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First Line: "seven years, seven happy, careless years"
Last Line: "within my heart, still shared with you"
Subject(s): Brotherhood;classmates;schools;togetherness; Schoolmates;students


A SONG OF TWENTY-NINE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The summer dawn is breaking
Last Line: Of the boys of '29!
Subject(s): Classmates; Harvard University; Schoolmates


A VOICE OF THE LOYAL NORTH, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We sing 'our country's' song tonight
Last Line: God keep us all! Amen!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Classmates; United States - History; Schoolmates


AFTER SCHOOL, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's strange to think how much may come from just / a little thing
Last Line: "and grandma says, ""oh, go to bed,—I've dropped another stitch!"
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Children; Classmates; Courtship; Grandparents; Love - Beginnings; Past; Childhood; Schoolmates; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


AFTER THE CURFEW, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The play is over. While the light
Last Line: Farewell! I let the curtain fall.
Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates


ALL HERE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not what we say or sing
Last Line: "in pace. How they loved each other!"
Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates


AMY, by GEORGE EDWARD PENDRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The schoolhouse squatted close against a hill
Last Line: Into the barley slop.
Subject(s): Classmates; Girls; Schools; Schoolmates; Students


AN IMPROMPTU; NOT PREMEDITATED, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The clock has struck noon; ere it thrice tell the hours
Last Line: Till our twentieth sweet summer was smiling again!
Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates


BENJAMIN PEIRCE; ASTRONOMER, MATHEMATICIAN, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For him the architect of all
Last Line: Whose sun is god, whose light is love.
Subject(s): Classmates; Peirce, Benjamin (1809-1880); Schoolmates


BILL AND JOE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, dear old comrade, you and I
Last Line: Hic jacet joe. Hic jacet bill.
Subject(s): Classmates; Friendship; Schoolmates


BOOKS ET VERITAS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was a youngster just going to school
Last Line: And I still am convinced that they are.
Subject(s): Classmates; Youth; Schoolmates


CHILDREN'S REPLY, by JULIA A. MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are little children
Last Line: They tell us what to do.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan
Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates


CLASS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We say things in this class. Like why it hurts
Last Line: Though she would never say so in class
Subject(s): Classmates; Schools


CLASS OF 1963: MATHENY, by RONALD W. WALLACE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rmemember me? The class jack-off
Last Line: The gold in your memory's coffer
Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron
Subject(s): Classmates; Clowns; Reunions


CLASS POEM, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like lotus-eaters, late disturbed from sleep
Last Line: The love of loyal hearts which thou must e'er command!
Subject(s): Classmates; Dartmouth College; Poetry & Poets; Scholarship & Scholars; Schoolmates


CLASS REUNION, by ELAINE EQUI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a dream I teach
Last Line: Stay,' they say. 'have a drink with us.'
Subject(s): Classmates; Friendship; Reunions; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


COUNTRY SCHOOL, by LORNA CROZIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Inside the schoolhouse
Last Line: Toward any kind of light
Subject(s): Classmates; Family Life; Prairies; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


DREAM OF OLD CLASSMATES, by VICTOR CONTOSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: August again 1961
Last Line: Which is now dark and silent
Subject(s): Classmates; Dreams; Past; Schools


EGRET: BOLINAS LAGOON, 1986, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Morning. Soap-shaving of a moon
Last Line: And makes of his leave-taking %a metaphor
Subject(s): Bolinas, California; Classmates; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


EVEN-SONG, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It may be, yes, it must be, time that brings
Last Line: All gathered here! All! All!
Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates


F.W.C., by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fast as the rolling seasons bring
Last Line: Dear friends, a classmate never dies!
Subject(s): Classmates; Crocker, Frederick William; Schoolmates


FOR A STUDENT SLEEPING IN A POETRY WORKSHOP, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've watched his eyelids sag, spring open
Subject(s): Classmates; Dreams; Schools; Sleep; Teaching & Teachers; Schoolmates; Nightmares; Students


FOR CLASS MEETING, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a pity and a shame
Last Line: Himself shall sunder it!
Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates


GEORGE LEVISON OR, THE SCHOOLFELLOWS, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The noisy sparrows in our clematis
Last Line: Supernal wisdom only knows how much.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Angels; Classmates; Death; Friendship; Funerals; Heaven; Memory; Soul; Schoolmates; Dead, The; Burials; Paradise


H.C.M. H.S. J.K.W, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dirge is played, the throbbing death-peal rung
Last Line: Welcome, ye shadowy forms, we count you still our own!
Subject(s): Classmates; Meriam, Horatio Cook; Sargent, Howard; Waite, Josiah Kendall; Schoolmates


HYMN FOR THE CLASS-MEETING, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou gracious power, whose mercy lends
Last Line: Thy peace be with us evermore!
Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates


I'M UGLY BUT I DON'T KNOW WHY, by SANDRA TAPPENDEN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I knot your gut and make you cry
Subject(s): Bullies; Classmates; Riddles


J.D.R., by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The friends that are, and friends that were
Last Line: He loved me -- and is gone!
Subject(s): Classmates; Death; Russell, James Dutton; Schoolmates; Dead, The


LEAR AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY SCHOOLS, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I tried with 51-little boys: -& 19 of us were admitted. And now I
Last Line: Good little boy
Subject(s): Boys; Classmates; Schools


LINES, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm ashamed, - that's the fact, - it's a pitiful case
Last Line: That youth fitted round in his circle of fire!
Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates


MARE RUBRUM, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flash out a stream of blood-red wine
Last Line: The wedding wine of galilee!
Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates


MONDAY MORNING AT THE TEACHER'S DESK, by KJELL ESPMARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only the one hand up
Last Line: He himself has twenty faces %all of them incomplete
Subject(s): Classmates; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


MY ANNUAL, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How long will this harp which you once loved to hear
Last Line: We echo its wrods, -- we are one! We are one!
Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates


ONCE MORE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Will I come? That is pleasant! I beg to inquire
Last Line: And then stand at ease, for my service is done.
Subject(s): Classmates; Memory; Schoolmates


OUR BANKER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old time, in whose bank we deposit our notes
Last Line: "till he squares his account with the last of ""the boys."
Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates


OUR INDIAN SUMMER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You'll believe me, dear boys, 't is a pleasure to rise
Last Line: While we've youth in our hearts we can never grow old!
Subject(s): Aging; Classmates; Schoolmates


OUR OLDEST FRIEND, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I give you the health of the oldest friend
Last Line: As bald and as wise and as tough as he!
Subject(s): Classmates; Friendship; Schoolmates


OUR SWEET SINGER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One memory trembles on our lips
Last Line: Thou shouldst thyself have sung!
Subject(s): Angier, Joseph; Classmates; Schoolmates


POEM FOR A CLASS RE-UNION, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whether we like it, or don't
Last Line: Shall rally together to dine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Aging; Classmates; Past; Reunions; Time; Schoolmates


QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, oh where are the visions of morning
Last Line: Till the last pebble is dry.
Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates


QUINTON, by ELIZABETH HOWARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have to run, an appointment
Last Line: I held him in my arms; %we cried together
Subject(s): Classmates; Physicians; Schools; Sympathy


REMEMBER - FORGET, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And what shall be the song tonight
Last Line: And down goes twenty-nine!
Subject(s): Aging; Classmates; Harvard University; Schoolmates


SCHOOL AND NATURE, by JEAN FOLLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Drawn on the blackboard
Last Line: The dark drops of its blood
Subject(s): Books; Classmates; Nature; Schools; Teaching And Teachers


SCHOOLFELLOWS, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where are my friends? I am alone
Last Line: Just eton boys grown heavy.
Subject(s): Classmates; Friendship; Life; Memory; Solitude; Schoolmates; Loneliness


SWEETNESS OF BOBBY HEFKA, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What do you make of little bobby hefka
Last Line: His eyes were wide open. Bobby hefka loved me
Subject(s): Classmates; Racism


THE BOYS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Has there any old fellow got mixed with the boys?
Last Line: Dear father, take care of thy children, the boys.
Subject(s): Classmates; Friendship; Old Age; Schoolmates


THE CLASS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We say things in this class. Like why it hurts
Last Line: Though she would never say so in a class
Subject(s): Classmates; Schools; Schoolmates; Students


THE CO-ED'S TRIAL BALANCE, by ANNA MANLEY GALT    Poem Text                    
First Line: This jaunty hat was topsy's
Last Line: These shoes...They must be mine!
Subject(s): Classmates; Girls; Schoolmates


THE GIRL FROM SOAP SUDS ROW, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh! Mistress margaret esther snow
Last Line: Found most of her genius in soap suds row.
Subject(s): Classmates; Poetry Readings; Poverty; Schoolmates


THE LAST SURVIVOR, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes! The vacant chairs tell sadly we are going, going fast
Last Line: And heaven bequeath their memories to him who loves us best!
Subject(s): Classmates; Death; Schoolmates; Dead, The


THE LONG VACATION, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the time the boys come home from school
Last Line: The roads of the world run heavenward every one.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Classmates; Homecoming; Mothers; Sons; War; World War I; Schoolmates; First World War


THE OLD CRUISER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's the old cruiser, 'twenty-nine
Last Line: A shadow hovered -- we all were there!
Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates


THE OLD MAN DREAMS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O for one hour of youthful joy!
Last Line: To please the gray-haired boys.
Subject(s): Classmates; Dreams; Marriage; Old Age; Schoolmates; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE OLD SCHOOLHOUSE (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "I sat an hour today, john"
Last Line: The faces that were gone
Subject(s): Classmates;schools;time; Schoolmates;students


THE OLD TUNE; THIRTY-SIXTH VARIATION, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This shred of song you bid me bring
Last Line: "good-night, my dear old fellows!"
Subject(s): Classmates; Death; Schoolmates; Dead, The


THE SHADOWS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How many have gone?' was the question of old
Last Line: Lo! The shadows! The shadows! Room -- room for them all!
Subject(s): Classmates; Death; Schoolmates; Dead, The


THE SMILING LISTNER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Precisely. I see it. You all want to say
Last Line: The flowers that have faded bloom fairest of all!
Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates


THE SOPHOMORE, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When, catching his own glance, he analysed
Last Line: Condemned himself as well, and owns — defeat.
Subject(s): Boys; Classmates; Scholarship & Scholars; Schoolmates


THE SWEETNESS OF BOBBY HEFKA, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What do you make of little bobby hefka
Subject(s): Classmates; Racism; Schoolmates; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE VILLAGE SCHOOL, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: With the golden moonlight streaming
Last Line: In that dear old village school.
Subject(s): Children; Classmates; Memory; Schools; Childhood; Schoolmates; Students


TO -, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I said - 'tis very late we meet
Last Line: And sometimes think of me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth
Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates


VOYAGE OF THE GOOD SHIP UNION, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis midnight: through my troubled dream
Last Line: One nation, evermore!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Classmates; United States - History; Schoolmates


WHAT I HAVE COME FOR, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have come with my verses - I think I may claim
Last Line: I have told what I came for; my ditty is done.
Subject(s): Classmates; Schoolmates