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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: EDUCATION Matches Found: 520 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ...WATER AND THE WORD SUICIDE, by KATE SONTAG Poem Source First Line: While the rest of us were asleep Last Line: In branches, about to take their lives into their wings Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers 1917 - THE WAR CLASS, by GEROID TANQUARY ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: Down the long white road beneath the / moon Last Line: One great humanity? Subject(s): Guns; Military Education; Soldiers; War; Youth; Military Schools A DIALOGUE ON NATUREM POWER AND USE OF HUMAN LEARNING, IN RELIGION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rust. Yes, academicus, you love to hear Last Line: Can set in a more proper light—pray do. Subject(s): Learning; Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools A HIDDEN LIFE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proudly the youth, sudden with manhood crowned Last Line: Arose and died upon the listener's ear. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Education; Family Life; Farm Life; God; Love; Quiet Life; Dead, The; Relatives; Agriculture; Farmers A PLAIN ACCOUNT OF THE NATURE AND DESIGN OF TRUE RELIGION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is religion? Why it is a cure Last Line: And what religion is they only know. Subject(s): Religion; Religious Education; Theology; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools A POET'S EDUCATION, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In fact, the classroom overlooked a street Last Line: His dusty classrom beckoned, high aloft Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Medical Students; Poetry & Poets; Education; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men A REFLECTIVE RETROSPECT, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis twenty years, and something more Last Line: A member of the common council! Subject(s): Education A REMARKABLE ADVENTURE, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was at my bedroom table Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students A STRICTURE ON BISHOP WARBURTON'S DOCTRINE OF GRACE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Writing or scripture, sacred or profane Last Line: To deify a book is bibliolatry. Subject(s): Bible; Clergy; Holy Ghost; Religious Education; Warburton, William (1698-1779); Writing & Writers; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Holy Spirit; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools ACADEMIC KIDS, by JANET MCCANN Poem Source First Line: Your father asks you, how many Last Line: And never write our names Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AD ASTRA: 162, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: His life and teaching cannot be in vain Last Line: What hand like his to lead us thro' the gloom? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Graves; Jesus Christ; Religious Education; Tombs; Tombstones; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools ADJUNCT, by BROCK DETHIER Poem Source First Line: With a bartleby of arts %and a doctorate in denial Last Line: While I'm teaching your replacement %how to climb Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ADJUNCT FACULTY MEETING, by TERRY KENNEDY Poem Source First Line: We worked hard Last Line: For our fall assignments Subject(s): Education ADULT EDUCATION, by RICHARD CECIL Poem Source First Line: Slumped in their desks like hostages Last Line: And I tell myself I'll die in paris Subject(s): Education, Adult ADVICE TO A YOUNG POET, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To catch a poem %to seize it %like something falling Last Line: On its own terms Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ADVICE TO YOUNG WRITERS, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of the things I've repeated to writing Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students ADVICE TO YOUNG WRITERS, by RON PADGETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of the things I've repeated to writing Last Line: That unexpected something, or even if you don't Subject(s): Education; Schools AFRAID, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Why slew they workman jesus Last Line: Because they were afraid! Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jesus Christ; Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools AFTER AN OLD PICTURE OF SCHOOL HOUSE CHILDREN, by WILL HOCHMAN Poem Source First Line: Attending cures snobbery and mind Last Line: The point that there could have been more %and surely was Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AFTERWORD: AN ELDERLY WOMAN FALLS ASLEEP AT A POETRY READING, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: And those of us behind her %can't help but smile Last Line: The rewards of poetry are financial rather than spiritual Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AFTERWORD: BUTTONS, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: For years, I've wanted to write a poem Last Line: Those who are listening carefully, or doodling, or nodding %off Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AFTERWORD: POEMS, LIKE CHILDREN, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: Little things, they are neither as good %nor as hard as we want them to be Last Line: Variation on the writer's block poem myself Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AFTERWORD: THE ART OF PEDAGOGY/ THE PEDAGOGY OF ART: THE ART OF PEDA.., by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: It starts, perhaps, with a notation, %a few words scrawled in the margins Last Line: Guidelines that I wouldn't want my students to follow Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AFTERWORD: THE PEDAGOGY OF ART, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: Just this once, I will resist narrative Last Line: Alleluia as her program %plainly states, gloria deus Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AFTERWORD: THE YEAR MY POETRY BECAME A FAD, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: It was the coup of a lifetime for a minor poet Last Line: We need to pay close attention to what that story is telling us Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AFTERWORD:INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPOSING A HAIKU, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: Make it exact: the ribs should show Last Line: As evidenced in the following poem, which my thesis director %found particularly appalling Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AGGRESSIVE EDUCATION, by RICHARD O'CONNELL Poem Source First Line: Priscus, to put me down , prods me Last Line: Yes, priscus, every tot's a poet %and every illiterate equivelent to homer Subject(s): Education ALL HAIL DIGREDI, by ANGUS WOODWARD Poem Source First Line: According to legend, most students signed up for dr. Digredi's Last Line: Loved ones hardly recognized them Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AMANDA, by CAROL DIGGORY SHIELDS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I think amanda likes me Last Line: And a total cootie-head Subject(s): Education; Schools AMONG CHILDREN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk among the rows of bowed heads Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students AMONG CHILDREN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk among the rows of bowed heads Last Line: So I bow to them here and whisper %all I know, all I will never know Subject(s): Education; Schools AMPHIBIANS HAVE FEELINGS TOO, by GERALD LOCKLIN Poem Source First Line: There was this fine guy named steve odin Last Line: Why have you been writing frog on my paper %all semester?' Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AN INVITATION, by MRS. RALPH BLACK Poem Text First Line: I hear my sunday - school bell ringing Last Line: So come along to my sunday school with me. Subject(s): Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools ART ELECTIVE, by STEPHEN DALE COREY Poem Source First Line: Reflex of memory thrusts %the strong-voweled name rouault Last Line: The writhings of facts made real Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ART LESSON, by CRAIG CHALLENDER Poem Source First Line: ...Eschews the quotidian,' he was saying Last Line: In spite of everything, she liked to read Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AS THE PLANET CONTINUES TO STRUGGLE UNDER .. ITS COMPEXITIES, by CHRISTYL EVERLEIGH Poem Source First Line: Our children look deep into wells Last Line: As we follow their pointing fingers Subject(s): Education AT NAVAJO MONUMENT VALLEY TRIBAL SCHOOL, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The football field rises Last Line: Wild horses, wild horses, wild horses Subject(s): Americans; Education; Schools; United States; Students; America AT NAVAJO MONUMENT VALLEY TRIBAL SCHOOL, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The football field rises Last Line: Wild horses, wild horses,wild horses Subject(s): Americans; Education; Schools; United States AT NURSERY SCHOOL, by SUSAN BUTLER NEWBERG Poem Source First Line: Katie ate dog food Last Line: Tasted so good Subject(s): Education AUTOBIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a child Subject(s): Children; Education; Poetry & Poets; Schools; Childhood; Students AUTOBIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a child Last Line: Writing these poems! %imagine! Subject(s): Children; Education; Poetry And Poets; Schools AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF TULIPS, by HOLLY IGLESIAS Poem Source First Line: The book's overdue, but I can't let it go; sigh at the mere sight of Last Line: Orders us to decline granum. I just want to go home and write my own %book: the dictionary unraveled Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AUTUMN BEGINS IN MARTINS FERRY, OHIO, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the shreve high football stadium Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Autumn; Education; Football; Industry; Labor & Laborers; High Schools; Fall; Work; Workers AUTUMN BEGINS IN MARTINS FERRY, OHIO, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the shreve high football stadium Last Line: And gallop terribly against each other's bodies Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Autumn; Education; Football; Industry; Labor And Laborers; Schools; Seasons; Sports BAD CASE OF THE GIGGLES, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: I found a book of poems Last Line: A giggling holiday Subject(s): Education; Schools BAR MITZVAH LESSONS, by MARVIN DIOGENES Poem Source First Line: I took bar mitzvah lessons from mr. Bodzin Last Line: His knowing assessment %of how far I had to go Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BARBIE SAYS MATH IS HARD, by KYOKO MORI Poem Source First Line: As a boy, I'd still have asked Last Line: Her daughters: yes, math was hard %but not because we were girls Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Education; Popular Culture - United States; Schools; Women BEAST ON THE BRINK, by JANE BARNES Poem Source First Line: When you are sitting across from me reading Last Line: While you were reading Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BEATING, by TERRY RANDOLPH HUMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Everybody knew clifton cockerell was not half bright Last Line: That's real: how, when we come to it, %we stand amazed but take the blow, transfigured, idiot Alternate Author Name(s): Hummer, T. R. Subject(s): Education; Schools BEATING UP BILLY MURPHY IN FIFTH GRADE, by KATHLEEN AGUERO Poem Source First Line: Who knows how it started? Last Line: Remembering his soft hands, his thin eyelashes %the schoolgirl in him Subject(s): Education; Schools BECKY'S MIRROR, by DEAN NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: I know I had on those heavy, steel-toed boots-my legs felt like Last Line: Said, 'see that, dad? That's me. It's a me-er' Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BEFORE EVERYTHING, by DEVAN COOK Poem Source First Line: 6:50 a.M., before everything %except coffee and newspaper Last Line: Wording your own time %fill it Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BEGINNERS, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year miss tynes enrolled our class Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students BEGINNERS, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year miss tynes enrolled our class Last Line: Might lean toward it and whisper, %until it was more ancient, with all it knew Subject(s): Education; Schools BIG UP, by LARRY STRAUSS Poem Source First Line: That first month no one would do my homework. Instead, I'd Last Line: Privacy I've changed them Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BLIZZARD, by CYNTHIA MILLER COFFEL Poem Source First Line: Julie seaton can't sleep. She's standing in her living room in Last Line: And she thinks, I'll never get to sleep Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BONFIRE, by PAUL B. JANECZKO Poem Source First Line: That summer %school ended Last Line: Eighth grade dance %away Subject(s): Education; Schools BOY IN THE PARK, by ROSEMARY WILLEY Poem Source First Line: I was told not to touch him, not to let him Last Line: And letting go a string of sounds above the park Subject(s): Education; Schools BRAIN DRAIN, by MAX FATCHEN Poem Source First Line: The dinosaurs did not remain Last Line: That tiny brains are still around Subject(s): Education; Schools BRAINS AND BOOKS, by DIANE PAYNE Poem Source First Line: Walking back home, daypack filled with books, I see grandpa Last Line: In a house with bookshelves, and I'll still be playing aggrava- %tion with grandpa Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BRING YOUR OWN LUNCH, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: Don't eat school lunches Last Line: The meatloaf sure will Subject(s): Education; Schools BROTHER