any poems for all the teachers?

Answer 1

Yes. Here's one by Walt Whitman called
"An old man's thoughts of school":
An old man's thoughts of school,
An old man's gathering youthful memories and
blooms that youth itself cannot.

Now only do I know You,
O fair auroral skies - O morning dew upon the grass!

And these I see, these sparkling eyes,
These stores of mystic meaning, these young lives,
Building, equipping like a fleet of ships, immortal ships,
Soon to sail out over the measureless seas,
On the soul's voyage.

Only a lot of boys and girls?
Only the tiresome spelling, writing, ciphering classes?
Only a public school?
Ah more, infinitely more.

And you America,
Cast you the real reckoning for your present?
The lights and shadows of your future, good or evil?
To girlhood, boyhood look, the teacher and the school.


This was also set to music by Howard Hanson
many years ago. It's a beautiful choral work!