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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: VOLTAIRE, FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE Matches Found: 13 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LONG LINE OF DOCTORS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, picked for jury duty, managed to get through Last Line: She knows him indispensable. Like voltaire. Subject(s): Dentists; Guilt; Mothers; Trials; Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 23, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Voltaire and rousseau, these were thy twin priests Last Line: "and shouted ""ichabod, ay, ichabod!" Subject(s): Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778); Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De EXTEMPORE TO VOLTAIRE CRITICISING MILTON, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are so witty, profligate and thin Last Line: At once we think you milton, death, and sin. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674); Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De FROM THE AGES WITH A SMILE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How did the sculptor, voltaire, keep you quiet and posed Last Line: Front the ages with a smile! Subject(s): Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De GIBBON AND VOLTAIRE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lausanne! And ferney! Ye have been the abodes Last Line: T will be forgiven, or suffer what is just. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794); History; Lausanne, Switzerland; Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De; Historians IMPRESSIONS OF FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET (DE VOLTAIRE), by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where, lady, are the days Last Line: Forgetting even her beauty. Subject(s): Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De INSCRIPTION FOR THE CENOTAPH AT ERMENONVILLE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger! The man of nature lies not here Last Line: From hence returning purified of heart. Subject(s): Introspection; Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778); Strangers; Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De ORANGE BUDS BY MAIL FROM FLORIDA, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lesser proof than old voltaire's, yet greater Last Line: A bunch of orange buds by mail from florida. Subject(s): Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De RESIGNATION: PART 2: A RUNCIBLE THOUGHT, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O! How disorder'd our machine Last Line: And set your hand aright! Subject(s): Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De SHOPPING IN FERNEY WITH VOLTAIRE, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wearing a flowered nightgown Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De SONNET TO LAKE LEMAN, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rousseau, voltaire, our gibbon, and de stael Last Line: Is proud, and makes the breath of glory real! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): "lake Leman;""rousseau-voltaire-our Gibbon-and De Stael""; Subject(s): Geneva (lake), Switzerland; Rousseau, Jean Jacques (1712-1778); Stael, Anna (necker) De (1766-1817); Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De; Leman, Lake VOLITAIRE TO A YOUNG MAN, by BRADLEY WELCH Poem Text First Line: You say, my friend, you do not understand Last Line: Delights my ear. Perhaps you too, were caught. Subject(s): Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De; Yale University VOLTAIRE AT FERNEY, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almost [or, perfectly] happy now, he looked at his estate Last Line: The uncomplaining stars composed their lucid song Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Philosophy And Philosophers; Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De |
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