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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SCHOOLS Matches Found: 1029 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "MY CHILD AND SCHOLLAR, TAKE GOOD HEED", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And eke obtain thy master's praise Subject(s): Discipline;schools; Students ...WATER AND THE WORD SUICIDE, by KATE SONTAG Poem Source First Line: While the rest of us were asleep Last Line: In branches, about to take their lives into their wings Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers 1917 - THE WAR CLASS, by GEROID TANQUARY ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: Down the long white road beneath the / moon Last Line: One great humanity? Subject(s): Guns; Military Education; Soldiers; War; Youth; Military Schools 1971, by CINDY GOFF Poem Source First Line: My first grade teacher hit me with the bell curve because Last Line: I was my own baseball team Subject(s): Schools A BOARD SCHOOL PASTORAL, by MAY EMMA GOLDWORTH KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alone I stay; for I am lame Last Line: Where ella passes. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Schools; Students A CERTAIN SWIRL, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The classroom was dark, all the desks were empty, Subject(s): Schools; Language; Students; Words; Vocabulary A CLASSIC MOMENT, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could accept the frayed basement parish Subject(s): Schools; Childhood Memories; Students A DIALOGUE ON NATUREM POWER AND USE OF HUMAN LEARNING, IN RELIGION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rust. Yes, academicus, you love to hear Last Line: Can set in a more proper light—pray do. Subject(s): Learning; Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools 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 A MOMENTARY LONGING TO HEAR SAD ADVICE FROM ONE LONG DEAD, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who was my teacher at harvard. Did not wear / overcoat Subject(s): Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Students; Educators; Professors A MOTHER'S PRAYER, by EDITH M. GEMMER Poem Text First Line: The sun is brightly shining Last Line: When our bobby goes to school. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Prayer; Schools; Childhood; Students A PLAIN ACCOUNT OF THE NATURE AND DESIGN OF TRUE RELIGION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is religion? Why it is a cure Last Line: And what religion is they only know. Subject(s): Religion; Religious Education; Theology; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools A REMARKABLE ADVENTURE, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was at my bedroom table Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students A REWARD OF MERIT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The father asked: 'how have you done' Last Line: They make me repeat my freshman year Subject(s): Schools; Students A SCHOOL COMPANIONSHIP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "seven years, seven happy, careless years" Last Line: "within my heart, still shared with you" Subject(s): Brotherhood;classmates;schools;togetherness; Schoolmates;students A SCHOOL ECLOGUE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hist, william! Hist! What means that air so gay Last Line: Before the prowess of his arm you feel. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Schools; Children; Students; Childhood A SONG FOR THE RAGGED SCHOOLS OF LONDON; WRITTEN IN ROME, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am listening here in rome Last Line: Let us take them into pity. Subject(s): London; Schools; Students A STRICTURE ON BISHOP WARBURTON'S DOCTRINE OF GRACE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Writing or scripture, sacred or profane Last Line: To deify a book is bibliolatry. Subject(s): Bible; Clergy; Holy Ghost; Religious Education; Warburton, William (1698-1779); Writing & Writers; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Holy Spirit; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools A STUDENT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over an ancient scroll I bent Last Line: The fluttering of an angel's wings! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Past; Schools; Time; Nightmares; Students A SURPRISE ON THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They give you a desk with a lid, mother Last Line: You read the words! Subject(s): Schools A TREATIE OF HUMAN LEARNING (COMPLETE 1-151), by FULKE GREVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mind of man is this world's true dimension Last Line: Ere she can judge all other knowledge vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord Subject(s): Art Schools; Men A VALEDICTORY ADDRESS, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dare to say you all do wonder Last Line: And so I make my manners. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Schools; Students A YOUNG MAN'S EPIGRAM ON EXISTENCE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A senseless school, where we must give Last Line: Lessons that leave no time for prizes. Subject(s): Schools; Students AARON WASHINGTON JR, TEACHER, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: The guy's brilliant, simply brilliant Last Line: The guy's brilliant, simply brilliant Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ABANDONED SCHOOLHOUSE ON LONG BRANCH, by FRED CHAPPELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The final scholar scrawls his long Last Line: Soothes the patient golden dust Subject(s): Schools ABOUT', by JACQUES ROUBAUD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It has long been known that poets don't know what they're saying Last Line: Answered miss s....'told you so!' they said Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings; Writing Schools ACADEMIC FANTASY, by MICHELLE M. TOKARCZYK Poem Source First Line: I still have hope Last Line: I will tell them dreams %require sleep Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Schools ACADEMIC KIDS, by JANET MCCANN Poem Source First Line: Your father asks you, how many Last Line: And never write our names Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AD ASTRA: 162, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: His life and teaching cannot be in vain Last Line: What hand like his to lead us thro' the gloom? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Graves; Jesus Christ; Religious Education; Tombs; Tombstones; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools ADJUNCT, by BROCK DETHIER Poem Source First Line: With a bartleby of arts %and a doctorate in denial Last Line: While I'm teaching your replacement %how to climb Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ADVICE TO A YOUNG POET, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To catch a poem %to seize it %like something falling Last Line: On its own terms Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ADVICE TO YOUNG WRITERS, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of the things I've repeated to writing Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students ADVICE TO YOUNG WRITERS, by RON PADGETT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One of the things I've repeated to writing Last Line: That unexpected something, or even if you don't Subject(s): Education; Schools AEGINA ART SCHOOL MASQUE, SELS., by ALAN ANSEN Poem Source First Line: Philosophical abstractions, theories of space and time Subject(s): Art Schools AFRAID, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Why slew they workman jesus Last Line: Because they were afraid! Subject(s): Jerusalem; Jesus Christ; Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools AFTER AN OLD PICTURE OF SCHOOL HOUSE CHILDREN, by WILL HOCHMAN Poem Source First Line: Attending cures snobbery and mind Last Line: The point that there could have been more %and surely was Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AFTER THE SCHOOL-FEAST, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The feast is o'er - the music and the stir Last Line: Next morn, may gleam in every track but mine! Subject(s): Schools; Students AFTER VACATION, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The first day at school is the very best Last Line: If all days were first days then school would be fun. Subject(s): Schools; September; Students AFTERWORD: AN ELDERLY WOMAN FALLS ASLEEP AT A POETRY READING, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: And those of us behind her %can't help but smile Last Line: The rewards of poetry are financial rather than spiritual Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AFTERWORD: BUTTONS, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: For years, I've wanted to write a poem Last Line: Those who are listening carefully, or doodling, or nodding %off Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AFTERWORD: POEMS, LIKE CHILDREN, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: Little things, they are neither as good %nor as hard as we want them to be Last Line: Variation on the writer's block poem myself Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AFTERWORD: THE ART OF PEDAGOGY/ THE PEDAGOGY OF ART: THE ART OF PEDA.., by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: It starts, perhaps, with a notation, %a few words scrawled in the margins Last Line: Guidelines that I wouldn't want my students to follow Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AFTERWORD: THE PEDAGOGY OF ART, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: Just this once, I will resist narrative Last Line: Alleluia as her program %plainly states, gloria deus Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AFTERWORD: THE YEAR MY POETRY BECAME A FAD, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: It was the coup of a lifetime for a minor poet Last Line: We need to pay close attention to what that story is telling us Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AFTERWORD:INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPOSING A HAIKU, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: Make it exact: the ribs should show Last Line: As evidenced in the following poem, which my thesis director %found particularly appalling Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ALISSA HAYLEY (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I'd like to go home, please Last Line: And tell her to call my mother %please Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ALISSA HAYLEY (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I hate ms. Greely Last Line: I hope I never see her again Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ALISSA HAYLEY (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My father runs a shoe store Last Line: Is too much for me to bear Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ALISSA HAYLEY, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I couldn't choose a date for the prom Last Line: I wish I had danced with him all night Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ALISSA HAYLEY, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Oh, no, this is too much Last Line: I kinda hope so Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ALISSA HAYLEY, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: It figures Last Line: I'm sure gonna miss her next year Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ALISSA HAYLEY, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Oh, god, I got her again Last Line: But I hope I never see her again Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ALL HAIL DIGREDI, by ANGUS WOODWARD Poem Source First Line: According to legend, most students signed up for dr. Digredi's Last Line: Loved ones hardly recognized them Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ALMAE MATRES (ST. ANDREWS, 1862; OXFORD, 1865), by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St. Andrews by the northern sea Last Line: That is a haunted town to me! Subject(s): Oxford University; Schools; St. Andrews University (scotland); Youth; Students AMANDA, by CAROL DIGGORY SHIELDS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I think amanda likes me Last Line: And a total cootie-head Subject(s): Education; Schools AMANDA ANACONDA, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Amanda anaconda is our pet for letter a Last Line: And at story time, each one of us can use %her for a pillow Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools AMONG CHILDREN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk among the rows of bowed heads Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students AMONG CHILDREN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk among the rows of bowed heads Last Line: So I bow to them here and whisper %all I know, all I will never know Subject(s): Education; Schools AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I walk through the long schoolroom questioning Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Schools; Vision; Childhood; Fancy; Students AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk through the long schoolroom questioning Last Line: How can we know the dancer from the dance? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Children; Imagination; Schools; Vision AMPHIBIANS HAVE FEELINGS TOO, by GERALD LOCKLIN Poem Source First Line: There was this fine guy named steve odin Last Line: Why have you been writing frog on my paper %all semester?' Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AMY, by GEORGE EDWARD PENDRAY Poem Text First Line: The schoolhouse squatted close against a hill Last Line: Into the barley slop. Subject(s): Classmates; Girls; Schools; Schoolmates; Students AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLASS ROOM IN A SLUM, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far far from gusty waves, these children's faces Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Children; Schools; Slums; Social Protest; Childhood; Students; Tenements AN INVITATION, by MRS. RALPH BLACK Poem Text First Line: I hear my sunday - school bell ringing Last Line: So come along to my sunday school with me. Subject(s): Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools ANAXIMANDER LEWIS, by JON C. TRIBBLE Poem Source First Line: Mr. Jones kicked him out Last Line: Into notes that burned out the bell Subject(s): Bands; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Schools ANDREW CURRAN (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Why didn't I do anything Last Line: That doesn't help me Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ANDREW CURRAN (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Only a few more days Last Line: There's andrew curran, I knew him when Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ANDREW CURRAN, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I told my father I had just won Last Line: Like a prizewinner in life Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ANDREW CURRAN, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: A last august memory Last Line: Just thinking and waiting Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ANDREW CURRAN, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: People say that junior year is the toughest Last Line: In a varsity basketball game Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ANDREW CURRAN, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I want to be a nasa scientist Last Line: Are out of this world Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ANDREW CURRAN, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Hunched over my microscope in advanced biology Last Line: Adjusting the fine tuning Subject(s): Biology And Biologists; High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ANECDOTES, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: She was fifteen, no mother Last Line: The fire %went out. In the morning %the baby was dead Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Schools; Teaching And Teachers APPRENTICE'S LAST TOUCH, by ANCA HARITON Poem Source First Line: Master, don't sleep Last Line: Near your future glory for my humble thirst %to thrive Subject(s): Apprentices; Schools; Teaching And Teachers APRIL SHOWERS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves are fresh after the rain Last Line: To be alive on such a day. Subject(s): Rain; Schools; Students ART ELECTIVE, by STEPHEN DALE COREY Poem Source First Line: Reflex of memory thrusts %the strong-voweled name rouault Last Line: The writhings of facts made real Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ART LESSON, by CRAIG CHALLENDER Poem Source First Line: ...Eschews the quotidian,' he was saying Last Line: In spite of everything, she liked to read Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ASSEMBLY: HARLEM SCHOOL, by EUGENE T. MALESKA Poem Source First Line: My country, 'tis of thee Subject(s): Harlem (new York City); Schools ASSIGNMENT, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then write,' she said. 'by all means, if that's Subject(s): Schools; Students AT NAVAJO MONUMENT VALLEY TRIBAL SCHOOL, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The football field rises Last Line: Wild horses, wild horses, wild horses Subject(s): Americans; Education; Schools; United States; Students; America AT NAVAJO MONUMENT VALLEY TRIBAL SCHOOL, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The football field rises Last Line: Wild horses, wild horses,wild horses Subject(s): Americans; Education; Schools; United States AT SCHOOL-CLOSE; BOWDOIN STREET, BOSTON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The end has come, as come it must Last Line: "and proudly whisper, ""these were mine!" Subject(s): Schools; Students AT THE CLOSE OF SCHOOL, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As to-day I sit and muse Last Line: Will haunt in my memory still. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Schools; Students AT THIS FAREWELL; COMPOSED IN ANTICIPATION OF LEAVING SCHOOL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear native regions, I foretell Last Line: On the dear hills where first he rose. Subject(s): Schools; Students AUTOBIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a child Subject(s): Children; Education; Poetry & Poets; Schools; Childhood; Students AUTOBIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a child Last Line: Writing these poems! %imagine! Subject(s): Children; Education; Poetry And Poets; Schools AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RED: 1. JUSTICE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Geryon learned about justice from his brother quite early Last Line: All trace of the world Subject(s): Schools; Brothers AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF TULIPS, by HOLLY IGLESIAS Poem Source First Line: The book's overdue, but I can't let it go; sigh at the mere sight of Last Line: Orders us to decline granum. I just want to go home and write my own %book: the dictionary unraveled Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers AUTUMN BEGINS IN MARTINS FERRY, OHIO, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the shreve high football stadium Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Autumn; Education; Football; Industry; Labor & Laborers; High Schools; Fall; Work; Workers AUTUMN BEGINS IN MARTINS FERRY, OHIO, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the shreve high football stadium Last Line: And gallop terribly against each other's bodies Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Autumn; Education; Football; Industry; Labor And Laborers; Schools; Seasons; Sports BAD CASE OF THE GIGGLES, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: I found a book of poems Last Line: A giggling holiday Subject(s): Education; Schools BALLAD OF BURTON AND BOBBY AND BILL, by ROBERT SAMUEL GWYNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My best friend and I would often stop by Last Line: They've boarded the door. We'll bargain no more %with burton and bobby and bill Alternate Author Name(s): Gwynn, R. S. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Schools BALLADE OF THE GIRTON GIRL, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She had just 'put her gown on' at girton Last Line: But—her forte's to evaluate π. Subject(s): Girls; Schools; Students BAR MITZVAH LESSONS, by MARVIN DIOGENES Poem Source First Line: I took bar mitzvah lessons from mr. Bodzin Last Line: His knowing assessment %of how far I had to go Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BARBARA GILCHRIST, TEACHER, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: The guy's nuts, simply nuts Last Line: The guy's nuts, simply nuts Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BARBIE SAYS MATH IS HARD, by KYOKO MORI Poem Source First Line: As a boy, I'd still have asked Last Line: Her daughters: yes, math was hard %but not because we were girls Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Education; Popular Culture - United States; Schools; Women BEAST ON THE BRINK, by JANE BARNES Poem Source First Line: When you are sitting across from me reading Last Line: While you were reading Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BEATING, by TERRY RANDOLPH HUMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Everybody knew clifton cockerell was not half bright Last Line: That's real: how, when we come to it, %we stand amazed but take the blow, transfigured, idiot Alternate Author Name(s): Hummer, T. R. Subject(s): Education; Schools BEATING UP BILLY MURPHY IN FIFTH GRADE, by KATHLEEN AGUERO Poem Source First Line: Who knows how it started? Last Line: Remembering his soft hands, his thin eyelashes %the schoolgirl in him Subject(s): Education; Schools BECKY'S MIRROR, by DEAN NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: I know I had on those heavy, steel-toed boots-my legs felt like Last Line: Said, 'see that, dad? That's me. It's a me-er' Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BEFORE AND AFTER SCHOOL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Schools BEFORE EVERYTHING, by DEVAN COOK Poem Source First Line: 6:50 a.M., before everything %except coffee and newspaper Last Line: Wording your own time %fill it Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BEGINNERS, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year miss tynes enrolled our class Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students BEGINNERS, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year miss tynes enrolled our class Last Line: Might lean toward it and whisper, %until it was more ancient, with all it knew Subject(s): Education; Schools BEING SICK, by JIMMY GARTHWAITE Poem Source First Line: Staying bed and being sick Last Line: And other things at school Subject(s): Schools 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 BETTER ANSWER, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Bradley always answers! Last Line: It's getting rid of brad! Subject(s): Schools BETTY'S IGLOO, A BED & BREAKFAST, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Outside, backfiring four-wheelers Last Line: In the baskets of fruit and cheese, %origami geese that fold into swans Subject(s): Guests; Nome, Alaska; Schools; Teaching And Teachers; Universities & Colleges BIG BROTHER, by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our brother clarence goes to school Last Line: To see if we keep on watching him Subject(s): Schools BIG UP, by LARRY STRAUSS Poem Source First Line: That first month no one would do my homework. Instead, I'd Last Line: Privacy I've changed them Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BIRTH OF A NATION, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our parents had to sign permission slips Last Line: Looming white and large, like a svior, a saint? Subject(s): Racism; Schools BLESSING FOR THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, by GARY N. ATLIN Poem Source First Line: This is a blessing for the children of our people Last Line: And, by some strange accident, within recall Subject(s): Children; Schools BLIZZARD, by CYNTHIA MILLER COFFEL Poem Source First Line: Julie seaton can't sleep. She's standing in her living room in Last Line: And she thinks, I'll never get to sleep Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BLUES FOR M.F. JACOBOWSKI, by WALTER PETERSON Poem Source First Line: You know it's time, jacobowski, when Last Line: And you get greyer and slower and %older Subject(s): Schools BOARDING: 1. MUSSOORIE, UTTAR PRADESH, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the himalayas, I ran faster than any girl Last Line: Then the mountain soldiers drove us up Subject(s): Railroads; Schools; Travel; India; Railways; Trains; Students; Journeys; Trips BOARDING: 1. MUSSOORIE, UTTAR PRADESH, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the himalayas, I ran faster than any girl Last Line: Then the mountain soldiers drove us up Subject(s): Railroads; Schools; Travel BOARDING: 2. HOLIDAYS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In maths, geeta's long black plait Last Line: When jesus was born, it was quiet like this Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Schools; India; Nativity, The; Students BOARDING: 2. HOLIDAYS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In maths, geeta's long black plait Last Line: When jesus was born, it was quiet, like this Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Schools BOARDING: 5. THE DADAR SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They ask me, what are shadows? Last Line: A girl, I have lost my way Variant Title(s): The Dadar School For The Blind Subject(s): Blindness; Schools; Inida; English In India; Visually Handicapped BOARDING: 6. GRADUATION, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I notice how lush it is since I came when doorways Last Line: Phoned, her parents had already traded beauty for his land Subject(s): Commencement; Schools; India; Graduation; Students BOARDING: 6. GRADUATION, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I notice how lush it is since I came when doorways Last Line: Phoned, her parents had already traded beauty for his land Subject(s): Commencement; Schools BOBBY GENE MCQUIG, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: The worst boy in the whole class Last Line: With his finger up his nose! Subject(s): Schools BONFIRE, by PAUL B. JANECZKO Poem Source First Line: That summer %school ended Last Line: Eighth grade dance %away Subject(s): Education; Schools 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 BORDER TOWN: 1938, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She counts cement tracks Subject(s): Schools; Chicanos; Segregation; Students; Mexican Americans BORING BEETLE BILL, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Our boring beetle's name is bill Last Line: He's our pencil sharpener Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools BOY IN THE PARK, by ROSEMARY WILLEY Poem Source First Line: I was told not to touch him, not to let him Last Line: And letting go a string of sounds above the park Subject(s): Education; Schools BRAD MCCALL (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Varsity letter: track Last Line: Fly %like a bird Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BRAD MCCALL (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Hey %there goes mr. Wiedermeyer Last Line: Wanna shoot a few hoops with me later? Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BRAD MCCALL, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Varsity letter: swimming Last Line: I %score Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BRAD MCCALL, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Varsity letter: basketball Last Line: And shoot a few hoops Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BRAD MCCALL, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Varsity letter: baseball Last Line: I pow! %home %run Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BRAD MCCALL, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Varsity letter: tennis Last Line: Best player %6-0 - 6-0 Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BRAIN DRAIN, by MAX FATCHEN Poem Source First Line: The dinosaurs did not remain Last Line: That tiny brains are still around Subject(s): Education; Schools BRAINS AND BOOKS, by DIANE PAYNE Poem Source First Line: Walking back home, daypack filled with books, I see grandpa Last Line: In a house with bookshelves, and I'll still be playing aggrava- %tion with grandpa Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BRING YOUR OWN LUNCH, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: Don't eat school lunches Last Line: The meatloaf sure will Subject(s): Education; Schools BROTHER ALVIN, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the seat that we shared in the second grade Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students BROTHER ALVIN, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the seat that we shared in the second grade Last Line: Hoping to find some new spelling %of your name Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Education; Schools BROTHERS: 8. '............IS GOD.', by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So. / having no need to speak Last Line: The rest is silence. Subject(s): Brothers; God; Religious Education; Silence; Half-brothers; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools BRUNO WILLIS, SPECTATOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Man, this is borin' Last Line: Know what I'm sayin? Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers BULLY, by MARTIN ESPADA Poet's Biography First Line: In the school auditorium / the theodore roosevelt statue Subject(s): Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Hispanic Americans; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Latinos; Students BULLY, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the school auditorium %the theodore roosevelt statue Last Line: Across the victorian mustache %and monocle Subject(s): Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Hispanic Americans; Minorities - United States; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations BUSING, by JAMES HARMS Poem Source First Line: Fog sifts through the rising light Last Line: He looks away. Being wrong %is what we have in common Subject(s): Education; Schools BY ANY OTHER NAME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First the teacher called the roll Last Line: Nearly killed her daddy! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Schools; Strangers; Teaching & Teachers; Students CAMPO SANTO, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I learned to say no I the old language Last Line: Backroads, humming, they are blind Subject(s): Electricity; Schools; Students CAN YOU PREDICT THE PAST? CAN YOU REMEMBER THE FUTURE?, by JANET MCCANN Poem Source First Line: My son tells me hitler was elected Last Line: I wish I could've been there Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CARBON TETRACHLORIDE, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: It was thursday, dinner. Goldin looked down at the ice in his Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Chemistry; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CASE FOR LITERATURE, by DARRELL G. H. SCHRAMM Poem Source First Line: Peace without the sweat of dance Last Line: Someone reads. The stories we need Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CATALOGUE AND COURSE DESCRIPTION, by SANDRA STONE Poem Source First Line: Every day but yesterday the lesson is elemental attrition Last Line: Next term: can these raging bones survive Subject(s): Schools CATATONIA; IN A CLASSROOM FOR THE SLOW TO LEARN, by CLENN REED Poem Source First Line: Jason, look at this book, I say Last Line: Then turn and head back out to sea Subject(s): Education; Schools CATHOLICS, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In third grade all the girls got confirmed Last Line: To your beautiful blessed mother in blue Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Education; Schools; Women CEASE NOTEBOOKS, by MICHAEL BURKARD Poem Source First Line: When she informs me all my schooldays are done Last Line: To the house. Made to. Unpacked by. Emptied of. %don't tell me Subject(s): Schools CELESTIAL MECHANICS, by ANTHONY WALTON Poem Source First Line: I have always been the poor Last Line: In place, suspended, %balanced, and helpless Subject(s): Schools; Stars CHALK DUST AND URBAN RENEWAL, by TRISTA CORNELIUS Poem Source First Line: A memory: a long, cavernous classroom. The teacher stands at Last Line: And grit, and, like communion, passing it around for everyone %to taste Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CHEERLEADERS, by LISA COFFMAN Poem Source First Line: Out of the american provinces Last Line: Merely looked at him, then went on with their reading Subject(s): Education; Schools CHERISE GRAHAM, CHANNEL 5, LOCAL NEWS ANCHOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: We interrupt our regular broadcast to Last Line: And now back to our regular program Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CHIGWELL, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: School that, in burford's honoured time Last Line: Tho' not quite all vexation. Subject(s): Fate; Life; Nature; Schools; Writing & Writers; Destiny; Students CHILDBEARING HIPS, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Around the workshop table in this advanced Last Line: Not touch, no apologies permitted here Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CHILDHOOD IDEOGRAM, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lay my head sideways on the desk Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students CHILDHOOD IDEOGRAM, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lay my head sideways on the desk Last Line: I always thought he wouldn't dare be seen Subject(s): Education; Schools CHILDREN WALKING HOME FROM SCHOOL THROUGH GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are like figures held in some glass ball Subject(s): Children; Schools; Childhood; Students CHILDREN WALKING HOME FROM SCHOOL THROUGH GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are like figures held in some glass ball Last Line: Like the leaves already blazing and falling farther north t palms Subject(s): Children; Schools CLASS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We say things in this class. Like why it hurts Last Line: Though she would never say so in class Subject(s): Classmates; Schools CLASS DISMISSED, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: We have broken all the blackboards Last Line: There won't be school no more Subject(s): Education; Schools CLASS PARTY, NOME, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Fourteen people, eight sites Last Line: I'd written for those who had dropped, %who had earlier dismissed themselves Subject(s): Eskimos; Exchange Students; Music And Musicians; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Schools CLASS REUNION, by ANN RUSSELL DARR Poem Source First Line: Ring the old school bell Last Line: Now I will take a red pencil %and re-vein my heart Subject(s): Education; Schools CLASS REUNION, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a dream I teach Last Line: Stay,' they say. 'have a drink with us.' Subject(s): Classmates; Friendship; Reunions; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CLASS SONG (WHICH WILL BE SUNG ON THE 22ND OF FEBRUARY), by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're sober men and true Last Line: Will go home with us as before. Subject(s): Schools; Students CLASSICS SOCIETY (LEEDS GRAMMAR SCHOOL 1552-1952), by TONY HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grace of tullies eloquence doth excell' Last Line: A dreadful schism in the british nation Subject(s): Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.c.); Language; Latin; Schools CLASSROOM ON THE BLACK SEA, by JAMES SUTHERLAND-SMITH Poem Source First Line: Grass grows from the dark bottle of our dreams Last Line: And called it the music of our childhood Subject(s): Black Sea; Nature; Schools CLAUDE THE CAT, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Presenting claude, our classroom cat Last Line: Curls up, and purrs, and takes a nap Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools CLEAR AS MUD, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: I go to bed each morning Last Line: When I am born next year Subject(s): Education; Schools COINCIDENCES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Isn't it very lucky,' I once heard a youngster say Last Line: "we somehow never spoil it by poor lessons or by folly?" Subject(s): Luck; Schools; Students COLORING BOOK, by LOUISE JAFFE Poem Source First Line: In kindergarten %ms green, her blue-draped teacher asked Last Line: As she heard her answer: %silence Subject(s): Children; Kindergarten; Schools; Teaching And Teachers COME BACK, ELVIS, COME BACK TO HOLYOKE, by MARY A. KONCEL Poem Source First Line: They still love you, elvis. They want your hair, stories about your harley Last Line: Lean rumble Subject(s): Schools; Teaching And Teachers COMMA SPLICE, by WILLIAM M. RAMSEY Poem Source First Line: For farmers it is a wall heaved down Last Line: A start stops a hope never finished Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers COMPULSION, by JANE BARNES Poem Source First Line: Yes, you will, you will %write down what you hear Last Line: With questionable future access- %this is all Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CONFESSION, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: I have a brief confession Last Line: That I am such a slob Subject(s): Education; Schools CONTENTS OF THE BIBLE, by PETER HEYLYN Poem Text First Line: If thou art merry, here are airs Last Line: First in the book, and next in thee. Subject(s): Bible; God; Jews; Religious Education; Judaism; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools CONTINUAL USAGE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No wonder we felt weighted walking in those halls. The blackboards Last Line: Returned to her classroom to pay a different kind of attention, this time. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Past; Schools; Childhood; Students CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL INSTRUCTOR SAYS GOODBYE ... STUDENTS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goodbye, lady in bangor, who sent me Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Schools; Students CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL INSTRUCTOR SAYS GOODBYE ... STUDENTS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goodbye, lady in bangor, who sent me Last Line: Their loneliness %given away in poems, only their solitude kept Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Schools CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL POETRY TEACHER SPEAKS ..., by JACK ELLIOTT MYERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They send me poems Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Schools CORY DESHAYES (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Kathleen, don't leave me Last Line: I don't wanna be alone %now Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CORY DESHAYES (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Michelle who? Last Line: Kathleen, is there room next to you? Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CORY DESHAYES (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Yearbook line? Last Line: Her name is kathleen Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CORY DESHAYES, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Hi %how's it goin' Last Line: Within the right school Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CORY DESHAYES, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: At the pool hall all the girls Last Line: Nah, I don't have time for such crap Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CORY DESHAYES, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Hey michelle Last Line: What do you mean, don't bother Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers CORY DESHAYES, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Last week at a friend's party Last Line: Is somethin' you never forget Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers COSMO GENNARO, PARENT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I'm glad the bastard's been shot Last Line: He got what he deserved Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers COULD ANYTHING BE DREARIER, by FLORENCE PARRY HEIDE Poem Source Last Line: Than the food in the school cafeteria? Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Schools COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE, by BILL DODDS Poem Source First Line: My friends have not seen london Last Line: But I'm glad I had them on Subject(s): Education; Schools COUNTRY SCHOOL, by LORNA CROZIER Poem Source First Line: Inside the schoolhouse Last Line: Toward any kind of light Subject(s): Classmates; Family Life; Prairies; Schools; Teaching And Teachers COUNTRY SCHOOLROOM, ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turn to page ten in your arithmetics' Last Line: As numberless and nameless as their calls. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Schools; Students CREATIVE WRITING, by MICHAEL VAN WALLEGHEN Poem Source First Line: One of my students Subject(s): Schools; Writing And Writers CREATIVE WRITING AT JEFFERSON CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION, by AMORAK HUEY Poem Source First Line: Here are the rules Last Line: Soft-gray and smudging at the touch Subject(s): Education; English Language; Prisons And Prisoners; Schools; Teaching And Teachers; Writing And Writers CREATIVE WRITING CLASS HEARS ABOUT SUBMITTING MANUSCRIPTS, by CHARLES B. WHEELER Poem Source First Line: Poetry can be single-spaces Last Line: They suffered from too much handling %and multiple cancellations Subject(s): Manuscripts; Writing Schools CREATIVE WRITING NOTEBOOK: LESSON NO. 1, by EDMUND SKELLINGS Poem Source First Line: Byron had a club foot Last Line: Anyone who can swim can be a poet Subject(s): Writing Schools CREATURE IN THE CLASSROOM, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It appeared inside our classroom Last Line: And glopp...It gobbled teacher Subject(s): Education; Schools CRUEL BOYS, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First day. Jackie and I walking in leaves Last Line: And shouts, 'you ain't nothing but a hound dog,' %as the spitballs begin to fly Subject(s): Education; Schools CURSIVE WRITING, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Who decides? %who gets to choose? Last Line: What do I think %of cursive writing? %bake! Subject(s): Schools DARKNESS, by SHARON RUBENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Darkness steals a city Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Neighbors; Schools; Youth DAVID RUSH, TV REPORTER (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: This just in! The hostage crisis at tower Last Line: Thank god this story has a happy ending Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DAVID RUSH, TV REPORTER (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: We are standing here, a block away from Last Line: Those dreams? For now, we can only wait Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DAVID RUSH, TV REPORTER; HARRY BALINGER, POLICE CAPTAIN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Channel has just learned a shot or shots Last Line: Terrific blaze in midtown. We'll get back to you -- I promise Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DAVID TALAMANTEZ ON THE LAST DAY OF SECOND GRADE, by ROSEMARY CATACALOS Poem Source First Line: David talamantez, whose mother is at work, leaves his mark Last Line: And written in giant letters, blue ink, yes! David, yes! Subject(s): Education; Schools DAY I GOT CULTURE, by GENE FEHLER Poem Source First Line: Between closed covers, threats of verbals Last Line: The big bopper half-forgotten. %and schubert heading my top forty Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Schools DAY MY EIGHTH GRADE SCIENCE CAUGHT UP, by DAVID THOMSON Poem Source First Line: That day came in a rush of blood, a rain Last Line: If emptiness had weight, we'd all be crushed Subject(s): Schools DAY-TRIPPING, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In that dark classroom Last Line: Who won't make me pay nothin' %for all the shit I want? Subject(s): Education; Schools DEAD TEACHER, by PATRICIA TRAXLER Poem Source First Line: No one believes me %about the dead teacher Last Line: & then stopped %& looked both ways again Subject(s): Death; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEAF SCHOOL, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The deaf children were monkey-nimble, fish-tremulous and sudden Last Line: A face that was simply the front skin of the self-concealed and separate Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Deafness; Schools DEATH OF READING, by DARRELL FIKE Poem Source First Line: Damn the inventor of the highlighter pen Last Line: Suspended above the page like a tiny guillotine blade Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEDICATION, by REBECCA FUSFELD Poem Text First Line: My fount of beauty this year, oh god Last Line: Of thy teachings. Subject(s): Churches; God; Religious Education; Worship; Cathedrals; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools DEEP BLUE, by HOLLY IGLESIAS Poem Source First Line: Seeds extracted one by one from la cascara, the membrane sharp around Last Line: One vulval bloom. Squeals, !Ay honey, esta to die for! Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DENISE SLATTERY (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Kevin Last Line: And take me to grammy's house, now Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DENISE SLATTERY (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Hey, watch where you're goin', pal Last Line: Believe me, the baby's father could learn somethin' from you Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DENISE SLATTERY (JUNIOR); KEVIN SLATTERY, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: How come you're home? Last Line: Please don't go Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DENISE SLATTERY, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My boyfriend won't wear a condom Last Line: I swear, I ain't gonna take his crap, anymore %lyin' down Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DENISE SLATTERY, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I swear, little darlin' Last Line: Because of who's inside of me Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DENISE SLATTERY, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I don't need nobody Last Line: Cept joey right now Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DENISE SLATTERY, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I saw him with another girl -- again Last Line: She can have %what's left of him Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEPARTED FRIEND, by SALVADOR NOVO Poem Source First Line: Napoleon writes me Subject(s): Schools DEPARTED FRIEND, by SALVADOR NOVO Poem Source First Line: Napoleon writes me Subject(s): Schools DEREK BAIN (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Hey, man, no sweat Last Line: Is this gonna be on tv Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEREK BAIN (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My new stepfather's not too bad Last Line: We were doin' all right, just the two of us Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEREK BAIN, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I'm not sure if he left Last Line: I still miss him Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEREK BAIN, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Hey, man, I'm chill Last Line: Put that thing down Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEREK BAIN, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I wish I had my own car Last Line: Then maybe I'll do a little math homework Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEREK BAIN, RHONDA ELLIS, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: We gotta wait out here Last Line: Think he'll go for that Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEREK BAIN, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Hallelujah! %startin' tomorrow %I'll have my Last Line: For a long, long drive Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEVONNE ELLIOT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Shows you, man Last Line: And pretend this was a bad dream Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEVONNE ELLIOT, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My name has a shadow attached to it Last Line: Would devon have brought home Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEVONNE ELLIOT, JUNE 16, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Come on, devon Last Line: It's not fair, not fair at all Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEVONNE ELLIOT, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: It's not too early to think about college Last Line: Will they like me Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEVONNE ELLIOT, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Welcome parents, friends, and teachers Last Line: Come on, devon, you and I are going to college Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEVONNE ELLIOT, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: There are people in my class Last Line: I guess I will just have to %carrion Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DEVONNE ELLIOT; EDDIE KELLERMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: He's the best history teacher I ever had Last Line: Hey, here come the yearbooks Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DICTION, by HILDA RAZ Poem Source First Line: God is in the details Last Line: Her blue arms. The kids say chutes Subject(s): Education; Schools DICTION LESSON, by PATRICIA VALDATA Poem Source First Line: A writing workshop, held in a tent Last Line: Discusses the merits of moving from %the general to the specific Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DIFFICULT MATH TEST, by ROBERT SCOTELLARO Poem Source First Line: Whoopie! A test! Whoopie! A test! Last Line: To the joys of a difficult test! Subject(s): Education; Schools DIRECTIONS FOR RESISTING THE SAT, by RICHARD HAGUE Poem Source First Line: Do not believe in october or may Last Line: Make your marks on everything Subject(s): Education; Schools DIVINE LOVE; THE ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTIC OF TRUE RELIGION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Religion's meaning when I would recal Last Line: A heav'n within, in other words, above. Subject(s): Love; Religion; Religious Education; Theology; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools DOMESTIC LIFE: NURSE AND POET, by STEPHEN DALE COREY Poem Source First Line: We talk tonight as if tomorrow will be the same Last Line: The faults in the deepest beds of rock Subject(s): Nurses; Schools DON'S HOLIDAY, by GEORGE ROSTREVOR HAMILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Professor robinson each summer beats Last Line: As one would hardly credit from a lesser %person than a history professor Alternate Author Name(s): Rostrevor, George Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Schools DON'T PINCH!, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: When I got on the school bus Last Line: And you're not wearing green.' Subject(s): Education; Schools DOUG - NEWTON HIGH SCHOOL, by KATHLEEN ANN IDDINGS Poem Source First Line: All those years I thought you were just a sissy Last Line: Knew you died, running like hell, %trying to catch up Subject(s): Schools DOUGLAS ATHERTON (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: What would I like Last Line: I don't remember what happened %none of it Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DOUGLAS ATHERTON (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My father drives a cab Last Line: Is too much for me to bear Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DOUGLAS ATHERTON, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: They sked me to run for treasurer Last Line: If it wasn't so boring Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DOUGLAS ATHERTON, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I couldn't get a date for the prom Last Line: I wish I had danced with her all night Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DOUGLAS ATHERTON, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: They asked me to run for vice-president Last Line: If you can get them to listen to you Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DOUGLAS ATHERTON, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: They asked me to run for president Last Line: If most people would just listen to me Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DOUGLAS ATHERTON, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: They asked me to run for secretary Last Line: If you an convince more people to get involved Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DOVECOTT MILL: 6. THE SCHOOL, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swiftly the seasons sped away Last Line: Dust to dust, till the judgment day! Subject(s): Schools; Time; Students DRAWING HANDS, by GREG WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: Way on back in the reign of mrs. Duke Last Line: Which is what I came in out of for Subject(s): Education; Schools DRAWING SWASTIKAS ON THE FOGGED WINDOWS OF ST. JOSEPH'S GRADE SCHOOL, by WILLIAM JOSEPH MEISSNER Poem Source First Line: After school we cleaned bruised boards Last Line: The lights blacked out, %the windows steamed Subject(s): Children; Nazis; Nuns; Schools; Youth DREAM OF OLD CLASSMATES, by VICTOR CONTOSKI Poem Source First Line: August again 1961 Last Line: Which is now dark and silent Subject(s): Classmates; Dreams; Past; Schools DREAM OF TEACHING, by KENNETH M. AUTREY Poem Source First Line: Each fall I know the dream will come Last Line: Books reappear and bloom again Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DRILL, 1957, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL Poem Source First Line: If we could angle the sunbeam of the song Last Line: Before it was dust, before it was struck through with light Subject(s): Education; Schools DROPOUT, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grundy and hoagland and all the rest who ganged Last Line: And never went back again Subject(s): Education; Schools DRYPOINT, by JOHN HEWITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A final-year student at the art school Last Line: Is his best epitaph: %'the hen that laid away Subject(s): Art Schools DWIGHT HENDERSON, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Hey, wu Last Line: And see me standin' right next to the star quarterback? Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DWIGHT HENDERSON, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Lion in bed at night Last Line: But first I gotta make the high school team Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DWIGHT HENDERSON, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: No division I school knockin' at my door Last Line: What's he gonna do if I don't show up %shoot me? Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DWIGHT HENDERSON, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: You look terrible, my mother said Last Line: Where else you gonna find that Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DWIGHT HENDERSON, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: The bench may be the best seat in the house Last Line: Showings every day Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers DWIGHT HENDERSON, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I first came to football camp Last Line: I never had a better time in my life Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers EARLY SNOW, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: He remembers this: Last Line: Or to %cover them Subject(s): Schools; Snow; Teaching And Teachers EDDIE EDWARDS, by CAROL DIGGORY SHIELDS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Eddie edwards runs around Last Line: And I wish that I could be just like eddie Subject(s): Education; Schools EDDIE KELLERMAN (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: What are those lights for Last Line: I don't muich freakin' care Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers EDDIE KELLERMAN (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Where are yu going? My mother asked Last Line: Mom, I got something to tell you Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers EDDIE KELLERMAN, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: At my bar mitzvah last year Last Line: The fountain pen the rabbi gave me Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers EDDIE KELLERMAN, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Can't believe I'm graduating in a few days Last Line: He's gonna kill us all Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers EDDIE KELLERMAN, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My parents hassle me about everything Last Line: There's no way I'm getting into harvard Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers EDDIE KELLERMAN, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I've been grounded for two weeks Last Line: It was worth it Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers EDUCATION BY STONE, by JOAO CABRAL DE MELO NETO Poem Source First Line: An education by stone: through lessons Last Line: Born stone, penetrates the soul Subject(s): Education; Learning; Schools; Teaching And Teachers EDUCATIVE, by PETER READING Poem Source First Line: One day, when I was ten or thereabouts Last Line: The deluded ramblings of old ma hope) Subject(s): Memory; Schools; Science EGO, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I just didn't get it Subject(s): Schools; Self; Students EGRET: BOLINAS LAGOON, 1986, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Morning. Soap-shaving of a moon Last Line: And makes of his leave-taking %a metaphor Subject(s): Bolinas, California; Classmates; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ELECTRIC EEL, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Please don't ask t feel Last Line: We cannot unplug him Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLASS ROOM IN A SLUM, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far far from gusty waves, these children's faces Last Line: The history theirs whose language is the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Children; Schools; Slums; Social Protest END OF FUN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Rover lies all in a heap Last Line: School began to-day! Subject(s): Children; Schools; September; Childhood; Students ENGLISH 108, by PHEBE DAVIDSON Poem Source First Line: Look at her %stone glass-eye bitch Last Line: Instead of just %paper and %words Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ENGLISH IS A PAIN! (PANE?, by SHIRLEE CURLEE BINGHAM Poem Source First Line: Rain, reign, rein Last Line: And leave this mess with ewe! %(you? Subject(s): Education; Schools ENGLISH TEACHER'S BAD DAY, by GRACE BAUER Poem Source First Line: Something there is %that doesn't love a wall Last Line: To define the elements of tragedy %in two-hundred-fifty words Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers EPIGRAM: 14. TO WILLIAM CAMDEN, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe Last Line: But for their powers, accept my piety. Subject(s): Camden, William (1551-1623); Schools; Students EPISTLE TO G. EAST, ESQ., by MARY AUSTEN Poem Source First Line: Your steventon friends Last Line: Fowle, stewart, deane, henry, & ned! Subject(s): Schools ERIK SEMLER, STUDENT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: They didn't tell us much Last Line: I'm gonna show them all Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ESTHER TORRES (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Dear, sweet jesus Last Line: I will wait patiently for you Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ESTHER TORRES (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Omar, you stop playin' Last Line: Yeah, yeah. I can see the line's not movin' Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ESTHER TORRES, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My mother sleeps around Last Line: One I don't have to share Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ESTHER TORRES, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I wonder what death is like Last Line: I promise I'll be ready Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ESTHER TORRES, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Sunday %when %I %went Last Line: Prayed %for %god's %forgiveness Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ESTHER TORRES, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I found a man, a real man Last Line: And jesus is his name Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ESTHER TORRES, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When my french teacher asked me Last Line: Everything's my own damn fault Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers EVERYTHING WE NEED, by DEVAN COOK Poem Source First Line: A few days after christmas I was at my parents' house, standing Last Line: Say it again,' she said. ' say it. Say it' Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers EXCUSES, EXCUSES, by JOYCE ARMOR Poem Source First Line: I couldn't do my homework Last Line: No, I really don't see how Subject(s): Education; Schools EXECUTION, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last time I saw my high school football coach Subject(s): Education; Schools; Sports; Students EXECUTION, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last time I saw my high school football coach Last Line: Machine-like fury, perfect execution Subject(s): Education; Schools; Sports F.R.H.'S THANKS; WITH A PENCIL-CASE FOR HER BIBLE-CLASS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou who gatherest with loving arm Last Line: For ever be thy blessings o'er them streaming! Subject(s): Bible; Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools FAGGOT, by THOMAS SAYERS ELLIS Poem Source First Line: We nicknamed robert Last Line: Mark with marks %of his own Subject(s): Education; Schools FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 1, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A strange discourse, in all impartial views Last Line: A god-like love embracing ev'ry man. Subject(s): Advice; Friends, Religious Society Of; Mankind; Reason; Religious Education; Sermons; Teaching & Teachers; Quakers; Human Race; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Educators; Professors FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 2, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No office seems more sacred and august Last Line: And from the sermon vindicate the text. Subject(s): Advice; Holy Ghost; Religious Education; Sermons; Speech; Talk; Teaching & Teachers; Holy Spirit; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Oratory; Orators; Educators; Professors FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 3, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You wonder'd much, why any man of parts Last Line: By these important verses of st. John. Subject(s): Bible, N.t. Gospels; Religious Education; Schools; Speech; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Students; Oratory; Orators FAMILIAR EPISTLES ON A SERMON, 'OFFICE & OPERATIONS OF HOLY SPIRIT': 4, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gospel's simpler language being writ Last Line: Of brisker tempers—let us next enquire. Subject(s): Bible; Bible, N.t. Gospels; Books; Language; Religious Education; Writing & Writers; Reading; Words; Vocabulary; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools FAMILIAR EPISTLES TO A FRIEND: 6, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By 'reformation from the church of rome' Last Line: May be the subject of succeeding rhimes. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Christianity; Churches; Learning; Religious Reformers; Religious Education; Wisdom; Reading; Cathedrals; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools FEARS OF THE EIGHTH GRADE, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I ask what things they fear Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students FEARS OF THE EIGHTH GRADE, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I ask what things they fear Last Line: The dead rising from the boiling seas Subject(s): Education; Schools FIELD TRIP TO MY FIRST TIME, by JAMES HARMS Poem Source First Line: No one called from the foot of the stairs Last Line: Someone dead. It was my first time Subject(s): Education; Schools FIELD TRIP TO THE ROLLING MILL, 1950, by PATRICIA DOBLER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sister monica has her hands full Subject(s): Education; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Schools; Work; Workers; Students FIELD TRIP TO THE ROLLING MILL, 1950, by PATRICIA DOBLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sister monica has her hands full Last Line: To her as she watches them learn their future Subject(s): Education; Industry; Labor And Laborers; Schools FIRST DAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: In the land of no rule, breasts and belly Last Line: Is the art of beginning Subject(s): Learning; Morning; Schools FIRST GRADE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the play amy didn't want to be Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students FIRST GRADE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the play amy didn't want to be Last Line: So amy was amy, and we didn't have the play %and sharon cried Subject(s): Education; Schools FIRST NIGHT OF CLASS, by LAURA APOL Poem Source First Line: Nothing begins with us- %not this story or any other Last Line: Our words the edge of a knife %we are just beginning to hone Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FIRST PIANO TEACHER, by AVA LEAVELL HAYMON Poem Source First Line: Earnest mrs. Clinkscales, the first piano teacher Last Line: He'd put on airs for the rest of his life! Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FIRST PRACTICE, by GARY GILDNER Poem Full Text First Line: After the doctor checked to see / we weren't ruptured Subject(s): Education; Hate; Poetry & Poets; Schools; Sports; Students FIRST PRACTICE, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: After the doctor checked to see %we weren't ruptured Last Line: But I don't want to see %any marks when you're dressed, %he said. He said, now Subject(s): Education; Hate; Poetry And Poets; Schools; Sports FISH, SPRING, WINDOW, by LEONORA SMITH Poem Source First Line: These students, dopey with spring-their heads Last Line: But all shimmery as aquarium fish, or the rainbow halos of %circus angels Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FIVE PARAGRAPH ESSAY, by LEONORA SMITH Poem Source First Line: A five paragraph essay %reminds me of a blind date Last Line: Worth taking home from school Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FLASH CARDS, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In math I was the whiz kid, keeper Subject(s): Education; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Students; Educators; Professors FLASH CARDS, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In math I was the whiz kid, keeper Last Line: Ten, I kept saying, I'm only ten Subject(s): Education; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FLAT OUT, by JACQUELINE BRICE-FINCH Poem Source First Line: A fine weariness %penetrates %to my bones Last Line: Finally %the voice of reason %penetrates: %goin' home %chile, %an'get %some rest Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FLATTENED BY FLATTERY, by TERRY RASMUSSEN Poem Source First Line: He catches me off guard Last Line: Foolish, silly old woman Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FLETCHER, FRASIER, FRED, AND FLOYD, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: They fly through the air Last Line: No, it isn't much fun having fleas Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools FLOOR STUDY, by MARTHA COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sorry, kids, you messed Last Line: To clean-slate work again. %then it's a question of Subject(s): Schools FOR A SCHOOL MAGAZINE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blithe boyhood! Shall a jaded muse Last Line: To gain the best. Subject(s): Schools; Students FOR A SCHOOL REGISTER, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear school, grey church, which dim years since I knew Last Line: Link a bright future with a cherished past. Subject(s): Schools; Students FOR A STUDENT SLEEPING IN A POETRY WORKSHOP, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've watched his eyelids sag, spring open Subject(s): Classmates; Dreams; Schools; Sleep; Teaching & Teachers; Schoolmates; Nightmares; Students FOR DR. FRANCISCO PECCORINI, ASSASSINATED ... MARCH 15, 1989, by HEIDI ZIOLOWSKI Poem Source First Line: How fondly I remember metaphysics with you! Last Line: Without the world to cloud your vision Subject(s): Education; Schools FOR MICHAEL, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Somewhere before the end Last Line: It wasn't nearly enough Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FOR THE CHEERLEADERS OF GARFIELD HIGH, by COLLEEN JOHNSON MCELROY Poem Source First Line: In pom-poms and perfume Last Line: On a mud floor %wearing mink Subject(s): Education; Schools FOR THE INAUGURATION OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL, CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old man's thought of school Last Line: To girlhood, boyhood look, the teacher and the school. Subject(s): Camden, New Jersey; Memory; Old Age; Schools; Students FOR W.H. AUDEN AND ALAIN BOMBARD, by SKIP EISIMINGER Poem Source First Line: One may survive %a wreck at sea Last Line: A poem may be said %to have saved the day Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FOUR CLOUDS LIKE THE IRISH IN MEMORY, by CAMPBELL MCGRATH Poem Source First Line: First memory of school: sitting in the grass beneath a dogwood tree Last Line: I had no idea there were such great forests left Subject(s): Clouds; Loss; Memory; Moving And Movers; Refugees; Schools; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration FOUR O'CLOCKS, by LILLIAN B. QUIMBY Poem Text First Line: It was that they loved the children Last Line: Still open the four-o'clocks. Subject(s): Schools; Students FOUR VALENTINES, by CHARLES KELLOGG FIELD Poem Text First Line: Tomorrow is the day for valentines Last Line: The old-maid sister of my major prof. Subject(s): Holidays; Schools; Universities & Colleges; Valentine's Day; Students FRANK PICARDI, EMERGENCY UNIT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Captain balinger Last Line: You know, there's nothing more %you could've done Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FRANKLIN WATERS, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My moms once read me a poem Last Line: In every room of the house Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FRANKLIN WATERS, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Hey, pal, do I look like the waitress Last Line: Lookin' at wiedermeyer got to be better than %lookin' at this grill Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FRANKLIN WATERS, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: School's ok, but kind of borin' Last Line: It don't matter much Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FRANKLIN WATERS, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: It's all messed up Last Line: It ain't worth it; I'm outta here %I quit Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FRANKLIN WATERS, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I live with my mother Last Line: Without gettin' caught in the crossfire Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers FREDDIE, by PHIL BOLSTA Poem Source First Line: I don't like doing homework Last Line: That I have ever had! Subject(s): Education; Schools FRESHMAN ENGLISH: WHAT COUNTS, by MARK VINZ Poem Source First Line: Different students tell me differently Last Line: To find some blossoms of our own, %and never came back Subject(s): Housman, Alfred Edward (1859-1936); Schools FRESHMEN, by BARRY SPACKS Poem Source First Line: My freshmen %settle in. Achilles Last Line: Can make you turn your back. I wait to throw, %most foul, most foul, the future in your face Subject(s): Schools FRESHMEN LIT & COMP, by STEPHEN DALE COREY Poem Source First Line: Wednesday evenings rooted to his place Last Line: The aura that holds around the perfect forging Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers GEE, YOU'RE SO BEAUTIFUL THAT IT'S STARTING TO RAIN, by RICHARD BRAUTIGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, marcia / I want your long blonde beauty Last Line: "marcia’s long blonde beauty Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students GEE, YOU'RE SO BEAUTIFUL THAT IT'S STARTING TO RAIN, by RICHARD BRAUTIGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, marcia %I want your long blonde beauty Last Line: Marcia's long blonde beauty %a+! Subject(s): Education; Schools GENTLE JILL, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: We have a guinea pig named jill Last Line: Bam! Shazam! We're feeling better Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools GEOGRAPHY LESSONS, by GRACE BAUER Poem Source First Line: What's nebraska? Asks adam Last Line: I am still trying to imagine into place Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers GEOMETRY CLASS, by CLAUDIA REDER Poem Source First Line: House mother, mrs. D. Last Line: Like planets. I create %such useless magic Subject(s): Geometry; Schools 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 GIRLS' HEADS (FRONT ROWS), by ARNOLD LESLIE LAZARUS Poem Source First Line: Bubble of maple, apple butter Last Line: Maraschino cherry, gooseberry %yellow pompom, marshmallow Variant Title(s): Girls' Heads Bent On Taking A Tes Subject(s): Girls; Schools GIRLS' HEADS (MIDDLE ROWS), by ARNOLD LESLIE LAZARUS Poem Source First Line: Tobacco boll, orange roll, charcoal Last Line: Cinnamon bark, meadowlark %mink mouton, pink cotton Subject(s): Girls; Schools GIRLS' HEADS (REAR ROWS), by ARNOLD LESLIE LAZARUS Poem Source First Line: Bird's nest, everest %meringue caffeine, tangerine Last Line: Cider rain, champagne %gingerale, pigtail Subject(s): Girls; Schools GIRLS' MIDDLE SCHOOL ORCHESTRA, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Girls; Schools; Music & Musicians; Students GLORIA, by JOYCE ARMOR Poem Source First Line: Gloria was perfect Last Line: I like her better now Subject(s): Education; Schools GOD MADE THE BEES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: The teacher gets the money Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Schools GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE, by JOEL BLAU Poem Text First Line: In the sadness of your eyes Last Line: Teach me to humbly bow to god's great will. Subject(s): Faith; God; Jews; Religious Education; Belief; Creed; Judaism; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools GOD'S STOPWATCH, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Kevin hillman asked sister agatha Last Line: Patty and I headed straight to the closet %and started counting Subject(s): Education; Schools GOING FULL-COURT, by JOHN REPP Poem Source First Line: Johnnie redfern would rise above Last Line: To michelle brown looking back at him, %her feet over the tar Subject(s): Education; Schools GOODBYE TO REGAL (LONDON, 1959), by DANIEL HUWS Poem Source First Line: In forgiving mood, this sultry july afternoon Last Line: For his ignorance I could strike him dead Subject(s): Schools GRADE SCHOOL I ATTENDED WAS NEXT TO A SLAUGHTERHOUSE, by CHRIS LLEWELLYN Poem Source First Line: My feet pass cupola, weathercock Last Line: We hummed in chains Subject(s): Education; Schools GRADESCHOOL'S LARGE WINDOWS, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weren't built to let the sunlight in Subject(s): Schools; Students GRADUATE FACULTY, TENURED, by AMY TURNER BUSHNELL Poem Source First Line: Once we were necessary Last Line: Sweet christ was not expected to kiss back Subject(s): Schools GRAMMARIAN, by DARRELL G. H. SCHRAMM Poem Source First Line: Is wind a noun or a verb?' Last Line: And refused to look at deciduous trees Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers GRANDMOTHER POEM #1: SCHOOL IN THE COUNTRY, by SEAN HILL Poem Source First Line: In the cold winter months ice'd sike up from red clay Last Line: Don't have no cold weather now - think it's a warning? Subject(s): Cold; Grandparents; Schools; Winter GRANDMOTHER POEM #4: SCHOOL IN TOWN, by SEAN HILL Poem Source First Line: Tromp through the graveyard to get to school Last Line: Today by the stove you two rid your thighs of pins Subject(s): Schools; Towns 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 GRATITUDE TO OLD TEACHERS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we stride or stroll across the frozen lake Last Line: Beneath us the teachers, and around us the stillness. Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Education; Faith; Growth; Maturity; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Belief; Creed; Students; Educators; Professors GREAT HALL, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At four, we put on our slacks Last Line: The ceiling feels like whispering Subject(s): Schools; Teaching And Teachers GREEK BANISHED FROM THE SCHOOLS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Calm speech of sophocles, ethereal clear Last Line: Through dog's-eared pages on a hopeless quest. Subject(s): Greek Language; Schools; Students HAIKU, by NAKAMURA KUSADAO Poem Source First Line: Undergraduates Last Line: Wild geese flying off Subject(s): Schools HALLEY'S COMET, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miss murphy in first grade Last Line: Waiting for the world to end Subject(s): Halley's Comet; Schools HARRY BALINGER, POLICE CAPT.; FRANK PICARDI, EMERGENCY UNIT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Everyone out of the building Last Line: No last name? %no Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers HARRY BALINGER, POLICE CAPTAIN (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: You read the headlines in the newspaper Last Line: We are all safe now Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers HARRY BALINGER, POLICE CAPTAIN (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I want this room secure Last Line: Anyone who screws this up will have me in his face %got that Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers HARRY BALINGER, POLICE CAPTAIN (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: That's it, that's our in Last Line: We got anybody like that? Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers HARRY BALINGER, POLICE CAPTAIN (4), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: You read the headlines Last Line: The evil and craziness within us all Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers HARRY BALINGER, POLICE CAPTAIN; FRANK PICARDI, EMERGENCY, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: What do we know Last Line: If we rush in now, he might kill everyone Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers HATCHERY, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in havana as school children we took a field trip Last Line: The barren and ravaged fields we now call our childhoods Variant Title(s): At The Hatcher Subject(s): Children; Memory; Schools HE REVISITS HIS FIRST SCHOOL, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should not have shown in the flesh Last Line: I may right it - some day. Subject(s): Schools; Students HEAPS OF HAMSTERS, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Have you seen our baby hamsters? Last Line: And they want us to take them home Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools HENRY'S NELSON COAT, by MARJORIE KOWALSKI COLE Poem Source First Line: This tiny blue biography of a diminutive, one-armed, one-eyed Last Line: The wars of fifth grade, I am pulled out of everything I know Subject(s): Children; Halloween; Schools HIGH SCHOOL BAND IN SEPTEMBER, by REED WHITTEMORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On warm days in september the high school band Last Line: A great many high school bands beat a great many drums, %a nd the silences after their partings are Variant Title(s): The High School Ban Subject(s): Education; Schools HIGH SCHOOL JOKE, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Simon was the one who distinguished Last Line: Were hanging in the trees Subject(s): Jokes; Schools HIGH SCHOOL: INDUSTRIAL ARTS, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lesson today is: someone always gets hurt. Subject(s): High Schools HIGHER EDUCATION, by KRISTINE A. SOMERVILLE Poem Source First Line: A man on whom I have a crush said that tomcats lead a Last Line: Frizzy haired. And still I thought myself pretty Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Politics; Schools HIGHLIGHTS, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: Drunk, her eyes would water and sparkle Last Line: Who used to be married to her sister Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers HISTORY OF SEXUAL PREFERENCE, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are walking our very public attraction Last Line: Considering my healthy body, how I might use it in the service %of the country of my pleasure Subject(s): Education; Schools HISTORY TEACHER, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trying to protect his students' innocence Last Line: Designed to make the enemy nod off Subject(s): Education; Schools HOCKEY SEASON, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Maples, willows, sycamores hid the field Last Line: Pressed against one another %in the cold november air Subject(s): Education; Schools HOLLY LESTER (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Let me outta here Last Line: The music's never gonna stop Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers HOLLY LESTER (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Only a few more days Last Line: There's holly lester, I knew her when Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers HOLLY LESTER, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: While other girls want to be Last Line: The full measure of my love Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers HOLLY LESTER, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I could feel the passion Last Line: Wake me up later, I'm dead %tired Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers HOLLY LESTER, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: And now, live and in person Last Line: I guess he liked the music Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers HOLLY LESTER, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Never go out with a musician Last Line: Never go out with musicians %they're all losers Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers HOLLY LESTER, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My music teacher, mr. Loomis Last Line: Man, is he sharp Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Music Teachers; Schools HOME, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I neither remember / the first time Last Line: And shot me with / america Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students HOME, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I neither remember %the first time Last Line: And shot me with %america Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Education; Schools HOME / SCHOOL, by CLAIRE MALROUX Poem Source First Line: My childhood's house is Last Line: As death, so strange %is desperately familiar Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Claire Sara Subject(s): Children; Home; Memory; Schools HOME FROM SCHOOL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The western sun comes softly in Last Line: The children home from school! Subject(s): Schools; Students HOME TOWN, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the evil broomstick and the narrow pointed hat Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Home; Schools; Students HOMECOMING, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the high school football game, the boys Last Line: Smelling the flowers pressed against her neck. Subject(s): Education; Fathers & Daughters; Homecoming; Schools; Students HOMEWORK! OH, HOMEWORK!, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Homework! Oh, homework! %I hate you! You stink! Subject(s): Education; Schools HOOD, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember me? I was the one Last Line: And your hands shook Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Bullies; Schools HOTEL NIGHTS WITH MY MOTHER, by LINDA MCCARRISTON Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The hometown flophouse Subject(s): Education; Flop-houses; Schools; Students HOTEL NIGHTS WITH MY MOTHER, by LINDA MCCARRISTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hometown flophouse Last Line: I made of myself each day a chink %a few might pass through unscathed Subject(s): Education; Flop-houses; Schools HOW MY FATHER LEARNED ENGLISH, by JULIA SPICHER KASDORF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Breathing his own breath Last Line: Please, I urge, say it in english Subject(s): Education; Schools HOW STEEL SHAPES OUR LIVES, by JEANNE BRYNER Poem Source First Line: Our teacher, mrs. Dillon, raises %the square white screen Last Line: They wear their iron shoes %and keep walking through the fire Subject(s): Education; Schools HOW TO EAT A BAG LUNCH, by DELIA EPHRON Poem Source First Line: Banana: %remove chiquita Last Line: Sitting with the little %kids Subject(s): Education; Schools HOW TO TORTURE YOUR TEACHER, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: Only raise your hand when Last Line: I've ever had.' Subject(s): Education; Schools HUMBLE PETITION OF RD. BULLER & W. GOODENOUGH, by MARY AUSTEN Poem Source First Line: Dear sir, we beseech & intrest & request Last Line: And moreover as bounden in duty will pray, etc. Etc Subject(s): Schools HUNGER STRIKE, by ROBYN EVERSOLE Poem Source First Line: In sucre, the embryology students Last Line: Scraping posters scrap by scrap from walls, %hours under the sun Subject(s): Labor Unions; Schools; Strikes HYMN FOR THE USE OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOL AT OLNEY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear, lord, the song of praise and prayer Last Line: Who placed us where it shines. Subject(s): Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools HYMN, COMPOSED FOR THE CHILDREN OF A SUNDAY SCHOOL, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou! To whom the grateful song Last Line: And endless life with thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Religious Education; Children; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Childhood I LOVE FLY-FISHING SO MUCH,, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wear my chest waders to school. Instead Last Line: As sedge caddises in july. I can barely play my fish %and answer them at the same time Subject(s): Schools; Teaching And Teachers I LOVE TO DO MY HOMEWORK, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Who are taking me away Subject(s): Education; Schools I SHOULD HAVE STUDIED, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: I didn't study for the test Last Line: And I flunked it just like you Subject(s): Education; Schools I'D RATHER NOT, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: To you it's only homework Last Line: Only don't make me write %tonight! Subject(s): Schools I'M PROUD OF HER, by GERALD LOCKLIN Poem Source First Line: I am deeply touched when Last Line: She's passed already %in a blaze of glory Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers IGGY IGUANA, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Meg put iggy on her shoulder Last Line: And her head is now his bed! Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools IGNORING THE LINGUIST, by ROBERT PARHAM Poem Source First Line: When the professor explained that Last Line: While the light, because it is summer %refuses to leave Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers IN A GIRLS' SCHOOL, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These walls will not forget, through later days Last Line: Of swaying girls and lifted, tossing heads. Subject(s): Girls; Schools; Students IN AN URBAN SCHOOL, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The guard picks dead leaves from plants Last Line: Was found dead in an empty lot Subject(s): African Americans – Childen; Schools; Ghettos IN MICHAEL ROBINS?ÇÖS CLASS MINUS ONE, by HICOK. BOB Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the desk where the boy sat, he sees the chicago river. Last Line: And the river promises to never surrender the boy’s shape to the ocean Subject(s): Schools; Nature; Students IN MRS. TILSCHER'S CLASS, by CAROL ANN DUFFY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You could travel up the blue nile Last Line: As the sky split open into a thunderstorm Subject(s): Geography; Schools; Students IN MRS. TILSCHER'S CLASS, by CAROL ANN DUFFY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You could travel up the blue nile Last Line: You ran through the gates, impatient to be grown, %as the sky splits open into a thunderstorm Subject(s): Geography; Schools IN SCHOOL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Full Text First Line: In school, children sit in rows Last Line: And run quite far when school is out Subject(s): Schools IN SCHOOL-DAYS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Still sits the school-house by the road Last Line: Like her, -- because they love him. Subject(s): Children; Innocence; Schools; Childhood; Students IN SPITE OF HIS DANGLING PRONOUN, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was really her favorite %student dark and just Last Line: They were still going to town in %novels she never had time to finish Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Erotic Love; Schools IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHOIR, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had never seen a cornfield in my life Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts; Students IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHOIR, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I had never seen a cornfield in my life Last Line: Des moines, I was saying to myself %baton rouge. Terre haute. Boise Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her class invents angels Last Line: They have nothing to do with you. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students; Educators; Professors INCIDENT, by JOSEPHINE B. MORETTI Poem Source First Line: A child came into the principal's office looking a bit Last Line: The school psychologist standing nearby observed: 'ob- %viously he can't do both!' Subject(s): Schools INDIAN BLOOD (2), by MARY TALLMOUNTAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blackbird teacher / white claw waving Last Line: Indian blood Alternate Author Name(s): Randle, Mary Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans - Children; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations; Students INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL: THE RUNAWAYS, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Home's the place we head for in our sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans - Education; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Students INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL: THE RUNAWAYS, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Home's the place we head for in our sleep Last Line: Face before it hardened, pale, remembering %delicate old injuries, the spines of names and leaves Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans - Education; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations INSTRUCTION, by CONRAD ARTHUR HILBERRY Poem Source First Line: The coach has taught her how to swing Last Line: And stare incredulously at the ump Subject(s): Education; Schools; Sports INTERIM REPORT, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The schoolhouse closet was my favorite house of prayer Subject(s): Memory; Schools; Students INTERIM REPORT, by IRA SADOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The schoolhouse closet was my favorite house of prayer Last Line: Yes it could have been her face I turned away from Subject(s): Memory; Schools INTO THE WHITE, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: The young siberian yupik woman from savoonga Last Line: February full moon she walked out of the village %far onto the sea of ice. The wind with her Subject(s): Nome, Alaska; Schools; Single People; Teaching And Teachers; Universities & Colleges INTO TO POETRY, by STEVEN ALBERT BAUER Poem Source First Line: You thought it was math that taught Last Line: And a voice asking, is this my life? Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers INTRODUCTION TO POETRY, by SHANNON MARQUEZ MCGUIRE Poem Source First Line: Walking library aisles two hours, up toe pr's, down the ps's Last Line: I listen, and notice that I'm humming-a little alliteration, %some soft consonance Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers INTRODUCTORY AND VALEDICTORY, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our patrons all! In form of simple lay Last Line: Fare you well. Subject(s): Commencement; Life; Schools; Soul; Graduation; Students INUPIAT BLOOD, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Drunk, you chose sudden lust Last Line: By fate, you'd teach the algebra of x and y, the cruel probability of z Subject(s): Nome, Alaska; Schools; Teaching And Teachers JAMES SANCHEZ, POLICE OFFICER, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: He was at his desk when I entered Last Line: The water he had wanted for his class Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers JENNIFER'S REASON, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Their reasons are always just notes Last Line: And skulls to her enemy's doorstep %buy her breakfast, even write her poem Subject(s): Class Struggle; Poetry And Poets; Schools; Teaching And Teachers JESSICA RUIZ, STUDENT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: They didn't tell us nothin' Last Line: But maybe I'll just go home and sleep Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers JOE BABES, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Joe babes, the ones named %jolene, rena mae, juanita or loretta Last Line: We were the joe babes. %all of us Subject(s): Children; Culture Conflict; Government; Native Americans - Reservations; Schools JUNIOR HIGH DANCE, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No one wanted to dance with us Last Line: Right there, no matter how funky %the beat, no matter how delicious Subject(s): Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations JUNIOR HIGH, HOME ECONOMICS, by BARBARA CROOKER Poem Source First Line: My best friend and I were in love with sewing Last Line: We couldn't alter, darn, or patch, %somehow make it right Subject(s): Schools; Sewing JUST GUESSING: A LITTLE LECTURE ON AMBITION, by DAVID GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: Rainer maria rilke never worked a day Last Line: No: like you, like me, rilke was just guessing Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers JUSTIN SINGLEBERRY (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I don't want to go to paris Last Line: I don't want to see anyone %except evan Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers JUSTIN SINGLEBERRY (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I'd like to be a medieval monk Last Line: Running headlong down my spine Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers JUSTIN SINGLEBERRY (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Hey, let's get this line moving already Last Line: But right now I gotta get out of here Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers JUSTIN SINGLEBERRY, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: If the light is right Last Line: With a free hand Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers JUSTIN SINGLEBERRY, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Death may come in venice Last Line: I have an appointment in paris Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers JUSTIN SINGLEBERRY, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: This year I've joined the school paper Last Line: To the art of the matter Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers JUSTIN SINGLEBERRY, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I really didn't want to go to the prom at all Last Line: Maybe evan will be there Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers KATHLEEN GENNARO (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: That bastard Last Line: He should die Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers KATHLEEN GENNARO (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When the nuns caught me smoking Last Line: I'm going to ask him if he's got a cigarette Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers KATHLEEN GENNARO, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Out of that school with white shirts and pleated skirts Last Line: Said I was cute Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers KATHLEEN GENNARO, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Mark who? %a memory, man Last Line: Cory, is there room next to you Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers KATHLEEN GENNARO, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I want to take romantic walks by the park Last Line: I do sometimes miss the roaring flames of passion Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers KATHLEEN GENNARO, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My grandmother said Last Line: Grandma, what can you tell me now Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers KATHLEEN GENNARO, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: He's in my class again Last Line: You haven't got a chance, mark Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers KATY KATYDID, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Our katydid kicked off the lid Last Line: Did-katy-katy did!' Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools KEEP TROTH, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When algebra is done, boys Last Line: Keep troth and spoken time Subject(s): Schools; England; Patriotism; Duty; Students KEEP TROTH, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When algebra is done, boys Last Line: Keep troth, and spoken true Subject(s): Schools LAST NIGHT, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Last night I knew the answers Last Line: So where were you last night! Subject(s): Schools LEAR AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY SCHOOLS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tried with 51-little boys: -& 19 of us were admitted. And now I Last Line: Good little boy Subject(s): Boys; Classmates; Schools LEARNING IN THE FIRST GRADE, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cup is read. The drop of rain Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students LEARNING IN THE FIRST GRADE, by JANE KENYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cup is read. The drop of rain Last Line: Muttering under his beard Subject(s): Education; Schools LEARNING Q'EPI, by ROBYN EVERSOLE Poem Source First Line: I borrowed a striped cloth Last Line: The smooth weightlessness %of leaves Subject(s): Leaves; Schools LEARNING SPANISH, by SARA GOODRICH Poem Source First Line: I did not want to learn spanish Last Line: And fading %into something like sand Subject(s): Education; Schools LEARNING TO BELIEVE, by ROGER+(2) WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: A martriculation of sorts - school day Last Line: And why it must yet be destroyed by fire %for reasons of spirit and practically Subject(s): Schools LEARNING TO READ, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Very soon the yankee teachers / came down and set up school Last Line: As the queen upon her throne. Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Americans; Bible; Schools; Slavery; Southern States; United States; Students; Serfs; South (u.s.); America LEARNING TO READ, by THOMAS R. SMITH Poem Source First Line: How tired the elbows grew Last Line: Beyond hard desks and fists Subject(s): Education; Schools LECCIONES DE LA LENGUA, 1970, by BRENDA CARDENAS Poem Source First Line: She is proud of her papa Last Line: And makes the children laugh Subject(s): Education; Schools LETTER TO A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER, by GARY GILDNER Poem Source First Line: Dear miss miller, %you are someone Last Line: Sincerely yours, %the boy in the green shirt Subject(s): Education; Poetry And Poets; Schools; Teaching And Teachers LETTER TO CAREL FABRITIUS, OCTOBER 1654, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: Butcher, baker, silversmith, %cobbler, miller, carpenter, painter Last Line: Maybe we were there together Subject(s): Absence; Art And Artists; Friendship; Paintings And Painters; Schools LIFE STUDY, by STEPHEN ORLEN Poem Source First Line: In the museum art school at night the men Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve Variant Title(s): Line Drawin Subject(s): Art Schools LIFE-THOUGHTS, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas morn, - the heavens were glowing with the light Last Line: Through studying god's works to study god! Subject(s): God; Hearts; Life; Love; Mankind; Religious Education; Human Race; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools LIMERICK, by CHARLES CUTHBERT INGE Poem Source First Line: This very remarkable man Last Line: If you don't think you can't, %so don't think you can't think you can Variant Title(s): On Professor Cou Subject(s): Schools LINES ON LEAVING THE BEDFORD STR. SCHOOL HOUSE, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forth from the seed by its first founders sown Last Line: But let them seek some other road to fame. Subject(s): Schools; Students LINES TO AN OLD SCHOOL-HOUSE, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear school of my childhood, thrice dear doth thou seem Last Line: Inscribe a good record, upon thy fair scroll. Subject(s): Schools; Students LITERACY: OR HOW I ENDED UP AT THE OLD FOLKS HOME, by ANNE-MARIE OOMEN Poem Source First Line: In my battered kalkaska classroom, %the old man had come, asking Last Line: Spreading like bright wings over their faces Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers LITTLE LETTER TO AUCKLAND STUDENTS, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O you who dwell in halls of learning Last Line: When the inquisitors are dead Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K. Subject(s): Schools LOCAL MAN DROWNS IN KILLER SURF, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Police divers today recovered the body of a local man Last Line: Never recover from that Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers LOGICAL FALLACIES, by ALISON TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: This morning I taught my freshman english class Last Line: A prayer of feathers outlined %against the winter sky Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers LONG OVERDUE NOTE TO MY COLLEGE PROFESSOR WHO BROKE DOWN, by DAVID GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: At long last I know what you mean Last Line: Over, and about our silence Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers LONG-GONE SUN: 3, by CLAIRE MALROUX Poem Source First Line: My siter bursts into tears over arithmetic problems Last Line: Where the serpent of life bites its own tail %through its seasonal moultings Alternate Author Name(s): Roux, Claire Sara Subject(s): Nature; Parents; Schools LOOK OUT!, by MAX FATCHEN Poem Source First Line: The witches mumble horrid chants Last Line: That awful night before school starts Subject(s): Education; Schools LORD, TEACH US HOW TO PLAY!, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Mid clashing creeds and civic strife Last Line: And teach us how to pray! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Religious Education; Theology; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools LOST, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: I cannot find my basketball Last Line: Until I find my glasses Subject(s): Education; Schools LOST ART, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: The hand has a vague memory Last Line: Of a name, a long body of names Subject(s): Penmanship; Schools LOST DAUGHTERS AT SCHOOL, by COLETTE INEZ Poem Source First Line: Once there was the reek of inkwells Last Line: Saint colette, chaste and rigorous in her habits of obedience Subject(s): Colette, Saint (1381-1447); Schools LOVE, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: I love johnny Last Line: I tell you love %is hard to beat Subject(s): Schools LUNCH, by MARC HARSHMAN Poem Source First Line: Bumblebees %mom guessed, rightly Last Line: Not quite sour %not quite milk Subject(s): Education; Schools LUNCH-BOX LEMUR, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: There's a lemur in my lunch box Last Line: It was nice of her to share Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools LYNETTE KINCAID, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: In middle school I felt so secure Last Line: I knew then high school was gonna be all right Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers LYNETTE KINCAID, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I'll catch up with you in a second, patti Last Line: You coming or what %no? %later, then Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers LYNETTE KINCAID, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I know I've been out of school for two months Last Line: So much of myself Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers LYNETTE KINCAID, PATTI BENNETT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Can you believe this Last Line: How long we gotta wait Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers LYNETTE KINCAID, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: As a senior Last Line: I got a right to be on cruise control Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers LYNETTE KINCAID, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Instead of drawing triangles in math class Last Line: Point a to point b with him Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers M. DEGAS TEACHES ART & SCIENCE AT DURFEE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He made a line on the blackboard Last Line: The trees bucked and quaked, and I %knew this could go on forever Subject(s): Education; Schools MARCUS MILLSAP: SCHOOL DAY AFTERNOON, by DAVE ETTER Poem Source First Line: I climb the steps of the yellow school bus Last Line: And mother not coming home till dark Subject(s): Education; Schools MARGINALIA: HONOLULU, 1970, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: The teacher kept saying, 'pay %attention,' and I had been, only Last Line: Thick clouds were gathering over punchbowl Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Honolulu; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MARKING OF FOLDERS, by ANNE ANDERTON Poem Source First Line: Today we have marking of folders. Yesterday Last Line: Silent in all of the gardens and the bees going backwards and forwards, %for to-day we have marking Subject(s): Reed, Henry (1814-1986); Schools MARY HAD SOME BUBBLE GUM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: And chewed it after school Subject(s): Education; Schools MAY MORNINGS, by IVY ETHEL OLIVE EASTWICK Poem Source First Line: May mornings are merry Last Line: And gay little children %go dancing to school Subject(s): Schools MEASLES, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: There are measles on my forehead Last Line: Excused from tomorrow's test Subject(s): Education; Schools MILITARY MIND, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wanted to go to military school Last Line: Like a plowblade in her arms Subject(s): Military Education; Military Schools MIND, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man looks at his watch to see Subject(s): Food & Eating; Youth; Schools; Family Life; Students; Relatives MISS SNIDER, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Looming before us in fourth grade history Last Line: In spanish, pronouncing 'free' too loud, %the kid in back storing details for this poem Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Schools MISUNDERSTOOD, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People do not understand me Last Line: And you will be understood. Subject(s): Knowledge; Language; Schools; Words; Vocabulary; Students MODERN IS OVER, by ALLAN PETERSON Poem Source First Line: In the tiny circle of third grade chairs, each child Last Line: Like sweetmeat. We giggled. Sweetmeat was nuts Subject(s): Children; Schools MODERN ODE TO THE MODERN SCHOOL, by JOHN ERSKINE Poem Source First Line: Just after the board had brought the schools up to date Subject(s): Schools MODERN THOUGHTS OF A LAYMAN, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: In these days of new thought and interpretation Last Line: For the goats, then will open the great jaws of hell. Subject(s): Clergy; Religious Education; Sermons; Teaching & Teachers; Thought; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Educators; Professors; Thinking MONDAY MORNING AT THE TEACHER'S DESK, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: Only the one hand up Last Line: He himself has twenty faces %all of them incomplete Subject(s): Classmates; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MONDAY!, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Overslept %rain is pouring Last Line: Monday sure can be %a bummer Subject(s): Education; Schools MONSTER WHO ATE AT OUR SCHOOL CAFETERIA, by ROBERT SCOTELLARO Poem Source First Line: A monster used to eating Last Line: Than eat this gruesome stuff!' Subject(s): Education; Schools MOON, by DEBORAH DALE Poem Source First Line: Pull that curtain behind you. %for the first time Last Line: Take it. Take it %for show and tell Subject(s): Moon; Mothers And Sons; Schools MOOSETAKE, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: We asked the pet shop for a mouse Last Line: And usually, he doesn't charge Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools MORNING ANNOUNCEMENTS, by SYLVIA ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: Good morning, staff and students Last Line: Then you're an april fool! Subject(s): Education; Schools MORTON POTTER, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Only a few more days Last Line: There's morton potter, I knew him when Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MORTON POTTER, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Chocolate %almond joys, snickers Last Line: I just can't help myself Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MORTON POTTER, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I'm going to be late for history Last Line: And run a few laps %around the track Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MORTON POTTER, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Being fat is a sin Last Line: I'm tired of pulling my weight %around Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MORTON POTTER, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: In literature we learned Last Line: It will sail lightly %atop the waves Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MORTON POTTER, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I'm always late for first period Last Line: I see the ashamed look on his Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MOST OUTSTANDING STUDENTS OF THE YEAR AWARDS, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: I'm making this announcement Last Line: Students of the year Subject(s): Education; Schools MOTORCADE, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: I was seven when it happened Last Line: And accelerating madly %out of view of the camera Subject(s): Assassination; Death; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963); Schools; Youth MR. HOWARD, by GERALDINE DELUCA Poem Source First Line: Mr. Howard was tall and skinny as a crane. He had a narrow Last Line: Was afraid. Maybe he wouldn't remember me. Or worse, maybe %he would Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MR. WADE, TYPING TEACHER, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At henry t. Gage junior high school Subject(s): Learning; Schools; Typewriters; Students MR. WADE, TYPING TEACHER, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At henry t. Gage junior high school Last Line: Each time wiser, stronger, ready for words to take flight Subject(s): Learning; Schools; Typewriters MRS. FRYE AND THE PENCILSHARPENER, by BILL KNOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'll remember how in 6th-grade english class, always Last Line: Its soil rich with words no-one would ever have to write Alternate Author Name(s): Saint Geraud; Knott, William Subject(s): Memory; Schools MRS. KRIKORIAN, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She saved me. When I arrived in sixth grade Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students MRS. KRIKORIAN, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She saved me. When I arrived in sixth grade Last Line: With the eerie comfort of what is neither good nor evil Subject(s): Education; Schools MS. GLORIA MESSINGER, TEACHER'S AIDE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I tried to collect his attendance Last Line: I think he's gone off the deep end Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MY ADVICE, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Elizabeth ann and betty lou morse Last Line: Whatever you do, %avoid the morses Subject(s): Schools MY BAD, by DOUGLAS GOETSCH Poem Source First Line: Ignore her, they said Last Line: I make on a white shirt Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MY BOOK!, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: I did it! %I did it! Last Line: This first first book %I've ever read! Subject(s): Schools MY DOG CHEWED UP MY HOMEWORK, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: I'm glad to say my homework's done Last Line: If I don't get an a Subject(s): Education; Schools MY ENGLISH TEACHER COMES TO THEE, by RUTH STEWART SCHENLEY Poem Text First Line: She dealt out english with a master hand Last Line: "be seated, please. I'm glad to see you back in class, once more." Subject(s): Schools; Students MY EXCUSE, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: But I did do my homework! Last Line: Yes ma'am! Un-huh! Subject(s): Schools MY HENRY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's jes' a great, big, awk'ard Last Line: "is my henry's, jes' p'cise!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Schools; Childhood; Students MY LAST GLAD SUMMER, by PHEBE DAVIDSON Poem Source First Line: My last glad summer of lust Last Line: Made lilies bloom beneath my skin Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MY QUEST, by W. T. O. Poem Text First Line: Over the meadow and over the hill Last Line: With its breath my eyelids steeping. Subject(s): Schools; Students MY SISTER'S ALWAYS ON THE PHONE, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source Last Line: She's flunking out of school Subject(s): Education; Schools MY TREASURES, by WILBUR DANIEL SPENCER Poem Text First Line: My jewels are the drops of dew Last Line: While poor men own the earth. Subject(s): Schools; Students MYSTERIES OF CAESAR, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Known to the boys in his latin class as 'sir,' Last Line: Which is the pitiless bliss of solitude Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Schools; Translating And Interpreting MYSTERY AND MANNERS, by MARVIN DIOGENES Poem Source First Line: Dr. Kopkind?' I asked the man standing at the emergency %room check-in Last Line: Like he could use some help Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers MYSTERY MEAL, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: Great green globs of Last Line: So pass the ketchup please Subject(s): Education; Schools NAME GIVEAWAY, by PHILLIP WILLIAM GEORGE Poem Source First Line: That teacher gave me a new name - again Last Line: Must be a name too hard to remember Subject(s): Education; Names; Native Americans; Schools NAMES, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Lou hon, suzie, cherry, doughnut, woody, wabbit, jackie Last Line: Chee, 'atsidi, tapahonso, haabaah, hastiin neez Subject(s): Children; Names; Native Americans - Children; Native Americans - Education; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations NERVOUSWORK, by WILLIAM SNYDER Poem Source First Line: Saturday morning, and orange juice and the heater's buzz Last Line: But my regrets must be every bit as fine. Every bit Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers NEVER AGAIN!, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: What's tougher than crossing the desert Last Line: Walking to the principal's office... %in trouble Subject(s): Schools NEW BATHROOM POLICY AT ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The boys chatter spanish in the bathroom Last Line: So he decides %to ban spanish %in the bathrooms %now he can relax Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Schools NEW HERE?, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: You'll love the food at our school Last Line: Bouncing our jell-o down the hall %real fast Subject(s): Schools NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: Last year I did some rotten things Last Line: To try in school tomorrow Subject(s): Education; Schools NEXT BODY IN THE BOX, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL Poem Source First Line: At school the boy seated before me Last Line: Augured in it. Something inside %no one could coax out Subject(s): Children; Death; Schools NICK THE NEWT, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Mister smoot, our substitute Last Line: Nick rides the waves on a popsicle stick! Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools NIGHT AND DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Twas night, and darkness reigned supreme Last Line: Beyond the power of sin—man's soul shall never die. Subject(s): Bible; Death; Easter; Healing; Holidays; Holy Ghost; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Life; Light; Night; Praise; Religion; Religious Education; Sin; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Cures; Holy Spirit; Bedtime; Theology; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial School NINE PIECES OF PAPER, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Down to nine pieces of paper, ken Last Line: Of blank sheets. And scribbled beneath %the label lois, this is your chance Subject(s): Nome, Alaska; Schools; Teaching And Teachers; Writing And Writers NO MORE FLIES IN THE SCHOOL KITCHEN, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: There were lots of flies in the kitchen Last Line: They died after eating the food Subject(s): Education; Schools NO RULE TO BE AFRAID OF, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The grammar has a rule absurd Last Line: Why, that is what I'll end it with! Subject(s): Education; Grammar; Schools; Students NORMAN NORTON'S NOSTRILS, by COLIN WEST Poem Source First Line: Oh, norman norton's nostrils Last Line: You'll never get them back Subject(s): Education; Schools NOSTALGIA, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crumbling stone steps of the old schoolhouse Subject(s): Dreams; Education; Memory; Schools; Nightmares; Students NOSTALGIA, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Crumbling stone steps of the old schoolhouse Last Line: Never to press my flat hand over my heart again as if I had one Subject(s): Dreams; Education; Memory; Schools NOSTRADAMUS IN HEAVEN, by SARAH SLOANE Poem Source First Line: When nostradamus died and went to heaven one inky july Last Line: Singing back to him again from this half-grown, blue-green, %divine, dull world Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers NOT FAIR, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Sitting in school Last Line: On an april day %isn't fair Subject(s): Schools NOT READY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of our pain and struggle Last Line: The goodness which brims the days! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Altars; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Religious Education; Worship; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools NOT TO BE, by BROCK DETHIER Poem Source First Line: Carve your name in the paper Last Line: Treasure strong verbs %share the gift Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers NOTE ABOUT ALLEN TATE, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I took literary criticism with allen tate. My mind was not on Last Line: Observantly, in a way that recognizes change in the world Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers NOW, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's in class teaching Last Line: As if to say, I'm here, %as you have asked of me. %now are you at peace? Subject(s): Lust; Schools NUNS OF CHILDHOOD: TWO VIEWS: 1., by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O where are they now, your harridan nuns Last Line: Enthroned as a symbol with upturned palms Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Education; Literary Form; Schools NUNS OF CHILDHOOD: TWO VIEWS: 2., by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O where are they now, my darling nuns Last Line: Who rustles drily inside my gown Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Education; Literary Form; Schools OF A CHILD WHO WOULD NOT LEARN THE CRIS-CROSS ROW, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little child of mine, come hit her to my knee Last Line: Then the morning touched mine eyelids, and I woke. Subject(s): Bible; Children; Fathers; Regret; Religious Education; Childhood; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools OF GREATNESS IN TEACHING, by LESLIE PINCKNEY HILL Poem Source Subject(s): Religion; Schools; Teaching And Teachers OLD BROWN SCHOOL HOUSE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It stood on a bleak country corner Subject(s): Schools OLD MAPS, by EUNICE TIETJENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love old maps made long ago Last Line: I find my pleasure as a rule %is quite diminished Alternate Author Name(s): Head, Cloyd, Mrs. Subject(s): Maps; Schools OLD POLLY PARROT, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Old polly parrot's the smartest of birds Last Line: She only repeats words she hears from our teacher Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools OLD SCHOOLHOUSE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There broods the pathos of a time long past Last Line: That lit the players in the long-ago. Subject(s): Faces; Life; Love; Past; Schools; Time; Students OLD SCHOOLHOUSE (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I wandered alone down younder lane Subject(s): Schools OLD-SCHOOL PUNISHMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Old master brown brought his ferule down Last Line: "for he peeped at the girls with the beautiful curls, / and ogled them over his sleeve" Subject(s): Children;schools; Childhood;students OMAR CLARKSON (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Officer Last Line: Please tell me what to do Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers OMAR CLARKSON (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Things I'd like to hear from girls Last Line: In the great erotic stage show of my dreams Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers OMAR CLARKSON (3), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Man, I'm wiped %what time is it Last Line: You know you want me Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers OMAR CLARKSON, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Things my brother says to me Last Line: Happy birthday, stephon Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers OMAR CLARKSON, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Waiting in line Last Line: I hear what you're saying to me Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers OMAR CLARKSON, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Things I should tell myself (but don't) Last Line: Five more minutes, please Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers OMAR CLARKSON, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: These teachers say to me all the time Last Line: To play back as their recorded messages Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ON A CHANGE OF MASTERS AT A GREAT PUBLIC SCHOOL, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are those honors, ida! Once your own Last Line: No trace of science left you, but the name. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Schools; Students ON A DISTANT VIEW OF THE VILLAGE AND SCHOOL OF HARROW, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye scenes of my childhood, whose loved recollection Last Line: Oh, such were the days which my infancy knew!' Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Children; Harrow, England; Nostalgia; Schools; Childhood; Students ON AN OLD BARN CONVERTED INTO A VILLAGE SCHOOL, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nigh the old barn one autumn noon I stood Last Line: This harvest home may seraph voices sing! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Barns; Schools; Students ON HEARING THAT THE STUDENTS HAVE BEEN REASSURED BY THE ADMINISTRATION, by BRUCE BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Where, where but here could sloth and guile Last Line: Secure that no one cares to know? Subject(s): Politics; Schools ON THE DISPOSITION OF MIND (2), by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We ought to read, my worthy friend ponthieu Last Line: The book of books is ev'ry man's own heart. Subject(s): Books; Language; Religious Education; Reading; Words; Vocabulary; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools ON THE UNION AND THREE-FOLD DISTINCTION OF GOD, NATURE AND CREATURE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All that comes under our imagination Last Line: And, god's own image lord of it, a man. Subject(s): Mankind; Mediums; Religious Education; Human Race; Spiritualists; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools ONE THING ON MY MIND, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: I've gottogotothebathroom Last Line: It will ruin the rest of my day Subject(s): Schools OPEN HOUSE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not easy to love oneself Subject(s): Parents; Schools; Self-doubt; Parenthood; Students OPEN HOUSE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not easy to love oneself Last Line: His bloody march across mexico Subject(s): Parents; Schools; Self-doubt OPEN LETTER TO MY STUDENTS, by KATHLEEN KIRK Poem Source First Line: Here's the difference between us: %I don't know what a hackey sack is Last Line: The wire scraped along concrete, %the balcony, %the hackey sack Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ORGAN-GRINDER, by JIMMY GARTHWAITE Poem Source First Line: The monkey and the organ-grinder Last Line: Because I hadn't any! Subject(s): Organ-grinders; Schools ORIGINAL SIN AND REDEMPTION, by TIM ROSS Poem Source First Line: At st. Francis de sales elementary the nuns Last Line: When I might actually enter those first %true gates of paradise Subject(s): Religion; Schools OTTO OCTOPUS, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Otto is an octopus from underneath the sea Last Line: We spent two hours untangling our %otto octopuzzle Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools OUR DOG, DOUG, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Do you think this is a rug? Last Line: What our dog, doug, does best is hug Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools OUR LADY'S BIRTHDAY, by EMILY HENRIETTA HICKEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The joy of the world is rising from out love's / infinite sea Last Line: To bear the immortal ave on music that has no end. Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Birthdays; Love; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Religious Education; Women In The Bible; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Virgin Mary; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools OUR PASSWORD, by ISIDORE G. ASCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No hate can stifle our religion's birth Last Line: Our prayer in life and death that god is one. Subject(s): History; Jews; Religious Education; Historians; Judaism; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools OUR RAT RALPH, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Our ralph's laboratory rat Last Line: Your project must be cheesy Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools OUR ROOM, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tell the children in school sometimes Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students OUR ROOM, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tell the children in school sometimes Last Line: Oddly lonely when we talk about our homes Subject(s): Education; Schools OUR SCARLET KING, by HAROLD MARTIN BOWMAN Poem Text First Line: He comes along the great highway Last Line: "and hail -- ""our scarlet king." Subject(s): Schools; Students PAGEANT, by MICHAEL COLLIER Poem Source First Line: When brian mccarthy, the male lead Last Line: Propped on the tiny canvas door he made %for alice Subject(s): Education; Schools PAINTING THE NORTH SAN JUAN SCHOOL, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White paint splotches on blue head bandanas Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students PAINTING THE NORTH SAN JUAN SCHOOL, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White paint splotches on blue head bandanas Last Line: Ladders resting on the shaky porch Subject(s): Education; Schools PARENT TEACHER NIGHT, by DENNIS NURKSE Poem Source First Line: My daughter's maps and diaries Last Line: Until the last dream, which is darkness Subject(s): Children; Parents; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PASS/FAIL, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You will never graduate Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students PASS/FAIL, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You will never graduate Last Line: That have to be learned %by heart Subject(s): Education; Schools PASSING, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In gym class boxing, fat feeney got paired Last Line: Yeah, I punched him a few times %jab, jab, jab. I took my c Subject(s): Education; Schools PAST AND PRESENT, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On four-horse coach, whose luggage pierced the sky Last Line: Shot like a pellet from his own pop-gun. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Past; Progress; Schools; Time; Travel; Vacation; Students; Journeys; Trips PATTI BENNET, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: He was gonna kill us Last Line: I want my papa %where is he Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PATTI BENNETT, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Papa, when I was six Last Line: Oh, you have to say that Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PATTI BENNETT, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Later then, lynette Last Line: Especially as I walk into wiedermeyer's class %what the Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PATTI BENNETT, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Softball scores sound like football scores Last Line: So I can strike out on my own Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PATTI BENNETT, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: You want me to sign your yearbook Last Line: Thanks. That is a good picture of me Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PATTI BENNETT, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My father wanted a son Last Line: Because I'm the person who loves you %regardless of gender Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PAUSE PAUSE, by KEVIN PRUFER Poem Source First Line: Praise to the empty schoolroom, when the folders Last Line: Hallway, the pause before the long bells cry Subject(s): Schools PENMANSHIP, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the margin, in the mind, the winner gets it right Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students PENMANSHIP, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the margin, in the mind, the winner gets it right Last Line: Lilies, water %striders Subject(s): Education; Schools PERBERON NAMBE MORNING, by A. A. HEDGE COKE Poem Source First Line: Dust, leaves twirling Last Line: Me to speak to you of %beauty Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Children; Native Americans - Education; Schools PERPETUAL MOTION, by MICHAEL VAN WALLEGHEN Poem Source First Line: When I was about ten Last Line: They'd dug for a new addition %to our grade-school convent Subject(s): Schools PERSIMMONS, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sixth grade mrs. Walker / slapped the back of my head Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Exiles; Language; Marginality, Social; Persimmons; Schools; Estrangement; Outcasts; Words; Vocabulary; Students PERSIMMONS, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In sixth grade mrs. Walker %slapped the back of my head Last Line: In your palm, the ripe weight Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Exiles; Language; Marginality, Social; Persimmons; Schools PERSPECTIVE, by PATRICIA VALDATA Poem Source First Line: In the overheated classroom %twenty students lean back Last Line: Flesh with its beak as students passed by Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PETITION OF A SCHOOLBOY TO HIS FATHER, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most honour'd sir, I must confess Last Line: And your petitioner shall pray. