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Famous Educate Poems by Famous Poets

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...as very cool in temper, generous and brave,
The friend of the poor, the sick, and the slave;
And many a poor boy he did educate,
And laboured hard to do so early and late. 

He was a man that did not care for worldly gear,
Because the living and true God he did fear;
And the hearts of the poor he liked to cheer,
And by his companions in arms he was loved most dear. 

He always took the Bible for his guide,
And he liked little boys to walk by his side;
He preferred their compa...Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz



...?

I'm talking rot,--I'm really not
 As dumb as I pretend;
But happiness, I dimly guess,
 Is what counts in the end.
To educate is to dilate
 The nerves of pain:
So let us give up books and live
 Like hinds again.

The best of wisdom surely is
 To be not overwise;
For may not thought be evil fraught,
 And truth less kind than lies?
So let me praise the golden days
 I played a gay guitar,
And deemed a rose was just a rose,
 A star--a star....Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William
...rth nor want has bought, 
Which wooed me young, and woos me old, 
And to this evening hath me brought. 

My memory I'll educate 
To know the one historic truth, 
Remembering to the latest date 
The only true and sole immortal youth. 

Be but thy inspiration given, 
No matter through what danger sought, 
I'll fathom hell or climb to heaven, 
And yet esteem that cheap which love has bought. 
___________________ 

Fame cannot tempt the bard 
Who's famous with his God, 
Nor laure...Read more of this...
by Thoreau, Henry David
...ver diversities combine; 
The vocal chords of the cushat-dove, 
The snake's articulated spine.

Such elective elements 
Educate the eye and lip 
With one's refreshing innocence, 
The other's claim to scholarship.

The serpent's knowledge of the world 
Learn, and the dove's more naïve charm; 
Whether your ringlets should be curled, 
And why he likes his claret warm....Read more of this...
by Wylie, Elinor
...s and ways they put a curse on;
They'd make of you another person.
They cannot let you go your gait;
They influence and educate.
They'd alter all that they admired.
They make me sick, they make me tired....Read more of this...
by Parker, Dorothy



...dye. 
She ate my wings and gloated. 
She bound me with a hair. 

She drove me to her parlor
Above her winding stair.
To educate young spiders
She took me all apart.
My ghost came back to haunt her.
I saw her eat my heart.


VII. CRICKETS ON A STRIKE

The foolish queen of fairyland
From her milk-white throne in a lily-bell,
Gave command to her cricket-band
To play for her when the dew-drops fell.

But the cold dew spoiled their instruments
And they play for the foolish queen n...Read more of this...
by Lindsay, Vachel
...n and never scratching 
Their heads for questions. When I was a lad 
I learned a bit from mother, and never thought 
To educate myself for prayers and psalms. 

But now I’m old and bald and serious-minded,
With days to sit and ponder. I’d no chance 
When young and gay to get the hang of all 
This Hell and Heaven: and when the clergy hoick 
And holloa from their pulpits, I’m asleep, 
However hard I listen; and when they pray
It seems we’re all like children sucking sweets 
In ...Read more of this...
by Sassoon, Siegfried
...bow-dye.
She ate my wings and gloated.
She bound me with a hair.
She drove me to her parlor
Above her winding stair.
To educate young spiders
She took me all apart.
My ghost came back to haunt her.
I saw her eat my heart....Read more of this...
by Lindsay, Vachel

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