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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ASSASSINATION Matches Found: 72 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "MCKINLEY [SEPTEMBER 6, 1901]", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Tis not the president alone Last Line: And with new yearnings in her eyes / climbs to her watch-tower - reassured Subject(s): "assassination;buffalo (city), New York;mckinley, William (1843-1901); A MONARCH'S DEATHBED, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A monarch on his deathbed lay Last Line: Imperial albert died! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Albert I, King Of Germany (1255-1308); Assassination; Kindness; Women ABOUT THE KENNEDYS, by HENRI COULETTE Poem Source First Line: %bang! Bang! Bang! %and always in the head Last Line: And their getting themselves killed. %this poem is for my last friend Subject(s): Assassination; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963); Kennedy, Robert (1925-1968) ABRAHAM LINCOLN; ASSASSINATED GOOD FRIDAY, 1865, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive them, for they know not what they do!' Last Line: So let it smite, such deeds shall be no more! Subject(s): Assassination; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States AMNESIA, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neither the actors nor the audience knew what was coming next Subject(s): Assassination; Memory AN ASSASSIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cat like he creeps along where Last Line: Is sorry when he dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Assassination; Hate; Murder; Night; Bedtime AN ELEGY TO DISPEL GLOOM (ASSASSINATIONS OF MOSCONE & MILK), by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us not sit upon the ground Subject(s): Assassination; San Francisco ASSASSIN APPLIES TO THE AMNESTY COMMITTEE, by JEREMY CRONIN Poem Source First Line: So who are we? We are those who listen Last Line: Remains an endangered address Subject(s): Assassination ASSASSINATION, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It begins again, the nocturnal pulse Last Line: It enters. Look, we are dancing Subject(s): Assassination AT THE PRESIDENT'S GRAVE, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All summer long the people knelt Last Line: Of earth's eternal heritage. Subject(s): Assassination; Garfield, James Abram (1831-1881) ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE QUEEN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God prosper long our noble queen Last Line: Is the end of my song. Subject(s): Assassination; Courts & Courtiers; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901) BOOTH KILLED LINCOLN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Wilkes booth came to washington, an actor great was he Subject(s): Assassination; Holidays BRUTUS LIVES AGAIN IN BOOTH, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What time is it? Last Line: (he rushes off. Great confusion.) Subject(s): Assassination; Booth, John Wilkes (1838-1865); Ford's Theater, Washington, D.c.; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States CASUALTIES: 22. DEATH OF A WEAVERBIRD, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shot, %at akwebe, %a place not even on the map Last Line: To help start a counter surge Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Assassination; Death; Weavers And Weaving CAUSE AND EFFECT, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Am I the bullet %or the target Last Line: A trigger pressed Subject(s): Assassination; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) CHARLES GUITEAU, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all ye christian people Subject(s): Assassination; Garfield, James Abram (1831-1881) CONJECTURAL POEM, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doctor francisco laprida, set upon and killed the Last Line: And across my throat the intimate knife Subject(s): Assassination; Independence; Military Service, Compulsory; Poetry And Poets; Revolutions COUNT ALARCOS AND THE INFANTA SOLISA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Alone, as was her wont, she sate, - within her bower alone Last Line: Three guilty spirits stood right soon before god's judgment-seat Subject(s): Assassination; Courts And Courtiers; Cruelty; Love; Tragedy CRIME WAS IN GRANADA: 1. THE CRIME, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was seen, walking between rifles Last Line: Know it-poor grandma!-in his granada Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Assassination; Death; Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); Poetry And Poets; Tragedy; War CRIME WAS IN GRANADA: 3, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was seen walking... %friends, carve Last Line: The crime was in granada, in his granada! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Assassination; Crime And Criminals; Death; Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); Murder CZAR ALEXANDER THE SECOND, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From him did forty million serfs, endow'd Last Line: To god bears witness of his people's woe. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Alexander Ii, Czar Of Russia (1818-1881); Assassination DOWN IN DALLAS, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down in dallas, down in dallas Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Assassination; Dallas, Texas; Holidays; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963); Texas EAST COKER, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, whence his forbears sprang, a man is laid Last Line: And christmas song respond, and easter song. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Assassination; Crime & Criminals; Death; Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Rest; Somerset, England; Dead, The; Eliot, T. S. ELEGY TO DISPEL GLOOM (ASSASSINATIONS OF MOSCONE & MILK), by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us not sit upon the ground Last Line: Such men as these do rise above %our worst imaginings Subject(s): Assassination; San Francisco EXECUTION OF FELICE ORSINI, MARCH 13TH, 1858, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A day to be remembered Last Line: The red rose crown is thine %for evermore Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Subject(s): Assassination; Capital Punishment; Italy - Revolutions; Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); Orsini, Felice (1819-1858) EXILED FROM THE LIGHT, by SEBASTIAN SALAZAR BONDY Poem Source First Line: The president caressed the mane of his favorite horse Last Line: Poor peruvians exiled from the light Subject(s): Assassination; Exiles; Grief; Peru; Social Protest FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH, by RICHARD HANDFIELD TITHERINGTON Poem Text First Line: His work is done, his toil is o'er Last Line: "god reigns and the republic lives!" Subject(s): Assassination; Mckinley, William (1843-1901) FOR MALCOLM: AFTER MECCA, by GERALD WILLIAM BARRAX Poem Source First Line: You lie now in many coffins Last Line: Without recognizing the man you were %lay in our shame %and your growth into martyrdom Subject(s): Assassination; Holidays FRAGMENT, SUPPOSED TO EPITHALAMIUM OF RAVAILLAC AND CORDAY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis midnight now - athwart the murky air Last Line: I wake -- 't is done -- 't is o'er. Subject(s): Assassination; Corday, Charlotte (1768-1793); Ravaillac, Francois (1578-1610) IN MEMORY, 1978, by JUDITH KAZANTZIS Poem Source First Line: I want to lament the princess who was killed Subject(s): Assassination; Women J.A.G, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our sorrow sends its shadow round the earth Last Line: The hero's garland his, the martyr's crown. Subject(s): Assassination; Garfield, James Abram (1831-1881) JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All generous hearts lament the leader killed Last Line: The promise of his spirit be fulfilled. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Assassination; Dallas, Texas; Death; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963); Lament; Presidents, United States; Dead, The LAND OF ALVARGONZALEZ: THAT EVENING, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Over the naked fields Last Line: A mastiff and a thousand sheep Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Assassination; Crime And Criminals; Death LAND OF ALVARGONZALEZ: THE MURDERERS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Juan and martin, the elder Last Line: Booms from boulder to boulder Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Assassination; Crime And Criminals; Fields; Spain; Wolves LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On pleasure bent, see how the pressing hordes Last Line: Lincoln alone, in an eternal scene. Subject(s): Assassination; Comedy; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Plays & Playwrights ; Presidents, United States; Tragedy; Dramatists LINES WRITTEN NOV. 22, 23 - 1963 IN DISCORD, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So what's it like being an american assassin this silly uncertain day? Last Line: And though the crew weeps the loss %the stars in the skies %are still boss Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory Subject(s): Assassination; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) MARTYR, by 'ALI AHMAD SA'ID Poem Source First Line: When I saw the night in his blazing eyelids Last Line: Like a reed, I broke Subject(s): Assassination MIDNIGHT - SEPTEMBER 19, 1881, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once in a lifetime, we may see the veil Last Line: With freedom, in the capitol, at rest. Subject(s): Assassination; Garfield, James Abram (1831-1881) MOHAMMED AND THE ASSASSIN, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave me, my followers, leave me Last Line: "whose mercy knows no end." Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Assassination; Mercy; Muhammad, The Prophet (570-632); Mahomet; Mohammed MOTORCADE, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: I was seven when it happened Last Line: And accelerating madly %out of view of the camera Subject(s): Assassination; Death; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963); Schools; Youth O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O captain! My captain! Our fearful trip is done Last Line: Fallen cold and dead. Variant Title(s): On The Death Of President Lincoln;my Captain;to Abraham Lincoln;on Lincoln Subject(s): American Civil War; Assassination; Freedom; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Loss; Patriotism; Presidents, United States; Sea; United States - History; Liberty; Ocean ON THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fallen with autumn's falling leaf Last Line: A nation bowed, a world in tears. Subject(s): Assassination; Garfield, James Abram (1831-1881) ON THE JOY UNIVERSALLY EXPRESSED ON THE KING'S HAPPY ESCAPE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cloud that frowns on what we prize Last Line: And give him double praise. Subject(s): Assassination; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820) ON THE MURDER OF LIEUTENANT JOSE DEL CASTILLO BY THE FALANGIST ..., by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the lieutenant of the guardia de asalto Subject(s): Assassination; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) ON THE MURDER OF LIEUTENANT JOSE DEL CASTILLO BY THE FALANGIST ..., by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the lieutenant of the guardia de asalto Last Line: He won't walk as a man ever again Subject(s): Assassination; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) OUTWARD BOUND, by EDWARD SYDNEY TYLEE Poem Text First Line: Farewell! For now a stormy morn and dark Last Line: Only our love and prayers. Subject(s): Assassination; Mckinley, William (1843-1901) PARDON, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pains the sharp sentence Last Line: Greatest, forgive! Subject(s): American Civil War; Assassination; Booth, John Wilkes (1838-1865); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; United States - History PARRICIDE; ABRAHAM LINCOLN - APRIL 14, 1865, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the warrior gauntlet grim Last Line: From his ashes makes us freemen still. Subject(s): Assassination; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Parricide; Presidents, United States PRESIDENT GARFIELD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These words the poet heard in paradise Last Line: "I came from martyrdom unto this peace!" Subject(s): Assassination; Garfield, James Abram (1831-1881) PRINCIP, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look at him there, a lad of nineteen years Last Line: Princip, with nineteen years, can you not tell? Subject(s): Assassination; Fate; Guns; Nations; World War I; Destiny; First World War REGRET OF THE RANEE IN THE HALL OF PEACOCKS, by ADELE FLORENCE CORY NICOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This man has taken my husband's life Last Line: Take him away to death! Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, Laurence Subject(s): Assassination; Duty; India; Passion; Regret REJOICE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From out my deep, wide-bosomed west Last Line: Lo! All is for the best for all! Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Assassination; Garfield, James Abram (1831-1881) SEASON OF LOVERS AND ASSASSINS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Safe from the wild storms off cape hatteras Last Line: The slow assassination of the years. Subject(s): Assassination; Love; Women; Women's Rights; Feminism SHOOTING THE GOVERNOR OF WISCONSIN, by PETER ORESICK Poem Source First Line: It is not madness Last Line: So he squeezes the trigger, gently and quickly Subject(s): Assassination SHORT HISTORY OF THE SIXTIES, by HENRI COULETTE Poem Source First Line: Bang! Bang! Bang! %and always in the head Last Line: The plane, the widow, the mass. %we drive with our lights on Subject(s): Assassination; United States SPIDER HEAD, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spider glints Last Line: Humming in a cement hole %electric glass Variant Title(s): The Assassi Subject(s): Assassination; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) STONE, by EDWARD KAMAU BRATHWAITE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the stone fall that morning out of the johncrow sky Alternate Author Name(s): Brathwaite, Kamau Subject(s): Assassination; Smith, Michael (mikey) (1954-1983) STONE, by EDWARD KAMAU BRATHWAITE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the stone fall that morning out of the johncrow sky Last Line: I am the stone that kills me Alternate Author Name(s): Brathwaite, Kamau Subject(s): Assassination; Smith, Michael (mikey) (1954-1983) THE ASSASSIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fling him amongst the cobbles of Last Line: Draw backward flickeringly and knock him dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Assassination; Hate; Violence THE ASSASSINATION, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It begins again, the nocturnal pulse Subject(s): Assassination THE BELLS AT MIDNIGHT, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long, o sister, how long Last Line: Surely, some chieftain's soul! Subject(s): Assassination; Garfield, James Abram (1831-1881) THE BLACK RIDERS: 56, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man feared that he might find an assassin Last Line: One was more wise than the other. Subject(s): Assassination THE COMFORT OF THE TREES, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle and generous, brave-hearted, kind Last Line: Found comfort in the moving green of trees. Subject(s): Assassination; Mckinley, William (1843-1901); Trees THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN, by NEAL" "NEFF [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: Of him who stood foremost in this mighty age Last Line: "that the soil be not curs'd by the blood of the slave, / now the land of the free and the home of t Alternate Author Name(s): "neff, Neal; Subject(s): "american Civil War;assassination;lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865);nations;presidents, United States;u.s. - History; THE HOUSE OF SORROWS, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the white purity Last Line: Where any blow were pity, to this it struck before! Subject(s): Assassination; Elizabeth. Empress Of Austria (1837-98); Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE MARTYR; INDICATIVE OF PASSION OF PEOPLES APRIL 15, 1865, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good friday was the day Last Line: When they bare the iron hand. Subject(s): Assassination; Freedom; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Liberty THE PRICE WE PAY, by J. H. STEVENS Poem Text First Line: Yes, he was the only one killed Last Line: But that life was all that I had. Subject(s): Assassination; Death; Heroism; War - Home Front; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE RIFLE, by COVINGTON HALL Poem Text First Line: Tis made of hard, death-tempered steel Last Line: The message men to tyrants speak! Alternate Author Name(s): Ami, Covington; Ami, Covami Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Assassination; Death; Militarism; Murder; Rifles; Social Protest; War; Weapons; Ammunition; Dead, The THE SOBBING OF THE BELLS (MIDNIGHT, SEPT. 19-20, 1881), by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sobbing of the bells, the sudden death-news every Last Line: Those heart-beats of a nation in the night. Subject(s): Assassination; Garfield, James Abram (1831-1881) TRACTION, by HOWARD MOSS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His brother said that pain was what he knew Subject(s): Assassination; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) WEAPON, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The will to power destroys the power to will Last Line: In the one stroke we win the world and lose it. %the will to power destroys the power to will Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Assassination; Human Rights; War YOU LOOK AT ME AS AT, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The concrete behind it tapping, %time tapping Subject(s): Assassination |
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