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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: TOLSTOY, LEO (1828-1910) Matches Found: 8 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ABOVE THE BATTLE'S FRONT, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh foolish people, and without understanding Last Line: Thorn-crowned above the water and the land. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Buddhism; Evil; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Hate; Jesus Christ; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Saints; Social Protest; Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910); War; Buddha; Buddhists NOW IT'S HAPPENED, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One cannot now help thinking Last Line: Like machines -- and you can't wonder much Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910) STANZAS TO TOLSTOY IN HIS OLD AGE, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is this some glowering titan, inly bright Last Line: And the love, in them that perish, waxes more. Subject(s): Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910) THE DIAMOND PERSONA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt tolstoi was mad and running away Last Line: Above some fanciful future spring planting. Subject(s): Dreams; Mysticism; Russia; Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910); Nightmares; Soviet Union; Russians TO JANE ADDAMS AT THE HAGUE: 1. TOLSTOI IS PLOWING YET, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tolstoi is plowing yet. When the smoke clouds break Last Line: Forward, across the field, his horses go. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910); World War I; First World War TOLSTOI'S REPLY TO THE RUSSIAN CHURCH, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: You urge me to repent--aye, and of what Last Line: I've nothing to repent.—you must repent. Subject(s): Orthodox Eastern Church, Russian; Repentance; Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910); Russian Church; Penitence TOLSTOY IN HEAVEN, by PETER ORESICK Poem Source First Line: The full shoulders and bosoms Last Line: Tolstoy, in dead earnes, %holds his cards like a live bird. %hands like these, forever ... Subject(s): Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910) TV MEN: TOLSTOY: 1. CHAMBRE, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A curiously tender man and yet Last Line: On rustling coats or shawls Subject(s): Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910) |
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