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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ELECTIONS Matches Found: 83 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 7-NOV-84, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Not one of my candidates won. Not one Last Line: Bristle with stickers and seeds Subject(s): Elections; Political Campaigns; Presidents, United States; Reagan, Ronald Wilson (b. 1911) A FREMONT CAMPAIGN SONG, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sound now the trumpet warningly! Last Line: Fremont and victory! Subject(s): Elections; Fremont, John Charles (1813-1890); Voting; Voters; Suffrage A LETTER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis over, moses! All is lost! Last Line: "than laborers in new hampshire""!" Subject(s): Elections; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Hale, John Parker (1806-1896); New Hampshire; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Antislavery Movement - United States A NOTE ON THE LATE ELECTIONS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, friends, once more the revolution has performed its famous Last Line: But in every drop of the rain the sailors of the potemkin wake. Subject(s): Elections; Politics & Government; Voting; Voters; Suffrage A SONG: INSCRIBED TO THE FREMONT CLUBS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath thy skies, november! Last Line: What may not four years do? Subject(s): Elections; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Fremont, John Charles (1813-1890); Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Antislavery Movement - United States ADDRESS AND INVITATION TO A YOUNG FRIEND, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To tell you the truth, dear j., I was sorry Last Line: So come back—pray do—while the heather's in glory. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Elections; Ireland; Politics & Government; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Irish AFTER ELECTION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day's sharp strife is ended now Last Line: The weary heart of freedom rest! Subject(s): Elections; Freedom; Peace; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Liberty AN ELECTION ADDRESS (TO CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, 1882), by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I venture to suggest that I / am rather noticeably fit Last Line: Respectability I can. Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K. Subject(s): Cambridge University; Clergy; Elections; Politics & Government; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Voting; Voters; Suffrage AN ELECTION BALLAD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The laddies by the banks o' nith Last Line: Up and waur them, &c. Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage ANOTHER STAR, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are five a-light before us Last Line: The baby, the home! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Elections; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism BALLOT AND THE BULLET, by CHRIS VAN WYK Poem Source First Line: The ballot Subject(s): Elections CAMPAIGN PROMISE, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: During the great debates, he tried a joke Last Line: Which, had it been alive, he would have killed Subject(s): Elections; Hate; Kennedy-nixon Television Debates, 1960 CAMPAIGN THUNDER, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My friends, when I'm elected, the people Last Line: Elected a change will be detected—no man will have to work! Subject(s): Elections; Social Protest; Tyranny & Tyrants; Voting; Voters; Suffrage CANDIDATING IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You bet that folks up here this week Last Line: "with candidating in vermont." Subject(s): Elections; Politics & Government; Vermont; Voting; Voters; Suffrage COLORED HEROES, HARK THE BUGLE; POLITICAL, by ROBERT CHARLES O'HARA BENJAMIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Colored heroes seek your standard Last Line: Cowards they, who turn and fly. Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage COMING, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because the time is ripe, the age is ready Last Line: Comes woman to her hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Elections; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism DELIVERANCE, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rise up! Rise up! Oh israel Last Line: Their first great jubilee. Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage DOG AND THE THIEF, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Quoth the thief to the dog, 'let me into your door' Last Line: That would turn a man out of his own? Subject(s): Elections; Politics ELECTION, by JOSE OSWALD DE SOUZA ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: Who won: the babylonian system Last Line: And the waiter with the side-burns Subject(s): Elections ELECTION, by PETER SACKS Poem Source First Line: Where %we've come to Last Line: Pursuing, %laying hold Subject(s): Elections ELECTION DAY IS A HOLIDAY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: People on whom I do not bother to dote Last Line: Neither man would be appealing enough to squeeze a vote out of them Subject(s): Elections ELECTION DAY, 1984, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did you ever see someone coldcock a blind nun? Last Line: If evil could be safer, on the whole. Subject(s): Elections; Evil; Ignorance; Politics & Government; Reagan, Ronald Wilson (1911-2004)); Women; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Dullness; Stupdity; Feminism ELECTION DAY, NOVEMBER, 1884, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I should need to name, o western world, your powerfulest scene and show Last Line: Swell'd washington's, jefferson's, lincoln's sails. Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage ELECTION YEAR, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A jet of mere phantom Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage EPISTLE TO ROBERT GRAHAM OF FINTRY (1), by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fintry, my stay in wordy strife Last Line: To grind them in the mire! Subject(s): Elections; Scotland - Relations With England; Voting; Voters; Suffrage FOR BELL; ELECTION BALLAD SUNG AT ESLINGTON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sing hey diddle diddle, %here's young mister liddell Last Line: We like better matt. Bell, and kenn'd worth Subject(s): Elections FOR FEAR, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For fear of prowling beasts at night Last Line: Garden and home. Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Elections; Fear; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism GIVE US THE RIGHT TO VOTE, by EMMA DOLTZ Poem Source First Line: For some time now we have been drawn Subject(s): Elections; Women's Rights HURRAH FOR COOPER AND CARY, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We will rally in the city Last Line: Right will yet conquer might, boys. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage HUSTINGS, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the eyes Subject(s): Elections; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963) HYMN FOR EQUAL SUFFRAGE, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They have strewn the burning hearths of man with / darkness and with mire Last Line: When mothers of men are free. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Elections; Human Rights; Justice; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism I SHALL VOTE CENTRE, by ROGER WODDIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I shall vote centre because %the opinion-polls say I ought to vote centre Last Line: I shall vote centre because, deep down, %I am very shallow Subject(s): Elections; Logue, Christopher (b. 1926) I SHALL VOTE LABOUR, by CHRISTOPHER LOGUE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I shall vote labour because %god votes labour Last Line: I shall vote labour because %deep in my heart %I am a conservative Subject(s): Elections; Labor And Laborers IN THE PARKING LOT AT THE JUNIOR COLLEGE ON THE EVE OF A PRESIDENTAL, by JANE MEAD Poem Source First Line: I've been sitting in this parking lot %for a long time-thinking Last Line: Abraham. Abraham- %I'm talking about the wonder Subject(s): Elections; Presidents, United States INAUGURATION DAY: JANUARY 1953, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snow had buried stuyvesant Subject(s): Elections; Presidents, United States; Stevenson, Adlai (1900-1965); Voting; Voters; Suffrage INAUGURATION DAY: JANUARY 1953, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snow had buried stuyvesant Last Line: The mausoleum in her heart Subject(s): Elections; Presidents, United States; Stevenson, Adlai (1900-1965) JUCHITAN 1., by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: In the zocalo, the banter Last Line: I slice a path %through the dampness, %the children's laughter %and singing of black birds Subject(s): Elections LIDDLE FOR ME!; ELECTION BALLAD SUNG AT ESLINGTON, by ELIZABETH WYNDHAM Poem Source First Line: By the margin of tyne as I saunter'd along Last Line: That all the way home I sang - liddell for me! Subject(s): Elections NOT A MOVIE, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well the rocked him with road-apples Last Line: But, thank god , he wasn't dead! %and there ain't no ku klux on a 133rd Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Elections; Harlem (new York City); Racism; Southern States OLD TIPPECANOE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "come, rouse up, ye bold-hearted whigs" Last Line: And 'go it for' tyler and 'tippecanoe' Subject(s): "elections;harrison, William Henry (1773-1841);" Voting;voters;suffrage ON A CANDIDATE ACCCUSED OF YOUTH, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Too young' do they call him? Who say it? Not they Last Line: Ask the foe by which weapon he fears most to fall! Subject(s): Elections; Politics & Government; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919); Voting; Voters; Suffrage ON A GREAT ELECTION; EPIGRAM, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The accursed power which stands on privilege Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Variant Title(s): On A General Election Subject(s): Elections; Politics & Government; Voting; Voters; Suffrage ON A GREAT ELECTION; EPIGRAM, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The accursed power which stands on privilege Last Line: Which goes with bridge, and women and champagne Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Variant Title(s): On A General Electio Subject(s): Elections; Politics POLL, by ED ROBERSON Poem Source First Line: Skin that is a closed curtain Last Line: Darkie is the night is %an old image given color. %the skin is history.The dark horse Subject(s): Elections PROTEST AGAINST THE BALLOT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forth rushed from envy sprung and self-conceit Last Line: Pierced by thy spear in glorious victory. Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage RECKONINGS, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: God, what a feeling! We declared Last Line: The waves were bigger now: one carried a contestant %miles down the beach, then left him churning in Subject(s): Competition; Elections; Seashore; Surfing; Water; Waves SEAT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The politician sat on the most Last Line: He'll be up in time for the next election Subject(s): Elections; Lavatories; Politics SONG FOR EQUAL SUFFRAGE, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Day of hope and day of glory! After slavery and woe Last Line: As his world goes marching on! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Elections; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism STATE OF THE UNION: 13. ELECTION REPORT, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was a numbers game from the start Last Line: It was, by all accounts, a numbers game Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Democratic Party (u.s.); Elections; Political Campaigns SUFFRAGE MARCHING-SONG, by LOUIS JAMES BLOCK Poem Text First Line: Lo! The nations have been toiling up a steep and rugged road Last Line: For the hope still leads them on! Subject(s): Elections; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism THE ANTI-SUFFRAGISTS, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fashionable women in luxurious homes Last Line: To great democracy and womanhood! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Americans; Elections; United States; Women; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; America; Feminism THE ASS-ELECTION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Being tired of freedom for some time past Last Line: With evident gratification. Subject(s): Elections; Germany; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Germans THE BALLOT, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A weapon that comes down as still Last Line: As lightning does the will of god. Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage THE BIGLOW PAPERS: 3. WHAT MR. ROBINSON THINKS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Guvener b. Is a sensible man Last Line: Gee! Subject(s): Elections; Politics & Government; United States; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; America THE BOROUGH: LETTER 5. ELECTIONS, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, our election's past, and we've been free Last Line: And our good vicar would have less to do. Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage THE CANDIDATE, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Enough of actors -- let them play the player Last Line: To grace a stuart brow, she plants on thine. Subject(s): Cambridge University; Critics & Criticism; Elections; Montagu, John, 4th Earl Of Sandwich; Yorke, Philip. 