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Subject: IDEALISM
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN IDEALIST, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night I left him very ill
Last Line: He fares farther on.
Subject(s): Death; Faces; Idealism; Life; Soul; Dead, The


BRIEF LAYOVER, by CHRIS STROFFOLINO    Poem Source                    
First Line: To solve the problem of idealism
Last Line: Until one wave hits and another hit waves
Subject(s): Idealism


CRITICAL SONATA: THE TRUTH [LA VERDAD], by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Realism, idealism: how I dote on you both
Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo
Subject(s): Idealism; Realism; Truth


IDEALISM, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep in the soul a strong delusion dwells
Last Line: Joy in the guileless heart his welcome will prepare
Subject(s): Idealism


IDEALISM, by ASHLEY MONTAGU    Poem Source                    
First Line: A philosopher, one bishop berkeley
Subject(s): Berkeley, George (1685-1753); Idealism


IDEALISM, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know the woman has no soul, I know
Last Line: Music, the divine human harmony.
Subject(s): Idealism


IDEALISM AND REALISM, by GUSTAF FRODING    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm sick of this newfangled schism
Subject(s): Idealism; Realism


IDEALIST WHO WALKS TESTING A STONE BRIDGE, by MUSHAKOJI SANEATSU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Somebody told me
Last Line: I'm an idealist who walks across a stone bridge %testing it
Subject(s): Idealism


IDEALISTS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hemlock cup for socrates
Subject(s): Idealism; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


IDEALISTS, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brother tree / why do you reach and reach?
Last Line: Why do you talk and talk and talk?
Subject(s): Idealism


JUST WHERE DID THESE THOUGHTS GO?, by JOANNE KYGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Ride bicycle out into the night
Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Idealism; Loss


LETTER TO A PURIST, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That grandiose colossus who
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Imagination; Idealism; Fancy


PHI BETA KAPPA POEM; HARVARD, 1914, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir, friends, and scholars, we are here to serve
Last Line: The sunrise kindling all the peaks with fire.
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Duty; Harvard University; Idealism; New England; Tradition; Heritage; Heredity


SYMMETRY, by NELLE MCCULLOUGH    Poem Text                    
First Line: He who thinks too much of the thorns knows
Last Line: Is a practical idealist.
Subject(s): Flowers; Idealism; Roses; Thorns


THE IDEALIST, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh you who have daring deeds to tell!
Last Line: "for I've lived in the head of a queen!"
Subject(s): Idealism


TO A BAFFLED IDEALIST, by JOSEPH G. E. HOPKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because the upper and the nether stones
Subject(s): Idealism


TO A BERKELEYAN IDEALIST, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If nature be a phastasm, as thou say'st
Last Line: More than content with worlds that only seem.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Berkeley, George (1685-1753); Idealism; Philosophy & Philosophers


TO A FRIEND, WITH A VOLUME OF VERSES, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To you who dwell withdrawn, above
Last Line: Oh, brave idealist.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Friendship; Idealism


TO THE IDEAL, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When wilt thou with thy fancies holy
Last Line: Life's debt—the minutes, days and years.
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Idealism


TWO STUDIES IN IDEALISM: 1. BEAR TRACK PLANTATION: SHORTLY AFTER, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two things a man's built for, killing and you-know-what
Last Line: Hell, no. I'd lie easy if jeff had just give me that ten
Subject(s): Idealism


TWO STUDIES IN IDEALISM: 1. BEAR TRACK PLANTATION: SHORTLY AFTER SHILOH, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two things a man's built for, killing and you-know-what
Last Line: Hell, no. I'd lie if jeff had just give me that ten
Subject(s): Idealism


TWO STUDIES IN IDEALISM: 2. HARVARD '61: BATTLE FATIGUE, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I didn't mind dying - it wasn't that at all
Last Line: Where people who haven't the right just die, with ghastly impertinence
Subject(s): Harvard University; Idealism


TWO STUDIES IN IDEALISM: 2. HARVARD '61: BATTLE FATIGUE, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I didn't mind dying - it wasn't that at all
Last Line: Where people who haven't the right just die, with ghastly impertinence
Subject(s): Harvard University; Idealism


VERSES ON DANGER OF ATTACHING WRONG IDEAS TO WORDS OR EPITHETS, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis not to tell what various mischief springs
Last Line: Resolv'd to post him for an arrant cheat.
Subject(s): Idealism; Language; Words; Vocabulary