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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859) Matches Found: 33 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BROWN OF OSSAWATOMIE [DECEMBER 2, 1859], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John brown of ossawatomie spake on his dying day Last Line: To love! Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Capital Punishment; Freedom; Slavery; United States - History; Anti-slavery; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Liberty; Serfs FIFTY YEARS (1863-1913), by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O brothers mine, today we stand Last Line: God cannot let it come to naught. Subject(s): Abolitionists; African Americans; African Americans - History; Attucks, Crispus (1723-1770); Boston Massacre; Brown, John (1800-1859); Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Lovej FLESH OF JOHN BROWN'S FLESH: 2 DECEMBER 1859, by GEOFFREY BROCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We knew the rules and punishments Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff Subject(s): Brown, John (1800-1859) HISTORIC EPISODES, by PETER WELLINGTON CLARK Poem Source First Line: Toussaint %sticking out his tongue Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906); Jesus Christ; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Slavery; Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803) JOHN BROWN, by WILLIAM HERBERT CARRUTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Had he been made of such poor clay as we Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery JOHN BROWN, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men silenced on his faithful lips Last Line: Settled forever on his head! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs JOHN BROWN, by HARRY LYMAN KOOPMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea-bound landsman looking back to shore Last Line: Our tossing bark of progress sunward steers. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs JOHN BROWN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John brown died on the scaffold for the slave Last Line: Freedom reigns to-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Variant Title(s): The President's Proclamation Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Capital Punishment; Freedom; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Liberty; Serfs JOHN BROWN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Writ in between the lines of his life-deed Last Line: God! How the merest man loves one like that! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs JOHN BROWN, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though for your sake I would not have you now Last Line: I shall have more to say when I am dead. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs JOHN BROWN, by WILLIAM HASKELL SIMPSON Poem Source First Line: John brown - that's all; a serious-purposed man Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery JOHN BROWN, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery JOHN BROWN, by EUGENE FITCH WARE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: States are not great %except as men may make them Alternate Author Name(s): Ironquill Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery JOHN BROWN OF OSAWATOMIE [OCTOBER 16, 1859], by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John brown in kansas settled, like a steadfast yankee farmer Last Line: May trouble you more than ever, when you've nailed his coffin down! Variant Title(s): How John Brown Took Harper's Ferry;john Brown At Harper's Ferry;how Old John Brown Took Harper's Ferry Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Harpers Ferry, West Virginia; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Serfs JOHN BROWN'S BODY, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They came on to fish-hook gettysburg in this way, after this fashion Last Line: And the strange south moved against you, lean members lost in the corn Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Slavery; United States - History; Anti-slavery; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Serfs JOHN BROWN'S BODY, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They came on to fish-hook gettysburg in this way, after this fashion Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Slavery; U.s. - History JOHN BROWN'S BODY, by CHARLES SPRAGUE HALL Poem Text First Line: John brown's body lies a-mould-ring in the grave Last Line: Hip, hip, hip, hip, hurrah! Variant Title(s): Glory Hallelujah! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Freedom; Patriotism; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Liberty; Serfs JOHN BROWN'S BODY (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: John brown's body lies a-mould'ring in the grave Last Line: As we go marching on. %hip, hip, hip, hip, hurrah! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Freedom; Slavery JOHN BROWN'S BODY (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: John brown's body lies a-mould'ring in the grave Last Line: "now has come the glorious jubilee, / when all mankind are free" Subject(s): "abolitionists;brown, John (1800-1859);freedom;slavery;war;" Anti-slavery;liberty;serfs JOHN BROWN'S BODY (3), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: John brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave Last Line: For, the dawn of old john brown has brightened into day %and his soul is marching on Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; U.s. - History JOHN BROWN: A PARADOX, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Compassionate eyes had our brave john brown Last Line: In the old broken heart of our hanged john brown! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs JOHN BROWN; MEMORIAL TO BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been to palestine Last Line: Old john brown. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Abolitionists; African Americans; Brown, John (1800-1859); Consolation; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs KANSAS, by GLEN BAKER Poem Text First Line: This land of undulating prairies Last Line: To roll across the national sky. Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Kansas; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs NEW SPIRITUAL, by JOY DAVIDMAN Poem Source First Line: Shout like bells across the nation Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery OLD OSAWATOMIE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John brown's body under the morning stars Last Line: On a six-foot stage of dust. Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; U.s. - History; Anti-slavery; Serfs SANSON AGONISTES; DECEMBER 2, 1859, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You bound and made your sport of him, philistia! Last Line: Hark! How the rafters bend and swerve and shake! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs THE BATTLE OF CHARLESTOWN, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fresh palms for the old dominion! Last Line: There's an end of old john brown! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Capital Punishment; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Serfs THE DAY AFTER THE WAR, by JAMES MADISON BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve score of years were long to wait Last Line: A part, and help in the distress? Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs THE PORTENT, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hanging from the beam Last Line: The meteor of the war. Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; Social Protest; United States - History; Anti-slavery; Serfs THE SOUL AND BODY OF JOHN BROWN, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His life is in the body of the living. Subject(s): Brown, John (1800-1859) THE VIRGINIA SCAFFOLD; JOHN BROWN, DECEMBER 2, 1859, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rear on high the scaffold-altar! All the world will turn to see Last Line: And his sowing find its reaping in the birthday of the free! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; Social Protest; U.s. - History; Anti-slavery; Serfs TO JOHN BROWN, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We lift a song to you across the day Last Line: Until the judgment! Sentinel his rest! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs WORDS FOR THE 'HALLELUJAH CHORUS', by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave Last Line: His soul is marching on. Variant Title(s): John Brown's Body Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Freedom; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Liberty; Serfs |
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