Best poems about — Storgy
Graduation.
7 poems, ranked.
7 of the finest public-domain poems about graduation, ranked by thematic depth. Scored by Storgy's classification model against the rest of the corpus, and re-indexed weekly as new works enter the canon.
The leading three
01
July 21, 1865
James Russell Lowell
“Written on July 21, 1865, this poem is James Russell Lowell's ode delivered at Harvard's commencement, honoring the university's graduates who died fighting in…”
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02
Poem for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Class of 1825
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Longfellow wrote this poem for the 50th reunion of his Bowdoin College graduating class, a gathering marked by the absence of many classmates who had passed awa…”
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03
Collegisse juvat: The full sentence, in the first ode of
James Russell Lowell
“This is a clever and concise piece by James Russell Lowell that plays on a Latin pun. Lowell reinterprets a line from Horace about the pride of competing in the…”
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The complete index
- 04
First Venture
James Russell Lowell
This isn't a traditional poem; it's a prose biography that explores James Russell Lowell's early literary career. It follows his journey from law student to one of America's key wr…
- 05
For a Bell at Cornell University
James Russell Lowell
A bell at Cornell University sounds a warning and a challenge: each hour that ticks away is lost forever, and how you spend those hours can turn your life into something delicate o…
- 06
Education
James Russell Lowell
This piece is a biographical prose passage about James Russell Lowell's early education, starting from his first lessons at a dame school and continuing through his time at Harvard…
- 07
Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration
James Russell Lowell
Lowell begins his ode by acknowledging that poetry seems inadequate to truly honor the soldiers who lost their lives in the Civil War — men whose bravery surpassed anything words c…
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