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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LIBRARIANS & LIBRARIES Matches Found: 33 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GIRL IN A LIBRARY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem 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 BECAUSE OF LIBRARIES WE CAN SAY THESE THINGS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem 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 BOOKS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem 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 GERALD STERN Poem 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 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 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 HER MONOLOGUE OF DARK CREPE WITH EDGES OF LIGHT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem 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 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: 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 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 PUBLIC LIBRARY, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Librarians & Libraries; Library; Librarians IN THE READING ROOM, by DAVID FERRY Poem 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 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 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 LIBRARY, by EVE MERRIAM Poem 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 WIDENER LIBRARY, READING ROOM, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem 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 |
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