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| Searching... Subject: UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES Matches Found: 113 7 SOURPUSSES OF OKOLONA, IL: UNIV PRESIDENT STEEPED..., by GRAY JACOBIK Poem Source First Line: Forces conspire to thwart her Last Line: You're as worthy as the company you keep Subject(s): Universities & Colleges A BALLADE OF COLLEGE GIRLS, by F. R. BATCHELDER Poem Text First Line: What do the dear girls learn nowadays Last Line: I have been there, -- but I won't tell! Subject(s): Sex; Universities & Colleges A CHANGE OF HEART, by HENRIETTA L. STADTMULLER Poem Text First Line: I knew he cut his classes, and I'd heard him flunk in history Last Line: To catch his smile is worth the while attending university. Subject(s): Universities & Colleges A COLLEGE, by LOUIS BEVIER JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A college is a group of halls Last Line: For what in man is most divine. Subject(s): Universities & Colleges A DOCTOR'S CENTURY, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A doctor's century dead and gone! Last Line: And to the past a glad good-night. Subject(s): Healing; Physicians; Universities & Colleges; Cures; Doctors A HEARTH-FIRE VERSE, by SOPHIE JEWETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dim, drowned world, where, dull and cold Last Line: Keep this house ever bright and blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Burroughs, Ellen Subject(s): Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College A MOMENTARY LONGING TO HEAR SAD ADVICE FROM ONE LONG DEAD, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Text 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 PHOTO OF A LOVER FROM MY JUNIOR YEAR IN COLLEGE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poet's Biography First Line: Or the earth: one half in sun Subject(s): Memory; Photography & Photographers; Universities & Colleges A SENIOR SCHEDULE, by MARY HOLLANDS MCLEAN Poem Text First Line: We're a-studying of literature Last Line: That it's all a beastly grind. Subject(s): Universities & Colleges A VILLANELLE OF COLLEGE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The moon o'er the hills to-night! Last Line: The setting of youth's delight! Subject(s): Dartmouth College; Scholarship & Scholars; Universities & Colleges; Youth ACADEMIA, SELS., by ALICIA D'ANVERS Poem Source First Line: Now being arrived at his colledge Last Line: Outcome they like a flock of geese Subject(s): Devil; Learning; Universities & Colleges ACADEMIC TECTONICS, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: I used to live on the other side Last Line: As if they came off the top of my head Subject(s): Academia; Learning; Teaching And Teachers; Universities & Colleges AFTER THE SOIREE, by F. R. D. B. Poem Text First Line: I beside the blue-gate lying Last Line: After the soiree. Subject(s): Parties; Universities & Colleges AND THEN, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Goldin plays it over yet again, this time with the never-ending Last Line: The screens Subject(s): Universities & Colleges; Youth ARCTIC THUMB, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Perk's job: to teach college science and math Last Line: Plus greenhouse tomatoes, zucchinis, peas. %working the elements, he prevailed by degrees Subject(s): Arctic; Nome, Alaska; Teaching And Teachers; Universities & Colleges AT A SMALL COLLEGE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Words jut forward out of the stone Last Line: You remember to breathe, to stand on the earth again Subject(s): Religion; Universities & Colleges AT THE SIGN OF THE ALMOND TREE, by LOUISE MANNING HODGKINS Poem Text First Line: To the inn of the sign of the almond tree Last Line: Beyond the peaceful almond tree. Subject(s): Almond Trees; Trees; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College AUTUMN ON NAN-YUEH (WITH THE EXILED UNIVERSITIES OF PEKING), by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If flight's as general as this Last Line: The streams will chatter as they flow Subject(s): China - Japanese Invasions (1874-1945); Nan-yueh (mountain); Universities & Colleges BACCALAUREATE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A year or two, and grey euripides Last Line: Bright through the crumbling gold of a great name. Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Universities & Colleges 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 BUREAU , by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is this the university? Last Line: I am calling about bureaus; their hearts and minds Variant Title(s): Bureau Subject(s): Bureaucracy; Universities & Colleges CABIN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Eviction people arrive to haunt me Last Line: Needle tickle your shoulder, peak curve, fresh air. Subject(s): Homecoming; Moving & Movers; Universities & Colleges CAMPUS, by DAVID POSNER Poem Source First Line: I work to music on the radio Last Line: A question bangs in our heads like an old door %that will not stay closed, for all our knowledge Subject(s): Universities & Colleges CAMPUS SONNET: BEFORE AN EXAMINATION, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little letters dance across the page Last Line: Ring icy-clear from the far deeps of night. Subject(s): Examinations; Universities & Colleges CAMPUS SONNET: MAY MORNING, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lie stretched out upon the window-seat Last Line: Filled with the divine languor of late spring. Subject(s): Universities & Colleges CAMPUS SONNET: RETURN - 1917, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was just aiming at the jagged hole Last Line: "I dreamed I . . . Am I . . . Wounded? ""you are dead." Subject(s): Universities & Colleges; World War I; First World War CAMPUS SONNET: TALK, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tobacco smoke drifts up the dim ceiling Last Line: Of all our youth this hour is pure gold. Subject(s): Universities & Colleges CATHERINE BRESHKOVSKY AT WELLESLEY (FEBRUARY 19, 1919), by MARGARET SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: Childlike, promethean, immortal, one Last Line: From youthful face to face kindles white flame. Subject(s): Innocence; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College CEDES COEMPTIS SALTIBUS ..., by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This phrase of 'riches built on high' Last Line: Give us a better if you can. Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Language; Latin; Universities & Colleges; Words; Vocabulary CHARADES: 5, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On pinnacled st. Mary's Last Line: He kneeled upon my whole. Subject(s): Universities & Colleges CITY SQUARE, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: I had a diploma Last Line: Since they don't like diplomas, not anywhere there. Subject(s): Cities; Education; Job Hunting; Universities & Colleges; Urban Life CLEMATIS SEMINAR, by BERT ALMON Poem Source First Line: While my colleagues were listening to dr. Christopher norris of the Last Line: I do not think that dr. Norris will winter-over in alberta Subject(s): Lectures; Teaching And Teachers; Universities & Colleges - Faculty COBWEB COLLEGE; AN ANTINOMIAN PARABLE ... FOR ROBERT FRIST, by KENNETH LESLIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A batch of freshman came to cobweb college Last Line: "better than day they know the day!" Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Poetry & Poets; Universities & Colleges COLLEGE UNDER WATER, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who are these women and offices Last Line: Lies on the other side of the poem. Subject(s): Commencement; Exchange Students; Universities & Colleges; Writing & Writers; Graduation; Foreign Exchange Programs COMING DOWN FROM OXFORD, by ROBERT SARGENT Poem Source First Line: A young man, having finished college days Last Line: To the churched and storied place of christopher wren, %good old london town Subject(s): Oxford University; Universities & Colleges DAFFODILS, by CAROLINE HAZARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The golden sun looks gladly down Last Line: Ye golden-throated daffodils! Subject(s): Daffodils; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College DREAM, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The committee - now a permanent body Subject(s): Art & Artists; Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Dreams; Music & Musicians; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Nightmares DREAM, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The committee - now a permanent body Last Line: Enough. J. Sebastian - born at eisenach: %its coat-of-arms in my dreams: bach plays bach! Subject(s): Art And Artists; Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Dreams; Music And Musicians; Universities & Colleges - Faculty EASY MARKS, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: Our son's phone call Last Line: Because we are so fond of him. Subject(s): Education; Universities & Colleges ENVELOPE, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Helen goldin, he wrote in black ball point pen on the envelope Last Line: He had invoked and to which she would respond filled his mind Subject(s): Love - Marital; Teaching And Teachers; Universities & Colleges - Faculty EPISTLE FROM CAMBRIDGE, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Tho' plagu'd with algebraic lectures Last Line: Our arguments by syllogisms Subject(s): Universities & Colleges EVENING ON THE CAMPUS, by CHARLES KELLOGG FIELD Poem Text First Line: Behind a screen of western hills Last Line: Amid the grass. Subject(s): Universities & Colleges EXIT PAPERS, NOME, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: I scrawled a few lines Last Line: Nearing the long-sought %beauty of home Subject(s): Nome, Alaska; Teaching And Teachers; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Writing And Writers 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 FROM OVER-SEA, by SOPHIE JEWETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In italy how comes the spring? Last Line: In italy. Alternate Author Name(s): Burroughs, Ellen Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College; Italians; Journeys; Trips FULFILLMENT, by CLARIBEL WEEKS AVERY Poem Text First Line: My children have the things I wanted - college Last Line: God lets me give the things I never had. Subject(s): Parents; Universities & Colleges; Parenthood GENERIC COLLEGE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The