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First Line: Who've ye got there? Only a dying brother'
Last Line: "living, he laid the first stones of a nation; / and dead, he builds it yet"
Subject(s): "american Civil War;chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863);jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863);u.s. - History;


"BLACK SPIRITUAL: SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT (1)", by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: "swing low, sweet chariot"
Last Line: Coming for to carry me home
Variant Title(s): "swing Low, Sweet Chariot;
Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;american Civil War;black Songs;homecoming;u.s. - History; Negro Spirituals


"BOB ANDERSON, MY BEAU", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "bob anderson, my beau, bob, when we were first aquent"
Last Line: "but I love a man that dares to act, bob anderson"
Subject(s): "american Civil War;anderson, Robert (1805-1871);fort Sumter, South Carolina;soldiers;u.s. - History;


"CAST DOWN, BUT NOT DESTROYED", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "oh, northern men - true hearts and bold"
Last Line: "unflinching to the conflict press, / and, fearless, trust our cause to god!"
Subject(s): "american Civil War;bull Run, Battles Of;troy;u.s. - History;" "manassas, Batlle Of;


12 GATES TO THE CITY, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The white man is
Last Line: Aquarius died when %they buried atlantis this %is the age of pisces %check it out
Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki
Subject(s): Blacks - History


14 POINTS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wilson outlined his famous 14 points on january 8
Last Line: Calling for 'common ownership of the means of production.'
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1900, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: America's seething century began
Last Line: Leading to his four-volume work, the palace of minos
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1901, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: On 1-27 %the streets by the grand hotel in milan
Last Line: Through a speaker %he held to his ear
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1902, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: January 24: denmark agreed in principal to sell the virgin islands to the usa
Last Line: It made %arizona, idaho, california rich
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1903, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In january %a colombian attache in d.C
Last Line: From the raising of children
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1904, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was an hour long ovation
Last Line: Swirl, o century, swirl!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1905, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: On january 9 (the old, julian calendar - 13 days behind the western, gregorian
Last Line: At the mouth of the dniester %staged a general strike
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1906, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In britain the labour party was formed
Last Line: And soon the pluto-headed liberals withered
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1907, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bids for construction of th' panama canal
Last Line: While the hiss hisses
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1908, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: January 21: repression-heads on the new york city council
Last Line: A school fire killed 180 kids and 9 teachers
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1910, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A big strike in chicago
Last Line: Rise, o unions rise!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1910 IN MEXICO, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was an uprising against dictator porfirio diaz
Last Line: And the tom mix flick, the ranch life in the great southwest
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1912, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Early in the year
Last Line: New mexico became the 47th state
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1913, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: January 9: richard nixon was born in yorba linda, california
Last Line: Grand central terminal opened
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1914, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In january %the iww singer joe hill was arrested near salt lake city
Last Line: American society of composers, authors and publishers %(ascap) in nyc
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1915, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: January 3: th' germans on th' western front first used gas-filled shells
Last Line: March 21 %germ zep's raided paris
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1916, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: February 21-dec 18: on the western front
Last Line: & wilson withdrew the troops after a year
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1917, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: On january 9 %the germans elected to restart submarine warfare february 1st
Last Line: Will have already won! %the came
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1918, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: January 1, %wilson imposed a gov't takeover of the trains
Last Line: Headed by economist robert brookings
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1919, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The weave of '19 had bitter threads
Last Line: Hunted down and shot many revs in berlin
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1919-1993 WEIMAR REPUBLIC, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The german federal republic was called that
Last Line: March 15 %the american legion was formed by vets of world war 1
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1920, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: January 2: the 2nd palmer raids %in 70+ cities
Last Line: Scrambled into a waiting auto %and drove thence
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1922, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Vanity fair came up with the term 'flapper'
Last Line: Patented by a guy in iowa
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1923, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Parlor games were big in the united states
Last Line: Thus starting the end of prohibition
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1924, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: January 21: when lenin passed away
Last Line: Indian unity and religious tolerance
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1926, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A big textile strike in passaic
Last Line: After the takeover of joseph stalin
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1927, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: January: werner heisenberg's principle of uncertainty in copenhagen
Last Line: Cbs was formed %form! America, form!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1928, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The great thomas hardy %on january 1
Last Line: July 30: george eastman first color motion pictures in rochester
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1929, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: January 22: trotsky was tossed from internal exile
Last Line: And headed for constantinople
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1930, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In february %herbert hoover sent a group to haiti, to prepare an end of
Last Line: O'neill's tale of an american prostitute who falls for a sailor
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1931, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: March 3: herbert hoover signed a bill making 'the star-spangled banner'
Last Line: The national anthem
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1932, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: By '32 30 %of the us workers were unemployed
Last Line: Early 1932 %aldous huxley's brave new world
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1933, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: January 2: in spain %the anarchists and syndicalists
Last Line: And also make more consumer goods %in the planned economy
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1934 IN MEXICO, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lazaro cardenas became president &
Last Line: The good president declined
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1935, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: January 11: amelia earhart flew solo from california to hawaii
Last Line: Thousands more were arrested in the ussr
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1937, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: January 8: congress tightened the neutrality act
Last Line: American trotskyites %provided secretaries, guards, funds, etc.
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1938, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: January 9: the republicans took teruel, in eastern spain, from franco-vom
Last Line: Franco had also use of 50,000 italian 'volunteers.'
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1939, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: January 20: thirty years after he had started composing it
Last Line: (it took him two years to learn it) %at new york city's town hall
Subject(s): U.s. - History


1968, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out of the summer of love
Last Line: Sever diplomatic relations
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


2ND MASSES TRIAL, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: October saw the 2nd trial of editors/poet/artist
Last Line: The allied conference at versailles agreed on peace terms for germany
Subject(s): U.s. - History


4TH COMES TO COLUMBIA, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: On april 15 the great albert einstein
Last Line: Even when the amount was cut by 75 %by the young plan of 1929
Subject(s): U.s. - History


4TH INTERNATIONAL, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Followers of trotsky from eleven nations
Last Line: & woody guthrie had written some songs %for the opening
Subject(s): U.s. - History


A BATTLE BALLAD TO GENERAL J.E. JOHNSTON, by FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A summer sunday morning
Last Line: The life-blood of the brave.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; Johnston, Joseph E. (1807-1891); United States - History; Manassas, Batlle Of


A BOSTON TOAST, by JOHN COLLINS BOSSIDY    Poem Text                    
First Line: And this is good old boston
Last Line: And the cabots talk only to god.
Variant Title(s): On The Aristocracy Of Harvard
Subject(s): Harvard University; History; Historians


A BRIEF MANUAL FOR SWIMMERS, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: History has written its ritual runes and we
Subject(s): History; Writing & Writers; Swimming & Swimmers; Historians; Swimmers


A CALL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dusk its ash-grey blossoms sheds on violet skies
Last Line: Come, my children, with me to the ancient go.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): History; Nature; Historians


A CANTICLE: SIGNIFICANT OF NATIONAL EXALTATION CLOSE OF WAR, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O the precipice titanic
Last Line: The hosts of human kind.
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


A CHRISTOPHER OF THE SHENANDOAH, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mute he sat in the saddle
Last Line: Come life or come death I could n't do less than follow his guide.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Snicker's Ferry, Battle Of (1864); U.s. - History


A CRY FROM AN INDIAN WIFE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: My forest brave, my red-skin love, farewell
Last Line: Perhaps the white man's god has willed it so.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Marriage; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; War; Worry; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


A CRY TO ARMS, by HENRY TIMROD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho! Woodsmen of the mountain side!
Last Line: And for the lily's sake!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Patriotism; United States - History; Confederacy


A DECANTER OF MADEIRA, AGED 86, TO GEORGE BANCROFT, AGED 86, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good master, you and I were born
Last Line: The wine we drank, the man we knew.
Subject(s): Bancroft, George (1800-1891); History; Old Age; Historians


A DIRGE FOR MCPHERSON; KILLED IN FRONT OF ATLANTA, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Arms reversed and banners craped
Last Line: Sarpedon of the mighty war.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Atlanta Campaign (1864); Funerals; Mcpherson, James Birdseye (1828-1864); United States - History; Burials


A FAR CRY FROM AFRICA, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A wind is ruffling the tawny pelt
Subject(s): Africa; African Americans - History; Ancestors & Ancestry; Black Heritage; Heritage; Heredity


A GEOGRAPHIC QUESTION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "a maiden once, with eyes of blue"
Last Line: Degrees down there are n't bigger
Subject(s): Geography;history;household Employees; Historians;servants;domestics;maids


A GEORGIA VOLUNTEER, by MARY ASHLEY TOWNSEND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Far up the lonely mountain-side
Last Line: A georgia volunteer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Xariffa
Subject(s): American Civil War; Georgia (state); Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History; Declaration Day


A GRAVE NEAR PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Head-board and foot-board duly placed
Last Line: The -- buried gun.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; Guns; U.s. - History; Tombs; Tombstones


A LATE HISTORY, by WELDON KEES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Black, under the candlesticks, moving in harness
Last Line: Do I wake or sleep? It is late tonight as it will ever be
Subject(s): History; Poetry & Poets; Books & Reading; Social Commentary; Nature; Eton College; Historians


A MAN'S VOCATION IS NOBODY'S BUSINESS, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Overcome with humility in the american west
Last Line: Bound for the edge of the world
Subject(s): History; Past; West (u.s.); Youth; Historians; Southwest; Pacific States


A MEDITATION, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How often in the years that close
Last Line: Silent the victors stood, scorning to raise a shout.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Funerals; U.s. - History; Burials


A NAMELESS GRAVE; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A soldier of the union mustered out'
Last Line: And I can give thee nothing in return.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


A NEW SONG TO AN OLD TUNE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "john bull, esquire, my jo john"
Last Line: "shots in my locker yet remain, / john bull, esquire, my jo!"
Subject(s): American Civil War;great Britain - Foreign Relations;u.s. - History


A POET'S APPEAL FOR THE NATURAL: 4. THE HORSE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: For native rhythm, and poetry
Last Line: Across the trembling firmament.
Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Native Americans - History; Poetry & Poets; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States


A REQUIEM FOR SOLDIERS LOST IN OCEAN TRANSPORTS, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When, after storms that woodlands rue
Last Line: Round the lone spar where mid-sea surges pour.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Soldiers; United States - History


A SECOND REVIEW OF THE GRAND ARMY [MAY 24, 1865], by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I read last night of the grand review
Last Line: Awakened me from my slumber.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; Soldiers; United States - History; Declaration Day


A SONG OF DEGREES, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is said adonai your hidden word
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


A SUMMARY HISTORY OF LORD CLIVE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: About a hundred and fifty years ago
Last Line: But the greatest of them all was robert clive.
Subject(s): Biography; Clive, Robert, Baron (1725-1774); History; India; Biographers; Historians


A SUMMARY HISTORY OF SIR WILLIAM WALLACE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir william wallace of ellerslie
Last Line: Who had fought for scotland so well.
Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; History; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); Historians


A TENT SCENE, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our generals sat in their tent one night
Last Line: "will be dislodged at morn!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History


A THEORY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As thucydides said
Last Line: "murdering
Subject(s): Greece; History; Greeks; Historians


A UTILITARIAN VIEW OF THE MONITOR'S FIGHT, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Plain be the phrase, yet apt the verse
Last Line: And a singe runs through lace and feather.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Monitor (ship); Sea Battles; United States - History; Naval Warfare


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


A VOICE OF THE LOYAL NORTH, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We sing 'our country's' song tonight
Last Line: God keep us all! Amen!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Classmates; United States - History; Schoolmates


A VOICE PROPHETIC, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the carnage rose prophetic a voice
Last Line: Nay, nor the world, nor any living thing, will so cohere.)
Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Patriotism; United States - History


A WELCOME TO LINCOLN'S REMAINS, by MARTHA A. PARKS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Illinois' immortal son
Last Line: Resting on her breast.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History


A WOMAN'S WAITING, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the apple-tree blossoms, in may
Last Line: O god, o heaven, how long will it be?
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Courtship; Death; U.s. - History; Dead, The


A WORD FOR THE HOUR, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The firmament breaks up. In black eclipse
Last Line: Brighter shall shine the stars which still remain.
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


ABOUT THE SLAVS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A rubber kitten, meooow
Last Line: At full speed: boom, boom
Subject(s): History; Nations


ABOVE SHELTON LAUREL, by RON RASH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fog never lifts, though the days
Last Line: Leading back to tennessee
Subject(s): Absence; American Civil War; Grief; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mr. Stone
Last Line: The curtain falls
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1), by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not as when some great captain falls
Last Line: Of that paternal soul.
Variant Title(s): An Horatian Ode;abraham Lincoln: An Horation Ode
Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; United States - History


ABRAHAM LINCOLN ON THE FOURTH NIGHT OF INSOMNIA, by RYAN G. VAN CLEAVE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The loud voice in the hallway. The skittish pony
Last Line: I am a shipwrecked dog whose eyes reflect nothing
Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History


ACADEMIC GRAFFITI, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Henry adams was mortally afraid of madams
Last Line: He sat quietly at home
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Variant Title(s): Henry Adam
Subject(s): Adams, Henry (1838-1918); History


ACCEPTATION, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We do accept thee, heavenly peace!
Last Line: And leave to god and heaven the rest.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; U.s. - History


ACOUSTIC SHADOWS; LT. MITCHELL, by DAVID MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: We climbed sand mountain and could see the dust
Last Line: I'd been in a shadow and I did not hear it
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History


ACROSS THE LONG DARK BORDER, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My sister and I learned about our first war
Last Line: War between the states.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Divorce; Novels & Novelists; United States - History


AD ASTRA: 120, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: And over all the bearing of the host
Last Line: That is the sure presentment of his race.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


ADVANCE, AUSTRALIA, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sons of the giant ocean isle
Subject(s): History


ADVENTURE, by HENRY HOLCOMB BENNETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out where the white clouds slowly drift
Subject(s): History


AFRICA, by MAYA ANGELOU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus she had lain
Last Line: Although she has lain
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Black Heritage


AFRICA, by MAYA ANGELOU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thus she had lain
Last Line: Although she had lain
Subject(s): African Americans - History


AFRICAN VILLAGE, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In our beginnings our blackness was not thought so
Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1)
Subject(s): African Americans - History


AFRICLAND, by OLIVER LAGRONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: From breasts %of africland
Last Line: To drink a new worlds %breaking light
Subject(s): African Americans - History


AFTER I QUIET DRINKING, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's a bird I swallowed
Last Line: To miss her anymore
Subject(s): World History


AFTER RAIN, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: All over town the sidewalks
Last Line: Wild with delight, they spin away
Subject(s): World History


AFTER SPOTSYLVANIA COURT HOUSE, by DAVID FERRY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I read the brown sentences of my great-grandfather
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


AFTER SPOTSYLVANIA COURT HOUSE, by DAVID FERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I read the brown sentences of my great-grandfather
Last Line: The incense has the odor of old paper
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


AGE OF ORANGE: A HISTORY INFERRED FROM SENTENCES IN THE OXFORD, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the year 1200, st. Dominic planted an orange
Last Line: And so back to orange fizz and the ritual conference
Subject(s): Dictionaries; History; Language; Oranges


AHH, BESSIE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bessie smith's %down hearted blues' and 'gulf coast blues'
Last Line: Lift up those charleston legs! O nation
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ALABAMA, by JULIA TUTWILER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Alabama, alabama
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


ALABAMA EARTH (AT BOOKER WASHINGTON'S GRAVE), by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Deep in alabama earth
Last Line: Love -- and chains are broken
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - History; Alabama; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915)


ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON, by FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His soul to god! On a battle-psalm!
Last Line: To the home of the glorified!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Johnston, Albert Sidney (1803-1862); Shiloh, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History


ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON [APRIL 6, 1862], by KATE BROWNLEE SHERWOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hear again the tread of war go thundering through the land
Last Line: One heart, one hope, one destiny, one flag from sea to sea.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Johnston, Albert Sidney (1803-1862); Shiloh, Battle Of (1862); United States - History


ALCOOLS DECISION, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not long before the great tome
Last Line: And asked them to take out all the commas, quote-marks, %periods & punctuation
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ALEXANDER HAMILTON, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hark! How the passing bell
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ALGABAL, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rhine-rentier
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


ALGABAL, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rhine-rentier
Last Line: Of the ageless champion
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


ALGONQUIN GROUP, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Very witty writers & theater types
Last Line: In the boat named font on the inky sea
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ALIKE AND YET UNLIKE: GENERAL RICHARD TAYLOR WRITES TO HENRY ADAMS, by HELEN A. PINKERTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Washington, d.C., january 1879 %we spoke last evening of your work and mine
Last Line: Could wish for you, I should wish such a death
Variant Title(s): Alike And Yet Unlik
Subject(s): Change; History; War


ALL HOUSES ARE HAUNTED, by DAVID MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some nights in the palouse the moon-blue sky
Last Line: Though nothing echoed in that open land
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History


ALL QUIET, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The gas trapped soldiers in trenches
Last Line: &, tremble o universe, jazz too!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ALL QUIET ALONG THE POTOMAC TONIGHT (WITH MUSIC), by LAMAR FONTAINE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): American Civil War; Potomac River; Rivers; U.s. - History


ALLATOONA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Winds that sweep the southern mountains
Last Line: Of the terror and the glory / of the battle of allatoona pass!
Subject(s): "allatoona Pass, Georgia;american Civil War;atlanta Campaign (1864);u.s. - History;


AMERICA, by OTTO ORBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: America, I've traveled your roads and the spark-hurling ghost
Last Line: Like the stars of the milky way that drone as they pass %each other
Subject(s): History; Travel; United States


AMERICA AS ECONOMIC UNIT, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: October 14: in a campaign speech in chicago, the president said
Last Line: Plus erred in banning christian worship
Subject(s): U.s. - History


AMERICA TO WAR, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the revolution surged to russia
Last Line: It was carrying tons of bullets and weapons
Subject(s): U.s. - History


AMERICA'S EARLY SETTLERS, by MARTIN LUTHER PETER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Today we meet from far and near
Last Line: And follow the light of their noble flame!
Subject(s): History; United States; Historians; America


AMERICA'S WOUNDED KNEE (AN UNPOETIC SUBJECT ON ASSIGNMENT), by PHILLIP WILLIAM GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: First full moon of overgrown buffalo grass
Last Line: One more remains - just one percent left
Subject(s): Native Americans - History


AMERICAN THRILL KILL, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Among the unfortunate american archetypes
Last Line: 99 years plus life
Subject(s): U.s. - History


AMERICANS BEGIN TO FIGHT, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: April: 90,000 americans joined the battle
Last Line: Fighting the bolsheviks till october o' 19
Subject(s): U.s. - History


AMONG THE MILLION OF THINGS THAT HISTORY WILL FORGET, by STEVE SCAFIDI JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Orange zinnias growing wild at the blunt base of the tower of babel
Subject(s): History; Historians


AN ANTE-BELLUM SERMON, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: We is gathered hyeah, my brothahs
Last Line: Huh uh! Chillun, let us pray!
Subject(s): African Americans; American Civil War; Freedom; United States - History; Negroes; American Blacks; Liberty


AN ARCTIC VISION [JUNE 20, 1867], by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the short-legged esquimaux
Last Line: See the real magician's hammer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): Alaska Purchase (1867); United States - History


AN ARMY CORPS ON THE MARCH, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With its cloud of skirmishers in advance
Last Line: As the army corps advances.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


