School Poems
School
Robert Burns - 166. Epitaph For William Nicol, High School, Edinburgh
YE maggots, feed on Nicol’s brain, For few sic feasts you’ve gotten;And fix your claws in Nicol’s heart, For deil a bit o’t’s.- School poems.
Robert Burns - 167. Epitaph For Mr. William Michie, Schoolmaster
HERE lie Willie Michie’s banes; O Satan, when ye tak him,Gie him the schulin o’ your weans, For clever deils he’ll mak the.- School poems.
Charles Sorley - A Letter From The Trenches To A School Friend
I have not brought my OdysseyWith me here across the sea;But you'll remember, when I sayHow, when they went down Sparta way,To sandy.- School poems.
Vernon Scannell - Ageing Schoolmaster
And now another autumn morning finds meWith chalk dust on my sleeve and in my breath,Preoccupied with vague, habitual speculationOn.- School poems.
William Butler Yeats - Among School Children
II walk through the long schoolroom questioning;A kind old nun in a white hood replies;The children learn to cipher and to sing,To.- School poems.
Roger Mcgough - First Day At School
A millionbillionwillion miles from homeWaiting for the bell to go. (To go where?)Why are they all so big, other children?So noisy?.- School poems.
Stephen Vincent Benet - Going Back To School
The boat ploughed on. Now Alcatraz was past And all the grey waves flamed to red again At the dead sun's last glimmer. Far and vast.- School poems.
Philip Levine - M. Degas Teaches Art & Science At Durfee Intermediate School Detroit, 1942
He made a line on the blackboard,one bold stroke from right to leftdiagonally downward and stood backto ask, looking as always at no.- School poems.
Andrew Barton Paterson - Old Schooldays
Awake, of Muse, the echoes of a day Long past, the ghosts of mem'ries manifold -- Youth's memories that once were green and gold But.- School poems.
Robert William Service - Orphan School
Full fifty merry maids I heard One summer morn a-singing;And each was like a joyous bird With spring-clear not a-ringing.It.- School poems.
Vernon Scannell - Schoolroom On A Wet Afternoon
The unrelated paragraphs of morningAre forgotten now; the severed heads of kingsRot by the misty Thames; the roses of YorkAnd Lancaster.- School poems.
Howard Nemerov - September, The First Day Of School
IMy child and I hold hands on the way to school,And when I leave him at the first-grade doorHe cries a little but is brave; he doesLet.- School poems.
Galway Kinnell - The Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye To His Poetry Students
Goodbye, lady in Bangor, who sent mesnapshots of yourself, after definitely hintingyou were beautiful; goodbye,Miami Beach urologist,.- School poems.
Rabindranath Tagore - The Flower School
When storm-clouds rumble in the sky and June showers come down.The moist east wind comes marching over the heath to blow itsbagpipes.- School poems.
G K Chesterton - The Latest School
See the flying French departLike the bees of Bonaparte,Swarming up with a most venomous vitality.Over Baden and Bavaria,And Brighton.- School poems.
Joyce Kilmer - The New School
(For My Mother)The halls that were loud with the merry tread of young and careless feetAre still with a stillness that is too drear.- School poems.
Henry Lawson - The Old Bark School
It was built of bark and poles, and the floor was full of holes Where each leak in rainy weather made a pool; And the walls were mostly.- School poems.
William Blake - The School Boy
I love to rise in a summer morn,When the birds sing on every tree;The distant huntsman winds his horn,And the sky-lark sings with me.O!.- School poems.
Philip Larkin - The School In August
The cloakroom pegs are empty now,And locked the classroom door,The hollow desks are lined with dust,And slow across the floorA sunbeam.- School poems.
Charles Simic - The School Of Metaphysics
Executioner happy to explainHow his wristwatch worksAs he shadows me on the street.I call him that because he is grim and officiousAnd.- School poems.
Alec Derwent Hope - The School Of Night
What did I study in your School of Night? When your mouth's first unfathomable yes Opened your body to be my book, I read My answers.- School poems.
Sir Henry Newbolt - The Schoolfellow
Our game was his but yesteryear; We wished him back; we could not know The self-same hour we missed him here He led the line that broke.- School poems.
Henry Van Dyke - Two Schools
I put my heart to schoolIn the world, where men grow wise,"Go out," I said, "and learn the rule;Come back when you win a prize."My.- School poems.
