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Subject: PUBLIC SPEAKING
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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


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


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 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


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


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 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