ALVIN, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the seat that we shared in the second grade Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students BROTHER ALVIN, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the seat that we shared in the second grade Last Line: Hoping to find some new spelling %of your name Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Education; Schools BROTHERS: 8. '............IS GOD.', by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So. / having no need to speak Last Line: The rest is silence. Subject(s): Brothers; God; Religious Education; Silence; Half-brothers; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools BUCHINGER LIMBS, by GARY FINCKE Poem Source First Line: In the year I wrote small, everything Last Line: The smallest words will drive you blind Subject(s): Education; Parents; Writing And Writers BULLY, by MARTIN ESPADA Poet's Biography First Line: In the school auditorium / the theodore roosevelt statue Subject(s): Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Hispanic Americans; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Latinos; Students BULLY, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the school auditorium %the theodore roosevelt statue Last Line: Across the victorian mustache %and monocle Subject(s): Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Hispanic Americans; Minorities - United States; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations BUSING, by JAMES HARMS Poem Source First Line: Fog sifts through the rising light Last Line: He looks away. Being wrong %is what we have in common Subject(s): Education; Schools CALIFORNIA AD MAN CELEBRATES HIS ART, by DAVID ALPAUGH Poem Source First Line: For those of you %who come here Last Line: These are just a few of the qualities %that link us to the great tradition Subject(s): Education CAN YOU PREDICT THE PAST? CAN YOU REMEMBER THE FUTURE?, by JANET MCCANN Poem Source First Line: My son tells me hitler was elected Last Line: I wish I could've been there Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CASE FOR LITERATURE, by DARRELL G. H. SCHRAMM Poem Source First Line: Peace without the sweat of dance Last Line: Someone reads. The stories we need Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CATATONIA; IN A CLASSROOM FOR THE SLOW TO LEARN, by CLENN REED Poem Source First Line: Jason, look at this book, I say Last Line: Then turn and head back out to sea Subject(s): Education; Schools CATHERINE, by AMY TURNER BUSHNELL Poem Source First Line: Thin face, gray eyes Last Line: And quit your father, %inquire Subject(s): Education CATHOLICS, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In third grade all the girls got confirmed Last Line: To your beautiful blessed mother in blue Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Education; Schools; Women CHALK DUST AND URBAN RENEWAL, by TRISTA CORNELIUS Poem Source First Line: A memory: a long, cavernous classroom. The teacher stands at Last Line: And grit, and, like communion, passing it around for everyone %to taste Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CHEER LEADING SQUAD, by DONALD A. SEARS Poem Source First Line: And there they were Last Line: We really like your pants Subject(s): Education CHEERLEADERS, by LISA COFFMAN Poem Source First Line: Out of the american provinces Last Line: Merely looked at him, then went on with their reading Subject(s): Education; Schools CHILDBEARING HIPS, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Around the workshop table in this advanced Last Line: Not touch, no apologies permitted here Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CHILDHOOD IDEOGRAM, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lay my head sideways on the desk Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students CHILDHOOD IDEOGRAM, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lay my head sideways on the desk Last Line: I always thought he wouldn't dare be seen Subject(s): Education; Schools CHILDREN'S LIT, by DOROTHEA KENNY Poem Source First Line: Higgeldy piggeldy, children's lit Last Line: Our hearts are filled with the thought of it, %higgeldy piggeldy, children's lit Subject(s): Education CITY COLLEGE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: 5:30 and the winter dark Last Line: Gargoyles smirk into the dusk. Subject(s): City College Of New York; Education CITY SQUARE, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: I had a diploma Last Line: Since they don't like diplomas, not anywhere there. Subject(s): Cities; Education; Job Hunting; Universities & Colleges; Urban Life CLASS DISMISSED, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: We have broken all the blackboards Last Line: There won't be school no more Subject(s): Education; Schools CLASS REUNION, by ANN RUSSELL DARR Poem Source First Line: Ring the old school bell Last Line: Now I will take a red pencil %and re-vein my heart Subject(s): Education; Schools CLEAR AS MUD, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: I go to bed each morning Last Line: When I am born next year Subject(s): Education; Schools COMFORTING REFLECTIONS OF LEARNING DEEP, by S. M. WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: I cannot boast of learning deep Last Line: Some fifteen hundred men in college. Subject(s): Education COMING OF AGE IN MICHIGAN, by DINA LOMBARDI Poem Source First Line: I felt william in the wind Last Line: Flew away to flirt %with your next adventure Subject(s): Education COMMA SPLICE, by WILLIAM M. RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: For farmers it is a wall heaved down Last Line: A start stops a hope never finished Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers COMMENT ON UNSAVORY ASPECT OF THE LOS ANGELES POETRY SCENE, by EUGENE W. R. GALLUN Poem Source First Line: These banshees from the college podium Last Line: To the bottom of our society %never to be heard from again Subject(s): Education COMPULSION, by JANE BARNES Poem Source First Line: Yes, you will, you will %write down what you hear Last Line: With questionable future access- %this is all Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CONFESSION, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: I have a brief confession Last Line: That I am such a slob Subject(s): Education; Schools CONTENTS OF THE BIBLE, by PETER HEYLYN Poem Text First Line: If thou art merry, here are airs Last Line: First in the book, and next in thee. Subject(s): Bible; God; Jews; Religious Education; Judaism; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE, by BILL DODDS Poem Source First Line: My friends have not seen london Last Line: But I'm glad I had them on Subject(s): Education; Schools CREATIVE WRITING AT JEFFERSON CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION, by AMORAK HUEY Poem Source First Line: Here are the rules Last Line: Soft-gray and smudging at the touch Subject(s): Education; English Language; Prisons And Prisoners; Schools; Teaching And Teachers; Writing And Writers CREATURE IN THE CLASSROOM, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It appeared inside our classroom Last Line: And glopp...It gobbled teacher Subject(s): Education; Schools CRUEL BOYS, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First day. Jackie and I walking in leaves Last Line: And shouts, 'you ain't nothing but a hound dog,' %as the spitballs begin to fly Subject(s): Education; Schools DAVID TALAMANTEZ ON THE LAST DAY OF SECOND GRADE, by ROSEMARY CATACALOS Poem Source First Line: David talamantez, whose mother is at work, leaves his mark Last Line: And written in giant letters, blue ink, yes! David, yes! Subject(s): Education; Schools DAWNING, by PAUL PALOMINO Poem Source First Line: An epiphany opens its petals Last Line: And sends trembles through the earth Subject(s): Education DAY-TRIPPING, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In that dark classroom Last Line: Who won't make me pay nothin' %for all the shit I want? Subject(s): Education; Schools DEATH OF READING, by DARRELL FIKE Poem Source First Line: Damn the inventor of the highlighter pen Last Line: Suspended above the page like a tiny guillotine blade Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEDICATION, by REBECCA FUSFELD Poem Text First Line: My fount of beauty this year, oh god Last Line: Of thy teachings. Subject(s): Churches; God; Religious Education; Worship; Cathedrals; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools DEEP BLUE, by HOLLY IGLESIAS Poem Source First Line: Seeds extracted one by one from la cascara, the membrane sharp around Last Line: One vulval bloom. Squeals, !Ay honey, esta to die for! Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEFLOWERING, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life deflowers itself Last Line: Upon her breasts Subject(s): Education DEFLOWERING, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life deflowers itself Last Line: Puts his hands %upon her breast Subject(s): Education DICTION, by HILDA RAZ Poem Source First Line: God is in the details Last Line: Her blue arms. The kids say chutes Subject(s): Education; Schools DICTION LESSON, by PATRICIA VALDATA Poem Source First Line: A writing workshop, held in a tent Last Line: Discusses the merits of moving from %the general to the specific Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DIFFICULT MATH TEST, by ROBERT SCOTELLARO Poem Source First Line: Whoopie! A test! Whoopie! A test! Last Line: To the joys of a difficult test! Subject(s): Education; Schools DIRECTIONS FOR RESISTING THE SAT, by RICHARD HAGUE Poem Source First Line: Do not believe in october or may Last Line: Make your marks on everything Subject(s): Education; Schools DISPOSABLE, NO RETURN, by AMY TURNER BUSHNELL Poem Source First Line: We have rid ourselves of our children Last Line: A thousand iphigenias launch our tall ships Subject(s): Education DIVINE LOVE; THE ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTIC OF TRUE RELIGION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Religion's meaning when I would recal Last Line: A heav'n within, in other words, above. Subject(s): Love; Religion; Religious Education; Theology; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools DON'T PINCH!, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: When I got on the school bus Last Line: And you're not wearing green.' Subject(s): Education; Schools DONNE CH'AVETE INTELLETTO D'AMORE; AN ELEGY FOR AMERICAN SCHOOL SYSTEM, by JOHN CIARDI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mary and I were having an emotion Last Line: O intellect of love, may I prove worthy? Subject(s): Education DONNE CH'AVETE INTELLETTO D'AMORE; AN ELEGY FOR AMERICAN SCHOOL SYSTEM, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mary and I were having an emotion Last Line: O intellect of love, may I prove worthy Subject(s): Education DRAWING HANDS, by GREG WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Way on back in the reign of mrs. Duke Last Line: Which is what I came in out of for Subject(s): Education; Schools DREAM OF TEACHING, by KENNETH M. AUTREY Poem Source First Line: Each fall I know the dream will come Last Line: Books reappear and bloom again Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DRILL, 1957, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL Poem Source First Line: If we could angle the sunbeam of the song Last Line: Before it was dust, before it was struck through with light Subject(s): Education; Schools DROPOUT, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grundy and hoagland and all the rest who ganged Last Line: And never went back again Subject(s): Education; Schools DUDLEY SARGENT, R.A.; ON HIS DIRECTORSHIP HARVARD GYMNASIUM, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sargent there is who with brushes and paint Last Line: The work of one man, dudley sargent, r. A. Subject(s): Education, Physical; Sargent, Dudley Allen (1849-1924) EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I want to educate him early Last Line: Language to language, house to house Subject(s): Children; Education; Childhood EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I want to educate him early Last Line: Hello good-bye hello good-bye hello good-bye Subject(s): Children; Education EASY MARKS, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: Our son's phone call Last Line: Because we are so fond of him. Subject(s): Education; Universities & Colleges EDDIE EDWARDS, by CAROL DIGGORY SHIELDS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Eddie edwards runs around Last Line: And I wish that I could be just like eddie Subject(s): Education; Schools EDUCATION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had lived many years when first I met Last Line: But oh, to feel the youth my age could hold! Subject(s): Death; Education; Experience; Grief; Knowledge; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness EDUCATION, by VIRGINIA WOODS MACKALL Poem Text First Line: God is good, and teaches me Last Line: For not trusting him too much. Subject(s): Education; God; Religion; Theology EDUCATION, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now to the dry hillside Subject(s): Education; Knowledge; Nature; Teaching & Teachers EDUCATION, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now to the dry hillside Last Line: Your speaking lips and moving hand Subject(s): Education; Knowledge; Nature; Teaching And Teachers EDUCATION BY STONE, by JOAO CABRAL DE MELO NETO Poem Source First Line: An education by stone: through lessons Last Line: Born stone, penetrates the soul Subject(s): Education; Learning; Schools; Teaching And Teachers EDUCATION; A POEM WRITTEN IN IMITATION OF SPENSER'S FAERY QUEEN, by GILBERT WEST Poem Text First Line: O goodly discipline! From heaven ysprong Last Line: Those sculptured chiefs did show, and their great lives explain. Subject(s): Education EDUCATIONAL COMPETITION, by DINA LOMBARDI Poem Source First Line: Tatyan's staccato words entrechat Last Line: You are the best friend %I ever had Subject(s): Education ENGLISH 