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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES - FACULTY Matches Found: 28 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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 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 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 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 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 Full Text Poet Analysis 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 Analysis 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 THE ANOINTED, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 |
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