER, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Happened like this, john Last Line: You gonna arrest anybody soon, john? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My name is john erikson Last Line: But now we are fully awake, screaming bloody murder Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Mr. Ziegl, annie Last Line: You have a good time, you hear? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Yes? %yes, ned Last Line: Everything'll be all right Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Guess I'll head over to the school Last Line: Wonder if they remembered to turn off the lights in the gym Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE (5), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Look, I can hold the boy for twenty-four hours Last Line: You better go, ollie. I got work to do Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE (6), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I don't know if we're speaking the same language Last Line: We got all the time in the world Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE (7), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Son, %listen, I have a boy of my own Last Line: He doesn't speak to me either Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE (8), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: You hear on the news whenever they catch a murderer Last Line: It can't be you, oliver, can it? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE (9), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Kwame, you can go home now Last Line: Kwame, you aren't guilty of anything. %we are Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHN ERIKSON, TOWN CONSTABLE: DR. ADOLPHUS HICKS, TOWN BOARD MEMBER 4, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Evening, doc Last Line: And see to my new patients Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHNNY NESBITT (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Ms. Gardiner, I really can't take yur history test Last Line: Maybe they should just bring back prohibition Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHNNY NESBITT (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My father used to take me fishing Last Line: He doesn't have the time for it anymore Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHNNY NESBITT (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My parents split up 'bout three years ago Last Line: It's the first thing we've done together in years Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOHNNY NESBITT (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Well, it's me and mom here Last Line: Hey, I think I can see the bus coming in now Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOLENE HANKS, OWNER, HUDSON HARDWARE (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: To the summer people, looking for the simpler life Last Line: This time they're real Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOLENE HANKS, OWNER, HUDSON HARDWARE (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: We knew about %the stories that hover over this town like a fog Last Line: And turned the other way Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns JOURNEY, by HAN-YEH KATHARINE LO Poem Source First Line: A proud trumpet slices through the air. I turn left onto foothill Last Line: Chord. I turn right. Towards home Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers JUSTIN SINGLEBERRY (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I don't want to go to paris Last Line: I don't want to see anyone %except evan Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers JUSTIN SINGLEBERRY (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I'd like to be a medieval monk Last Line: Running headlong down my spine Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers JUSTIN SINGLEBERRY (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Hey, let's get this line moving already Last Line: But right now I gotta get out of here Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers JUSTIN SINGLEBERRY, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: If the light is right Last Line: With a free hand Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers JUSTIN SINGLEBERRY, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Death may come in venice Last Line: I have an appointment in paris Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers JUSTIN SINGLEBERRY, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: This year I've joined the school paper Last Line: To the art of the matter Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers JUSTIN SINGLEBERRY, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I really didn't want to go to the prom at all Last Line: Maybe evan will be there Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers KATHLEEN GENNARO (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: That bastard Last Line: He should die Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers KATHLEEN GENNARO (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When the nuns caught me smoking Last Line: I'm going to ask him if he's got a cigarette Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers KATHLEEN GENNARO, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Out of that school with white shirts and pleated skirts Last Line: Said I was cute Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers KATHLEEN GENNARO, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Mark who? %a memory, man Last Line: Cory, is there room next to you Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers KATHLEEN GENNARO, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I want to take romantic walks by the park Last Line: I do sometimes miss the roaring flames of passion Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers KATHLEEN GENNARO, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My grandmother said Last Line: Grandma, what can you tell me now Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers KATHLEEN GENNARO, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: He's in my class again Last Line: You haven't got a chance, mark Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers KATIE FUNG (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: That's my mother Last Line: Just let my mother try to reach me %there Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KATIE FUNG (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My father thinks I am a china star Last Line: There are a lot more stars visible, %shining brilliantly Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KEEP TROTH, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When algebra is done, boys Last Line: Keep troth and spoken time Subject(s): Schools; England; Patriotism; Duty; Students KITE, by SHANNON HUGHES Poem Source First Line: She stretches him across over the wooden frame. His tense bare back Last Line: And waits for wind Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers KNOTS, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: I learned about patience Last Line: About the knots %you'd never have known Subject(s): Students, Foreign; Universities & Colleges; Women KRISTEN CLARKE (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I was eight when I lost Last Line: Pick me, pick me Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KRISTEN CLARKE (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Sometimes, %I think I hear footsteps Last Line: Do you think im being paranoid? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KRISTEN CLARKE (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Oh, daddy, you were worried? Last Line: Oh, daddy, you were worried? %that's so silly Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KRISTEN CLARKE (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I chase the horizon once more Last Line: And not limp back, ashamed, to hudson landing, %after nightfall Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KRISTEN CLARKE (5), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: There's not much to do in hudson landing Last Line: Their fragile, sad messages to the world Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KRISTEN CLARKE (6), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When my boyfriend and me make love Last Line: Maybe there'll be a couple of cute guys on it Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KWAME RICHARDS (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I bury my head in my studies once more Last Line: And not crawl back, ignorant, to the projects %after nightfall Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KWAME RICHARDS (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I was eight when the fire Last Line: We moved to the projects the next month Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KWAME RICHARDS (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: From the window in my building, high up Last Line: The view from my window, high up Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KWAME RICHARDS (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I am not a slave on the niger Last Line: I really hope he is color-blind Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KWAME RICHARDS (5), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Ja... %son Last Line: Me... %please Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KWAME RICHARDS (6), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: What's up with this? Last Line: I didn't do anything, %I swear it Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KWAME RICHARDS (7), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Mr. Ziegel, you know me, you taught me Last Line: You think I need a lawyer? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KWAME RICHARDS (8), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I can go home now? Last Line: I can't wait Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns KWAME RICHARDS: JASON PALMER, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I was in the ninth grade Last Line: Black and white Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns LAUNDRY DAY, by ELIZABETH HAZEN Poem Source First Line: You had method %more meticulous than a maid Last Line: Expectant fingers in soapy water %was enough Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers LEARNING IN THE FIRST GRADE, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cup is read. The drop of rain Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students LEARNING TO READ, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Very soon the yankee teachers / came down and set up school Last Line: As the queen upon her throne. Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Americans; Bible; Schools; Slavery; Southern States; United States; Students; Serfs; South (u.s.); America LEAVE-TAKING, by KAREN EMMERICH Poem Source First Line: There is the creak Last Line: Hallelujah %I am forsaken Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers LECTURE TO SECOND-YEAR MEDICAL STUDENTS, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: This morning I'd like to concentrate Last Line: This information accurately to the patient.%in this man I'd recommend further experimental treatment Subject(s): Lectures; Medical Students LEMONADE, by WILLIAM LOPEZ Poem Source First Line: There is a wing in my mouth Last Line: Always catches %the eye Subject(s): Birds; High School Students; Teenagers LEMONS, by MIA ALVAR Poem Source First Line: A little taste of lemon, %like honey Last Line: Like sparks %again Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers LETTER FROM THE ARTIST, by REBECCA GIVENS Poem Source First Line: There it is: a square Last Line: Yourself a mirror of the page Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers LETTER TO A GHETTO BOY THREE THOUSAND MILES AWAY, by ANNIE LEE Poem Source First Line: I tried to forget you, boy Last Line: Love of my innocence, even after I left, flew away like you said and tried to forget Subject(s): Cities; Ghettos; High School Students; Letters; Teenagers LINES ON LEAVING THE BEDFORD STR. SCHOOL HOUSE, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forth from the seed by its first founders sown Last Line: But let them seek some other road to fame. Subject(s): Schools; Students LINES TO AN OLD SCHOOL-HOUSE, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear school of my childhood, thrice dear doth thou seem Last Line: Inscribe a good record, upon thy fair scroll. Subject(s): Schools; Students LOCAL MAN DROWNS IN KILLER SURF, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Police divers today recovered the body of a local man Last Line: Never recover from that Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers LOLITA ROSENBAUM (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: It's been a bad week Last Line: I wonder, did thoreau ever have to take the sat's? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns LOLITA ROSENBAUM (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I first saw valerie van garp Last Line: I think we're gonna get along just great Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns LOLITA ROSENBAUM: VALERIE VAN GARP, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Val, let me tell you about the city Last Line: Sometimes I feel I'm just full of crap Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns LUCILE SWINTON, PARENTS' COMMITTEE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: The students from tower will have a good time Last Line: Too many choices confuse people Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns LYNETTE KINCAID, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: In middle school I felt so secure Last Line: I knew then high school was gonna be all right Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers LYNETTE KINCAID, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I'll catch up with you in a second, patti Last Line: You coming or what %no? %later, then Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers LYNETTE KINCAID, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I know I've been out of school for two months Last Line: So much of myself Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers LYNETTE KINCAID, PATTI BENNETT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Can you believe this Last Line: How long we gotta wait Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers LYNETTE KINCAID, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: As a senior Last Line: I got a right to be on cruise control Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers LYNETTE KINCAID, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Instead of drawing triangles in math class Last Line: Point a to point b with him Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MA MELTS THINGS, HAS AN ORGASM, by MIKE LIVSHITS Poem Source First Line: Ma takes the soldering iron by the %power cord. She swings it in Last Line: Mishandled by men of eighteen years, %her first orgasm Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers MARCH 15, 1998, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me forget / when the hanged man Last Line: A fractal glitch, a gift from zero. Subject(s): Students, Foreign MARROW, by ZOE KONOVALOV Poem Source First Line: All you've got is a bowl of blackberries like blood Last Line: A long kiss, and worth exactly nothing Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers MARVIN, by DAVID J. KONIECZKOWSKI Poem Source First Line: Marvin never talked about what had happened to him in vietnam Last Line: I know you remember that Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers MEDICAL TYRO WAITING FOR PATIENTS, by C. S. ELDRIDGE Poem Text First Line: The young doctor sits through his advertised hours Last Line: And call number one he hails with delight. Subject(s): Medical Students; Medicine; Patience; Physicians; Professions; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors MELINDA KURTZ (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Well, well, will you take a look at that? Last Line: Maybe she's got a secret like mine Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns MELINDA KURTZ (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I hate the cold Last Line: Maybe my baby will look like kristen Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns MELINDA KURTZ (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I meet stella Last Line: Forever in hudson landing Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns MELINDA KURTZ (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Thank you for the chair, miss carter Last Line: I can't wait to get out on that floor Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns MELINDA KURTZ: STELLA CHURCH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Oh, this is so lovely Last Line: Hurry, I don't wanna have this kid in the bathroom Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns MICHAEL PERRIN (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My mother knocks on my door Last Line: You will never know where the road will take you.' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns MICHAEL PERRIN (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Mr. Ziegel, I'm having second thoughts about this trip Last Line: Maybe something interesting will happen Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns MILLSTONE, by JENNY JONES Poem Source First Line: The air smothered me. The bus home was hot and I felt like I wasn't Last Line: Stone around your neck weightless Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers MIND, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man looks at his watch to see Subject(s): Food & Eating; Youth; Schools; Family Life; Students; Relatives MISHIMA ON A PLATE, by JOEY ROTH Poem Source First Line: I found a small version %of yukio mishima, %on a plate Last Line: And he said something vague %about japanese nationalism Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers MISSILE, by CHRISTOPHER LEW Poem Source First Line: There was a crash and an explosion %said the reporter in iraq. No one cared Last Line: In the ground like the zinfandel bottle %I found on the beach Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers MISUNDERSTOOD, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People do not understand me Last Line: And you will be understood. Subject(s): Knowledge; Language; Schools; Words; Vocabulary; Students MOMENTARY MASTICATION, by ALEXIS LOVE GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: In one fleeting moment Last Line: And it scares me out of my mind Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers MONSOON, by REBECCA CIRALSKY Poem Source First Line: What do you think about sex Last Line: Within my dad's colored sock drawer Subject(s): High School Students; Sex; Teenagers; Youth MONTANA STORM, by ERICA EHRENBERG Poem Source First Line: When the first lightning struck Last Line: Wet and silent she wanted me to tell her %he would live Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers MOON, by GRACE LORENTZ Poem Source First Line: A full blue moon floats in my open mouth Last Line: Explore its salty craters Subject(s): High School Students; Mouths; Teenagers MORNING RUN, by MATTHEW JOY Poem Source First Line: Oak pine oak %a grayness in my eyes Last Line: Smelling the acorn %while I breathe by Subject(s): High School Students; Morning; Teenagers; Track Athletics; Trees MORNING THOUGHTS: 1. AT THE BEACH, by IAN KAIN AMATO Poem Source First Line: I opened my eyes to grains of sand Last Line: Sand mixing in with all the others Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers MORNING THOUGHTS: 2. THE ALONE CHILD, by IAN KAIN AMATO Poem Source First Line: I dreamed I was the moon in cold thought Last Line: I walked from her unconscious body until it was a distant speck Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers MORNING THOUGHTS: 3, by IAN KAIN AMATO Poem Source First Line: Awake with me on the ground Last Line: I will be like a passing dream Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers MORTON POTTER, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Only a few more days Last Line: There's morton potter, I knew him when Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MORTON POTTER, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Chocolate %almond joys, snickers Last Line: I just can't help myself Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MORTON POTTER, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I'm going to be late for history Last Line: And run a few laps %around the track Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MORTON POTTER, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Being fat is a sin Last Line: I'm tired of pulling my weight %around Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MORTON POTTER, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: In literature we learned Last Line: It will sail lightly %atop the waves Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MORTON POTTER, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I'm always late for first period Last Line: I see the ashamed look on his Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MOTHER'S RITUAL, by PHOEBE PRIOLEAU Poem Source First Line: You wear an old black flannel blouse Last Line: I want to know now %whether you looked like me Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers MR. WADE, TYPING TEACHER, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At henry t. Gage junior high school Subject(s): Learning; Schools; Typewriters; Students MRS. KRIKORIAN, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She saved me. When I arrived in sixth grade Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students MS. GLORIA MESSINGER, TEACHER'S AIDE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I tried to collect his attendance Last Line: I think he's gone off the deep end Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MY ENGLISH TEACHER COMES TO THEE, by RUTH STEWART SCHENLEY Poem Text First Line: She dealt out english with a master hand Last Line: "be seated, please. I'm glad to see you back in class, once more." Subject(s): Schools; Students MY HENRY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's jes' a great, big, awk'ard Last Line: "is my henry's, jes' p'cise!