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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LIBRARIANS Matches Found: 92 A GIRL IN A LIBRARY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An object among dreams, you sit here with your shoes off Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Pushkin, Alexander (1799-1837); Schools; Sleep; Library; Librarians; Students AFTER THE SPEECH TO THE LIBRARIANS, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was speaking to the librarians Subject(s): Libraries & Librarians AFTER THE SPEECH TO THE LIBRARIANS, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was speaking to the librarians Last Line: With which we all might sing for the children Subject(s): Librarians And Libraries AN ODE ADDRESSED TO MR. JOHN ROUSE, LIBRARIAN ..., by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My two-fold book! Single in show Last Line: I merit, shall with candour weigh the claim. Subject(s): Libraries & Librarians; Oxford University; Rouse, John (17th Century) ANGELS, by MARIANNE BORUCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The boy empties the library when he leaves it Last Line: Our thawed life a figure of speech, %onomatopoeia, a fake Subject(s): Librarians And Libraries BECAUSE OF LIBRARIES WE CAN SAY THESE THINGS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is holding the book close to her body Last Line: Her life starts here. Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians BIBLIOMANCY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Walk down any row-past science and gardening Last Line: In which the words that wake you are written Subject(s): Bible; Books; Librarians And Libraries; Literature BOARDING: 4. INDEPENDENCE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am ten, the british quit Last Line: Foggy weather, shakespeare. We made a trade Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Independence; Libraries & Librarians; India; English History BOARDING: 4. INDEPENDENCE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am ten, the british quit Last Line: Foggy weather, shakespeare. We make a trade Variant Title(s): Independenc Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Independence; Librarians And Libraries BOOK BORROWERS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some folks are rather funny; if they should Last Line: Roosting on my shack. Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Reading BOOKS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're standing on the high school steps Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Schools; Women; Reading; Library; Librarians; Students BOOKS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're standing on the high school steps Last Line: The blur of the world. Into whoever you're going to be Subject(s): Books; Librarians And Libraries; Schools; Women BOOKS, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How you loved to read in the snow and when your Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians BUILDING THE LIBRARY, TOKYO UNIVERSITY; NIGHT SCENE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like men of fire, in painful night Last Line: For the great muse to come! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Tokyo Imperial University; Library; Librarians CHANCE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May favor obscure brainy aptitudes in you Subject(s): Libraries & Librarians CIVIL WAR, by DEBORA GREGER Poem Source First Line: I will never forget that library in the rain Last Line: The librarian of the dead %surrendered its pages to be turned Subject(s): Librarians And Libraries; United States; War COVERT STREET, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The boy who lived in the library Last Line: When he came to his own, covert street %hushed in the breeze bowing the sycamores Subject(s): Books; Language; Librarians And Libraries CURSES FOR HE WHO BORROWS & RETURNS NOT A BOOK, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: May the kept book change to a serpent in his hands Last Line: The fine wire of the filament burnt and snapped in two Subject(s): Books; Librarians And Libraries DOGANA, by MARCELIN PLEYNET Poem Source First Line: Dazzled %blind %turning in the gilded cage of the world Last Line: One's got to laugh in their wake %now one's got to laugh Subject(s): Books; History; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Letters; Librarians And Libraries; Poetry And Poets; Sailors And Sailing; Venice, Italy EPIGRAM PROPOSED FOR THE NEW LIBRARY, by R. T. KERLIN Poem Text First Line: Something for all, invention's myriad kinds Last Line: The silent banquet hall of moths and minds. Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Yale University; Library; Librarians FALL OF ROME, by MICHAEL CHITWOOD Poem Source First Line: Autumn, and the brilliant leaves tumble Last Line: He will use on cold mornings %to warm his hands Subject(s): Books; History; Librarians And Libraries FIRE AT ALEXANDRIA, by THEODORE RUSSELL WEISS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine it, a sophocles complete Alternate Author Name(s): Weiss, T. Subject(s): Alexandria, Egypt; Librarians And Libraries FOR THE DEDICATION OF THE NEW CITY LIBRARY, BOSTON, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proudly, beneath her glittering dome Last Line: The queen, the handmaid of them all! Subject(s): Boston; Librarians & Libraries; Library; Librarians FURTHER ADVANTAGES OF LEARNING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day in the library Subject(s): Buddhism; Learning; Libraries & Librarians; Buddha; Buddhists FURTHER ADVANTAGES OF LEARNING, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day in the library Last Line: Busy place of a better world Subject(s): Buddhism; Learning; Librarians And Libraries GIRL IN A LIBRARY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An object among dreams, you sit here with your shoes off Last Line: The corn king beckoning to his spring queen Subject(s): Librarians And Libraries; Pushkin, Alexander (1799-1837); Schools; Sleep HER MONOLOGUE OF DARK CREPE WITH EDGES OF LIGHT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mistress adrienne, I have been given a bed with a pink dresser Last Line: Don't hear from you I will try to understand. Chloe. Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; American Revolution; Girls; Librarians & Libraries; Murder; Teaching & Teachers; Library; Librarians; Educators; Professors HERE IS MUSIC: 19. BEFORE AND AFTER: BEFORE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Books as my background. Books Last Line: Of e'er-increasing anger, ice-cold, hun-ward hate. Subject(s): Books; History; Libraries & Librarians; Scholarship & Scholars; Youth; Reading; Historians HERE IS MUSIS: 19. BEFORE AND AFTER: AFTER, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Books as our background. Books Last Line: All life still brings ... True, blest begetter of these songs! Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Old Age; Reading IN A LIBRARY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wealth of silence, that is all. The air Last Line: The valor, bloom, and wisdom of a world. Subject(s): Books; Flowers; Librarians & Libraries; Life; Silence; Reading; Library; Librarians IN A LIBRARY, by LENORE MAUDE CROUDACE Poem Text First Line: Silence more eloquent than noise or sound Last Line: For thought transcending our little human span. Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians IN A LIBRARY, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bard of power - the bard of grace Last Line: The ruddy or the golden bliss. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Variant Title(s): The Peerage Of The Lyre Subject(s): Libraries & Librarians IN A LIBRARY, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: They left me there Last Line: And shook my head. Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Reading IN A LIBRARY: 1, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my friend's library I sit alone Last Line: And adds a soul they own not of themselves. Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Library; Librarians IN A LIBRARY: 2, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A miracle - that man should learn to fill Last Line: For them they talk and sing like uncaged birds. Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians IN A LIBRARY; QUATRAIN, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The living ofttimes vex us Last Line: T is here we turn for rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Libraries & Librarians IN THE LIBRARY, by HARRIET A. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: Like cells in a prison Last Line: The lad is prospero. Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians IN THE LIBRARY, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the oriels one by one Last Line: Premonitions of the morn! Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Speech; Reading; Oratory; Orators IN THE PUBLIC LIBRARY, by ALTHEA TODD ALDERSON Poem Source First Line: I see them totter in, the very old Subject(s): Librarians And Libraries IN THE PUBLIC LIBRARY, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Library; Librarians IN THE READING ROOM, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone in the library room, even when others Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Library; Librarians IN THE READING-ROOM OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praised be the moon of books! That doth above Last Line: While in this liberal house thy face is bright. Subject(s): British Museum, London; Librarians & Libraries; Museums; Library; Librarians; Art Gallerys INSCRIPTION FOR A LIBRARY, by GEORGE SEIBEL Poem Text First Line: Put on the cowl, take up thy staff! Last Line: Across the ancient aisles of time. Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Poetry & Poets; Time; Reading LA PAMPA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dead truck sits in the shimmering wheat Last Line: In white pajamas and turquoise slippers. Subject(s): Brothers; Fathers; Graves; Librarians & Libraries; Half-brothers; Tombs; Tombstones; Library; Librarians LENDING LIBRARY, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the valentines and birthday greetings Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Books; Women; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians LETTER TO A LIBRARIAN, by IRVING LAYTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. P. - ihave heard it rumored Last Line: While rabelais pipes you to a wished-for death %on a kazoo quaint and silvered Subject(s): Censorship; Hate; Librarians And Libraries LIBRARIAN, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The somber librarian believes he's kafka Last Line: Waxed, pointed, real