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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GETTYSBURG CAMPAIGN (1863) Matches Found: 31 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A VISIT TO GETTYSBURG, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will / touch stone Subject(s): American Civil War; Blood; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); United States - History; War; Gettysburg, Battle Of AN ODE OF BATTLES, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long ages past / the slow ice sledges bore Last Line: Throbbed with freedom's answered prayer. Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Grief; Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898); U.s. - History; Dead, The; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Sorrow; Sadness AT GETTYSBURG, by MAUREEN EPPSTEIN Poem Source First Line: The dead are deafening Last Line: Remembers the smell of gunpowder, %the dying screams Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); U.s. - History AT GETTYSBURG, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These fields can never be Subject(s): Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Gettysburg, Battle Of BALLAD OF ISHMAEL DAY, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One summer morning a daring band Last Line: His fame shall be fresh and young alway - %honor to old ishmael day! Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); U.s. - History GETTYSBURG, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You wore the blue and I the gray Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); U.s. - History GETTYSBURG, by ERNEST WARBURTON SHURTLEFF Poem Source First Line: Twas the breaking of the tempest when rebellion broke the law Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); U.s. - History GETTYSBURG, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wave, wave your glorious battleflags Last Line: "our grand old army held the ridge, and won that glorious day!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); U.s. - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of GETTYSBURG ODE; DEDICATION OF THE NATIONAL MONUMENT, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the eyes that looked, the lips that spake Last Line: And, dying here for freedom, also died for thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Monuments; U.s. - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of GETTYSBURG [JULY 1-3, 1863], by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was no union in the land, / though wise men labored long Last Line: The sword of meade and lee! Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Patriotism; United States - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of GETTYSBURG; THE CHECK (JUNE, 1863), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O pride of the days in prime of the months Last Line: Shall rest in honor there. Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); U.s. - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of 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 BURNS OF GETTYSBURG, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you heard the story that gossips tell Last Line: You'll show a hat that's white, or a feather. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): American Civil War; Burns, John; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Patriotism; United States - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG, by MARY MATHEWS ADAMS Poem Source First Line: A nation's voice, a nation's praise Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History NIGHT AT GETTYSBURG, by DON. C. SEITZ Poem Source First Line: By day golgotha sleeps, but when night comes Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Holidays; U.s. - History RIDING WITH KILPATRICK, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn peered through the pines as we dashed Last Line: Those who rode with kilpatrick can never forget! Subject(s): American Civil War; Cavalry; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Kilpatrick, Hugh Judson (1836-1881); U.s. - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of SIOUX SONGS: HARVEST, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Text First Line: Only the seasons and the years invade Last Line: The youth that bled beside these old stone walls. Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); United States - History; War; Gettysburg, Battle Of SIOUX SONGS: ROCKS, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Text First Line: Among these jagged rocks, whose height commands Last Line: At bay among these rocks, or charged this wood? Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); United States - History; War; Gettysburg, Battle Of SIOUX SONGS: THE BATTLE, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Text First Line: Three times the sun rose while the battle held Last Line: There lay the shadow of that agony. Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); United States - History; War; Gettysburg, Battle Of SIOUX SONGS: THE CEMETERY, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Text First Line: Here lincoln stood, in strong simplicity Last Line: And gave himself, these graves, this land, to god. Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); United States - History; War; Gettysburg, Battle Of SOMEBODY'S FATHER, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas after the battle of gettysburg Last Line: "july 3, '63." Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Fathers; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); U.s. - History; Dead, The; Gettysburg, Battle Of STORM; PROVINCETOWN, by JENNIFER ROSE Poem Source First Line: Last night's rain fell as thick as gettysburg's volleys Last Line: How the bell and foghorn learn each other's language Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Heroism; Military; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.) THE BALLAD OF ISHMAEL DAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: One summer morning a daring band Last Line: His fame shall be fresh and young alway - / honor be to old I shmael day! Subject(s): American Civil War;gettysburg Campaign (1863);u.s. - History; "gettysburg, Battle Of; THE BATTLEFIELD: GETTYSBURG, by LLOYD MIFFLIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those were the conquered, still too proud Last Line: Gorged in the darkness in a single night! Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); U.s. - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS, by ABRAHAM LINCOLN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fourscore and seven years ago Last Line: Shall not perish from the earth. Variant Title(s): At Gettysburg Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Religion; United States - History; United States; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Theology; America THE HIGH TIDE AT GETTYSBURG [JULY 3, 1863], by WILL HENRY THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cloud possessed the hollow field Last Line: Lamenting all her fallen sons! Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; United States - History; War; Liberty; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Declaration Day THE HIVE AT GETTYSBURG, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old hebrew myth the lion's frame Last Line: The old-time athlete drew! Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); U.s. - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of THE LITTLE ODYSSEY OF JASON QUINT, OF SCIENCE, DOCTOR, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Betrayed by his five mechanic agents, falling Last Line: And confirmation of his loneliness. Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); History; Travel; U.s. - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Historians; Journeys; Trips THE VISION OF GETTYSBURG (1863-1913), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What if, that day, when on those tawny slopes Last Line: The squandered blood of gettysburgs to come. Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); United States - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of VISIT TO GETTYSBURG, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will %touch stone Last Line: And touch stone %for this touchstone Subject(s): American Civil War; Blood; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); U.s. - History; War |
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