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Subject: BACON
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BACON'S EPITAPH, MADE BY HIS MAN, by JOHN COTTON (1640-1699)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Death, why so cruel? What! No other way
Last Line: Whether to caesar he was friend or foe.
Subject(s): Bacon, Nathaniel (1647-1676); Jamestown, Virginia


CLERIHEW, by EDMUND CLERIHEW BENTLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: When their lordships asked bacon %how many bribes he had taken
Last Line: He had at least the grace %to get very red in the face
Alternate Author Name(s): Bentley, E. C.
Subject(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Bribery; Philosophy And Philosophers


ENIGMA: 8, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What was I? Such a clever friar
Last Line: I learned to smoke instead of sleep.
Subject(s): Bacon


EVOLUTION: TWO FIGURES WITH MONKEY, by JIM DANIELS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Every lightbulb is a hammer
Last Line: Calling us names, everything we deserve
Subject(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Evolution; Paintings And Painters; Philosophy And Philosophers


HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU FRANCIS BACON, by JOAN RETALLACK    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the metro the man across
Last Line: The brain the joke with therefore I am
Subject(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Language; Philosophy And Philosophers


LETTER TO LEONARD BACON, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't know whether you are in this world or in the old
Last Line: No I got it from the sweet singer of michigan where he is honest enough to acknowledge he got it
Subject(s): Bacon, Leonard (1887-1954); Moore, Julia A. (1847-1920); Nash, Ogden (1902-1971); Poetry And Poets


NAT BACON'S BONES, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Bacon, Nathaniel (1647-1676); Social Protest


RADIOACTIVE ASSAY AND EPITAPH: INDIAN SCHOOL, by LIZ WALDNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The way paved with iron of interdicted sites
Subject(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Philosophy & Philosophers; Science; Scientists


RADIOACTIVE ASSAY AND EPITAPH: INDIAN SCHOOL, by LIZ WALDNER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The way paved with iron of interdicted sites
Last Line: Language forbidden, the world learned bacon's
Subject(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Philosophy And Philosophers; Science


ROGER BACON, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He had strange dreams
Last Line: Thrust his hand in it and believed
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Bacon, Roger (1214-1292); Philosophy And Philosophers; Science


SCREAM (FRANCIS BACON), by FOLKE ISAKSSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: A head slit open by a scream
Last Line: What is left may be called peace
Subject(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Philosophy And Philosophers


SHAKSPERE-BACON CIPHER, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I doubt it not - then more, far more
Last Line: A mystic cipher waits infolded.
Subject(s): Bacon, Francis (1561-1626); Dramatists; Philosophy & Philosophers; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)


THE BURNING OF JAMESTOWN, by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mad berkeley believed, with his gay cavaliers
Last Line: The rogues rule and ruin, while honest men swing.
Subject(s): Bacon, Nathaniel (1647-1676); Jamestown, Virginia


THE MODERN TIPPLING PHILOSOPHERS, by JAMES HAY BEATTIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Father hodge had his pipe and his dram
Last Line: If I blame, be assured I am tipsy.
Subject(s): Bacon, Roger (1214-1292); Drinks & Drinking; Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679); Philosophy & Philosophers; Science; Wine; Scientists