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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GOVERNMENT Matches Found: 306 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 10, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A politician is an arse upon Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Hate; Politics & Government A BACHELOR-BOOKWORM'S COMPLAINT OF LAST PRESENTIAL ELECTION, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man of peace, I never dared to marry Last Line: I may -- who knows -- forgive both hayes and tilden! Subject(s): Hayes, Rutherford B. (1822-1893); Tilden, Samuel J. (1814-1886); United States - Politics & Government A CHARACTER, PANEGYRIC, AND DESCRIPTION OF THE LEGION CLUB, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I strole the city, oft I / spy a building large and lofty Subject(s): Politics & Government A FOREIGN COUNTRY, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider that instant of anger when to the blow Subject(s): Anger; Russia; Communism; Politics & Government; Soviet Union; Russians A LESSON FROM THE CORPS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you find the body, it has cauliflower ears Last Line: Only the dead can tell you the distance from here to there - see more at: http://iwp.Uiowa.Edu/91st/ Subject(s): Politics & Government; War A LETTER FOR MARIAN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit musing, ten minutes from the jap Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Politics & Government; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty A LETTER TO THE LIBERALS, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not enough Subject(s): Politics & Government A LOCAL POLITICIAN FROM AWAY BACK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jedge is good at argyin'-- Last Line: Sence back in '56. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Judges; Money; Politics & Government A MEDITATION, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rome has been dead these many hundred years Last Line: Rome still rules. Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Government; Language; Latin; Law & Lawyers; Legacies; Roman Empire; Rome, Italy; Words; Vocabulary; Attorneys A MISCONCEPTION, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: B, taught by pope to do his good by stealth Last Line: Does himself all the good he can by stealing. Subject(s): Politics & Government; Venality A MUNICIPAL REFORM, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I were street commissioner,' said jimmy bright to me Last Line: "they would, if I could name the streets,"" said jimmy bright to me." Subject(s): Government 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 POLITICAL ALLEGORY, by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once there was a famous nation Last Line: Grew and prospered as of old. Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K. Subject(s): Politics & Government A POLITICAL CHARACTER, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In him the elements are strangely blent Last Line: And strength to follow out their thought through all. Subject(s): Politics & Government A POLITICAL LITANY, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From a junta that labor for absolute power Last Line: And britain go on -- to be damned, if she will. Variant Title(s): Libera Nos, Domine - Deliver Us, O Lord Subject(s): Great Britain - Rulers; Politics & Government; United States; America A POLITICAL REVERIE, SELECTION, by MERCY OTIS WARREN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let grecian bards, and roman poets tell Last Line: And lisping infants praise jehovah's name! Subject(s): Politics & Government A POLITICAL VISION, by BOB HICOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cellist in every lobby by love and law Last Line: That would moan if bowed Subject(s): Political Conventions; Politics & Government A PRIMROSE DAME, by GLEESON WHITE Poem Text First Line: She has a primrose at her breast Last Line: I almost wish I were a tory. Subject(s): Politics & Government; Primroses A SONG FOR OCCUPATIONS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I do of men and women like you Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Business; United States – Politics & Government A STATESMAN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He knew the mask of principle to wear Last Line: Chief eunuch, were but ours the sultan's court! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Duplicity; Politics & Government; Selfishness; Deceit A WARRANT FOR PABLO NERUDA, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: With the fury of cinders, with the despair of dusty Last Line: An alchemy of resistance transmutes your flowering name Subject(s): Chile; Government; Nobel Prizes; Poetry & Poets; Socialism; South America A YEAR'S BURDEN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fire and wild light of hope and doubt and fear Last Line: Cry wellaway, but well befall the right. Subject(s): Change; Death; Hope; Politics & Government; Dead, The; Optimism ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin Last Line: And willing nations knew their lawful lord. Variant Title(s): Absalom And Achitophel: A Poem Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Conspiracy; Cooper, Anthony (1621-1683); Great Britain - Popish Plot (1678-80); Hyde, Lawrence. 1st Earl Of Rochester; James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460); Jews; Politics & Government; Scott, James. Duke Of Mon 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 TENNYSON, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: You ask me why, though ill at ease Subject(s): Modern Life; Freedom; Politics & Government; United States; Liberty; America AFTER THE ANTI-WAR MARCH, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had a different driver on the way home. I sat Subject(s): Politics & Government; War AH RAIN!, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet scented, dripping from eaves and darkening Last Line: My religion is rain, my anger, hate, love is rain Subject(s): Politics & Government; Rain 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 EXCELLENT NEW SONG, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An orator dismal of nottinghamshire Last Line: And be a true whig, while I'm not in game. Subject(s): Politics & Government; Speech; Oratory; Orators AN EXPLANATION OF AMERICA, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As though explaining the idea of dancing Subject(s): Politics & Government; Social Problems; United States; America AN INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF A PROPHET, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And a voice like a voice in dreams cried out in the stone wilderness Last Line: Born from his dreaming blood was the red flag of the fifth Subject(s): Morality; Politics & Government; Prophecy & Prophets; Ethics AN ODE FOR THE NEW YEAR AS IT WAS SUNG BEFORE HIS MAJESTY, by LAWRENCE EUSDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Lift up thy hoary head, and rise Last Line: Britannia is a brunswick's care. Subject(s): Caroline Of Brunswick, Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Government; Politics & Government; South Sea Islands; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens AN ODE TO THE FRAMERS OF THE FRAME BILL, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh well done lord e - n! And better done r - r! Last Line: Who, when asked for a remedy, sent them a rope. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Politics & Government; Work; Workers ARS GUBERNANDI, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Thy subtlest gift is steersmanship, o sea! Last Line: Skills not that day when rigid moorings break. Subject(s): English Channel; Great Britain - Politics & Government; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails ARS POETICA, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, / poet by trade, / condemned so many times Last Line: I catch sight of the promised land Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government AT A PARTY, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: They want to petition the hungarian government Last Line: Knitted into the sweater Subject(s): Czechoslovakia - Communist Regime; Exiles; Government; Hungary AUNT CHLOE'S POLITICS, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of course, I don't know very much / about these politics Last Line: I go for voting clean . Subject(s): Politics & Government BAD GOVERNMENT, by KUAN HSIU Poem Source First Line: Sleet and rain, as if the pot were boiling Last Line: One east, one west, one north, one south, %we're surrounded Subject(s): Government; Pain BANKING LESSON, 1970, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your hero's welcome was cleaning Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Politics & Government; Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BETWEEN