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Subject: JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 4TH STANZA FOR DR. JOHNSON, DONALD HALL, by X. J. KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I put my hat upon my head
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph
Subject(s): Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)


A SECOND STANZA, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I put my hat upon my head
Subject(s): Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)


AT CHESHIRE CHEESE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When first of wise old johnson taught
Last Line: In doctor johnson's seat I sit!
Subject(s): Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)


BOZZY AND PIOZI, OR THE BRITISH BIOGRAPHERS, SELS., by JOHN WOLCOTT            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John
Subject(s): Boswell, James (1740-1795); Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Piozzi, Hester Lynch (1741-1821)


DR. JOHNSON, by SOAME JENYNS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lies poor johnson. Reader! Have a care
Last Line: Will tell you how he wrote, and talked, and spit.
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)


DR. JOHNSON, by STEPHEN MITCHELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Something I left behind
Last Line: Is no farther off than a sigh
Subject(s): Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)


DR. JOHNSON, by STEPHEN MITCHELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Something I left behind
Last Line: We'll be leaving in a moment. London %is no farther off than a sigh
Subject(s): Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)


DR. JOHNSON'S GHOST, by ELIZABETH MOODY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas at the solemn hour of night
Last Line: And word -- wrote never more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Greenly, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)


DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON TAKES TEA WITH MR. DAVIES THE BOOKSELLER (1763), by GEORGE STEELE SEYMOUR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Full many a man before
Last Line: Young boswell waits...
Subject(s): Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)


EPILOGUE: HURLO-THRUMBO; A PLAY BY SAMUEL JOHNSON, by JOHN BYROM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hurlo: ladies and gentlemen, my lord of flame
Last Line: Their looks make sense or nonsense in our isle.
Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Supernatural; Writing & Writers


FOR THE CENTENARY OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, by WILLIAM BRIAN HOOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the slow cycle of a hundred years
Last Line: And in strange tongues bid the brave ghost appear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hooker, Brian
Subject(s): Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)


JOHNSON ON POPE; FROM THE LIVES OF THE POETS, by DAVID FERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He was protuberant behind, before
Last Line: Composed itself; of folly he made beauty
Subject(s): Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)


JOHNSON ON POPE; FROM THE LIVES OF THE POETS, by DAVID FERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He was protuberant behind, before
Last Line: Composed itself; of folly he made beauty
Subject(s): Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)


JONSONIAN POEM IN PROGRESS, SELS., by PETER VEALE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I put my hat upon my head
Subject(s): Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)


KRAZY KAT RAG, by LOUIS PHILLIPS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Off god hera hurried
Last Line: The ice-prison, sagged, then rivered away
Subject(s): Hall, Donald (b. 1928); Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)


SECOND STANZA, by DONALD HALL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I put my hat upon my head
Last Line: His head was in his hat
Subject(s): Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)


SONNET: 67. ON DR. JOHNSON'S UNJUST CRITICISM IN 'LIVES OF THE POETS', by ANNA SEWARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Could aweful johnson want poetic ear
Last Line: That lift the mean, and lay the mighty low.
Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy
Subject(s): Garrick, David (1717-1779); Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)


SONNET: 68. ON THE POSTHUMOUS FAME OF DOCTOR JOHNSON, by ANNA SEWARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well it becomes thee, britain, to avow
Last Line: But large the spots that darken'd on its sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy
Subject(s): Fame; Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Reputation


TEMPORARY POEMS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sam'l johnson in his famous
Last Line: The vanity of human hopes'
Subject(s): Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Poetry And Poets


THIRD STANZA FOR DR. JOHNSON AND DONLD HALL, by LOUIS PHILLIPS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I put my hand upon my head
Subject(s): Hall, Donald (b. 1928); Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)


TIME'S REVERSALS; A DAUGHTER'S PARADOX, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To his devoted heart
Last Line: Leaning a fading brow on your unfaded hand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Love - Age Differences; Time


TO THE PRINCIPAL AND PROFESSORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS ....., by ROBERT FERGUSSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: St andrews town may look right gawsy
Last Line: Will mend your prose and heal my rhyme.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert
Subject(s): Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Universities & Colleges; Students; Educators; Professors