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| Searching... Subject: STUPDITY Matches Found: 81 A BIT OF HUMAN NATURE, by CHARLES WASHINGTON COLEMAN Poem Text First Line: Tis only a pair of woman's eyes Last Line: But I am only a man. Subject(s): Eyes; Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity A BIT OF MULL, by FREDERICK HENRY HERBERT ADLER Poem Text First Line: Today my little girl, behind a door Last Line: "that mull? Your mother wore it yesterday!" Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity AN AMERICAN IN BANGKOK, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps the polluted air Last Line: Still he's optimistic. Subject(s): Americans; Culture Conflict; Ignorance; Thailand; Dullness; Stupdity AN IDIOT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm on'y thist a' idiot Last Line: Ain't thumbs and fingers funny things? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Ignorance; Dead, The; Dullness; Stupdity AN OLD SAW, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: The man who knows and knows he knows Last Line: To live and die a fool. Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity APPLIED MATHEMATICS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'my daughter,' and his voice was stern" Last Line: For a quarter of eight is two Subject(s): Ignorance;mathematics; Dullness;stupdity BARBARIANS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I pause beside the stream, and hear Last Line: Asks am I intelligent! Subject(s): Ignorance; Men; Dullness; Stupdity BUFFALO CLOUDS OVER THE MAESTRO HOON, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a useless thing to do with the morning Last Line: Still strange to one another while on their honeymoons. Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Courage; Ignorance; Lions; Niagara Falls; Waterfalls; Valor; Bravery; Dullness; Stupdity COME HOME, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text First Line: The crystal bed of agony Last Line: That he need never leave them any more. Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity CONSECRATED GROUND, by KATE L. DICKINSON Poem Text First Line: She does not sleep in consecrated ground Last Line: To sleep alone. Subject(s): Boredom; Death; Ignorance; Ennui; Dead, The; Dullness; Stupdity CONTINUITY AND DIFFERENTIATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Whenever in america Last Line: Bhjushkst zwmstk rstk pbjunsk pjbrs Subject(s): Ignorance;racism; Dullness;stupdity;racial Prejudice;bigotry CORPUS CHRISTI: HIBERNAL, by MARGERY SWETT MANSFIELD Poem Text First Line: Legend in a country-side Last Line: To see the world a flowering heart. Subject(s): Ignorance; Jesus Christ; Dullness; Stupdity DECEMBER: A SONNET SEQUENCE, by FLORENCE KIPER FRANK Poem Text First Line: She thought, 'now I am vulnerable to two!' . . . Last Line: As she stood furred within the month december. Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity DERELICT, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cloudy peril of the seas Last Line: Shall time entomb. Subject(s): Graves; Ignorance; Sex; Time; Tombs; Tombstones; Dullness; Stupdity ELECTION DAY, 1984, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did you ever see someone coldcock a blind nun? Last Line: If evil could be safer, on the whole. Subject(s): Elections; Evil; Ignorance; Politics & Government; Reagan, Ronald Wilson (1911-2004)); Women; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Dullness; Stupdity; Feminism EPITAPH ON AN OBSCURE PERSON, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger, these ashes were a man Last Line: He could assimilate. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity EXMOOR VERSES: 1. VASHTI'S SONG, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the rim of the moor Last Line: O my heart, where lies that land? Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Ignorance; Longing; Dullness; Stupdity FESTOONS OF FISHES, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Incognitos of masquerading moons Last Line: Festoons of fishes weave insanity. Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Ignorance; Sea; Anglers; Dullness; Stupdity; Ocean GEORGE WASHINGTON'S WASHDAY, by FLORENCE E. HOMER Poem Text First Line: There was a famous washing day, its action near the hub Last Line: The grateful country still recalls how well he washed her clothes. Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity GIVE ME A GIRL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Give me a girl who understands the game Last Line: "give me a girl—who understands the game!" Subject(s): Baseball; Ignorance; Sports; Women; Dullness; Stupdity HIS FATHER TOOK HIM HOME, by S. J. R. Poem Text First Line: I was always so poor in greek Last Line: He played second base. Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity HYMN TO IGNORANCE; A FRAGMENT, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, horrors, hail! Ye ever gloomy bowers Last Line: ... A team of harness'd monarchs bend Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity I WALK DARKLY, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walk darkly down the day Last Line: Who walk darkly? Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity I'M WITH STUPID, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a thumbprint of lamb's blood Subject(s): Ignorance; Social Protest; Dullness; Stupdity IGNORANCE, by ANNIE DEE DAVIS Poem Text First Line: It's fun being stupid Last Line: The world's loveliness. Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity IN ANSON'S TIME, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: They may have been crude men, and sadly dense, Last Line: In anson's time. Subject(s): Anson, Adrian (cap) (1852-1922); Baseball; Honesty; Ignorance; Sports; Dullness; Stupdity INTERVIEW, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do you believe that actors are dumb? Writers? Last Line: Are there things you would say to one sex but not to the other? Subject(s): Death; Ignorance; Privacy; Torture; Dead, The; Dullness; Stupdity LINES ADDED TO WYCHERLEY'S POEMS: 1. ON DULLNESS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus dullness, the safe opiate of the mind Last Line: With dulness first began, in dulness last must end. Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity LOVERS TO LOVERS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our love forsworn Last Line: The sum, yet was it signed as yours, and signed indelibly. Subject(s): Boredom; Ignorance; Love; Ennui; Dullness; Stupdity LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 16, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world's an ass, the world can't see Last Line: How rapturously glowing. Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Ignorance; Kisses; Mules; Dullness; Stupdity MEDLEY, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ignorance came in stones of gold Subject(s): Ignorance; Books; Crimes & Criminals; Dullness; Stupdity; Reading NO IMAGES, by WARING CURNEY Poem Text First Line: She does not know / her own beauty, Last Line: And dish water gives back no images. Subject(s): Beauty; Bodies; Dancing & Dancers; Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity PLAIN TALK, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Truth; Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity POEMS AGAINST DOCTORS: 3. THEIR IGNORANCE, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And then besides. It makes me boil Last Line: With thwarted spite send him your bill. Subject(s): Ignorance; Physicians; Dullness; Stupdity; Doctors PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A GHOST, by ALTER BRODY Poem Text First Line: When I am delivered from this inextricable thorny flesh Last Line: As near to ghostship as one can on earth. Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity PROLOGUE, by EDITH CAROLYN NEWLIN Poem Text First Line: Midnight, december thirty-first Last Line: The curtain rises! The play is on! Subject(s): Boredom; Ignorance; Ennui; Dullness; Stupdity PROOF OF IMMORTALITY, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For there is one thing braver than all flowers Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity SCIENCE AND NESCIENCE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think that notwithstanding all he knows Last Line: Whose meaning the gods only can unfold. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Ignorance; Science; Dullness; Stupdity; Scientists SIMPLE PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For what are we to think? But that philo Last Line: From simple philo as from the whole. Subject(s): Ignorance; Moon; Nero, Roman Emperor (37-68 A.d.); Rockets; Dullness; Stupdity THE AMATEUR, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He doesn't play the game for glory Last Line: Won't even know what it is all about! Subject(s): Baseball; Games; Ignorance; Man-woman Relationships; Sports; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements; Dullness; Stupdity; Male-female Relations THE CASE OF SABRINA SIMPSON USCH, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm about to tell the story of sabrina simpson Last Line: Poor sabrina, who they said had not a bit of business sense! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity THE DUMB BELLE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: What cares the dumb belle for the baseball game? Last Line: And yet, you simp, you'll take her there again! Subject(s): Baseball; Ignorance; Sports; Women; Dullness; Stupdity THE INNOCENT MISTRESS: A SONG BY MRS. P., by MARY PIX Poem Text First Line: When I languish'd, and wish'd you wou'd something bestow Last Line: I shall still have enough for the next. Subject(s): Ignorance; Shame; Singing & Singers; Dullness; Stupdity THE LOUT, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For sunday's play he never makes excuses Last Line: And where hens lay, and when the duck will hatch. Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity THE MONKEY-SHOWMAN; FROM YRIARTE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A monkey who, by many a prank Last Line: Who lacks illuminating brains! Subject(s): Ignorance; Monkeys; Dullness; Stupdity THE OAK AND THE MAN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The oak said to the forest trees Last Line: Said: in my woods the wind stirreth. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Ignorance; Life; Mankind; Oak Trees; Pride; Dullness; Stupdity; Human Race; Self-esteem; Self-respect THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 105, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a brilliant man somewhere Last Line: He chases all sorts of distinctions Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Scholarship & Scholars; Dullness; Stupdity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 110, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some people flaunt their practice Last Line: A pity to be so dumb Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Confucius & Confucianism; Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 124, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I once knew a foolish man Last Line: A donkey knows pain is close behind Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Wealth; Dullness; Stupdity; Riches; Fortunes THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 125, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This year's grain being still unripe Last Line: And wealth just makes them dumber Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Marriage; Dullness; Stupdity; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 132, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is full of busy people Last Line: Revealing a buddha's view Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 139, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There exists one kind of person Last Line: A vast expanse of woe Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Taoism; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 141, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who on earth is that Last Line: Otherwise he's helpless Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 179, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many tientai people Last Line: They call it useless advice Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Wisdom; Dullness; Stupdity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 188, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Someone sighed cold mountain air Last Line: With money your concern Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Poetry & Poets; Poverty; Wealth; Dullness; Stupdity; Riches; Fortunes THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 196, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fire and smoke raged within Last