severe-looking Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); Librarians And Libraries LIBRARY, by YURI ANDRUKHOVYCH Poem Source First Line: We search for the most esoteric knowledge Last Line: The small warm nest %of a simple swallow Subject(s): Librarians And Libraries LIBRARY, by BARBARA A. HUFF Poem Source First Line: It looks like any building Last Line: The wonderment of books Subject(s): Books; Librarians And Libraries LIBRARY, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time clock to the moral prim-mouth female Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Library; Librarians LOVE POEM FOR THE FORTY-SECOND STREET LIBRARY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With my eyes turned to the sky Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; New York City; Library; Librarians; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple LOVE POEM FOR THE FORTY-SECOND STREET LIBRARY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With my eyes turned to the sky Last Line: This way, my eyes shimmering and turned %upwards Subject(s): Librarians And Libraries; New York City MAIRI MACINTYRE: TO HER MOTHER FROM ST KILDA, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Dearest mum. I'm on the site at gleann mor Last Line: P.S. Again-consult the map I made you, mum! Subject(s): Books; Letters; Librarians And Libraries; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers MY LIBRARY, by HENRY JEROME STOCKARD Poem Source First Line: At times these walls enchanted fade, it seems Subject(s): Librarians And Libraries MY LIBRARY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shrine of my mind, my library! Last Line: Hence to the outer world good night! Subject(s): Books; Hearts; Libraries & Librarians; Life; Love; Solitude; Reading; Loneliness NATIONAL LIBRARY, by JOSE OSWALD DE SOUZA ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: The abandoned child Last Line: Public speaking for everyone %the pole in flames Subject(s): Librarians And Libraries NOCTURNES: 5, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: One table is philosophical, two are hegelian, and three the main Last Line: Case the bay ('I am not now, nor have I ever been, a creative writer') clamps up as usual Subject(s): Librarians And Libraries; Philosophy And Philosophers; Writing And Writers OTHER TIGER, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tiger comes to mind. The twilight here Last Line: Another tiger, the beast not found in verse Subject(s): Animals; Books; Librarians And Libraries; Mythical Animals; Poetry And Poets; Tigers PINDARIC ODE: TO THE UNVERSITY LIBRARY AT OXFORD, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail learning's pantheon! Hail, the sacred ark Last Line: As the best blood of man's employ'd in generation. Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Oxford University; Library; Librarians POEM OF THE GIFTS, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let no one impute to self-pity or censure Last Line: Seems at one with sleep and at one with oblivion Subject(s): Books; Librarians And Libraries; Poetry And Poets POETRY SWIMSUIT ISSUE, by CHARLES GREENLEY Poem Source First Line: Sounds like an unsexy idea at first Last Line: For the same reason most everything else does Subject(s): Books; Librarians And Libraries; Literature; Poetry And Poets READING DICKENS, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not long after the war, my father Last Line: Saving the ending for tomorrow Subject(s): Books; Booksellers; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Librarians And Libraries; Poetry And Poets ROOF, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Look! Two magpies are battling it out Last Line: Lonesome on the roof %of a famous library. Subject(s): Competition; Librarians And Libraries; Snobs And Snobbery SALESMAN AND A LIBRARIAN, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mom smelled of books, even dad admitted Last Line: Their bristly mustaches; too tired to raise, %on brontosaurus necks, their plastic hammer-heads Subject(s): Books; Booksellers; Librarians And Libraries; Salespersons SAN LORENZO: LIBRARY, by UNKNOWN+8 Poem Source First Line: There is a woman walking Subject(s): Librarians And Libraries SIX BUILDINGS: 3. LIBRARY, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Particle by particle accumulation of gold; or as parallel Last Line: Notational drifts, outward to the drips, the precise economies Subject(s): Librarians And Libraries; Nova Scotia STREET POET, by JAMES HAZEN Poem Source First Line: When hickford sings, midnight's Last Line: And the editors make their rounds Subject(s): Librarians And Libraries; Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings THE BOOK LINE; RIVINGTON STREET BRANCH, NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, ye that despair of the land Last Line: Yet shall rear to the skies! Subject(s): Future; Legends; Librarians & Libraries; Nations; New York City; Library; Librarians; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE COLLECTOR TO HIS LIBRARY, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brown books of mine, who never yet Last Line: This, more than other good, I pray. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Variant Title(s): The Final Word Subject(s): Books; Collectors & Collecting; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians THE FATHER OF PREDICAMENTS, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He came at night to each of us asleep Subject(s): Fathers; Self; Librarians & Libraries; Library; Librarians THE LIBRARIAN, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The somber librarian believes he's kafka Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); Librarians & Libraries; Library; Librarians THE LIBRARIAN, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The landscape (the landscape!) again: gloucester Subject(s): Gloucester, Massachusetts; Librarians & Libraries; Poetry Readings; Homecoming; Family Life; Library; Librarians; Relatives THE LIBRARY, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the sad soul, by care and grief oppressed Last Line: And tell them, such are all the toys they love.' Subject(s): Books; Librarians & Libraries; Reading; Library; Librarians THE LIBRARY, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the room whose every nook Last Line: Hic habitat felicitas! Subject(s): Libraries & Librarians THE LIBRARY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: My house is very large and tall Last Line: They are the friends that never die. Subject(s): Books; Friendship; Libraries & Librarians; November; Reading THE LIBRARY SPEAKS, by ELIZABETH WELTON LUMPKIN Poem Text First Line: I stand upon my little hill Last Line: My mission to fulfill. Subject(s): Libraries & Librarians THE LIBRARY; SUNG AT OPENING OF THE HAVERHILL LIBRARY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let there be light!' god spake of old Last Line: The lords of thought await our call! Subject(s): Haverhill, Massachusetts; Libraries & Librarians THE PLUTE'S LIBRARY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, stately books, in handsome cases, all Last Line: Come and read them. Subject(s): Books; Dramatists; Libraries & Librarians; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Reading THE PRESS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A worthy parson, once upon a time Last Line: On freedom's shores a weak and venal press. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Freedom; History; Libraries & Librarians; Literature; Newspapers; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Liberty; Historians; Journalism; Journalists THE ROWFANT CATALOGUE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friends had he many, neighbours next to none Last Line: Reading it, see, the tears come and I stop. Subject(s): Catalogs; Librarians & Libraries; Locker-lampson, Frederick (1821-1895); Library; Librarians THE SHAM LIBRARY; FROM YRIARTE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in madrid, there dwelt a worthy man Last Line: The costly volumes which they never read! Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Reading THIRD USE OF THE PENIS, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: My friend ann, the reference librarian Last Line: What is the third use of the penis? Subject(s): Jokes; Librarians And Libraries; Men; Reproductive System TO JOHN ROUSE, LIBRARIAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Double book in a single binding Last Line: And catullus admits one at will in the second foot Subject(s): Librarians And Libraries; Oxford University TO THE OLD LIBRARY, by SAMUEL N. HOLLIDAY Poem Text First Line: Our fathers drank of knowledge in thy halls Last Line: As thou hast served. Farewell, beloved pile! Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Yale University; Library; Librarians TO THOMAS STANLEY, ON MY LIBRARY, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred here together buried lie Last Line: Is kinder far when actuated by life. Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Stanley, Thomas (1625-1678); Library; Librarians UNDER SORACTE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another day, deep in the stacks Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Sex; Reading UNDER SORACTE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another day, deep in the stacks Last Line: Made love in the most remote %corner of knowledge Subject(s): Books; Librarians And Libraries; Sex UPON THE CHAIR MADE OUT OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE'S SHIP ..., by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To this great ship, which round the globe has run Last Line: To her in oxford, and to him in heaven. Subject(s): Chairs; Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); Librarians & Libraries; Oxford University; Library; Librarians VALEDICTORY; THE SCHOLAR TO THE ASHES OF HIS LIBRARY, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Gone the books of many names Last Line: Be the man that they should make. Subject(s): Death; Fire; Librarians & Libraries; World War Ii; Dead, The; Library; Librarians; Second World War WHAT IS THERE, by CAROL SNYDER HALBERSTADT Poem Source First Line: There are these books Last Line: Their seeds shed, %season after season Subject(s): Librarians And Libraries; Nature WIDENER LIBRARY, READING ROOM, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eight years removed from them, I sit among Last Line: Ill, here in thr vault of its vague inten Subject(s): Harvard University; Librarians & Libraries WOE!, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is true, our tribe is similar to the bees Last Line: Yawn and look at you -- as if knowing Subject(s): Librarians And Libraries |
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