108, by PHEBE DAVIDSON Poem Source First Line: Look at her %stone glass-eye bitch Last Line: Instead of just %paper and %words Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ENGLISH IS A PAIN! (PANE?, by SHIRLEE CURLEE BINGHAM Poem Source First Line: Rain, reign, rein Last Line: And leave this mess with ewe! %(you? Subject(s): Education; Schools ENGLISH TEACHER'S BAD DAY, by GRACE BAUER Poem Source First Line: Something there is %that doesn't love a wall Last Line: To define the elements of tragedy %in two-hundred-fifty words Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers EVERYTHING WE NEED, by DEVAN COOK Poem Source First Line: A few days after christmas I was at my parents' house, standing Last Line: Say it again,' she said. ' say it. Say it' Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers EXCEPTIONAL CHILD, by SUSAN BUTLER NEWBERG Poem Source First Line: I watched your face today Last Line: Life right for you - to make %your deaf bones hear Subject(s): Education EXCERPT FROM MANNIFEST MANNERS, by GERALD VIZENOR Poem Source First Line: Native american indian literatures have been over burdened with Last Line: Ries, are marooned as obscure moral simulations in translations Subject(s): Anthropology; Books; Native Americans - Education; Story-telling; Translating And Interpreting EXCUSES, EXCUSES, by JOYCE ARMOR Poem Source First Line: I couldn't do my homework Last Line: No, I really don't see how Subject(s): Education; Schools EXECUTION, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last time I saw my high school football coach Subject(s): Education; Schools; Sports; Students EXECUTION, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last time I saw my high school football coach Last Line: Machine-like fury, perfect execution Subject(s): Education; Schools; Sports F.R.H.'S THANKS; WITH A PENCIL-CASE FOR HER BIBLE-CLASS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou who gatherest with loving arm Last Line: For ever be thy blessings o'er them streaming! Subject(s): Bible; Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools FAGGOT, by THOMAS SAYERS ELLIS Poem Source First Line: We nicknamed robert Last Line: Mark with marks %of his own Subject(s): Education; Schools FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 1, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A strange discourse, in all impartial views Last Line: A god-like love embracing ev'ry man. Subject(s): Advice; Friends, Religious Society Of; Mankind; Reason; Religious Education; Sermons; Teaching & Teachers; Quakers; Human Race; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Educators; Professors FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 2, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No office seems more sacred and august Last Line: And from the sermon vindicate the text. Subject(s): Advice; Holy Ghost; Religious Education; Sermons; Speech; Talk; Teaching & Teachers; Holy Spirit; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Oratory; Orators; Educators; Professors FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 3, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You wonder'd much, why any man of parts Last Line: By these important verses of st. John. Subject(s): Bible, N.t. Gospels; Religious Education; Schools; Speech; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Students; Oratory; Orators FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 4, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gospel's simpler language being writ Last Line: Of brisker tempers—let us next enquire. Subject(s): Bible; Bible, N.t. Gospels; Books; Language; Religious Education; Writing & Writers; Reading; Words; Vocabulary; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools FAMILIAR EPISTLES TO A FRIEND: 6, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By 'reformation from the church of rome' Last Line: May be the subject of succeeding rhimes. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Christianity; Churches; Learning; Religious Reformers; Religious Education; Wisdom; Reading; Cathedrals; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools FANNY: 118, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And though by no means a bas bleu, she had Last Line: And dr. Chalmers' sermons of a sunday; %and woodworth's cabinet, and the new salmagundi Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Education; Literature FANNY: 121, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In all the modern languages she was Last Line: For she had taken lessons, twice a week. %for a full month in each; and she could speak Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Education, Adult; Language; Polish Language; Teaching And Teachers FANNY: 122, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: French and italian equally as well Last Line: Was quite familiar in low dutch and spanish, %and thought of studying modern greek and danish Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Education; Knowledge; Language FANNY: 143, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man of consequence and notoriety Last Line: Keep on our country's altars bright and burning Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Education FANNY: 45, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last words were beyond his comprehension Last Line: Taught so profoundly in columbia college Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Columbia University; Education FANNY: 48, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In short, in every thing we far outshine them Last Line: God bless the corporation and the mayor! Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Education; Progress FEARS OF THE EIGHTH GRADE, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I ask what things they fear Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students FEARS OF THE EIGHTH GRADE, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I ask what things they fear Last Line: The dead rising from the boiling seas Subject(s): Education; Schools FEMALE EDUCATION FOR GREECE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why break'st thou thus the tomb of ancient night Last Line: "give them the book of god?"" immortal shades! -- we will." Subject(s): Education; Greece; Women; Greeks FIELD TRIP TO MY FIRST TIME, by JAMES HARMS Poem Source First Line: No one called from the foot of the stairs Last Line: Someone dead. It was my first time Subject(s): Education; Schools FIELD TRIP TO THE ROLLING MILL, 1950, by PATRICIA DOBLER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sister monica has her hands full Subject(s): Education; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Schools; Work; Workers; Students FIELD TRIP TO THE ROLLING MILL, 1950, by PATRICIA DOBLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sister monica has her hands full Last Line: To her as she watches them learn their future Subject(s): Education; Industry; Labor And Laborers; Schools FIRST GRADE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the play amy didn't want to be Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students FIRST GRADE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the play amy didn't want to be Last Line: So amy was amy, and we didn't have the play %and sharon cried Subject(s): Education; Schools FIRST NIGHT OF CLASS, by LAURA APOL Poem Source First Line: Nothing begins with us- %not this story or any other Last Line: Our words the edge of a knife %we are just beginning to hone Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FIRST PIANO TEACHER, by AVA LEAVELL HAYMON Poem Source First Line: Earnest mrs. Clinkscales, the first piano teacher Last Line: He'd put on airs for the rest of his life! Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FIRST PRACTICE, by GARY GILDNER Poem Full Text First Line: After the doctor checked to see / we weren't ruptured Subject(s): Education; Hate; Poetry & Poets; Schools; Sports; Students FIRST PRACTICE, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: After the doctor checked to see %we weren't ruptured Last Line: But I don't want to see %any marks when you're dressed, %he said. He said, now Subject(s): Education; Hate; Poetry And Poets; Schools; Sports FISH, SPRING, WINDOW, by LEONORA SMITH Poem Source First Line: These students, dopey with spring-their heads Last Line: But all shimmery as aquarium fish, or the rainbow halos of %circus angels Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FIVE PARAGRAPH ESSAY, by LEONORA SMITH Poem Source First Line: A five paragraph essay %reminds me of a blind date Last Line: Worth taking home from school Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FLASH CARDS, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In math I was the whiz kid, keeper Subject(s): Education; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Students; Educators; Professors FLASH CARDS, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In math I was the whiz kid, keeper Last Line: Ten, I kept saying, I'm only ten Subject(s): Education; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FLAT OUT, by JACQUELINE BRICE-FINCH Poem Source First Line: A fine weariness %penetrates %to my bones Last Line: Finally %the voice of reason %penetrates: %goin' home %chile, %an'get %some rest Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FLATTENED BY FLATTERY, by TERRY RASMUSSEN Poem Source First Line: He catches me off guard Last Line: Foolish, silly old woman Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FOR DR. FRANCISCO PECCORINI, ASSASSINATED ... MARCH 15, 1989, by HEIDI ZIOLOWSKI Poem Source First Line: How fondly I remember metaphysics with you! Last Line: Without the world to cloud your vision Subject(s): Education; Schools FOR THE CHEERLEADERS OF GARFIELD HIGH, by COLLEEN JOHNSON MCELROY Poem Source First Line: In pom-poms and perfume Last Line: On a mud floor %wearing mink Subject(s): Education; Schools FOR W.H. AUDEN AND ALAIN BOMBARD, by SKIP EISIMINGER Poem Source First Line: One may survive %a wreck at sea Last Line: A poem may be said %to have saved the day Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FREDDIE, by PHIL BOLSTA Poem Source First Line: I don't like doing homework Last Line: That I have ever had! Subject(s): Education; Schools FRESHMEN LIT & COMP, by STEPHEN DALE COREY Poem Source First Line: Wednesday evenings rooted to his place Last Line: The aura that holds around the perfect forging Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers GEE, YOU'RE SO BEAUTIFUL THAT IT'S STARTING TO RAIN, by RICHARD BRAUTIGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, marcia / I want your long blonde beauty Last Line: "marcia’s long blonde beauty Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students GEE, YOU'RE SO BEAUTIFUL THAT IT'S STARTING TO RAIN, by RICHARD BRAUTIGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, marcia %I want your long blonde beauty Last Line: Marcia's long blonde beauty %a+! Subject(s): Education; Schools GEOGRAPHY LESSONS, by GRACE BAUER Poem Source First Line: What's nebraska? Asks adam Last Line: I am still trying to imagine into place Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers GEOMETRY, by KEN KESEY Poem Source First Line: If you draw a line precisely Last Line: The precision in our loving %is the lethal kind Subject(s): Education; Geometry GLORIA, by JOYCE ARMOR Poem Source First Line: Gloria was perfect Last Line: I like her better now Subject(s): Education; Schools GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE, by JOEL BLAU Poem Text First Line: In the sadness of your eyes Last Line: Teach me to humbly bow to god's great will. Subject(s): Faith; God; Jews; Religious Education; Belief; Creed; Judaism; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools GOD'S STOPWATCH, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Kevin hillman asked sister agatha Last Line: Patty and I headed straight to the closet %and started counting Subject(s): Education; Schools GOING FULL-COURT, by JOHN REPP Poem Source First Line: Johnnie redfern would rise above Last Line: To michelle brown looking back at him, %her feet over the tar Subject(s): Education; Schools GRADE SCHOOL I ATTENDED WAS NEXT TO A SLAUGHTERHOUSE, by CHRIS LLEWELLYN Poem Source First Line: My feet pass cupola, weathercock Last Line: We hummed in chains Subject(s): Education; Schools GRADUATION GOWNS, by JULIA VINOGRAD Poem Source First Line: Those graduation gowns should be worn Last Line: What we forget, they will not remember Subject(s): Education GRAMMARIAN, by DARRELL G. H. SCHRAMM Poem Source First Line: Is wind a noun or a verb?' Last Line: And refused to look at deciduous trees Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers GRATITUDE TO OLD TEACHERS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we stride or stroll across the frozen lake Last Line: Beneath us the teachers, and around us the stillness. Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Education; Faith; Growth; Maturity; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Belief; Creed; Students; Educators; Professors GULF ENCOUNTER, by LUCY DEUTSCH Poem Source First Line: The children in tel aviv are trapped Last Line: And repeat themselves with hussein %I ask you Subject(s): Education; Jews HASKELL, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in kansas is a school Last Line: With head hung, to the dormitory. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Kansas; Native Americans - Education HEAD SHOE CAJUN, by KEITH FITZGERALD WALSH Poem Source First Line: First grade. %hello class. Sarah gave me an apple. She's very good, isn't she? Last Line: Nature of the entity's origin. Discuss Subject(s): Education HIGH SCHOOL BAND IN SEPTEMBER, by REED WHITTEMORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On warm days in september the high school band Last Line: A great many high school bands beat a great many drums, %a nd the silences after their partings are Variant Title(s): The High School Ban Subject(s): Education; Schools HIGHLIGHTS, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: Drunk, her eyes would water and sparkle Last Line: Who used to be married to her sister Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers HIS OWN SONGS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: A man who knows the streets and speaks to angels Last Line: He'll die singing his own songs %of praise and joy. Subject(s): Education; Independence; Singing And Singers HISTORY OF SEXUAL PREFERENCE, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are walking our very public attraction Last Line: Considering my healthy body, how I might use it in the service %of the country of my pleasure Subject(s): Education; Schools HISTORY TEACHER, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trying to protect his students' innocence Last Line: Designed to make the enemy nod off Subject(s): Education; Schools HOCKEY SEASON, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Maples, willows, sycamores hid the field Last Line: Pressed against one another %in the cold november air Subject(s): Education; Schools HOME, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I neither remember / the first time Last Line: And shot me with / america Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students HOME, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I neither remember %the first time Last Line: And shot me with %america Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Education; Schools HOMECOMING, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the high school football game, the boys Last Line: Smelling the flowers pressed against her neck. Subject(s): Education; Fathers & Daughters; Homecoming; Schools; Students HOMEWORK! OH, HOMEWORK!, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Homework! Oh, homework! %I hate you! You stink! Subject(s): Education; Schools HOMO ERECTUS, by ERIC PAPP Poem Source First Line: Strange beings we Last Line: The elemental lie %of we is 'why?' Subject(s): Education HOPSCOTCH, by MONICA LAMY Poem Source First Line: Balance is everything Last Line: With your toes on the line %and balance Subject(s): Education HOTEL NIGHTS WITH MY MOTHER, by LINDA MCCARRISTON Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The hometown flophouse Subject(s): Education; Flop-houses; Schools; Students HOTEL NIGHTS WITH MY MOTHER, by LINDA MCCARRISTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hometown flophouse Last Line: I made of myself each day a chink %a few might pass through unscathed Subject(s): Education; Flop-houses; Schools HOW MY FATHER LEARNED ENGLISH, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Breathing his own breath Last Line: Please, I urge, say it in english Subject(s): Education; Schools HOW STEEL SHAPES OUR LIVES, by JEANNE BRYNER Poem Source First Line: Our teacher, mrs. Dillon, raises %the square white screen Last Line: They wear their iron shoes %and keep walking through the fire Subject(s): Education; Schools HOW TO EAT A BAG LUNCH, by DELIA EPHRON Poem Source First Line: Banana: %remove chiquita Last Line: Sitting with the little %kids Subject(s): Education; Schools HOW TO TORTURE YOUR TEACHER, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: Only raise your hand when Last Line: I've ever had.' Subject(s): Education; Schools HYMN FOR THE USE OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL AT OLNEY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear, lord, the song of praise and prayer Last Line: Who placed us where it shines. Subject(s): Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools HYMN, COMPOSED FOR THE CHILDREN OF A SUNDAY SCHOOL, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou! To whom the grateful song Last Line: And endless life with thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Religious Education; Children; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Childhood I LOVE TO DO MY HOMEWORK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Who are taking me away Subject(s): Education; Schools I SHOULD HAVE STUDIED, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: I didn't study for the test Last Line: And I flunked it just like you Subject(s): Education; Schools I SMOKED A JOINT WITH GREGORY CORSO, by RUDY RICH Poem Source First Line: In this world Last Line: In the forever street-souls of your shoes Subject(s): Education I'M PROUD OF HER, by GERALD LOCKLIN Poem Source First Line: I am deeply touched when Last Line: She's passed already %in a blaze of glory Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers I'VE GOT SOMETHING TO TELL YOU, by ELLYN MAYBE Poem Source First Line: I've never gotten %a valentine's day card in august before Last Line: I'll sleep better tonight Subject(s): Education IGNORING THE LINGUIST, by ROBERT PARHAM Poem Source First Line: When the professor explained that Last Line: While the light, because it is summer %refuses to leave Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ILLITERATE, by RICHARD CLOKE Poem Source First Line: Us ranks 49th in literacy rate Last Line: I read that and my hair curled Subject(s): Education; Illiteracy; United States IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHOIR, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had never seen a cornfield in my life Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts; Students IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHOIR, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I had never seen a cornfield in my life Last Line: Des moines, I was saying to myself %baton rouge. Terre haute. Boise Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL: THE RUNAWAYS, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Home's the place we head for in our sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans - Education; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Students INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL: THE RUNAWAYS, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Home's the place we head for in our sleep Last Line: Face before it hardened, pale, remembering %delicate old injuries, the spines of names and leaves Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans - Education; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations INDIAN EDUCATION BLUES, by ED EDMO Poem Source First Line: I sit your %crowded classrooms Last Line: My report card %is bad Subject(s): Native Americans - Education INSTRUCTION, by CONRAD ARTHUR HILBERRY Poem Source First Line: The coach has taught her how to swing Last Line: And stare incredulously at the ump Subject(s): Education; Schools; Sports INTO TO POETRY, by STEVEN ALBERT BAUER Poem Source First Line: You thought it was math that taught Last Line: And a voice asking, is this my life? Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers INTRODUCTION TO POETRY, by SHANNON MARQUEZ MCGUIRE Poem Source First Line: Walking library aisles two hours, up toe pr's, down the ps's Last Line: I listen, and notice that I'm humming-a little alliteration, %some soft consonance Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers IT IS NOT NICE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not nice to see Last Line: An absolute nihilist! Subject(s): Children; Education; Faces; Nothingness; Childhood; Nihilism; Voids JUNIOR HIGH DANCE, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No one wanted to dance with us Last Line: Right there, no matter how funky %the beat, no matter how delicious Subject(s): Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations JUST GUESSING: A LITTLE LECTURE ON AMBITION, by DAVID GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: Rainer maria rilke never worked a day Last Line: No: like you, like me, rilke was just guessing Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers LAUS ATRAMENTI, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our sires were such pedagogue blockheads of yore Last Line: Since I never shall shine by the aid of the muse. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Education; Muses; Universities & Colleges LAY OF THE STAFF COLLEGE STUDENT; VERSES FROM SANDHURST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I'm now only a student Last Line: I needs must get my decimal %or else I'll be flung out Subject(s): Military Education LEARNING IN THE FIRST GRADE, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cup is read. The drop of rain Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students LEARNING IN THE FIRST GRADE, by JANE KENYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cup is read. The drop of rain Last Line: Muttering under his beard Subject(s): Education; Schools LEARNING SPANISH, by SARA GOODRICH Poem Source First Line: I did not want to learn spanish Last Line: And fading %into something like sand Subject(s): Education; Schools LEARNING TO READ, by THOMAS R. SMITH Poem Source First Line: How tired the elbows grew Last Line: Beyond hard desks and fists Subject(s): Education; Schools LECCIONES DE LA LENGUA, 1970, by BRENDA CARDENAS Poem Source First Line: She is proud of her papa Last Line: And makes the children laugh Subject(s): Education; Schools LEGACY, by SUSAN G. LUKAS Poem Source First Line: I can teach you amost nothing Last Line: Lying in a road somewhere Subject(s): Education LESSON, by MARGUERITE GARNER Poem Source First Line: If you cannot be hurt Last Line: You were my teacher - %and you have taught me much Subject(s): Education LETTER TO A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: Dear miss miller, %you are someone Last Line: Sincerely yours, %the boy in the green shirt Subject(s): Education; Poetry And Poets; Schools; Teaching And Teachers LETTER TO B.W. PROCTOR, ESQ., FROM OXFORD; MAY, 1825, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In every tower, that oxford has, is swung Last Line: And unpersuaded drop the paper down. Subject(s): Education; Letters; Nature; Oxford University; Poetry & Poets; Procter, Bryan Waller (1787-1874); Spring; Writing & Writers; Cornwall, Barry [pseud.] LIFE-THOUGHTS, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas morn, - the heavens were glowing with the light Last Line: Through studying god's works to study god! Subject(s): God; Hearts; Life; Love; Mankind; Religious Education; Human Race; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools LIGHT UP THE CANDLE, by FOROUD ISMAIL-BEIGI Poem Source Last Line: Life just walked by Subject(s): Education LITERACY: OR HOW I ENDED UP AT THE OLD FOLKS HOME, by ANNE-MARIE OOMEN Poem Source First Line: In my battered kalkaska classroom, %the old man had come, asking Last Line: Spreading like bright wings over their faces Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers LOCAL VASE, by JEFF HARDIN Poem Source First Line: Do you also often find a way to keep your life Last Line: Someon'es once-devotion on display completes a prayer still there Subject(s): Education; Life LOGICAL FALLACIES, by ALISON TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: This morning I taught my freshman english class Last Line: A prayer of feathers outlined %against the winter sky Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers LONG OVERDUE NOTE TO MY COLLEGE PROFESSOR WHO BROKE DOWN, by DAVID GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: At long last I know what you mean Last Line: Over, and about our silence Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers LOOK OUT!, by MAX FATCHEN Poem Source First Line: The witches mumble horrid chants Last Line: That awful night before school starts Subject(s): Education; Schools LORD, TEACH US HOW TO PLAY!, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Mid clashing creeds and civic strife Last Line: And teach us how to pray! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Religious Education; Theology; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools LOST, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: I cannot find my basketball Last Line: Until I find my glasses Subject(s): Education; Schools LOVE, HOPE, AND PATIENCE IN EDUCATION, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er wayward childhood would'st thou hold firm rule Last Line: And both supporting does the work of both. Subject(s): Education LUCRETIUS VERSUS THE LAKE POETS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dean, adult education may seem silly Last Line: God bless the dean and make his deanship plenary Subject(s): Education, Adult; Poetry & Poets LUCRETIUS VERSUS THE LAKE POETS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dean, adult education may seem silly Last Line: I grant you - if you're sure about the word. %god bless the dean and make his deanship plenary Subject(s): Education, Adult; Poetry And Poets LUNCH, by MARC HARSHMAN Poem Source First Line: Bumblebees %mom guessed, rightly Last Line: Not quite sour %not quite milk Subject(s): Education; Schools M. DEGAS TEACHES ART & SCIENCE AT DURFEE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He made a line on the blackboard Last Line: The trees bucked and quaked, and I %knew this could go on forever Subject(s): Education; Schools MARCUS MILLSAP: SCHOOL DAY AFTERNOON, by DAVE ETTER Poem Source First Line: I climb the steps of the yellow school bus Last Line: And mother not coming home till dark Subject(s): Education; Schools MARGARET/HASKELL INDIAN SCHOOL, by CAROLYN MARIE DUNN Poem Source First Line: I am wandering Last Line: Bright stars %noya, noya Subject(s): Native Americans - Education MARY HAD SOME BUBBLE GUM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: And chewed it after school Subject(s): Education; Schools MEASLES, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: There are measles on my forehead Last Line: Excused from tomorrow's test Subject(s): Education; Schools MEETING OF THE POST-GRADUATE CLUB, by CHERYL CHAPMAN Poem Source First Line: Collecting in a park Last Line: Barely imagining sparks Subject(s): Education METAMORPHOSES: 4. MEDUSA, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Damn the use of visual aids in education Subject(s): Education METAMORPHOSES: 4. MEDUSA, by WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Damn the use of visual aids in education Last Line: To mass - and paid attention - and communion tasted like %cinammon Subject(s): Education MILITARY MIND, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to go to military school Last Line: Like a plowblade in her arms Subject(s): Military Education; Military Schools MIRROR THAT EXPOSES, CONCEALS, by MONICA LAMY Poem Source Last Line: In the infinite shadow %of its name Subject(s): Education MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER EDUCATION, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: According to metaphysical creed Last Line: With which he walk'd behind her. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Education; Heritage; Heredity MODERN THOUGHTS OF A LAYMAN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: In these days of new thought and interpretation Last Line: For the goats, then will open the great jaws of hell. Subject(s): Clergy; Religious Education; Sermons; Teaching & Teachers; Thought; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Educators; Professors; Thinking MONDAY!, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Overslept %rain is pouring Last Line: Monday sure can be %a bummer Subject(s): Education; Schools MONSTER WHO ATE AT OUR SCHOOL CAFETERIA, by ROBERT SCOTELLARO Poem Source First Line: A monster used to eating Last Line: Than eat this gruesome stuff!' Subject(s): Education; Schools MORALITY 101, by MARGUERITE GARNER Poem Source First Line: The minnseota loon Last Line: I wonder what the other birds %have noticed? Subject(s): Education MORNING ANNOUNCEMENTS, by SYLVIA ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: Good morning, staff and students Last Line: Then you're an april fool! Subject(s): Education; Schools MOST OUTSTANDING STUDENTS OF THE YEAR AWARDS, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: I'm making this announcement Last Line: Students of the year Subject(s): Education; Schools MOTHERS, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last time I was home Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): Education MOTHERS, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last time I was home Last Line: As we have borne the pains Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): Education MR. HOWARD, by GERALDINE DELUCA Poem Source First Line: Mr. Howard was tall and skinny as a crane. He had a narrow Last Line: Was afraid. Maybe he wouldn't remember me. Or worse, maybe %he would Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MRS. KRIKORIAN, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She saved me. When I arrived in sixth grade Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students MRS. KRIKORIAN, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She saved me. When I arrived in sixth grade Last Line: With the eerie comfort of what is neither good nor evil Subject(s): Education; Schools MY BAD, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: Ignore her, they said Last Line: I make on a white shirt Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MY DOG CHEWED UP MY HOMEWORK, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: I'm glad to say my homework's done Last Line: If I don't get an a Subject(s): Education; Schools MY LAST GLAD SUMMER, by PHEBE DAVIDSON Poem Source First Line: My last glad summer of lust Last Line: Made lilies bloom beneath my skin Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MY SISTER'S ALWAYS ON THE PHONE, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source Last Line: She's flunking out of school Subject(s): Education; Schools MY SONS ASK WHERE GOD LIVES, by ROBERT A. FINK Poem Source First Line: When I was eight I asked miss reese Last Line: A dripping wound that never healed Subject(s): Religion; Religious Education MYSTERY AND MANNERS, by MARVIN DIOGENES Poem Source First Line: Dr. Kopkind?' I asked the man standing at the emergency %room check-in Last Line: Like he could use some help Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MYSTERY MEAL, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: Great green globs of Last Line: So pass the ketchup please Subject(s): Education; Schools NADYA'S PURPLE TREE, by TATYANA MELNIKOFF Poem Source First Line: A distant doorway of light Last Line: You wondered with faultless eyes %whether your purple tree would die Subject(s): Education NAME GIVEAWAY, by PHILLIP WILLIAM GEORGE Poem Source First Line: That teacher gave me a new name - again Last Line: Must be a name too hard to remember Subject(s): Education; Names; Native Americans; Schools NAMES, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Lou hon, suzie, cherry, doughnut, woody, wabbit, jackie Last Line: Chee, 'atsidi, tapahonso, haabaah, hastiin neez Subject(s): Children; Names; Native Americans - Children; Native Americans - Education; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations NERVOUSWORK, by WILLIAM SNYDER Poem Source First Line: Saturday morning, and orange juice and the heater's buzz Last Line: But my regrets must be every bit as fine. Every bit Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: Last year I did some rotten things Last Line: To try in school tomorrow Subject(s): Education; Schools NIGHT AND DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Twas night, and darkness reigned supreme Last Line: Beyond the power of sin—man's soul shall never die. Subject(s): Bible; Death; Easter; Healing; Holidays; Holy Ghost; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Life; Light; Night; Praise; Religion; Religious Education; Sin; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Cures; Holy Spirit; Bedtime; Theology; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial School NIGHT SCHOOL, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No one knows %what mind is %or how to get there Last Line: The stars so pretty %to look at %while driving home Subject(s): Education; Professions; Progress; Universities & Colleges NO MORE FLIES IN THE SCHOOL KITCHEN, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: There were lots of flies in the kitchen Last Line: They died after eating the food Subject(s): Education; Schools NO RULE TO BE AFRAID OF, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The grammar has a rule absurd Last Line: Why, that is what I'll end it with! Subject(s): Education; Grammar; Schools; Students NORMAN NORTON'S NOSTRILS, by COLIN WEST Poem Source First Line: Oh, norman norton's nostrils Last Line: You'll never get them back Subject(s): Education; Schools NOSTALGIA, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crumbling stone steps of the old schoolhouse Subject(s): Dreams; Education; Memory; Schools; Nightmares; Students NOSTALGIA, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Crumbling stone steps of the old schoolhouse Last Line: Never to press my flat hand over my heart again as if I had one Subject(s): Dreams; Education; Memory; Schools NOSTRADAMUS IN HEAVEN, by SARAH SLOANE Poem Source First Line: When nostradamus died and went to heaven one inky july Last Line: Singing back to him again from this half-grown, blue-green, %divine, dull world Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers NOT READY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of our pain and struggle Last Line: The goodness which brims the days! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Altars; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Religious Education; Worship; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools NOT TO BE, by BROCK DETHIER Poem Source First Line: Carve your name in the paper Last Line: Treasure strong verbs %share the gift Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers NOTE ABOUT ALLEN TATE, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I took literary criticism with allen tate. My mind was not on Last Line: Observantly, in a way that recognizes change in the world Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers NUNS OF CHILDHOOD: TWO VIEWS: 1., by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O where are they now, your harridan nuns Last Line: Enthroned as a symbol with upturned palms Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Education; Literary Form; Schools NUNS OF CHILDHOOD: TWO VIEWS: 2., by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O where are they now, my darling nuns Last Line: Who rustles drily inside my gown Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Education; Literary Form; Schools O WHY SHOULD A WOMAN NOT GET A DEGREE?, by CHARLES NEAVES Poem Source First Line: Ye fusty old fogies, professors by name Last Line: And an angel need covet no other degree Subject(s): Education; Women's Rights OF A CHILD WHO WOULD NOT LEARN THE CRIS-CROSS ROW, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little child of mine, come hit her to my knee Last Line: Then the morning touched mine eyelids, and I woke. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Fathers; Regret; Religious Education; Childhood; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools OLD CANADA; OR, GEE BUCK GEE, by ALEXANDER MCLACHLAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The country's goin' fast to ruin! Last Line: Ain't it a caution?—gee buck gee! Subject(s): Canada; Education; Farm Life; Progress; Canadians; Agriculture; Farmers ON A STUMP OUTSIDE VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL, by JUDITH SKILLMAN Poem Source First Line: While the children sing about zacchaeus Subject(s): Bible; Religious Education; Zacchaeus ON EVOLUTION AND THE BIG-GANG, by DOUGLAS BERSCHE Poem Source First Line: Progress' begets isolation because Last Line: Gazing in awe at a further star? Subject(s): Education ON GETTING AN EDUCATION, by PHILIP RAISOR Poem Source First Line: Every muncie %provides the same texts Last Line: I'm coming home %to barbecue a fatted calf, %clean out my father's attic Subject(s): Auctions; Education; Life ON LEARNING. DESIRED BY A GENTLEMAN, by ELIZABETH TEFT Poem Text First Line: Well, ignorance, the cause is yet unknown Last Line: Consider, sir, a simple virgin's muse. Subject(s): Education; Women's Rights; Feminism ON THE DISPOSITION OF MIND (2), by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We ought to read, my worthy friend ponthieu Last Line: The book of books is ev'ry man's own heart. Subject(s): Books; Language; Religious Education; Reading; Words; Vocabulary; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools ON THE UNION AND THREE-FOLD DISTINCTION OF GOD, NATURE AND CREATURE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All that comes under our imagination Last Line: And, god's own image lord of it, a man. Subject(s): Mankind; Mediums; Religious Education; Human Race; Spiritualists; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools ONION SKIN, by LAUREL ANN BOGEN Poem Source First Line: Onion skin unravels Last Line: She sang %grateful and exultant Subject(s): Education OPEN LETTER TO MY STUDENTS, by KATHLEEN KIRK Poem Source First Line: Here's the difference between us: %I don't know what a hackey sack is Last Line: The wire scraped along concrete, %the balcony, %the hackey sack Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers OROVILLE HIGH, CALIFORNIA, by MAURICE KENNY Poem Source First Line: I can't believe I'm eating a cheeseburg Last Line: Not even their own Subject(s): California; Education; High School Students; Teaching And Teachers OUR LADY'S BIRTHDAY, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The joy of the world is rising from out love's / infinite sea Last Line: To bear the immortal ave on music that has no end. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Birthdays; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religious Education; Women In The Bible; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Virgin Mary; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools OUR PASSWORD, by ISIDORE G. ASCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No hate can stifle our religion's birth Last Line: Our prayer in life and death that god is one. Subject(s): History; Jews; Religious Education; Historians; Judaism; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools OUR ROOM, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tell the children in school sometimes Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students OUR ROOM, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tell the children in school sometimes Last Line: Oddly lonely when we talk about our homes Subject(s): Education; Schools OUR TONGUES SLAPPED INTO SILENCE, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: In first grade I was five years old, the youngest and smallest in my class Last Line: Made sure our tongues were drowned in the murky waters of assimilation Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Culture Conflict; Language; Native Americans; Native Americans - Education; Navajo Indians; Punishment; U.s. - Race Relations PAGEANT, by MICHAEL COLLIER Poem Source First Line: When brian mccarthy, the male lead Last Line: Propped on the tiny canvas door he made %for alice Subject(s): Education; Schools PAINTING THE NORTH SAN JUAN SCHOOL, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White paint splotches on blue head bandanas Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students PAINTING THE NORTH SAN JUAN SCHOOL, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White paint splotches on blue head bandanas Last Line: Ladders resting on the shaky porch Subject(s): Education; Schools PASS/FAIL, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You will never graduate Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students PASS/FAIL, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You will never graduate Last Line: That have to be learned %by heart Subject(s): Education; Schools PASSING, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In gym class boxing, fat feeney got paired Last Line: Yeah, I punched him a few times %jab, jab, jab. I took my c