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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LECTURES Matches Found: 24 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A REQUISITION TO THE QUEEN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most august! Empress of india, and of great britain the queen Last Line: That lives in dundee. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; India; Leadership; Lectures; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking AFTER IKKYU: 31, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come down to earth! Get your head out of your ass! Last Line: In a brown pickup truck on a summer evening. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Lectures; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking AFTER THE LECTURE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am asking the difficult question. I need help Last Line: Through history with their own strange light? Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Lectures AN IRREGULAR SUPPLICATORY ADDRESS TO THE AMERICAN ACADEMIES, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye learned wights, who all the heights Last Line: That arcanum -- perpetual motion. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Lectures; Perpetual Motion; Scholarship & Scholars; Science; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking; Scientists BESIDE HER DESK IS THE DESK, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: She's listening with her whole body Last Line: In this amicable inexorable grammar %each has his final place Subject(s): Language; Lectures; Schools; Sweden; Teaching And Teachers CLEMATIS SEMINAR, by BERT ALMON Poem Source First Line: While my colleagues were listening to dr. Christopher norris of the Last Line: I do not think that dr. Norris will winter-over in alberta Subject(s): Lectures; Teaching And Teachers; Universities & Colleges - Faculty CORNER OF TALKERS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: At the corner of talkers he says to the publican Last Line: I knew a woman stole it from a decent englishman'. Subject(s): Lectures EFFECT OF ORATORY UPON A MULTITUDE, by GEORGE CROLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His words seem'd oracles Last Line: The beating of your pulses while he spoke. Subject(s): Lectures; Speech; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking; Oratory; Orators KRYCEK: THE CONFESSION, by SUSAN WHEELER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On an upper story, someone is dying Last Line: To each lector at the lectionary Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue Subject(s): Confessions; Lectures; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking KRYCEK: THE CONFESSION, by SUSAN WHEELER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On an upper story, someone is dying Last Line: To each lector at the lectionary Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue Subject(s): Confessions; Lectures LECTURE TO SECOND-YEAR MEDICAL STUDENTS, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: This morning I'd like to concentrate Last Line: This information accurately to the patient.%in this man I'd recommend further experimental treatment Subject(s): Lectures; Medical Students LECTURER, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little man, %sallow Last Line: As with short steps he goes. %not dangerous? %he has been in gaol Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Lectures LINES IN MEMORIAM REGARDING THE ENTERTAINMENT I GAVE ON THE 31ST MARCH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the 31st of march, and in the year of 1893 Last Line: I'll remember during my stay in dundee. Subject(s): Conventions; Gratitude; Lectures; Assemblies; Meetings; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking OUR BOB, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With humor as sweet as our basin Last Line: In a genius that's ours—our bob! Subject(s): Lectures; Memory; Speech; Taylor, Robert Love (1850-1912); Thought; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking; Oratory; Orators; Thinking POET HOLDS THE PODIUM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Like a garbage bag of words Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Lectures; Nature; Poetry And Poets PRINCIPLES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He's giving a lecture on principles Last Line: All his principles are in his prick.' Subject(s): Lectures; Reproductive System SPEAKER, by PETER FINCH Poem Source First Line: At the lectern Last Line: Writing is such a prolific art %at times you can't even give it away free Subject(s): Lectures SPEAKING SILENCE, by C. LEIREN MOWER Poem Source First Line: November 1994. Sitting on the porch, waiting for the Last Line: Un-becoming - re-becoming. Speaking what is always %already between - Subject(s): Lectures; Silence SPEAKING TERMS, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All around me to-ing and fro-ing Last Line: And start walking Subject(s): Contrariness; Lectures; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking THE BLEEDING MIND, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A great man was giving a lecture in a town Subject(s): Lectures; Crucifixion; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion THE BOY IN ARMOR; HE SPEAKS TO THE GATHERED NATIONS, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tremble, o world! Bow down! Cringe! Be afraid! Last Line: For you shall think! And ghosts will drive you on! Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Lectures; Patriotism; Social Protest; Soldiers; Supernatural; Thought; War; Dead, The; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking; Thinking THE LECTURE, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: College de france, a dingy room Last Line: He died, lost in the middle ages. Subject(s): Lectures; Universities & Colleges; Wisdom; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking THE ROSSVILLE LECTUR' COURSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Folks up here at rossville got up a lectur' course:-- Last Line: "got off at rossville, indiany, 'stid of michigun." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): April; Lectures; Michigan; Towns; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking YET SPEAKETH!, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yet speaketh!' though the voice is hushed that filled Last Line: Each word a note of joy,—and shall we not 'be still?' Subject(s): Lectures; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking |
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