Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DEATH OF GENERAL GRANT, by WALT WHITMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one by one withdraw the lofty actors Last Line: To admiration has it been enacted! Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885) | ||||||||
As one by one withdraw the lofty actors, From that great play on history's stage eterne, That lurid, partial act of war and peace -- of old and new contending, Fought out through wrath, fears, dark dismays, and many a long suspense; All past -- and since, in countless graves receding, mellowing, Victor's and vanquish'd -- Lincoln's and Lee's -- now thou with them, Man of the mighty days -- and equal to the days! Thou from the prairies! -- tangled and many-vein'd and hard has been thy part, To admiration has it been enacted! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELEGY TO THE SIOUX by NORMAN DUBIE THE DEATH OF GRANT by AMBROSE BIERCE VANQUISHED; ON THE DEATH OF GENERAL GRANT by FRANCIS FISHER BROWNE THE AGED STRANGER; AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR by FRANCIS BRET HARTE THE SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX [APRIL 9, 1865] by HERMAN MELVILLE WHAT BEST I SEE; TO U.S.G. RETURN'D FROM HIS WORLD'S TOUR by WALT WHITMAN IN MEMORY OF GENERAL GRANT by HENRY ABBEY THE BURIAL OF GRANT; NEW YORK, AUGUST 8, 1885 by RICHARD WATSON GILDER ULYSSES GRANT by RUTH WINSLOW GORDON A BROADWAY PAGEANT by WALT WHITMAN |
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