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Subject: BUNKER HILL, BATTLE OF
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BUNKER HILL, by GEORGE HENRY CALVERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not yet, not yet; steady, steady!
Last Line: His steed he spurred, in haste to lead such noble men.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Bunker Hill, Battle Of


BUNKER HILL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A low redoubt, dug into tumbled earth--
Last Line: Of bunker, hill, and its immortal name!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Bunker Hill, Battle Of; War


BUNKER HILL, JUNE 17, by GEORGE LUNT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hill, on whose green, eternal crest
Last Line: Mid the old fires of bunker-hill!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Bunker Hill, Battle Of; Patriotism; Soldiers; War


BUNKER HILL, JUNE 17, 1840, by GEORGE LUNT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We've been up the brave old hill, brother
Last Line: Still keep it free, or die!'
Subject(s): American Revolution; Bunker Hill, Battle Of; Soldiers


BUNKER'S HILL, by JOHN NEAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: No shout disturbed the night
Subject(s): American Revolution; Bunker Hill, Battle Of


BUNKER'S HILL, OR THE SOLDIER'S LAMENTATION, by JOHN FREETH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a jolly soldier, / enlisted years ago
Last Line: Be destined to the cord.
Alternate Author Name(s): Free, John
Subject(s): American Revolution; Bunker Hill, Battle Of; Fights; Lament; Soldiers


GRANDMOTHER'S STORY OF BUNKER HILL BATTLE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis like stirring living embers when, at eighty, one remembers
Last Line: All are here!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Boston; Bunker Hill, Battle Of


ODE ON THE CELEBRATION OF THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL, SELS., by GRENVILLE MELLEN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): American Revolution; Bunker Hill, Battle Of


POEM OF BUNKER HILL: CONCLUSION, by HARRY BROWN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then once more men's ears were full of yankee doodle
Last Line: And see in their deaths the power of our defenses
Subject(s): American Revolution; Bunker Hill, Battle Of; Freedom


SWORD OF BUNKER HILL, by WILLIAM ROSS WALLACE    Poem Source                    
First Line: He lay upon his dying bed
Subject(s): American Revolution; Bunker Hill, Battle Of


THE AMERICAN HERO (A SAPPHIC ODE), by NATHANIEL NILES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why should vain mortals tremble at the sight of death and destruction
Last Line: Life is redoubled.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Bunker Hill, Battle Of; Freedom; Liberty


THE BALLAD OF BUNKER HILL, by EDWARD EVERETT HALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We lay in the trenches we'd dug
Last Line: Home!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Bunker Hill, Battle Of


THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL; COMPOSED BY A BRITISH OFFICER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "it was on the seventeenth, by break of day"
Last Line: "their heads for signs shall hang up high, / upon that hill call'd beacon"
Subject(s): "american Revolution;bunker Hill, Battle Of;


THE DEATH OF WARREN [JUNE 17, 1775], by EPES SARGENT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the war-cry of liberty rang through
Last Line: "'t is sweet, oh, 't is sweet for our country to die!"
Subject(s): American Revolution; Bunker Hill, Battle Of; Warren, Joseph (1741-1775)


THE EVE OF BUNKER HILL [JUNE 16, 1775], by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas june on the face of the earth, june with the rose's
Last Line: The men whose might made strong the height on the eve of bunker hill!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Bunker Hill, Battle Of


WARREN'S ADDRESS [TO THE AMERICANS] [AT BUNKER HILL] [JUNE 17, 1775], by JOHN PIERPONT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stand! The ground's your own, my braves!
Last Line: Of his deeds to tell?
Variant Title(s): Warren's Address To The American Soldiers
Subject(s): American Revolution; Bunker Hill, Battle Of; Fourth Of July; Freedom; History; Patriotism; United States - History; War; Warren, Joseph (1741-1775); Independence Day; Liberty; Historians