AN EPIGRAM ON LAURENCE ECHARD'S AND GILBERT BURNET'S HISTORIES, by MATTHEW GREEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gil's history appears to me
Last Line: Whose fathers were gil's skeletons.
Subject(s): Burnet, Bishop Gilbert (1643-1715); Echard, Rev. Laurence; History; Historians


AN EPITAPH, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When sunday tidings from the front
Last Line: And priest and people borrowed of her cheer.
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


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


AN ODE WRITTEN BEFORE THE SPANIARDS HAD RECOVERED LIBERTY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Arise, arise, arise / there is blood on the earth that denies ye bread
Last Line: Ye were injured, and that means memory.
Variant Title(s): An Ode To The Assertors Of Liberty
Subject(s): Freedom; Spain - History; Liberty


AN OLD BATTLE-FIELD, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The softest whisperings of the scented south
Last Line: Dream of the battle and an unmarked grave!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; United States - History


AN UNINSCRIBED MONUMENT - BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silence and solitude may hint
Last Line: Silent as I, and lonesome as the land.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864)


ANCESTRESS, by MARGUERITE JANVRIN ADAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I become as history, - long - past history
Last Line: When our great-grandson bends above my hand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Adams, M.j.
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Future; History; Heritage; Heredity; Historians


ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS OF THE SOUTHWEST CALENDAR FOR JULY, by DONALD LEVERING    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is the month in which
Last Line: The short-lived sparks %and be free of our spindly bodies
Subject(s): Civilization; History; July


ANCIENT VENGEANCE IN SPAIN, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cortes (parliament) in may, 1932, banned parochial schools
Last Line: & began a 7-year swing of 'cheap money'
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ANDRE'S LAST REQUEST [OR, REQUEST TO WASHINGTON] [OCTOBER 1, 1780], by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not the fear of death
Last Line: By a soldier's death!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Andre, John (1750-1780); Capital Punishment; History; Military Justice; Presidents, United States; Soldiers; Washington, George (1732-1799); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Historians; Courts Martial


ANGER, FARMS & GAMBLING, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the usa that summer
Last Line: Unto the century's end
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ANNIVERSARIES, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forty-odd years ago
Last Line: This whispering wrist sustains the dream of nations
Subject(s): Anniversaries; History; Time; Historians


ANNIVERSARY POEM; ALUMNI OF THE FRIENDS' YEARLY MEETING SCH., by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more, dear friends, you meet beneath a clouded sky
Last Line: The crown for cross!
Subject(s): Alumni; American Civil War; Friends, Religious Society Of; U.s. - History; Quakers


ANOTHER FAMINE IN RUSSIA, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was one of the periodic famines (going back to the 1890s
Last Line: Johnny weismuller in tarzan the ape man %grand hotel %seethe at the edge, my nation
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ANSCHLUSS-MANIA, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: November 12: austria claimed union with germany
Last Line: And several connected treaties
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ANSWER FOR THE MESSENGERS OF THE NATION, by WHEELER CASE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When messengers come from a foreign land
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ANTI-IMPERIALIST LEAGUE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The year of the spanish war
Last Line: To join the rough rider regiment
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ANTI-IMPERIALIST LEAGUE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Against this paternal/imperial chant
Last Line: Forge a tarrying font
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ANTIDOTE FOR POPCULTUREMANIA, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clement greenberg's essay %'avant-garde and kitsch'
Last Line: Which ate the soul of mad odessa's paintbrush) %go read it
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ANTIQUE EMPIRE OF SPAIN, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Meanwhile 7,000 miles away in the philippines
Last Line: The war-smiten shout-sang 'dixie' and %'the battle hymn of the republic.'
Subject(s): U.s. - History


APHRODISIAC, by JOHN BRADLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Teacher enters the classroom, bows to schoolgir, and then rips her
Last Line: Poetry arises from the shortcomings of history
Subject(s): History; Poetry And Poets


APOCALYPSE, by RICHARD REALF    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Straight to his heart the bullet crushed
Last Line: Raised conquering hands toward heaven and cried, %'all hail the stars and stripes!' and died
Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; U.s. - History


APPLIANCES FOR THE MASSES, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: By 1929 %one home in four
Last Line: & th' amos 'n' andy radio show began on nbc
Subject(s): U.s. - History


APPOMATTOX; ON THE DEATH OF GRANT, by BENJAMIN DAVENPORT HOUSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: To peace-white ashes sunk war's lurid flame
Subject(s): American Civil War; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); U.s. - History


APRIL VIENNA BANK BYE-BYE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Vienna had been the fiscal capital of the world
Last Line: At you-know-who %as the culprit
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ARBUCKLE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: On labor day %in a 12th floor suite
Last Line: It was one of the biggest scandals %of the 20s
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ARISE, O WOBBLIES!, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: On july 7, 1905 %200 socialists and trade union workers
Last Line: And getting himself the nobel peace prize
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ARMADA: EPILOGUE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: England, queen of the waves whose green inviolate girdle enrings thee round
Subject(s): History


ARMY CORRESPONDENT'S LAST RIDE; FIVE FORKS, APRIL 1, 1865, by GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho! Pony. Down the lonely road
Last Line: And took the first despatch!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; War; Declaration Day


ARMY HYMN, by FREDERIC DENISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: O thou enthroned above the skies
Last Line: And spread abroad thy grace.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; United States - History


ARMY HYMN; 'OLD HUNDRED', by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O lord of hosts! Almighty king!
Last Line: Join our loud anthem, praise to thee!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Prayer; United States - History


ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O remnant of that perished host
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


AROUND BLUE-SPEAK, by GUY BENNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: History ambles then %relents. Memory clears
Last Line: Before twine streamed %mindful of travel
Subject(s): History; Memory


AS WHILE ABOUT SOME RESTFUL, WIDE-SHORED BAY, by ROBERT TRAILL SPENCE LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ASHBY, by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To the brave all homage render
Last Line: Keep above his dust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, John Randolph
Subject(s): American Civil War; Ashby, Turner (b. 1932); U.s. - History


ASHCAN SCHOOL, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the u.S. Art scene
Last Line: In the trend to get out of nyc to the west
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ASHES OF GLORY, by AUGUSTUS JULIAN REQUIER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fold up the gorgeous silken sun
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


ASHES OF SOLDIERS, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ashes of soldiers south or north
Last Line: For the ashes of all dead soldiers south or north.
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


AT 78, by ROBERT OTTMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Books shelter me
Last Line: I am waiting to be born
Subject(s): Family Life; History


AT AN INN, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are talkative proud, and assured, and self-sufficient,
Last Line: When we are cold.
Subject(s): England; History; Poetry & Poets; English; Historians


AT CORUNA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When from these shores the british army first
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


AT FREDERICKSBURG [DECEMBER 13, 1862], by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God send us peace, and keep red strife away
Last Line: No matter what birth or what race or what creed.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); United States - History


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 HOME IN DAKAR, by MARGARET DANNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the african arts
Last Line: Feeling neither too ill nor too old
Subject(s): Africa; African Americans - History; Art And Artists


AT LAST MAKING NON-INVASION A NATIONAL POLICY, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: August 12: supported by the usa (but not with troops
Last Line: Signed a wheat agreement to stabilize prices
Subject(s): U.s. - History


AT LEXINGTON, by BENJAMIN SLEDD    Poem Source                    
First Line: All day a pilgrim had I gone
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


AT MAGNOLIA CEMETERY, by HENRY TIMROD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep sweetly in your humble graves
Last Line: By mourning beauty crowned!
Variant Title(s): Ode Sung On The Occasion Of Decorating The Graves - Charleston;decoration Day At Charleston;magnolia Cemetery Ode;ode For Decoration Day;hymn For Memorial Day;ode On Decorating The Graves;magnolia Cemetery;lines;ode At Magnolia Cemetery;ode Sung At Magnolia Cemetery
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cemeteries; Charleston, South Carolina; Confederate States Of America; Patriotism; United States - History; Graveyards; Confederacy


AT PORT ROYAL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tent-lights glimmer on the land
Last Line: Their broken saxon words.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; Port Royal, Battle Of (1861); United States - History


AT ROME - REGRETS - IN ALLUSION TO NIEBUHR (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those old credulities, to nature dear
Last Line: Assent is power, belief the soul of fact.
Subject(s): History; Niebuhr, Barthold Georg (1776-1831); Rome, Italy; Historians


AT ROME - REGRETS - IN ALLUSION TO NIEBUHR (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Complacent fictions were they, yet the same
Last Line: For the blood-thirsty mead of odin's riotous hall.
Subject(s): History; Niebuhr, Barthold Georg (1776-1831); Rome, Italy; Historians


AT THE CANNON'S MOUTH, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Palely intent, he urged his keel
Last Line: The star ascended in his nativity.
Subject(s): Albemarle (ship); American Civil War; Cushing, William Barker (1842-1874); United States - History


ATLANTA EXPOSITION ODE, by MARY WESTON FORDHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cast down your bucket where you are
Last Line: For all one flag, one flag for all.
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Exhibitions; Racial Equality; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915); Black Heritage; World's Fairs; Expositions


ATLAS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am used to the heft of it
Last Line: To carry everything.
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Forests; Labor & Laborers; Strength; Black Heritage; Woods; Work; Workers


ATLAS, by CLAUDIA EMERSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the museum gift shop at the foot
Last Line: They ever met another death
Subject(s): American Civil War; History; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Violence; War; War Injuries


AUBADE: LOOKING BACKWARD, by DEAN KOSTOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is the undergrowth
Last Line: Wraps herself in a rain of shadows
Subject(s): History


AUNT AGNES HATCHER TELLS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After the war when rationing was over
Last Line: Slide out babies like payday from that %billion dollar behind
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Death; Family Life; Hunger; Slavery; War


AUNT JOE FALLS IN LOVE WITH WILFRED CHAPPELL, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When he drove into parkers prairie
Last Line: To take a picture of the whole world %if that was what he wanted
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


AUNT JOE LEARNS TO KEEP HER BALANCE, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Everything I need arrives in time - sunlight
Last Line: Then to the other. I try to memorize it, %how she keeps her balance
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


AUNT JOE PLAYS WITH THE CHILDREN, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Saturday afternoons I get out my tricks
Last Line: Then what could be impossible? Like a skill %already mastered, the future lies safe within me
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


AUNT JOE TELLS HOW SHE LEARNED TO LOVE, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Singing hymns on sunday evenings
Last Line: My jealously, until I longed %to be a living sacrifice
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


AUNT JOE WATCHES BJORN LARSEN WALKING IN THE RAIN, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Outside, rain as fine as lace
Last Line: I get up and open the door to meet it
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


AURORA-BOREALIS; COMMEMORATIVE OF DISSOLUTION OF ARMIES,1865, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What power disbands the northern lights
Last Line: Midnight and morn.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Army - United States; U.s. - History


AUSONIUS, EPISTLE VII, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A letter from a flier
Last Line: I bribe the spring with wine
Subject(s): Ausonius, Decimus Magnus (310-394); History; Historians


AUSONIUS, EPISTLE VII, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A letter from a flier
Last Line: I bribe the spring with wine'
Subject(s): Ausonius, Decimus Magnus (310-394); History


AUTOCRATIC POLICY OF THE FEDERAL AMERICANS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At length a fierce autocracy is seen
Last Line: Drift between north and south like floating wood.
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


AVE, by ADA ALDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now let us take the measure of the man
Subject(s): U.s. - History


AWAITING THE GUILLOTINE, 1794, by ANDRE MARIE CHENIER    Poem Text                    
First Line: As a last zephyr, or the last warm ray
Last Line: For you alone to live has any worth.
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Chenier, Andre Marie De (1762-1794); French History - Reign Of Terror; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty


BABBLING, by JOSE OSWALD DE SOUZA ANDRADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cabralism. The civiliation of the donees. The willing
Last Line: Dance. The vegatation. Brazilwood
Subject(s): Brazil; Ethnic Identity; History; Poetry And Poets


BACK HOME AGAIN, by GRANTLAND RICE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ghost of a sergeant growls - 'fall in'
Subject(s): History


BACKSASS, by FRED CHAPPELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A southernism generally confined to negative constructions
Last Line: 100% 40-carat backsass
Subject(s): Appalachia; Courage; History; Strength


BAD NEWS FOR FREE WILL, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ivan pavlov, a russian, published his conditioned reflexes
Last Line: Nbc, good humors, miniature golf %and a.A. Milne's winnie-the-pooh
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BALFOUR DECLARATION OF NOVEMBER 2, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: British foreign secretary arthur j. Balfour
Last Line: Near the rhine-marne canal in france
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BALL'S BLUFF; A REVERIE, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One noonday, at my window in the town
Last Line: Far footfalls died away till none were left.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Ball's Bluff, Battle Of; United States - History; United States; War; America


BALLAD OF EMMA SAMSON, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The courage of man is one thing, but that of a maid is more
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


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


BALLAD OF OLD GLORY, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear the story
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BALLAD OF THE LADIES OF OLDEN TIMES, by FRANCOIS VILLON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me where, in what foreign place / is flora, who wore roman dress
Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De
Subject(s): History; Melancholy; Historians; Dejection


BALLAD OF THE WAR, by GEORGE HERBERT SASS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Watchman, what of the night
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


BALLET, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lincoln kirstein invited george balanchine to create the
Last Line: American ballet became the nyc ballet in '48
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BALTIMORE GRAYS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ah, well I remember that long summer's day
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


BANNOCKBURN, SELS., by WALTER SCOTT            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): History


BAPTISM OF THE FLAG, by BARRETT EASTMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Strong in the breeze at the mainmast top there swung
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BARBARA FRIETCHIE [SEPTEMBER 13, 1862], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the meadows rich with corn
Last Line: On thy stars below in frederick town!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Courage; Flags - United States; Frietschie, Barbara (1766-1862); Maryland; Patriotism; United States - History; United States; Valor; Bravery; American Flag; Fritchie, Barbara (1766-1862); America


BAREFOOTED BOYS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: By the sword of st. Michael
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


BARON DE KALB, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the blue moselle, where the waters sleep
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BARTHOLDI'S PHAROS, by GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Manhattan bay in glory lay
Last Line: And only art is glory!
Subject(s): New York City - History; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


BAT, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: A friend once described his cancer this way
Last Line: And is tearing up the place
Subject(s): World History


BATTLE - A NAVAL ODE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of columbia in her might
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BATTLE ABOVE THE CLOUDS, by THERON BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: By the banks of chattanooga, watching with a soldier's heed
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chattanooga Campaign; Lookout Mountain, Battle Of (1863); U.s. - History


BATTLE BUNNY; MALVERN HILL, 1864, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bunny, lying in the grass
Last Line: Twixt a rabbit's god and man's.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): American Civil War; Animals; Rabbits; United States - History; Hares


BATTLE HYMN, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God, to thee we humbly bow
Last Line: In defeat and victory
Subject(s): American Civil War; Faith; Soldiers; U.s. - History


BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC, by JULIA WARD HOWE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord
Last Line: While god is marching on.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Freedom; Patriotism; Religion; United States - History; United States; War; Liberty; Theology; America


BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord
Last Line: While god is marching on
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


BATTLE OF BENNINGTON, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On this fair valley's grassy breast
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BATTLE OF BRITAIN, by CECIL DAY LEWIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What did we earth-bound make of it? A tangle
Last Line: Their luck, skill, nerve. And they were young like you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas
Subject(s): Film (photography); Great Britain - History; World War Ii; English History; Second World War


BATTLE OF ERIE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twas just at sunrise, and a glorious day
Subject(s): Lake Erie, Battle Of; U.s. - History


BATTLE OF MURFREESBORO, 1862-1922, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He shakes the dust from off his feet
Last Line: And skyscrapers tower in far new york.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): American Civil War; Murfreesboro, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History


BATTLE OF SOMERSET, by CORNELIUS C. CULLEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I gazed, and lo! Afar and near
Last Line: And cease this bloody strife.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Somerset, Kentucky, Battle Of (1862); United States - History


BATTLE OF STONE RIVER, TENNESSEE; VIEW FROM OXFORD CLOISTERS, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With tewksbury and barnet heath
Last Line: Like yorkist and lancastrian?
Subject(s): American Civil War; Rosecrans, William Starke (1819-1898); Stone River, Battle Of (1863); U.s. - History


BATTLE RAINBOW, by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The warm, weary day was departing-the smile
Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, John Randolph
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


BATTLE SUMMERS, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Again the glory of the days!
Last Line: What in the hurly can ye do? %little, 'tis like - yet we can die
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


BAUHAUS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The architect walter gropius organized the bauhaus in weimar
Last Line: In the oi joy teeter-totter
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BAY BILLY, by FRANK HARRISON GASSAWAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You may talk of horses of renown
Last Line: "the whole line answered, ""here!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Derrick Dogg
Subject(s): American Civil War; Animals; Horses; United States - History; War


BAYARD TAYLOR, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In other years - lost youth's enchanted years
Last Line: Ay, he will come! To us he is not dead.
Subject(s): Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878); United States - History


BEACHY HEAD, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On thy stupendous summit, rock sublime!
Last Line: Had to some better region fled for ever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): English Channel; Great Britain - History; Sussex, England; English History


BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS!, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beat! Beat! Drums! - blow! Bugles! Blow / through the windows - through doors
Last Line: So strong you thump o terrible drums -- so loud you bugles blow.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day


BEAUFORT EXILE'S LAMENT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now chant me a dirge for the isles of the sea
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


BEAUREGARD, by CATHERINE ANNE WARFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our trust is now in thee
Last Line: Beauregard!
Alternate Author Name(s): Warfield, Catherine M.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauregard, Pierre Gustave T. (1818-93); Confederate States Of America; Patriotism; Shiloh, Battle Of (1862); United States - History; Confederacy


BEAUREGARD'S APPEAL, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yea! Since the need is bitter
Last Line: The eucharist of prayer.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauregard, Pierre Gustave T. (1818-93); Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Confederacy


BEAUTIFUL AND THE DANGEROUS, by BARBARA TEDLOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Under a swollen lavender sky a crowd of men in black blankets
Last Line: A returned pilgrim. Examples of ethnographic bad faith
Subject(s): Love - Incestuous; Native Americans - History


BEAVERS, by GERALD VIZENOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Turn the sixth card over at dawn
Last Line: Beaver near the end in the city
Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Beavers; Fur Trade; Hunting; Native Americans - History


BECKET, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Am I the man? That rang
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


BEFORE VICKSBURG, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While sherman stood beneath the hottest fire
Last Line: "more cartridges, sir, -- calibre fifty-four!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History; Vicksburg Campaign (1862-63)


BEGINNINGS; NATURAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND, by JEFFREY GREENE    Poem Text                    
First Line: On the ground floor called 'beginnings'
Subject(s): Artifacts; History; National Museum Of Scotland; Historians


BELLEVUE RIVER QUEEN, by FREDRICK ZYDEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: She's quiet now. %the last hungry human
Last Line: On a clear vision of the sea
Subject(s): Boats; History; Rivers


BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Franklin! Our franklin! America's loved son
Subject(s): Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790); U.s. - History


BERLIN OLYMPICS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: August 1-16: jesse owens from ohio state %won four golds
Last Line: Though later he was 'director of negro personnel for ford motor company'
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BESSIE SMITH, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The day after hitler & mussolini %met in munich
Last Line: And on the 28th the spanish gov't moved from valencia to barcelona
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BETHEL, by AUGUSTINE JOSEPH HICKEY DUGANNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We mustered at midnight, in darkness we formed
Last Line: "column! Forward!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; Bethel, Virgina, Battle Of (1861); United States - History; Great Bethel (church), Virginia; Big Bethel (church), Virginia; Little Bethel (church), Virginia