statue of the founder wears a green Last Line: Well, time to brush the teeth and face the students Subject(s): Universities & Colleges GENERIC COLLEGE, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The statue of the founder wears a green Last Line: Well, time to brush the teeth and face the students Subject(s): Universities & Colleges GREY BIRCHES, by MARGARET SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: We lead the life of desk and book, the life that fails and strives Last Line: But oh! The little leaves of green that do not need to speak! Subject(s): Birch Trees; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College HIS ROOMS IN COLLEGE, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All through the damp morning he works, he reads Last Line: Less by the loss of grief than by the trust Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Universities & Colleges IN MEMORIAM: LEO, A YELLOW CAT, by MARGARET SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: If, to your twilight land of dream Last Line: Of gentle words and gentle hands. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death - Animals; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College IN MEMORIAM; SOPHIE JEWETT, by MARGARET SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: By still lake shore, or oak wood ser Last Line: With vision of the perfect end. Subject(s): Jewett, Sophie (1861-1909); Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College INDIAN SUMMER, by MARGARET SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: Faint blue the distant hills before Last Line: Fall of a leaf against the blue. Subject(s): Indian Summer; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College 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 KENT STATE, MAY 1970, by JOHN HAINES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Premonitory, her outstretched arms Subject(s): Universities & Colleges KENT STATE, MAY 1970, by JOHN HAINES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Premonitory, her outstretched arms Last Line: A street, a house no longer there? Subject(s): Universities & Colleges KNOTS, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: I learned about patience Last Line: About the knots %you'd never have known Subject(s): Students, Foreign; Universities & Colleges; Women LAKE WABAN, by LOUISE MANNING HODGKINS Poem Text First Line: Lake of grey at dawning day Last Line: Peaceful, happy dreaming. Subject(s): Contentment; Lakes; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College; Pools; Ponds LAUS ATRAMENTI, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our sires were such pedagogue blockheads of yore Last Line: Since I never shall shine by the aid of the muse. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Education; Muses; Universities & Colleges LINES TO PERFESSER JOHN CLARK RIDPATH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your neghbors in the country Last Line: Plum at the dashboard of the wholeendurin' alfabet! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fame; Letters; Universities & Colleges; Reputation MEETING, by ALICE FREEMAN PALMER Poem Text First Line: One day we gave each other, one more day Last Line: To meet our future glad and unafraid. Subject(s): Relationships; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College MINERVA MEDICA, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good chairman, brothers, friends, and guests Last Line: Love, honor, and obedience, troops of friends. Subject(s): Minerva; Physicians; Universities & Colleges; Doctors MISSING, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The lads come back in autumn Last Line: Despite the fact he died. Subject(s): Dartmouth College; Scholarship & Scholars; Universities & Colleges; Youth NIGHT SCHOOL, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No one knows %what mind is %or how to get there Last Line: The stars so pretty %to look at %while driving home Subject(s): Education; Professions; Progress; Universities & Colleges NOTHING AND THE INCIDENT IN THE STREETS, by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing forced those kids Last Line: Will be their voice. Subject(s): Nothingness; Social Protest; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989; Universities & Colleges; Youth; Nihilism; Voids ODE FOR SCHOOL CONVOCATION, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mechanically, the academic file Last Line: Suggests the frosted cakes, and prefers lemon Subject(s): Universities & Colleges ODE FOR SCHOOL CONVOCATION, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mechanically, the academic file Last Line: Suggests the frosted cakes, and prefers lemon Subject(s): Universities & Colleges OF TRANSIENT BEAUTY, by SOPHIE JEWETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rose-flower and flower of grass and flower of flame Last Line: The years may fashion an immortal name. Alternate Author Name(s): Burroughs, Ellen Subject(s): Beauty; Transience; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College; Impermanence OFF TO COLLEGE, by JOSEPHINE POLLITT Poem Text First Line: She climbed into the wagon Last Line: Her shadow would not go. Subject(s): Farewell; Universities & Colleges; Parting ON MOVING TO THE NAROPA CAMPUS FALL 1991, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This for the tuesday morning Last Line: Snow %on the way in the foothills Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Moving And Movers; Rooms; Universities & Colleges PHOTO OF A LOVER FROM MY JUNIOR YEAR IN COLLEGE, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Or the earth: one half in sun Last Line: She has one of her arms in an arm of her blouse, %and the other one wonderfully not Subject(s): Memory; Photography And Photographers; Universities & Colleges POST-PRANDIAL VERSES; RECITED AT FESTIVAL OF ... FRATERNITY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear brothers, who sit at this bountiful board Last Line: May your last, fondest sigh, be psi upsilon! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Universities & Colleges PRESIDENTIAL ODE TO (SMOKE) BLOWING, by MAX GUTMANN Poem Source First Line: In college, bill clinton Last Line: Breath would prevail Subject(s): Clinton, William Jefferson (b. 1946); Smoking; Universities & Colleges RING FROM THE RIM OF THE GLASS, BOYS, by JOHN CLINTON ANTHONY Poem Text First Line: Ring from the rim of the glass, boys Last Line: Mindless of after-moans. Subject(s): Universities & Colleges SEATS OF THE FLIGHTY: THE FIRST CHAIR, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: When to a college town I go Last Line: And simply wave my hand. Subject(s): Chairs; Universities & Colleges SOLE SCHOLAR OF YOUR COLLEGE I APPEAR, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And make my bow before our lady dean Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Speeches & Addresses; Universities & Colleges; Learning; Poetry & Poets SPRING BEAUTIES, by RUTH STONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The abandoned campus, / empty brick buildings and early june Last Line: By some unknown impressionist. Subject(s): Typewriters; Universities & Colleges; Writing & Writers THE ANOINTED, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was a little gleaner Last Line: The tears make all things shine. Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College THE COLLEGE CHEER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The football heroes are but shapes that go Last Line: To tell how the college spirit never dies! Subject(s): College Sports; Football; Sports; Universities & Colleges THE DE CARLO LOTS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are parceled out over the post office Last Line: Measuring the lots, the dreams by Subject(s): Exchange Students; Farewell; Letters; Postal Service; Universities & Colleges; Foreign Exchange Programs; Parting; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE GREEN GRENADIERS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: If your sporting blood is royal you won't curse me if / I'm loyal Last Line: For my heart is with the big green grenadiers. Subject(s): Football; Sports; Universities & Colleges THE INAUGURATION OF THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, DUNDEE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good people of dundee, your voices raise Last Line: And may all good angels guard her while living and hereafter when dead. Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Inaugural Poem; Knowledge; Teaching & Teachers; Universities & Colleges - Faculty THE INCUNABULUM'S TALE, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Master: tacitus in red morocco Last Line: Sine anno, sine loco. Subject(s): Books; England; Scholarship & Scholars; Universities & Colleges; Reading; English THE LARGER COLLEGE; ON LAYING THE COLLEGE CORNER STONE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where san diego seas are warm Last Line: A soul that has not learned to read. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Universities & Colleges THE LAST VICTORY, by MARY SOPHIA CASE Poem Text First Line: So faint with mortal weariness I lie Last Line: Even mine own faltering I can face, and will. Subject(s): Death; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College; Dead, The THE LEAST OF CAROLS, by SOPHIE JEWETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Loveliest dawn of gold and rose Last Line: "exceedingly." Alternate Author Name(s): Burroughs, Ellen Subject(s): Christmas Carols; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College THE LECTURE, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: College de france, a dingy room Last Line: He died, lost in the middle ages. Subject(s): Lectures; Universities & Colleges; Wisdom; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking THE PEACE OF COLLEGE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: So forceful are the giant elms, the hills Last Line: Where strive the millions of humanity. Subject(s): Dartmouth College; Scholarship & Scholars; Universities & Colleges; Youth THE PILGRIM, by SOPHIE JEWETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pilgrim feet, pray whither bound? Last Line: Long must be my pilgrimage. Alternate Author Name(s): Burroughs, Ellen Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College THE SENIOR, by IRENE H. WILSON Poem Text First Line: You will go out this june from cloistered halls Last Line: And you are gone. Subject(s): Commencement; Universities & Colleges; Graduation THE SOLDIER, by SOPHIE JEWETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soldier fought his battle silently Last Line: And all men praised the soldier when he died. Alternate Author Name(s): Burroughs, Ellen Subject(s): Soldiers; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College THE STATE UNIVERSITY, by SARAH SHOOK HUGHLETT Poem Text First Line: She brought the precious things from time's rich store Last Line: The debt I owe to that fair mountain height. Subject(s): Universities & Colleges THE TASK: BOOK 2. THE TIME-PIECE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness Last Line: And the land stank, so numerous was the fry. Subject(s): Clergy; Disasters; Earthquakes; Peace; Universities & Colleges; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THE UMBRIAN PLAIN, by VIDA DUTTON SCUDDER Poem Text First Line: Thou art a holy poem, sweet umbrian plain Last Line: Still holds his voice for those who understand. Subject(s): Umbria, Italy; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College THE UNIVERSITY OF GOTTINGEN, by GEORGE CANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever with haggard eyes I view Last Line: Music still continuing to play till it is wholly fallen.) Variant Title(s): Song By Rogero;rogero's Song Of One Eleven Years In Prison Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Universities & Colleges; Convicts 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 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 THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY A COLLEGE EXAMINATION, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High in the midst, surrounded by his peers Last Line: The premium can't exceed the price they pay. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Examinations; Universities & Colleges TIME, by CAROLINE HAZARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We measure life with our short span of years Last Line: Growth till we wake, and shall be satisfied. Subject(s): Time; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College TO A VISITING POET IN A COLLEGE DORMITORY, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here tame boys fly down the long light of halls Last Line: To father men and poems in your mind. Subject(s): Men; Poetry & Poets; Universities & Colleges; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism TO EMILY DICKINSON, by MARY BOWEN BRAINERD Poem Text First Line: A harp aeolian, on a lonely sill Last Line: Yet bearing ever nature's sad refrain. Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College TO HIS KINSMAN, THO. HERRICK, WHO DESIRED TO BE IN HIS BOOK, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome to this my colledge, and though late Last Line: Here of my great and good foundation. Subject(s): Universities & Colleges TO THE OLD COLLEGE BELL, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drag the old monitor down Last Line: To honor the bonny old bell! Subject(s): Bells; Universities & Colleges TO THE PRINCIPAL AND PROFESSORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS ....., by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text 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 TOBY'S REPLY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O toby was a darky who could pick the banjo fine Last Line: "wait on de students, massa."" he promptly made reply." Subject(s): African Americans; Labor & Laborers; Universities & Colleges; Negroes; American Blacks; Work; Workers UNIVERSITY, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To hurt the negro and avoid the jew Subject(s): Universities & Colleges UNIVERSITY, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To hurt the negro and avoid the jew Last Line: And show us, rotted and endowed, %its senile pleasure Subject(s): Universities & Colleges VERSES: READ ON THE PRESENTATION BY S. WEIR MITCHELL TO THE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We call them great who have the magic art Last Line: "divide the honors,—let us share the boy!" Subject(s): Minerva; Physicians; Universities & Colleges; Doctors VIEWS OF THE FAVORITE COLLEGES, by JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Approaching by the gate, (class of '79) Last Line: The campus like a one-man thunderstorm Subject(s): Universities & Colleges WHEN BEAUTY DIES, by SOPHIE JEWETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Should change fall in its fated hour Last Line: I shall seek these, when beauty dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Burroughs, Ellen Subject(s): Beauty; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College WHEN WITHERSPOON WAS PRESIDENT, by DAVID POTTER Poem Text First Line: Their manners had a formal cast Last Line: Nassau literary monthly. Subject(s): Universities & Colleges WHERE DREAMS COME FROM, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A girl slams the door of her little room Subject(s): Universities & Colleges; Ambition; Family Life; Relatives WITHIN A QUAD, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Within a quad of aging brick Last Line: Contain an oddly actual rage Variant Title(s): Idyl Subject(s): Universities & Colleges |
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