SESSION AND SESSION, by JANE AUSTEN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Against wicked men's will Subject(s): Government; Great Britain - Parliament BLUES FOR THE OLD REVOLUTIONARY WOMAN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A tick of time that stones the heads of kings Last Line: Points toward the indies of our mortal wish Subject(s): Politics & Government; Socialism; Women BLUES FOR WARREN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beasts in the schoolroom, whose transparent faces Last Line: Are beached the spring-tide flowers of our hopes Subject(s): Communism; Death; North Sea; Politics & Government; Socialism; Soldiers; War; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War BROKEN SONNET, by JOHN YAU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world weeps. There are no tears Subject(s): Politics & Government; Social Commentaries BRYAN, BRYAN, BRYAN, BRYAN, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a nation of one hundred fine, mob-hearted, lynching Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Bryan, William Jennings (1860-1925); Political Campaigns; Politics & Government BUILDING THE NATION, by HENRY BARLOW Poem Source First Line: Today I did my share Last Line: The result of building the nation - %different ways Subject(s): Government; Uganda BUONAPARTE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I grieved for buonaparte, with a vain Last Line: True power doth grow on; and her rights are these. Variant Title(s): 1801;i Grieved For Buonaparte Subject(s): Government; Napoleon I (1769-1821) CALL AND ANSWER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me why it is we don't lift our voices these days Last Line: Hurry, cry now! Soon sunday night will come Subject(s): Politics & Government; War 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 CANTICLE FOR THE BICENTENNIAL DEAD, by ROBERT+(1) ADAMSON Poem Source First Line: They are talking in their cedar-benched rooms Last Line: And court reporter's hands move over the papers Subject(s): Death; Government; Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners CANTO 37, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou shalt not', said martin vanburen. 'jail 'em for debt' Subject(s): United States - Politics & Government; Immigrants; Debt; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration CARMEN BOMBA: POET, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Luisa always felt refreshed when she remembered carmen bomba Last Line: To say the verses he composed that day Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Politics & Government CELLO, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a dead tree falls in a forest Subject(s): Politics & Government; War CHILDREN OF OUR AGE, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are children of our age Subject(s): Politics & Government CHOICES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would you rather have health insurance Subject(s): Politics & Government; War CHORAL SONG, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soon greek oars will whip up Subject(s): Politics & Government; War CHURCH AND STATE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is fresh matter, poet, / matter for old age meet Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Government; Religion; Theology CHURCH AND STATE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is fresh matter, poet, %matter for old age meet Last Line: Wine shall run thick to the end, %bread taste sour Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Government; Religion CLAP TRAP, by IRENE WARSAW Poem Source First Line: Congressional speeches draw lengthy applause Last Line: Enough to have dared be the first ones to quit Subject(s): Government COLD COMFORT, by MIRCEA DINESCU Poem Source First Line: God preserve me from those who want what's best for me Last Line: Only great provisions of tolerance and fear Subject(s): Government; Human Rights; Tyranny And Tyrants COMPLAINT AND PETITION, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. President: on a clear cold Last Line: And love will quit the world Subject(s): Politics & Government; War COMPROMISE; INSCRIBED TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1861, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Compromise! Who dares to speak it Last Line: We will never, never yield!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Government; U.s. - History; United States; Liberty; America COPLAS ON THE BAD GOVERNMENT OF TOLEDO, by GOMEZ MANRIQUE Poem Source First Line: When mighty rome was conqueror Last Line: Full little thrust will it deliver! Subject(s): Government; Politics; War COYNE'S, by JOHN ENNIS Poem Source First Line: I think of that meadow off down in coyne's Last Line: Lots are cast for the bones of the living at auctions Subject(s): Government CUI BONO?, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: My lords and commons, in your place of trust Last Line: Seems quite the thing in teaching moderation. Subject(s): Nationalism - Germany; Politics & Government; War CYNICAL ODE TO AN ULTRA-CYNICAL PUBLIC, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You prefer a buffoon to a scholar Last Line: Pig of a public! Subject(s): Cynicism; Politics & Government DANIEL WEBSTER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, stricken by the freezing blast Last Line: On the blue tablet of the deep! Subject(s): Politics & Government; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) DEATH OF SAMORA MACHEL, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They vowed his government will fall Last Line: Where they had packed a legend Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Death; Government; Zimbabwe DEMOCRACY, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Politics & Government; Winter DIFFICULT EVOLUTION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The donkey and the elephant were in a desert land Last Line: As he lumbered o'er the desert with a plod, plod, plod. Subject(s): Politics & Government; Temperance; Prohibition DISCRETIONS OF ALCIBIADES, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First frost is weeks off, but yj prudent man Subject(s): Mythology; Adultery; Politics & Government DOMESDAY BOOK: THE GOVERNOR, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm home at last. How long were you asleep? Last Line: To coroner merival on the street one day: Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Life; Politics & Government; Attorneys DOMINION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Patrician overthrown Last Line: Except the lyric seers. Subject(s): Earth; Government; Injustice; Order; World DOWN TO THE CAPITAL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'be'n down to the capital at washington, d.C. Last Line: They's nothin' much patheticker'n jes' a-bein' rich! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Politics & Government; Washington, D.c. DR. RIMMER'S HAMILTON ON COMMONWEALTH AVENUE AND ARLINGTON STREET, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Granite unsharded by the fires of revolt Last Line: Hamilton, voice of sovereignty. Subject(s): Politics & Government; Sculpture & Sculptors DUKE UPON DUKE; A NEW BALLAD TO THE TUNE OF CHEVY CHASE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To lordings proud I lay my tune Last Line: That pride will have a fall. Subject(s): Guise, Sir John (1677-1732); Politics & Government ECLOGUE: THE TIMES, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, tom, how be'st? Zoo thou'st a-got thy neame Last Line: You'll goo vor wool, an' then come hwome a-sheär'd. Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Economics; Fables; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Pigs; Politics & Government; Social Protest; Wages; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Boars; Hogs; Salaries 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 ELEGIAC VERSES ON THE DEATH OF LORD PALMERSTON, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A loftier muse, in higher strains, may sing Last Line: Still vibrates strong for him, revered of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; England; Politics & Government; Praise; Dead, The; English ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The men that worked for england / they have their graves at home Last Line: They have no graves as yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): England; Politics & Government; Soldiers; World War I; English; First World War ENGLAND AND THE S.A. REPUBLICS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Be just and generous! Fear not thou Last Line: The april buds remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Great Britain - Politics & Government EPIGRAM, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midas, they say, possessed the art of old Last Line: Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please. Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Politics & Government EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shut, shut the door, good john! Fatigued I said Last Line: Thus far was right, the rest belongs to heav'n. Variant Title(s): Prologue To The Satires Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735); Booksellers; Critics & Criticism; Gay, John (1685-1732); Hate; Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Writing & Writers; Bookstores; Doctors EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: A DEAD STATESMAN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could not dig: I dared not rob Last Line: Mine angry and defrauded young? Subject(s): Politics & Government; War - Home Front; World War I; First World War EXTEMPORE, by JOHN ST. LEDGER Poem Text First Line: Thou little tory, why the jest Last Line: The whiteness of the rebel rose. Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland; Politics & Government EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY OF A POLITICIAN, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through m-nch-st-r square took a canter just now Last Line: "for ""young I am and sore afraid." Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Diaries; Politics & Government FABLE, by DAVID MATTHEWS Poem Source First Line: Rejoice, americans, rejoice! Last Line: Frenchmen, like storks, love frogs--to eat 'em Subject(s): American Revolution - French Involvement; Independence; U.s. - Congress; U.s. - Politics And Government FATUITY OF THE FAMILY-VALUE BANDWAGON, by G. TOD STONE Poem Source First Line: It is not the hypocrisy, deciet and lies that bother them Last Line: System, government and pillars of their communities... Subject(s): Government; Politics FEBRUARY 30TH, by FREDERICK SEIDEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The speckled pigeon standing on the ledge Subject(s): Pigeons; War; Modern Life; Politics & Government FEDERICO'S GHOST, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The story is / that whole families of fruitpickers Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Politics & Government; Latinos FIFTY APRIL YEARS, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A soldier waved our bus Subject(s): Time; Politics & Government FIN-DE-SIECLE BLUES, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At seventeen I'm told to write a paper Last Line: Seize the day. Subject(s): Morality; Philosophy & Philosophers; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Tyranny & Tyrants; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Ethics; Dictators; Feminism FIVE THIEVES, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: If you're gonna write poetry Last Line: In the lines of beggar poets %like me Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Crime And Criminals; Government; Korea - Rebellions; Poetry And Poets FOUND IN THE FREE LIBRARY, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And we were made afraid, and being afraid Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Politics & Government; War FOUR POEMS ABOUT JAMAICA: 3. A HAIRPIN TURN ABOVE READING, JAMAICA, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's where the fire truck fell Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Jamaica, West Indies; Wealth; Politics & Government; Riches; Fortunes FROM THE BRIDGE, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have freed myself at last Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Politics & Government; Self GEORGE WASHINGTON, by LAURA REW BIXBY Poem Text First Line: A nation was born in a vast new domain Last Line: Of a self-governed people. May they honor his name! Subject(s): Presidents, United States; United States - History; United States - Politics & Government; Washington, George (1732-1799) GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 20, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In an hour from harburg to hamburg I went Last Line: "but I leave the peel uneaten." Subject(s): Germany; Politics & Government; Germans GLOBAL POSITIONING, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That the shoe fits for the inaugural demonstration should Subject(s): Politics & Government; War GOVERNMENT, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The government - I heard about the government and Last Line: Germs, traditions and corpuscles handed down from fathers and mothers away back. Subject(s): Government GOVERNMENT WORK, by STUART REDPATH Poem Source First Line: Later this afternoon, a small man will float face down Last Line: Falls in a forest, and what is the sound of one man dying Subject(s): Government; Politics GROUND ZERO, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What's after or before Last Line: All turned to dust Subject(s): Politics & Government; War; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 HAITI, by JACK HIRSCHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day in the future these sounds are seeds of Subject(s): Haiti; Politics & Government HATED RATS, by NGUYEN BINH KHIEM Poem Source First Line: To be born is to want -- is it that simple? Last Line: Proclaiming a peace to nourish our ravaged land Subject(s): Government HENRY WARD BEECHER, by CHARLES HENRY PHELPS Poem Text First Line: His tongue was touched with sacred fire Last Line: Wherever men lay bound he clave. Subject(s): Beecher, Henry Ward (1813-1887); Clergy; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Politics & Government; Writing & Writers; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Antislavery Movement - United States HEROIC STANZAS, CONSECRATED TO MEMORY OF OLIVER [CROMWELL], by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now 'tis time; for their officious haste Last Line: Where piety and valour jointly go. Variant Title(s): Heroic Stanzas Consecrated To The Glorious Memory Of His Most Serene Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Death; England; Freedom; Politics & Government; Praise; Dead, The; English; Liberty HINT FROM THE MOUNTAINS FOR CERTAIN POLITICAL PRETENDERS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who but hails the sight with pleasure' Last Line: "its endeavouring!" Subject(s): Politics & Government HISTORY, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred flint arrowheads, chipped, rain Subject(s): Politics & Government; War I APPLIED FOR THE BOARD, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A flight of fancy and breath of fresh air Last Line: And partly fvom the joy that it was over Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government I HAVE NEVER WANTED TO MARCH, by TESS GALLAGHER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or to wear an epaulet. Once I did Subject(s): Politics & Government; War IMPRESSIONS OF THE NEW MEXICO LEGISLATURE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lieutenant governor sits in the center Last Line: "may say 'ay', those opposed may raise their feet." Subject(s): Legislation; New Mexico; Politics & Government IN GEORGETOWN; HOLIDAY INN, WASHINGTON, D.C., by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is not where the rich and famous pursue their lifestyles Last Line: "melodiously at the door: ""are you all right, sir? Are you all right in there?" Subject(s): Americans; Corruption In Politics & Government; Hotels; Politics; Social Protest; United States; Washington, D.c.; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Politicians; Political Poetry; America IN ORDER TO, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Apply for the position (I've forgotten now for what) I had Subject(s): Politics & Government; Social Commentaries INCOMING, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Don't let them kid you Subject(s): Politics & Government; Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 INFIDELS, by CARL DENNIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All that stands between us and the happiness Last Line: Lies they're far too cunning to utter openly Subject(s): Change; Government JACOBITE'S TOAST (TO AN OFFICER IN THE ARMY), by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God bless the king, I mean the faith's defender Last Line: God bless us all!--that's quite another thing. Variant Title(s): Extempore Verses;to An Officer In The Army;extempore Intended To Allay The Violence Of Party Spirit;which Is Which;an Admonition Against Swearing: To The Same Subject(s): Politics & Government JOE BABES, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Joe babes, the ones named %jolene, rena mae, juanita or loretta Last Line: We were the joe babes. %all of us Subject(s): Children; Culture Conflict; Government; Native Americans - Reservations; Schools JOHN KENDRICK BANGS, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY Poem Text First Line: Who had more literary pseudonyms Last Line: Famed lecturer in the united states. Subject(s): Bangs, John Kendrick (1862-1922); Literature; Politics & Government; Writing & Writers JORGE THE CHURCH JANITOR FINALLY QUITS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: No one asks / where I am from Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Janitors; Politics & Government; Latinos JULY IN WASHINGTON, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Washington, D.c.; Politics & Government; Summer KING CRACK AND HIS IDOLS, WRITTEN LATE NEGOCIATION FOR A NEW MINISTRY, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King crack was the best of all possible kings Last Line: Set the monsters up grinning once more in their places! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Politics & Government LA TUMBA DE BUENAVENTURA ROIG, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Buenaventurea roig, / once peasants in the thousands Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Politics & Government; Latinos LAMENT FOR PABLO NERUDA, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We may well ask now: 'where are the lilacs?' yes Last Line: For the guerilla entering the plaza where defeated generals wait Subject(s): Activity; Chile; Guerrillas; Politics & Government; Socialism; Spain; Exercise LEARNING TO SERVE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The minister for hellth is arguing his case Last Line: Where they will learn to serve the deep needs of mankind Subject(s): Government; Politics; Service LETTER TO THE FRONT: 9, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among all the waste there are the intense stories Subject(s): United States - Politics & Government; Women & War LIKE YOU, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Politics & Government LIKE YOU, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like you I / love love, life, the sweet smell Subject(s): Politics & Government LINES ADDRESSED TO MR. HOBHOUSE ON HIS ELECTION FOR WESTMINSTER, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would you go to the house by the true gate Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Politics & Government LINES ON MINISTERS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But ministers like gladiators live Last Line: Dies between exigents, and self defence. Subject(s): Politics & Government LINES ON THE MONUMENT OF GIUSEPPE MAZZINI, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Italia, mother of the souls of men, mother divine Last Line: Mazzini's name. Subject(s): Mazzini, Giuseppe (1805-1872); Politics & Government LORD LUNDY, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord lundy from his earliest years Last Line: How gracious! How lord lundy cried! Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Crying; Politics & Government LOYALTY, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the hardest part Subject(s): Reincarnation; Dogs; Politics & Government; Wit & Humor; Transmigration; Pretas MACHIAVELLI FINDS A HOME IN WASHINGTON, D. C., by WILLIAM SCOTT GALASSO Poem Source First Line: Who are these people? Last Line: Who are these people, %who are the fools that elect them? Subject(s): Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527); U.s. - Politics And Government MANDARINS GOT THEIR RAISE, by TU MO Poem Source First Line: You'd think all these mandarins, big shots Last Line: You've got your raise. Now just stop squeezing %the vise around us. That's all we beg Subject(s): Government MINDING THE DARKNESS: IV. I, by PETER DALE SCOTT Poem Source First Line: Eclogue on the federal reserve board Last Line: Most of us without thinking %carry round in our billfolds Subject(s): Government; Money; Religion MOB CONTRA MOB, OR, THE RABBLERS RABBLED, SELS., by WILLIAM MESTON Poem Source First Line: Now of all wars the ecclesiastick Last Line: Backward in haste unto their lodging Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Great Britain - Politics & Government; Great Britain - Religion MONOTONES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because there is but one truth Last Line: For a single, a sevenfold song. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Politics & Government MORNING NEWS, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Spring wafts up the smell of bus exhaust, of bread Subject(s): Politics & Government; War MOUTH-ORGANS AND DRUMS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fighting god it shattered belts Last Line: All flags no one kingdom select Subject(s): Politics & Government; War MY POLITICAL FAITH, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am not of those fierce, wild wills Last Line: And freedom to each lovely land. Subject(s): Freedom; Politics & Government; Liberty MY RUTHERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tell you what I'd ruther do Last Line: Ef I only had my ruthers. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Graves; Politics & Government; Tombs; Tombstones NATIONAL INSECURITY, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The under secretary leans forward and draws an x Subject(s): Politics & Government NEWSPAPER FINDINGS: 1867, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quiet an' cozie, but an' ben Last Line: At the paris exhibition. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): England; Newspapers; Politics & Government; Rome, Italy; Social Problems; English; Journalism; Journalists NO, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, that was me you saw shaking with bravery, with a government Subject(s): Politics & Government; War NO CHOICE, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no choice Subject(s): Politics & Government; War NOCTURNAL VISITS, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of our anonymous boys Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Politics & Government ODE ON THE DEPARTED REGENCY BILL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of chaos' doting years Last Line: Your brightest hopes may fail. Subject(s): Government; Politics & Government; Scotland ODE TO MARS, by EDWIN B. WILKINSON Poem Text First Line: Rattle the sabres and beat on the drums Last Line: Here's to old mars and the kick of his gun. Subject(s): Government ODE TO RICHARD MARTIN, ESQ., M.P. FOR GALWAY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many sing of wars Last Line: As if their griefs met in a common centaur! Subject(s): Politics & Government ODE TO SIR ANDREW AGNEW, BART., by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh andrew fairservice - but I beg pardon Last Line: To make a sunday workhouse of the church. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Politics & Government; Sabbath; Work; Workers; Sunday ODE TO THE LATE LORD MAYOR, ON PUBLICATION OF HIS 'VISIT TO OXFORD', by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O worthy mayor! - I mean to say ex-mayor Last Line: And every lord mayor his own recorder! Subject(s): Oxford, England; Politics & Government ODE TO THE LEGISLATURE, ON EXPIRATION OF THE 'HUNDRED DAYS', by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wise assembly! And o wiser senate! Last Line: It is n't best to see them made! Subject(s): Politics & Government ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 16. TO CALEB HARDINGE, M.D., by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With sordid floods the wintry urn Last Line: By verulamian laws. Subject(s): Government; Religiion OF POLITICS, & ART, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, on the farthest point of the peninsula Last Line: God-rendering voice of a storm. Subject(s): Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Nostalgia; Politics & Government; Storms; Teaching & Teachers; Tuberculosis; Women; Educators; Professors; Consumption (pathology) OLD SAWS NEW SET; A GREEK FABLE TO AN ENGLISH MORAL, by CHARLES KINGSLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met john clod the other day quite out of sorts and pensive Last Line: Reforms are god's own blessings -- revolutions oft his curse. Subject(s): England; Government; English 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 POLITICIAN, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, richly, with ridiculous display Last Line: I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Variant Title(s): Epitaph On The Poilitician Subject(s): Hate; Politics & Government ON BIBLICAL BUSINESS, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bible says Last Line: Who’ve been throughly trained by their generals Subject(s): Politics & Government ON COMMISSARY GOLDIE'S BRAINS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, to account who dares thee call Last Line: Enclose so poor a treasure? Subject(s): Politics & Government; Wit & Humor ON OUR SYMPATHY WITH THE UNDER DOG, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First under up and then again down under Last Line: Lest both should bite him in the toga-togs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Politics & Government ON THE EVE OF THE PLEBISCITE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mistral blows, the plane leaves Last Line: By whose indifferent consent they rule Subject(s): Government; Upper Classes ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE BOER REPUBLICS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Whilst we debate upon their overthrow Last Line: But do thou justice first and last of all! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Boer War; Great Britain - Politics & Government; Patriotism; South African War ON WATCHING POLITICIANS PERFORM, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hypocrites shed tears Last Line: With the ante raised Subject(s): Politics & Government; Funerals; King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968) ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED FORTY; A POEM, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wretched b--, jealous now of all Last Line: And one man's honesty redeem the land. Subject(s): Great Britain; Politics & Government ORATION: HALF-MOON IN VERMONT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A horse is shivering flies off its ribs, grazing Last Line: Doesn't poverty just fucking break your heart? Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Girls; Politics & Government; Horses; Owls; Poverty; Vermont OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It has always been our intention Last Line: And remember, due to the flood, %the tornado drill has been postponed Subject(s): Government; Politics PLANET OF SMOKE AND CLOUD, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth could not keep Subject(s): Politics & Government; War PLAYING BASKETBALL WITH THE VIET CONG, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You never thought it would come to this Subject(s): Politics & Government; Soldiers' Writings; Sports; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 POETICAL INSCRIPTION FOR AN ALTAR OF INDEPENDENCE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou of an independent mind Last Line: Approach this shrine, and worship here. Variant Title(s): For An Altar To Independence;inscription For An Altar To Independence Subject(s): Freedom; Independence; Politics & Government; Liberty POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY: GAINE'S LIFE, CITY OF NEW YORK, 1783, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the senate of york Last Line: Your humble petitioner -- honest -- hugh gaine. Subject(s): American Revolution; Gaine, Hugh (1726-1807); Municipal Government; New York City; Newspapers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journalism; Journalists POLITICAL GREATNESS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nor happiness, nor majesty, nor fame Last Line: Of hopes and fears, being himself alone. Subject(s): Politics & Government POLITICAL SONG FOR THE YEAR'S END, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The darkness of the year begins Last Line: Sing to the moon, for every change is known Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Politics & Government; Socialism POLITICAL WEATHERCOCK, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis strange that things upon the ground Last Line: Sit humble in the shade Subject(s): U.s. - Politics And Government POLITICS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You say a thousand things Last Line: I cannot hear your argument to-day. Subject(s): Politics & Government POLITICS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gold and iron are good Last Line: The republican at home. Subject(s): Politics & Government POLITICS, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Politics & Government; Marriage; Lust; Family Life; Mcgovern, George (1922-2012); Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Relatives POLITICS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We move, the wheel must always move Last Line: Down hill 'too-quick' the chain. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Politics & Government POLITICS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: How can I, that girl standing there Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Love; Politics & Government POLITICS AND THE DEAD, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who calls from the paper columns? Subject(s): Politics & Government POVERTY AND POLITICS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In politics if thou would'st mix Last Line: Let great folk hear and see. Subject(s): Politics & Government PRAISES IV: ON THE BEAUTY AND THE WONDERS OF WOMEN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wake in the early dawn and my hand has fallen asleep Last Line: "more of these shennhandigans could change the world without Subject(s): Beauty; Economics; Politics & Government; Sex; Women PRESENT GOVERNMENT GRIEVOUS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men are suspicious; prone to discontent Last Line: Subjects still loath the present government. Subject(s): Government PRESENTED TO THE KING, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye careful angels, whom eternal fate Last Line: Averted darts of rage, and pointless arms of death. Subject(s): Angels; Courts & Courtiers; Fate; Night; Politics & Government; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Destiny; Bedtime PRESIDENT, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: All dressed in white Last Line: This summer in the country of the dead Subject(s): Democracy; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Fascism And Fascists; Government; Human Rights - Argentina PROLOGUE TO MR. ADDISON'S TRAGEDY OF CATO, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To wake the soul by tender strokes of art Last Line: As cato's self had not disdain'd to hear. Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Cato The Younger (95-46 B.c.); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government PROLOGUE TO THE PROPHETESS, BY BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What nostradame, with all his art, can guess Last Line: Under a female regency may rise. Subject(s): Fortune; Nostradamus, Michel De (1503-1566); Politics & Government; Prophecy & Prophets; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes REFUSING, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Refusing the invitation Subject(s): Politics & Government; War REMARKS ABOUT KINGS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God said, 'I am tired of kings' Last Line: Smiled in the dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Government; Mankind; Social Protest; War; Human Race REVERIE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the unfrequented noon Last Line: Our brief and variable state. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Boredom; Government; Ennui SCENE FROM THE MOVIE GIANT, by TINO VILLANUEVA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What I have from 1956 is one instant at the holiday Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Politics & Government; Popular Culture - United States; Movies; Cinema SCIENCE REVEALED: A DIVINE MISSION, by GEORGE EVELEIGH Poem Text First Line: If, then, the state will but assistance lend Last Line: The company an extra dividend. Subject(s): Capitalists & Financiers; Economics; Government; Missionaries & Missions SECRETARY OF LIQUOR', by MARK RUDMAN Poem Source First Line: It was casting time for the young lions Last Line: To a suspect and shadowy intimacy Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Government; Secretaries SOLD TO THE GOVERNMENT, by FRANCIS CLEARY WITTMEIER Poem Source First Line: Diminitive shops %like a toy village Last Line: Until it was all covered %over, %for a government grant Subject(s): Government SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, MR. ABBOTT WROTE, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Lead (kindly) light enter (softly) evil Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Government SONG AND CRY OF A SOLDIER IN THE LINES, by ALBERT EDWARD CLEMENTS Poem Text First Line: Sharpen the sky to flashes of flame Last Line: When a cross and dust mark where you fell? Subject(s): Death; Government; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War SONNET: 3. TO COUNCILLOR GEORGE S--, OF GOTTINGEN, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though the demeanour be imperious, proud Last Line: Deep in my heart I still bear faithfully. Subject(s): Politics & Government SONNETS FOR NEW YORK CITY: 2. A POLITICAL 'BOSS', by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Has he no country? Is he of alien breed? Last Line: I felt the burning garments of thy shame. Subject(s): New York City; Politics & Government; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SOOYU-RI DIARY, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: For whose neck is this silk noose? Last Line: Burns red and white again and again Subject(s): Diaries; Government; Human Rights; Prisons And Prisoners SPEAK OUT, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And a vast paranoia sweeps across the land Last Line: Before they come for you! Subject(s): Politics & Government; War SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HILDRUP TUBBS, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I made two fights for the people Last Line: As he does a hog. Subject(s): Politics & Government SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JOHN CABANIS, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neither spite, fellow citizens Last Line: In a world republic girdled! Subject(s): Politics & Government STANZA, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not he that breaks the dams, but he Last Line: His name is pure, his fame is free. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Politics & Government STATE OF AFFAIRS OF STATE, by DAVID BRESKIN Poem Source First Line: Lamp black, flesh tint, scarlet lake, cobalt Last Line: The traction crackle of a fading painting Subject(s): Government; United States STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by MARK DOTY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry has always been a voice fro those without voices, a Subject(s): Politics & Government; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear mrs. Bush, / thank you for your invitation to the white house event Subject(s): Politics & Government; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In recent days, as part of the attempt to sanitize and justify Subject(s): Politics & Government; War STEEL DOORS OF PRISON, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The big compound gates close the world off Last Line: Slowly swallowing you Subject(s): Politics & Government; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts STONES AND BONES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a country where old men Last Line: "their tongue is somebody else's child Subject(s): Politics & Government; War STUDY IN WATER-COLOR, by CARRIE TATE LIFFRING Poem Text First Line: Political actors! Aren't they quaint Last Line: But . . . All afraid of a leaky roof! Subject(s): Politics & Government SYNOPSIS, by MARGARET MELLISH Poem Text First Line: A planet revolving around the sun Last Line: Tomorrow is eternity. Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; Mankind; Politics & Government; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Human Race THAT DAY, by MAREK BATEROWICZ Poem Source First Line: That day Last Line: If you were trying to close them Subject(s): Government; Military; Military Justice; Poland; War THE ALLIANCE OF EDUCATION AND GOVERNMENT; A FRAGMENT, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As sickly plants betray a niggard earth Last Line: That rise and glitter o'er the ambient tide. Subject(s): Education; Government 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 BURNING OF MALMAISON, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a brisk cool evening when the wind Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Politics & Government; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal THE CAMPAIGN, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My packard bell was set up in the vacant lot near the stump Subject(s): Americans; Politics & Government; United States; America THE CANON OF AUGHRIM, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You ask me of english honour, whether your nation is just! Last Line: Ridge and furrow of grass, the graves of our women and men. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Great Britain - Politics & Government; Justice; Law & Lawyers; Nations; War; Attorneys THE CAPTIVE LINNET, by ANN YEARSLEY Poem Text First Line: Mycias, behold this bird! See how she tires Last Line: Death is the field of victory for the soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Cromartie, Ann Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Linnets; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government THE CERTAINTY, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After four hours of torture, the apache and the two other cops Last Line: His right eye is glass Subject(s): Politics & Government THE CHANCELLOR'S GRAVEL-DRIVE, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A government-bull yoked to a government-cart! Last Line: Need not trouble him at all. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Government; Roads; Paths; Trails THE CITIZEN DREAMING, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the blue hour Last Line: And the lucky dead on all the roads that led from home to here! Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Fascism & Fascists; Politics & Government; United States; America THE CONFERENCE, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Grace said in form, which sceptics must agree Last Line: Who lives to reason, and who dies a man. Subject(s): Conscience; England; Justice; Politics & Government; Reason; Virtue; English; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE DEAD ONES, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have grown up in the belief that all the Last Line: Five cents a yard. Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Authors And Authorship; Books; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Writing & Writers; Reading THE DOG, by VICTOR MONTEJO Poem Full Text First Line: Near the military barracks Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Politics & Government THE DREAM & LIE OF GEORGE W. BUSH (AFTER PICASSO'S DREAM & LIE OF..., by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Owl fandango escabeche swords of octopus of evil omen Subject(s): Politics & Government; War THE DUKE OF GUISE: EPILOGUE: 1, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Much time and trouble this poor play has cost Last Line: With tory wings, but whiggish teeth and claws. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Politics & Government; Dramatists THE DUKE OF GUISE: EPILOGUE: 2, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two houses joined, two poets to a play? Last Line: But grunts, and groans, and ends at last in fumbling. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Politics & Government; Dramatists THE DUKE OF GUISE: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our play's a parallel; the holy league Last Line: Pull down the master, and set up the man. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Nations; Plays & Playwrights ; Politics & Government; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English; Dramatists THE FARMERS OUTLAW WEEDS, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The farmer lords of podunkville proclaimed a big conclave Last Line: For diplomats who resolute against the weed called war! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Diplomacy & Diplomats; Farm Life; Government; Law & Lawyers; Social Protest; War; Weeds; Agriculture; Farmers; Attorneys THE FETE CHAMPETRE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wha will to saint stephen's house Last Line: This festive fete champetre. Subject(s): Politics & Government; Supernatural; Love THE FIGHT WITH THE SNAPPING TURTLE; OR, THE AMERICAN ST. GEORGE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you heard of philip slingsby Last Line: All in pennsylvanian bonds!' Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Clay, Henry (1777-1852); Fights; Turtles; Tyler, John (1790-1862); United States - Politics & Government; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852); Tortoises THE FOUR DEARS, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear sugar, dear tea, and dear corn Last Line: Shall still rob the dear british nation. Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Free Trade; Labor & Laborers; Politics & Government; Trade; Work; Workers THE FRIARY AT BLOSSOM, PROLOGUE & INSTRUCTIONS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The pond lilies are like little executions Last Line: — 1967 Subject(s): Animals; Politics & Government; Horses; Lakes; Prisons & Prisoners; Survival; Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503-1542); Pools; Ponds; Convicts THE HUNDRED DAYS' MEN; ILLINOIS, MAY, 1864, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis time the corn was planted, the latest wheat was sown Last Line: But joyfully, in busy may, gave up our thousands more! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Government; Illinois; Indiana; Ohio; Soldiers; U.s. - History THE INTERNATIONALIST, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: Though rains of jeering pelt with hissing sneers Last Line: The rising temple in the heart of man! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Cooperation; Government; Nations THE ISSUES, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just don't tell me about the issues Subject(s): Politics & Government THE KIND OF SHADOW THAT CALLS OUT FATE, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early in day reports said our planes Subject(s): Politics & Government; War THE KNICKERBOCKER'S ADDRESS TO THE STUYVESANT PEAR TREE, 1647-1857, by HENRY WEBB DUNSHEE Poem Text First Line: Fam'd relic of the ancient time, as on thy form I / gaze Last Line: Till light no more shall bless the land where liberty was born. Subject(s): Government; Memory; New York City - Dutch Period; Stuyvesant, Peter (1610-1672) THE LETTER ON THE BRINK OF WAR, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dears, / you're already painting the porch? You ladies are up early Last Line: And dare we talk about the future? / love, eddie Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Letters; Social Commentaries; Politics & Government; United States THE LIBERATOR; A POLITICAL ALLEGORY, by WU-TI (464-549) Poem Text First Line: In the high trees - many doleful winds Last Line: And down again to thank the young man. Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Politics & Government THE MAYOR OF MIROBLAIS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While he was laying plans for getting Last Line: And mouthed it regularly through. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Politics & Government; Popes; Papacy THE MAYOR OF QUEENBOROUGH [QUINBOROUGH], by THOMAS MIDDLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What raynulph, monk of chester can Last Line: From the convulsions it hath long endured. [exeunt. Subject(s): Great Britain - Politics & Government; Tanners And Tanning THE MAYOR OF SCUTTLETON, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mayor of scuttleton burned his nose Last Line: What the mayor of scuttleton next would do. Subject(s): Politics & Government THE MIXED ASSEMBLY, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flea-bitten synod, an assembly brewed Last Line: Is clergy-lay, party-per-pale compounded. Subject(s): Burges, Cornelius (1589-1665); Conventions; Kimbolton, Edward, Lord (1602-1671); Politics & Government; Religion; Twisse, William (1578-1646); Wharton, Philip, 4th Lord (1613-1696); Assemblies; Meetings; Theology THE NEW COSTUME OF THE MINISTERS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Having sent off the troops of brave major camac Last Line: And first puts in hand my lord chancellor eld -- n. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Politics & Government THE OLD HOKUM BUNCOMBE, by ROBERT EMMET SHERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How dear to my heart are the grand politicians Last Line: The moss-covered buncombe we all love so well. Subject(s): Politics & Government THE OLIVE WOOD FIRE, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When fergus woke crying at night Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Politics & Government; War THE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It has always been our intention Subject(s): Politics & Government THE PLEASURES OF HOPE: 1, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At summer eve, when heaven's ethereal bow Last Line: "love! -- mercy -- wisdom! -- rule for evermore!" Variant Title(s): Hope;the Distant In Experience Subject(s): Beauty; Freedom; Hope; Landscape; Nature; Politics & Government; Liberty; Optimism THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 13, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brothers share five districts Last Line: Swim with fish in a stream Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Government; Nature; Politics & Government THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 222, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A state relies on people Last Line: Gains only a short-term profit Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Government; Nature THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 238, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We hear about the ministers of state Last Line: And all because of ignorance Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Government; Ignorance; Punishment; Wealth; Dullness; Stupdity; Riches; Fortunes THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 98, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They scrutinize worldly affairs Last Line: Why should I trust the lips of slaves Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Politics & Government; Slavery; Serfs THE POLITICIAN, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was going to the city to sell the herbs I had plucked Last Line: "at last he has made a ""coup"" that cannot fail!" Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Politics & Government THE REAL REFORMER, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not he, the statesman, whatsoe'er his name Last Line: Not of his country alone, but of his kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Politics & Government THE REJECTED MEMBER'S WIFE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We shall see her no more Last Line: And that chestnut hair. Subject(s): Politics & Government THE SECOND BROTHER; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair shine this evening's stars upon your pleasure Last Line: . . . . . . . Subject(s): Brothers; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Deception; Fathers; Love; Magic; Marriage; Nile (river); Pleasure; Politics & Government; Travel; Wealth; Half-brothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THE SPANISH REVOLUTION, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blow loud the silver trumpets, blow Last Line: Let spain improve her golden hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Freedom; Government; Revolutions; Spain; Liberty THE SPLEEN; AN EPISTLE TO MR. CUTHBERT JACKSON, by MATTHEW GREEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This motley piece to you I send Last Line: Life's voyage to the world unknown. Subject(s): Politics & Government; Religion; Social Problems; Spleen (organ); Theology THE STATESMEN, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How blest the land that counts among Last Line: You vermifuge. Subject(s): Politics & Government THE SUN AND THE BATS, &C.; A FABLE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis aesop tells how certain bats Last Line: I'll smile, and more refulgent smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); Politics & Government THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 11. ABRAHAM DAVENPORT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old days (a custom laid aside / with breeches and cocked hats) Last Line: That simple duty hath no place for fear. Subject(s): Hartford, Connecticut; Law & Lawyers; Politics & Government; Attorneys THE THIRD ADVICE TO A PAINTER, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sandwich in spain now, and the duke in love Last Line: To woods and groves what once she painted sings. Subject(s): Great Britain - Dutch War (1664-1667); Paintings And Painters; Politics & Government; Sea Battles; Naval Warfare THE WIND AND THE WHIRLWIND, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a thing to say. But how to say it? Last Line: I had a thing to say. And it is said. Subject(s): Egypt; Freedom; Nations; Patriotism; Peace; Politics & Government; War; Liberty THIS DAY, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shrill of doorbell still returning to my ears Subject(s): News; Politics & Government THIS NERUDA EARTH, by JACK HIRSCHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting against a treetrunk in dolores park Subject(s): Neruda, Pablo (1904-1973); Politics & Government THISTLE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thistle at meadow's edge Last Line: The snow grows heavier, falls on their stooping shoulders Subject(s): Politics & Government; War TIME'S CHANGES, FR. THE ART OF POLITICS, by JAMES BRAMSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like south-sea stock, expressions rise and fall Last Line: Can there be any trusting to our words? Subject(s): Comedy; Courts & Courtiers; London; Politics & Government; Towns; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens 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 A CANVASSER, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Begone! May ariel confound Last Line: And leave me to my purple crocus. Subject(s): Love; Politics & Government TO A GOVERNMENT, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, we are mighty: yet such things have been Last Line: Cast rudely forth as waste. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Government TO JOSEPH MAZZINI, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take, since you bade it should bear Last Line: First name of the world's names, rome Subject(s): Italy; Love; Politics & Government; Italians TO LADY ASTOR, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, beauteous lady, world renowned Last Line: "to ""pussyfoot"" his diet!" Subject(s): Animals; Astor, Nancy, Viscountess (1879-1964); Lions; Politics & Government; Women's Rights; Feminism TO LADY ASTOR (PICTURED WITH BRITISH LION AT HEEL), by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, beauteous lady, world reknown Last Line: "to ""pussyfoot"" his diet!" Subject(s): Astor, Nancy, Viscountess (1879-1964); Politics & Government; Women's Rights; Feminism TO MR. ADDISON, OCCASIONED BY RETURN FROM HANOVER WITH LORD HALIFAX, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O for a muse of fire and lofty style Last Line: But language fails to give th'ideas birth. Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Praise; War TO SIDMOUTH AND CASTLEREAGH, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As from an ancestral oak Last Line: Two vipers tangled into one. Variant Title(s): Similes For Two Political Characters Of 1819 Subject(s): Addington, Henry, Viscount Sidmouth; England; Politics & Government; Statesmen; Stewart, Robert. 2d Marquis Londonderry; Tyranny & Tyrants; Villains In Literature; English; Castlereagh, Viscount TO THE EARL OF WARWICK ON THE DEATH OF MR. ADDISON, by THOMAS TICKELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If, dumb too long, the drooping muse hath stayed Last Line: No chance could sever, nor the grave divide. Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While flattering crowds officiously appear Last Line: Because the centre of it is above. Subject(s): Holidays; Hyde, Edward. 1st Earl Of Clarendon; Nations; Nature; New Year; Politics & Government; War TO THE STATES. TO IDENTIFY THE 16TH, 17TH, OR 18TH PRESIDENTIAD, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why reclining, interrogating? Why myself and all drowsing Last Line: South, north, east, west, inland and seaboard, we will surely awake.) Subject(s): Men; Politics & Government; Presidents, United States; United States; America TORRISMOND; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who has seen torrismond, my son, to-night? Last Line: Torris. Then here's an end of life. Subject(s): Abandonment; Betrayal; Courts & Courtiers; Fathers & Sons; Longing; Love; Loyalty; Pleasure; Politics & Government; Desertion; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TOUR OF THE STATE CAPITAL: TOPEKA, by VICTOR CONTOSKI Poem Source First Line: Ad astra per aspera Last Line: To a mass of mud Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; Government; Kansas TOWARD A BETTER LOVE, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one disputes that sex Subject(s): Sex; Politics & Government TOWARD A BETTER LOVE, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one discusses sex Subject(s): Politics & Government; Sex TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 1, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Freedom at last! Last Line: Written—and of this book. Subject(s): Democracy; Expressionism - Poets; Freedom; Life; Nations; Politics & Government; Self-consciousness; Liberty TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. EXCEPT THE LORD BUILD THE HOUSE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She lies, whom money has killed, and the greed of money Last Line: Shall be changed. Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Politics & Government; Poverty; Recessions TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. WHAT HAVE I TO DO WITH THEE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weary with the restless burden of this world last night I fell Last Line: "quickly—into space!" Subject(s): Conventions; Labor & Laborers; Politics & Government; Wealth; Assemblies; Meetings; Work; Workers; Riches; Fortunes TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE WORD DEMOCRACY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Underneath all now comes this word, turning Last Line: Himself over the earth and launch forth to sail through heaven. Subject(s): Democracy; Nations; Politics & Government TULLOCHGORUM, by JOHN SKINNER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Come, gi'es a sang, montgomery cried Last Line: The reel o' tullochgorum! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Politics & Government TWO: 3, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Next to of course god america I Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Americans; Freedom; Hypocrisy; Patriotism; Politics & Government; United States; World War I; Liberty; America; First World War UMOJA: EACH ONE OF US COUNTS, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One went the way of water Last Line: We walk on water, we write on air Subject(s): Politics & Government; War UNRHYMED PEACE SONNET, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who are the good guys now? Who are the bad? Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Politics & Government; War UPON SIR THOMAS MARTIN, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hang out a flag and gather pence - a piece Last Line: May have a knight hanged, yet sir tom go free! Subject(s): Politics & Government; Property; Possessions VERBATIM FROM BOILEAU, by NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Once (says an author; where, I need not say) Last Line: Twas a fat oyster -- live in peace -- adieu. Alternate Author Name(s): Boileau, Nicolas Subject(s): Justice; Politics & Government VERSES ADDRESSED TO J. HORNE TOOKE ... WESTMINISTER ELECTION, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Britons! When last ye met, with distant streak Last Line: Not to the tyrants but the tyranny! Subject(s): Politics & Government; Tooke, John Horne (1736-1812) VERSES ON SEEING THE SPEAKER ASLEEP IN HIS CHAIR, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, mr. Speaker! It's surely fair Last Line: Sleep, mr. Speaker; sleep, sleep while you may! Variant Title(s): Stanzas To The Speaker Asleep Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament; Politics & Government VERSES WRITTEN IN A GARDEN, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See how that pair of billing doves Last Line: The pedant priest, and giddy rake. Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Subject(s): Government; Nature; Pleasure; Religion; Virtue; Theology VISION OF THREE ANGELS VIEWING THE PROGRESS OF SOCIALISM, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And the first with his hands folded and a money belt for a truss Last Line: So I'll stick around until judgment. Heaven is a sometime thing Subject(s): Angels; Economics; Labor & Laborers; Politics & Government; Socialism; Work; Workers VOTIVE TABLETS: THE BEST GOVERNED STATE, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How the best state to know? It is found out Last Line: Like the best women — that least talked about. Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Government VOTIVE TABLETS: THE SCIENCE OF POLITICS, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All that thou dost be right -- to that alone confine thy view Last Line: False zeal would sound and perfect make the something that's to be! Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Politics & Government WE HEARD HEALTH CARE, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We heard health care and we thought public option Subject(s): Health Care & Insurance; United States - Politics & Government; Social Classes; Racism; Caste; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry WHAT ROOSEVELT ONCE SAID AT HARVARD, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said mr. Roosevelt: 'those are sticks Last Line: But downright roosevelt common sense! Subject(s): Politics & Government; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) WHAT'S HAPPENING, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At this moment, fires of a riot are everywhere Last Line: Viva la huelga! Subject(s): Politics & Government; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts WHO UNDERSTANDS ME BUT ME, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They turn the water off, so I live without water Last Line: Who understands me when I say this is beautiful? Subject(s): Politics & Government WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a small chamber, friendless and unseen Last Line: Ye earn the crown, and wear it not in vain. Variant Title(s): To William Lloyd Garrison Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879); Politics & Government; Antislavery Movement - United States WINE FOR THE KING, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the word of the wind? The word of the wind is war! Last Line: Naught, for there must be wine—red, red wine for the king! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Government; Social Protest; War WREATHS FOR THE MINISTERS; AN ANACREONIC, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hither, flora, queen of flowers! Last Line: I leave the rest, so, prithee, haste! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Government ZENGER THE PRINTER, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Zenger the printer, through storm and stress Last Line: Bulwark of freedom, a fearless press! Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; New York City - Colonial Period; Politics & Government; Printing & Printers; Zenger, John Peter (1697-1746); Attorneys |
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