BETTER WORLD CHORAL SOCIETIES, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a national network of affiliated choruses
Last Line: A loan & most favored nation trade status
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BEWARE OF OFFENDING BACCHUS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Anyone reading euripides bacchae
Last Line: Some jazz players moved on to chicago %and other places %what a year!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BEYOND THE POTOMAC, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They slept on the field which their valor had won
Last Line: Since they passed o'er the river?
Subject(s): American Civil War; Maryland; United States - History


BIG AMERICAN RELIEF EFFORT, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before america's entrance in the war
Last Line: & became famous for the goodness of it
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BIG BANG, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Confounding hitler, and all other isms
Last Line: Roll it, o america!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BIG BIG PROBLEM, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Don't try to make %people happy,'
Last Line: & made big money from the stock crash
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BIG BULL MARKET, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a bull market on wall street
Last Line: Abandon that lance, o universe!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BIG FINE FOR GERMANY, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: January 24 till the 29th %the paris conference of allies
Last Line: Was 'given' to england by belgium
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BIG STRIKE BY ORGANIZED LABOR, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: July 16-19: there was a general strike by organized labor in san francisco
Last Line: & all officers had to take an oath of loyalty to adolf
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BIG, BIG PROBLEM FOR COMMIES, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: May 25: vladimir lenin suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed
Last Line: October 14: first mechanical telephone switchboard installed in ny
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BIGLOW PAPERS, SELS., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): History


BILL TILDEN, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Six foot tall and full of charisma
Last Line: Ostracized him, and he died impoverished in '53
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BIO: FITTING INTO MY YEARS, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Back then the people around us confidently
Last Line: Hatched in the cornfields of iowa and crept into %english departments. And I was one
Subject(s): History; Past


BIRDWATCHING AT FAN LAKE, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our blue boat drifts
Last Line: Full of hearts that beat quick and strong
Subject(s): Family Life; History


BIRTH CONTROL, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: This year and the next
Last Line: And church was banned from owning property
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BIRTH OF PERF-PO, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There were dada evenings at the cabaret voltaire
Last Line: To the us, germany, france, & italy
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BIVOUAC IN THE SNOW, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Halt! - the march is over
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see before me now a travelling army halting
Last Line: Studded, breaking out, the eternal stars.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Drills & Minor Tactics; Declaration Day


BJORN LARSEN AND AUNT JOE AT THE DUMP, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How can a man know which minute
Last Line: Its bones, and its nails like little stars %that are going to shine forever
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


BLACK CHURCHES BURNING, by SALVATORE GALIOTO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Patriotic, family oriented %religious, angry white men
Last Line: Hey mom, pass me the bottle %and the gasoline
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Churches; Fire


BLACK HOLE & THE BOMB, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: J. Robert oppenheimer %proposed that a star larger than
Last Line: Demonstrated nuclear fission through %bombarding uranium with neutrons
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A classics scholar named john rice
Last Line: To teach & escape the evil
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BLACKBIRD SEASON, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is march, and my hands have
Last Line: Splashing from glossy wings
Subject(s): World History


BLACKSMITH; MRS. GRESHAM, by DAVID MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Howard gresham pried a yes from me
Last Line: At last I am ready for my life to come
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History


BLUE ISLAND, by PHILIP S. BRYANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The snow blew
Last Line: Yards of blue island
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Culture Conflict; Ku Klux Klan; Racism; U.s. - Race Relations


BLUE MARROW, by LOUISE BERNICE HALFE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandmothers hold me. I must pass all that I possess, every
Last Line: Of our struggling hearts?
Subject(s): Explorers; Hunting; Native Americans - History; Native Americans - Wars; Trail Of Tears (1838-39)


BLUFF CITY, by CLAUDIA KEELAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: But it still doesn't explain why %it took the passive
Last Line: If there is no struggle there is no %progress am I not a sister
Subject(s): Change; History


BOARDING: 4. INDEPENDENCE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I am ten, the british quit
Last Line: Foggy weather, shakespeare. We made a trade
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Independence; Libraries & Librarians; India; English History


BOARDING: 4. INDEPENDENCE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I am ten, the british quit
Last Line: Foggy weather, shakespeare. We make a trade
Variant Title(s): Independenc
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Independence; Librarians And Libraries


BOCAS: A DAUGHTER'S GEOGRAPHY, by NTOZAKE SHANGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a daughter/ mozambique
Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette
Subject(s): Blacks - History; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


BOGOTA, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three at night %I drag this naked life along
Last Line: Stride toward yet another passage, step into the water and live
Subject(s): Boats; Fishing And Fishermen; Latin America - History; South America; Tourists; Travel


BOLSHEVIKS ARE FORMED, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: From secret socialist groups
Last Line: W/a coleridgean indifference %to the flow of cash
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BOMBINGS IN APRIL, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Forces unknown to this day
Last Line: &members of wilson's cabinet
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BONNIE & CLYDE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Near gibsland, louisiana %a couple of hick murderers
Last Line: Were offed on 5-23 by five sheriff's deputies and a texas ranger
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BONNY ELOISE, by J. R. THOMAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: O, sweet is the vale where the mohawk gently glides
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


BONUS MARCH, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: July 28: in ghastly depression's penury
Last Line: Of first mortgages during the depression
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BOOK BOAT, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out in california
Last Line: Like mice in a box of archives
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


BOOKER T. AND W.E.B., by DUDLEY RANDALL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It seems to me,' said booker t
Last Line: I don't agree,' %said w.E.B.
Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - History; Du Bois, William Edward B. (1868-1963); Reform And Reformers; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915); Writing And Writers


BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The word is writ that he who runs may read
Last Line: Like the keen prow of some on-forging ship.
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915); Black Heritage


BOOKER T. WASHINGTON'S METAPHOR ABOUT SPRING, by PHILIP S. BRYANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The house will clear out and the sun will flood over
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Spring; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915)


BOONE IN THE WILDERNESS OF KENTUCKY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bright waved thy woods, kentucky
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BOSONS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rewrite the textbooks! Here come the bosons
Last Line: In th' leasing of the teapot dome oil reserve in wyoming
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BOSTON, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Then here's to the city of boston
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): History


BOSTON, by SAM WALTER FOSS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One day, through the primeval wood
Variant Title(s): The Calf Pat
Subject(s): Conformity; History


BOSTON HYMN; READ IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY 1, 1863, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The word of the lord by night
Last Line: His way home to the mark.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Patriotism; Pilgrim Fathers; United States - History; United States; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; America


BOWING HER HEAD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her head is bowed downwards; so pensive her air
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


BOXER REBELLION, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: China had been ruled by the empress tzu hsi
Last Line: Seethe onward, o century!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BOY BRITTAN [FEBRUARY 8, 1862], by BYRON FORCEYTHE WILLSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Boy brittan - only a lad a fair-haired boy - sixteen
Last Line: "my darling, thou shalt rest!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Willson, Forceythe
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Fort Henry, Battle Of (1862); Sailing & Sailors; United States - History; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails


BOYISH WAR; LT. MITCHELL, by DAVID MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys
Last Line: Then I felt like six-and-a-quarter cents
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History


BOYS' REDOUBT, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In continental buff and blue
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BRADY'S MICHIGAN SHARPSHOOTERS INSPECT THE AMBROTYPE OF SERGEANT RICE, by MICHAEL A. SCHAFFNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We know it was '62 because sergeant rice
Last Line: A closer look at this, my other life
Subject(s): American Civil War; Military; Soldiers; U.s. - History


BREAD & ROSES STRIKE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: And then, %in the middle of the month
Last Line: Walking in an endless pain-chain past the mills
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BREAD, CIRCUSES, BANKS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: John dillinger was paroled in '33
Last Line: Apparently set up by a brothel madam %on july 24
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BRIDGE, by ALES DEBELJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the place abandoned by the praetorian guard you'll reach
Last Line: Rot. You were right: the stones piled on the banks became islands
Subject(s): History


BRIDGE INN, LETHBRIDGE, by D. SIDJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: And all my life I'd been thinking guilt
Last Line: And into the net of our endless %revision of history
Subject(s): Bridges; History; Memory


BRIEF GUIDE TO AMERICAN HISTORY TEACHERS, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Name several american holocausts, the nations involved
Last Line: Of course not: it never has been, and this is no time to begin doing so
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Native Americans - History


BRIEF HISTORY, by WYN COOPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: This particular part of the globe knows
Last Line: Put it in your mouth and blew
Subject(s): History


BRIEF HISTORY OF FATHERS, by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do we miss a thing we love
Last Line: His empty eyes, a cold wind %coming on like dementia
Subject(s): Fathers; History; Love


BRIGADE MUST NOT KNOW, SIR!', by JOHN WILLIAMSON PALMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who've ye got there? Only a dying brother'
Last Line: Living, he laid the first stones of a nation; %and dead, he builds it yet
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); U.s. - History


BRITISH WONDERS, SELS., by EDWARD WARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: In wretched times, when men were given
Last Line: Kept wisely up to vertue's rules
Subject(s): Great Britain - History - 1714-1716


BROKEN MUG, by JOHN ESTEN COOKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mug is broken, my heart is sad
Alternate Author Name(s): Cook, John Esten
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


BROTHER, TELL ME OF THE BATTLE, by GEORGE FREDERICK ROOT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


BROWN OF OSSAWATOMIE [DECEMBER 2, 1859], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: John brown of ossawatomie spake on his dying day
Last Line: To love!
Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Capital Punishment; Freedom; Slavery; United States - History; Anti-slavery; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Liberty; Serfs


BRUCE AND THE SPIDER, by BERNARD BARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For scotland's and for freedom's right
Last Line: And patience wins the race.
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): History; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); War; Historians; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce


BUCCANEER, by RICHARD HENRY DANA (1787-1879)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He swears; but he is sick at heart
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BUILDING, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We started our house midway through the cultural revolution
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; History; Historians


BUILDING, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We started our house midway through the cultural revolution
Last Line: Sharp tools, good design
Subject(s): Buildings And Builders; History


BURDENS OF THE DAY, NOV. 12, 1936, by DUANE BIG EAGLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the day they opened the san francisco-oakland bay bridge
Last Line: Are the strands that weave the world together
Subject(s): History; San Francisco


BURGOYNE'S ADVANCE AND FALL, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Led on by lust of lucre and reown
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BURGOYNE'S DEFEAT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come, all ye valient soldiers that's courage stout and bold
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BURGOYNE'S DEFEAT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ye powers above, look down and pity our case
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BURIAL OF DE SOTO, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Deep buried in the ooze of centuries
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BURIAL OF GENERAL FRASER, by LURA ANNA BOIES    Poem Source                    
First Line: He fell, the bold hero! Low lay the proud form
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BURIAL OF GENERAL FRASER (1), by E. W. B. CANNING    Poem Source                    
First Line: On saratoga's crimsoned field
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BURIAL OF GENERAL FRASER (2), by E. W. B. CANNING    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was mourning at the eventide that sad october day
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BURNING OF FAIRFIELD, by DAVID HUMPHREYS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ye smoking ruins, marks of hostile ire
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BURY THEM, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bury the dragon's teeth!
Last Line: Fighting against great god.
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Fort Wagner, Battle Of (1863); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; United States - History


BURYING DETAIL, by JOHN BENSKO    Poem Source                    
First Line: No matter the slant of hill, or height
Last Line: Their magpie scattering of what was once %so possessed
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War Injuries


BUSHMAN, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is a long night, I have
Last Line: Black, %triple %vision %never leaves
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Basquiat, Jean-michel (1960-1988); Freedom; Paintings And Painters; Puerto Rico; Slavery


BUTLER'S PROCLAMATION, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ay! Drop the treacherous mask! Throw by
Last Line: Save -- immortality of shame!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Butler, Benjamin Franklin (1818-1893); New Orleans, Battle Of (1862); United States - History; Women


BY CHICKAMAUGA RIVER, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Again the wandering breezes bring
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


BY THE CONEMAUGH, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Foreboding sudden of untoward change
Last Line: "but I cannot hide them away from him!"
Subject(s): Conemaugh (river), Pennsylvania; United States - History


BY THE POTOMAC, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The soft new grass is creeping o'er the graves
Last Line: And all our heavy heritage of grief.
Variant Title(s): Accomplices
Subject(s): American Civil War; Potomac River; Rivers; United States - History


BY THE SHENANDOAH; OCTOBER, 1863, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My home is drear and still to-night
Last Line: My courtney fair and my philip bold!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Nature; U.s. - History; Valor; Bravery


BYE BYE BOLSHEVIKS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: On 3-6 %the bolshevik party
Last Line: Changed itself to the %russian party
Subject(s): U.s. - History


BYE BYE PRIVATE PROPERTY, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lenin addressed the petrograd soviet at 3 pm
Last Line: December 7 %the us declared war on austria-hungary
Subject(s): U.s. - History


CALL ALL', by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whoop! The doodles have broken loose
Last Line: "mother and maiden, and child and slave, / a common triumph or a single grave"
Subject(s): American Civil War;confederate States Of America;u.s. - History; Confederacy


CALL OF THE SCOT, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING    Poem Source                    
First Line: There came an ancient man and slow
Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): History


CALLING, by FORREST HAMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: 1. Text: a slave ship sinks in the atlantic, 1749
Last Line: Because his own body sometimes bends, %voices beckoning
Subject(s): African Americans - History


CALVIN COOLIDGE, 1872-1933: 2. CREDO, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Do the day's work,' he said, 'and do not be
Last Line: The time of coolidge was the golden age?
Subject(s): Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933); History; Historians


CAMPS OF GREEN, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not alone those camps of white, old comrades of wars
Last Line: Nor drummer to beat the morning drum.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


CAN'T, by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How history repeats itself
Last Line: The steadfast man whose name was grant.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); U.s. - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864)


CANAAN, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They march at god's
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CANAAN, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They march at god's
Last Line: Or a leg like flails
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


CANTICLE DE PROFUNDIS, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Glory to thee, father of all the immortal
Last Line: Glory to thee!
Variant Title(s): A Canticle In War
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day


CANTO, by OTTO ORBAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: For years I longed to translate pound
Last Line: A can, a jackknife is poetry itself
Subject(s): Freedom; History; Poetry And Poets; United States


CANTO: ROCKS: WHICH HOLD THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD THUS FAR, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look! It's a rock depicting the solid
Last Line: Forward & back
Subject(s): History; Nature; Stones; Historians; Granite; Rocks


CANUTE THE GREAT, SELS., by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY                        Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper)
Subject(s): Canute The Great, King Of England; Great Britain - History


CAPT. SALLY TOMPKINS, C.S.A, by BEVERLY RANDOLPH TUCKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A clock has struck! A life has paid the cost
Subject(s): American Civil War; Physicians; U.s. - History


CAPTAIN'S WIFE, by THEODORE TILTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We gathered roses, blanche and I, for little madge
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


CAPTIVES GOING HOME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: No flaunting banners o'er them wave
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


CAPTURE AT SARATOGA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here followeth the direful fate
Subject(s): U.s. - History


CARD OF INVITATION TO MR. GIBBON ... 1781, by WILLIAM HAYLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A english sparrow, pert and free
Subject(s): Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794); History


CAROLINA, by JOHN A. WAGNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Carolina! Carolina
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


CAROLINA [JANUARY, 1865], by HENRY TIMROD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The despot treads thy sacred sands
Last Line: Carolina!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); South Carolina; United States - History


CARPET KNIGHT, by JOSEPH STANSBURY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Late a council of gods from their heavenly abodes
Subject(s): U.s. - History


CASEY, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Casey jones %was at the head of the cannonball express
Last Line: Rise, o unions, rise
Subject(s): U.s. - History


CAVALRY CROSSING A FORD, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A line in long array where they wind betwixt green islands
Last Line: The guidon flags flutter gayly in the wind.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; Cavalry; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; United States - History; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Declaration Day


CCC'S THIRD!, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: April 17: by the third anniversary of the
Last Line: 5-4 against the new york state minimum wage!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


CEDAR MOUNTAIN [AUGUST 9, 1862], by ANNIE (ADAMS) FIELDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ring the bells, nor ring them slowly
Last Line: These lives that now we dedicate.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cedar Mountain, Battle Of (1862); United States - History


CELT, by ROBERT FRANCIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard a voice clang like a brass kettle clanging
Last Line: Things that had been mere history before
Subject(s): History; Ireland; Irish Language


CELT IN ME, by KEITH WILSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a museum here I saw a celtic swordblade
Last Line: Their arms outstretched for me
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; History; Ireland; Museums


CENSORSHIP, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Repressionist twerps %in the u.S. Customs service
Last Line: With a moratorium of farm mortgage foreclosures
Subject(s): U.s. - History


CENTENNIAL HYMN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through calm and storm the years have led
Last Line: The record of thy happier reign.
Subject(s): United States - History


CENTURY OF PEACE, by GUY BILSFORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three thousand miles of border line!
Subject(s): History


CHAMBERLAIN VISITS HITLER, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: September 15: prime minister neville chamberlain
Last Line: & tried to get british, french and czech 'acquiescence.'
Subject(s): U.s. - History


CHAMPLAIN, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three hundred years ago
Subject(s): U.s. - History


CHANGES IN RUSSIA, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Meanwhile in russia %by summer's end
Last Line: With the accepted drug caffeine
Subject(s): U.s. - History


CHANGES IN SPAIN, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: On april 12 %republicans did well in municipal elections in spain
Last Line: As the textbooks say %five years later, civil war
Subject(s): U.s. - History


CHANT TO POSTERS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was a year of marvelous posters %especially in france
Last Line: For israel's 20th anniversary celebration
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


CHANUKAH, by MARION HARTOG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down-trodden 'neath the syrian heel
Last Line: And live for evermore.
Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Hanukkah; History; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Memory; Temples; Historians; Shoah; Judaism; Mosques


CHARLES B. DREUX, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Weep, louisiana, weep thy gallant dead!
Last Line: Forever bright!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Death; Dreux, Charles (1832-1861); Louisiana; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The


CHARLES D'ORLEANS, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Charles d'orleans goes into the rock
Last Line: And turquoise of course, not the legality %of barbarians. Listen: scythians are edible
Subject(s): History; Language; Rocky Mountain Range; Scythians; Travel


CHARLES KERR PUBLISHING, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Charles kerr %aging %thirsting to retire
Last Line: October 6: chiang kai-shek was elected president of china
Subject(s): U.s. - History


CHARLES SUMNER, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Garlands upon his grave
Last Line: Upon the paths of men.
Subject(s): United States - History


CHARLESTON, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Calmly beside her tropic strand
Last Line: Pass from the world to glory.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; United States - History


CHARLESTON, by HENRY TIMROD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Calm as that second summer which precedes / the first fall of snow
Last Line: April, 1'63.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; United States - History


CHARLESTON AT THE CLOSE OF 1863, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What! Still does the mother of treason uprear
Last Line: Where her dead martyrs rest!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; United States - History


CHARLIE PARKER, 1989, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Art is labor; art is rage
Last Line: Scoot your butts in the dirt
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Blacks; Labor And Laborers


CHARTER OAK, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once there came, in days of yore
Subject(s): U.s. - History


CHARTIST SONG, by THOMAS COOPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The time shall come when wrong shall end
Last Line: Till goodness shall hold high jubilee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Chartist, The
Subject(s): Chartism; Great Britain - History; English History


CHATEAU PAPINEAU, by SUSAN FRANCES HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The red-tiled towers of the old chateau
Last Line: The shaded walks -- the shadowy hall.
Alternate Author Name(s): Seranus; Frances, Susan
Subject(s): Houses; Middle Ages; Medieval History; Medieval Civilization; Medieval Literature


