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Subject: SCHOLARSHIP & SCHOLARS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FIN DE SIECLE GIRL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: She studies henrik ibsen 'to cultivate her mind'
Last Line: Of fancy work this modern maid can do
Subject(s): Scholarship & Scholars;sexism


A GARLAND (SCHOL. HIST. MOD.), by PHILIP GUEDALLA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gin a villein meet a villein
Last Line: Above the court of common pleas.
Subject(s): Oxford University; Scholarship & Scholars


A GRAMMARIAN'S FUNERAL, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us begin and carry up this corpse
Last Line: Living and dying.
Subject(s): Scholarship & Scholars


A SCHOLAR WONDERS, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Their human love - confusing! Off they fling
Subject(s): Scholarship & Scholars


A VILLANELLE OF COLLEGE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The moon o'er the hills to-night!
Last Line: The setting of youth's delight!
Subject(s): Dartmouth College; Scholarship & Scholars; Universities & Colleges; Youth


ADDRESS TO THE SCHOLARS OF NEW ENGLAND, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When sarah pierrepont let her spirit rage
Subject(s): Harvard University; New England; Scholarship & Scholars


ADVICE TO SCHOLARS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The honour school of jurisprudence
Last Line: Masters the secret of the fates
Subject(s): Oxford University;scholarship & Scholars


ALLA PETRARCA, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Downtown / madison, wisconsin at night
Last Line: (receding footsteps)
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Scholarship & Scholars; Women; Male-female Relations


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


ASOLANDO: DEVELOPMENT, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father was a scholar and knew greek
Last Line: Nor crumple, dogs-ear and deface -- boys' way.
Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Scholarship & Scholars; Iliad; Odyssey


AT A READING, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The spare professor, grave and bald
Last Line: Or flaw, and curls about her neck.
Subject(s): Beauty; Scholarship & Scholars


BOOKS & READING, by JOHN JAY CHAPMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: These journals, notes, and missives of the dead
Last Line: Save a small volume on the scholar's shelf.
Subject(s): Books; Poverty; Scholarship & Scholars; Reading


CLASS POEM, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Like lotus-eaters, late disturbed from sleep
Last Line: The love of loyal hearts which thou must e'er command!
Subject(s): Classmates; Dartmouth College; Poetry & Poets; Scholarship & Scholars; Schoolmates


COLUMBIA COLLEGE, 1796, by JOSIAH SHIPPEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Columbia college! Alma mater! Well
Last Line: Mother, these acts in ninety-six were done!
Subject(s): Columbia University; New York City; Scholarship & Scholars; Teaching & Teachers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


FABLE: THE SCHOLAR AND THE CAT, by NATHANIEL COTTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Labour entitles man to eat
Last Line: Instruct vain supercilious man.'
Subject(s): Activity; Animals; Cats; Fables; Reason; Scholarship & Scholars; Virtue; Exercise; Allegories; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


FOR BILL NESTRICK, by FRANK BIDART    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the rectitude and narrow care of those who
Subject(s): Scholarship & Scholars


FRAGMENT OF A JARGONIAD, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Arise, my muse, and ply th' extended wing!
Last Line: And candidates in mods. Do english for unseen!
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Scholarship & Scholars


GILES JOHNSON, PH.D, by FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Giles johnson
Last Line: And he couldn't porter
Subject(s): Scholarship & Scholars


GRASSY MEADOW SCHOOL, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the grassy meadow school
Last Line: That the best thing is to grow!
Subject(s): Books; Knowledge; Scholarship & Scholars; Schools; Summer; Reading; Students


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


HONORS: 1. A SCHOLAR IS MUSING ON HIS WANT OF SUCCESS, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To strive -- and fail. Yes, I did strive and fail
Last Line: Twin soul, I will! I will!
Subject(s): Scholarship & Scholars; Success


LINES SPOKEN IN THE THEATRE, OXFORD, ON LORD GRENVILLE'S INSTALLATION, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye viewless guardians of these sacred shades
Last Line: Our boast before, -- our chief and champion now! --
Subject(s): Praise; Scholarship & Scholars


LOVE OF STUDY, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And wherefore does the student trim his lamp
Last Line: Like fountains in the early days of spring.
Subject(s): Learning; Scholarship & Scholars


MISSING, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The lads come back in autumn
Last Line: Despite the fact he died.
Subject(s): Dartmouth College; Scholarship & Scholars; Universities & Colleges; Youth


