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Subject: HARVARD UNIVERSITY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BOSTON TOAST, by JOHN COLLINS BOSSIDY    Poem Text                    
First Line: And this is good old boston
Last Line: And the cabots talk only to god.
Variant Title(s): On The Aristocracy Of Harvard
Subject(s): Harvard University; History; Historians


A PHANTASY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Her beaming eyes of deepest blue
Last Line: Yale won again
Subject(s): Harvard University;yale University


A SONG FOR THE CENTENIAL CELEBRATION OF HARVARD COLLEGE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the puritans came over
Last Line: The british found so rough!
Subject(s): Harvard University


A SONG OF TWENTY-NINE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The summer dawn is breaking
Last Line: Of the boys of '29!
Subject(s): Classmates; Harvard University; Schoolmates


ADDRESS TO THE SCHOLARS OF NEW ENGLAND, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When sarah pierrepont let her spirit rage
Subject(s): Harvard University; New England; Scholarship & Scholars


ADDRESS TO THE SCHOLARS OF NEW ENGLAND, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When sarah pierrepont let her spirit rage
Last Line: And if there's passion enough for half their flame, %your wisdom has done this, sages of harvard
Subject(s): Harvard University; New England; Scholarship And Scholars


AN ELECTIVE COURSE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bloom that lies on fanny's cheek
Last Line: As teaches me to love it much.
Subject(s): Beauty; Harvard University


APOLOGIES TO HARVARD; THE PHI BETA KAPPA POEM, 1973, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair, square harvard, crib of the pilgrim mind
Subject(s): Harvard University


APOLOGIES TO HARVARD; THE PHI BETA KAPPA POEM, 1973, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair, square harvard, crib of the pilgrim mind
Last Line: Seniors, come forth; we crave yoiur wrath and pity
Subject(s): Harvard University


COMMEMORATION ODE READ AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Weak-winged is song
Last Line: But ask whatever else, and we will dare!
Variant Title(s): Ode Recited At The Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865
Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Harvard University; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Peace; Presidents, United States; United States - History; Valor; Bravery


DYING: AN INTRODUCTION, by LOUIS EDWARD SISSMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer still plays across the street
Last Line: As anything: %as spring
Alternate Author Name(s): Sissman, L. E.
Subject(s): Death; Harvard University


EXPERIENTIAL RELIGION, by TRAVIS TALMADGE DU PRIEST    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where to, lady? Where do you want to go?
Last Line: In boston for twenty-years, and I never knew that. %I never knew that. A divinity school at harvard
Subject(s): Harvard University


FAIR HARVARD, by SAMUEL GILMAN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Harvard University


FAIR HARVARD, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair harvard, the winter of puritan snows
Last Line: And our light was a spark of thy flame.
Subject(s): Harvard University


FAIR HARVARD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When, as pilgrims, we come to revisit thy halls
Subject(s): Harvard University


FIGHT! (HARVARD-DARTMOUTH FOOTBALL GAME, 1908), by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The stadium is nervous, johnny harvard's feeling
Last Line: Please to whip him good and clean.
Subject(s): Competition; Dartmouth College; Football; Harvard University; Sports


HARVARD, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Changeless in beauty, rose-hues on her cheek
Last Line: And on thy forehead place the new world's crown.
Subject(s): Harvard University


HARVARD DECLARES WAR, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hang out the flags!' the college president said
Last Line: Thy hallowed ivied walls with strands of sable crepe!
Subject(s): Death; Harvard University; Soldiers; War; World War I; World War Ii; Dead, The; First World War; Second World War


HUMANITIES COURSE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Professor varder handles dante
Last Line: The “pageantry” of “western thought.”
Subject(s): Harvard University


HUMANITIES COURSE, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Professor varder handles dante
Last Line: The 'pageantry' of 'western thought'
Subject(s): Harvard University


HYMN FOR THE DEDICATION OF MEMORIAL HALL AT CAMBRIDGE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, girt around by savage foes
Last Line: Their glory be forever thine!
Subject(s): Harvard University


HYMN FOR THE SAME OCCASION, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O'ershadowed by the walls that climb
Last Line: Be glory now and evermore!
Subject(s): King's Chapel, Harvard University


HYMN: CELEBRATION LAYING CORNER-STONE HARVARD MEMORIAL HALL, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not with the anguish of hearts that are breaking
Last Line: Crowned with the dome that is over us all!
Subject(s): Harvard University


I WENT TO SEE IRVING BABBITT, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Strolling the yard, the only proper yardstick, %warbling your native foot-notes mild
Subject(s): Harvard University


KING'S CHAPEL, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it a weanling's weakness for the past
Last Line: They shaped our future; we but carve their names.
Subject(s): King's Chapel, Harvard University


MARIAN; A FRAGMENT, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Clothes and a girl I sing, the first who
Last Line: Get their campaigns and characters dissected
Subject(s): Harvard University; Women


MEETING OF THE ALUMNI OF HARVARD COLLEGE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I thank you, mr. President, you've kindly broke the ice
Last Line: "and ""expectantur"" all mankind, to take their last degree!"
Subject(s): Harvard University


O.K., JUNE 5, 1892, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last sunday after chapel, near memorial
Last Line: Immortal mother, that we drink to thee
Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Harvard University