CHATTANOOGA (NOVEMBER, 1863), by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A kindling impulse seized the host
Last Line: And death a starry night.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chattanooga Campaign; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); U.s. - History


CHEIK ANTA DIOP: POEM FOR THE LIVING, by MWATABU OKANTAH    Poem Source                    
First Line: To who do I say
Last Line: For the living. Africa
Subject(s): Africa; African Americans - History; Ancestors And Ancestry


CHEST WITH PAINTED TULIPS, by ELEMER (GEORGE) HORVATH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The soldiers burn down the village and they say
Last Line: But he's already old. He lacks the strength
Subject(s): History; Hungary; Paintings And Painters; Soldiers; War


CHICAGO, by MILDRED PLEW MEIGS MERRYMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Burst to bloom, you proud white flower
Alternate Author Name(s): Meigs, Mildred Plew
Subject(s): Chicago; History


CHICKAMAUGA, by MARY EVELYN DAVID    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sharp, clear crack of rifles, and the deep
Last Line: By the river of death!
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Mollie E.; Davis, Mollie E. Moore
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chickamauga, Battle Of (1863); Death; United States - History; Dead, The


CHICKAMAUGA: 1898, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: They are camped on chickamauga
Last Line: In the freedom-war of life
Subject(s): "american Civil War;chickamauga, Battle Of (1863);holidays;memorial Day;u.s. - History;" Declaration Day


CHICKAMAUGA: 1898, by GEORGE TITUS FERRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: From laughing leas the bugles sing
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chickamauga, Battle Of (1863); Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History


CHILDREN, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ny call, a socialist paper
Last Line: Taxing the net income of businesses
Subject(s): U.s. - History


CHILDREN'S HOUR; MRS. GRESHAM, by DAVID MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: This morning on the radio I heard
Last Line: And I was moved by everything that moved
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History


CHIMALPOA; A MONODRAMA - FOUNDED ON AN EVENT IN THE MEXICAN HISTORY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Subjects! Friends! Children! I may call you my children
Last Line: Perform your office!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Duty; History; Mexico; Public Worship; Sacrifices; Dead, The; Historians; Church Attendance


CHIVALRY AND SLAVERY, SELECTION, by JOHN BURKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: It chanced that in a southern state
Last Line: * * *
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cruelty; Death; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; United States - History; Dead, The; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs


CHOICE, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The organ swings into the invitation hymn
Last Line: Before the generous right hand, %and the sinister left, decide
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 1. NEW GRANGE, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: The golden hill where long-forgotten kings
Last Line: Above the cromlech of the vanished gods.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 10. OLD MAGIC, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: As light swings wide the mighty eastern door
Last Line: And vanish up the flaming slopes of morn.
Subject(s): Druids; Great Britain - History; Magic; Druidism; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 11. THE BLIND NUN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: A nun green-girdled in a forest tower
Last Line: Across her blindness shone the face of god.
Subject(s): Blindness; Great Britain - History; Nuns; Visually Handicapped; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 12. SAINT BRIDE'S EVE, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: At twilight on a lonely cattle trail
Last Line: Her shadow falls, and wild hearts know its peace.
Subject(s): Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Great Britain - History; Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 13. DUNDAGIL, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: On lonely headlands at a magic cry
Last Line: Beneath the splendor of the dragon star.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Snowdon (mountain), Wales; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 14. SAINT ILLTYD, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: When fierce caer leon's wars were trumpeted
Last Line: Fair as the star of morning shone the grail.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 15. ARAN MOR, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Foam-girdled shores a lost enchantment keep
Last Line: On cross and ruined cairn a rose of light.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 16. THE BLESSING OF SAINT COLUMCILLE, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Torqued warriors turned their galley's crimson prow
Last Line: The old gods listened, lonely in the dew.
Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597); Great Britain - History; Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 17. SAINT BRENDAN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: In simple days before the gods were old
Last Line: Upon the burnished edges of the air.
Subject(s): Brendan, Saint (484-578); Great Britain - History; Brendan Of Clonfert; Brandan, Saint; Brandon, Saint; Brennainn, Saint; Brendan The Voyager; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 18. THE BATTLE OF THE BOOK, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beneath bronze chariot wheels the torn earth steamed
Last Line: Led by the lone white warrior of the skies.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 19. SAINT ORAN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Saint oran told them while the west grew dim
Last Line: Of that wild fruit of flame whose taste is peace.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Oran, Saint; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 20. SAINT COLUMBA, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: The murmuring tide foams slowly up the sands
Last Line: The well-loved outline of his irish shore.
Subject(s): Columba, Saint (521-597); Great Britain - History; Colum, Saint; Columcille, Saint; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 21. CLONARD, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: By lost clonard the river meads still hold
Last Line: In morning meadows when the world was young.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 22. THE BURNING OF BAMBOROUGH, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: With thundering wheels the golden war-wains run
Last Line: Far ringing harps on bamborough's starry height.
Subject(s): Aidan, Saint (d. 651); Bamborough, England; Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 23. CAEDMON, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: From feast and song the simple cowherd crept
Last Line: And a new speech was given to the earth.
Subject(s): Caedmon (7th Century); Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 24. SAINT HILDA, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: In hollow pastures misted with the spume
Last Line: High in her garth above the lonely sea.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Hilda, Saint (614-680); English History; Hild, Saint; Whitby, Abbess Of


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 25. THE FOREST SAINT, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: When wolves were conquered by a hermit's bell
Last Line: And houseled odin's warrior christ's armed knight.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 26. OWINI'S VISION, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: A thane beneath a snowy hawthorn hedge
Last Line: Within the silver circle of their wings.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 28. JOHN SCOTUS ERIGENA, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: To wolfish knights with hound and hooded hawk
Last Line: The last great echoes of far greece are borne.
Subject(s): Erigena, John Scotus (810-877); Great Britain - History; Scot, John The (81-877); Eriugena, John Scotus (81-877); English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 29. THE STAG OF CHEDDAR, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: The king rode close behind the royal stag
Last Line: Should rule the abbey of the holy thorn.
Subject(s): Dunstan, Saint (924-988); Edmund I, King Of England (921-946); Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 3. A DRUID TOWN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: A sunless maze of tangled lanes enfold
Last Line: The golden caer upon the ninth wave's foam.
Subject(s): Druids; Great Britain - History; Druidism; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 30. QUEEN MARGARET'S MISSAL, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: The king stood bowed within the cloister crypt
Last Line: Love and the light-illumined word abide.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Malcolm Iii Macduncan, King Of Scotland; Margaret Of Scotland, Saint (1046-1093); English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 31. THE BRINDLED HARE, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: By grange and castle when the fields were cool
Last Line: Bearing against his breast the wounded hare.
Subject(s): Animals; Anselm Of Canterbury, Saint (1033-1109); Great Britain - History; Rabbits; English History; Hares


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 32. SAINT HUGH, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: On mountain slopes, whose rocky summits glow
Last Line: Sunward to meet the mystery of god.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 33. A ROMAN ROAD, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: A road shines through the forest of the years
Last Line: The ruined roadway still endures and waits.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Roads; English History; Paths; Trails


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 4. CAER SIDI, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Alone, unarmed, the dragon king must go
Last Line: High in his mighty grasp the star-rimmed bowl.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 5. ARTHUR, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Behind storm-fretted bastions gray and bare
Last Line: The strange gods calling through their mystic horn.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 6. TALIESIN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: On lonely shores where dreams are drifted sand
Last Line: Up toward the dragon city of the sun.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Taliesin; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 7. YNISWITRIN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dim watered vale whose clear streams seek the sea
Last Line: Of new songs that shall fill those fallen choirs.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 8. THE HOLY THORN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Long centuries past by lonely barrows grew
Last Line: At wintry christ-tide flowers the holy thorn.
Subject(s): Glastonbury Thorn; Great Britain - History; English History


CHRIST IN BRITAIN: 9. THE FOREST, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: In lonely thickets where the wood is deep
Last Line: The light of dawn on his uplifted face.
Subject(s): Druids; Great Britain - History; Druidism; English History


CHRISTMAS EVE, SOUTH, 1865, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poverty, remorseless spectre
Last Line: For heaven is real, and earth deceiving.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): American Civil War; Christmas; Reconstruction (1865-1876); Southern States; United States - History; Nativity, The; South (u.s.)


CHRISTMAS OF LONG AGO, by MORTON BRYAN WHARTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am thinking tonight in sadness
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


CHRISTOFORO COLUMBO CLAIMS AMERICA, 1492, by ARMAND GARNET RUFFO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Those who made the jounrey believed
Last Line: Explorers will have come %and gone. America will have been claimed
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; John Paul Ii, Pope; U.s. - History


CHRONICLE OF ENGLAND, by ROBERT OF GLOUCESTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In pis manere pe barons bigonne hor vrning
Last Line: Ne, vort after misselmasse, hii ne come namore per
Subject(s): England; History


CHRONICLE OF LIMA, by MAUREEN AHERN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here're recorded my birth and marriage
Last Line: Remember, hermelinda, remember me
Subject(s): Latin America - History; Peru


CHURCH AND KING CLUB, by JOSEPH STANSBURY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come, honest tories, a truce with your politics
Subject(s): U.s. - History


CHURCHILL'S FUNERAL, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Endless london / mourns for that knowledge
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CHURCHILL'S FUNERAL, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Endless london %mourns for that knowledge
Last Line: Redemption and last %salvo of poppies?
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


CIA CHAOS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: During these months
Last Line: As we shall see later on in the %chrono-flow
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


CIA'S OPERATION RESISTANCE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Circa december 1967 %a cia chaos sub-scheme called
Last Line: And on the 14th I gave a solo reading there
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


CID: PART 1, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a low state
Last Line: Expressions, but
Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Romance; Spain - History; Spanish Literature


CID: PART 12, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The good ximena
Last Line: A great connecting
Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Coffins; Death; Funerals; Spain - History


CID: PART 2, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rodrigo or, as
Last Line: Three-hundred followers
Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Spain - History; Vengeance


CID: PART 4, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of the king right
Last Line: To a man of valor
Subject(s): Animals; Cid, El (1043-1099); Heroism; Horses; Spain - History; War


CIO!, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The man with the startling eyebrows, mr. John l. Lewis
Last Line: Mutiny on the bounty %a night at the opera
Subject(s): U.s. - History


CITIZENSHIP FOR THE RED MAN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A mighty nation we have built
Last Line: Merge proudly in american!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Native Americans - History; United States; America


CIVICS, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the room of scratched, reptilian desks
Last Line: A star intentional and brilliant with life?
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


CIVIL WAR, by CHARLES DAWSON SHANLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rifleman, shoot me a fancy shot
Last Line: "load again, rifleman, keep your hand in!"
Variant Title(s): The Fancy Shot
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History; War


CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA - EXPOSTULATION, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No darker record on the roll of time
Last Line: Nor heaven nor earth will bid your cause god-speed
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement And Proclamation; Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896); U.s. - History


CIVIL WAR IN RUSSIA, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The white army came across the ural mntns
Last Line: As the bolsheviks finally controlled it all
Subject(s): U.s. - History


CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: March 31: the civilian conservation corps - the great ccc
Last Line: Continue rolling, o cap-eyes
Subject(s): U.s. - History


CLARIBEL'S PRAYER, by M. L. PARMELEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The day, with cold gray feet, clung shivering to the hills
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


CLAY PIPE, by J. O. GARRETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The old log house, built by his own hands
Last Line: "I shall sleep."" and a door closed silently."
Subject(s): American Civil War; Grandparents; Pioneers; Southern States; United States - History; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; South (u.s.)


CLEBURNE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Another ray of light hath fled, another southern brave
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cleburne, Patrick Ronayne (1828-1864); Generals; U.s. - History


CLERICAL OPPRESSORS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just god! And these are they
Last Line: As in their home above.
Subject(s): Clergy; Slavery; Social Protest; United States - History; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Serfs


CLEVELAND, by WILLIAM GOLDSMITH BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Yes, quietly; drumbeat nor trumpet's peal
Subject(s): Cleveland, Grover (1837-1908); U.s. - History


CLOUDS IN THE WEST, by AUGUSTUS JULIAN REQUIER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! On the wind that whistles from the west
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


COAT, by DANIEL TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Always it will be too big for me, this gift
Last Line: Along its length, the frayed stiches, the pattern %of small bones
Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Family Life; History


COBB'S ORCHARD ; LT. MITCHELL SHORTLY BEFORE HIS DEATH AT POMEROY, WA., by DAVID MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: A hungary army's enough to spook the dead
Last Line: Which has bothered my mind for all these years
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History


CODA, OVERTURE, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She stepped out of the framing circle of the dark
Last Line: Of hoofs trampling the wind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): History; Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Statues; Stones; Historians; Granite; Rocks


COLD, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Land, snake, river, %sweeten the loam
Last Line: They sway, they coo, %they put scotch tape where it burns
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Magna Carta


COLONEL ELLSWORTH, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It fell upon us like a crushing woe
Last Line: Will steel our aching hearts to strike again!
Subject(s): Alexandria, Virginia; American Civil War; Ellsworth, Elmer Ephraim (1837-18610; U.s. - History


COLORADO COAL STRIKE CONTINUES, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rockefellers tossed the miners
Last Line: But, even in the cold weather of the winter o' '13-'14 %the strike struck onward!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


COLUMBIA (1), by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The roots of a grab
Last Line: Which aims to seize first the universities and then %the industries of america.'
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


COLUMBIA (2), by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Meanwhile the great trouble
Last Line: He'd expected $2,000. It was $1705
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


COLUMBUS AND THE MAYFLOWER, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O little fleet! That on thy quest divine
Last Line: As in the straitness of the ancient ways.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Mayflower (ship); United States - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


COLUMBUS TO FERDINAND, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Illustrious monarch of iberia's soil
Last Line: Reason shall steer, and skill disarm the gale.
Subject(s): United States - History


COLUMBUS [AUGUST 3, 1492], by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Steer, bold mariner, on! Albeit witlings deride thee
Last Line: What is promised by one, surely the other performs.
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; United States - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


COLUMBUS, THE DISCOVERER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see a caravel of spanish make
Last Line: Columbus, calm, his prescience verified.
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; United States - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


COME UP FROM THE FIELDS FATHER, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come up from the fields father, here's a letter from our pete
Last Line: To follow, to seek, to be with her dear dead son.
Variant Title(s): A Letter From Camp
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; United States; War; Declaration Day; America


COMING (APRIL, 1861), by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: World, art thou 'ware of a storm?
Last Line: Be swept, as by fire, away!
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History; War


COMINTERN, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The third international %I.E., the comintern
Last Line: Decades before the word 'control-freak' was coined
Subject(s): U.s. - History


COMMEMORATION ODE, by KARL MYERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Man has not lost, in whatsoever night
Last Line: And wreathe the laurel with the asphodel.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Garnett, Robert Selden (1819-1861); Monuments; U.s. - History


COMMEMORATION ODE READ AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Weak-winged is song
Last Line: But ask whatever else, and we will dare!
Variant Title(s): Ode Recited At The Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865
Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Harvard University; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Peace; Presidents, United States; United States - History; Valor; Bravery


COMMEMORATIVE OF A NAVAL VICTORY, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sailors there are of gentlest breed
Last Line: Glides white through the phosphorus sea.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Sea Battles; United States - History; Naval Warfare


COMPOSERS COLLECTIVE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: For three years, beginning in '33
Last Line: Millions of american farmers, including blacks %voted in aaa referenda
Subject(s): U.s. - History


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


CONCEPT OF ARTISTIC MONOTONY, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In '32 the new congress of soviet writers
Last Line: The congress of soviet writers at its first shindig trashed %proust, joyce and pirandello
Subject(s): U.s. - History


CONCERNING INHERITANCE, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is with civic matters as with some questions
Last Line: Its aegis anciently a divine shield / over the city
Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Inheritance & Succession; English History


CONCERNING INHERITANCE, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is with civic matters as with some questions
Last Line: Its aegis anciently a divine shield %over the city
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


CONDORS' EYES, by ROBERTO BRENES MESEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A dream is into lily-water pouring
Last Line: For some new caesar bold, lord of our western world!
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Birds; Latin America - History; Wings


CONFEDERACY, by JANE T. H. CROSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Born in a day, full-grown our nation stood
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History


CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The marching armies of the past
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


CONFEDERATE SOLDIER, KENNESAW MOUNTAIN, JULY, 1864, by PETER SCHMITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: In my field glasses the little steeple
Last Line: Will congregate, in dark suits, buttons shining
Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Military; Soldiers; U.s. - History


CONSTITUTION AND THE JAVA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Scarce had afame her hull rewarded
Subject(s): Constitution (ship); U.s. - History


CONVENTION SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The 'vention did in boston meet
Last Line: "may agriculture flourish long, / and commerce fill our purses"
Subject(s): Federal Constitutional Convention;u.s. - History


CONVERSATIONS IN PASSING, by LAURA TOHE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two university vans! %man, if that wasn't letting
Last Line: Maybe we'll survive the streets of that town
Subject(s): Massacres; Native Americans - History; Prisons And Prisoners; Racism; Tyranny And Tyrants


COSMOPOLIS, by ALES DEBELJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Listen well: is that the trumpet call? The cavalry
Last Line: And on the arch of the sky the finger writes, tirelessly, 'I am'
Subject(s): History; Perseverance


COUNTERSIGN (2), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Alas! The rolling hours pass along
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History; War


COUNTRY I REMEMBER; MRS GRESHAM, by DAVID MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: By the time the train pulled into portland, I
Last Line: I told him I would move to california
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History


COVENANTER'S LAMENT, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The men of sin prevail!
Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; History


COYOTE'S ANTHRO, by PETER BLUE CLOUD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The anthropologist was very excited. He'd just received his
Last Line: Weren't sure of. And you, my friend, forgot to sing
Subject(s): Anthropology; Native Americans - History; Speech


CRACKS IN THE LEFT, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: On september 1 %at the us socialist party convention in chicago
Last Line: Dual-unionist %directions of the %am-coms
Subject(s): U.s. - History


CRADLE WILL ROCK, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: June 16: marc blitzstein's left-wing musical drama
Last Line: From new guinea %on her way around the world %then vanished
Subject(s): U.s. - History


CRANMER'S PROPHECY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thank you, good lord archbishop: what is her name?
Subject(s): History


CRAVEN, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the turret, shut in his ironclad tower
Last Line: Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud, and strong.
Variant Title(s): Craven: Mobile Bay, 1864
Subject(s): American Civil War; Craven, Tunis Augustus M. (1813-1864); Mobile Bay, Battle Of (1864); Tecumseh (ship); United States - History


CRAZED WITH WAR, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: August 6: austria-hungary warred on russia
Last Line: From rifle grenades %drift perilous, o century!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


CRECY, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At crecy by somme in ponthieu
Subject(s): Crecy, Battle Of; History


CRISIS, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Has life no seer, who, with enthralled throat
Last Line: Shall never again darken us with its woe.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Life; Time; U.s. - History; World War Ii; Nightmares; Second World War


CROSSED OUT, by DEVIN JOHNSTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wright & chandler fit an ark 'without history'
Last Line: These are the iron %limbs of law
Subject(s): History; Nature


CRUSHING THE WOBBLIES, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: 48 wobbly halls were raided %by the justice department
Last Line: The shell of the first artillery round was sent to president wilson
Subject(s): U.s. - History


CRY TO BATTLE, by JONATHAN MITCHELL SEWALL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye see mankind the same in every age
Last Line: But the whole boundless continent is %yours!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Heroism; Military Service, Compulsory; Tyranny And Tyrants; U.s. - History


