FIRST STANDS the lofty Washington, That noble, great, immortal one. The elder Adams next we see, And Jefferson comes number three; Then Madison is fourth you know, The fifth one on the list, Monroe; The sixth, then Adams comes again, And Jackson seventh in the train. Van Buren eighth upon the line And Harrison counts number nine. The tenth is Tyler in his turn, And Polk the eleventh, as we learn. The twelfth is Taylor in rotation, The thirteenth Fillmore in succession; The fourteenth, Pierce, has been selected, Buchanan, fifteenth is elected; Sixteenth, Lincoln rules the nation; Johnson, seventeenth, fills the station; As the eighteenth Grant two terms serves; Nineteenth, Hayes our honor preserves; Twentieth, Garfield becomes our head; Twenty-first, Arthur succeeds the dead; Then Cleveland next was selected; Twenty-third, Harrison's elected; Twenty-fourth, Cleveland is recalled; Twenty-fifth, McKinley twice installed; Twenty-sixth, Roosevelt, strenuous, firm; Taft, twenty-seventh, serves his term; Twenty-eighth, Wilson holds the place, A nation's problems has to face. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A DAY DREAM by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE SHE IS FAR FROM THE LAND by THOMAS MOORE NEW FRIENDS AND OLD FRIENDS by JOSEPH PARRY COUNTER-ATTACK by SIEGFRIED SASSOON PORTRAIT SONNETS: 4 by HENRY BELLAMANN THE BEAUTIFUL BEESHAREEN BOY by MATHILDE BLIND DISCOVERY OF MADEIRA by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES |