Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO THE TEACHERS OF AMERICA, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Teachers of teachers! Yours the task Last Line: To flower in years unborn. Subject(s): National Educational Association; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors | ||||||||
TEACHERS of teachers! Yours the task, Noblest that noble minds can ask, High up Aonia's murmurous mount, To watch, to guard the sacred fount That feeds the streams below; To guide the hurrying flood that fills A thousand silvery rippling rills In ever-widening flow. Rich is the harvest from the fields That bounteous Nature kindly yields, But fairer growths enrich the soil Ploughed deep by thought's unwearied toil In Learning's broad domain. And where the leaves, the flowers, the fruits, Without your watering at the roots, To fill each branching vein? Welcome! the Author's firmest friends, Your voice the surest Godspeed lends. Of you the growing mind demands The patient care, the guiding hands, Through all the mists of morn. And knowing well the future's need, Your prescient wisdom sows the seed To flower in years unborn. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CORRESPONDENCE-SCHOOL INSTRUCTOR SAYS GOODBYE TO HIS POETRY STUDENTS by GALWAY KINNELL GRATITUDE TO OLD TEACHERS by ROBERT BLY TWO RAMAGES FOR OLD MASTERS by ROBERT BLY ON FLUNKING A NICE BOY OUT OF SCHOOL by JOHN CIARDI HER MONOLOGUE OF DARK CREPE WITH EDGES OF LIGHT by NORMAN DUBIE OF POLITICS, & ART by NORMAN DUBIE SEVERAL MEASURES FOR THE LITTLE LOST by NORMAN DUBIE A BALLAD OF THE BOSTON TEA-PARTY [DECEMBER 16, 1773] by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES |
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