CUBA, by HARVEY RICE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Isle of a summer sea
Last Line: The key to lands of gold!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


CUBAN TERROR, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Meanwhile in early july right wing cubans
Last Line: When we were in europe %next month
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


CUMBERLAND GAP, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "lay down, boys and take a little nap"
Last Line: Fourteen miles to the cumberland gap
Subject(s): American Civil War;cumberland Gap;u.s. - History


CYCLE, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Natural strange beatitudes
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


CYCLE, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Natural strange beatitudes
Last Line: Do you mean %beatitudes
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


CYCLICAL MASS VIOLENCE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The century began to have %cyclical slaughter
Last Line: On the trench-gored western front
Subject(s): U.s. - History


DABNEY'S WIFE; SPRING 1863, by JOANNE LOWERY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was all their idea, not hooker's
Last Line: And rinsed and did not miss a thing
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; American Civil War; Blood; Slavery; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War Injuries; Women And War


DADA COMES TO ZURICH, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They came to the wealthy, liberal city of zurich
Last Line: Who thought it up, and exactly when
Subject(s): U.s. - History


DAILIES: SHY RIOT, by TIM DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: History pimps itself it
Last Line: Dust on the saga %basta
Subject(s): History


DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENADOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 1, by JOHN M. DAGNALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Long ere ruthless civil war laid waste
Last Line: They idolized with fond, indulgent care.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The


DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 10, by JOHN M. DAGNALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the chieftain deep into the forest shade
Last Line: And on his mangled bosom died.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The


DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 2, by JOHN M. DAGNALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sounds of trumpet, drum, and shrilling fife
Last Line: His lifeless flesh.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The


DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 3, by JOHN M. DAGNALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon the balmy breeze of that same morning
Last Line: * * *
Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The


DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 4, by JOHN M. DAGNALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: At early dawn the wounded federal
Last Line: Of both the rescued and the rescuer.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The


DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 5, by JOHN M. DAGNALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: One bright morn as the lovers near the cot
Last Line: Them in a loathsome dungeon south.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The


DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 6, by JOHN M. DAGNALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down beside her senseless mother daisy
Last Line: Death freed reuben from his clanking chains.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The


DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 7, by JOHN M. DAGNALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Soon upon the breeze she heard the tramp
Last Line: Were lost, in the gloom of night enshrouded deeply.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The


DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 9, by JOHN M. DAGNALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not till their victims charr'd remains exhaled
Last Line: "but never from your wicked conscience.[""]"
Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The


DANIEL BOONE, by JAMES THOMAS COTTON NOE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love kentucky
Alternate Author Name(s): Noe, Cotton
Subject(s): Boone, Daniel (1734-1820); History


DANIEL BOONE'S SECOND WESTERN MIGRATION, by WILLIAM ROSS WALLACE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ha! How the woods give way before the step
Subject(s): U.s. - History


DARK-LAND (1), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Are these last things reduced
Last Line: Sheol if not shiloh
Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Anglican Church; Jews; English History


DARK-LAND (1), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Are these last things reduced
Last Line: Sheol if not shiloh
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


DARK-LAND (2), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wherein wesley stood
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


DARK-LAND (2), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wherein wesley stood
Last Line: Of entailed riches
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


DARK-LAND (3), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Aspiring grantham
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


DARK-LAND (3), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Aspiring grantham
Last Line: To flagrant mercies
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


DAVID GLASGOW FARRAGUT, by WALLACE RICE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In his heroic mould were cast
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): Farragut, David Glascow (1801-1870); U.s. - History


DE ANIMA, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Salutation: it is as though
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


DE ANIMA, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Salutation: it is as though
Last Line: Ourselves and masters of all %humility
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


DE JURE BELLI AC PACIS, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The people moves as one spirit unfettered
Last Line: The archangel, unseeing, unbowed, %chimes with each stroke
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


DEAD CONQUERORS, by ANTONIO CISNEROS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They came by water
Last Line: Few survived their horses
Subject(s): Death; Latin America - History; Peru


DEAR MOTHER, I'VE COME HOME TO DIE, by EDGAR BOWERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear mother, I remember well
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


DEAR_____, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Always, I can pick out the men who carry guns
Last Line: Where tiny distant bombs %land and detonate
Subject(s): World History


DEATH CRY FOR THE LANGUAGE, by DIANE GLANCY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grandmother %tuya:taht'a branches at the top
Last Line: The narrow passages from this world
Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Cherokee Indians; Native Americans - History; Native Americans - Wars; Trail Of Tears (1838-39)


DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by ELEAZAR PARMLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lincoln is dead! And all the land
Last Line: The other, slavery's cursed chains.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History


DEATH OF ALEXANDER III, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When alysandyr our king was dede
Last Line: That stad is in perplexytie
Subject(s): "alexander Iii, King Of Scotland (1241-86;history;scotland;" Historians


DEATH OF HAROLD HARDRADA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like the tall mast snapped before the storm-wind
Subject(s): History


DEATH OF JOE HILL, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: None of the witnesses to the murder
Last Line: Frank sinatra linen on december 12 %shine, o nation
Subject(s): U.s. - History


DEATH OF LINCOLN DESPOTISM, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas out upon mid-ocean that the san jacinto
Last Line: And hold them till abe lincoln and all his northern scum / shall own our independence of 'yankee-doo
Subject(s): "american Civil War;confederate States Of America;mason, James Murry (1798-1871);slidell, John (1793-1871);u.s. - History;" Confederacy


DEATH OF STONEWALL JACKSON, by HENRY LYNDEN FLASH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not midst the lightning of the stormy fight
Last Line: He rises with the crown!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); United States - History


DEATH THE PEACEMAKER, by ELLEN H. FLAGG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A waste of land, a sodden plain
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History


DECIDING NOT TO GO BACK HOME, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wilfred and I still touch each other
Last Line: Real things happen. In this city they're mine, %and I love every one
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


DECIDING WHERE TO STOP, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Only half way round; already I am fretting
Last Line: We call it. You can call it anything you want
Variant Title(s): Decideing Where To Sto
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


DEDICATION TO 'A VILLAGE TRAGEDY', by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A jewelled tale, an antique historie
Last Line: The obscure cry of toiling, suffering man.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): History; Pain; Tragedy; Historians; Suffering; Misery


DEGENERATE ART, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In munich an exhibition of degenerate art
Last Line: Something else to make the cap-eyes roll
Subject(s): U.s. - History


DEJA VU, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: It happens sometimes when walking down the street, standing on a
Last Line: Speak other tongues, worship different spirits and save whatever we can, as we move on
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Memory; Past; Slavery


DEMOCRATIC LANDSLIDE IN OFF-YEAR ELECTIONS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cap-slime used stockholder money
Last Line: & 322 democrats in house to 102 republicans
Subject(s): U.s. - History


DEMONSTRATION: WOMEN'S HOUSE OF DETENTION, 1965, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blood-inked political leaflets pelted village streets
Last Line: Women's house of d
Subject(s): Booksellers; Exhibitions; History; Macdougal Street, New York City; Prisons And Prisoners; Revolutions; Tourists


DESTRUCTION OF COLUMBIA, by ELIZABETH OTIS MARSHALL DANNELLY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Methinks there'll be emblazoned on the dismal walls of hell
Last Line: "time cannot teach forgetfulness,"" the past can never die."
Subject(s): American Civil War; Columbia, South Carolina; United States - History


DESTRUCTION OF FORT DEARBORN, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TAYLOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I heard the block-house gates unbar, the column's solemn tread
Subject(s): U.s. - History


DESTRUCTION OF SCHENECTADY, by WALTER WILIE    Poem Source                    
First Line: God prosper long our king and queen
Subject(s): U.s. - History


DIALOGUE BETWEEN COL. PAINE AND MISS CLORINDA FAIRCHILDE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've come to let my dear clorinda know
Subject(s): U.s. - History


DIDO'S CLOSING ARGUMENT, by ROBERT THOMAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You look ridiculous in that armor. Your pink flesh
Last Line: I am my story. A burning scarf, a molten chalice, ashes %of a damask rose
Subject(s): Aeneas; History; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses


DIE SCHLACHT VON ORISKANY, by JAMES WATTS DE PEYSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When through dense woods primeval bower'd
Subject(s): U.s. - History


DIETER'S DAUGHTER, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mom's got this taco guy's poem
Last Line: Melons we eat %down %to the bitter rind
Subject(s): Family Life; History


DIGGERS GRRR-ING AT YIPPIES - & MAYOR DALEY SHAKING HIS FIST, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everybody in the do-good counterculture %borrowed from the diggers
Last Line: Arresting street vendors, for instance %and making things hot
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


DIGRESSION ON THE NUCLEAR AGE, by ELIZABETH S. ADCOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In some difficult part of africa, a termite tribe
Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Betty
Subject(s): History; War; Historians


DIGRESSION ON THE NUCLEAR AGE, by ELIZABETH S. ADCOCK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In some difficult part of africa, a termite tribe
Last Line: That whatever it is we're working on won't work
Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Betty
Subject(s): History; War


DIRGE, by THOMAS WILLIAM PARSONS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Room for a soldier! Lay him in the clover
Last Line: Shall memory come to dream upon it.
Variant Title(s): Dirge For One Who Fell In Battle
Subject(s): American Civil War; Bethel, Virgina, Battle Of (1861); Patriotism; U.s. - History; Winthrop, Theodore (1828-1861); Great Bethel (church), Virginia; Big Bethel (church), Virginia; Little Bethel (church), Virginia


DIRGE, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Low lies in the dust the honored head
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


DIRGE FOR A SOLDIER [SEPTEMBER 1, 1862], by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Close his eyes; his work is done!
Last Line: Lay him low!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Kearny, Philip (1814-1862); Patriotism; United States - History


DIRGE FOR ASHBY, by JOSEPHINE JUNKIN PRESTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Heard ye that thrilling word
Last Line: Ashby is dead!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; U.s. - History; Dead, The


DISTRIBUTION OF HONOURS FOR LITERATURE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The grandest writer of late ages
Last Line: Died without star or cross or ribbon.
Subject(s): Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794); History; Historians


DIXIE, by DANIEL DECATUR EMMETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wish I was in de land ob cotton
Last Line: Chorus.
Variant Title(s): Dixie's Land
Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Patriotism; United States - History; Liberty


DIXIE, by ALBERT PIKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Southrons, hear your country call you!
Last Line: And conquer peace for dixie!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; United States - History; Confederacy


DOGANA, by MARCELIN PLEYNET    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dazzled %blind %turning in the gilded cage of the world
Last Line: One's got to laugh in their wake %now one's got to laugh
Subject(s): Books; History; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Letters; Librarians And Libraries; Poetry And Poets; Sailors And Sailing; Venice, Italy


DOLLAR-A-YEAR MEN, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They had these things called dollar-a-year men
Last Line: Could have fine advantages %for their purses
Subject(s): U.s. - History


DONELSON (FEBRUARY, 1862), by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bitter cup
Last Line: In vain seek donelson.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Donelson, Fort; U.s. - History; Wallace, Lewis (1827-1905)


DOOM OF DEVORGOIL, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He is not here - thoses pleasures are not ours
Last Line: The rescued house of devorgil!
Subject(s): Courage; History


DOUBTFUL STRAIT, by ERNESTO CARDENAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The country is beautiful
Last Line: Into the water
Subject(s): Latin America - History


DOWN TO THE NINES, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh owner of wind %keeper of river mists
Last Line: We are down to the nines
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Memory; Slavery; Women


DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON TO THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER SR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis strange indeed to hear us plead
Last Line: When money clinks its story.
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Business; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915); Black Heritage; Businessmen; Businesswomen


DREAM FEAST: 1. THE SLEEPER'S SONG, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The thrust of the dragon's tight bone
Last Line: At certain times of the year, %the sea vomits blood
Subject(s): Family Life; History


DREAM FEAST: 2. THE DRAGON'S DREAM, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dragon's dream fires tongues
Last Line: When I look into them, I see myself %within a halo of dreams
Subject(s): Family Life; History


DREAM FEAST: 3. THE FEAST, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sphinx, denied a voice
Last Line: The crouching sphinx swallows my name. %at her smile, the feast begins
Subject(s): Family Life; History


DREAM SONGS: 290, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why is ireland the wettest place on earth
Last Line: Fate across all them rolls
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): History; Iowa; Ireland; Poetry And Poets


DRIVING HOME THE COWS, by KATE PUTNAM OSGOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out of the clover and blue-eyed grass
Last Line: Together they followed the cattle home.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; United States - History; Declaration Day


DRIVING TO MY SON'S CONCERT, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are climbing the green mountains
Last Line: For anything to take us its lonely heart
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


DUCHAMP DEBARKS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: September 15: marcel duchamp %arrived from europe
Last Line: American bankers, led by j.P. Morgan's bank loaned $500m %to england and france
Subject(s): U.s. - History


DUPONT'S ROUND FIGHT (NOVEMBER, 1861), by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In time and measure perfect moves
Last Line: And victory of law.
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


DUST STORMS TAKE THE TOPSOIL, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: 150,000 square miles of america's midwest
Last Line: And the rains returned in '40
Subject(s): U.s. - History


DUTCHESS OF MONMOUTH'S LAMENTATION FOR THE LOSS OF HER DUKE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "loyal hearts of london city, come, I pray, and sing my ditty"
Last Line: "then from her eyes, with fresh supplies, down trickles many a brinish tear"
Subject(s): "cooper, Anthony (1621-1683);great Britain - History;love - Loss Of;scott, James. Duke Of Monmouth (1649-85);" "shaftesbury, 1st Earl Of;english History;


DYING SOLDIER BOY, by A. B. CUNNINGHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Upon manassa's bloody plain a soldier boy lay dying
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


EASTER UPRISING, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: April 24-29: there was the uprising in dublin by irish republicans
Last Line: A terrible beauty is born'
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 14. GLAD TIDINGS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For ever hallowed be this morning fair
Last Line: And calm with fear of god's divinity.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 26. ALFRED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold a pupil of the monkish gown
Last Line: In sacred converse gifts with alfred shares.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


EDWARD & WALLIS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: November 16: king edward viii notified the english establishment
Last Line: With a supreme council and a two-chamber parliament
Subject(s): U.s. - History


EGGSTRACTS FROM THE ROEHAMPTON CHRONICLE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This remarkable instance of snumphus, or peppi
Last Line: Or donkies. %q.E.D.
Subject(s): Antiques; Artifacts; History


EGYPT, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun, a scarabaeus of bronze gold
Last Line: And but as shards the remnants of their power!
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Egypt; History; Historians


EIGHTEEN SIXTY-ONE, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Arm'd year - year of the struggle
Last Line: I repeat you, hurrying, crashing, sad, distracted year.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


EIGHTY ACRES; LT. MITCHELL, by DAVID MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In 1866 my son was born
Last Line: And I will rest there when my time has come
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History


EIN FESTE BURG IST UNSER GOTT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We wait beneath the furnace blast
Last Line: Endure and wait and labor!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Luther, Martin (1483-1546); Slavery; U.s. - History; Serfs


EL RIO DE LAS ANIMAS PERDIDAS EN PURGATORIO, by DAVID MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: No one recollects where the spaniards died
Last Line: Was brief -- far briefer than our scattering
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History


ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Racists hated eleanor %and also social conservatives
Last Line: In other parts of spain %rightists prevailed
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ELEGY ON JEFFERSON DAVIS, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No more the white refulgent streets
Last Line: Orestes fled in night and day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Consolation; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); U.s. - History; Confederacy


ELIOT TO PARIS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A bard named t.S. Eliot, harvard '14
Last Line: The beggar maid starring mary astor
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ELLSWORTH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who is this ye say is slain?
Last Line: Such a sacred offering / god will not despise
Subject(s): "alexandria, Virginia;american Civil War;ellsworth, Elmer Ephraim (1837-18610;u.s. - History;


EMILY GEIGER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twas in the days of the revolution
Subject(s): U.s. - History


EMPTY SLEEVE, by J. R. BAGBY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tom, old fellow, I grieve to see
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


END OF THE ARMADA, FR. THE ARMADA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Southward to calais, appalled
Subject(s): History


ENGLAND, by JAMES LINCOLN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who would trust england, let him lift his eyes
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


ENGLAND STANDS ALONE (1900), by THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She stands alone: ally nor friend has she
Alternate Author Name(s): Watts, Theodore
Subject(s): History


ENGLAND'S ENEMY, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She stands like one with mazy cares distraught
Last Line: Muses how rome of romans was undone.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; World War I - Great Britain; English History


ENLISTED TODAY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know the sun shines, and the lilacs are blowing
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


ENSLAVED, by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh when I think of my long-suffering race
Last Line: To liberate my people from its yoke!
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Slavery; Black Heritage; Serfs


EPISODE OF JANE MCCREA, by OBADIAH CYRUS AURINGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We left the camp behind us locked in sleep
Subject(s): U.s. - History


EROTICS OF HISTORY, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sex and history. And skin and bone
Last Line: This time - and this you did not ordain - %I am changing the story
Variant Title(s): Heroi
Subject(s): Erotic Love; Heroism; History


ESCAPE, by DAVID MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In summer insects clouded over the pond
Last Line: And wait for the whipping that will surely come
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History


ESPIONAGE ACT OF JUNE 15, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: An espionage act was passed
Last Line: To chip the wobblies' name from time %like akhenaton's
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ESSAY: OF SUN, OF HISTORY, OF SEEING, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In this one, seeing is a form of touching
Last Line: I shall survive on prairie mice
Subject(s): History; Historians


ETHIOPIA SALUTING THE COLORS, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human
Last Line: Are the things so strange and marvellous you see or have seen?
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; American Civil War; Georgia (state); Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History


ETHNOGENESIS, by HENRY TIMROD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hath not the morning dawned with added light?
Last Line: Strange tropic warmth and hints of summer seas.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Southern States; United States - History; Confederacy; South (u.s.)


