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Subject: EISENHOWER, DWIGHT DAVID (1890-1969)
Matches Found: 11

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CO-MEMORATIVE: DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, 1890-1969..., by JACK AGUEROS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I think back
Last Line: Was it ike %sent soldiers %to walk a black child schoolward?
Subject(s): Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969)


EISENHOWER YEARS, by PAUL ZIMMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flunked out and laid-off %zimmer works for his father
Last Line: He has never been anywhere %and fears where he is going
Subject(s): Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969)


GIN, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first time I drank gin
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969); Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse


GIN, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first time I drank gin
Last Line: Of dwight eisenhower, who brought us %richard nixon with wife and dog. %any wonder we were trying gi
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969); Nixon, Richard (1913-1996)


I LIKE IKE, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ike was whispering to his shadow cabinet
Subject(s): Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969)


I LIKE IKE, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ike was whispering to his shadow cabinet
Last Line: And we were disappointed when the danger passed
Subject(s): Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969)


NY TIMES, SUNDAY, 10-25-53: EISENHOWER SURE PROGRAM..., by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His books get under my wheels
Last Line: O last labor-cut adjective!
Subject(s): Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969)


OH GENERAL, OH SPY, OH BUREAUCRAT!, by WYATT PRUNTY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trained in tactics, war games, cold war, cold feet,
Subject(s): Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969)


PRIORITIES, by JON FORREST GLADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I didn't know that eisenhower was dead
Last Line: But, then, I was in vietnam %and we had our priorities straight
Subject(s): Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969); Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975


TENTATIVE DESCRIPTION OF DINNER .. IMPEACHMENT .. EISENHOWER, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: After it became obvious that the strange rain would never stop
Last Line: We resign
Subject(s): Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969)


TENTATIVE DESCRIPTION OF DINNER .. IMPEACHMENT .. EISENHOWER, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After it became obvious that the strange rain would never stop
Last Line: Took one look around and said %we resign
Subject(s): Eisenhower, Dwight David (1890-1969)