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Schools; Childhood; Students MY QUEST, by W. T. O. Poem Text First Line: Over the meadow and over the hill Last Line: With its breath my eyelids steeping. Subject(s): Schools; Students MY TREASURES, by WILBUR DANIEL SPENCER Poem Text First Line: My jewels are the drops of dew Last Line: While poor men own the earth. Subject(s): Schools; Students NC17, by SHARON ZETTER Poem Source First Line: The first time, when I was young Last Line: In the front row, %watching Variant Title(s): Nc-1 Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers NED M. CLARKE, MANAGER, GRANDE ROYALE SUPERMARKET (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Don't tell me to calm down Last Line: And then I'm gonna kill her Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns NED M. CLARKE, MANAGER, GRANDE ROYALE SUPERMARKET (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Yes, I know one day you'll leave for college Last Line: Knowing that you are home, sweet home? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns NEW STUDENTS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old already? Provable still Subject(s): Students NINE MONTHS BEFORE SEPTEMBER 4, 1977, by JULIA SCHAFFER Poem Source First Line: This had nothing to do with me Last Line: Heartbeat wrapped in tissue paper Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers NO RULE TO BE AFRAID OF, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The grammar has a rule absurd Last Line: Why, that is what I'll end it with! Subject(s): Education; Grammar; Schools; Students NORA, by IAN KAIN AMATO Poem Source First Line: If my eyes were as bright Last Line: How the sun shines off a leaf, %the last leaf of fall Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers NORTH WIND TESTAMENT, by IAN DEMSKY Poem Source First Line: The dusty spoor of a comet unwads Last Line: It's best she never gave birth to a boy Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers NOSTALGIA, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crumbling stone steps of the old schoolhouse Subject(s): Dreams; Education; Memory; Schools; Nightmares; Students OCTOPUS, by REBECCA CIRALSKY Poem Source First Line: A tame ride,' my boy friend Last Line: Metal like coins falling from a pocket Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers ODE TO THE STOVE, by NADJA BLAGOJEVIC Poem Source First Line: Like the pupils of a cougar %hungry and lean Last Line: Defined as an oboe, %haughty and godly Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers OLD SCHOOLHOUSE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There broods the pathos of a time long past Last Line: That lit the players in the long-ago. Subject(s): Faces; Life; Love; Past; Schools; Time; Students OLD-SCHOOL PUNISHMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Old master brown brought his ferule down Last Line: "for he peeped at the girls with the beautiful curls, / and ogled them over his sleeve" Subject(s): Children;schools; Childhood;students OLIVER NESBITT, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 1 (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Well, I think it's a bad idea Last Line: It' s a bad idea any way you look at it. %I vote no Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns OLIVER NESBITT, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 1 (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Before we adjourn for the evening Last Line: He has kept us out of harm's way Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns OLIVER NESBITT, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 1 (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Attention, shoppers: %have your purchases in one hand Last Line: Or I'm bound to be devoured %wholesale Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns OLIVER NESBITT, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 1 (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Heard you got him locked up, john Last Line: Or transfer him over to saratoga? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns OLIVER NESBITT, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 1 (5), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: John, you want to know why? Last Line: When everything was white? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns OLIVER NESBITT, TOWN BOARD MEMBER NO. 1 - JOHNNY NESBITT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: What dance, where? Last Line: Dad, you're just goin' out to get drunk again Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns OMAR CLARKSON (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Officer Last Line: Please tell me what to do Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers OMAR CLARKSON (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Things I'd like to hear from girls Last Line: In the great erotic stage show of my dreams Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers OMAR CLARKSON (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Man, I'm wiped %what time is it Last Line: You know you want me Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers OMAR CLARKSON, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Things my brother says to me Last Line: Happy birthday, stephon Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers OMAR CLARKSON, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Waiting in line Last Line: I hear what you're saying to me Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers OMAR CLARKSON, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Things I should tell myself (but don't) Last Line: Five more minutes, please Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers OMAR CLARKSON, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: These teachers say to me all the time Last Line: To play back as their recorded messages Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ON A CHANGE OF MASTERS AT A GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOL, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are those honors, ida! Once your own Last Line: No trace of science left you, but the name. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Schools; Students ON A DISTANT VIEW OF THE VILLAGE AND SCHOOL OF HARROW, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye scenes of my childhood, whose loved recollection Last Line: Oh, such were the days which my infancy knew!' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Children; Harrow, England; Nostalgia; Schools; Childhood; Students ON AN OLD BARN CONVERTED INTO A VILLAGE SCHOOL, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nigh the old barn one autumn noon I stood Last Line: This harvest home may seraph voices sing! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Barns; Schools; Students ON THE CORNER OF FULTON AND LIBERTY, by PHOEBE PRIOLEAU Poem Source First Line: The woman in the %contact-lens blue Last Line: Lucky! She %didn't want %anything more Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers ONE MORE PAGE IN INSINCERITY, by LAUREN ARGINTAR Poem Source First Line: Could I be read if I was see-through Last Line: It was the metaphor you always missed Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers OPEN HOUSE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not easy to love oneself Subject(s): Parents; Schools; Self-doubt; Parenthood; Students ORIGINAL GAITHER FARMHOUSE, by LAUREN BROZOVICH Poem Source First Line: The tartness of fruit is gathered Last Line: Until the land is thick with them Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers OROVILLE HIGH, CALIFORNIA, by MAURICE KENNY Poem Source First Line: I can't believe I'm eating a cheeseburg Last Line: Not even their own Subject(s): California; Education; High School Students; Teaching And Teachers OUR MERCURIAL BODIES MAKE THEIR OWN GRIEF, by SAMARA ADSIT HOLTZ Poem Source First Line: Fed by the blazing Last Line: Tongue. Grasses hooked together %like vertebrae Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers OUR ROOM, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tell the children in school sometimes Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students OUR SCARLET KING, by HAROLD MARTIN BOWMAN Poem Text First Line: He comes along the great highway Last Line: "and hail -- ""our scarlet king." Subject(s): Schools; Students OUTCROP, by MATTHEW JOY Poem Source First Line: Red-tinged rock outcrop Last Line: Through millions of years %recording these secrets Subject(s): Fossils; High School Students; History; Teenagers PAINTING THE NORTH SAN JUAN SCHOOL, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White paint splotches on blue head bandanas Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students PAMBO, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose that we part (work done, comes play) Last Line: Offend with my tongue -- like pambo! Subject(s): Students PASS/FAIL, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You will never graduate Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students PASSAGE, by ALISON STINE Poem Source First Line: They say that my generation Last Line: Begging %for forgiveness Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers PAST AND PRESENT, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On four-horse coach, whose luggage pierced the sky Last Line: Shot like a pellet from his own pop-gun. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Past; Progress; Schools; Time; Travel; Vacation; Students; Journeys; Trips PATTI BENNET, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: He was gonna kill us Last Line: I want my papa %where is he Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PATTI BENNETT, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Papa, when I was six Last Line: Oh, you have to say that Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PATTI BENNETT, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Later then, lynette Last Line: Especially as I walk into wiedermeyer's class %what the Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PATTI BENNETT, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Softball scores sound like football scores Last Line: So I can strike out on my own Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PATTI BENNETT, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: You want me to sign your yearbook Last Line: Thanks. That is a good picture of me Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PATTI BENNETT, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My father wanted a son Last Line: Because I'm the person who loves you %regardless of gender Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PEARS OF THE WORLD, by SARAH NOOTER Poem Source First Line: We, the pears of the world Last Line: And too dry. %no, really Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers PENMANSHIP, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the margin, in the mind, the winner gets it right Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students PENNY MARSDEN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Kristen clarke does not have to work Last Line: Or giving it away for free? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns PERCEPTION, by KAREN EMMERICH Poem Source First Line: A boat slides %along the horizon Last Line: Into the froth, and how %quickly the sea recovers Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers PERFECT PITCH, by JEFFREY CHIU Poem Source First Line: This talent for perception %for effortless familiarity Last Line: Perfection unrecognized %is just another noise Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers PERSIMMONS, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sixth grade mrs. Walker / slapped the back of my head Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Exiles; Language; Marginality, Social; Persimmons; Schools; Estrangement; Outcasts; Words; Vocabulary; Students PETAL, by LINDSAY WASHICK Poem Source First Line: There was some sort of music playing against some sort of background Last Line: There was nothing there all along Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers PETITION OF A SCHOOLBOY TO HIS FATHER, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most honour'd sir, I must confess Last Line: And your petitioner shall pray. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Money; Schools; Poetry & Poets; Students PHONE BOOTH, 10 P.M., by KAREN EMMERICH Poem Source First Line: Last night you called Last Line: Monday, I said, and no Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers PICASSO WAS A FLY, by ERIC WUBBELS Poem Source First Line: Picasso was a fly Last Line: But the welts remained and remain Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers PICASSO'S PAINTING, by REBECCA GIVENS Poem Source First Line: There is a total of three things Last Line: A woman, what measure of love Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers PICAYUNES, by MICHAEL CASPER Poem Source First Line: Causally thinking of you & new york city Last Line: I'm contentedly offended %by everything you say Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers PINEAPPLE DAYS OF SUNSHINE, by ANNA SOO-HOO Poem Source First Line: Ai caramba! It's so hot! Last Line: It's 'honey, don't push your luck' Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers PISTACHIO DRESS, by LAUREN BROZOVICH Poem Source First Line: It was pistachio %green like lady bird Last Line: The effect of the preservation %of fabric on men Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers POEM IN THE WAVE, by MATTHEW JOY Poem Source First Line: Beams of sunlight %penetrate clouds Last Line: Kaleidoscope of fascinations %from the sea Subject(s): High School Students; Light; Sea; Teenagers; Waves POEM TO A QUARTER TO SIX, by KATINA ANTONIADES Poem Source First Line: My mind %winds rope Last Line: To keep them together Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers POISED, by EMILY PARKER Poem Source First Line: Poised is a word often synonymous with Last Line: Until people say you have the body of a dancer Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers PORN, by GEMMA COOPER-NOVAK Poem Source First Line: For now, imagine I am isadora duncan: %then I can do anything, rip off the red Last Line: And there is nothing %like being bare and knowing you are safe Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers POST-MODERNISM, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pinup of rita hayworth was taped Last Line: Do I know him? Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Bombs; Death; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Actresses; Dead, The; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Students; Educators; Professors POULSBO, by ERIN BEACH Poem Source First Line: On highway 305 the busy street %shines like a wet seal Last Line: To coast? I wouldn't know. All I know is %that the road looks like a wet seal Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers PREMIERE LECON, by FLORENCE E. VON WIEN Poem Text First Line: You moved on the platform with aesthetic grace, professeur Last Line: Do you know you are beautiful, michel? Subject(s): French Language; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Male-female Relations; Students PROLOGUE SPOKEN AT MR. SHERIDAN'S SCHOOL, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The scenes are new, and everything compact Last Line: Your bays tonight would turn to birch tomorrow. Subject(s): Schools; Students PROMETHEUS AT CONEY ISLAND, by QUENTIN ROWAN First Line: Up over the swell of hot sugar Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Teenagers; Urban Life PROMETHEUS AT CONEY ISLAND, by QUENTIN ROWAN Poem Source First Line: Up over the swell of hot sugar Last Line: As was life in the old country Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Teenagers QUEEN OF HEARTS, by RENADA RUTMANIS Poem Source First Line: Not all kings have crowns Last Line: To the keeping of secrets Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers RAIN, by DREW KREWER Poem Source First Line: The kids throw rocks at each other, waiting for rain Last Line: Which the clouds and air of heaven will never provide-can float them back home Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers RAIN, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A teacher asked paul Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students RAIN, by JULIE ANNE SCHARPER Poem Source First Line: Tell them it's a potato' Last Line: And sprout white eyes Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers REGAL-CONCUBINE, by ANNIE LEE Poem Source First Line: They say I am the delilah of the t'ang dynasty Last Line: They say I am the delilah of the t'ang dynasty Subject(s): China; High School Students; Teenagers REGARD TO MY PARENTS' WEAKNESS, by KATIE NICHOL Poem Source First Line: And I remember %my father Last Line: Purifies what remains neutral or delicate %in our lives Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers RENASCENCE, by SARA A. NEWLAND Poem Source First Line: She lay in a blue wool suit, %the grandmother I hardly know Last Line: Then watched fly %through my open window Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers RENATA REZNITSKAYA (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I do not understand Last Line: Michael, I think you say in english Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RENATA REZNITSKAYA (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: In russa Last Line: A long line of students for that Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RENATA REZNITSKAYA, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Where I came from Last Line: Of my new country Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RENATA REZNITSKAYA, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I am to graduate Last Line: I will never see papa again Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RENATA REZNITSKAYA, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: You are happy here? My father asks Last Line: I read his letters over and over again Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RENATA REZNITSKAYA, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My mother promises me over tea Last Line: Except the beauty in my eyes Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RENATA REZNITSKAYA, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I am, how you say Last Line: Sitting in his chair, not visiting anyone Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RENTAL, by JAIME HALLA Poem Source First Line: A white dodge infinity, %smeared with old snow Last Line: Inside of the house %that used to be his Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers RESIDENTIAL WHISKEY IN HAND, by MATTHEW JOY Poem Source First Line: Foggy cobbles under heavy waders Last Line: Only color sun paint overhead Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; High School Students; Teenagers REVELATION, by JR. BRUCE A. MORRIS Poem Source First Line: Are you pulling the limestone brick yourself Last Line: Know that you don't have to be popcorn Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers REVELATON, by JESSICA BULMAN Poem Source First Line: It was not the place Last Line: And the voices %remembered to clash Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers REVERIE IN A CLASSROOM, by DOROTHY LAUD BROWN Poem Text First Line: The sun and the shadow on the rusty brick houses Last Line: Clang! Back to work! Shouts the great brass bell. Subject(s): Schools; Wellesley College; Students RHONDA ELLIS, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Did you see that Last Line: My hands are so cold Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RHONDA ELLIS, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I tape all the soaps Last Line: Especially when I'm playing the part of %someone else Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RHONDA ELLIS, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Mr. Wiedermeyer %I'm sorry I didn't get the Last Line: What is my role Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RHONDA ELLIS, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Instead of the star Last Line: Waiting in the wings Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RHONDA ELLIS, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I told nicole tucker Last Line: Thanks, nicole, for my big break %and yours Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RHONDA ELLIS, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Next' %I am so nervous about this audition Last Line: Thank you very much. We'll let you know Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RHYMES OF THE DAY, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A latin school young man Last Line: To stand by the edge of the blue-green sea. Subject(s): Schools; Students RIB, by SASHA HAINES-STILES Poem Source First Line: You're the only man who knows Last Line: How could you not love your child? Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers ROGER DUNLOP, ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Mr. Wiedermeyer, - no answer Last Line: Who's michael? - no answer Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ROGER DUNLOP, ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Listen, young man, what's your name Last Line: What do you mean he won't open the door Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SAGE, by RINA NILOOBAN Poem Source First Line: Tea leaves crushed gingerly %on the jellied toast Last Line: I found my home in %a bed of mango peels Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers SAINT HUBERT OF GAMBAISEUIL, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Of school I'd need an overplus, more lore than is assumed ad lib by a Last Line: Ambrosia may the gods deny to him who finds his art a task. Subject(s): Churches; Love; Religion; Schools; Cathedrals; Theology; Students SANDY WILMAT, PARENT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Where is my child Last Line: I gotta go find my son Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SATIRE: 3, by AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS Poem Text First Line: Is this thy daily course? The glaring sun Last Line: Wou'ds wear thou wert the madder of the two. Alternate Author Name(s): Persius Subject(s): Schools; Students SCHOLARS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Logic does well at school Last Line: And wakes to dream all night. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Schools; Students SCHOOL, by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If there is a vile, pernicious Last Line: The glorious institution of always being late. Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K. Subject(s): Schools; Sin; Students SCHOOL, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I put my heart to school Last Line: "I find this school is home." Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Schools; Students SCHOOL AND SCHOOLFELLOWS; FLOREAT ETONA, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve years ago I made a mock / of filthy trades and traffics Last Line: A happy boy,--at drury's. Subject(s): Eton College; Schools; Students SCHOOL BOYS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are lads who count the days Last Line: Opening out on every side. Subject(s): Children; Death; Freedom; Hearts; Life; Schools; Childhood; Dead, The; Liberty; Students SCHOOL DAYS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once those fences kept me in mr. Mote Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students SCHOOL ON THE OUTSKIRTS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How different, in the midst of snows, the great school rises red Last Line: Blind. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Schools; Students SCHOOL'S OUT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Girls scream Last Line: Welcome. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Schools; Students SCHOOL-DAYS, by GODFREY ELTON Poem Text First Line: I think that, even as then, there must be hours Last Line: The silent air swoons into an august night. Subject(s): Oxford University; Rugby, England; Schools; Students SCHOOLBOY JOYS AND GRIEFS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the woodford road there comes a noise Last Line: As six new scholars to the deaf and dumb. Variant Title(s): Sonnet Subject(s): Schools; Students SCHOOLBOYS WITH DOG, WINTER, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's dark when they scuff off to school Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students SCHOOLMARM, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've taken sacred sex Subject(s): Schools; Teachers; Infatuation; Students SCHOOLSVILLE, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glancing over my shoulder at the past Last Line: Quizzing the chandeleir, reprimanding the air Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students SCHOOLYARD IN APRIL, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little girls smearing Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students SCHUYLKILL VALLEY PARK, by SHAYNA STROM Poem Source First Line: Willows weep %at the pool Last Line: As if the mower %has just passed Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers SCRAPBOOKS, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's funny that smells and sounds return Last Line: For my grandchildren Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): Schools; Students SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ann galbraith / loves barry soyers Subject(s): Schools; Students SERENDIPITY, I THOUGHT, by RYAN HAGAN Poem Source Last Line: And produce is never nepenthe enough Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers SEVEN VEILS, by SARA A. NEWLAND Poem Source First Line: Most accounts agree %john's voice cooled their fetid souls Last Line: They weren't %the ones %who died Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers SEX, by REBECCA ALSON-MILKMAN Poem Source First Line: I'm going to see him for the weekend Last Line: It is what you should worry about Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers SHALIMAR DINER, by ALEXIS LOVE GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: I used to think it was the most luxurious place in the world Last Line: Except %at the shalimar diner Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers SHAPES, VANISHINGS, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down a street in the town where I went Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students SHAWN FERGUSON, STUDENT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: They hardly told us anything Last Line: Besides, work's gotta be more interesting than school Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SHERBORNE; AN ODE, SUNG ON ITS 350TH ANNIVERSARY, APRIL 20, 1900, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis fifty years since last we met to keep our festal day Last Line: And all the world seemed at our feet, and hopeful hearts beat high! Subject(s): Schools; Students SHERWOOD COWLEY, PRINCIPAL (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Mr. Wiedermeyer's been shot Last Line: How dare he tarnish the good name of my school Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SHERWOOD COWLEY, PRINCIPAL (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Thank you for coming so quickly, gentlemen Last Line: Yes, ms. Messinger, what is it %another note Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SHERWOOD COWLEY, PRINCIPAL (PUBLIC ADDRESS ANNOUNCEMENT), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Mr. Wiedermeyer Last Line: Mr. Dunlop, you called the police, didn't you Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SHOES, by GRACE LORENTZ Poem Source First Line: Old grey shoes lie on the floor Last Line: He would smile at her Subject(s): Feet; High School Students; Shoes; Teenagers SHOOTING THE RAT, by GEMMA COOPER-NOVAK Poem Source First Line: It was a simple action: %one twitch of a finger and blood and fur Last Line: Out of bullets when the mice came in through the ceiling Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers SICK, by SHELBY SILVERSTEIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot go to school today,' Alternate Author Name(s): Silverstein, Shel Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES THE SCIENCE CLASS: FOSSILS, PHYSICS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fossil bones, splintered bits of pelvis Last Line: By rubbing it across the heart. Subject(s): Christianity; Fossils; Human Behavior; Schools; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Students SNOW IN SCHOOLTIME, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: All saturday the sky was clear Last Line: To see how much stays on the ground. Subject(s): Children; December; Schools; Snow; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students SNOWFLAKES IN HELL, by LEN ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We would all melt from the heat / of our sins Subject(s): Schools; Snow; Students SO NATURAL, by ERIN HOOVER Poem Source First Line: In the nyu dorm, %students are throwing Last Line: Bent back %even farther Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers SONG FOR MY LOVER: 11. A MEDICAL STUDENT LEARNS LOVE AND DEA, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scalpel finds the heart. The heart is still Last Line: I cut, and make from him the grave I rob Subject(s): Surgery; Medical Students SONG FOR MY LOVER: 11. A MEDICAL STUDENT LEARNS LOVE AND DEA, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scalpel finds the heart. The heart is still Last Line: I cut, and make from him the grave I rob Subject(s): Medical Students SPECIAL MESSAGE TO THE VERMONT LEGISLATURE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We folks that went to district schools Last Line: While we look on. Subject(s): Country Life; Education; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Vermont - Legislature; Students; Educators; Professors SPITTING IN THE LEAVES, by MAGGIE ANDERSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In spanishburg there are boys in tight jeans Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students SPOON, by JULIA COHEN Poem Source First Line: Even before I met you, I wanted Last Line: Than your acidic aftertaste Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers SPRING GLEN GRAMMAR SCHOOL, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the moment because I planned, at six in the first grade Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students ST. PETER CLAVER, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every town with black catholics has a st. Peter claver's Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan; Education; Schools; Students STELLA CHURCH (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I'm glad I'm away on this trip Last Line: For the next few days Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns STELLA CHURCH (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I meet mel Last Line: My new home on the range Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns STELLA CHURCH (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Before the dance melinda took me to her favorite store Last Line: Isn't that store simply beautiful?' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns STEREOTYPES 1, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Country kids? They milk cows Last Line: And tell them hicks how city kids live Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns STEREOTYPES 2, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: City kids? %they rob people Last Line: And tell those burn't-out losers how real kids live Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns STEREOTYPES 3, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: The city the country Last Line: Copper white Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns STRANGER, by ALISON STINE Poem Source First Line: Someday %I will be free and loud Last Line: Still searching myself %for some sign of recognition Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers STUDENT, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The green shell of his backpack makes him lean Subject(s): Students STUDENT, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is that student pale and importunate Last Line: More than I could learn until tonight? Subject(s): Schools; Students STUDENTS [IN PARIS], by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: John brown and jeanne at fountainbleau Last Line: Time waits for moments such as these. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Paris, France; Schools; Students STUDY THE MASTERS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like my aunt timmie Last Line: "and discipline and order and Subject(s): Schools; Students SUCH FUNNY THINGS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They teach such funny things in school! Last Line: Or see the things I see! Subject(s): Children; Earth; Geography; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; World; Students SUMMER AT BROOKE'S, by ERIN WALSH Poem Source First Line: In early june %we lay on the side porch Last Line: Our toes pointed like angels %at the moon Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers SUMMER CRUSH, by SASHA HAINES-STILES Poem Source First Line: We sat together for a month Last Line: And I just couldn't bring myself to tell him %it was fall Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers SUNDAY NIGHT, by LINDSAY WASHICK Poem Source First Line: 10:48 %the hot water hit my skin and washed away tonight's dirt. I loved it Last Line: 12:00 %I wonder if he's working today Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers SUNNY DAYS, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The children are singing a song about Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students SYLLABUS, by GEORGE ELLISTON Poem Text First Line: It is not always words that bring Last Line: The silence, true. Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students TAKING MY SON TO SCHOOL, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His first day. Waiting, he plays Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students TALES OF THE HALL: BOOK 3. THE BOYS AT SCHOOL, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We name the world a school, for dayby day Last Line: To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!' Subject(s): Schools; Students TEACHER, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I make my children promises in wintry afternoons Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Education; Mothers & Daughters; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Women; Students; Educators; Professors TEACHER'S NOTE #1, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: It starts slowly Last Line: I couldn't possibly let them go Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHER'S NOTE #2, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: You have been unruly Last Line: Just to find out Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHER'S NOTE #3, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Hey, man, history/homeroom teacher, whatever you are Last Line: So where is it Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHER'S NOTE #4, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Here's my next note Last Line: A byzantine maze Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHER'S NOTE #5, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Do not weep, colleague, for school is kind Last Line: Do not weep %school is kind Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHER'S NOTE #6, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Let me see Last Line: I don't need them for %survival Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHER'S NOTE #7, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I speak %who listens Last Line: There is little I have done to make a difference Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHER'S NOTE #8, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: An accident, repeat, an accident Last Line: Trust me, I'll pay for the damage Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHER'S NOTE #9, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Years ago Last Line: The knife-edge of despair Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TESTAMENT FOR MY STUDENTS, 1968 - 1969, by KAY BOYLE Poem Text First Line: Each year you came jogging or loping down that hall Last Line: Their young arms cradling your bones. Subject(s): Literature; Oppression; Revolutions; Schools; Social Problems; Students THE BEATING, by TERRY RANDOLPH HUMMER Poet's Biography First Line: Everybody knew clifton cockerell was not half bright Alternate Author Name(s): Hummer, T. R. Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students THE BLIND MAN, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: At nogent, on the river marne Last Line: "my little eleanor is dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Blindness; Death; Death - Children; Democracy; Fathers; Innocence; Schools; Social Protest; War; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Students THE BOOK, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life, I have made a book of my mistakes Last Line: In all the world, not one -- save only I. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Books; Schools; Reading; Students THE BOROUGH: LETTER 24. SCHOOLS, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To every class we have a school assign'd Last Line: And, sparing criminals, attack the crime. Subject(s): Schools; Students THE CLASS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We say things in this class. Like why it hurts Last Line: Though she would never say so in a class Subject(s): Classmates; Schools; Schoolmates; Students THE CLASSROOM REOPENS, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the fields the scent of autumn days Last Line: "and gladly would he learn, and gladly teach." Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Schools; Students THE COMING FORTH OF OSIRIS JONES: REPORT BY MEDICAL STUDENT, by CONRAD AIKEN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Facies / sallow and somewhat haggard; thin and pallid Subject(s): Medical Students THE COUNTRY SCHOOL, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the woodland path where flowers blow Last Line: "o happy hearted little girls and boys." Subject(s): Children; Schools; Childhood; Students THE CREATURE IN THE CLASSROOM, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It appeared inside our classroom Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students THE DE CARLO LOTS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are parceled out over the post office Last Line: Measuring the lots, the dreams by Subject(s): Exchange Students; Farewell; Letters; Postal Service; Universities & Colleges; Foreign Exchange Programs; Parting; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE DESK, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the fire escape, crouched, one knee in cinders Last Line: To own my father's name. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Fathers & Sons; Schools; Students THE EXAMINATION, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look here, petah! What's dis here Last Line: "case she mispernounced dat word." Subject(s): Schools; Students THE FAIRY SCHOOL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I think I know where the flowers go Last Line: And school is out at last! Subject(s): April; Children; Flowers; Schools; Spring; Childhood; Students THE FATHER IN SCHOOL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unfamiliar work and rule Last Line: Stays till school is at an end. Subject(s): Fathers; Schools; Students THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: The first bee that hummeth Last Line: O'er which wound his way. Subject(s): Schools; Winter; Students THE FIVE STUDENTS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sparrow dips in his wheel-rut bath Last Line: The rest - anon. Subject(s): Schools; Students THE FUTURE OF TERROR / 1, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of a schoolbag could send us scrambling Subject(s): Schools; Students THE GOSSIPS, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The vulturine necks stretch out; the mean eyes bunch Subject(s): Schools; Summer; Students THE HAND, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The teacher asks a question. Subject(s): Hands; Schools; Students THE HATCHERY, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in havana as school children we took a field trip Variant Title(s): At The Hatchery Subject(s): Children; Memory; Schools; Childhood; Students THE HISTORY TEACHER, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trying to protect his students' innocence Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students THE LITTLE NEW PUPIL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: A brand new pupil came to school Last Line: He's but a kitten gray. Subject(s): Children; January; Schools; Childhood; Students THE LONELY STREET, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: School is over. It is too hot Last Line: They mount the lonely street. Subject(s): Schools; Students THE MYSTERIES OF CAESAR, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Known to the boys in his latin class as 'sir,' Last Line: Which is the pitiless bliss of solitude Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Schools; Translating & Interpreting; Students THE NEW CLOAK, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After school I went to walk Last Line: Teachers make a girl so shy! Subject(s): Children; Girls; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students THE OLD HIGH SCHOOL AND THE NEW, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We've all been off some little while - some one place, some another Last Line: That every year she'll turn them out as good and bright as we were. Subject(s): Schools; Students THE OLD SCHOOL-CHUM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He puts the poem by, to say Last Line: His eyes are not themselves to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Schools; Tears; Students THE OLD SCHOOL-HOUSE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Set on a rounding hill-top Last Line: Till the grand hills fall asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students THE OLD SCHOOLHOUSE (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I sat an hour today, john" Last Line: The faces that were gone Subject(s): Classmates;schools;time; Schoolmates;students THE ORDEAL, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Acknowledged on our side town, Subject(s): Schools; Friendship; Relationships; Coming Of Age; Conduct Of Life; Students THE PENALTY OF GENIUS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When little 'pollus morton he's Last Line: Us morton, teacher, speech, an' all! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Genius; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students THE POOR STUDENT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With song elate we celebrate Last Line: O'er his immortal soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Poverty; Schools; Soul; Students THE PRAIRIE SCHOOL, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet west wind, the prairie school Last Line: A legacy to those who come from those who come no more. Subject(s): Books; Prairies; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Reading; Plains; Students THE PRELUDE: BOOK 1. CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL-TIME, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze Last Line: This labour will be welcome, honoured friend! Subject(s): Children; Play; Schools; Childhood; Students THE PROFESSOR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "seven pupils, in the class" Last Line: "three are benches, four are walls." Subject(s): Boredom;greece;schools; Ennui;greeks;students THE RIVAL ARTISTS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the way elizabeth draws Last Line: When she is older! Subject(s): Children; Drawing; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students THE RUSSIAN STUDENT'S TALE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The midnight sun with phantom glare Last Line: The last sob of a nightingale. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Russia; Schools; Soviet Union; Russians; Students THE SCHOOL, by CARRIE I. SEGERSTROM Poem Text First Line: The school to me a dovecot is Last Line: And know them safe while there. Subject(s): Schools; Students THE SCHOOL BOY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My cheek was bare of adolescent down Last Line: Seen through the vista of our bygone years. Subject(s): Andover, Massachusetts; Schools; Students THE SCHOOL BOY READS HIS ILIAD, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sounding battles leave him nodding still Last Line: He dreams of marbles and of tops, and nods. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Schools; Iliad; Odyssey; Students THE SCHOOL BOY, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love to rise in a summer morn Last Line: When the blasts of winter appear? Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Schools; Students THE SCHOOL CHILDREN, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The children go forward with their little satchels Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students THE SCHOOL-BOY'S DREAM ON THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the half-year's last day, a festal one Last Line: I told him plainly 'twas our holidays. Subject(s): Chisholm Trail; Schools; Students THE SCHOOLMISTRESS; IN IMITATION OF SPENSER, by WILLIAM SHENSTONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah me! Full sorely is my heart forlorn Last Line: Till reason's morn arise, and light them on their way. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Poetry & Poets; Schools; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Students THE SENIOR AND THE ROSE, by EVA LINNETTE SOULE Poem Text First Line: A few faded rose-leaves Last Line: And what was that college man's name? Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Schools; Students THE SINGING SCHOOL, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First they asked you to step through the many rooms Last Line: Your own story Subject(s): Family Life; Schools; Singing & Singers; Relatives; Students THE SMACK IN SCHOOL, by WILLIAM PITT PALMER Poem Text First Line: A district school, not far away Last Line: "I thought she kind o' wished me to!" Variant Title(s): The Kiss In School;a Rousing Smack Subject(s): Children; Kisses; Schools; Women; Childhood; Students THE SPELLIN' BEE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never shall furgit the night Last Line: We'd jine our lots an' settle down to own that book together. Subject(s): Schools; Students THE STUDENT, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My midnight lamp is weary as my soul Last Line: We cannot understand thy idiocy! Subject(s): Students THE STUDENT, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In america everybody must have a degree,' the french man Subject(s): Schools; Education; France; United States; Students; America THE STUDENT, by MICHAEL O'DONOVAN Poem Text First Line: The student's life is pleasant Last Line: Some golden-haired light lady. Alternate Author Name(s): O'connor, Frank Subject(s): Schools; Students THE STUDENT, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As by salamanca's city Last Line: Travelled with me, ever near. Subject(s): Echo (mythology); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Schools; Iliad; Odyssey; Students THE STUDENT'S SERENADE, by ANNE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have slept upon my couch Last Line: Though that bliss be shared with me. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton Subject(s): Students; Winter; Freedom; Togetherness; Liberty THE STUDENT'S WIFE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She said, 'it is true, love; how foolish my sighs! Last Line: "you look at me sometimes yourself for a while!" Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Love; Schools; Work; Workers; Students THE STUDENTS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are using the stairs as a ladder Subject(s): Students THE TEACHER, by LESLIE PINCKNEY HILL Poem Text First Line: Lord, who am I to teach the way Last Line: The teacher leaning hard on thee. Subject(s): Prayer; Schools; Students THE TEACHER LOVES TO KEEP THE RULE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: How different are we Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Students; School THE TEACHER SAID, by DARA WIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine someone you love is dead Last Line: Be tidy, be so careful, be very sweet Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students THE THING YOU MUST REMEMBER, by MAGGIE ANDERSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The thing you must remember is how, as a child Subject(s): Education; Healing; Schools; Cures; Students THE TRUANT BOYS, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The month was august and the morning cool Last Line: Of this poor truant lad. Subject(s): Boys; Schools; Truancy; Students THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT SERVICE FLAG - 1517 STARS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It surely does you good Last Line: Will guard your honor still. Subject(s): Education; Flags - United States; Schools; Universities & Colleges; Vermont; American Flag; Students THE VILLAGE SCHOOL, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: With the golden moonlight streaming Last Line: In that dear old village school. Subject(s): Children; Classmates; Memory; Schools; Childhood; Schoolmates; Students THE VIVISECTOR, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would I the vivisector's hand enclasp? Last Line: The baseness is our own, to us the brutal crimes belong. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Crime & Criminals; Murder; Physicians; Schools; Science; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Doctors; Students; Scientists THE WAY OF IT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a little learning, scattered o'er" Last Line: The sober college graduate Subject(s): Alcohol & Alcoholics;drinks & Drinking;schools;universities & Colleges; Students THEME FOR ENGLISH B, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The instructor said / go home and write Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Children; Schools; Negroes; American Blacks; Students THERE IS A GIRL IN THE CAFETERIA, by DAN GRUENBERG Poem Source Last Line: So I can go to sleep too Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers THERE IS WATER HERE THAT BURNS, by DAVID J. KONIECZKOWSKI Poem Source First Line: Jesus rode into cleveland once in the diesel room of an ore boat that Last Line: Burning the color of sunsets Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers THERE WAS A WAR GOING ON, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: They hung on to high school, warm Last Line: Sweet, and slight, and young %they melted like candy on the tongue Subject(s): High School Students; War; Youth THIS DAY WAS A POEM, by MATTHEW MOSES Poem Source First Line: Even before I got to your house Last Line: I wish I was less than that, %but it was more Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers THOMAS FINDLAY, SPECTATOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Oh, those poor kids Last Line: Died while everyone just sat around %talking Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers THREE NOTES ON A KITCHEN TABLE, by JEFFREY CHIU Poem Source First Line: Sipped on some ice yesterday morning, stumbled over the heavy Last Line: You're really just a habit Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers TO A PUPIL, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is reform needed? Is it through you? Last Line: Rest not till you rivet and publish yourself of your own personality. Subject(s): Schools; Students TO FANNY (1), by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never mind how the pedagogue proses Last Line: My divine little mistress of arts! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Schools; Students TO KO UNG, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little fellow, putting forth alone Last Line: Himself at last, a bigger and a better boy. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Children; Schools; Childhood; Students TO MY FATHER, by TALIA NEFFSON Poem Source First Line: Today I saw the storm sweep in Last Line: That I will remember this forever Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers TO MY STUDENTS; LAST CLASS, LAST WORDS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are dancing the rain dance in bali Last Line: Go out and make a dollar, and god will love you Subject(s): Schools; Advice; Students TO THE PRINCIPAL AND PROFESSORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS ....., by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St andrews town may look right gawsy Last Line: Will mend your prose and heal my rhyme. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Universities & Colleges; Students; Educators; Professors TO THE RIGHT PERSON, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the one state of ours that is a shire, Last Line: To make up for a lack of meditation Subject(s): Schools; Students TOMMY LA BLANCA (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My mother put us in the same clothes Last Line: Without his freakin' shadow behind me Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns TOMMY LA BLANCA (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My brother, anthony, left me holdin' the bag Last Line: I'll bust your head wide open Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns TORY SITTING ON A COUCH IN A COFFEE SHOP ON THE CORNER OF NINTH STREET, by ALEXIS LOVE GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: With a coffee that she announces will make her hands shake later Last Line: And she says %'my hands were shaking' Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Teenagers TOUGHEST JOB, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: My students believe in ready answers Last Line: Who taught her instigate, obliterate, win Subject(s): Exchange Students; Travel TRACI FINCH, SPECTATOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Oh, those poor kids Last Line: Died while everyone just ran around %shooting Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TROUBLE WITH MATH IN A ONE-ROOM COUNTRY SCHOOL, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The others bent their heads and started in Last Line: And changed, back to the class Subject(s): Education; Schools; Shame; Students TWIST OF HER HEAD, by REBECCA GIVENS Poem Source Last Line: I saw it only once %on the outbound train Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers TWO HEADMISTRESSES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Miss buss and miss beale / cupid's darts do not feel Last Line: How different from us / are miss beale and miss buss Subject(s): Schools;spinsters; Students;old Maids TWO-DOLLAR BILLS, by MATTHEW MOSES Poem Source First Line: When you had to sit %on the hall steps to read Last Line: They're a piece of history now Subject(s): Grandparents; High School Students; Teenagers UNEARNED CHANCE, by DEBORAH STEIN Poem Source First Line: Last night I dreamt you came back Last Line: I leaned over my balcony %and said yes Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers UNIT 4, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Yeah, we got it, on our way Last Line: It's a miracle how kids get outta there Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers VALERIE VAN GARP (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: In the living room, we will welcome my guest Last Line: Divorce is not a spectator sport, even for %honored guests Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns VALERIE VAN GARP (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I first saw lolita rosenbaum Last Line: I think we're gonna get along just great Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns VALERIE VAN GARP (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Who the hell does she think she is? Last Line: Who the hell does she think she is? Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns VINNIE DELVECCHIO, PARENT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: He's still in there Last Line: Who wants to teach these kids all day? %they're animals Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 2, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old driueling lolio drudges all he can Last Line: Brasse gentlemen, and caesars laureate. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Prisons & Prisoners; Schools; Soul; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Convicts; Students VIRGINAL ORGY, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In our sophomore year, solomon wheat Subject(s): High School Students VISIONS FROM MY OFFICE WINDOW, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the students between the buildings Last Line: Her eyes deep-set and dark as olives. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Schools; Students VIVIAN, by JULIA SCHAFFER Poem Source First Line: Vivian is 77 and beginning to wilt Last Line: But I'm going back for another on tuesday' Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers VOICE OF ROBERT DESNOS, by ERIC WUBBELS Poem Source First Line: So much like the flower and the current of air Last Line: She I love does not answer me Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers WALL, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: I trace the black marble wall of weeping once again Last Line: They took to howling and tearing at their flesh Subject(s): Cambodia; Students, Foreign; Suicide; Terror WATERMELON, by GRACE LORENTZ Poem Source First Line: As a watermelon leaked into a bowl beside us Last Line: Flowers blossomed from my navel Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers; Watermelons WAY SHE BURNED, by SARAH NOOTER Poem Source First Line: He caught her by a sleeve Last Line: Burned and %kept burning Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers WELCOME, by SUSAN CURRIE Poem Source First Line: She watched the circus burn that day Last Line: As she came into adulthood flaming Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers WERE THERE CHILDREN?, by IAN KAIN AMATO Poem Source First Line: Before I was born were there children who gathered their tears Last Line: As passing cars move a window of light across white walls Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers WHAT FIFTY SAID, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young my teachers were the old Last Line: I got to school to youth to learn the future Subject(s): Aging; Schools; Students WHAT PROTECTS, by SAMARA ADSIT HOLTZ Poem Source First Line: This time we waited for her Last Line: For her rescue %and would never escape Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers WHAT SAVES US, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are wrapped around each other Subject(s): Education; Schools; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Students WHAT SHE WAS DOING AT HOME, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby was there -- unfair Last Line: Wearing a cool rag pressed between her eyes. Subject(s): Children; Home; Mothers; Schools; Childhood; Students WHEN THE WOMAN IS CONTEMPORARY, AND THE KITCHEN BELONGS TO SOMEONE...., by JESSE DALBACKA Poem Source First Line: 1. Every day, I would ponder the dangers in being a cook. It's not so Last Line: Because it is what I imagine older men to taste like Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers WHO TOLD?, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our teacher says there aren't fairies now Last Line: "a little fairy whispered it,"" she said." Subject(s): Boys; Children; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students WHY DISTRICT SCHOOL USED TO KEEP IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When district school was almost done Last Line: From which she bought her watch and chain. Subject(s): Children; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Vermont; Childhood; Students; Educators; Professors WHY FOOL AROUND?, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How smart is smart? Thinks heart. Is smart Last Line: Smart or stupid they circle the hook: their education Subject(s): Reason; Schools; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Students WHY I DIDN'T VISIT THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE, by RINA NILOOBAN Poem Source First Line: I never completely understood Last Line: He had reached the bottom of the bag Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers WIND, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now it is over and everyone knew it Last Line: "the postcard making it ""right"" instead of wrong" Subject(s): Exchange Students; Germany; Foreign Exchange Programs; Germans WINDSOCK, by KATINA ANTONIADES Poem Source First Line: You are a windsock in a trailer park Last Line: The last number counted between thunder and lightning Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers WING LI WU (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Even if I knew english better Last Line: He was such a nice man Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WING LI WU (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I do not have time to get my yearbook now Last Line: I must find my friend Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WING LI WU, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I was twelve Last Line: I will think about it all my life Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WING LI WU, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I have american friends Last Line: Why is he acting so strangely Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WING LI WU, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: In america Last Line: I do not wish to play solo any longer Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WING LI WU, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: There is a tinkle of small chimes Last Line: Her eyes filled with tears of pride at my success Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WING LI WU, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I can hear the rain Last Line: And play an american tune without mistake Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WINTER ROCKS, by IAN KAIN AMATO Poem Source First Line: In winter, on rocks, %I have painted red houses Last Line: They splash like a water drop %rippling a pond Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers WRIST, by ANNIE LEE Poem Source First Line: Your wrist speaks to me Last Line: To sleep at the nape of my neck Subject(s): Bodies; High School Students; Love; Seduction; Teenagers WRITTEN FOR MY SON, AND SPOKEN BY HIM IN SCHOOL, UPON HIS MASTER'S FIRST BRINGING IN A ROD, by MARY BARBER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our master, in a fatal hour Subject(s): Schools; Punishment; Students YEAST, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each morning from the dim secrecy Last Line: To the oven. Subject(s): Accidents; Bakeries & Bakers; Bread; Schools; Students YOU GO TO SCHOOL TO LEARN, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Schools; Students YOUTHFUL GODS FLIRTING, by GRACE LORENTZ Poem Source First Line: At midnight I wake from a nightmare. My eyes are luminous spots of white Last Line: A bit after midnight, I close my eyes in bed Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers YVETTE RONDEAU, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When brian paxell was through with me Last Line: I can find a job in the next town over Subject(s): Cities; High School Students; Murder; Racism; Towns ZIMMER'S HEAD THUDDING AGAINST THE BLACKBOARD, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the blackboard I had missed / five number problems in a row Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students ZIPPER, by DREW KREWER Poem Source First Line: It was the night of the sixth grade dance Last Line: Where I had come from, where I could go Subject(s): High School Students; Teenagers |
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