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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HERO OF SAN JUAN HILL, by OLIVA WARD BUSH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Among the sick and wounded ones
Last Line: Equality shall sit enthroned.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bush-banks, Oliva Ward
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Spanish-american War (1898)


AN ODE IN TIME OF HESITATION, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the living bronze saint gaudens made
Last Line: Blindness we may forgive, but baseness we will smite.
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Holidays; Memorial Day; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898); United States; War; Declaration Day; America


AN ODE ON THE UNVEILING OF THE SHAW MEMORIA BOSTON COMMON, MAY 31, 1897, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not with slow, funereal sound
Last Line: To him, to him, the dead that shall not die!
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Holidays; Memorial Day; Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; Declaration Day


BURY THEM, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bury the dragon's teeth!
Last Line: Fighting against great god.
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Fort Wagner, Battle Of (1863); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; United States - History


CONFESSION TO J. EDGAR HOOVER, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hiding in the church of an abandoned stone
Last Line: I did not know what I was doing
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): African Americans - Military


CONFESSION TO J. EDGAR HOOVER, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hiding in the church of an abandoned stone
Last Line: I did not know what I was doing
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): African Americans - Military


DEBRIDEMENT, by MICHAEL S. HARPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Black men are oaks cut down.
Last Line: Carried out our assignment / with procision
Subject(s): African Americans - Military


FIRSTLY INCLINED TO TAKE WHAT IT IS TOLD, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thee sacrosanct, - thee sweet, thee crystalline
Last Line: I had been brightly ready to believe
Subject(s): African Americans - Military


FOR FREEDOM, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thank god! 'tis the war-cry! They call us; we come;
Last Line: O comrades, strike boldly! Our triumph is nigh!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Slavery; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Serfs


FOR THE UNION DEAD, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old south boston aquarium stands
Variant Title(s): Colonel Shaw And The Massachusetts 54
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Boston; Duty; Heroism; Massachusetts; Monuments; Racism; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; United States - History; Heroes; Heroines; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


FOR THE UNION DEAD, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old south boston aquarium stands
Last Line: A savage servility %slides by on grease
Variant Title(s): Colonel Shaw And The Massachusetts 5
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Boston; Duty; Heroism; Massachusetts; Monuments; Racism; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; U.s. - History


FREEMAN FIELD, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a cool evening
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life; Relatives


FREEMAN FIELD, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a cool evening
Last Line: To smoke, watching %the german pow's pump gas, %wash windshields %and laugh %at the motorpool %acros
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life


GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We knew how to order. Just the dash
Last Line: To holler down the lions in this air
Subject(s): African Americans - Military


GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We knew how to order. Just the dash
Last Line: To holler down the lions in this air
Subject(s): African Americans - Military


GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: 'GOD WORKS IN A MYSTERIOUS WAY', by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But often now the youthful eye cuts down its
Last Line: Or we assume a sovereignty ourselves
Subject(s): African Americans - Military


GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: FIRSTLY INCLINED TO TAKE WHAT IT IS TOLD, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thee sacrosanct, - thee sweet, thee crystalline
Last Line: With billowing heartiness no whit withheld
Subject(s): African Americans - Military


GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: LOOKING, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You have no word for soldiers to enjoy
Last Line: Nor the heaviest haul your little boy from harm
Subject(s): African Americans - Military


GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: LOVE NOTE: 1. SURELY, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Surely you stay my certain own, you say
Last Line: And I doubt all. You. Or a violet
Subject(s): African Americans - Military


GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: LOVE NOTE: 2. FLAGS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still, it is dear defiance now to carry
Last Line: Or like the tender struggle of a fan
Subject(s): African Americans - Military


GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: MENTORS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For I am rightful fellow of their band
Last Line: Light for the midnight that is mine and theirs
Subject(s): African Americans - Military


GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: PIANO AFTER WAR, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On a snug evening I shall watch her fingers
Variant Title(s): Piano After War
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Musical Instruments; Pianos


GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: PIANO AFTER WAR, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On a snug evening I shall watch her fingers
Last Line: And stone will shove the softness from my face
Variant Title(s): Piano After Wa
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Musical Instruments; Pianos


GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: STILL DO I KEEP MY LOOK, MY IDENTITY, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each body has its art, its precious prescribed
Last Line: It showed at baseball. What it showed in school
Variant Title(s): Still Do I Keep My Look, My Identit
Subject(s): African Americans - Military


GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: THE PROGRESS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And still we wear our uniforms, follow
Last Line: Of iron feet again. And again wild
Variant Title(s): Gay Chaps At The Bar; The Progres
Subject(s): African Americans - Military


GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: THE WHITE TROOPS HAD THEIR ORDERS ..., by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They had supposed their formula was fixed
Subject(s): African Americans - Military


GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: THE WHITE TROOPS HAD THEIR ORDERS ..., by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They had supposed their formula was fixed
Last Line: And there was nothing startling in the weather
Subject(s): African Americans - Military


GOD WORKS IN A MYSTERIOUS WAY', by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But often now the youthful eye cuts down its
Last Line: Or we assume a sovereignty ourselves
Subject(s): African Americans - Military


LINES, by SAMUEL ALFRED BEADLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How I love my country you have heard
Last Line: And blind to your faults as to mine.
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Racism; Spanish-american War (1898); Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


LONELY EAGLES, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Being black in america
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Aviation & Aviators; Air Warfare; World War Ii; African Americans - Military; Family Life; James, General Daniel 'chappie' (1920-78); Airplanes; Air Pilots; Second World War; Relatives


LONELY EAGLES, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Being black in america
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life; James, General Daniel 'chappie' (1920-78; Relatives


LONELY EAGLES, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Being black in america
Last Line: I used his mattress %for the rest of the tour. %it still bothers me, sometimes: %I was sleeping %on
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life; James, General Daniel "chappie" (1920-78


LOOKING, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You have no word for soldiers to enjoy
Last Line: Nor the heaviest haul your little boy from harm
Subject(s): African Americans - Military


LOVE NOTE: 1. SURELY, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Surely you stay my certain own, you say
Last Line: And I doubt all. You. Or a violet
Subject(s): African Americans - Military


MENTORS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For I am rightful fellow of their band
Last Line: Light is the midnight for mine and theirs
Subject(s): African Americans - Military


MY DREAMS, MY WORKS, MUST WAIT TILL AFTER HELL, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hold my honey and I store my bread
Subject(s): African Americans - Military


MY DREAMS, MY WORKS, MUST WAIT TILL AFTER HELL, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hold my honey and I store my bread
Last Line: To honey and bread old purity could love
Subject(s): African Americans - Military


MY HERO; TO ROBERT GOULD SHAW, by BENJAMIN GRIFFITH BRAWLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flushed with the hope of high desire
Last Line: And galahad to me.
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers


NEGRO SOLDIERS, by ROSCOE C. JAMISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: These truly are the brave
Last Line: That those who mock might find a better way!
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Soldiers


NEGRO SOLDIERS OF AMERICA: WHAT WE ARE FIGHTING FOR, by LUCIAN B. WATKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We fight-and for democracy
Last Line: Peace and its happiness at home!
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; World War I


PASSAGE, by RITA DOVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Got up %this morning at 2:45, breakfast at 3:30
Last Line: It must have been a whale!
Subject(s): African Americans - Military


PORTER, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Suddenly / when I hear airplanes overhead
Last Line: He looks down. Then he looks at me and grins. / I took it, too!
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life; Aviation & Aviators; Relatives


PORTER, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Suddenly %when I hear airplanes overhead
Last Line: When I put it down %she handed me a dime %as a tip. %he looks down. %then he looks at me and grins.
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life


READY, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loaded with gallant soldiers
Last Line: Who was fitter to die than he!
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Sailing & Sailors; United States - History; Seamen; Sails


ROBERT G. SHAW, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When war's red banners trailed along the sky
Last Line: In rev'rent love we guard thy memory.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; African Americans - Women; Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers


ROBERT GOULD SHAW, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why was it that the thunder voice of fate
Last Line: Have died, the present teaches, but in vain!
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers


SHE SAID ..., by JONATHAN HENDERSON BROOKS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She said, 'not only music; brave men marching'
Last Line: "mary, it is the same with me,"" she said."
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; World War Ii; Second World War


SILHOUETTES, by EDNA BINTLIFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stiff cat-tails mirrored in a pool
Last Line: Is never known to me.
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Brothers; Soldiers; Half-brothers


SONNET TO NEGRO SOLDIERS, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: They shall go down unto life's borderland
Last Line: There breaks this day their dawn of liberty.
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Soldiers' Writings


STAR-FIX, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At his cramped desk
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life; Relatives


STAR-FIX, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At his cramped desk
Last Line: Going hungry for five or six hours %to give his flight-lunch%to his two little girls
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life


THE BLACK REGIMENT, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark as the clouds of even
Last Line: Scorn the black regiment!
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Patriotism; United States - History; War


THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIERS, by CALVIN FORBES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where's the winning without chocolate
Subject(s): African Americans - Military


THE COLOR SERGEANT, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under a burning tropic sun
Last Line: Yet true, in death, to his duty.
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Fights; Prejudice; San Juan Hill, Battle Of (1898); Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898); Bias; Intolerance


THE COLORED SOLDIERS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: If the muse were mine to tempt it
Last Line: Who fought for uncle sam!
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; United States - History


THE COLORED SOLDIERS OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All honor to the colored soldiers
Last Line: "they're made of the ""proper stuff."
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Spanish-american War (1898)


THE CONQUERORS; THE BLACK TROOPS IN CUBA, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Round the wide earth, from the red field your valour has won
Last Line: Not to ply!
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Cuba


THE PASSAGE, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Got up / this morning at 2:45, breakfast at 3:30
Subject(s): African Americans - Military


THE PROGRESS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And still we wear our uniforms, follow
Last Line: Of iron feet again. And again wild
Variant Title(s): Gay Chaps At The Bar;the Progress
Subject(s): African Americans - Military


THE REASON WHY, by GEORGE CLINTON ROWE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the eve of battle
Last Line: To god the reason why.
Subject(s): African Americans - Military


THE SOLDIERS OF THE DUSK, by FENTON JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Black men holding up the earth
Last Line: Victims of the war god's lust.
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; World War I; First World War


THE YEAR OF JUBILEE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "say, darkeys, hab you seen de massa"
Last Line: "it mus' be now de kingdum cumin', / an' de yar ob jubilo"
Subject(s): African Americans - Military;american Civil War;u.s. - History;war


THE YEAR OF JUBILEE, by HENRY CLAY WORK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Say, darkeys, hab you seen de massa
Last Line: An' de yar ob jubilo.
Variant Title(s): Year Of Jubilo;kingdom Coming
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Richmond Campaign (1864); United States - History


THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The regiment has waited long
Last Line: Who would hold the colonel?
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (1823-1911); U.s. - History


THREE MEN IN A TENT, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My one blood-uncle laughs
Last Line: One of us %to four %of them. %I sure missed %my old buddies.%I even missed %ol'corbon
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life


TO HORACE BUMSTEAD, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you been sore discouraged in the fight
Last Line: You shall not, no, you shall not, fight alone.
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Bumstead, Horace (1841-1919); Human Rights; Justice


TO THE BLACK AMERICAN TROOPS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I did not recognize you in your prison of sad-colored uniforms
Last Line: Oh, the delight of life after winter. I hail you %as messengers of peace
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Negritude (literary Movement)


TUSKEGEE AIRFIELD, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These men
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life; Relatives


TUSKEGEE AIRFIELD, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These men
Last Line: The instructor grinned. %boy, if your ass %is as hard as your head, %you'll go far in this world
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life


VIETNAM #4, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A cat said / on the corner
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Vietnamese Conflict. 1961-1975; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


WHEN DEY 'LISTED COLORED SOLDIERS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dey was talkin' in de cabin, dey was talkin' in de hall
Last Line: W'en dey 'listed colo'ed sojers an' my 'lias went to wah.
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; United States - History