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Subject: VASSAR COLLEGE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A WRITTEN LESSON, by S. W. CHAMBERLAIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I was happy that day
Last Line: But I never can spell it.
Subject(s): Vassar College


AN AMERICAN GIRL, by JAMES BRANDER MATTHEWS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She's had a vassar education
Last Line: A free and frank young yankee maiden.
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, Brander
Subject(s): Vassar College


CIVIL WAR SUSPENDS MORE FRUITFUL ENTERPRISE, by CAROLE SIMMONS OLES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of course the vassar college project halts
Subject(s): Vassar College


DAMSEL AT VASSAR NAMED BREEZE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Vassar College


HAS IT COME TO THIS?, by MARIE REIMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A youth, with shining locks of gold
Last Line: "du bist wie eine bloomer."
Subject(s): Vassar College


MATHEMATICAL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In vassar's halls a tutor young
Last Line: Would differ when she ate
Subject(s): Vassar College


MEMORIAL TO D.C.: 1. EPITAPH, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heap not on this mound
Last Line: With the dust upon her eyes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Vassar College; Dead, The


MEMORIAL TO D.C.: 2. PRAYER TO PERSEPHONE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be to her, persephone
Last Line: "it is not so dreadful here."
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Persephone; Vassar College; Dead, The; Proserpine; Proserpina


MEMORIAL TO D.C.: 3. CHORUS, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give away her gowns
Last Line: From the closet floor.
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Vassar College; Dead, The


MEMORIAL TO D.C.: 4. DIRGE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Boys and girls that held her dear
Last Line: All you loved of her lies here.
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Vassar College; Dead, The


MEMORIAL TO D.C.: 5. ELEGY, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let them bury your big eyes
Last Line: Beats the golden bird no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Funerals; Vassar College; Dead, The; Burials


MEMORIAL TO D.C.: PROLOGUE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, loveliest throat of all sweet throats
Last Line: I write you little elegies!
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Vassar College; Dead, The


SONG FOR WINDS AND MY VASSAR WOMEN, by RITA MAE BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here among the trees
Subject(s): Vassar College; Women's Rights


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


VASSAR GIRL, by WALLACE IRWIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, martha's back form vassar'
Alternate Author Name(s): Ginger; Hashimura Togo
Subject(s): Vassar College