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Money; Schools; Poetry & Poets; Students PHYSICS TEACHER, by ANNE-MARIE OOMEN Poem Source First Line: He wanted to believe something defied the laws Last Line: His own hands open and the bird %explodes into its own law and beauty Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PIKUNI FREE SCHOOL, by ART HOMER Poem Source First Line: It's the land, what is there to say? I already Last Line: Of graves I say and he says write that down Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Schools PLANE GEOMETRY, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: In front of the blackboard in your plaid shirtwaist Last Line: Do parallel lines finally meet Subject(s): Geometry; Mathematics; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PLAY WAY, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunlight pillars through glass, probes each desk Last Line: New looks. Then notes stretch taut as snares. They trip %to fall into themselves unknowingly Subject(s): Schools PLAYGROUND, by KATE SONTAG Poem Source First Line: You search the day for inspiration Last Line: Distracted now and elsewhere Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PLUM-DARK HUMOR, by MAURICE KILWEIN GUEVARA Poem Source First Line: David teaches history to children. Today Last Line: Some of the children are laughing Subject(s): Education; Schools POET IN RESIDENCE AT A COUNTRY SCHOOL, by DON WELCH Poem Source First Line: The school greets me like a series Last Line: Can imagine where he'd rather be Subject(s): Education; Schools POET MEETS HIS CLASS IN THE CHEMISTRY LAB, by KENNETH M. AUTREY Poem Source First Line: The periodic chart is god here Last Line: And dare each other to taste them Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers POETRY READING, BREVIG MISSION, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Likely lured by a twenty-dollar cash prize Last Line: Little, adorable, three-month-old girl's %savings for college and career Subject(s): Children; Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Poetry Readings; Schools; Teaching And Teachers POETS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the nature of poets Last Line: His poetry and he was happy Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Writing Schools POLAR BAR, NOME, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: As my student, nick, rose Last Line: He was off to the board of trade %and would haunt the bar until close Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Nome, Alaska; Schools; Teaching And Teachers; Writing And Writers PORTUGUESE PRINCESS LOOKS TO THE EAST, by THOMAS STEIN Poem Source First Line: The portuguese princess looks to the east Last Line: To an early evening that may or may not be Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers POST-MODERNISM, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pinup of rita hayworth was taped Last Line: Do I know him? Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Bombs; Death; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Actresses; Dead, The; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Students; Educators; Professors PRAYER, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Herbie sat the class down and told us how Subject(s): Religious Education; Sex; Prayer; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools PRECIOUSNESS OF IMPERFECTION, by WILLIAM SNYDER Poem Source First Line: I'm getting so frustrated, she says, this is so Last Line: And with me even. With all of us, gone as we are %to confusion and flaw Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PRELUDES TO A PENNY READING; A SCHOOLROOM, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did you send for me? I hope all's right? Last Line: Certainly, certainly, my friends, you shall Subject(s): Schools PREMIERE LECON, by FLORENCE E. VON WIEN Poem Text First Line: You moved on the platform with aesthetic grace, professeur Last Line: Do you know you are beautiful, michel? Subject(s): French Language; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Male-female Relations; Students PREPOSITIONS IN ALABAMA, by KENNETH M. AUTREY Poem Source First Line: About columbus day, 6th grade, I learned the power Last Line: We'd ever need of who, what, when, and where Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PRESCHOOL, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT Poem Source First Line: The teachter matches child to mother - alexis to the tanned blonde Last Line: Will you hold my hand? It fits, a tiny white vase in my palm Subject(s): Children; Schools PRIVATE JOURNAL, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We started from places that saw no gay carracks wrecked Last Line: Freedom from, not of, thought Subject(s): Schools; Childhood Memories PRIVATE SCHOOL, by STEPHANIE BROWN Poem Source First Line: The mothers' wait Last Line: A mother needs to be a powerful player, o child. Endure. Beware. No one %plays fair Subject(s): Mothers; Privacy; Schools PRODUCE, by DARRELL FIKE Poem Source First Line: Oh, send along a half-dozen fresh ones' Last Line: Simile, red potatoes sly and winking Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers PROGRESS OF DULNESS, SELS., by JOHN TRUMBULL Poet Analysis Subject(s): Schools PROLOGUE SPOKEN AT MR. SHERIDAN'S SCHOOL, by THOMAS SHERIDAN (1687-1738) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The scenes are new, and everything compact Last Line: Your bays tonight would turn to birch tomorrow. Subject(s): Schools; Students PUBLIC SCHOOL 190, BROOKLYN 1963, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The inkwells had no ink Last Line: Knew that before %november 22, 1963 Subject(s): Education; Schools PUBLIC SCHOOL NO. 18, PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, by MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN Poem Source First Line: Miss wilson's eyes, opaque %as blue glass, fix on me Last Line: And my rage will blow %your house down Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Moving And Movers; New Jersey; Refugees; Schools; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; U.s. - Race Relations PUTTYROOT AND STOPCOCK, by DAVID GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: Old mr. What's his name was always good Last Line: The wondrous fog of your wide ignorance Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers QUIET QUAHOG, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: We do not know our quahog well Last Line: He's such an antisocial clam Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools QUINTON, by ELIZABETH HOWARD Poem Source First Line: I have to run, an appointment Last Line: I held him in my arms; %we cried together Subject(s): Classmates; Physicians; Schools; Sympathy QUO VADIS, M.F.A.?, by GERALD LOCKLIN Poem Source First Line: Do you remember how bartleby the scrivener Last Line: For a single one-year, non-tenure-track %lectureship %in creative writing Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RAIN, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A teacher asked paul Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students RAIN, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A teacher asked paul Last Line: Knew nothing of the coming rain Subject(s): Education; Schools RAISING THEIR HANDS, by JULIA LISELLA Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I dream about my students Last Line: You with your idea %speak Subject(s): Education; Schools RALPHY, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Ralphy drawed a caterpillar Last Line: And drawed up all the chalk Subject(s): Schools REACHING TO A SKY OF SOBA, by DAVID HASSLER Poem Source First Line: I walk past winter boots lined up in rows Last Line: The bell rings, their hands still reaching in the air Subject(s): Education; Schools READING, by HOLLY IGLESIAS Poem Source First Line: The poet declares the body didactic; and I yearn for yours, desire Last Line: Beginning to slide like layers of an over-iced cake Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers READING FOR THE BLIND, by KARA PROVOST Poem Source First Line: You can tell by how she reads Last Line: Letting us see ourselves %as the angels see us Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RECESS, by CHRISTOPHER BURSK Poem Source First Line: Older boys drag younger by the wrists into woods Last Line: Pressed to the wall, crying uncle, uncle Subject(s): Education; Schools RECESS, by COLLEEN JOHNSON MCELROY Poem Source First Line: I come here alone standing wet Last Line: Thinking smoking in the rain Subject(s): Education; Schools RECESS, by TIMOTHY TOCHER Poem Source First Line: Suzy banged her elbow Last Line: Just one recess a day Subject(s): Education; Schools REHABILITATING JOSEPH ADAMS, by SCOTT SIMPSON Poem Source First Line: They caught him with the pictures- %drawings in ink Last Line: Brucker blood-red %brucker, brucker, dead Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers REJOICING THAT MY SECOND SON STUDIES IN THE PURPLE FUNGUS STUDIO, by SHANG JINGLAN Poem Source First Line: Lotus flowers once laughed at the sun Last Line: And on the empty staircase the light of his moon never recedes Subject(s): Schools; Sons RELATIVELY PLACID, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The small red ball Last Line: Fish him out Subject(s): Drowning; Quarrels; Schools; Teaching And Teachers REMARKABLE ADVENTURE, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was at my bedroom table Last Line: Isn't here with me today Subject(s): Education; Schools RENATA REZNITSKAYA (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I do not understand Last Line: Michael, I think you say in english Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RENATA REZNITSKAYA (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: In russa Last Line: A long line of students for that Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RENATA REZNITSKAYA, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Where I came from Last Line: Of my new country Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RENATA REZNITSKAYA, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I am to graduate Last Line: I will never see papa again Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RENATA REZNITSKAYA, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: You are happy here? My father asks Last Line: I read his letters over and over again Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RENATA REZNITSKAYA, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: My mother promises me over tea Last Line: Except the beauty in my eyes Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RENATA REZNITSKAYA, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I am, how you say Last Line: Sitting in his chair, not visiting anyone Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers REPLY, by HELEN DEGAN COHEN Poem Source First Line: A teacher, who is also my friend Last Line: Like, o my teacher, my teacher, %before he dies Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RESCUE, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: It's almost september. Manny's still eating at soup kitchens Last Line: Smoking a cigarette. His sadness is such that he can hardly speak on the drive home Subject(s): Adolescence; Schools RETURN TO SENDER: JAGUARUNDI, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Special delivery! Jaguarundi!' Last Line: Let's get a jellyfish instead.' Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools REVERIE IN A CLASSROOM, by DOROTHY LAUD BROWN Poem Text First Line: The sun and the shadow on the rusty brick houses Last Line: Clang! Back to work! Shouts the great brass bell. Subject(s): Schools; Wellesley College; Students RHETORIC OF WOOD, by MICHAEL SPOONER Poem Source First Line: In february, just five, and master %of the shoelace, isaac ties Last Line: If we poured every grain %of sand out of these bags?' Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RHONDA ELLIS, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Did you see that Last Line: My hands are so cold Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RHONDA ELLIS, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I tape all the soaps Last Line: Especially when I'm playing the part of %someone else Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RHONDA ELLIS, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Mr. Wiedermeyer %I'm sorry I didn't get the Last Line: What is my role Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RHONDA ELLIS, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Instead of the star Last Line: Waiting in the wings Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RHONDA ELLIS, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I told nicole tucker Last Line: Thanks, nicole, for my big break %and yours Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RHONDA ELLIS, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Next' %I am so nervous about this audition Last Line: Thank you very much. We'll let you know Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RHYMES OF THE DAY, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A latin school young man Last Line: To stand by the edge of the blue-green sea. Subject(s): Schools; Students ROCKET, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Teacher, teacher / - I don't like this asswignment Last Line: Post-chaise & brigantine Subject(s): Rockets; Schools; Likes & Dislikes ROGER DUNLOP, ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Mr. Wiedermeyer, - no answer Last Line: Who's michael? - no answer Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ROGER DUNLOP, ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Listen, young man, what's your name Last Line: What do you mean he won't open the door Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers ROGER FRANCIS, by WILFRID CHARLES THORLEY Poem Source First Line: Roger francis %isn't quick Last Line: With a rod, a net, %and a pickle-jar Subject(s): Play; Schools ROOM 19, EAKIN ELEMENTARY, by DIANE GILLIAM FISHER Poem Source First Line: There's a boys' line and a girls' line Last Line: We don't stop for nobody Subject(s): Education; Schools ROSES AND TULIPS, by JANE ELKINGTON WOHL Poem Source First Line: It is all so ordinary Last Line: And finally, what in our ordinary lives, %we might call love Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers RULES OF CONDUCT: COLORED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 1943, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Watch your language, say words right Last Line: Keep every anger coiled in tight Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SACRED, by STEPHEN ELLIOTT DUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the teacher asked if anyone had Last Line: And putting it in, and going Alternate Author Name(s): Dunn, Stephen Subject(s): Adolescence; Education; Schools SAINT HUBERT OF GAMBAISEUIL, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Of school I'd need an overplus, more lore than is assumed ad lib by a Last Line: Ambrosia may the gods deny to him who finds his art a task. Subject(s): Churches; Love; Religion; Schools; Cathedrals; Theology; Students SANDY WILMAT, PARENT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Where is my child Last Line: I gotta go find my son Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SATIE, AT THE END OF THE TERM, by SIMON CURTIS Poem Source First Line: The mind's eye aches from henry james Last Line: With humour's grace, %mercy of irreverence Subject(s): Schools SATIRE: 3, by AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS Poem Text First Line: Is this thy daily course? The glaring sun Last Line: Wou'ds wear thou wert the madder of the two. Alternate Author Name(s): Persius Subject(s): Schools; Students SAVING THE CRIPPLED BOY, by JAN BEATTY Poem Source First Line: Tenth-grade field trip, I'm stuck Last Line: Friend, patty, and my sick, ailing heart Subject(s): Education; Schools SCARLET SNAKE, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Scarlet snake is feeling scummy Last Line: What happened to kim's birthday cake Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools SCENES FROM THE TEACHING MOMENT LOUNGE, by LYNNA WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: Among the fiction writers in my graduate writing program Last Line: It was my first teachable moment, and my favorite still Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SCHOLAR, by GRACE BAUER Poem Source First Line: Deconstructs desire, confines Last Line: There are no words to signify Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SCHOLARS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Logic does well at school Last Line: And wakes to dream all night. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Schools; Students SCHOOL, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: I can't handle another student! Last Line: Are there. The gym sparkles with flashbulbs. Red robed, manny %accepts his certificate with aplomb Subject(s): Children; Commencement; Orphans; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SCHOOL, by DAVID HUDDLE Poem Source First Line: On one side the high school, on the other Last Line: Unaccustomed to such space, %wooden floors, lights, adults calling them names Subject(s): Education; Schools SCHOOL, by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If there is a vile, pernicious Last Line: The glorious institution of always being late. Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K. Subject(s): Schools; Sin; Students SCHOOL, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I put my heart to school Last Line: "I find this school is home." Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Schools; Students SCHOOL AND NATURE, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: Drawn on the blackboard Last Line: The dark drops of its blood Subject(s): Books; Classmates; Nature; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SCHOOL AND SCHOOLFELLOWS; FLOREAT ETONA, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve years ago I made a mock / of filthy trades and traffics Last Line: A happy boy,--at drury's. Subject(s): Eton College; Schools; Students SCHOOL BEGINS, by NELL GOODALE PRICE Poem Source First Line: What a gay %september day Last Line: School bells clang, %'hi ya, gang!' Subject(s): Schools SCHOOL BEGINS TODAY, by JOHN HENRY YATES Poem Source First Line: I'm glad vacation's over, and school is called again! Subject(s): Schools SCHOOL BOYS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are lads who count the days Last Line: Opening out on every side. Subject(s): Children; Death; Freedom; Hearts; Life; Schools; Childhood; Dead, The; Liberty; Students SCHOOL BUSES, by FRANK KOOISTRA Poem Source First Line: Six of them: great orange, great golden carp Last Line: Headed for the lily shoals of children Subject(s): Education; Schools SCHOOL CHILDREN, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The children go forward with their little satchels Last Line: Drawing to themselves the gray limbs of the fruit trees %bearing so little ammunition Subject(s): Education; Schools SCHOOL DAYS, by CARL DENNIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the heart's map of the country, a thousand miles Last Line: Three times he embraces only air Subject(s): Schools SCHOOL DAYS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once those fences kept me in mr. Mote Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students SCHOOL DAYS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once those fences kept me in mr. Mote Last Line: And name them one by one and row by row Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Education; Schools SCHOOL DAYS, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the test they sent an expert Last Line: I bend over my book and cry,%and fly all alone through the night%toward being the person I am Subject(s): Schools SCHOOL DAYS, by WILLIAM WHITE Poem Source First Line: How bright these days still seem to glow Subject(s): Schools SCHOOL DAZE RAP, by CAROL DIGGORY SHIELDS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Woke up at eight - oh no, I overslept! Last Line: Why aren't you up? It's saturday.' Subject(s): Education; Schools SCHOOL LUNCH, by MARY ANN HOBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Each time I bring it Last Line: I wish I had bought it Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Schools SCHOOL ON THE OUTSKIRTS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How different, in the midst of snows, the great school rises red Last Line: Blind. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Schools; Students SCHOOL STATISTICS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Twas saturday night, and a teacher sat Subject(s): Schools SCHOOL'S OUT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Girls scream Last Line: Welcome. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Schools; Students SCHOOL, SOME SUGGESTIONS, by BOBBI KATZ Poem Source First Line: If kids could be the teachers Last Line: In music gym, and art! Subject(s): Education; Schools SCHOOL-BELL, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nine-o'clock bell! Last Line: Nine-o'clock %bell! Subject(s): Bells; Schools SCHOOL-DAYS, by GODFREY ELTON Poem Text First Line: I think that, even as then, there must be hours Last Line: The silent air swoons into an august night. Subject(s): Oxford University; Rugby, England; Schools; Students SCHOOLBOY JOYS AND GRIEFS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the woodford road there comes a noise Last Line: As six new scholars to the deaf and dumb. Variant Title(s): Sonnet Subject(s): Schools; Students SCHOOLBOYS WITH DOG, WINTER, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's dark when they scuff off to school Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students SCHOOLBOYS WITH DOG, WINTER, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's dark when they scuff off to school Last Line: The frosted windows of the schoolhouse gleam Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Education; Schools SCHOOLMARM, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've taken sacred sex Subject(s): Schools; Teachers; Infatuation; Students SCHOOLMASTER, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sighed with relief. He had got the job. He was safe Last Line: For though he never realised it, he %dissolved. (like sugar in a cup of tea.) Subject(s): Schools SCHOOLROOM ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF THE KNITTING MILL, by JUDITH PAGE HEITZMAN Poem Source First Line: While most of us copied letters out of books Last Line: I hear her every time I fail Subject(s): Education; Schools SCHOOLS, by EDGAR BOWERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The rhetorician classifies my pain Last Line: Brutal and brief, sorry with lust and need Subject(s): Schools SCHOOLSVILLE, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glancing over my shoulder at the past Last Line: Quizzing the chandeleir, reprimanding the air Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students SCHOOLSVILLE, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glancing over my shoulder at the past Last Line: Quizzing the chandelier, reprimanding the air Subject(s): Education; Schools SCHOOLYARD IN APRIL, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little girls smearing Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students SCHOOLYARD IN APRIL, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little girls smearing Last Line: Stare out of windows %remembering april Subject(s): Education; Schools SCHULE IN JUNE, by ROBERT BAIN Poem Source First Line: There's no a clood in the sky Subject(s): June; Schools SCRAPBOOKS, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's funny that smells and sounds return Last Line: For my grandchildren Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): Schools; Students SCRAPBOOKS, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's funny that smells and sounds return Last Line: That perhaps one day I can unfold %for my grandchildren Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): Schools SEARCHING FOR MELINDA'S MAGIC MOMENT, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder if I could find it Last Line: If it's like I remember. And then, %I'd like to burn it Subject(s): Children; Girls; Schools SECOND APARTMENT, FIRST-YEAR TEACHER, by CLAUDIA MONPERE MCISAAC Poem Source First Line: Just one grocery bag but it was heavy Last Line: And gold china and at the cup's bottom %a clutch of yellow roses Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SEMINAR, by SHANNON MARQUEZ MCGUIRE Poem Source First Line: But tonight, another crime, besides the way it Last Line: Teaching's rapture shining from your eyes Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SENT TO ACADEMICIAN CH'EN AT INSTIT. ILLUMINATION LITERATURE, by WEI FENG Poem Source First Line: Deep autumn %beyond the wilds Last Line: In the south palace, your letter %brilliant as a brocade Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Writing Schools; Zen Buddhism SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ann galbraith / loves barry soyers Subject(s): Schools; Students SEVEN FABLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING: 1. MAGPIE, by HANS OSTROM Poem Source First Line: When I was six years old, I met magpie in woods beside a Last Line: Even after I had graduated, magna cum feathers, from woods %into more knowing Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SEVEN FABLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING: 2. BAD DOG, by HANS OSTROM Poem Source First Line: When I was eleven, bad dog bit me. 'that will teach you,' he Last Line: Baring his teeth. Bad teacher! Down! Get in your house! Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SEVEN FABLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING: 3. LIZARD, by HANS OSTROM Poem Source First Line: Oh I, age seventeen, was hammering boulders at a gravel pit Last Line: Tend not to do well on the quizzes that count' Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SEVEN FABLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING: 4. SQUIRREL, by HANS OSTROM Poem Source First Line: Later, when seriousness befell me, I encountered squirrel, a nervous Last Line: I scrambled, my cheeks bursting with clever things to say Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SEVEN FABLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING: 5. DEER, by HANS OSTROM Poem Source First Line: Learned deer, she of the polished obsidian hooves, stopped me Last Line: These are, we only think we know' Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SEVEN FABLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING: 6. RACCOON, by HANS OSTROM Poem Source First Line: One evening I was fortunate enough to hear raccoon's Last Line: Disappeared. I was left to a lunar tutorial Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SEVEN FABLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING: 7. SNAKE, by HANS OSTROM Poem Source First Line: Snake was rumored to be one of the best teachers in those Last Line: Add-though of course I'm biased-that it helps to stay %grounded Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SEX ED, by ELIZABETH NEARY SHOLL Poem Source First Line: Well-dressed, demure, jammed into those Last Line: Her toss back her yellow hair and yank open %the heavy doors to school Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Education; Schools; Women SHAPES, VANISHINGS, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down a street in the town where I went Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students SHAPES, VANISHINGS, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down a street in the town where I went Last Line: I will walk on as I have done once already, %remembering how we failed each other, %knowing better t Subject(s): Education; Schools SHAWN FERGUSON, STUDENT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: They hardly told us anything Last Line: Besides, work's gotta be more interesting than school Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SHERBORNE; AN ODE, SUNG ON ITS 350TH ANNIVERSARY, APRIL 20, 1900, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis fifty years since last we met to keep our festal day Last Line: And all the world seemed at our feet, and hopeful hearts beat high! Subject(s): Schools; Students SHERWOOD COWLEY, PRINCIPAL (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Mr. Wiedermeyer's been shot Last Line: How dare he tarnish the good name of my school Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SHERWOOD COWLEY, PRINCIPAL (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Thank you for coming so quickly, gentlemen Last Line: Yes, ms. Messinger, what is it %another note Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SHERWOOD COWLEY, PRINCIPAL (PUBLIC ADDRESS ANNOUNCEMENT), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Mr. Wiedermeyer Last Line: Mr. Dunlop, you called the police, didn't you Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SHOW AND TELL, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Billy brought his snake to school Last Line: But it swallowed him anyway Subject(s): Schools SICK, by SHELBY SILVERSTEIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot go to school today,' Alternate Author Name(s): Silverstein, Shel Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students SICK, by SHELBY SILVERSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot go to school today,' Last Line: G'bye, I'm going out to play!' Alternate Author Name(s): Silverstein, Shel Subject(s): Education; Schools SID'S JOURNAL CHECK, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Read out loud, sid ordered, pointing Last Line: I became one more anonymous white woman %to be hated with the rest of the landscape Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Nome, Alaska; Schools; Teaching And Teachers; Writing And Writers SINGING SCHOOL, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First they asked you to step through the many rooms Last Line: Now you have to make %your own story Subject(s): Family Life; Schools; Singing And Singers SISTER ALBERT, by BILL RANSOM Poem Source First Line: Sixty-two students crowded the room right up to sister albert's Last Line: Then do it once more, just for fun, and we can both go %home' Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA LECTURES THE SCIENCE CLASS: FOSSILS, PHYSICS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fossil bones, splintered bits of pelvis Last Line: By rubbing it across the heart. Subject(s): Christianity; Fossils; Human Behavior; Schools; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Students SITTING IN THE MARGIN, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A nun puckers. Her class, as if together Subject(s): Catholic Schools SIXTH GRADE, by MELANIE HOPE Poem Source First Line: I knew the dick size of every boy in my grade Last Line: I must be learning something about love Subject(s): Schools; Sex SNIFF, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When school is out, we love to follow Last Line: And poke our noses into flowers! Subject(s): Play; Schools; Smells SNOW IN SCHOOLTIME, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: All saturday the sky was clear Last Line: To see how much stays on the ground. Subject(s): Children; December; Schools; Snow; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students SNOWFLAKES IN HELL, by LEN ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We would all melt from the heat / of our sins Subject(s): Schools; Snow; Students SONG OF ACKWORTH CLOCK, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clock beneath the cupola Last Line: Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, slow Subject(s): Clocks; Schools; Time SOUL MAKE A PATH THROUGH SHOUTING, by CYRUS CURTIS CASSELLS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thick at the schoolgate are the ones Last Line: I'm just going to school. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Civil Rights Movement; Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Little Rock, Arkansas; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts; SPANISH LESSONS, by RANE ARROYO Poem Source First Line: Today's word: agua Last Line: The arroyos grew in chicago Subject(s): Education; Schools SPATIAL RELATIONS, by LEONORA SMITH Poem Source First Line: Remember the geometric forms on aptitude tests Last Line: Which hung in the blurred wakes of their folding Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers SPECIAL MESSAGE TO THE VERMONT LEGISLATURE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We folks that went to district schools Last Line: While we look on. Subject(s): Country Life; Education; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Vermont - Legislature; Students; Educators; Professors SPELLING-BEE AS FORESHADOWING, by CAROLE SIMMONS OLES Poem Source First Line: The auditorium swallowed %contenders alive Last Line: At that showy, pendant, crimson %unspellable flower Subject(s): Education; Schools SPITTING IN THE LEAVES, by MAGGIE ANDERSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In spanishburg there are boys in tight jeans Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students SPITTING IN THE LEAVES, by MAGGIE ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In spanishburg there are boys in tight jeans Last Line: Their strong skinny arms, their spitting %in the leaves Subject(s): Education; Schools SPOON RIVER GARLAND: 4. ACADEMIC SUICIDE, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: Which is dumber: the reasons people kill Last Line: Perrier and prozac, the cocktail of choice Subject(s): Schools; Suicide SPRING GLEN GRAMMAR SCHOOL, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the moment because I planned, at six in the first grade Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students SPRING GLEN GRAMMAR SCHOOL, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the moment because I planned, at six in the first grade Last Line: The box is humid; it continues to continue: nothing escapes Subject(s): Education; Schools SPRING RICE FIELD, by KENNETH M. AUTREY Poem Source First Line: Basho's great haiku Last Line: Peeled from a still pond Subject(s): Education; English Language; Matsuo Basho (1644-1694); Schools; Teaching And Teachers ST. PETER CLAVER, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every town with black catholics has a st. Peter claver's Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan; Education; Schools; Students ST. PETER CLAVER, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every town with black catholics has a st. Peter claver's Last Line: I was tricked again, robbed of my patron, %and left with a debt to another white man Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan; Education; Schools STAR OF JUNIOR HIGH, by MARTHA KINNEY Poem Source First Line: God are we gorgeous Last Line: Out here in the kingdom of boys %I am the only queen Subject(s): Schools; Stars STATISTICS, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Virginity is on the decline, the prof said Last Line: Or were mowed without thought Subject(s): Schools; Statistics And Statisticians; Virginity STAYED BACK, by THOMAS SAYERS ELLIS Poem Source First Line: All the schools I attended Last Line: Also brought me closer to verse, here Subject(s): Education; Schools STEPS IN COMPOSITION: FOUR STUDENTS, by DIANE AVERILL Poem Source First Line: I %three years I spend in thailand refugee camp Last Line: Now, see if you can start a new paragraph Subject(s): Grammar; Refugees; Schools; Thailand STONE DREAMS, by JANE ELKINGTON WOHL Poem Source First Line: When I first went to his house I could not understand Last Line: I think,' stephanie says, 'it's about %sometimes we think we know a person %and we really don't' Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers STRAWBERRY SHRUB, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strawberry shrub, old-fashioned, quaint as quinces Last Line: Strawberry shrub you took to school for me Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Schools; Strawberries STUART RIEGER, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Inscriptions in my yearbook Last Line: It's the best I can do under the circumstances Subject(s): Education; Schools STUDENT, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is that student pale and importunate Last Line: More than I could learn until tonight? Subject(s): Schools; Students STUDENT, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is that student pale and importunate Last Line: Who, early in the alphabet, recited %more than I could learn until tonight? Subject(s): Schools STUDENT'S PRAYER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now I lay me down to rest Last Line: That's one less test I'll have to take Subject(s): Education; Schools STUDENTS, by TOM WAYMAN Poem Source First Line: The freshman class-list printouts Last Line: Than anything else wayman taught Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Schools STUDENTS [IN PARIS], by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS Poem Text First Line: John brown and jeanne at fountainbleau Last Line: Time waits for moments such as these. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence Subject(s): Paris, France; Schools; Students STUDY THE MASTERS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like my aunt timmie Last Line: "and discipline and order and Subject(s): Schools; Students STUDY THE MASTERS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like my aunt timmie Last Line: And discipline and order and america Subject(s): Schools SUCH FUNNY THINGS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They teach such funny things in school! Last Line: Or see the things I see! Subject(s): Children; Earth; Geography; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; World; Students SUMMER SCHOOL, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION Poem Source First Line: To whom should summer go to school? Last Line: Guess summer just stays dumb again Subject(s): Schools; Seasons; Summer SUMMER SCHOOL, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These tenants of the migratory season Last Line: To the major business of the autumn %with knitted brows, to read once more of love? Subject(s): Schools SUMMER SCHOOL, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER Poem Source First Line: I play on a stoop Last Line: Them - I'm a good girl Subject(s): Schools; Summer SUNDAY SCHOOL, by ARIELLE GREENBERG Poem Source First Line: No, hebrew school kids, after-school kids, sunday school kids, you don't Last Line: No ashes, no roses, just a pine box and stones, the worms to come and %eat through to your souls Subject(s): Books; Children; Jewish Families; Schools SUNDAY SCHOOL, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blue-haired ladies thought us refugees Last Line: A bicentennial flush with millennia Subject(s): Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools SUNDAY SCHOOL, CIRCA 1950 (8), by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who made you?' was always Subject(s): Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools SUNDAY SCHOOLS, by ANNA SAWYER Poem Text First Line: Bring little children unto me Last Line: To know their god, and hymn his praise. Subject(s): Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools SUNNY DAYS, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The children are singing a song about Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students SUNNY DAYS, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The children are singing a song about Last Line: Homes for themselves behind their screams and lies Subject(s): Education; Schools SUPREMES, by CORNELIUS ROBERT EADY Poem Source First Line: We were born to be gray. We went to school Last Line: To reach in self-defense for wigs, %lipstick, %sequins Subject(s): Education; Schools; Supremes, The (singing Group) SURPLUS VALUE: CHALK WHITE, by TOM WAYMAN Poem Source First Line: The students wander into class Last Line: This is not %what we earned Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Schools SYLLABUS, by GEORGE ELLISTON Poem Text First Line: It is not always words that bring Last Line: The silence, true. Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students TAKING MY SON TO SCHOOL, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His first day. Waiting, he plays Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students TAKING MY SON TO SCHOOL, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His first day. Waiting, he plays Last Line: Naked and shining, shining %in the empty garden Subject(s): Education; Schools TAKING THE WORLD LITERATURE CLASS OUTSIDE, by JANET MCCANN Poem Source First Line: You, propped on the liveoak %drifting toward sleep Last Line: Rings three chimes %& we are scattered by %two joyous labradors! Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TALES OF THE HALL: BOOK 3. THE BOYS AT SCHOOL, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We name the world a school, for dayby day Last Line: To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent!' Subject(s): Schools; Students TEACHER, by BRIGIT PEGEEN KELLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Still, still, still, the raven Last Line: And he will be halfway %to heaven and up Subject(s): Education; Schools TEACHER, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I make my children promises in wintry afternoons Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Education; Mothers & Daughters; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Women; Students; Educators; Professors TEACHER, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I make my children promises in wintry afternoons Last Line: Promise corrupts %what it does not invent Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Education; Mothers And Daughters; Schools; Teaching And Teachers; Women TEACHER, by MATT ROBINSON Poem Source First Line: Grade 7 whispertalk Last Line: Echoes %of an age. (mine, past) Subject(s): Children; Memory; Schools TEACHER, by TOM ROMANO Poem Source First Line: Why do I forget question marks Last Line: Before I take a long swig, %say, 'why not' Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHER SAID, by DARA WIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine someone you love is dead Last Line: Be tidy, be so careful, be very sweet Subject(s): Education; Schools TEACHER SHOT BY STUDENT, OR THE RISK OF OVERSTATEMENT, by KATHLEEN KIRK Poem Source First Line: I fail him for submitting %a paper written by his girlfriend Last Line: And down the halls of their lives Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHER'S LAMENT, by KALLI DAKOS Poem Source First Line: Don't tell me that cat ate your math sheet Last Line: At home in my study drawer Subject(s): Education; Schools TEACHER'S LOUNGE, by BILL RANSOM Poem Source First Line: At the bell you hobble to your corners Last Line: Or like a child spinning helpless in the ring Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHER'S NOTE #1, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: It starts slowly Last Line: I couldn't possibly let them go Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHER'S NOTE #2, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: You have been unruly Last Line: Just to find out Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHER'S NOTE #3, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Hey, man, history/homeroom teacher, whatever you are Last Line: So where is it Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHER'S NOTE #4, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Here's my next note Last Line: A byzantine maze Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHER'S NOTE #5, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Do not weep, colleague, for school is kind Last Line: Do not weep %school is kind Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHER'S NOTE #6, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Let me see Last Line: I don't need them for %survival Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHER'S NOTE #7, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I speak %who listens Last Line: There is little I have done to make a difference Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHER'S NOTE #8, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: An accident, repeat, an accident Last Line: Trust me, I'll pay for the damage Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHER'S NOTE #9, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Years ago Last Line: The knife-edge of despair Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHER'S PET, by COLIN MCNAUGHTON Poem Source First Line: Call a doctor Last Line: By teacher's pet! Subject(s): Education; Schools TEACHER'S SHOW, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: I have an important announcement Last Line: I can't wait to see you next year Subject(s): Education; Schools TEACHING, by ALBERT JAMES YOUNG Poem Source First Line: There's no such thing as a student Last Line: Loosely we call this learning Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Al Subject(s): Education; Schools TEACHING IN MY SLEEP, by KATHLEEN KIRK Poem Source First Line: Tonight again I am %teaching in my sleep Last Line: Stars and teach me %how to wake and fly Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHING POETRY: A WAY TO GRACE THE WORLD?, by KELLY CHERRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ever since someone suggested to me that teaching poetry may Last Line: Flush, as I am surprised by joy Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TEACHING READING, by JANE ELKINGTON WOHL Poem Source First Line: Ginger root gnarls in my hand Last Line: She climbs on finally %and the bus driver off Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TELL ME ABOUT COMPASSION, AMERICA, by BELINDA SUBRAMAN Poem Source First Line: This child %misses school Last Line: In an ordinary house %like she dreams of Subject(s): Compassion; Schools; United States TEN MINUTES TILL THE BUS, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Ten whole minutes %till the bus Last Line: What's the fuss? Subject(s): Schools TENURED GUY, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have smiled Last Line: My little tenured wave, not too exhuberant - %just so long, so high Subject(s): Schools TEST, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: It's not my fault if I flunked the test Last Line: Well, if I do say so, I did my best Subject(s): Schools TESTAMENT FOR MY STUDENTS, 1968 - 1969, by KAY BOYLE Poem Text First Line: Each year you came jogging or loping down that hall Last Line: Their young arms cradling your bones. Subject(s): Literature; Oppression; Revolutions; Schools; Social Problems; Students THE BEATING, by TERRY RANDOLPH HUMMER Poet's Biography First Line: Everybody knew clifton cockerell was not half bright Alternate Author Name(s): Hummer, T. R. Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students THE BLIND MAN, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: At nogent, on the river marne Last Line: "my little eleanor is dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Blindness; Death; Death - Children; Democracy; Fathers; Innocence; Schools; Social Protest; War; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Students THE BOOK, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life, I have made a book of my mistakes Last Line: In all the world, not one -- save only I. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Books; Schools; Reading; Students THE BOROUGH: LETTER 24. SCHOOLS, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To every class we have a school assign'd Last Line: And, sparing criminals, attack the crime. Subject(s): Schools; Students THE CLASS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We say things in this class. Like why it hurts Last Line: Though she would never say so in a class Subject(s): Classmates; Schools; Schoolmates; Students THE CLASSROOM REOPENS, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the fields the scent of autumn days Last Line: "and gladly would he learn, and gladly teach." Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Schools; Students THE COUNTRY SCHOOL, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the woodland path where flowers blow Last Line: "o happy hearted little girls and boys." Subject(s): Children; Schools; Childhood; Students THE CREATURE IN THE CLASSROOM, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It appeared inside our classroom Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students THE DESK, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the fire escape, crouched, one knee in cinders Last Line: To own my father's name. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Fathers & Sons; Schools; Students THE EXAMINATION, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look here, petah! What's dis here Last Line: "case she mispernounced dat word." Subject(s): Schools; Students THE FAIRY SCHOOL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: I think I know where the flowers go Last Line: And school is out at last! Subject(s): April; Children; Flowers; Schools; Spring; Childhood; Students THE FATHER IN SCHOOL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unfamiliar work and rule Last Line: Stays till school is at an end. Subject(s): Fathers; Schools; Students THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: The first bee that hummeth Last Line: O'er which wound his way. Subject(s): Schools; Winter; Students THE FIVE STUDENTS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sparrow dips in his wheel-rut bath Last Line: The rest - anon. Subject(s): Schools; Students THE FUTURE OF TERROR / 1, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of a schoolbag could send us scrambling Subject(s): Schools; Students THE GOSSIPS, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The vulturine necks stretch out; the mean eyes bunch Subject(s): Schools; Summer; Students THE GREAT BEYOND, by OLIVE SCOTT STAINSBY Poem Text First Line: Seductive and mysterious it seems Last Line: Yet I believe there is life after death. Subject(s): Bible; Catholics; Future Life; Religious Education; Sermons; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools THE HAND, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The teacher asks a question. Subject(s): Hands; Schools; Students THE HATCHERY, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in havana as school children we took a field trip Variant Title(s): At The Hatchery Subject(s): Children; Memory; Schools; Childhood; Students THE HISTORY TEACHER, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trying to protect his students' innocence Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL MARCHING BAND, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When our semi-conductor Subject(s): High Schools; Bands; Music & Musicians; Orchestras THE LAND OF SCHOOL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The land of school has desks and books Last Line: Is the king or president Subject(s): Schools THE LENT JEWELS; A JEWISH APOLOGUE, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In schools of wisdom all the day was spent Last Line: Which god had lent him, and resumed anew. Subject(s): Clergy; Jews; Religious Education; Wisdom; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools THE LITTLE NEW PUPIL, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: A brand new pupil came to school Last Line: He's but a kitten gray. Subject(s): Children; January; Schools; Childhood; Students THE LOAN, by SABINE BARING-GOULD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rabbi meir, / a black cap on his white hair Last Line: "should be restored." Subject(s): Clergy; Jews; Religious Education; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Judaism; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools THE LONELY STREET, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: School is over. It is too hot Last Line: They mount the lonely street. Subject(s): Schools; Students THE MYSTERIES OF CAESAR, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Known to the boys in his latin class as 'sir,' Last Line: Which is the pitiless bliss of solitude Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Schools; Translating & Interpreting; Students THE NEW CLOAK, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After school I went to walk Last Line: Teachers make a girl so shy! Subject(s): Children; Girls; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students THE OLD HIGH SCHOOL AND THE NEW, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We've all been off some little while - some one place, some another Last Line: That every year she'll turn them out as good and bright as we were. Subject(s): Schools; Students THE OLD SCHOOL-CHUM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He puts the poem by, to say Last Line: His eyes are not themselves to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Schools; Tears; Students THE OLD SCHOOL-HOUSE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Set on a rounding hill-top Last Line: Till the grand hills fall asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students THE OLD SCHOOLHOUSE (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I sat an hour today, john" Last Line: The faces that were gone Subject(s): Classmates;schools;time; Schoolmates;students THE ORDEAL, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Acknowledged on our side town, Subject(s): Schools; Friendship; Relationships; Coming Of Age; Conduct Of Life; Students THE PENALTY OF GENIUS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When little 'pollus morton he's Last Line: Us morton, teacher, speech, an' all! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Genius; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students THE POOR STUDENT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With song elate we celebrate Last Line: O'er his immortal soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Poverty; Schools; Soul; Students THE PRAIRIE SCHOOL, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet west wind, the prairie school Last Line: A legacy to those who come from those who come no more. Subject(s): Books; Prairies; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Reading; Plains; Students THE PRELUDE: BOOK 1. CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL-TIME, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze Last Line: This labour will be welcome, honoured friend! Subject(s): Children; Play; Schools; Childhood; Students THE PROFESSOR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "seven pupils, in the class" Last Line: "three are benches, four are walls." Subject(s): Boredom;greece;schools; Ennui;greeks;students THE RIVAL ARTISTS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the way elizabeth draws Last Line: When she is older! Subject(s): Children; Drawing; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students THE RUSSIAN STUDENT'S TALE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The midnight sun with phantom glare Last Line: The last sob of a nightingale. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Russia; Schools; Soviet Union; Russians; Students THE SCHOOL, by CARRIE I. SEGERSTROM Poem Text First Line: The school to me a dovecot is Last Line: And know them safe while there. Subject(s): Schools; Students THE SCHOOL BOY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My cheek was bare of adolescent down Last Line: Seen through the vista of our bygone years. Subject(s): Andover, Massachusetts; Schools; Students THE SCHOOL BOY READS HIS ILIAD, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sounding battles leave him nodding still Last Line: He dreams of marbles and of tops, and nods. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Schools; Iliad; Odyssey; Students THE SCHOOL BOY, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love to rise in a summer morn Last Line: When the blasts of winter appear? Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Schools; Students THE SCHOOL CHILDREN, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The children go forward with their little satchels Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students THE SCHOOL WHERE I STUDIED, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I passed by the school where I studied as a boy Subject(s): Jerusalem; Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools THE SCHOOL-BOY'S DREAM ON THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the half-year's last day, a festal one Last Line: I told him plainly 'twas our holidays. Subject(s): Chisholm Trail; Schools; Students THE SCHOOLMISTRESS; IN IMITATION OF SPENSER, by WILLIAM SHENSTONE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah me! Full sorely is my heart forlorn Last Line: Till reason's morn arise, and light them on their way. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Poetry & Poets; Schools; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Students THE SENIOR AND THE ROSE, by EVA LINNETTE SOULE Poem Text First Line: A few faded rose-leaves Last Line: And what was that college man's name? Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Schools; Students THE SINGING SCHOOL, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First they asked you to step through the many rooms Last Line: Your own story Subject(s): Family Life; Schools; Singing & Singers; Relatives; Students THE SMACK IN SCHOOL, by WILLIAM PITT PALMER Poem Text First Line: A district school, not far away Last Line: "I thought she kind o' wished me to!" Variant Title(s): The Kiss In School;a Rousing Smack Subject(s): Children; Kisses; Schools; Women; Childhood; Students THE SPELLIN' BEE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never shall furgit the night Last Line: We'd jine our lots an' settle down to own that book together. Subject(s): Schools; Students THE STUDENT, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In america everybody must have a degree,' the french man Subject(s): Schools; Education; France; United States; Students; America THE STUDENT, by MICHAEL O'DONOVAN Poem Text First Line: The student's life is pleasant Last Line: Some golden-haired light lady. Alternate Author Name(s): O'connor, Frank Subject(s): Schools; Students THE STUDENT, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As by salamanca's city Last Line: Travelled with me, ever near. Subject(s): Echo (mythology); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Schools; Iliad; Odyssey; Students THE STUDENT'S WIFE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She said, 'it is true, love; how foolish my sighs! Last Line: "you look at me sometimes yourself for a while!" Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Love; Schools; Work; Workers; Students THE SUNDAY SCHOOL, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Group after group are gathering, such as prest Last Line: A sabbath without end, 'nid yon celestial plain Subject(s): Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools THE SUNDAY SCHOOL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A school it is, where glorious things are taught Last Line: You cannot fail, your master toils with you. Subject(s): Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools THE TEACHER, by LESLIE PINCKNEY HILL Poem Text First Line: Lord, who am I to teach the way Last Line: The teacher leaning hard on thee. Subject(s): Prayer; Schools; Students THE TEACHER LOVES TO KEEP THE RULE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: How different are we Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Students; School THE TEACHER SAID, by DARA WIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine someone you love is dead Last Line: Be tidy, be so careful, be very sweet Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students THE THING YOU MUST REMEMBER, by MAGGIE ANDERSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The thing you must remember is how, as a child Subject(s): Education; Healing; Schools; Cures; Students THE TRUANT BOYS, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The month was august and the morning cool Last Line: Of this poor truant lad. Subject(s): Boys; Schools; Truancy; Students THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT SERVICE FLAG - 1517 STARS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It surely does you good Last Line: Will guard your honor still. Subject(s): Education; Flags - United States; Schools; Universities & Colleges; Vermont; American Flag; Students THE VILLAGE SCHOOL, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: With the golden moonlight streaming Last Line: In that dear old village school. Subject(s): Children; Classmates; Memory; Schools; Childhood; Schoolmates; Students THE VIVISECTOR, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would I the vivisector's hand enclasp? Last Line: The baseness is our own, to us the brutal crimes belong. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Crime & Criminals; Murder; Physicians; Schools; Science; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Doctors; Students; Scientists THE WAY OF IT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a little learning, scattered o'er" Last Line: The sober college graduate Subject(s): Alcohol & Alcoholics;drinks & Drinking;schools;universities & Colleges; Students THEME FOR ENGLISH B, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The instructor said / go home and write Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Children; Schools; Negroes; American Blacks; Students THEME FOR ENGLISH B, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The instructor said %go home and write Last Line: Although you're older and white %and somewhat more free %this is my page for english b Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Children; Schools THEOLOGICAL EXPERTS, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the gay monkey reigns Last Line: To their sweet serenade. Subject(s): Moses; Religious Education; Teaching & Teachers; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools THERE ARE MIRACLES EXTANT IN THIS WORLD, by WILLIAM SNYDER Poem Source First Line: At the premier of haydn's 96th, a chandelier Last Line: Now, I bubble in my grades-mostly a's and b's Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers THERE'S A NEW COOK IN THE CAFETERIA, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: Good morning, staff and students Last Line: Our old cook back again Subject(s): Education; Schools THERE'S A ZOO IN ROOM 22, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: We asked miss darling, 'may we get Last Line: Let's choose a whole pet alphabet.' Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools THING YOU MUST REMEMBER, by MAGGIE ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The thing you must remember is how, as a child Last Line: Hands: large, rough and grainy %over yours, holding on Subject(s): Education; Healing; Schools THIRD DAY OF SPRING, by SUSAN MURRAY Poem Source First Line: The window is open Last Line: Expanding off %and out Subject(s): Education; Schools THIRD PERIOD, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Joann got me a paying Last Line: Surprised them but %did them no damage Subject(s): Friendship; Schools THOMAS FINDLAY, SPECTATOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Oh, those poor kids Last Line: Died while everyone just sat around %talking Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TIMOTHY WINTERS, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Timothy winters comes to school Last Line: Timothy winters, lord. %amen Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Schools TO A PUPIL, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is reform needed? Is it through you? Last Line: Rest not till you rivet and publish yourself of your own personality. Subject(s): Schools; Students TO A SCHOOLMASTER, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Good schoolmaster, pray give your classes a rest Last Line: They learn quite enough and can rest for a spell Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Schools; Teaching And Teachers TO AN EX-STUDENT, ON LEARNING SHE IS A WORLD-CLASS GYMNAST, by STEPHEN DALE COREY Poem Source First Line: What routines you must have mounted Last Line: Your silent sprung flights and twistings show %what the body of his song can be Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TO F. S. WHO ACCUSED THE AUTHOR OF PARTIALITY ..., by MARY AUSTEN Poem Source First Line: Ah! Why frank frank Last Line: Where no affront's intended Subject(s): Schools TO FANNY (1), by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never mind how the pedagogue proses Last Line: My divine little mistress of arts! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Schools; Students TO KO UNG, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little fellow, putting forth alone Last Line: Himself at last, a bigger and a better boy. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Children; Schools; Childhood; Students TO MY STUDENTS; LAST CLASS, LAST WORDS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are dancing the rain dance in bali Last Line: Go out and make a dollar, and god will love you Subject(s): Schools; Advice; Students TO MY STUDENTS; LAST CLASS, LAST WORDS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are dancing the rain dance in bali Last Line: Go out and make a dollar, and god will love you Subject(s): Schools TO PROFESSOR AIREY, by SYDNEY SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Airey alone has gained that double prize Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Sidney Subject(s): Schools TO THE PRINCIPAL AND PROFESSORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS ....., by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St andrews town may look right gawsy Last Line: Will mend your prose and heal my rhyme. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Universities & Colleges; Students; Educators; Professors TO THE RIGHT PERSON, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the one state of ours that is a shire, Last Line: To make up for a lack of meditation Subject(s): Schools; Students TODAY IS NOT A GOOD DAY, by REBECCA KAI DOTLICH Poem Source Last Line: My book report was due Subject(s): Education; Schools TOKYO IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, by NAKANO SHIGEHARU Poem Source First Line: Sallow faces Last Line: Some just kick a football Subject(s): Schools TOO BUSY, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: I've folded all my laundry Last Line: When homework must be done Subject(s): Education; Schools TRACI FINCH, SPECTATOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Oh, those poor kids Last Line: Died while everyone just ran around %shooting Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TROUBLE WITH MATH IN A ONE-ROOM COUNTRY SCHOOL, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The others bent their heads and started in Last Line: And changed, back to the class Subject(s): Education; Schools; Shame; Students TROUBLE WITH MATH IN A ONE-ROOM COUNTRY SCHOOL, by JANE KENYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The others bent their heads and started in Last Line: And changed, back to the class Subject(s): Education; Schools; Shame TROUBLE WITH WRITING, by SARAH SLOANE Poem Source First Line: A goat ate my pen. Frost grew %all over my computer Last Line: Under the sound %of each sound Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TRUANT OFFICER'S HELPER, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My only day in the black Last Line: And smart and made it up %out of my own head %on that stolenpaper, %my stolen pencil trembling Subject(s): Education; Schools TUESDAY 8:45, by JOSEPH H. BALL Poem Source First Line: Kirsten, %I had forgotten Last Line: My imagination %can we re-schedule for friday? Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers TURKEY TOM, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Tom tumbled off the turkey truck Last Line: He's our assistant principal Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools TV ONE, by RICHARD RED HAWK Poem Source First Line: In every classroom it clicks on Last Line: As they are being consumed Subject(s): Schools; Television TWO HEADMISTRESSES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Miss buss and miss beale / cupid's darts do not feel Last Line: How different from us / are miss beale and miss buss Subject(s): Schools;spinsters; Students;old Maids TWO-ROOM SCHOOLHOUSE, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL Poem Source First Line: When I'm bad I'm given ten white pages Last Line: Having sat here quietly all morning Subject(s): Education; Schools UMBRELLA BIRD, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Don't say a word Last Line: He might fly off and pull her hair Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools UNIT 4, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Yeah, we got it, on our way Last Line: It's a miracle how kids get outta there Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers VAGRANT SIRENS, by SHARON RUBENSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Love's thin galt Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Neighbors; Schools; Youth VINCENT VULTURE, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: On our field trip in december Last Line: With a three-week-old school lunch Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools VINNIE DELVECCHIO, PARENT, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: He's still in there Last Line: Who wants to teach these kids all day? %they're animals Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 2, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old driueling lolio drudges all he can Last Line: Brasse gentlemen, and caesars laureate. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Prisons & Prisoners; Schools; Soul; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Convicts; Students VISION OR DREAM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: On a bed of soft mosses, I lay 'neath the trees Last Line: He went as he came—in vision or dream. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Dreams; Knowledge; Modern Man; Religious Education; Teaching & Teachers; Reading; Nightmares; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Educators; Professors VISIONS FROM MY OFFICE WINDOW, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the students between the buildings Last Line: Her eyes deep-set and dark as olives. Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Schools; Students VISIT, by DANIEL TOBIN Poem Source First Line: This is how the monsignor entered Last Line: Into the cracked, effaced mortar of the sill Subject(s): Religion; Schools VISITING A SCHOOL SUPERVISOR, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: You've become unspeakably thin Last Line: There could be pain Subject(s): Children; Schools; Teaching And Teachers VISITING CABBAGE EARS, A LETTER FROM THE INDIAN SCHOOL 3, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Mae jean showed me how to fake being sick. After the buses leave, you tell Last Line: Rest and an envelope full of little white pills which we threw away as soon as %we got back Subject(s): Adolescence; Native Americans - Women; Schools; Sickness WAITING, by PEG MCNALLY Poem Source First Line: I am the lowest paid substitute teacher in the district Last Line: The big lake, to the northeast corner of hough and 79th, and you know the rest Subject(s): Education; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WALL, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The wall splitting the boys' and girls' schools Last Line: The wall, still standing, was a cause of laughter Subject(s): Boys; Girls; Schools WARNING TO UNDERGRADUATES, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friends who have not yet gone down Last Line: And stick to what you learned at school, my friends Subject(s): Schools WASHING THE DARLINGS, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Mornings he wasn't crocked on ripple Last Line: And rinse %till the water came sparkling Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Home; Schools WATCHING MY STUDENTS WRITE, by ROBERT PARHAM Poem Source First Line: This is why I am here: to watch them work Last Line: Makes it an appetite, the kindest of all Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WAYMAN AMONG THE ADMINISTRATORS, by TOM WAYMAN Poem Source First Line: After some years of teaching Last Line: I,' wayman wrote, %'quit' Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Schools WE WRITE NASTY NOTES AT THE ACADEMIC CONFERENCE, by PAUL RUFFIN Poem Source First Line: In this place of high seriousness Last Line: The doors close and we ascend Subject(s): Relationships; Schools WHAT FIFTY SAID, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young my teachers were the old Last Line: I got to school to youth to learn the future Subject(s): Aging; Schools; Students WHAT FIFTY SAID, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young my teachers were the old Last Line: I go to school to youth to learn the future Subject(s): Aging; Schools WHAT I FOUND IN MY DESK, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: A ripe peach with an ugly bruise Last Line: A note from teacher: clean this mess!!!! Subject(s): Education; Schools WHAT SAVES US, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are wrapped around each other Subject(s): Education; Schools; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Students WHAT SAVES US, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We are wrapped around each other Last Line: The deep untangling, of one body from another Subject(s): Education; Schools; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WHAT SHE WAS DOING AT HOME, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby was there -- unfair Last Line: Wearing a cool rag pressed between her eyes. Subject(s): Children; Home; Mothers; Schools; Childhood; Students WHAT'S SO FUNNY?, by BRUCE LANSKY Poem Source First Line: There's something no one's telling me Last Line: Sticking to your shoe!' Subject(s): Education; Schools WHAT'S THIS?, by HELEN KSYPKA Poem Source First Line: It's gunky goo, a slimy stew Last Line: At school and call it 'lunch.' Subject(s): Education; Schools WHATEVER, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: I ruined my pants Last Line: When I slid in the mid Subject(s): Schools WHEN JOE DREW RUSSIA AS A CLASS ASSIGNMENT, by DAVID HEDGES Poem Source First Line: The rules were simple enough: draw the name Last Line: Away that day, and all the contraband Subject(s): Russia; Schools WHEN YOUR FATHER IS ALSO YOUR WRESTLING COACH, by ANDREW L. WILSON Poem Source Last Line: Vie, clash in the light of his straight stare %know that it's you he sees there Subject(s): Education; Schools WHICH KING?, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: We have no king but caesar,' answered they Last Line: That christ is king, that he alone shall reign? Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Courts & Courtiers; Jesus Christ - Life And Ministry; Religious Education; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools WHO TOLD?, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our teacher says there aren't fairies now Last Line: "a little fairy whispered it,"" she said." Subject(s): Boys; Children; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Childhood; Students WHY DISTRICT SCHOOL USED TO KEEP IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When district school was almost done Last Line: From which she bought her watch and chain. Subject(s): Children; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Vermont; Childhood; Students; Educators; Professors WHY FOOL AROUND?, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How smart is smart? Thinks heart. Is smart Last Line: Smart or stupid they circle the hook: their education Subject(s): Reason; Schools; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Students WHY FOOL AROUND?, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How smart is smart? Thinks heart. Is smart Last Line: Smart or stupid they circle the hook: their education Subject(s): Reason; Schools WHY MY HOMEWORK IS LATE, by REBECCA KAI DOTLICH Poem Source First Line: Broke my nose Last Line: And that is why my homework's late! Subject(s): Education; Schools WHY THE PRESIDENT IS THE PRESIDENT, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Tim chewed gum, poor guy Last Line: The president,' he said, %'said please' Subject(s): Schools WILDFLOWER COMPOSITION, by MELISSA A. GOLDTHWAITE Poem Source First Line: Spring: I make a chart, tape every weed Last Line: Or walking barefoot, testing your own ground Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WILL WARTHOG, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Will warthog is not handsome Last Line: This less-than-perfect pig! Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools WINDSHIELD VIPERS (KEEPING TIME), by KATHERINE M. FISCHER Poem Source First Line: Careening through snowy %hillsides, the evergreens Last Line: Small sweetness %of pooling %sap Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WING LI WU (1), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: Even if I knew english better Last Line: He was such a nice man Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WING LI WU (2), by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I do not have time to get my yearbook now Last Line: I must find my friend Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WING LI WU, FRESHMAN, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: When I was twelve Last Line: I will think about it all my life Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WING LI WU, JUNE 16TH, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I have american friends Last Line: Why is he acting so strangely Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WING LI WU, JUNIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: In america Last Line: I do not wish to play solo any longer Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WING LI WU, SENIOR, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: There is a tinkle of small chimes Last Line: Her eyes filled with tears of pride at my success Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WING LI WU, SOPHOMORE, by MEL GLENN Poem Source First Line: I can hear the rain Last Line: And play an american tune without mistake Subject(s): High School Students; Hostages; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WOMAN WRITING IN AMERICA, by MICHELLE M. TOKARCZYK Poem Source First Line: People tell me I'm lucky Last Line: You teach english .. %I barely speak that Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Schools WORKSHOP PANTOUM, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Does anybody want to start this off? Last Line: Ok, next. Anybody want to start this off? Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WORLD ENOUGH, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Because there is time Last Line: Where there is time, there is always time Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Schools; Writing And Writers WRESTLE THEORY, by ALICE GEORGE Poem Source First Line: If a) either there are no truly interesting 'ideas' or b) language Last Line: Move and imagine ourselves moving, or (sharks) we shall %languish in a horrid wet Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers WRITTEN FOR MY SON, AND SPOKEN BY HIM IN SCHOOL, UPON HIS MASTER'S FIRST BRINGING IN A ROD, by MARY BARBER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our master, in a fatal hour Subject(s): Schools; Punishment; Students X, by DOYLE WESLEY WALLS Poem Source First Line: My son only wants to type the 'x' on the screen Last Line: The stars. The way they shine Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers XENIA THE X-RAY FISH, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source Last Line: When it is already in her Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools YEAST, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each morning from the dim secrecy Last Line: To the oven. Subject(s): Accidents; Bakeries & Bakers; Bread; Schools; Students YESTERDAY THE SCHOOL WAS RED, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: We'll make a snow king in the yard and have the greatest fun Subject(s): Schools; Snow YORICK THE YAK, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: Yikes! %yorick the yak is on the attack Last Line: So we're very relieved when he misses Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools YOU GO TO SCHOOL TO LEARN, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Schools; Students Z???, by JUDY SIERRA Poem Source First Line: We entered a contest to win a zorilla Last Line: A better pet that starts with z Subject(s): Alphabet Verse; Animals; Schools ZIMMER IN GRADE SCHOOL, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In grade school I wondered %why I had been born Last Line: Who spits upon the radiatiors %and sits all day in shame %outside the office of the principal Subject(s): Education; Schools ZIMMER'S HEAD THUDDING AGAINST THE BLACKBOARD, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the blackboard I had missed / five number problems in a row Subject(s): Education; Schools; Students ZIMMER'S HEAD THUDDING AGAINST THE BLACKBOARD, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the blackboard I had missed %five number problems in a row Last Line: That very day I'd be a poet, %and curse her yellow teeth with this Subject(s): Education; Schools |
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