EVANGELINE; A TALE OF ACADIE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks
Last Line: Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.
Subject(s): Acadia; Love; Mothers; Social Protest; United States - History


EVEN NOW, MAD GIRL, DOST APE..PAINTED BRITON, FR. ELEGIES, by SEXTUS PROPERTIUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): History


EVERYTHING AND NOTHING, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: A reporter on last night's news
Last Line: Lift and meet above our heads
Subject(s): World History


EVIL & GOOD, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hit-vom surged in the april 10 elections
Last Line: Sailing newfoundland to londonderry, ireland!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


EXACTLY WHERE WINTER ENDS, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Have we sunk far enough?
Last Line: Cruising through every sadness into april?
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


EXECUTION OF MAJOR ANDRE, by ANNA SEWARD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh washington! I thought thee great and good
Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy
Subject(s): History


EXEMPT, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: April 28, 1992, commencing %here and now I throw out the old calendar and begin
Last Line: I forgive everything that was given to me %rather than to you
Subject(s): World History


EYEBALLING CHINA, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Countries with things to sell
Last Line: Called the open door policy %in china
Subject(s): U.s. - History


EZEKIEL'S WHEEL, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Consider now the valley
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


EZEKIEL'S WHEEL, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Consider now the valley
Last Line: The bane of judah
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


F.B.C.; CHANCELLORSVILLE, MAY 3, 1863, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He was our noblest, he was our bravest & best
Last Line: Still our bravest and best!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Death; Heroism; Honor; Soldiers; United States - History; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines


FADED COAT OF BLUE, by J. H. MCNAUGHTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: My brave lad sleeps in his faded coat of blue
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


FALL CAMPAIGN, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Roosevelt %selected his %successor
Last Line: Woodrow wilson's constitutional government in the united states and, oh yes, general motors
Subject(s): U.s. - History


FALL OF BURGOYNE, by WHEELER CASE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is this burgoyne, burgoyne the great
Subject(s): U.s. - History


FALL OF ROME, by MICHAEL CHITWOOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Autumn, and the brilliant leaves tumble
Last Line: He will use on cold mornings %to warm his hands
Subject(s): Books; History; Librarians And Libraries


FALL OLYMPICS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mexican government was vehement to %forge placid streets
Last Line: More than yeats' cold cry to 'cast a cold eye...'
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


FAMOUS HISTORY OF SIR THOMAS WYATT, SELS., by JOHN WEBSTER                        Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503-1542)


FANNY: 47, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas their misfortune to be born too soon
Last Line: Or read an almanac, or clinton's speeches
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): History


FAR CRY FROM AFRICA, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A wind is ruffling the tawny pelt
Last Line: How can I face such slaughter and be cool? %how can I turn from africa and live
Subject(s): Africa; African Americans - History; Ancestors And Ancestry


FAR MEMORY: 1. CONVENT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My knees recall the pockets
Last Line: And certainly attended.
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Convents; Memory; Sisters; Women & Religion; Black Heritage


FAR MEMORY: 4. TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THIS LIFE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who did I fail, who
Last Line: Of rescue, rescue.
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Life; Sisters; Women & Religion; Black Heritage


FAREWELL HYMN; DEDICATED TO OFFICERS AND MEN OF MERRIMAC, by PHINEAS STOWE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Saviour o'er the restless ocean
Last Line: But we'll hope to dwell together, %on that calm and heavenly shore
Subject(s): American Civil War; Navy - United States; Sea Battles; U.s. - History; Virginia (ship)


FAREWELL TO BROTHER JONATHAN, by UNKNOWN+23    Poem Source                    
First Line: Farewell! We must part; we have turned from the land
Last Line: To the path through the valley and %shadow of death!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Farewell; Patriotism; U.s. - History


FAREWELL, O EGYPT!, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The pink-pearl blush of dawn crept o'er our / barge
Last Line: Yet diviner thou—through every century.
Subject(s): Egypt; Farewell; History; Parting; Historians


FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Another glory of the roosevelt era
Last Line: Was banned in germany, italy and austria
Subject(s): U.s. - History


FARMER-LABOR PARTY, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The great boeotian bard hesiod
Last Line: Where the wind went whistling %through the burning cross
Subject(s): U.s. - History


FARRAGUT, by WILLIAM TUCKEY MEREDITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Farragut, farragut
Last Line: Thunderbolt stroke!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Farragut, David Glascow (1801-1870); Mobile Bay, Battle Of (1864); Patriotism; United States - History


FASCIST PARTY, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mussolini was wounded in wwi
Last Line: Then in march the fasci merged %into the fascist party
Subject(s): U.s. - History


FASCISTS INTO ETHIOPIA, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: October 2: mussolini invaded ethiopia
Last Line: But became known as a masterwork
Subject(s): Ethiopia; Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945); U.s. - History


FBI MEMO ON TECHNIQUES TO DISRUPT THE NEW LEFT, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Meanwhile, an fbi memo of %july 3, 1968 %analyzed the suggestion from fbi
Last Line: Which drove 2,765 miles in the 24
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


FBI SEEKS DEPRAVO DATA, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Meanwhile, the fbi set up in early may a
Last Line: As we boarded the sas flight %back to the u.S
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


FDIC, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: June 16: congress passed the banking act of 1933, which established the
Last Line: & guaranteed deposits under $5,000
Subject(s): U.s. - History


FEARFUL WOMEN, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Arms and the girl I sing -- o rare
Last Line: It's not from you we learned to be magnanimous.
Subject(s): History; Women; Women's Rights; Historians; Feminism


FEDERAL RESERVE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: December 13: congress passed the owen-glass act
Last Line: Roil, o century, roil!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


FEDERAL TAX ON GRASS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: October 1: indian hemp was not indigenous to the usa
Last Line: A star is born, with janet gaynor and frederic march %'seven wasn't heaven
Subject(s): U.s. - History


FEDERAL THEATER PROJECT!, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hallie flanagan was the national director
Last Line: Hungry americans %continued to the west
Subject(s): U.s. - History


FEW MORE ODDITIES: 6, by HELEN SMITH BEVINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Henry adams once debated
Last Line: The answer is in the negative
Subject(s): Adams, Henry (1838-1918); History


FIELD OF WATERLOO: A POEM, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair brussels, thou art far behind
Last Line: Best justifies the meed thy valiant sons have won
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Waterloo; Wellesley, Arthur (1769-1852)


FIELDS OF THE LONG-DELIVERED, by DAVID KELLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In every pottery fragment
Last Line: Of fields holding the land for the living
Subject(s): History; Old Age


FIFTY YEARS (1863-1913), by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O brothers mine, today we stand
Last Line: God cannot let it come to naught.
Subject(s): Abolitionists; African Americans; African Americans - History; Attucks, Crispus (1723-1770); Boston Massacre; Brown, John (1800-1859); Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Lovej


FIGHT AT FORT SUMTER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twas a wonderful brave fight
Last Line: And a stern retribution %to the south
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; U.s. - History


FIGHT IN THE MICHIGAN FOREST, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In michigan forests the night-winds were high
Subject(s): U.s. - History


FIGURES IN THE CARPETS, by DAVID SCHLOSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We buy what we cannot control the rugs
Last Line: And we can buy it yet articulate or %not with each new freeing of our hearts
Subject(s): Freedom; History; Rugs


FINDING WORK, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I used to think good and evil were big
Last Line: Ventricle, of one strange heart
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


FIRE, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twice a day, my mother and I tended the fire
Last Line: By the stars; quenched, yet steady, fire
Subject(s): World History


FIREFLIES, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Together, we watch them drift across
Last Line: For that pilot, blinking off and on all alone
Subject(s): World History


FIRING LINE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: September 3 %the day after my
Last Line: To win the war
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


FIRST CHAPTER OF THE LAMENTATIONS OF GENERAL BURGOYNE, by WHEELER CASE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Good heavens! How deep I'm plung'd in woe
Subject(s): U.s. - History


FIRST DADA FAIR, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The erste internationale dada messe
Last Line: Who had crushed the boston police strike
Subject(s): U.s. - History


FIRST FIVE-YEAR PLAN, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: May: josef stalin was utterly determined
Last Line: And that around 2,000,000 died
Subject(s): U.s. - History


FIRST HUNDRED DAYS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: March 9-june 16: during those hundred
Last Line: Millions of anguished & impoverished americans
Subject(s): U.s. - History


FIRST MASSES TRIAL, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Also in april, %the first trial of the fine american artist art young
Last Line: & a retrial was scheduled in the fall
Subject(s): U.s. - History


FIRST NEW DEAL, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: 1933-34: a group of eco and social reforms
Last Line: Tossed out the nra in '35 and %the aaa in '36
Subject(s): U.s. - History


FIRST PALMER RAIDS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: November 7 %the first palmer raids
Last Line: Made a move to curtain immigration
Subject(s): U.s. - History


FLAG OF TRUCE, by AMANDA THEODOSIA JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let us bury our dead
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


FLAG WITH FIFTEEN STRIPES, by WALLACE RICE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our navy's name was written in flame
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): U.s. - History


FLORA, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The caterpillar makes itself a dress
Subject(s): Books; History; Poetry And Poets; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


FLYING CHARLIE, by LOUISE AYRES GARNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: You must have heard it calling you, ireland, your ireland
Subject(s): U.s. - History


FOLLIES OF THE DAY, A SATIRE, SELECTION, by F. O. SAYLES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whoe'er surveys the conduct of mankind
Last Line: Let satire paint them for the public scorn.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Mankind; Nations; Truth; U.s. - History; Human Race


FOR DECORATION DAY: 1861-1865, by RUPERT HUGHES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But do we truly mourn our soldier dead
Last Line: The peaceful barracks where their bodies sleep.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day


FOR FREEDOM, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thank god! 'tis the war-cry! They call us; we come;
Last Line: O comrades, strike boldly! Our triumph is nigh!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Slavery; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Serfs


FOR THE COMMEMORATION SERVICES; MEMORIAL VERSES, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Four summers coined their golden light in leaves
Last Line: Living and dead alike forever dear!
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


FOR THE CONFEDERATE DEAD, by KEVIN YOUNG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These are the last days
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Black Heritage


FOR THE UNION DEAD, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old south boston aquarium stands
Variant Title(s): Colonel Shaw And The Massachusetts 54
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Boston; Duty; Heroism; Massachusetts; Monuments; Racism; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; United States - History; Heroes; Heroines; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


FOR THE UNION DEAD, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old south boston aquarium stands
Last Line: A savage servility %slides by on grease
Variant Title(s): Colonel Shaw And The Massachusetts 5
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Boston; Duty; Heroism; Massachusetts; Monuments; Racism; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; U.s. - History


FOR WHAT?, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: For what did the unknowns toil and bleed?
Last Line: Speed. Greed. Speedgreed.
Subject(s): Greed; History; Pain; Progress


FORD MASSACRE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Private thug-guards and police fired march 7
Last Line: President of its executive council
Subject(s): U.s. - History


FOREST HISTORY, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the vans of doom did men pass in
Last Line: Nor let the poet's awe in rapture wane.
Subject(s): Forests; History; Mythology; Woods; Historians


FOREST OF ROSES, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wild afternoon tilts
Last Line: Only the old wild changing and being changed
Subject(s): World History


FORGOTTEN, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forgotten! Can it be a few swift rounds
Last Line: For the old time's return!
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


FORMERLY A SLAVE' (AN IDEALIZED PORTRAIT, BY E. VEDDER), by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sufferance of her race is shown
Last Line: Sibylline, yet benign.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Paintings & Painters; Slavery; United States - History; Vedder, Elihu (1836-1923); Serfs


FORT NINETY-SIX, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our mound was thirty feet in air
Subject(s): U.s. - History


FORTITUDE OF THE NORTH UNDER THE DISASTER OF 2ND MANASSAS, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No shame they take for dark defeat
Last Line: When the livid antarctic storm-clouds glow.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; U.s. - History; Manassas, Batlle Of


FOUR BURGOYNE EPIGRAMS, by DAVID EDWARDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In seventeen hundred and seventy-seven
Subject(s): U.s. - History


FOUR QUARTETS: LITTLE GIDDING (1-5 COMPLETE), by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Midwinter spring is its own season
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Variant Title(s): Little Gidding
Subject(s): Flowers; History; Perseverance; Roses; Self; Time; Winter; Historians


FOUR QUARTETS: LITTLE GIDDING (1-5 COMPLETE), by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Midwinter spring is its own season
Last Line: Into the crowded knot of fire %and the fire and the rose are one
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Variant Title(s): Little Giddin
Subject(s): Flowers; History; Perseverance; Roses; Self; Time; Winter


FOUR-DAY BANK HOLIDAY, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: March 6-9: roosevelt declared a 4-day holiday for banks
Last Line: It's okay to put your cash in banks
Subject(s): U.s. - History


FRAGMENTS FROM A CIVIL WAR: MINNESOTA 1863-64, by EVA HOOKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind blows hard this winter, hard as god's mouth
Last Line: Still now, like a thimble left at nightfall on the sill after sewing
Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Fights; Soldiers; U.s. - History


FRED & GINGER, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fred astaire and ginger rogers
Last Line: As katharine hepburn allegedly said, 'he gave her class, and she %gave him sex'
Subject(s): U.s. - History


FREDERICK: BECOMING MY FATHER, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When my starving father tended pigs in russia
Last Line: At the eyes shining all around me in the dark
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


FREDERICK: STRANDED, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I had my horsewhip, I'd lash him, that
Last Line: With the name of where we need to go
Variant Title(s): The Immigrants Strande
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


FREDERICK: THE DECISION, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who will I be in america? You cry
Last Line: I can't understand, whose guns are aimed at me
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


FREDERICKSBURG, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The increasing moonlight drifts across my bed
Last Line: Hark! -- the black squadrons wheeling down to death!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day


FREDERICKSBURG, by JAMES ABRAHAM MARTLING    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rappahannock's swollen track
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History


FREDERICKSBURG, by W. F. W.    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eighteen hundred and sixty-two
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History


FREEDOM'S RALLY, by J. A. NUNES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wake, freedom, with thy trumpet tongue
Last Line: For god and liberty!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Treason And Traitors; U.s. - History; Liberty


FREEWAY, by MARK IRWIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The freeway, the finishing freeway unwilding the far. I
Last Line: Between civilization and wilderness too great for the heart?
Subject(s): History


FROM BIRTH TO BATTLEFIELD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A child is born - it gasps and cries
Last Line: End in a lump of lifeless clay
Subject(s): History;soldiers;war;war - Home Front; Historians


FROM MAIRI MACINTYRE'S JOURNALS (3), by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: -pull exerted by photography-not the photographer!
Last Line: -if arne knew I thought these things-!
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Diaries; History; Photography And Photographers; Saint Kilda (scotland)


FROM THE END, by ZBIGNIEW HERBERT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: And then they set a huge table, and a
Last Line: Beetle - peacefully sleeps on an almond leaf
Subject(s): History; Marriage


FROM THE FIFTIES, by RICHARD+(2) WAGNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mother's singer sewing machine
Last Line: Blank eyes. %the mouth of lies
Subject(s): Family Life; History


FURY; FOR MAMA, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Remember this
Last Line: For this woman's sake.
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Obedience; Women - Abused; Black Heritage; Wife Beating


FUTURISM!, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: From milan, italy came an energy flow
Last Line: Just three of the names that threaded the weave
Subject(s): U.s. - History


GARDEN PLOT, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beginning in '67 the army security agency
Last Line: Waiting to sing to the thousands
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


GARFIELD'S RIDE AT CHICKAMAUGA, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Again the summer-fevered skies
Last Line: By chickamauga river.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chickamauga, Battle Of (1863); Garfield, James Abram (1831-1881); Thomas, George Henry (1816-1870); United States - History


GENERAL ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON, by MARY JERVEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In thickest fight triumphantly he fell
Subject(s): American Civil War; Johnston, Albert Sidney (1803-1862); U.s. - History


GENERAL DABNEY H. MAURY, by ROSEWELL PAGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: He sleeps, the 'little general' sleeps
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


GENERAL STARK AT BENNINGTON, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Push on the column, colonel baum, with steady step and sure
Subject(s): U.s. - History


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)


GERMAN-ITALIAN AXIS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mussolini gave a speech in milan with the sentence
Last Line: And so had begun his thrillkill lunge %to seize czechoslovakia
Subject(s): U.s. - History


GERMAN-RUSSIAN NONAGGRESSION PACT, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: On august 23 the famous nonaggression pact
Last Line: Might actually support a nazi %attack on russia
Subject(s): 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


GHASTLY FLU EPIDEMIC, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beginning that spring
Last Line: June 17 food riots in vienna
Subject(s): U.s. - History


GHASTLY GERMAN-AUSTRIAN ANSCHLUSS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: March 12: the nazis marched into austria
Last Line: & foam-moaned for years against roosevelt
Subject(s): U.s. - History


GHOST SHIRT, by LUCIA MARIA PERILLO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The blue whale swam through blue air in the basement
Last Line: From people lighting candles in front of the public library
Subject(s): History; Museums; New York City


GHOST'S COMPLAINT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The body snatchers! They have come
Subject(s): History


GIBBON, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou too, whilst pondering history's vast plan
Last Line: Than those of hapless, injured switzerland!
Subject(s): Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794); History; Lausanne, Switzerland; Historians


GIBBON AND VOLTAIRE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lausanne! And ferney! Ye have been the abodes
Last Line: T will be forgiven, or suffer what is just.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794); History; Lausanne, Switzerland; Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De; Historians


GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dames of france are fond and free
Subject(s): History


GIRL WHO LOVED THE SKY, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Outside the second grade room
Subject(s): Family Life; History


GLASS OF WATER, by CHARLES RAFFERTY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A glass of water spilled into the sea
Last Line: Of water being spilled into the sea %soon to be vanished in that enormity
Subject(s): History; Loss; Sea; Water


GO BACK TO ANTIQUE AGES, IF THINE EYES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: While, to dislodge his game, cities are sacked!
Subject(s): History


GO TO BED ANYWAY, by LORENZO THOMAS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Knowing I will not sleep tonight
Last Line: Tomorrow is a fiction %for those who need a dream
Subject(s): Dreams; History; Sleep


GOD SAVE THE FLAG, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Washed in the blood of the brave and the blooming
Last Line: Washed from its stains in the blood of the brave!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Flags - United States; United States - History; American Flag


GOD SAVE THE NATION!, by THEODORE TILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou who ordainest, for the land's salvation
Last Line: With peace elysian!
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


GOING BACK, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Standing alone on the platform
Last Line: And drag my heavy dresses straight across town %to my sister's
Variant Title(s): Aunt Joe Gets Off The Trai
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


GOLD RESERVE ACT, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: January 30: gold coins were abolished
Last Line: While germany secretly rearmed
Subject(s): U.s. - History


GONE FORWARD', by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, 'let the tent be struck': victorious morning
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


GOOD LUCK, by JOSE OSWALD DE SOUZA ANDRADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Four hundred years ago
Last Line: Space in a prison
Subject(s): Exiles; History


GOOD NEIGHBOR POLICY, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Roosevelt mentioned in his inaugural speech that
Last Line: For what in history was known as
Subject(s): U.s. - History


GOOD NEWS FOR UNIONS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: March 23: the federal anti-injunction act
Last Line: Except when there was substantial damage to an employer's property
Subject(s): U.s. - History


GOOD OLE DAYS, by CARL STILLWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: 500 years ago %on america's eastern coast
Last Line: Why can't they make forests %like they used to %in the good ole days?
Subject(s): Forests; History


GOOD STABLE BAND, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: By the spring of '68 %the fugs finally put together a stable and excellent band
Last Line: To swim %bare breasted'
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


GOOSE HANGS HIGH, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In june of sixty-three, I suppose you all know
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


GOVERNMENT, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was always very suspicious
Last Line: This strange group of %edgy wanderers
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


GRABBING OF HAWAII, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the midst of the war
Last Line: While the white troops %feasted free of chit
Subject(s): U.s. - History


GRACE NOTES, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Snow soars, loose in this air
Last Line: Our organs rimed with frost
Subject(s): World History


GRAVE OF ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON, by J. B. SYNNOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lone star state secretes the clay
Subject(s): American Civil War; Johnston, Albert Sidney (1803-1862); U.s. - History


GRAVE OF NAPOLEON, by ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL    Poem Source                    
First Line: A little while ago
Subject(s): History


GREAT BELL ROLAND; SUGGESTED BY PRESIDENT'S CALL VOLUNTEERS, by THEODORE TILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Toll! Roland, toll!
Last Line: Tool! Roland, toll!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; United States - History


GREAT CAPTAIN, GLORIOUS IN OUR WARS, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): U.s. - History


GREAT COLORADO FUEL & COAL STRIKE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dour, mean-souled mr. Rockefeller
Last Line: Wilson demanded that general huerta leave
Subject(s): U.s. - History


GREAT FALLINGWATER, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Frank lloyd wright's ah!-producing house
Last Line: A thirty-five hour week, o america!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


GREAT PATERSON STRIKE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We hold that it's sacred
Last Line: Though wilson, after he was sworn in march 4, %would want him gone
Subject(s): U.s. - History


GREAT RENT STRIKE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was the year of the great rent strike in new york city!
Last Line: By 1910 there were 100k scouts in britain
Subject(s): U.s. - History


