Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CAN'T, by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD Poet's Biography First Line: How history repeats itself Last Line: The steadfast man whose name was grant. Subject(s): American Civil War; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); U.s. - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864) | ||||||||
How history repeats itself You'll say when you remember Grant, Who, in his boyhood days, once sought Throughout the lexicon for "can't." He could not find the word that day, The earnest boy whose name was Grant; He never found it through long years, With all their power to disenchant. No hostile host could give him pause; Rivers and mountains could not daunt; He never found that hindering word -- The steadfast man whose name was Grant. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT CHANCELLORSVILLE: THE BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS by ANDREW HUDGINS AN UNINSCRIBED MONUMENT - BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS by HERMAN MELVILLE LEE TO THE REAR [MAY 12, 1864] by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON THE ARMIES OF THE WILDERNESS (1863-4) by HERMAN MELVILLE OBSEQUIES OF STUART by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON AT CHANCELLORSVILLE: THE BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS by ANDREW HUDGINS MUSIC IN THE NIGHT by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD PHANTOMS ALL by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD A MOTHER-SONG by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD A SIGH by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD EVANESCENCE by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD HOW WE BECAME A NATION [APRIL 15, 1774] by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD |
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