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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GENIUS Matches Found: 40 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FALSE GENIUS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see a spirit by thy side Last Line: He is a demon in disguise! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Duplicity; Evil; Genius; God; Grief; Deceit; Sorrow; Sadness AN EJACULATION, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Genius, cried the commuter Last Line: For catching trains. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Genius; Railroads; Railways; Trains CALENDAR OF FAME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, farewell, my beloved hands,' Last Line: Is hit wrong keys on my typewriter Subject(s): Genius; Hofmann, Josef (1876-1957); Rachmaninoff, Sergey (1873-1943) COMMON SENSE AND GENIUS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While I touch the string Last Line: Died of that cold river. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Genius; Wisdom DEAR GIFTS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life's best gifts are bought dearly. Wealth is won Last Line: How dark the penalty that it exacts! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Genius; Pleasure; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes ENCOUNTER WITH GENIUS, by ALICE FRASER Poem Text First Line: And still / his loneliness, terrible yet sweet Last Line: The spirit does not yield to the reasoning will. Subject(s): Genius EPISTLE TO LORD BYRON: VIRTUE PROTESTS, by JOSEPH COTTLE Poem Text First Line: From thy compeers in genius wisely learn Last Line: To know that I shall ever reach the height! Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Genius; Poetry & Poets; Virtue; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron FAME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When a man becomes a hero all the world is standing round Last Line: We are the girls who've kissed him' Subject(s): Fame;genius; Reputation FLINT AND STEEL; FROM YRIARTE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flint and steel -- the story goes Last Line: Without the aid of cultivation. Subject(s): Genius GENIUS, by JAMES GORDON BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not in the crowded haunts of busy life Subject(s): Genius GENIUS, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cunning and curious splendour Last Line: The foreheads of women and men. Subject(s): Genius GENIUS, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was what they called you in high school Subject(s): Genius GENIUS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now evening steals upon the glowing scene Last Line: And raise the veil of bright eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Genius; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen GENIUS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! And must this be the fate Last Line: Alive to every misery? Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Genius GENIUS CHILD, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a song for the genius child Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): Genius GENIUS CHILD, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a song for the genius child Last Line: Kill him - and let his soul run wild! Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): Genius HENRY IRVING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis art reclaims him! By those Last Line: Great likewise was the man. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Genius; Mankind; Human Race LATEST IN GUILLOTINES, by GIUSEPPE GIUSTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: China's got a machine Last Line: Why don't brains under my sway %make headway Subject(s): Genius; Inventions And Inventors MICHELANGELO, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stern and grim-visaged, gaunt, and dark of gaze Last Line: Into unfurrowed fields of light. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Decay; Genius; History; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Paintings & Painters; Sculpture & Sculptors; Sistine Chapel; Time; Rot; Decadence; Historians ON A GENIUS OF LOWLY ESTATE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where may not souls be found to greatness true? Last Line: And seeming from his bosom's depth to start. Subject(s): Genius ON A PIECE OF UNWROUGHT PIPECLAY, by JOHN FREDERICK BRYANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rude mass of earth, from which with moiled hands Last Line: That threats my eyeballs with extinction dire! Subject(s): Fire; Genius; Science; Scientists ON ERNEST DOWSON'S AUNT, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O grand old lady, how you hate Last Line: And were as curates deified. Subject(s): Aunts; Dowson, Ernest (1867-1900); Genius; Jealousy POEM: NORTH LIGHT, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: As color is to the eye of the beholder Last Line: I think you are a genius when it comes to color! Subject(s): Genius; North Star; Poetry And Poets SONNET: 8, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: You were not born to hide such gifts as yours Last Line: Like harlequin, and makes his jests his trade. Subject(s): Fate; Genius; Destiny SONNET: THE RARITY OF GENIUS, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While yet my lip was breathing youth's first breath Last Line: If she spoil thousands making one or two. Subject(s): Genius TALE: 11. EDWARD SHORE, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Genius! Thou gift of heav'n! Thou light divine Last Line: And heedless children call him silly shore. Subject(s): Genius TALENT AND GENIUS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: On the high road travelling steady Last Line: Only is known when the grave closes o'er him. Subject(s): Genius; Graves; Wealth; Tombs; Tombstones; Riches; Fortunes THE AFFECTIONATE HEART, by JOSEPH COTTLE Poem Text First Line: Even genius may weary the sight Last Line: It shall last till the wreck of the mind. Subject(s): Genius; Hearts; Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE DESTINY OF GENIUS, by MARIA ABDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of song! How truly hast thou spoken Last Line: Save when they fix their hopes on one above? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Maria; Abdy, Mira; M. A. Subject(s): Genius THE IMMORTALITY OF GENIUS, by SEXTUS PROPERTIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Orpheus, 'tis said, the thracian lyre-strings sweeping Last Line: And round the forehead wreathe the unfading crown. Subject(s): Genius; Poetry & Poets; Thought; Thinking THE MORTIFIED GENIUS, by JAMES GRAEME Poem Text First Line: What now avails to gain a woman's heart Last Line: Spurning true genius prostrate at his feet. Subject(s): Genius THE PENALTY OF GENIUS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When little 'pollus morton he's Last Line: Us morton, teacher, speech, an' all! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Genius; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students THE REQUIEM OF GENIUS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No tears for thee! Though light be from us gone Last Line: Never to die! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Genius; Immortality THE SYLPH, by PAUL VALERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seen not nor known Last Line: Between two gowns! Subject(s): Genius; Life; Smells; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances TO A BELATED GENIUS, by WILLIAM THEODORE PETERS Poem Text First Line: And some of us arrive at dawn of day Last Line: And some of us arrive long after dark. Subject(s): Genius TO MR. --, AN UNLETTERED POET, ON GENIUS UNIMPROVED, by ANN YEARSLEY Poem Text First Line: Florus, canst thou define that innate spark / which blazes but for glory? Last Line: And that be thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Cromartie, Ann Subject(s): Genius; Poetry & Poets; Wisdom TO SHAKESPEARE, by DONALD BAIN Poem Text First Line: We know you knew, but know not how you knew Last Line: Transmigrant over all the lands and seas. Subject(s): Dramatists; Genius; Life; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dramatists TO THE GENIUS OF AFRICA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou who from the mountain's height Last Line: There, genius, thou hast breathed the gales of death. Subject(s): Africa; Genius; Revolutions; Slavery; U.s. - Race Relations; Serfs VOTIVE TABLETS: GENIUS, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Intellect can repeat what's been fulfill'd Last Line: In nature's kingdom nature to enlarge! Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Genius; Nature YOUR GENIUS MADE ME SHIVER, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thank you shall have it, ever - %illumined, and onrushing like a river Subject(s): Genius |
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