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Subject: GENIUS
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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