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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ADDRESSES Matches Found: 21 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A REQUISITION TO THE QUEEN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most august! Empress of india, and of great britain the queen Last Line: That lives in dundee. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; India; Leadership; Lectures; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking AFTER IKKYU: 31, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come down to earth! Get your head out of your ass! Last Line: In a brown pickup truck on a summer evening. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Lectures; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking AN IRREGULAR SUPPLICATORY ADDRESS TO THE AMERICAN ACADEMIES, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye learned wights, who all the heights Last Line: That arcanum -- perpetual motion. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Lectures; Perpetual Motion; Scholarship & Scholars; Science; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking; Scientists EFFECT OF ORATORY UPON A MULTITUDE, by GEORGE CROLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His words seem'd oracles Last Line: The beating of your pulses while he spoke. Subject(s): Lectures; Speech; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking; Oratory; Orators FAMOUS SPEECH-MAKER OF ENGLAND, SELS., by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her majesty, mark it Last Line: For I ne'er read the like, nor e'er shall, I fancy Subject(s): Perceval, John (1711-1770); Speeches And Addresses GESTURES TO BE PERFORMED FROM A BALCONY, by KATHRYN NOCERINO Poem Source First Line: Here's the situation Last Line: To write your speeches Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Plays And Playwrights; Speeches And Addresses HE SAID, IN PART', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the many woes that smart Last Line: "this legend grim : ""he wears — in part”" Subject(s): Speeches & Addresses KRYCEK: THE CONFESSION, by SUSAN WHEELER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On an upper story, someone is dying Last Line: To each lector at the lectionary Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue Subject(s): Confessions; Lectures; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking LINES IN MEMORIAM REGARDING THE ENTERTAINMENT I GAVE ON THE 31ST MARCH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the 31st of march, and in the year of 1893 Last Line: I'll remember during my stay in dundee. Subject(s): Conventions; Gratitude; Lectures; Assemblies; Meetings; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking OUR BOB, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With humor as sweet as our basin Last Line: In a genius that's ours—our bob! Subject(s): Lectures; Memory; Speech; Taylor, Robert Love (1850-1912); Thought; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking; Oratory; Orators; Thinking SOLE SCHOLAR OF YOUR COLLEGE I APPEAR, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And make my bow before our lady dean Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Speeches & Addresses; Universities & Colleges; Learning; Poetry & Poets SPEAKING TERMS, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All around me to-ing and fro-ing Last Line: And start walking Subject(s): Contrariness; Lectures; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking TERNINAL, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Didn't you get my card? Last Line: In the garden, it can be anything Subject(s): Speeches & Addresses; Travel THE BLEEDING MIND, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A great man was giving a lecture in a town Subject(s): Lectures; Crucifixion; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE BOY IN ARMOR; HE SPEAKS TO THE GATHERED NATIONS, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tremble, o world! Bow down! Cringe! Be afraid! Last Line: For you shall think! And ghosts will drive you on! Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Lectures; Patriotism; Social Protest; Soldiers; Supernatural; Thought; War; Dead, The; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking; Thinking 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 ROSSVILLE LECTUR' COURSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Folks up here at rossville got up a lectur' course:-- Last Line: "got off at rossville, indiany, 'stid of michigun." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): April; Lectures; Michigan; Towns; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking THE STREETS OF BALTIMORE, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: Woman weak, and woman mortal Last Line: In the streets of baltimore! Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Baltimore, Maryland; Poetry & Poets; Speeches & Addresses TWENTY POET SKETCHES: 19, by PETER BLUE CLOUD Poem Source First Line: The sarcastic poet was Last Line: Time that day: %nothing happened Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Speeches And Addresses WORDS O' CHEER, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: Although not present to your sight Last Line: Of heaven on ony. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Language; Speeches & Addresses; Words; Vocabulary YET SPEAKETH!, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yet speaketh!' though the voice is hushed that filled Last Line: Each word a note of joy,—and shall we not 'be still?' Subject(s): Lectures; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking |
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