2d Earl Of Hardwicke; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Twitcher, Jemmy THE CANDIDATE, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sly jemmy twitcher had smugg'd up his face Last Line: He's christian enough, that repents, and that -------. Subject(s): Cambridge University; Elections; Montagu, John, 4th Earl Of Sandwich; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Twitcher, Jemmy THE CONSCIENTIOUS VOTER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The conscientious voter leaned against the voting-booth Last Line: "the names of worthy men for whom a man may wisely vote." Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage THE COUNTRY CLERGYMAN'S TRIP TO CAMBRIDGE; ELECTION BALLAD, by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I sat down to breakfast in state Last Line: We were rumbling o'er trumpington stones. Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, 1st Baron Subject(s): Clergy; Elections; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Voting; Voters; Suffrage THE DEMONSTRATION, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They bob above us all afternoon Last Line: Their spells had summoned up. Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Conventions; Democratic Party (u.s.); Elections; Protest, Social; Racism; Assemblies; Meetings; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE ELECTION, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rejoice, ye burghers, ane an' a' Last Line: O' death yon night. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage THE EVE OF THE ELECTION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From gold to gray Last Line: When god and man shall speak as one! Variant Title(s): Indian Summer Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage THE FIVE CARLINS; AN ELECTION BALLAD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was five carlins in the south Last Line: May look weel to himsel. Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage THE HERON BALLADS: 1. FIRST BALLAD IN THROAT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whom will you send to london town Last Line: They wad be blest that saw that. Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage THE HERON BALLADS: 2. THE ELECTION, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fy, let us a' to kirkcudbright Last Line: But gied the auld naig to the lord. Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage THE HERON BALLADS: 3. JOHN BUSBY'S LAMENTATION, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the seventeen hunder year Last Line: To keep that knave frae scaith. Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage THE HERON BALLADS: 4. NEW SONG OF A SEDITIOUS PAMPHLET, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wha will buy my troggin, fine election ware Last Line: Buy braw troggin, &c. Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage THE NEW IDEA, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last fall I heard a candidate stand on a Last Line: With broken backs. Subject(s): Democratic Party (u.s.); Elections; Freedom; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Liberty THE POOR VOTER ON ELECTION DAY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The proudest now is but my peer Last Line: A man's a man to-day! Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage THE QUAKERS ARE OUT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not vainly we waited and counted the hours Last Line: For lincoln goes in, when the quakers are out! Subject(s): Elections; Friends, Religious Society Of; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Quakers THE SOCIALIST AND THE SUFFRAGIST, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said the socialist to the suffragist Last Line: "just get into the game!" Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Elections; Socialism; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism THE TWO SCALES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hughes and fairbanks, a judicial couple! Last Line: Finely matched with the fairbanks scales! Subject(s): Elections; Fairbanks, Henry (1830-1918); Hughes, Charles Evans (1862-1948); Voting; Voters; Suffrage TO A BULL MOOSE, by EUGENE GLADSTONE O'NEILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Braw, snortin', roarin', fearsome beastie Last Line: The self-same way. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Elections; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Voting; Voters; Suffrage TO CAPTAIN SEAMAN WEEKS, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Captain weeks, your right hand Last Line: Tenth ward independent elector' myself Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Elections; Political Campaigns TO THE INDIFFERENT WOMEN; A SESTINA, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You who are happy in a thousand homes Last Line: Is joined with man's to care for all the world! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Elections; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism VOTING MACHINE, by NORMAN NATHAN Poem Source First Line: Nowhere can flesh feel more limp Last Line: I will speak %me Subject(s): Elections WE AS WOMEN, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a cry in the air about us Last Line: We shall lift the world indeed. Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Elections; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism WE NEVER CHANGE, by MARY ANN HENN Poem Source First Line: Elections -- again Last Line: So how can we change?? Subject(s): Elections WHY I VOTED THE SOCIALIST TICKET, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am unjust, but I can strive for justice Last Line: And make us sages with transfigured faces. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Elections; Socialism; Voting; Voters; Suffrage WINDING UP, by CY RICHIN Poem Source First Line: The mood of this voter is so angry that Last Line: I'll cast my next ballot not for them but at! Subject(s): Elections WOMEN DO NOT WANT IT, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the woman suffrage argument first stood upon its legs Last Line: When he himself admits the right of what we ask today? Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Elections; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism WOMENS' SUFFRAGE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fellow men! Why should the lords try to despise Last Line: And ye will gain the parliamentary franchise before very long. Subject(s): Elections; Freedom; Wages; Women - Employment; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Liberty; Salaries; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; Feminism YOUNG SAMMY'S FIRST WILD OATS, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mid uncle sam's expanded acres Last Line: "on ""young sammy's first wild oats." Subject(s): Elections; Spanish-american War (1898); United States; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; America |
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