Line: They were fools indeed Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fire; Ignorance; Wealth; Dullness; Stupdity; Riches; Fortunes THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 200, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The unfortunate human disorder Last Line: As long as their own are sweet Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Food & Eating; Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 227, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four or five dumb upstarts Last Line: And eat through others' bindings Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 230, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All I see are fools Last Line: Read this over once or twice Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Fools; Ignorance; Buddha; Buddhists; Idiots; Dullness; Stupdity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 232, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The three worlds swarm with people Last Line: They mock the ox that works the mill Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 235, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a message for the faithful Last Line: All you get is stupid Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 236, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There exists one type of person Last Line: He acts like a hired man Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Guests; Ignorance; Visiting; Dullness; Stupdity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 238, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We hear about the ministers of state Last Line: And all because of ignorance Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Government; Ignorance; Punishment; Wealth; Dullness; Stupdity; Riches; Fortunes THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 246, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I recently hiked to a temple in the clouds Last Line: Persisting in idiocy holding onto doubts Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fools; Ignorance; Taoism; Idiots; Dullness; Stupdity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 273, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again I see those who leave home Last Line: They seek maitreya somewhere else Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Monks; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 286, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see people chanting sutras Last Line: Knows there's no inside or out Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 293, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dressed in sky-flower clothes Last Line: They hunt the ghosts of delusion Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 30, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wise ones you ignore me Last Line: And sit up straight with all this hair Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Solitude; Dullness; Stupdity; Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 90, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All you senseless buried heads Last Line: You discover a body's curse Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Wisdom; Dullness; Stupdity THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 15, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sigh when I see worldly people Last Line: Their trials are in vain Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 34, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old buddha road is deserted Last Line: Need to see my teacher Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Ignorance; Roads; Teaching & Teachers; Buddha; Buddhists; Dullness; Stupdity; Paths; Trails; Educators; Professors THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 43, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By and large the monks I meet Last Line: Are more perceptive than them Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fools; Ignorance; Monks; Idiots; Dullness; Stupdity THE WISE MEN HAVE NOT TOLD ME, by CULLY DRAKE KIRKHAM Poem Text First Line: The winter long I have fumbled in the dark Last Line: The why that winters come, and aprils go. Subject(s): Ignorance; Winter; Dullness; Stupdity THE WRECK ON LOCH MCGARRY, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you should search all scotland round Last Line: May just help you to begin it. Subject(s): Accidents; Disasters; Epiphany; Ignorance; Lakes; Scotland; Shipwrecks; Soul; Virtue; Twelfth Night; Dullness; Stupdity; Pools; Ponds TO A BLOCKHEAD, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come Last Line: Knock as you please, there's no body at home. Variant Title(s): Epigram Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity TO A RELATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by HENRY HARRISON Poem Text First Line: You snicker that you do not care for him Last Line: It's you who live, but never can survive! Subject(s): Ignorance; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Racism; Shame; Dullness; Stupdity; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry TO A YOUNG GIRL SINGING, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, what do you know of the song, my dear Last Line: For then you will know it by heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Ignorance; Muslims; Dullness; Stupdity; Moslems TO MRS. K.T (WHO ASKED HIM WHY HE WAS DUMB), by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, should I answer, lady, then Last Line: But means to speak the rest by signs. Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity TRIOLET: 2. WHAT SHE THOUGHT, by HARRISON ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: To kiss a fan! Last Line: What a poky poet! Alternate Author Name(s): Robertson, T. H. Subject(s): Ignorance; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Dullness; Stupdity; Male-female Relations WED, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I married him on christmas morn Last Line: Would I were dead. Subject(s): Ignorance; Love; Marriage; Sex; Unfaithfulness; Dullness; Stupdity; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy WHAT THE WILD WAVES SAID, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Do you hear the ocean moaning Last Line: Stepped upon its undertow Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness;stupdity |
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