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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784) Matches Found: 22 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 |
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