YE maggots, feed on Nicol’s brain, For few sic feasts you’ve gotten;And fix your claws in Nicol’s heart, For deil a bit o’t’s.- School poems.
Robert Burns - 167. Epitaph For Mr. William Michie, Schoolmaster
HERE lie Willie Michie’s banes; O Satan, when ye tak him,Gie him the schulin o’ your weans, For clever deils he’ll mak the.- School poems.
Charles Sorley - A Letter From The Trenches To A School Friend
I have not brought my OdysseyWith me here across the sea;But you'll remember, when I sayHow, when they went down Sparta way,To sandy.- School poems.
Vernon Scannell - Ageing Schoolmaster
And now another autumn morning finds meWith chalk dust on my sleeve and in my breath,Preoccupied with vague, habitual speculationOn.- School poems.
William Butler Yeats - Among School Children
II walk through the long schoolroom questioning;A kind old nun in a white hood replies;The children learn to cipher and to sing,To.- School poems.
Roger Mcgough - First Day At School
A millionbillionwillion miles from homeWaiting for the bell to go. (To go where?)Why are they all so big, other children?So noisy?.- School poems.
Stephen Vincent Benet - Going Back To School
The boat ploughed on. Now Alcatraz was past And all the grey waves flamed to red again At the dead sun's last glimmer. Far and vast.- School poems.
Philip Levine - M. Degas Teaches Art & Science At Durfee Intermediate School Detroit, 1942
He made a line on the blackboard,one bold stroke from right to leftdiagonally downward and stood backto ask, looking as always at no.- School poems.
Andrew Barton Paterson - Old Schooldays
Awake, of Muse, the echoes of a day Long past, the ghosts of mem'ries manifold -- Youth's memories that once were green and gold But.- School poems.
Robert William Service - Orphan School
Full fifty merry maids I heard One summer morn a-singing;And each was like a joyous bird With spring-clear not a-ringing.It.- School poems.
Vernon Scannell - Schoolroom On A Wet Afternoon
The unrelated paragraphs of morningAre forgotten now; the severed heads of kingsRot by the misty Thames; the roses of YorkAnd Lancaster.- School poems.
Howard Nemerov - September, The First Day Of School
IMy child and I hold hands on the way to school,And when I leave him at the first-grade doorHe cries a little but is brave; he doesLet.- School poems.
Galway Kinnell - The Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye To His Poetry Students
Goodbye, lady in Bangor, who sent mesnapshots of yourself, after definitely hintingyou were beautiful; goodbye,Miami Beach urologist,.- School poems.
Rabindranath Tagore - The Flower School
When storm-clouds rumble in the sky and June showers come down.The moist east wind comes marching over the heath to blow itsbagpipes.- School poems.
G K Chesterton - The Latest School
See the flying French departLike the bees of Bonaparte,Swarming up with a most venomous vitality.Over Baden and Bavaria,And Brighton.- School poems.
Joyce Kilmer - The New School
(For My Mother)The halls that were loud with the merry tread of young and careless feetAre still with a stillness that is too drear.- School poems.
Henry Lawson - The Old Bark School
It was built of bark and poles, and the floor was full of holes Where each leak in rainy weather made a pool; And the walls were mostly.- School poems.
William Blake - The School Boy
I love to rise in a summer morn,When the birds sing on every tree;The distant huntsman winds his horn,And the sky-lark sings with me.O!.- School poems.
Philip Larkin - The School In August
The cloakroom pegs are empty now,And locked the classroom door,The hollow desks are lined with dust,And slow across the floorA sunbeam.- School poems.
Charles Simic - The School Of Metaphysics
Executioner happy to explainHow his wristwatch worksAs he shadows me on the street.I call him that because he is grim and officiousAnd.- School poems.
Alec Derwent Hope - The School Of Night
What did I study in your School of Night? When your mouth's first unfathomable yes Opened your body to be my book, I read My answers.- School poems.
Sir Henry Newbolt - The Schoolfellow
Our game was his but yesteryear; We wished him back; we could not know The self-same hour we missed him here He led the line that broke.- School poems.
Henry Van Dyke - Two Schools
I put my heart to schoolIn the world, where men grow wise,"Go out," I said, "and learn the rule;Come back when you win a prize."My.- School poems.
