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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WISDOM Matches Found: 222 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GREAT PROFESSOR, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That piteous fall of underlip! That sudden - coming hollow Last Line: He taught a piece of syntax of a kind to gravel sages. Subject(s): Wisdom A MAN OF MANY PARTS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a man of many parts Last Line: A man of many parts! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Art & Artists; Stars; Wisdom A SONG, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, prithee now, what does it signify Last Line: To be cheerful and thankful for all. Subject(s): Praise; Virtue; Wisdom A SONG FROM THE COPTIC, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quarrels have long been in vogue among sages Last Line: Beetles were blind in the ages of yore. Subject(s): Wisdom A WORD TO THE WISE, by CAROLINE KING DUER Poem Text First Line: If wisdom's height is only disenchantmen Last Line: That wisdom is the folly of the wise. Subject(s): Wisdom ANOTHER SONG OF A FOOL, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This great purple butterfly Last Line: To take the roses for his meat. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Wisdom; Learning; Fools ARGUMENTS, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: One road runs over the mountain Last Line: Lies on the plain between. Subject(s): Wisdom AT THE PASSING OF A BELOVED MONARCH, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The everlasting wisdom has ordained Last Line: That millions yet unborn shall bless her reign. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Crowns; George Vi, King Of England (1894-1952); Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Memory; Prayer; War; Wisdom; British Empire; England - Empire ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 27, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where in heaven, master louis Last Line: Had I only other ears! Subject(s): Birds; Poetry & Poets; Wisdom AUTUMN WISDOM, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wisdom is on me Last Line: Of sinking stars. ... Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Moon; Seasons; Wisdom; Fall BE WISE IN TIME, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Be wise in time, nor seek delay Last Line: Be wise in time! Subject(s): Wisdom BEDTIME, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: And now ye day wch in ye morne was thine Last Line: And teach my owne, to follow thy sweet will. Subject(s): Prayer; Sleep; Wisdom BEING A HERMIT, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I'll be a hermit, in this tree Last Line: But mother's calling now for tea! Subject(s): Children; Summer; Wisdom; Childhood BEL CANTO, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is high, the seaside air is sharp, Subject(s): Inspiration; Books; Wisdom; Reading BY HIS BEDSIDE, by FERN MARY MUNSELL Poem Text First Line: Dear little fellow - you are fast Last Line: Gentleness. Subject(s): Children; Patience; Regret; Wisdom; Childhood CHILDWIST, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Rapt dreamer, what revealments dost thou see? Last Line: Still silent cherish till the daylight dies! Subject(s): Dreams; Wisdom; Youth; Nightmares COMBINATIONS, by CATHERINE CATE COBLENTZ Poem Text First Line: Heartache and a crimson rose Last Line: But sorrow twists the mouth. Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Roses; Wind; Wisdom; Sorrow; Sadness COMMON SENSE AND GENIUS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While I touch the string Last Line: Died of that cold river. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Genius; Wisdom COMMUNION: 4. A CATHEDRAL, by ARVIA MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sinewed shrine of man's desire Last Line: To face thee, and endure. Subject(s): Desire; Time; Universe; Wisdom COURAGE, TEMPERANCE, AND WISDOM, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Dear annette: sixteen years ago our mothers Last Line: Me ke aloha pumehana, kang Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Courage; Mothers; Wisdom CRAZY CHRISTOPHER, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neighbored by a maple wood Last Line: That could half believe him wise. Subject(s): Solitude; Human Behavior; Insanity; Wisdom DA WISA CHILD, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: All right, I know. All right, signor Last Line: "an' justa keep da house for you." Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Children; Wisdom; Childhood DANCE TIME, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's I live in a very wise town Last Line: "than once upon a time!" Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Books; Learning; Towns; Wisdom; Reading DARK WISDOM, by CLIFFORD GESSLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall say it is vain Last Line: Dark wisdom of despair. Subject(s): Wisdom DAY'S END IN DURHAM, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: In the abbey at durham, / with its great stony silence Last Line: I wondered, and woke. Subject(s): Durham, England; Dusk; Prayer; Silence; Wisdom DICK FISHERMAN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old dick fisherman Last Line: Singing in the rain. Subject(s): Wales; Wisdom; Welshmen; Welshwomen DREAMS WITHIN DREAMS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have gone out and seen the lands of faery Last Line: And beauty and peace and sorrow are dreams within dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Fairies; Grief; Peace; Secrets; Wisdom; Nightmares; Elves; Sorrow; Sadness DUEL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: I foresee a day when the stranger Last Line: April rain Subject(s): Death; Devil; Duels; Serenity; Strangers; Watchmen; Wisdom EARTHLY COURSE OF JUSTICE, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: We learned it in this way Last Line: Da vinci dissecting a womb Subject(s): Books; Justice; Knowledge; Lucretius (99-55 B.c.); Wisdom EFFIGY OF A NUN (SIXTEENTH CENTURY), by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Infinite gentleness, infinite irony Last Line: How empty wisdom is, even to the wise. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Nuns; Wisdom EL GAI SABER (CHANT ROYAL), by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Teach me to bleat ballades? Have I not thrown Last Line: Found lowly wisdom never found in books! Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Wisdom EN-SOF, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I number up my jewels, spread them all before your / gaze Last Line: God alone gives understanding—his love alone is light. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Freedom; God; Religion; Wisdom; Liberty; Theology FABLES: 1ST SER. 41. THE OWL AND THE FARMER, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An owl of grave deport and mien Last Line: Fools in derision follow fools. Subject(s): Birds; Owls; Wisdom FAMILIAR EPISTLES TO A FRIEND: 6, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By 'reformation from the church of rome' Last Line: May be the subject of succeeding rhimes. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Christianity; Churches; Learning; Religious Reformers; Religious Education; Wisdom; Reading; Cathedrals; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools FANNY: 148, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And when these, the lord burleighs of the minute Last Line: Blights everything it touches, fruit and flower Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Success; Wisdom FEMALE EDUCATION; ADDRESSED TO A SOUTH AMERICAN POET, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, of the living lyre Last Line: That mocks the blight of time. Subject(s): De La Cruz, Juana Ines (1648-1695); Freedom; Nature; Wisdom; Women's Rights; Liberty; Feminism FOLLIES OF THE WISE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: A man is a fool in his youth, my son Last Line: Is happy indeed, and wise—so wise! Subject(s): Fools; Life; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Wisdom; Women; Idiots; Male-female Relations FOOL'S SONG, by THOMAS HOLCROFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When swallows lay their eggs in snow Last Line: Till when let your wisdom be dumb, etc. Subject(s): Fools; Singing & Singers; Wisdom; Idiots; Songs FOR CONCORD, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though love redeem us, do we stake Last Line: His will be done! Subject(s): Love; Wisdom FOR RANDALL JARRELL, 1914-1965, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the dead are eating little yellow peas Last Line: Into this world or some other. And between. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Death; Jarrell, Randall (1914-1965); Wisdom; Inspiration; Creativity; Dead, The GENIUS, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look out flaubert Last Line: So very hard to pin down Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Wisdom GLORY OF PROGRESS, by SALOME URENA DE HENRIQUEZ Poem Source First Line: It is not enough for a free people to put on the crown of Last Line: Amid the applause of thinkers, sing to the world the great %hosanna of progress! Subject(s): Knowledge; Poetry And Poets; Progress; Wisdom; Youth GRANDFATHER SQUEERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandfather squeers,' said the raggedy man Last Line: "he was forced to request it to thunder again." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Aging; Grandparents; Wisdom; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GREAT JEHOVAH EVER PRESENT, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When the eastern sky is burning Last Line: Grant me wisdom, grant me sight. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Religion; Wisdom; The Resurrection; Theology HASSAN AND HASSOUN, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said hassan to hassoun: / ''t were a boon Last Line: Both hassoun and hassan! Subject(s): Islam; Wisdom; Youth HE KNOWS NO CHANGE WHO KNOWS THE TRUE, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Forever lives the knowledge of the wise Subject(s): Wisdom; Change HEADACHE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Headache! Thou bane to pleasure's fairy spell Last Line: For ever jingle wisdom's funeral knell. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Hate; Headaches; Mythology; Wisdom HEAR ME, O ALLAH!, by GEORGE SEIBEL Poem Text First Line: I would not be too happy nor too rich Last Line: Neither a saint nor sinner let me die! Subject(s): God; Humility; Prayer; Wisdom HER WISDOM, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So is she with love's tenderness Last Line: Or joy as it overtakes us even in pain? Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Wisdom HIS HEART WAS YOUNG; IN MEMORIAM, JAMES B. HAWKINS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: He was not old, although the fruited years Last Line: He lives, and still his spirit walks with me. Subject(s): Death; Life; Truth; Wisdom; Dead, The HIS WISDOM: 6 YEARS OLD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His feet whene'er they walk abroad Last Line: Finds country in the end. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Roads; Wisdom; Childhood; Paths; Trails HOMILY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These simple rules to live within - a black Last Line: He crumples as paper but rises daily from the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Wisdom HOPE IS NOT FOR THE WISE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope is not for the wise, fear is for fools; Last Line: Had perished utterly, oh perfect loveliness of earth and heaven Subject(s): Hope; Wisdom; Beauty; Optimism HOW CAN I WRITE POEMS FOR HELEN KELLER?, by JUSABRO IWAMI Poem Text First Line: I must live in a bad, bad world Last Line: They cause fear! Subject(s): Blindness; Eyes; Fear; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Wisdom; Visually Handicapped HUMAN WISDOM, by WASHINGTON DELGADO Poem Source First Line: When someone talks of the spirit Last Line: And that in some part of heaven %we're all equal Subject(s): Equality; Wisdom I WAS BORN IN A HOTEL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And it has made me %wise Subject(s): Wisdom I WORKED FOR CHAFF, AND EARNING WHEAT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: At distance than at hand Subject(s): Wisdom IMITATION OF AN ODE BY KOODRUT, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ambition's voice was in my ear, she whisper'd yesterday Last Line: "the lesser wealth, the lighter load, -- small blame betides the poor." Subject(s): Ambition; Wisdom INARTICULATE, by EVA RIEHLE Poem Text First Line: There are no words Last Line: I, and a grey squat stone. Subject(s): Wisdom INTELLECTUAL LIMITATIONS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Parunts knows lots more than us Last Line: "well, what is it, honey?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Parents; Wind; Wisdom; Parenthood IT CANNOT BE WISDOM, by TANIA BROOK Poem Text First Line: This swift overture that beauty plays Last Line: Inviolate and numb. Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Wisdom; Sorrow; Sadness JOB: KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it Variant Title(s): Wisdom Can Be Obtained Only From Go Subject(s): Wisdom JOB: WISDOM, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: But where shall wisdom be found? Subject(s): Courage; Wisdom JOSH BILLINGS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jolly-hearted old josh billings Last Line: That he answers not again? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Death; Nature; Wisdom; Childhood; Dead, The JOY AND DUTY, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Joy is a duty, --so with golden lore Last Line: "life is divine when duty is a joy." Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Clergy; Duty; Happiness; Wisdom; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Joy; Delight JUDICIUM PARIDIS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said, when young, 'beauty's the supreme joy' Last Line: Renders me back a saint unto myself! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Beauty; Youth; Aging; Wisdom; Courtship; Time; Likes & Dislikes LAMENTS, SELS., by JAN KOCHANOWSKI Poem Source First Line: I'd buy you wisdom, with all of the world's gold Last Line: Like all the rest, I'm flung from its top stair Subject(s): Poverty; Wealth; Wisdom LINES, by ELIZABETH J. EAMES Poem Text First Line: Of making many books there is no end' Last Line: That all the days of man's short life are vanity! Subject(s): Books; Wisdom; Reading LITTLEWIT AND LOFTUS, by PAMELIA VINING YULE Poem Text First Line: John littlewit, friends, was a credulous man Last Line: And I'm wise although knowing no more! Subject(s): Death; Faith; God; Good; Humility; Men; Science; Wisdom; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Scientists LOVE AND LIGHT, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are many kinds of love, as many kinds of light, Last Line: But the love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Light; Love; Wisdom LOVE LOVETH THEE, AND WISDOM LOVETH THEE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Wisdom, rest, love—and lo! The whole is love Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Wisdom; God; Love; Worship LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 53, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without me you can only Last Line: I am your wisdom Subject(s): Relationships; Wisdom MIND AND HEART, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wisdom and passion Last Line: Power and bliss. Subject(s): Hearts; Passion; Reason; Wisdom; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals MORTAL WORDS OF ZWEIK, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As an old man, zweik told me Last Line: Of january afternoons %that answers everything Subject(s): Wisdom MORTALITIES MEMORANDUM, WITH A DREAME PREFIXED, SELS., by RACHEL SPEGHT Poem Source First Line: My griefe, quoth I is called ignorance Last Line: The profit may and will the paines requite Subject(s): Death; Grief; Ignorance; Longing; Wisdom MUSOPHILUS, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fond man, musophilus, that thus dost spend Last Line: Above the reach of lightness and contempt. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Muses; Philosophy & Philosophers; Thought; Virtue; Wisdom; Thinking MY LIFE'S EXAMPLE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Stand with eyes fixed, the cuckoo calls Last Line: And hearts grown old and wise. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Wisdom NATURAL PERVERSITIES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not prone to moralize Last Line: Know anything about it. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nature; Philosophy & Philosophers; Wisdom NEXT DAY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Moving from cheer to joy, from joy to all Subject(s): Aging; Housewives; Middle Age; Wisdom NEXT DAY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moving from cheer to joy, from joy to all Last Line: Confused with my life, that is commonplace and solitary Subject(s): Aging; Housewives; Middle Age; Wisdom NICODEMUS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And nicodemus came by night Last Line: He dared the world by day! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Nicodemus (bible); Wisdom NINETY-SIX, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Swedenborg's angels dance, advance Last Line: When you take your lover for a walk Subject(s): Aging; Swedenborg, Emanuel (1688-1772); Wisdom NOON, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the hills and far away Last Line: And has joined us with a nod. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Kisses; Noon; Wisdom; Dead, The; World OCTAVES: 14, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With conscious eyes not yet sincere enoug Last Line: That flouts deformity and laughs at years. Subject(s): Wisdom ODE TO WISDOM, by ELIZABETH CARTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The solitary bird of night Last Line: Is vanity and woe. Subject(s): Wisdom ODES X, 2, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If o'er life's sea your bark you'd safely guide Last Line: Learn wisely to contract the swelling sail. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Fate; Life; Sea; Storms; Wisdom; Destiny; Ocean OLD CLOCKS, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The old clocks often have encouraging faces Last Line: Next to our bed with their mild wisdom: it's okay, %oh yes, oh yes, it's okay, it's okay Subject(s): Old Age; Wisdom OLD TOM TUSSER'S ADVICE, by ERNEST L. VALENTINE Poem Text First Line: Back 'mid the baltic's sleet and snow Last Line: "for christmas comes but once a year!" Subject(s): Advice; Christmas; Knowledge; Wisdom; Nativity, The ON WISDOM'S DEFEAT IN A LEARNED DEBATE, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Minerva has vowed since the bishops do slight her Last Line: And the first law of nature is self-preservation Subject(s): Wisdom ONLY A THOUGHT, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas only a passing thought, my love Last Line: Only a passing thought. Subject(s): Heads; Reason; Thought; Wisdom; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking OUR QUEER OLD WORLD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a purty hard world you find, my Last Line: It's a purty good world, old man! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Cruelty; Earth; Experience; Wisdom; World OWL, by ROLAND YOUNG Poem Source First Line: The owl is very very wise Subject(s): Birds; Night; Owls; Wisdom PENATES, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is omniscient Subject(s): Fathers; Wisdom PENATES, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father is omniscient Last Line: Behind her, father's sad eye blinks Subject(s): Fathers; Wisdom PERVERSITY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have more'n likely noticed Last Line: Was jes' the thing you should. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Wisdom PICOMEGAN, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stars of gold the green sod fretting Last Line: Or the wisdom of its grief. Subject(s): Rivers; Wisdom; Grief POESY, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When men were rude, and rough, and wild Last Line: And clothed them in her seemliest dress. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Mankind; Wisdom; Human Race PROVERBS, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My good aunt bridget, spite of age Last Line: "whose motto's ""ne quid nimis." Subject(s): Faith; Proverbs; Wisdom; Belief; Creed; Maxims; Adages PROVERBS 3:13-18, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Happy is the man that findeth wisdom Subject(s): Wisdom PROVERBS. THE HOUSE OF WISDOM, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Wisdom hath builded her house Subject(s): Wisdom PROVERBS: THE JOYS OF WISDOM, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Blessed are those who have discovered wisdom Last Line: Glory is the portion of the wise, %all that fools inherit is contempt Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion PROVERBS: THE SUPREME INVITATION, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: And now, my children, listen to me Last Line: All who hate me are in love with death Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion PROVERBS: WISDOM, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Length of days is in her right hand Subject(s): Wisdom PROVERBS: WISDOM AS CREATOR, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Yahweh created me, first-fruits of his fashioning Last Line: At play everywhere on his earth, %delighting to be with the children of men Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion PROVERBS: WISDOM AS HOSTESS, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Wisdom has built herself a house Last Line: Leave foolishness behind you and you will live, %go forwards in the ways of perception Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion PROVERBS: WISDOM SPEAKS, A WARNING TO THE HEEDLESS, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Wisdom calls aloud in the streets Last Line: But whoever listens to me may live secure, %will have quiet, fearing no mischance Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion PRUDENCE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Help! Mad dog! Cried some one Last Line: In the opposite direction. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Wisdom QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "what is earth, sexton? - a place to dig graves" Subject(s): Earth;wisdom; World R.C. DALLAS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! Wisdom shines in all his mien Last Line: Sagacious r. C. Dallas. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Wisdom REMINDER, by SYDNEY KING RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Cages are made for wise men who Last Line: With eyes upon the stars. Subject(s): Cages; Fools; Freedom; Wisdom; Idiots; Liberty RESOLUTION AND INDEPENDENCE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a roaring in the wind all night Last Line: "I'll think of the leech-gatherer on the lonely moor!" Variant Title(s): The Leech-gatherer Subject(s): Independence; Wisdom RETURN TO EDEN, by EDITH GRAHAM MIRICK Poem Text First Line: Remembering how, through all the valiant woe Last Line: Love, and her wisdom, only, have been ours. Subject(s): Autumn; Eden; Love; Seasons; Wisdom; Fall SACRED EPIGRAM: ON THE WISDOM OF THAT AGE, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not be curious of the height lest a lofty fall drag back your weary Last Line: I would not wish to have studied out for myself [the way] to hell Subject(s): Wisdom SAGEBRUSH, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These are the last days of its empire. No flags fly from its dead limbs, nor do Last Line: These stiff limbs? Ants, grass, and wind. What is the price of wisdom here? Only the priest and pris Subject(s): Army - United States; Military; Soldiers; Wisdom SEARCH, by DRAGUTIN SPITZER Poem Text First Line: I was looking for god Last Line: Now, I find you -- Subject(s): Cruelty; God; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Wisdom SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 5, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the great wheel of darkness and low clouds Last Line: Cleaves the long darkness with a sword of light. Subject(s): Rain; Wisdom SILENT READING, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Saint augustine was baffled when he found Last Line: Word upon the page Subject(s): Books; Wisdom SO MUCH TO LEARN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So much to learn! Old nature's ways Last Line: So brief the time, so much to learn! Subject(s): Learning; Life; Nature; Soul; Wisdom SOLOMON AND THE MONKEYS, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Apes and peacocks and almug and ivory Last Line: That's their wisdom of gods of old! Subject(s): Monkeys; Wisdom SONG: NOW THAT SHE IS HERE; FOR JOE-ANNE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old man now, who's learned at last Last Line: Who used to think I knew. But now I know. Subject(s): Love; Old Age; Wisdom SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 70, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far hence in the infinite silence Last Line: The imperfect things we were. Subject(s): Wisdom SONGS OUT OF THE ORIENT: CERTAIN FRAGMENTS FROM THE ARABIC, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who are wise to-day Last Line: To tell the world how our poor hearts loved with a love most white? Subject(s): Love; Wisdom SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 24, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well! I will never more complain Last Line: Without the least regret. Subject(s): Fates (mythology); Grief; Wisdom; Sorrow; Sadness SONNETS: 5. AN INCIDENT FROM BOCCACCIO, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When guido cavalcanti, dante's friend Last Line: They live, wax rich, and grow amid their hoard. Subject(s): Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Life; Poetry & Poets; Wisdom STUDENT SONG, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say that at the core of it Last Line: For as long as we are here. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Life; Regret; Wisdom SWEET TRIOLETS: THE WISDOM OF THE TRIOLET, by THOMAS M. DISCH Poem Source First Line: I knew a frugal triolet Last Line: Content ourselves with smiles and hugs Subject(s): Wisdom TEAK FOREST, by ADELE FLORENCE CORY NICOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whether I loved you who shall say Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, Laurence Subject(s): Wisdom TERMS, UNUSED ANTICIPATIONS, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: The good required, %their proverb secret Subject(s): Knowledge; Poetry And Poets; Proverbs; Wisdom THALATTA, by LEWIS P. MANSFIELD Poem Text First Line: Hark to the soft, imperious conversation Last Line: The ocean's roar is but the voice of wisdom there confined. Subject(s): Voices; Wisdom THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 1. CANTO 10. PRELUDE. THE JOYFUL WISDOM, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would wisdom for herself be wooed Last Line: And all grace is the grace of god. Subject(s): God; Wisdom THE BACCHAE: WHERE SHALL WISDOM BE FOUND?, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will they ever come to me, ever again Last Line: That to live is happy, hath found his heaven. Subject(s): Wisdom THE CHAMELEON, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the chameleon, who is known Last Line: And lies with those he never saw. Subject(s): Chameleons; Colors; Europe; Law & Lawyers; Wisdom THE COMING OF WISDOM WITH TIME, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though leaves are many, the root is one Last Line: Now I may wither into the truth. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Aging; Wisdom THE CONFLICT OF CONVICTIONS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On starry heights / a bugle wails the long recall Last Line: Wisdom is vain, and prophesy. Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Dreams; Hope; Past; United States - History; Wisdom; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism THE CUP, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cup of bitter-sweet I know Last Line: The grey tumultuous waters flow! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Cups; Love; Regret; Wisdom THE DISCIPLINE OF WISDOM, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rich labour is the struggle to be wise Last Line: To shed the words which are ripe fruit of sun. Subject(s): Wisdom THE FIRE SIDE; A PASTORAL SOLILOQUY, by ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice happy, who free from ambition and pride Last Line: Direct to st. J[ame]s's and takes up the s[eal]s. Subject(s): Fire; St. James Park, London; Wisdom THE FIRST SWALLOW, by SARAH JOSEPHA BUELL HALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out on the wisdom frozen Last Line: Earth's lowliest lot may bless. Alternate Author Name(s): Hale, Sara; Hale, Sarah Josepha Subject(s): Swallows; Wisdom THE GIFT OF WISDOM, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My spirit bids defiance to decay Last Line: The gift of wisdom ere I left the earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Wisdom; Dead, The THE GOOD HOW CAN WE TRUST?, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Whose knowledge is their sympathy Subject(s): Wisdom; Knowledge THE HAPPY FOOL, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would not be a dogmatist Last Line: Wisdom, maybe! Subject(s): Wisdom THE HOOSIER FOLK-CHILD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hoosier folk-child - all unsung Last Line: In beaten gold, belongs to him. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Fables; Wisdom; Childhood; Allegories THE IRISH PIPES, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the piper playing Last Line: The things you let me know. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Ireland; Longing; Pipers; Wisdom; Irish THE JOURNEY, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I went over fossil hill Last Line: Flowers that I bless with living eyes. Subject(s): Hearts; Travel; Wisdom; Journeys; Trips THE LAST DEMAND, by FAITH BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: Life, you have bruised me and chilled me; fate, you Last Line: I demand to conquer memory! I demand that I — forget. Subject(s): Aging; Experience; Life; Memory; Wisdom THE LECTURE, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: College de france, a dingy room Last Line: He died, lost in the middle ages. Subject(s): Lectures; Universities & Colleges; Wisdom; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking THE LENT JEWELS; A JEWISH APOLOGUE, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In schools of wisdom all the day was spent Last Line: Which god had lent him, and resumed anew. Subject(s): Clergy; Jews; Religious Education; Wisdom; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools THE LOST GENIUS, by JOHN JAMES PIATT Poem Text First Line: A giant came to me when I was young Last Line: I saw the ghost of youth! Subject(s): Wisdom THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 53, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without me you can only Last Line: I am your wisdom Subject(s): Relationships; Wisdom THE MORTAL WORDS OF ZWEIK, by PHILIP LEVINE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As an old man, zweik told me Subject(s): Wisdom THE NEW RUBAIYAT, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old omar, subtle weaver of the skein Last Line: Her eyes search deep and long, and make it thine. Subject(s): Faith; Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Wisdom; Belief; Creed THE OLD MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Steadfast and serene Last Line: Old man. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Experience; Life; Old Age; Wisdom THE PINEAPPLES AND THE BEE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pineapples, in triple row Last Line: Can gather honey from a weed. Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Pineapples; Truth; Wisdom; Beekeeping; Bugs THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 156, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll tell you a thing or two Last Line: I've put them on the sunlit side Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Wisdom THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 159, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On cold mountain there's a naked bug Last Line: Ready to strike troublesome foes Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Insects; Swords; Wisdom; Buddha; Buddhists; Bugs THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 162, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This rare and heavenly creature Last Line: You'll meet but never know Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Wisdom THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 179, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many tientai people Last Line: They call it useless advice Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Wisdom; Dullness; Stupdity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 228, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His mind is like a great peak Last Line: To sit and not speak and have no cares Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Silence; Wisdom THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 234, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold mountain speaks these words Last Line: And karma holds the reins Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Insanity; Wisdom; Madness; Mental Illness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 285, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold mountain speaks these words Last Line: Performing another tragedy Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Wisdom THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 90, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All you senseless buried heads Last Line: You discover a body's curse Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Wisdom; Dullness; Stupdity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 94, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wise man isn't greedy Last Line: At all the mounds below the pines Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Greed; Mortality; Wisdom; Avarice; Cupidity THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 7, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wine of wisdom is so cold Last Line: Free of shame and glory Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Drinks & Drinking; Freedom; Wisdom; Wine; Liberty THE RETROSPECT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As on I journey through the vale of years Last Line: Onward in faith—and leave the rest to heaven. Subject(s): Faith; Life; Maturity; Memory; Travel; Wisdom; Belief; Creed; Journeys; Trips THE SEA SAID 'COME' TO THE BROOK, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Wisdom is stale to me Subject(s): Brooks; Sea; Wisdom THE SOUL OF FELICITY, by JOHN GRAY DUNCAN Poem Text First Line: May wisdom love us more and more Last Line: Full life set free, and never blind. Subject(s): Wisdom THE SUNSET HILL, by MARY POLLARD TYMES Poem Text First Line: Life said to me, 'your days have run' Last Line: Were wet with tears. Now I am wise. Subject(s): Wisdom THE THREE COUNSELLORS, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: It was the fairy of the place Last Line: "in which the wars of time shall cease." Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Peace; War; Wisdom THE UNBOUGHT SEMINOLE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An old, old man, in thicker shades Last Line: "live on! Live on! Live on!" Subject(s): Leadership; Native Americans; Seminole Indians; Wisdom; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE WHITE SNAKE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a day Last Line: A cold sweat broke out on his upper lip for now he was wise Subject(s): Charms (magic); Snakes; Wisdom THE WISDOM OF ALI; AN ARAB LEGEND, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prophet once, sitting in calm debate Last Line: "which god supplies, is inexhaustible." Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): God; Legends, Arabic; Prophecy & Prophets; Wealth; Wisdom; Riches; Fortunes THE WISDOM OF ELD, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We spend our lives in learning pilotage Last Line: And ancients musical at close of day. Subject(s): Old Age; Wisdom; Youth THE WISDOM OF MERLYN, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are the time-words of merlyn, the voice of his age recorded Last Line: Heart. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Wisdom; Dead, The THE WISE, by FRANCES SMITH JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Some men have left us who had much to give Last Line: Exhort adventurous souls to grow more wise. Subject(s): Wisdom THOUGH NARROW BE THAT OLD MAN'S CARES, AND NEAR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To chase for ever, on aërial grounds! Subject(s): Heaven; Wisdom; Old Age TO A BIRD, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O bird that darts now low, now high Last Line: But never can be wise as you! Subject(s): Birds; May (month); Wisdom TO ADOLPHE GAIFFE, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young man free from melancholy Last Line: Words! Words! Come gather roses. Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Spring; Wisdom; Youth TO AN OLD, OLD BOOK, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: To what strange chance, thou sere and yellow books Last Line: Thy wisdom taught cannot for aye grow old. Subject(s): Books; Old Age; Wisdom; Reading TO MR. --, AN UNLETTERED POET, ON GENIUS UNIMPROVED, by ANN YEARSLEY Poem Text First Line: Florus, canst thou define that innate spark / which blazes but for glory? Last Line: And that be thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Cromartie, Ann Subject(s): Genius; Poetry & Poets; Wisdom TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 2. WILFUL WOMEN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Women are wilful, and the kindest are Last Line: And makes me for the nonce a better man. Subject(s): Humanity; Wisdom; Women TO THE FRIENDLIEST OF POETS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Chaucer, kind heart, who with the score and ten Last Line: Your frank and winsome rhyme! Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Honor; Poetry & Poets; Wisdom TO THE MASTER, by KATHRYN CROSS Poem Text First Line: You are the torch that came to light Last Line: To true reality. Subject(s): Wisdom; Youth TO WISDOM, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wisdom! If thy soft controul Last Line: The wise themselves shall envy me. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Wisdom TO-MORROW, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-morrow, didst thou say! Last Line: Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee. Subject(s): Wisdom TREASURY, by ALFONSO X Poem Source First Line: The strange intelligence then reached my ears Last Line: For honor is the birthright of the wise Subject(s): Wisdom UNCLE SIDNEY'S LOGIC, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pa wunst he scold' an' says to me Last Line: "ud trade with him to-day!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Wisdom; Childhood UNCLE SIDNEY'S VIEWS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hold that the true age of wisdom Last Line: Through the moon, like a round yellow hole in the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Faith; Wisdom; Youth; Belief; Creed UNSEEN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are more things in heaven and earth Last Line: And know a world of mystery is near. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Life; Nature; Wisdom VERSES UNDER A PRINT, REPRESENTING CHRIST IN THE MIDST OF THE DOCTORS, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Engag'd amidst the doctors here, behold Last Line: The teacher jesus, in the midst of all. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Teaching & Teachers; Wisdom; Educators; Professors VOTIVE TABLETS: WISDOM AND PRUDENCE, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wouldst thou the loftiest height of wisdom gain? Last Line: Not that to which the bold wave wafts thee o'er! Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Wisdom WANTON, by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strip her of her silken clothes Last Line: Love has made her very wise. Subject(s): Love; Nudity; Pity; Wisdom; Nakedness WHAT I WOULD DO FOR WISDOM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Even on walks I follow the dog Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Wisdom WHO ARE THE WISE?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: They who have governed with a self control Last Line: Those only can be numbered with the wise Subject(s): Clergy;jews;wisdom; Priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops;judaism WHY TOMAS CAM WAS GRUMPY, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I were rich what would I do? Last Line: ...Where's my spade! I've work to do! Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Wealth; Wisdom; Work; Workers; Riches; Fortunes WISDOM, by EDWIN E. DEAL Poem Text First Line: Do you know where good ends / and just where Last Line: Than the having of many worlds of wealth. Subject(s): Wisdom WISDOM, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The young girl questions: 'whether were it better' Last Line: "nor may till we be dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Death; Life; Rest; Wisdom; Dead, The WISDOM, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All wisdom's ways are smooth and fair Last Line: Compared with wisdom's gem divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Wisdom WISDOM, by DANIEL WHITEHEAD HICKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I say that I am wise. Yet dead leaves know Last Line: I tremble at the ignorance of man! Subject(s): Wisdom WISDOM, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Often when I wanter talk, grown-ups say I ourghtn't Last Line: But I mostly want to know—will I feel it coming? Subject(s): Children; Reason; Wisdom; Childhood; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals WISDOM, by ASTRID LARSON Poem Text First Line: Wisdom says, I am a listener Last Line: I am gold. Subject(s): Wisdom WISDOM, by ISIDORE MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God got me ere his works began Last Line: That hate me ever as my foes Subject(s): Jews; Wisdom; Judaism WISDOM, by ROBERT POLLOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wisdom is humble, said the voice of god Last Line: Of men who with the vulgar scorn'd to sit. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollok, Robert Subject(s): Wisdom WISDOM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wisest of sparrows that sparrow which sitteth alone Last Line: Seated alone and in peace till god bids it arise. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Yea, The Sparrow Hath Found An House Subject(s): Sparrows; Wisdom WISDOM, by LOIS WELLS Poem Text First Line: I clutched a broken toy in childish fingers Last Line: I am no wiser than the child I was. Subject(s): Wisdom WISDOM (1), by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a night of early spring Last Line: It is the things we have that go. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Wisdom WISDOM COMETH WITH THE YEARS, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I am young and credulous Last Line: The barren days come, too. Subject(s): Aging; Wisdom WISDOM OF CHILDREN, by ROBERT PARHAM Poem Source First Line: There is so much to see that is not here Last Line: In the scudding mirrors of our fleeting selves Subject(s): Children; Wisdom WISDOM OF HAFIZ, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My son, if you go to the races to battle with ikey and mo Last Line: The very best tip in the world is to see the commission go on!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Racing; Wisdom WISDOM UNAPPLIED, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I were thou, o butterfly Last Line: Are wise (for all thy scorn) as thou.' Subject(s): Butterflies; Wisdom; Advice WISDOM: EULOGY OF WISDOM, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: For within her is a spirit intelligent, holy Last Line: And she governs the whole world for its good Subject(s): Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion WISDOM: SOLOMON'S LOVE FOR WISDOM, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Wisdom I loved and searched for from my youth Last Line: What is more wealthy than wisdom whose work is everywhere? Subject(s): Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Spiritual Life; Wisdom; Women And Religion WISDOME, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis mighty wise that you would now be thought Last Line: The art of giving, not of saving lives. Subject(s): Wisdom WISE MEN IN THEIR BAD HOURS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Wise men in their bad hours have envied Last Line: And a few dead men's thoughts have the same temper Subject(s): Mortality; Wisdom WISE: HAVING THE ABILITY TO PERCEIVE AND ADOPT THE BEST, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the best minds Last Line: On the corner Subject(s): Wisdom WISE: HAVING THE ABILITY TO PERCEIVE AND ADOPT THE BEST, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the best minds Last Line: All the wise men %on the corner Subject(s): Wisdom WITT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: But who has witt enough to tell / me what it is? Last Line: Tis best, and I had rather wise than witty be. Subject(s): Story-telling; Wisdom; Wit & Humor WORD TO THE WISE, by OCTAVIO ARMAND Poem Source First Line: If on your walks you have moved some stones Last Line: So have I Subject(s): Books; Forgiveness; Language; Poetry And Poets; Wisdom WORLD TREE, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: If you are lost in this world, bewildered Last Line: On wings that open like a hinge Subject(s): Advice; Language; Wisdom WRITTEN IN MONTAIGNE'S ESSAYS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dictate, o mighty judge, what thou hast seen Last Line: While talbot tells the world, where montaigne erred. Subject(s): Cities; England; France; Judges; Wisdom; Urban Life; English XENOPHANES, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: You said it, I see it Last Line: Asking is so much nobler than knowing %that I pity all that I know Subject(s): Knowledge; Wisdom YOU AND MY SONG, by PRISCA PLAUL Poem Text First Line: How many times from life away I fled Last Line: You and my song shall meet and blend somewhere. Subject(s): Tears; Wisdom YOUTH AND AGE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wanton youth, this wind was not Last Line: "the heart of youth is wise." Subject(s): Aging; Gardens & Gardening; Hearts; Memory; Wind; Wisdom; Youth |
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