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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: COMMENCEMENT Matches Found: 39 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PARTING HYMN, by CHARLOTTE L. FORTEN GRIMKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When winter's royal robes of white Last Line: Are blest and freed from every thrall. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Commencement; Farewell; Graduation; Parting A PARTING WORD, by E. LYTTLETON FOX Poem Text First Line: We've worked a little, jim, my boy Last Line: Before we say good-by. Subject(s): Commencement; Farewell; Yale University; Graduation; Parting AT GRADUATING TIME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The graduates are going forth Subject(s): Commencement AT GRADUATION, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: While looking down the green highway Last Line: While looking down! Subject(s): Commencement; Upper Classes; Women; Graduation BABEL, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: We loved your lime-strained lecturns Last Line: And watch the halos rise. Subject(s): Commencement; Graduation BOARDING: 6. GRADUATION, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I notice how lush it is since I came when doorways Last Line: Phoned, her parents had already traded beauty for his land Subject(s): Commencement; Schools; India; Graduation; Students BOARDING: 6. GRADUATION, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I notice how lush it is since I came when doorways Last Line: Phoned, her parents had already traded beauty for his land Subject(s): Commencement; Schools CLASS HYMN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a nook among the alders Last Line: "as thought-stones stir our heart's ""farewell!" Subject(s): Commencement; Graduation CLASS SONG (A.H.S.), by MARJORIE H. DICK Poem Text First Line: Now on this day of days Last Line: Class of twenty-four! Subject(s): Commencement; Graduation COLLEGE DAYS, by CARLETON HUNNEMAN Poem Text First Line: Dear fellow, when our college days are over Last Line: Our mother fair! Subject(s): Commencement; Friendship; Graduation COLLEGE UNDER WATER, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who are these women and offices Last Line: Lies on the other side of the poem. Subject(s): Commencement; Exchange Students; Universities & Colleges; Writing & Writers; Graduation; Foreign Exchange Programs COMMENCEMENT, by MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER (1894-1981) Poem Source First Line: June sunlight slants across the path Subject(s): Commencement COMMENCEMENT POEM: 1, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four years! / four waves of that wide sea which rings the world Last Line: Wistfully musing over what we dreamed. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Commencement COMMENCEMENT POEM: 10, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well - well, / why need the hurrying brain to trouble itself? Last Line: Into the stillness of the unknown land. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Commencement COMMENCEMENT POEM: 2, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O hours of yale - vanished hours Last Line: Kissed all night by summer showers. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Commencement; Yale University COMMENCEMENT POEM: 3, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mornings were there, richer than of eastern story Last Line: Dumb and half-embarrassed clinging hand to hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Commencement COMMENCEMENT POEM: 4, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here at last to part - the darkness lying Last Line: Shall be gathered at our father's feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Commencement COMMENCEMENT POEM: 5. RETROSPECT, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not all which we have been Last Line: Worth more than all earth's joys to which we climb. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Commencement COMMENCEMENT POEM: 6, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pleasant path of youth that we have ranged Last Line: To grave our manhood on a brazen shield. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Commencement COMMENCEMENT POEM: 7, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, the world is before us, - let us go forth and live Last Line: Which the pale, dead lips of a truth smile back on a conquering lie. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Commencement COMMENCEMENT POEM: 8. THE FOUNTAIN, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were it not horrible? Last Line: Thou wert not always thus to stand? Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Commencement COMMENCEMENT POEM: 9. SOLITUDE, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All alone - alone Last Line: God shall speak to thee out of the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Variant Title(s): Solitude Subject(s): Commencement; Solitude; Loneliness EXTRACT FROM A POEM .. DEPARTURE OF THE SENIOR CLASS, YALE, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We shall go forth together. There will come Last Line: Who hath the living waters shall be there! Subject(s): Commencement; Yale University; Graduation FAST FOOD, by DON BARKIN Poem Source First Line: They have come in here Last Line: In their mumbling delight Subject(s): Commencement; Food And Eating GRADUATION DAY, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: June, o thou magical, whimsical june Last Line: Fair, even fair as these lilies to-night. Subject(s): Commencement; Women; Graduation GRADUATION PARTY, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: It embarrassed simon to walk Last Line: Molest him with an ashtray Subject(s): Commencement; Parties IN CAP AND GOWN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In cap and gown I saw her go Last Line: "with the new maid ye cannot know,- / in cap and gown" Subject(s): Admiration;commencement; Graduation INTRODUCTORY AND VALEDICTORY, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our patrons all! In form of simple lay Last Line: Fare you well. Subject(s): Commencement; Life; Schools; Soul; Graduation; Students INVOCATION, by FRANCESCA FALK MILLER Poem Source First Line: Help me to make this working day Subject(s): Commencement IVY SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Fare thee well, dear alma mater Subject(s): Commencement; Farewell; Ivy RUTH GOES BY, by EDNA TUCKER MUTH Poem Source First Line: Oh, winds, blow cool! Subject(s): Commencement SCHOOL, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: I can't handle another student! Last Line: Are there. The gym sparkles with flashbulbs. Red robed, manny %accepts his certificate with aplomb Subject(s): Children; Commencement; Orphans; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SONNET ON GRADUATION, by DONALD ELWIN STANFORD Poem Source First Line: When truth is felt all argument is done Subject(s): Commencement THE LAST MAN, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Back at commencement time he came Last Line: Reunion in another clime. Subject(s): Commencement; Dartmouth College; Reunions; Scholarship & Scholars; Graduation THE SENIOR, by IRENE H. WILSON Poem Text First Line: You will go out this june from cloistered halls Last Line: And you are gone. Subject(s): Commencement; Universities & Colleges; Graduation THERE IS NO DREAM SO SMALL YOU CANNOT MAKE IT, by MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER (1894-1981) Poem Source Subject(s): Commencement VALEDICTORY POEM, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gambol and song and jubilee are done Last Line: And may god speed our perilous career! Subject(s): Commencement; Harvard University; Graduation VERSES READ AT DINNER OF CLASS OF '82 OF BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fear that you would think me too affected Subject(s): Commencement; Graduation VERSES READ AT DINNER OF CLASS OF '82 OF BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fear that you would think me too affected Last Line: Godspeed your steps - and once again, godspeed Subject(s): Commencement |
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