Subject(s): Education; Schools PENMANSHIP, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the margin, in the mind, the winner gets it right Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students PENMANSHIP, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the margin, in the mind, the winner gets it right Last Line: Lilies, water %striders Subject(s): Education; Schools PERBERON NAMBE MORNING, by A. A. HEDGE COKE Poem Source First Line: Dust, leaves twirling Last Line: Me to speak to you of %beauty Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Children; Native Americans - Education; Schools PERSIMMONS, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sixth grade mrs. Walker / slapped the back of my head Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Exiles; Language; Marginality, Social; Persimmons; Schools; Estrangement; Outcasts; Words; Vocabulary; Students PERSIMMONS, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In sixth grade mrs. Walker %slapped the back of my head Last Line: In your palm, the ripe weight Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Exiles; Language; Marginality, Social; Persimmons; Schools PERSPECTIVE, by PATRICIA VALDATA Poem Source First Line: In the overheated classroom %twenty students lean back Last Line: Flesh with its beak as students passed by Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PHYSICS TEACHER, by ANNE-MARIE OOMEN Poem Source First Line: He wanted to believe something defied the laws Last Line: His own hands open and the bird %explodes into its own law and beauty Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PLAYGROUND, by KATE SONTAG Poem Source First Line: You search the day for inspiration Last Line: Distracted now and elsewhere Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PLUM-DARK HUMOR, by MAURICE KILWEIN GUEVARA Poem Source First Line: David teaches history to children. Today Last Line: Some of the children are laughing Subject(s): Education; Schools POEM OF COMMITMENT, by JUNE JORDAN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bilingual Education POET IN RESIDENCE AT A COUNTRY SCHOOL, by DON WELCH Poem Source First Line: The school greets me like a series Last Line: Can imagine where he'd rather be Subject(s): Education; Schools POET MEETS HIS CLASS IN THE CHEMISTRY LAB, by KENNETH M. AUTREY Poem Source First Line: The periodic chart is god here Last Line: And dare each other to taste them Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PORTUGUESE PRINCESS LOOKS TO THE EAST, by THOMAS STEIN Poem Source First Line: The portuguese princess looks to the east Last Line: To an early evening that may or may not be Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PRAYER, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Herbie sat the class down and told us how Subject(s): Religious Education; Sex; Prayer; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools PRECIOUSNESS OF IMPERFECTION, by WILLIAM SNYDER Poem Source First Line: I'm getting so frustrated, she says, this is so Last Line: And with me even. With all of us, gone as we are %to confusion and flaw Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PREPOSITIONS IN ALABAMA, by KENNETH M. AUTREY Poem Source First Line: About columbus day, 6th grade, I learned the power Last Line: We'd ever need of who, what, when, and where Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PRODUCE, by DARRELL FIKE Poem Source First Line: Oh, send along a half-dozen fresh ones' Last Line: Simile, red potatoes sly and winking Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PUBLIC SCHOOL 190, BROOKLYN 1963, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The inkwells had no ink Last Line: Knew that before %november 22, 1963 Subject(s): Education; Schools PUTTYROOT AND STOPCOCK, by DAVID GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: Old mr. What's his name was always good Last Line: The wondrous fog of your wide ignorance Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers QUO VADIS, M.F.A.?, by GERALD LOCKLIN Poem Source First Line: Do you remember how bartleby the scrivener Last Line: For a single one-year, non-tenure-track %lectureship %in creative writing Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RAIN, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A teacher asked paul Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students RAIN, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A teacher asked paul Last Line: Knew nothing of the coming rain Subject(s): Education; Schools RAISING THEIR HANDS, by JULIA LISELLA Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I dream about my students Last Line: You with your idea %speak Subject(s): Education; Schools REACHING TO A SKY OF SOBA, by DAVID HASSLER Poem Source First Line: I walk past winter boots lined up in rows Last Line: The bell rings, their hands still reaching in the air Subject(s): Education; Schools READING, by HOLLY IGLESIAS Poem Source First Line: The poet declares the body didactic; and I yearn for yours, desire Last Line: Beginning to slide like layers of an over-iced cake Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers READING FOR THE BLIND, by KARA PROVOST Poem Source First Line: You can tell by how she reads Last Line: Letting us see ourselves %as the angels see us Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RECESS, by CHRISTOPHER BURSK Poem Source First Line: Older boys drag younger by the wrists into woods Last Line: Pressed to the wall, crying uncle, uncle Subject(s): Education; Schools RECESS, by COLLEEN JOHNSON MCELROY Poem Source First Line: I come here alone standing wet Last Line: Thinking smoking in the rain Subject(s): Education; Schools RECESS, by TIMOTHY TOCHER Poem Source First Line: Suzy banged her elbow Last Line: Just one recess a day Subject(s): Education; Schools REGIONS, by TATYANA MELNIKOFF Poem Source First Line: Between shallow beginnings Last Line: We will become one %without knowing why Subject(s): Education REHABILITATING JOSEPH ADAMS, by SCOTT SIMPSON Poem Source First Line: They caught him with the pictures- %drawings in ink Last Line: Brucker blood-red %brucker, brucker, dead Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers REMARKABLE ADVENTURE, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was at my bedroom table Last Line: Isn't here with me today Subject(s): Education; Schools REPLY, by HELEN DEGAN COHEN Poem Source First Line: A teacher, who is also my friend Last Line: Like, o my teacher, my teacher, %before he dies Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RHETORIC OF WOOD, by MICHAEL SPOONER Poem Source First Line: In february, just five, and master %of the shoelace, isaac ties Last Line: If we poured every grain %of sand out of these bags?' Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RHYTHMATIC, by MICHEL FORTIER Poem Source First Line: I remember when you first accepted Last Line: Less thirsty for drinking my fill Subject(s): Education ROADSIDE POEMS: AN OLD SERMON WITH A NEW TEXT, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My wife contrived a fleecy thing Last Line: That holdeth fast thy life. Subject(s): Children; Education; Family Life; God; Sermons; Sewing; Childhood; Relatives ROOM 19, EAKIN ELEMENTARY, by DIANE GILLIAM FISHER Poem Source First Line: There's a boys' line and a girls' line Last Line: We don't stop for nobody Subject(s): Education; Schools ROSES AND TULIPS, by JANE ELKINGTON WOHL Poem Source First Line: It is all so ordinary Last Line: And finally, what in our ordinary lives, %we might call love Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RULES OF CONDUCT: COLORED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 1943, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Watch your language, say words right Last Line: Keep every anger coiled in tight Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SACRED, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the teacher asked if anyone had Last Line: And putting it in, and going Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Adolescence; Education; Schools SAVING THE CRIPPLED BOY, by JAN BEATTY Poem Source First Line: Tenth-grade field trip, I'm stuck Last Line: Friend, patty, and my sick, ailing heart Subject(s): Education; Schools SCENES FROM THE TEACHING MOMENT LOUNGE, by LYNNA WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Among the fiction writers in my graduate writing program Last Line: It was my first teachable moment, and my favorite still Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SCHOLAR, by GRACE BAUER Poem Source First Line: Deconstructs desire, confines Last Line: There are no words to signify Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SCHOOL, by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: On one side the high school, on the other Last Line: Unaccustomed to such space, %wooden floors, lights, adults calling them names Subject(s): Education; Schools SCHOOL BUSES, by FRANK KOOISTRA Poem Source First Line: Six of them: great orange, great golden carp Last Line: Headed for the lily shoals of children Subject(s): Education; Schools SCHOOL CHILDREN, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The children go forward with their little satchels Last Line: Drawing to themselves the gray limbs of the fruit trees %bearing so little ammunition Subject(s): Education; Schools SCHOOL CLOUDS THE MIND, by CHARLES MOTZ Poem Source First Line: Life precision bomber formations Last Line: Inspire your poetry of angry protestations Subject(s): Education SCHOOL DAYS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once those fences kept me in mr. Mote Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students SCHOOL DAYS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once those fences kept me in mr. Mote Last Line: And name them one by one and row by row Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Education; Schools SCHOOL DAZE RAP, by CAROL DIGGORY SHIELDS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Woke up at eight - oh no, I overslept! Last Line: Why aren't you up? It's saturday.' Subject(s): Education; Schools SCHOOL OF METAPHYSICS, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Executioner happy to explain Last Line: He wanted me to understand %right then and there Subject(s): Education; Metaphysics SCHOOL, SOME SUGGESTIONS, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: If kids could be the teachers Last Line: In music gym, and art! Subject(s): Education; Schools SCHOOLBOYS WITH DOG, WINTER, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's dark when they scuff off to school Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students SCHOOLBOYS WITH DOG, WINTER, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's dark when they scuff off to school Last Line: The frosted windows of the schoolhouse gleam Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Education; Schools SCHOOLROOM ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF THE KNITTING MILL, by JUDITH PAGE HEITZMAN Poem Source First Line: While most of us copied letters out of books Last Line: I hear her every time I fail Subject(s): Education; Schools SCHOOLSVILLE, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glancing over my shoulder at the past Last Line: Quizzing the chandeleir, reprimanding the air Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students SCHOOLSVILLE, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glancing over my shoulder at the past Last Line: Quizzing the chandelier, reprimanding the air Subject(s): Education; Schools SCHOOLYARD IN APRIL, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little girls smearing Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students SCHOOLYARD IN APRIL, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little girls smearing Last Line: Stare out of windows %remembering april Subject(s): Education; Schools SECOND APARTMENT, FIRST-YEAR TEACHER, by CLAUDIA MONPERE MCISAAC Poem Source First Line: Just one grocery bag but it was heavy Last Line: And gold china and at the cup's bottom %a clutch of yellow roses Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SEMINAR, by SHANNON MARQUEZ MCGUIRE Poem Source First Line: But tonight, another crime, besides the way it Last Line: Teaching's rapture shining from your eyes Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SEVEN FABLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING: 1. MAGPIE, by HANS OSTROM Poem Source First Line: When I was six years old, I met magpie in woods beside a Last Line: Even after I had graduated, magna cum feathers, from woods %into more knowing Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SEVEN FABLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING: 2. BAD DOG, by HANS OSTROM Poem Source First Line: When I was eleven, bad dog bit me. 'that will teach you,' he Last Line: Baring his teeth. Bad teacher! Down! Get in your house! Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SEVEN FABLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING: 3. LIZARD, by HANS OSTROM Poem Source First Line: Oh I, age seventeen, was hammering boulders at a gravel pit Last Line: Tend not to do well on the quizzes that count' Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SEVEN FABLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING: 4. SQUIRREL, by HANS OSTROM Poem Source First Line: Later, when seriousness befell me, I encountered squirrel, a nervous Last Line: I scrambled, my cheeks bursting with clever things to say Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SEVEN FABLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING: 5. DEER, by HANS OSTROM Poem Source First Line: Learned deer, she of the polished obsidian hooves, stopped me Last Line: These are, we only think we know' Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SEVEN FABLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING: 6. RACCOON, by HANS OSTROM Poem Source First Line: One evening I was fortunate enough to hear raccoon's Last Line: Disappeared. I was left to a lunar tutorial Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SEVEN FABLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING: 7. SNAKE, by HANS OSTROM Poem Source First Line: Snake was rumored to be one of the best teachers in those Last Line: Add-though of course I'm biased-that it helps to stay %grounded Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SEX ED, by ELIZABETH NEARY SHOLL Poem Source First Line: Well-dressed, demure, jammed into those Last Line: Her toss back her yellow hair and yank open %the heavy doors to school Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Education; Schools; Women SEX EDUCATION, by IDA VALLERUGO Poem Source First Line: Searching for tools Last Line: My father. She put the magazines back behind the cans %on the shelf Subject(s): Education; Sex SHADES OF GRAY, by J. P. ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: White - black Last Line: Black - white Subject(s): Education SHAPES, VANISHINGS, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down a street in the town where I went Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students SHAPES, VANISHINGS, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down a street in the town where I went Last Line: I will walk on as I have done once already, %remembering how we failed each other, %knowing better t Subject(s): Education; Schools SICK, by SHELBY SILVERSTEIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot go to school today,' Alternate Author Name(s): Silverstein, Shel Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students SICK, by SHELBY SILVERSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot go to school today,' Last Line: G'bye, I'm going out to play!' Alternate Author Name(s): Silverstein, Shel Subject(s): Education; Schools SISTER ALBERT, by BILL RANSOM Poem Source First Line: Sixty-two students crowded the room right up to sister albert's Last Line: Then do it once more, just for fun, and we can both go %home' Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SISTER AND BROTHER, by MARGARET YOUNGBLOOD Poem Source First Line: It was you who addressed the fact Last Line: I crushed your male body tight against mine, %owning it Subject(s): Education SITTING IN THE SIXTH GRADE AT ASCENSION OF OUR LORD SCHOOL, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This was a new catechism, a new testament Last Line: And all the things that might be without being seen Subject(s): Christianity; Religious Education SOARING, by MIRA INGRAM Poem Source First Line: A lost gull Last Line: Where I overlook %the rest of my life Subject(s): Education SOUL MAKE A PATH THROUGH SHOUTING, by CYRUS CURTIS CASSELLS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thick at the schoolgate are the ones Last Line: I'm just going to school. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Civil Rights Movement; Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Little Rock, Arkansas; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts; SPANISH LESSONS, by RANE ARROYO Poem Source First Line: Today's word: agua Last Line: The arroyos grew in chicago Subject(s): Education; Schools SPATIAL RELATIONS, by LEONORA SMITH Poem Source First Line: Remember the geometric forms on aptitude tests Last Line: Which hung in the blurred wakes of their folding Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SPECIAL MESSAGE TO THE VERMONT LEGISLATURE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We folks that went to district schools Last Line: While we look on. Subject(s): Country Life; Education; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Vermont - Legislature; Students; Educators; Professors SPELLING-BEE AS FORESHADOWING, by CAROLE SIMMONS OLES Poem Source First Line: The auditorium swallowed %contenders alive Last Line: At that showy, pendant, crimson %unspellable flower Subject(s): Education; Schools SPITTING IN THE LEAVES, by MAGGIE ANDERSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In spanishburg there are boys in tight jeans Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students SPITTING IN THE LEAVES, by MAGGIE ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In spanishburg there are boys in tight jeans Last Line: Their strong skinny arms, their spitting %in the leaves Subject(s): Education; Schools SPRING GLEN GRAMMAR SCHOOL, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the moment because I planned, at six in the first grade Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students SPRING GLEN GRAMMAR SCHOOL, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the moment because I planned, at six in the first grade Last Line: The box is humid; it continues to continue: nothing escapes Subject(s): Education; Schools SPRING RICE FIELD, by KENNETH M. AUTREY Poem Source First Line: Basho's great haiku Last Line: Peeled from a still pond Subject(s): Education; English Language; Matsuo Basho (1644-1694); Schools; Teaching And Teachers ST. PETER CLAVER, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every town with black catholics has a st. Peter claver's Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan; Education; Schools; Students ST. PETER CLAVER, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every town with black catholics has a st. Peter claver's Last Line: I was tricked again, robbed of my patron, %and left with a debt to another white man Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan; Education; Schools STAYED BACK, by THOMAS SAYERS ELLIS Poem Source First Line: All the schools I attended Last Line: Also brought me closer to verse, here Subject(s): Education; Schools STILLNESS OF BEING, by TATYANA MELNIKOFF Poem Source First Line: I watched from the peripheries Last Line: Never again to bloom Subject(s): Education STONE DREAMS, by JANE ELKINGTON WOHL Poem Source First Line: When I first went to his house I could not understand Last Line: I think,' stephanie says, 'it's about %sometimes we think we know a person %and we really don't' Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers STUART RIEGER, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Inscriptions in my yearbook Last Line: It's the best I can do under the circumstances Subject(s): Education; Schools STUDENT'S PRAYER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now I lay me down to rest Last Line: That's one less test I'll have to take Subject(s): Education; Schools SUNDAY SCHOOL, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Walk and be whole, the bible says Last Line: Walk and be whole, out of the house Subject(s): Religious Education SUNDAY SCHOOL, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blue-haired ladies thought us refugees Last Line: A bicentennial flush with millennia Subject(s): Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools SUNDAY SCHOOL, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blue-haired ladies thought us refugees Last Line: A bicentennial flush with millennia Subject(s): Religious Education SUNDAY SCHOOL EXCURSION, by ROY MCFADDEN Poem Source First Line: She, whom boys pursued %because of her blue eyes Last Line: For want of manna, kneaded excrement Subject(s): Religious Education SUNDAY SCHOOL, 1965, by CHRIS FORHAN Poem Source First Line: Sister clarice said our earthly riches Subject(s): Religious Education SUNDAY SCHOOL, CIRCA 1950 (8), by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who made you?' was always Subject(s): Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools SUNDAY SCHOOL, CIRCA 1950 (8), by ALICE WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who made you?' was always Last Line: And salvage mostly %the leaning Subject(s): Religious Education SUNDAY SCHOOLS, by ANNA SAWYER Poem Text First Line: Bring little children unto me Last Line: To know their god, and hymn his praise. Subject(s): Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools SUNNY DAYS, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The children are singing a song about Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students SUNNY DAYS, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The children are singing a song about Last Line: Homes for themselves behind their screams and lies Subject(s): Education; Schools SUPREMES, by CORNELIUS ROBERT EADY Poem Source First Line: We were born to be gray. We went to school Last Line: To reach in self-defense for wigs, %lipstick, %sequins Subject(s): Education; Schools; Supremes, The (singing Group) SYLLABUS, by GEORGE ELLISTON Poem Text First Line: It is not always words that bring Last Line: The silence, true. Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students TAKING MY SON TO SCHOOL, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His first day. Waiting, he plays Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students TAKING MY SON TO SCHOOL, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His first day. Waiting, he plays Last Line: Naked and shining, shining %in the empty garden Subject(s): Education; Schools TAKING THE WORLD LITERATURE CLASS OUTSIDE, by JANET MCCANN Poem Source First Line: You, propped on the liveoak %drifting toward sleep Last Line: Rings three chimes %& we are scattered by %two joyous labradors! Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHER, by MARGUERITE GARNER Poem Source First Line: I have learned Last Line: To be a wolf %among wolves Subject(s): Education; Teaching And Teachers TEACHER, by BRIGIT PEGEEN KELLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Still, still, still, the raven Last Line: And he will be halfway %to heaven and up Subject(s): Education; Schools TEACHER, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I make my children promises in wintry afternoons Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Education; Mothers & Daughters; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Women; Students; Educators; Professors TEACHER, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I make my children promises in wintry afternoons Last Line: Promise corrupts %what it does not invent Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Education; Mothers And Daughters; Schools; Teaching And Teachers; Women TEACHER, by TOM ROMANO Poem Source First Line: Why do I forget question marks Last Line: Before I take a long swig, %say, 'why not' Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHER SAID, by DARA WIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine someone you love is dead Last Line: Be tidy, be so careful, be very sweet Subject(s): Education; Schools TEACHER SHOT BY STUDENT, OR THE RISK OF OVERSTATEMENT, by KATHLEEN KIRK Poem Source First Line: I fail him for submitting %a paper written by his girlfriend Last Line: And down the halls of their lives Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHER TRAINING, by RAY E. WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Ah, schools ... %the places where imagination is lost Last Line: That are determined by each teacher -- alone Subject(s): Education; Teaching And Teachers TEACHER'S LAMENT, by KALLI DAKOS Poem Source First Line: Don't tell me that cat ate your math sheet Last Line: At home in my study drawer Subject(s): Education; Schools TEACHER'S LOUNGE, by BILL RANSOM Poem Source First Line: At the bell you hobble to your corners Last Line: Or like a child spinning helpless in the ring Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHER'S PET, by COLIN MCNAUGHTON Poem Source First Line: Call a doctor Last Line: By teacher's pet! Subject(s): Education; Schools TEACHER'S SHOW, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: I have an important announcement Last Line: I can't wait to see you next year Subject(s): Education; Schools TEACHING, by ALBERT JAMES YOUNG Poem Source First Line: There's no such thing as a student Last Line: Loosely we call this learning Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Al Subject(s): Education; Schools TEACHING IN MY SLEEP, by KATHLEEN KIRK Poem Source First Line: Tonight again I am %teaching in my sleep Last Line: Stars and teach me %how to wake and fly Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHING POETRY: A WAY TO GRACE THE WORLD?, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ever since someone suggested to me that teaching poetry may Last Line: Flush, as I am surprised by joy Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHING READING, by JANE ELKINGTON WOHL Poem Source First Line: Ginger root gnarls in my hand Last Line: She climbs on finally %and the bus driver off Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers THANKING MY MOTHER FOR PIANO LESSONS, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The relief of putting your fingers on the keyboard, Subject(s): Education THANKING MY MOTHER FOR PIANO LESSONS, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if %you had just built a wooden table Last Line: From even an ugly %past Subject(s): Education THE ALLIANCE OF EDUCATION AND GOVERNMENT; A FRAGMENT, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As sickly plants betray a niggard earth Last Line: That rise and glitter o'er the ambient tide. Subject(s): Education; Government THE AUTHOR, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Accursed the man, whom fate ordains, in spite Last Line: And will, though poor without, have peace within. Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Christianity; Education; Hypocrisy; Smollett, Tobias George (1721-1771); Virtue THE BEATING, by TERRY RANDOLPH HUMMER Poet's Biography First Line: Everybody knew clifton cockerell was not half bright Alternate Author Name(s): Hummer, T. R. Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students THE CLOUDS: THE OLD EDUCATION, by ARISTOPHANES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now hear the old rule Last Line: When the plane to the elm-tree is breathing. Subject(s): Education THE CREATURE IN THE CLASSROOM, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It appeared inside our classroom Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students THE CULTURED GIRL AGAIN, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was so esthetic and culchud Last Line: "fried, lionized, baked, biled, or mashed?" Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Darwin, Charles (1809-1882); Education; Girls THE DISCIPLE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The times are changed, and gone the day Last Line: In that fear doubteth thee. Subject(s): Christianity; Doubt; Education; Faith; Fathers & Sons; God; Humility; Skepticism; Belief; Creed THE GREAT BEYOND, by OLIVE SCOTT STAINSBY Poem Text First Line: Seductive and mysterious it seems Last Line: Yet I believe there is life after death. Subject(s): Bible; Catholics; Future Life; Religious Education; Sermons; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools THE GREAT DIGEST OF CONFUCIUS, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great learning (adult study, grinding corn in the head's mortatr to fit it Last Line: "happen. ""take not cliff for morass and treacherous bramble." Subject(s): Confucius And Confucianism; Discipline; Education; Order; Self-control THE HISTORY TEACHER, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trying to protect his students' innocence Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students THE LENT JEWELS; A JEWISH APOLOGUE, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In schools of wisdom all the day was spent Last Line: Which god had lent him, and resumed anew. Subject(s): Clergy; Jews; Religious Education; Wisdom; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools THE LOAN, by SABINE BARING-GOULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rabbi meir, / a black cap on his white hair Last Line: "should be restored." Subject(s): Clergy; Jews; Religious Education; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools THE MAN FORBID, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mankind has cast me out. When I became Last Line: The cliffed escarpment ends in stormclad strength. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Animals; Apes; Books; Death; Education; Exiles; Humanity; Life; Mankind; Estrangement; Outcasts; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Reading; Dead, The; Human Race THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 216, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A child who doesn't have a teacher Last Line: Don't become a laughingstock Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Education; Teaching & Teachers; Virtue; Educators; Professors THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 81, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I labored in vain reciting the three histories Last Line: Every year with a season of green Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Education THE SCHOLAR, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: When I was ignorant and small Last Line: I keep my eyes tight on my book. Subject(s): Books; Childhood Memories; Education; January; Scholarship & Scholars; Reading THE SCHOOL CHILDREN, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The children go forward with their little satchels Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students THE SCHOOL OF METAPHYSICS, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Executioner happy to explain Subject(s): Education; Metaphysics THE SCHOOL WHERE I STUDIED, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I passed by the school where I studied as a boy Subject(s): Jerusalem; Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools THE STUDENT, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In america everybody must have a degree,' the french man Subject(s): Schools; Education; France; United States; Students; America THE SUNDAY SCHOOL, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Group after group are gathering, such as prest Last Line: A sabbath without end, 'nid yon celestial plain Subject(s): Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools THE SUNDAY SCHOOL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A school it is, where glorious things are taught Last Line: You cannot fail, your master toils with you. Subject(s): Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools THE TEACHER SAID, by DARA WIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine someone you love is dead Last Line: Be tidy, be so careful, be very sweet Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students THE THING YOU MUST REMEMBER, by MAGGIE ANDERSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The thing you must remember is how, as a child Subject(s): Education; Healing; Schools; Cures; Students THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT SERVICE FLAG - 1517 STARS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It surely does you good Last Line: Will guard your honor still. Subject(s): Education; Flags - United States; Schools; Universities & Colleges; Vermont; American Flag; Students THEOLOGICAL EXPERTS, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the gay monkey reigns Last Line: To their sweet serenade. Subject(s): Moses; Religious Education; Teaching & Teachers; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools THERE ARE MIRACLES EXTANT IN THIS WORLD, by WILLIAM SNYDER Poem Source First Line: At the premier of haydn's 96th, a chandelier Last Line: Now, I bubble in my grades-mostly a's and b's Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers THERE'S A NEW COOK IN THE CAFETERIA, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: Good morning, staff and students Last Line: Our old cook back again Subject(s): Education; Schools THING YOU MUST REMEMBER, by MAGGIE ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The thing you must remember is how, as a child Last Line: Hands: large, rough and grainy %over yours, holding on Subject(s): Education; Healing; Schools THIRD DAY OF SPRING, by SUSAN MURRAY Poem Source First Line: The window is open Last Line: Expanding off %and out Subject(s): Education; Schools THOU SHALT WALK IN THE MIDST OF THY TUTORS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once on a time a youthful cove Last Line: Vy! Vot a cove he'll be! Subject(s): Children; Education; Language; Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Paintings And Painters; Youth TIROCINIUM: OR, A REVIEW OF SCHOOLS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not from his form, in which we trace Last Line: Or better managed, or encouraged less. Subject(s): Education TO AN EX-STUDENT, ON LEARNING SHE IS A WORLD-CLASS GYMNAST, by STEPHEN DALE COREY Poem Source First Line: What routines you must have mounted Last Line: Your silent sprung flights and twistings show %what the body of his song can be Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TODAY IS NOT A GOOD DAY, by REBECCA KAI DOTLICH Poem Source Last Line: My book report was due Subject(s): Education; Schools TOMAS RIVERA, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They knew so much, his hands Subject(s): Chicanos; Education; Mexican Americans TOO BUSY, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: I've folded all my laundry Last Line: When homework must be done Subject(s): Education; Schools TROUBLE WITH MATH IN A ONE-ROOM COUNTRY SCHOOL, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The others bent their heads and started in Last Line: And changed, back to the class Subject(s): Education; Schools; Shame; Students TROUBLE WITH MATH IN A ONE-ROOM COUNTRY SCHOOL, by JANE KENYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The others bent their heads and started in Last Line: And changed, back to the class Subject(s): Education; Schools; Shame TROUBLE WITH WRITING, by SARAH SLOANE Poem Source First Line: A goat ate my pen. Frost grew %all over my computer Last Line: Under the sound %of each sound Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TRUANT OFFICER'S HELPER, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My only day in the black Last Line: And smart and made it up %out of my own head %on that stolenpaper, %my stolen pencil trembling Subject(s): Education; Schools TUESDAY 8:45, by JOSEPH H. BALL Poem Source First Line: Kirsten, %I had forgotten Last Line: My imagination %can we re-schedule for friday? Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TUNK (A LECTURE ON MODERN EDUCATION), by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look heah, tunk!-now, ain't dis awful! Last Line: Place in school! Subject(s): Education; Writing & Writers TWO-ROOM SCHOOLHOUSE, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL Poem Source First Line: When I'm bad I'm given ten white pages Last Line: Having sat here quietly all morning Subject(s): Education; Schools VISION OR DREAM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: On a bed of soft mosses, I lay 'neath the trees Last Line: He went as he came—in vision or dream. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Dreams; Knowledge; Modern Man; Religious Education; Teaching & Teachers; Reading; Nightmares; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Educators; Professors WAITING, by PEG MCNALLY Poem Source First Line: I am the lowest paid substitute teacher in the district Last Line: The big lake, to the northeast corner of hough and 79th, and you know the rest Subject(s): Education; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WASHING TOGETHER, by SUSAN BUTLER NEWBERG Poem Source First Line: Today the children played Last Line: The difference in ages Subject(s): Education WATCHING MY STUDENTS WRITE, by ROBERT PARHAM Poem Source First Line: This is why I am here: to watch them work Last Line: Makes it an appetite, the kindest of all Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WHAT I FOUND IN MY DESK, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: A ripe peach with an ugly bruise Last Line: A note from teacher: clean this mess!!!! Subject(s): Education; Schools WHAT SAVES US, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are wrapped around each other Subject(s): Education; Schools; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Students WHAT SAVES US, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are wrapped around each other Last Line: The deep untangling, of one body from another Subject(s): Education; Schools; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WHAT'S SO FUNNY?, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: There's something no one's telling me Last Line: Sticking to your shoe!' Subject(s): Education; Schools WHAT'S THIS?, by HELEN KSYPKA Poem Source First Line: It's gunky goo, a slimy stew Last Line: At school and call it 'lunch.' Subject(s): Education; Schools WHEN THE KIDS COME HOME FROM SCHOOL, by LORETTA LEE Poem Source First Line: I don my jacket, gloves and boots to tramp my woods Last Line: The rivulets to join my creek Subject(s): Education WHEN YOUR FATHER IS ALSO YOUR WRESTLING COACH, by ANDREW L. WILSON Poem Source Last Line: Vie, clash in the light of his straight stare %know that it's you he sees there Subject(s): Education; Schools WHERE CHILDREN PLAY, by JOHN BRANDER Poem Source First Line: You go past hostels Last Line: The policemen %there %smile Subject(s): Education WHICH KING?, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: We have no king but caesar,' answered they Last Line: That christ is king, that he alone shall reign? Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Courts & Courtiers; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools WHO AM I?, by ANDREW SAGAY Poem Source First Line: A poem self-instructs Last Line: Who I am and who you are Subject(s): Education WHY MY HOMEWORK IS LATE, by REBECCA KAI DOTLICH Poem Source First Line: Broke my nose Last Line: And that is why my homework's late! Subject(s): Education; Schools WILDFLOWER COMPOSITION, by MELISSA A. GOLDTHWAITE Poem Source First Line: Spring: I make a chart, tape every weed Last Line: Or walking barefoot, testing your own ground Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WINDSHIELD VIPERS (KEEPING TIME), by KATHERINE M. FISCHER Poem Source First Line: Careening through snowy %hillsides, the evergreens Last Line: Small sweetness %of pooling %sap Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WORKSHOP PANTOUM, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Does anybody want to start this off? Last Line: Ok, next. Anybody want to start this off? Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WRESTLE THEORY, by ALICE GEORGE Poem Source First Line: If a) either there are no truly interesting 'ideas' or b) language Last Line: Move and imagine ourselves moving, or (sharks) we shall %languish in a horrid wet Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers X, by DOYLE WESLEY WALLS Poem Source First Line: My son only wants to type the 'x' on the screen Last Line: The stars. The way they shine Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers YOUR FATHER USED TO CALL THEM COOTS, by PATRICK W. MCNELLY Poem Source Last Line: A father's son to turn the page Subject(s): Education YOUTH SAVES SELF: THIRTY DIE, by MICHEL FORTIER Poem Source First Line: I dreamed, looking out Last Line: And I remember the way %to the principal's office Subject(s): Education ZIMMER IN GRADE SCHOOL, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In grade school I wondered %why I had been born Last Line: Who spits upon the radiatiors %and sits all day in shame %outside the office of the principal Subject(s): Education; Schools ZIMMER'S HEAD THUDDING AGAINST THE BLACKBOARD, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the blackboard I had missed / five number problems in a row Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students ZIMMER'S HEAD THUDDING AGAINST THE BLACKBOARD, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the blackboard I had missed %five number problems in a row Last Line: That very day I'd be a poet, %and curse her yellow teeth with this Subject(s): Education; Schools ZULU SCHOOL RIOT, by JOHN BRANDER Poem Source First Line: There are only swallows Last Line: The commander is satisfied %things are under control Subject(s): Education |
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