O.K., MAY 21, 1890, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O you latest generation %of the very dear old o.K.
Last Line: Tell me brother, tell me true
Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Harvard University


OLD DAYS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sing a song of old days
Last Line: Let us live like men
Subject(s): Alcohol & Alcoholics;harvard University


PHI BETA KAPPA POEM; HARVARD, 1914, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir, friends, and scholars, we are here to serve
Last Line: The sunrise kindling all the peaks with fire.
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Duty; Harvard University; Idealism; New England; Tradition; Heritage; Heredity


PHILOSOPHERS AT HARVARD, 1902, by STANLEY KIDDER WILSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Forever bandying theses, james and royce!
Last Line: What if with santayana we go seeking?
Subject(s): Harvard University; Philosophy & Philosophers


POSTPRANDIAL, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dutch have taken holland,' so the schoolboys used to say
Last Line: Another hans as handsome, -- as bright a man as he!
Subject(s): Harvard University; Leland, Charles Godfrey (1824-1903); Netherlands; Phillips, Wendell (1811-1884); Holland; Dutch People


PRAYER FOR UNITY, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eternal ruler of the ceaseless round
Last Line: Given or withhold, let pain or pleasure be, %enough to know that we are serving thee
Variant Title(s): Divinity School Graduation Hym
Subject(s): Harvard University Divinity School; Worship


REMEMBER - FORGET, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And what shall be the song tonight
Last Line: And down goes twenty-nine!
Subject(s): Aging; Classmates; Harvard University; Schoolmates


SIGNET, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So old, so new, so white, so olive-green
Last Line: May reap the harvest -- for the harvest waits.
Subject(s): Fools; Harvard University; Writing & Writers


THE PARTING SONG; FESTIVAL OF THE ALUMNI, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The noon of summer sheds its ray
Last Line: Then old and young, etc.
Subject(s): Harvard University


TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, IN NEW-ENGLAND, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: While an intrinsic ardor prompt [or, bids] me to write
Last Line: And in immense perdition sinks the soul.
Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis
Variant Title(s): To The University Of Cambridge, Wrote In 1767
Subject(s): Harvard University; Love - Loss Of; Mortality


TWO SONNETS: HARVARD. 1. 'CHRISTO ET ECCLESIAE,' 1700, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To god's anointed and his chosen flock
Last Line: Where echoed once araunah's threshingfloor.
Subject(s): Harvard University


TWO SONNETS: HARVARD. 2. 1643 'VERITAS' 1878, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Truth: so the frontlet's older legend ran
Last Line: And let thine earliest symbol be thy last!
Subject(s): Harvard University


TWO STUDIES IN IDEALISM: 2. HARVARD '61: BATTLE FATIGUE, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I didn't mind dying - it wasn't that at all
Last Line: Where people who haven't the right just die, with ghastly impertinence
Subject(s): Harvard University; Idealism


TWO STUDIES IN IDEALISM: 2. HARVARD '61: BATTLE FATIGUE, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I didn't mind dying - it wasn't that at all
Last Line: Where people who haven't the right just die, with ghastly impertinence
Subject(s): Harvard University; Idealism


UNDER TWO FLAGS, by JULIET WILBOR TOMPKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's all very well
Last Line: If tom were at harvard, or will went to yale!
Subject(s): Harvard University; Vassar College; Yale University


V.B. NIMBLE, V.B. QUICK, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: V.B. Wiggelsworth wakes at noon
Subject(s): Harvard University; Science; Scientists


V.B. NIMBLE, V.B. QUICK, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: V.B. Wiggelsworth wakes at noon
Last Line: Instructs the jellyfish to spawn, %and, by one o'clock, is gone
Subject(s): Harvard University; Science


VALEDICTORY POEM, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gambol and song and jubilee are done
Last Line: And may god speed our perilous career!
Subject(s): Commencement; Harvard University; Graduation


VERSES, READ AT THE O.K. DINNER, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The patient earth has made another lap
Last Line: So let's drink to the o.K. Dinners, %in a cup of o.K. Wine
Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Harvard University


VESTIGA QUINQUE RETRORSUM; AN ACADEMIC POEM, 1829-1879, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While fond, sad memories all around us throng
Last Line: Not finis, but the end of volume first!
Subject(s): Harvard University


W. E. B. DUBOIS AT HARVARD, by JAY WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In harvard square
Last Line: Your intense, communal daring
Subject(s): Du Bois, William Edward B. (1868-1963); Harvard University; Reform And Reformers; Writing & Writers


W.E.B. DUBOIS AT HARVARD, by JAY WRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In harvard square
Subject(s): Du Bois, William Edward B. (1868-1963); Harvard University; Reform And Reformers; Writing And Writers


WHO FOLLOW THE FLAG; PHI BETA KAPPA ODE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day long in the city's canyon-street
Last Line: And draw a countless human host to follow after thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Flags - United States; Harvard University; American Flag


WIDENER LIBRARY, READING ROOM, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eight years removed from them, I sit among
Last Line: Ill, here in thr vault of its vague inten
Subject(s): Harvard University; Librarians & Libraries


WIDENER LIBRARY, READING ROOM, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eight years removed from them, I sit among
Last Line: Your discipline implied; the feat feels meant %ill, here in the vault of its vague intent
Subject(s): Harvard University