MORITZ STEINSCHNEIDER, by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I had known, dear master, when of late
Last Line: And lost its matchless cunning only now.
Subject(s): Honor; Jews; Memory; Scholarship & Scholars; Judaism


ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ORIEL COLLEGE, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye antique walls, ye portals old
Last Line: Beside the waves of cam!
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Oxford University; Rhodes, Cecil (1853-1902); Scholarship & Scholars


ON A RECENT CLASSIC CONTROVERSY (1); EPIGRAM, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay, marvel not to see these scholars fight
Last Line: "when greek meets greek, then comes the tug of war!"
Subject(s): Scholarship & Scholars


ON A RECENT CLASSIC CONTROVERSY (2); EPIGRAM, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Quoth david to daniel - 'why is it these scholars'
Last Line: "folks come to hard words if they meddle with greek!"
Subject(s): Scholarship & Scholars


ON THE DEPLORABLE LACK OF SCHOLARSHIP IN AMERICAN HUMORISTS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold in me a heavy intellectual
Last Line: I wonder when I'll tumble to myself.
Subject(s): Humorists; Scholarship & Scholars


SCHOLAR AND CARPENTER, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While ripening corn grew thick and deep
Last Line: "but god go with the carpenter."
Subject(s): Carpenters; Grief; Love; Scholarship & Scholars; Sorrow; Sadness


THE IDEAL CITY, by ALBERT EDMUND TROMBLY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis not in numbers that a city's great
Last Line: Who sacrifices self to succor all.
Subject(s): Scholarship & Scholars


THE INCUNABULUM'S TALE, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Master: tacitus in red morocco
Last Line: Sine anno, sine loco.
Subject(s): Books; England; Scholarship & Scholars; Universities & Colleges; Reading; English


THE LAST MAN, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Back at commencement time he came
Last Line: Reunion in another clime.
Subject(s): Commencement; Dartmouth College; Reunions; Scholarship & Scholars; Graduation


THE PEACE OF COLLEGE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: So forceful are the giant elms, the hills
Last Line: Where strive the millions of humanity.
Subject(s): Dartmouth College; Scholarship & Scholars; Universities & Colleges; Youth


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 105, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a brilliant man somewhere
Last Line: He chases all sorts of distinctions
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Scholarship & Scholars; Dullness; Stupdity


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 128, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A courteous handsome young man
Last Line: This is how books fool us
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Poverty; Scholarship & Scholars


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 42, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I met a brilliant scholar once
Last Line: What can you say about broken tiles or melted ice
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Beauty; Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Scholarship & Scholars; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 99, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Disappointed impoverished scholars
Last Line: Even mongrels won't touch them
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Scholarship & Scholars


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 39, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A young man studied letters and arms
Last Line: And monkeys ride clay oxen
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Disappointment; Scholarship & Scholars


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 44, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sigh when I see learned men
Last Line: And all their learning is dust
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Scholarship & Scholars


THE SCHOLAR, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I was ignorant and small
Last Line: I keep my eyes tight on my book.
Subject(s): Books; Childhood Memories; Education; January; Scholarship & Scholars; Reading


THE SCHOLAR GIPSY, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill
Last Line: And on the beach undid his corded bales.
Subject(s): Gypsies; Hope; Oxford University; Scholarship & Scholars; Gipsies; Optimism


THE SCHOLARS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bald heads forgetful of their sins
Last Line: Did their catullus walk that way?
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Scholarship & Scholars


THE SOPHOMORE, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When, catching his own glance, he analysed
Last Line: Condemned himself as well, and owns — defeat.
Subject(s): Boys; Classmates; Scholarship & Scholars; Schoolmates


TO MR. BARBAULD, NOVEMBER 14, 1778, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, clear thy studious looks awhile
Last Line: Save only love, and we.
Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia
Subject(s): Scholarship & Scholars; Love - Erotic


VERSES, READ AT MY INITIATION INTO THE O.K., by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O.K. What's that?' the freshman cries
Subject(s): Scholarship & Scholars


VERSES, SUNG AT MY INITIATION INTO THE PUDDING, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a grind and cannot find
Subject(s): Scholarship & Scholars


YE SCHOLAR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho! Ho! Ye scholar recketh not
Last Line: And pour our laughter out most tenderly.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Books; Learning; Scholarship & Scholars; Reading