GREAT RENT STRIKE REBELLION OF '32, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A strike began in the bronx near the
Last Line: The rent strike spread to brownsville, williamsburg, boro-park and other places
Subject(s): U.s. - History


GREAT SEALED TRAIN, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lenin left zurich on april 9
Last Line: That grabbed the gov't on november 6
Subject(s): U.s. - History


GREAT SEATTLE INSURRECTION, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: And then, in seattle
Last Line: And saw the founding of the amalgamated textile workers of america
Subject(s): U.s. - History


GREAT VICTORY OF ROOSEVELT, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Roosevelt won 42 states vs. Hoover's six
Last Line: November 19: hit-slime tried to form a coalition gov't but failed
Subject(s): U.s. - History


GREAT VICTORY OF THE NON-PARTISAN LEAGUE OF NORTH DAKOTA, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: After being around for about three years
Last Line: Serve three more times in congress
Subject(s): U.s. - History


GREAT WAR DEATH LIST, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Allies: united states - 50,585
Last Line: Bosnia-hercegovina, dalmatia %& a new, bigger serbia
Subject(s): U.s. - History


GREAT WHITE FLEET, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The newspapers called it the great white fleet
Last Line: Sing, my nation, sing!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


GREAT WOBBLY FREE SPEECH STRUGGLES, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: From their founding in '05 to ww1
Last Line: Of nicaraguan revs were killed by dictator jose santos zelayan
Subject(s): U.s. - History


GREAT-GRANDMOTHER CORNELIA ALICE HENDRY-WILDER 1849-1938, by SUZANNE KEYWORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hidden in shadow, I become %the shadow, close my eyes, curl
Last Line: Next to mine, the tug, the tangle, %the body rocking, rocking
Subject(s): Grandparents; History


GREATNESS, by KARL E. MUNDT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great men of ancient times were men of brawn
Last Line: To battle when the modern conflicts call.
Subject(s): History; Life, Modern; Men; Morality; Strength; Historians; Ethics


GROUP PHOTO, by NIKOS FOKOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nineteen-hundred-three. Genoa.
Last Line: The partial into complete reality. Who can say
Subject(s): History; Photography And Photographers


GUERNICA, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Planes from the german condor legion
Last Line: When it exploded %and 36 of 97 were dead
Subject(s): U.s. - History


HALLEY'S COMET, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: That spring and summer %haley's comet was streaking the heavens
Last Line: Kill 'em abroad, chill 'em at home
Subject(s): U.s. - History


HALYCON DAYS OF OLD ENGLAND OR WISDOM OF ADMINISTRATION, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Give ear to my song, I'll now tell you a story
Subject(s): U.s. - History


HANSEL, GRETEL AND RUBY REDLIPS, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The moon's a path
Subject(s): Family Life; History


HARDING NORMALCY, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The great eugene debs
Last Line: November 16: the bolsheviks ended the civil war. They won
Subject(s): U.s. - History


HAROLD AND TOSTIG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Forth from england's ranks a score of horsemen
Subject(s): History


HAROLD; A DRAMA, SELS., by ALFRED TENNYSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


HARVEST AND LIBERTY; BEFORE ELECTION, 1860, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The harvest moon is waning
Last Line: Until the work be done!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): American Civil War; Farm Life; Freedom; Harvest; U.s. - History; Agriculture; Farmers; Liberty


HATCH ACT, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: August 2: the same day that einstein signed his letter
Last Line: Departments receiving federal aid
Subject(s): U.s. - History


HAUG-EYE MAN, by OPIE READ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Laung time sense ah tole 'bout de hauge-eye man
Subject(s): History


HAVELOCK, by CHARLES WILLIAM SHIRLEY BROOKS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He is gone, heaven's will is best
Last Line: And the prize he sought and won %was the crown for duty done
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooks, Shirley
Subject(s): Havelock, Sir Henry (1795-1857); History


HAWK FROM CUCKOO TAVERN, by LAWRENCE LEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Red as a blow of autumn leaves
Subject(s): U.s. - History


HAYNIE, by WILLIAM MILLER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My great-grandfather %is buried in an unmarked grave
Last Line: New clothes, %glass for the windows
Alternate Author Name(s): Laureate Of The Nursery
Subject(s): American Civil War; Slavery; Suicide; U.s. - History; War


HE WROTE THE HISTORY BOOK,' IT SAID, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There! You shed a ray
Last Line: Your father's autograph.
Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; History; Historians


HEART OF LOUISIANA, by HARRIET STANTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh! Let me weep, while o'er our land
Last Line: And hope no more the wrong shall live
Subject(s): American Civil War; Louisiana; Patriotism; U.s. - History; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.)


HEART OF THE WAR, by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Peace in the clover-scented air
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


HEIGHTS ABOVE SANTEE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To orangeburg retreats
Subject(s): U.s. - History


HEIGHTS OF MACCHU PICCHU: 10, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stone upon stone, and man, where was he?
Last Line: Of your bitter gut, like an eagle, hunger?
Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo
Subject(s): History; Hunger; Mountain Climbing; South America; Stones


HELMETS, by TIBOR GYURKOVICS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm to be blamed for my impossible self
Last Line: I reject my face
Subject(s): History; Poetry And Poets; Soldiers; War


HENRIETTA: LEARNING ENGLISH, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When we came to this sod house
Last Line: I might see you. For going on, %do you forgive us?
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


HENRIETTA: THE BOAT, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the way, a woman gone mad
Last Line: As you fondle your long whip: the story about america
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


HENRY ADAMS AND THE BIRTHDAY, by RICHARD KENNEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Light refracts unevenly through the hand-made
Last Line: The only grownups who have eyes like yours %can't or won't, talk; old pipers; born astronomers
Subject(s): Adams, Henry (1838-1918); History


HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, by WILLIAM WETMORE STORY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A pure sweet, spirit, generous and large
Subject(s): Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); U.s. - History


HERE IS MUSIC: 19. BEFORE AND AFTER: BEFORE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Books as my background. Books
Last Line: Of e'er-increasing anger, ice-cold, hun-ward hate.
Subject(s): Books; History; Libraries & Librarians; Scholarship & Scholars; Youth; Reading; Historians


HERITAGE, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is africa to me
Subject(s): Africa; African Americans - History; Black Heritage


HERITAGE, by COUNTEE CULLEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is africa to me
Last Line: Lest the grave restore its dead. %not yet has my heart or head %in the least way realized %they and
Subject(s): Africa; African Americans - History


HEROES, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In rich virginian woods
Last Line: Of knightly deeds and dreams.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


HEROES, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The winds that once the argo bore
Last Line: And the world is a braver world to-day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Heroism; United States - History; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines


HEROIC MAMBISA, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Are you real?
Last Line: I'll be more you. %I'll be more me. %I'll be more cuba. %in silence, %so you can understand me
Subject(s): Cuba; Fate; Heroism; Latin America - History


HESITATING VETERAN, by AMBROSE BIERCE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was young and full of faith
Last Line: O, that I knew which side I fought for!
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


HIDEOUS INFLATION, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Meanwhile there was hideous inflation
Last Line: Had gotten during the war %were blistered away
Subject(s): U.s. - History


HISSING IN PAREE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the premiere of stravinsky's le sacre du printemps
Last Line: Of 1 %for $20,000 up to 6 %for 50,000 and above
Subject(s): U.s. - History


HISTORIC GROUND, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No song lends these calm vales a deathless name
Last Line: This place obscure is true historic ground!
Subject(s): Death; History; War; Dead, The; Historians


HISTORIES: A WOMAN WAS CONSTRUCTED N 20 OZ. ANTIQUITY, CERTAINLY SHE, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is true that ( ) discovered the
Last Line: Chassis in the glove of a chandelier
Subject(s): History; Man-woman Relationships; Historians; Male-female Relations


HISTORIES: BIRTH, WITHOUT THE THEME OF BURNING: US, BORN OF A THICKET, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Then all the forests divided & them oceans &
Last Line: Lobsters? Sweetmeats?
Subject(s): Birth; History; Mankind; Child Birth; Midwifery; Historians; Human Race


HISTORIES: THE FLESH, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Living in the lap / of lux- / ury
Last Line: Animate the factory, the flush
Subject(s): History; Mankind; Historians; Human Race


HISTORIES: THE GREAT HANDIWORK: WATER, & SOFT, DELICIOUS AIR, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All of them the great...Mmm...Did
Last Line: Take.
Subject(s): History; Water; Historians


HISTORY, by ALAN BRITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The man carries history in his legs
Last Line: Scatters a swarm of burning embers %across the dark plains
Subject(s): History


HISTORY, by MALCOLM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I told you that in this house
Last Line: Nothing more than this.
Subject(s): History; Home; Historians


HISTORY, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes, when walls and occupation seem
Last Line: And the things that they choose for history-making pass.
Subject(s): History; Historians


HISTORY, by JUAN GELMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Studying history
Last Line: They died and their fingernails still grew
Subject(s): History


HISTORY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Very few want to read history,' the teacher said
Last Line: Greed is always staring straight ahead.'
Subject(s): Ambition; Greed; History; Teaching And Teachers


HISTORY, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The massif of the dahlias lay between
Last Line: Under the coming storm.
Subject(s): History; Storms; Time; Historians


HISTORY, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: History has to live with what was here
Subject(s): History; Historians


HISTORY, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two men unto the temple went
Last Line: And went home justified.
Subject(s): History; Religion; Historians; Theology


HISTORY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All night the wind
Last Line: Creek remembers; and rages
Subject(s): History; Morning; Night; Rain; Wind; Historians; Bedtime


HISTORY, by DOROTHY E. REID    Poem Text                    
First Line: When xerxes beat the sea with rods
Last Line: Uncertain if to shake -- or kiss.
Subject(s): Greece; History; Greeks; Historians


HISTORY, by JAN RICHMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When they teach history, they never say that the sky was always
Last Line: Coating the tip of your next words
Subject(s): History


HISTORY, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tomaz salamun is a monster
Last Line: With his wife marushka to buy some milk. %he will drink it and this is history
Subject(s): History; Poetry And Poets; Poets Laureate


HISTORY, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tomaz salamun is a monster
Last Line: He will drink it and this is history
Subject(s): History


HISTORY, by EVELYN R. SHERWOOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: We went antiquing, %to glide, finer, with care
Last Line: How much history do I expect %for a dollar fity? I bought it
Subject(s): Antiques; History; Shopping


HISTORY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou chronicle of crimes! I read no
Last Line: As sidney in his hall of bliss may love.
Subject(s): Greece; History; Muses; Mythology - Classical; Story-telling; Greeks; Historians


HISTORY, by ROBERTA TEALE SWARTZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: If, by the number of pebbles in the hand
Last Line: Even your hand is my bewilderment.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chalmers, Gordon Keith, Mrs.
Subject(s): History; Time; Historians


HISTORY, by ALPAY ULKU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even this far from that burning place %the dogs would not stop howling
Last Line: When they laughed to see me scramble in the mud %I looked in their eyes and I laughed, too
Subject(s): History


HISTORY BOOKS, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That is, their authors, leave out
Subject(s): Books; History; Reading; Historians


HISTORY IS THE MEMORY OF TIME, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: 1622 to 1626 was the fish rush
Last Line: His dried fish
Subject(s): History


HISTORY LESSONS: HISTORY I, by SIDNEY WADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In broadest terms, a record of past events
Last Line: A fine regard for the furniture of the senses
Subject(s): History


HISTORY LESSONS: HISTORY II, by SIDNEY WADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It cannot be touched. Can be revised
Last Line: The new one is a wild surmise
Subject(s): History


HISTORY OF AMERICA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A linear projection: a route. It crosses
Last Line: Wonder you fear this bleeding pulse, no wonder
Subject(s): History; United States


HISTORY OF APPLES, by VERN RUTSALA    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is a sad story from the start
Last Line: At the supermarket ever in %this world be the apple of your eye?
Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; History


HISTORY OF BRITAIN: DIANA'S REPLY TO BRUTUS, by GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brutus, far to the west, in the ocean wide
Last Line: And kings be borne of thee, whose dreaded might %shall awe the world, and conquer nations bold
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Mythology - Classical


HISTORY OF MY LIFE, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once upon a time there were two brothers
Last Line: It up, for what seemed like months or years
Subject(s): History; Life


HISTORY OF PERU, by WASHINGTON DELGADO    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's no past
Last Line: That say nothing
Subject(s): Latin America - History; Peru


HISTORY OF RELIGION, by MAREK BATEROWICZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the shadow of the pines
Last Line: Sun worship
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; History; Religion; Roman Empire; Rome, Italy


HISTORY OF THE SEVEN FAMILIES OF THE LAKE PIPPLE-POPPLE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In former days-that is to say, once upon a time, there lived in the land
Last Line: Building; for if you do not, you certainly will not see them
Subject(s): Animals; Geography; History; Museums; Nature


HISTORY TEACHER IN THE WARSAW GHETTO RISING, by EVANGELINE PATERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The schoolmaster once known as %umbrella feet
Last Line: Towards the last ten minutes %of their own history
Subject(s): History; Warsaw Ghetto


HISTORY'S MADRIGAL, by ROBERT MORGAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When fiddle makers and dulcimer
Last Line: And tangled madrigal of time
Subject(s): History


HIT-FILTH, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a series of years ('09-13
Last Line: And starving as a no-tal commercial artist
Subject(s): U.s. - History


HITLER GETS IT, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In germany at the end of january
Last Line: I'd kill every president.'
Subject(s): U.s. - History


HITLER SEIZES THE RHINELAND, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: March: hitler sent soldiers to grab the rhineland
Last Line: No one, not france, not england %did anything about it
Subject(s): U.s. - History


HITLER VOMS UPWARD, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The world wide depression
Last Line: Wanted to thwart leftists %whatever it took
Subject(s): U.s. - History


HOLD THE FORT, by PHILIP PAUL BLISS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ho, my comrades! See the signal waving in the sky
Alternate Author Name(s): Bliss, P. P.; Bliss, Philipp
Subject(s): Allatoona Pass, Georgia; American Civil War; Corse, John Murray (1835-1893); U.s. - History


HOLY TOLEDO!, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In may , a strike by electrical workers in toledo
Last Line: Imminent grab of toledo, shudder shudder, %by the unions!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


HOME EC 102, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After we baked snickerdoodles, mrs. Luman
Last Line: No hall passes, and no detention
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


HOME, SWEET HOME, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sharers of a common country
Last Line: Be our watchwords evermore.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


HONORS OF WAR, by JOHN JAMES PIATT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wails of slow music move along the street
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


HOOKER'S ACROSS, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Hooker's across! Hooker's across!
Last Line: Hooker's across!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Hooker, Joseph (1814-1879); United States - History


HOPES OF MAN, by JOSEPH O'CONNOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our past is bright and grand
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


HOSPITAL SOLILOQUY, by ROSE TERRY COOKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I swan! It's pleasant now we've beaten
Last Line: They won't have time to change their mind!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Hospitals; U.s. - History


HOTEL NORMANDIE POOL, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Around the cold pool in the metal light
Last Line: The fruit bat swings on its branch, a tongueless bell
Subject(s): Blacks - History; Holidays; Middle Age; New Year


HOUSE, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two swede families live downstairs and an irish policeman upstairs
Last Line: Could be a soldier.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Home; U.s. - History


HOW ARE YOU, SANITARY?', by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the picket-guarded lane
Last Line: "pass in, sanitary!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; United States - History; Declaration Day


HOW CANADA WAS SAVED; MAY, 1660, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beside the dark utawa's stream two hundred years / ago
Last Line: So died the peerless twenty-two—so canada was saved!
Subject(s): Canada - History-to 1763 (new France)


HOW DELILAH WAS CURED OF HER MADNESS, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The year that mrs. Luman bid us
Last Line: And all the gorgeous bitter tangerines, before he died
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


HOW MCCLELLAN TOOK MANASSAS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Heard ye how the bold mcclellan
Last Line: Tell on shaft and storied brasses / how he took the famed man assas
Subject(s): "american Civil War;bull Run, Battles Of;mcclellan, George Brinton (1826-1885);u.s. - History;" "manassas, Batlle Of;


HOW QUICKLY WE FORGET, by ASTORIA RED    Poem Source                    
First Line: How quickly we forget how this country was built
Last Line: Feel the pain to learn the truth?
Subject(s): History; United States


HOW ROBIN HOOD RESCUED THE WIDOW'S THREE SONS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


HOW SOLEMN AS ONE BY ONE (WASHINGTON CITY, 1865), by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How solemn as one by one
Last Line: Nor the bayonet stab o friend.
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


HOW THE CUMBERLAND WENT DOWN [MARCH 8, 1862], by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gray swept the angry waves
Last Line: As the cumberland went down.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cumberland (ship); Hampton Roads, Virginia; Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship)


HOW WE CAME THIS FAR, by DAVID MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rattle and sway of the train as it clattered across
Last Line: Even my papa, back when he was young
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History


HOW WE SEE THE PAST, by RICHARD JACKSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was enough to be standing
Last Line: Or if the cry of the crows really was %calling us out beyond ourselves
Subject(s): History; Past; War


HOWLING IN THE REICHSTAG, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Early '30s in germany: the poet stephen spender spent the early '30s in germany
Last Line: Its cables were 3 feet in diameter with 26,474 parallel wires
Subject(s): U.s. - History


HUDDIE LEDBETTER, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: July: john lomax & his son alan that summer
Last Line: Under the planned economy of the n.I.R.A.
Subject(s): U.s. - History


HUDIBRAS: PART 1, by SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-1680)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir hudibras his passing worth
Last Line: Already tir'd with other toil.
Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Freedom; Great Britain - History; Presbyterianism; Liberty; English History


HUGE GERMAN OFFENSIVE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The german spring offensive moved close to paris
Last Line: March 31 %pres wilson signed a bill setting up daylight savings time
Subject(s): U.s. - History


HUNTERS' INITIATION, by ALES DEBELJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Through narrow river beds you sail the danube to the black sea
Last Line: To be repeated. It, too, will be razed by a child's delicate breath
Subject(s): History; Sailors And Sailing


HYMN FOR THE FAIR AT CHICAGO, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O god! In danger's darkest hour
Last Line: And all the earth is thine.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


HYMN OF THE MOTHERS OF OUR VOLUNTEERS, by HORATIO NELSON POWERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Home calls each loved familiar name
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


HYMN ON THE BATTLE OF BENNINGTON, by MARIE MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: One hundred years! A nation's joys
Subject(s): U.s. - History


HYMN SUNG AT CHRISTMAS BY SCHOLARS OF ST. HELENA'S ISLAND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, none in all the world before
Last Line: That sets the island free!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Christmas; Freedom; St. Helena's Island, South Carolina; U.s. - History; Nativity, The; Liberty


HYMN TO AVENUE A IN THE SPRING OF '68, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spring '68 was a very active time for me
Last Line: (such as the one they helped stir up in chicago
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


HYMN WRITTEN FOR THE GREAT CENTRAL FAIR IN PHILADELPHIA, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Father, send on earth again
Last Line: Faithful to freedom and thee.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


I AM A COWBOY IN THE BOAT OF RA, by ISHMAEL REED    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Party pooper o hater of dance %vampire outlaw of the milky way
Subject(s): African Americans - History


I AM GERMAN: LEAK, by GARY DUEHR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Still, when train windows flash past the river's
Last Line: When what's important lies there untalked about, numb
Subject(s): History; Railroads; Windows


I GIVE MY SOLDIER BOY A BLADE, by H. M. L.    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


I GIVE MY SOLDIER BOY A BLADE!, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: "remember by these heartfelt strains, / I give my soldier boy the blade!"
Subject(s): American Civil War;confederate States Of America;patriotism;u.s. - History;women; Confederacy


I WAS BORN., by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Shadow %of a greater one
Subject(s): Family Life; History


I'M DYING, COMRADE, by MARY H. C. BOOTH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I think I'm dying, comrade
Last Line: Is calling me from life.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Martyrs; United States - History


IL MORGANTE MAGGIORE, SELS., by LUIGI PULCI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): History; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible


IL Y A CNET ANS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That march of the funereal past behold
Last Line: And one without a shell, decisive odds.
Subject(s): History; Napoleonic Wars; Nations; Historians


IMPERFECT TIMES, by WASHINGTON DELGADO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Peru was a chimera
Last Line: What will it be?
Subject(s): Latin America - History; Peru; South America


IN ALLUSION TO RECENT HISTORIES ... FRENCH REVOLUTION (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Portentous change when history can appear
Last Line: The sacred limits of humanity.
Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); History; Historians


IN ALLUSION TO RECENT HISTORIES ... FRENCH REVOLUTION (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who ponders national events shall find
Last Line: Is to control and check disordered powers?
Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); History; Historians


IN ALLUSION TO RECENT HISTORIES ... FRENCH REVOLUTION (3), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long-favoured england! Be not thou misled
Last Line: Not scourge, to save the people -- not destroy.
Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); History; Historians


IN CAMP, by WILLIAM HAINES LYTLE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I gazed forth from my wintry tent
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


IN HARDIN COUNTY, 1809, by LULU E. THOMPSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: With flintlock guns and polished stocks
Subject(s): History; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


IN HIS BLANKET ON THE GROUND', by CAROLINE H. GERVAIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Weary, weary lies the soldier
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


IN HOSPITAL: 21. ROMANCE, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Talk of pluck!' pursued the sailor
Last Line: "and they meant it too, by thunder!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; Hospitals; United States - History


IN MEMORIAM (ABRAHAM LINCOLN), by DEXTER SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Columbia weeps! Her cherished son
Last Line: Our future is alone with god.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History


IN MEMORIAM (DAVID J. RYAN, C. S. A.), by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art sleeping, brother, sleeping
Last Line: Flashed above my brother's tomb.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Brothers; Death; U.s. - History; Half-brothers; Dead, The


IN MEMORY, by RICHARD REALF    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old greece hath her thermopylae
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


IN MEMORY OF MY BROTHER, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Young as the youngest who donned the gray
Last Line: But -- his memory lives in the other.
Variant Title(s): The Southern Soldier Boy
Subject(s): American Civil War; Brothers; U.s. - History; Half-brothers


IN SEARCH OF HISTORY, by RICHARD SHELTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: We go in search of history and find
Last Line: Fill the air with the heartbreak of history
Subject(s): History; Vietnam; War


IN SUSSEX, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our pear tree swaggers into the sunset
Last Line: Of the smell of fallen fruit, both rank and sweet
Subject(s): World History


IN THE COUNTRY OF GILBERT WHITE (OBIIT JUNE 26, 1793), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ghosts of great men in london town
Last Line: We love her servant much!
Subject(s): History; London; Nature; Pride; White, Gilbert (1720-1793); Historians; Self-esteem; Self-respect


IN THE LAND WHERE WE WERE DREAMING, by DANIEL BEDINGER LUCAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair were our visions! Oh, they were as grand
Last Line: In the land where we were dreaming.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; United States - History


IN THE LONGHOUSE, ONEIDA MUSEUM, by ROBERTA HILL WHITEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Houses of five fires, you never raised me
Last Line: Without oil, hasp or uranium.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hill, Roberta
Subject(s): Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


IN THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, by SIV CEDERING    Poem Source                    
First Line: My getting locked in the museum of natural history was no accident
Last Line: Write
Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Dinosaurs; History; Museums


IN THE NORTHERN WOODS, by DAVID MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind that stripped the birches by the lake
Last Line: Whose small bones left no imprint on the earth
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History


IN THE PRISON PEN (1864), by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Listless he eyes the palisades
Last Line: Dead in his meagreness.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Prisons & Prisoners; U.s. - History


IN THOSE DAYS, by ALVIN BERNARD AUBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: So afrad she was of being shamed
Last Line: Mongst the white folks. And that's the way %it was in those days
Subject(s): History


IN WHICH THE ANCIENT HISTORY I LEARN IS NOT MY OWN, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The linen map
Subject(s): England - History


INAUGURATION, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like an up-tight professor
Last Line: Woodrow wilson rebegan them
Subject(s): U.s. - History


INAUGURATION, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Roosevelt was sworn in march 4th
Last Line: Which began with the renaissance.'
Subject(s): U.s. - History


INCANDESCENCE, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the houses of fire
Last Line: All our houses burn
Subject(s): World History


INITIAL CONDITIONS, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The way the sun will slant
Last Line: As you breathe, let your chest sag to feel bone
Subject(s): Books; History; Restaurants; United States; Washington (state); Reading; Historians; Cafes; Diners; America


INJUSTICE AGAINST DEBS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The great eugene debs
Last Line: The allies forged a counteroffensive against the germans %on the western front
Subject(s): U.s. - History


INSCRIPTION FOR A COLUMN AT NEWBURY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Art thou a patriot, traveller? On this field
Last Line: And quell each angry and injurious thought.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Honor; Travel; English History; Journeys; Trips


INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT AT OLD SARUM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reader, if thou canst boast the noble name
Last Line: An individual's rights, how happy all!
Subject(s): England; History; Law & Lawyers; Legislation; Patriotism; English; Historians


INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT AT TORDESILLAS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spaniard! If thou art one who bows the knee
Last Line: Thoughts valueless and cold compared with these.
Subject(s): Martyrs; Spain; Spain - History


INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET AT PENSHURST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Are days of old familiar to thy mind
Last Line: Lives and shall live, immortalized in song.
Subject(s): History; Honor; Immortality; Penshurst, England; Presence; Singing & Singers; Historians


INSCRIPTION FOR A WELL IN MEMORY OF THE MARTYRS OF THE WAR, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fall, stream, from heaven to bless; return as well
Last Line: So did our sons; heaven met them as they fell.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fountains; Martyrs; United States - History


INSCRIPTION FOR THE GRAVES AT PEA RIDGE, ARKANSAS, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let none misgive we died amiss
Last Line: But marched, and fell -- victorious!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; U.s. - History; Tombs; Tombstones


INSCRIPTION FOR THE SLAIN AT FREDERICKSBURGH, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A glory lights an earnest end
Last Line: Strown their vale of death with palms.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History


INSCRIPTION, FOR MARYE'S HEIGHTS, FREDERICKSBURG, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To them who crossed the flood
Last Line: Of more than victory the monument.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History


INSOMNIA, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Predawn, a window slides open
Last Line: From something still dark
Subject(s): World History


INTERPRETATION OF LOVE, by ALES DEBELJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two deadly beautiful fighter jets across the sky, and cartographers
Last Line: In a flower. May it open just for me when the woman I love gazes at it
Subject(s): History; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Self


INVASION OF FINLAND, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ussr invaded finland
Last Line: James agee and walker evans, let us now praise famous men
Subject(s): U.s. - History


INVASION OF POLAND, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: August 26: that afternoon hitler met with the english
Last Line: Pay cash and carry them away %in your own boats
Subject(s): U.s. - History


INVOCATION, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Men of old, men of old
Last Line: Heart of iron, lips of gold.
Subject(s): History; Singing & Singers; Historians; Songs


IRISH CIVIL WAR, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: 1922-1923: there was war %north & south
Last Line: It makes the eyes wince to research it
Subject(s): U.s. - History


IRISH FREE STATE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lloyd george, the liberal politician
Last Line: American birth control league
Subject(s): U.s. - History


IS IT TRUE?, by MARIE HARROLD GARRISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Said the child of the bright yellow hair
Last Line: "like elsie's—and said: ""I'm a jew."
Subject(s): Catholics; Children; History; Jesus Christ; Jews; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Childhood; Historians; Judaism


ISAAK BABEL, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stalin-vom arrested the great isaak babel
Last Line: Thanks, stalin
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ISABEL, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our columbus, wise and brave
Last Line: All honor to queen isabel!
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Sea Voyages; U.s. - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


ISADORA DUNCAN'S FINAL TOUR, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The creepy radio preacher billy sunday kept attacking her
Last Line: The national football league was formed
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ISRAEL, by MAX MEYERHARDT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How great, o israel, have thy sufferings been
Last Line: "the god of judah is our lord and king!"
Subject(s): Bible; History; Inquisition; Israel; Jews; Historians; Judaism


IT IS A LIVING CORAL, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: A trouble / archaically fettered
Subject(s): United States - History


IT WAS OVER, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The fighting had ended
Last Line: & began his evil concoctions of blame
Subject(s): U.s. - History


IWW AGRICULTURAL WORKERS ORGANIZATION, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: April: the iww agricultural workers organization %in kansas city, missouri
Last Line: After masks were in use, gasses were invented %to penetrate the skin
Subject(s): U.s. - History


JANE MCCREA, by JOEL BARLOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One deed shall tell what fame great albion draws
Subject(s): U.s. - History


JANE MCCREA, by LURA ANNA BOIES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twas in the gorgeous summer time
Subject(s): U.s. - History


JANE MCCREA, by HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was in brilliant autumn time
Alternate Author Name(s): Forester, Frank
Subject(s): U.s. - History


JANE MCCREA, by JOSEPH E. KING    Poem Source                    
First Line: What is today - is only what hath been
Subject(s): U.s. - History


JANITOR, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Muse, I'll put down my fiddle
Last Line: Every sink until it shone like heaven
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


JAPS INTO SOUTH CHINA, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The japanese were threatening southern china in june
Last Line: And charles lindbergh on october 18 picked up a 'lower german order.'
Subject(s): U.s. - History


JEFF DAVIS IS A GENTLEMAN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): History


JEFFERSON D., by HENRY SYLVESTER CORNWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: You're a traitor convicted, you know very well
Last Line: Jefferson d.!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); United States - History; Confederacy


JEFFERSON DAVIS, by WALKER MERIWETHER BELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Calm martyr of a noble cause
Last Line: A relic and a shrine!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); United States - History; Confederacy


JEFFERSON DAVIS, by HARRY THURSTON PECK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And now he slinks through dark oblivion's gate
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); U.s. - History


JES' TAKE MY ADVICE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Jes' a little sunshine, jes' a little rain
Last Line: Jes' sech little tings as dat got dis coon in jail.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Black Heritage


JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 5, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Scarce had the earliest ray from chinon's towers
Last Line: So saying, conrade from the tent went forth.
Variant Title(s): The Maid Of Orleans Girding For Battle
Subject(s): France; Heroism; History; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Orleans, France; War; Heroes; Heroines; Historians


JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 6, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The night was calm, and many a moving cloud
Last Line: Renewing the remembrance of the storm.
Subject(s): France; Heroism; History; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Orleans, France; Victory; War; Heroes; Heroines; Historians


JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 7, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strong were the english forts, by daily toil
Last Line: Betaking them, for now the night drew on.
Subject(s): England; Faith; France; Heroism; History; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Religion; Victory; War; English; Belief; Creed; Heroes; Heroines; Historians; Theology


JOHN BROWN'S BODY, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem 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 BROWN'S BODY (3), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: John brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave
Last Line: For, the dawn of old john brown has brightened into day %and his soul is marching on
Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; U.s. - History


JOHN BURGINE'S A MIGHTY BIG MAN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): 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


JOHN PAUL'S FIRST VICTORY, by WALLACE RICE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She's a beautiful brig, the ranger, as she breasts the waves
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): U.s. - History


JOHN PEGRAM, by WILLIAM GORDON MCCABE    Poem Source                    
First Line: What shall we say, now, of our gentle knight
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


JOHN PELHAM, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just as the spring came laughing through the strife
Last Line: Twining the victor's crown!
Variant Title(s): The Dead Cannoneer
Subject(s): American Civil War; Kelly's Ford, Virginia, Battle Of (1863); Pelham, John (1838-1863); United States - History


JOHN REED, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: John reed picked up typhus
Last Line: Which was a monopoly till '73
Subject(s): U.s. - History


JOHN REED'S TEN DAYS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: John reed's ten days that shook the world
Last Line: Directed by robert weine %& abel gance's j'accuse
Subject(s): U.s. - History


JOINED THE BLUES, by JOHN JEROME ROONEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Says stonewall jackson to 'little phil'
Last Line: "we're never north or south again -- he kissed the book for both!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; U.s. - History


JOSEPHINE BAKER, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When she was 18 she'd starred
Last Line: January 3: mussolini announced assumption o' dictatorial powers, the twerp
Subject(s): U.s. - History


JULY 2: THE BATTLE OF SAN JUAN HILL, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A few days later the americans
Last Line: The americans won the ground
Subject(s): U.s. - History


JULY 3: BATTLE OF SANTIAGO BAY, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The spaniards retreated to santiago itself
Last Line: Surged home in joy and youthful triumph
Subject(s): U.s. - History


JUST ANOTHER DAY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear dublin, you sleep tonight in a bed
Last Line: Will the good word be always late?
Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Gossip; Hate; History


JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE, MOTHER, by GEORGE FREDERICK ROOT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


KAISER & CO., by ALEXANDER MACGREGOR ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Der kaiser auf der vaterland
Last Line: Meinself -- und gott.
Subject(s): History; Historians


KAISER ABDICATES, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: November 9: kaiser wilhelm ii fled to the netherlands
Last Line: In a railroad car in a forest in compiegne, france, %ending world war 1
Subject(s): U.s. - History


KEARNY AT SEVEN PINES [MAY 31, 1862], by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So that soldierly legend is still on its journey
Last Line: Line.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Kearny, Philip (1814-1862); Memorial Day; Patriotism; Seven Pines, Battle Of (1862); United States - History; Declaration Day; Fair Oaks, Battle Of (1862)


KEARSARGE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunday in old england
Last Line: Lords of the lonely deep.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Kearsarge (ship); Sea Battles; U.s. - History; Naval Warfare


KEARSARGE AND ALABAMA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "it was early sunday morning, in the year of sixty-four"
Last Line: "hoist up the flag, and long may it waive, / god bless america, the home of the brave!"
Subject(s): "alabama (ship);american Civil War;cherbourg, France;kearsarge (ship);sea Battles;u.s. - History;winslow, John Ancrum (1811-1873);" Naval Warfare


KEENAN'S CHARGE, by GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun had set
Last Line: That saved the army at chancellorsville.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cavalry; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Holidays; Keenan, Peter (1834-1863); Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day


KEEPING THE PLANE UP, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This time no one can save me
Last Line: But I spread my hands above me %like parachutes, just in case
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


KELLOGG-BRIAND PACT TO END WAR FOREVER, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Suppressing left wing groups %and sliding into fascism
Subject(s): U.s. - History


KENTUCKY BELLE, by CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer of 'sixty-three, sir, and conrad was gone away
Last Line: Ah! We've had many horses since, but never a horse like her!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Kentucky; Morgan, John Hunt (1825-1864); United States - History


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 1. SALUTATIONS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Are of two sorts and come immediatley before the body. The pro
Last Line: So slow otherwise %so close
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 10. OF THE SEASON OF THE YEERE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: They have thirteen moneths and are content to settle for
Last Line: Membranes %undercuts the alibi
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 11. OF TRAVELL, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: What paths their swift of foot have cut in history and philosophy
Last Line: Inside and add %it up to zero
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 12. CONCERNING THE HEAVENS AND, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Which they adore, above acknowledging colonization. The stellar
Last Line: Take territory %from imperative
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 13. OF THE WEATHER, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: It may bee wondred why, new england being 12 neerer to
Last Line: Big masculine history %on tap
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 14. OF THE WINDS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Accounts for eight cardinalls flying out of context though
Last Line: Tongue tied %into another language
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 15. OF FOWLE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Auchaui. Gone afowling. The crows eat up the sky, and
Last Line: Of certain planets %totally opaque
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 16. OF THE EARTH AND FRUITS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: They are exact and punctual in the bounds of property and
Last Line: All terms are %physical
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 17. OF BEASTS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Netasuog. Cattell. Is the name the indians give tame beasts
Last Line: Though without clear %direction into prey
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 18. OF THE SEA, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: A site of passage, of dreadful to move on, of depth between
Last Line: Beyond displacement %in exchange
Subject(s): Language; Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Sea; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 19. OF FISH AND FISHING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rising from sleep teeming with cold, bass, mackerel, salmon
Last Line: As equal opportunity
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 2. OF EATING AND ENTERTAINMENT, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Indian corne, boiled with free will and predestination is a
Last Line: All flesh considered %as a value
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 20. OF THEIR NAKEDNESSE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: They have a two-fold nakednesse they scan for traces of the
Last Line: It's for the birds to flock %a semblance %of together
Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 21. OF RELIGION, THE SOULE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: They won't deny englishman's god made english men, but
Last Line: With curtains drawn %to higher aspirations
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 22. OF THEIR GOVERNMENT AND, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Caunounicus, the elder sachim, far removed from probability
Last Line: The elements lie %evenly in periods
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 23. OF MARRIAGE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flesh, considered as cognitive region, as opposed to undifferentiated
Last Line: Through periods of waxing and weaning
Subject(s): Language; Marriage; Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 24. CONCERNING THEIR COYNE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Indians are ignorant of europe's coyne yet call it moneash
Last Line: Does not differ
Subject(s): Language; Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 25. OF BUYING AND SELLING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Amongst themselves they trade great plains of experience
Last Line: Cosaumawem. You aske too much
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 26. OF DEBTS AND TRUSTING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: They are desirous to come into debt and have bequeathed
Last Line: Of keeping warm not infinite
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 27. OF THEIR HUNTING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: First they pursue their game in grammatical components when they drive the wood
Last Line: And home, time and %the western world
Subject(s): Language; Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 28. OF THEIR GAMING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Their public games, whether cards (rushes), dice or football
Last Line: A necessary part %of the material world
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 29. OF THEIR WARRE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Surplus valor comes as messenger and heaves ambush. Shottash
Last Line: My self the self of others
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 3. CONCERNING SLEEPE AND LODGING, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: They will sleepe without the doores, above sea-level, with
Last Line: An empty %promise %lodged against me
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 30. OF THEIR PAINTINGS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: 1. They paint their garments
Last Line: Refinanced memory %washes white
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 31. OF SICKNESSE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: The indians' misery appeares they have no physick other
Last Line: By fatigue %at this point %of the instep
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 32. OF DEATH AND BURIALL, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: He that hath death in his house blackes his face. Soot clotted
Last Line: Be understood forward %or backward
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 4. OF THEIR NUMBERS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Without the help of wall street, how quick they are in
Last Line: Could come apart %and tell %their seeds
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 5. OF THEIR RELATIONS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: They hold it red and wear it on their skin, a bond prey to
Last Line: To make it safe to have a self
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 6. OF THE FAMILY AND BUSINESSE, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: A sloemne word, family, that no one trained to explore celestial
Last Line: Their gums their genes their lovingly
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 7. OF THEIR PERSONS, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Great bunch of hayre raked from darkness, yet as organized
Last Line: Like fog in anywhere
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 8. OF DISCOURSE AND NEWES, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tiding on condition, a corresponding sign to sound which our
Last Line: Matter how %he can't forget
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KEY INTO THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA: 9. OF THE TIME OF THE DAY, by ROSMARIE WALDROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: How high the sun
Last Line: The frame around the body
Subject(s): Narragansett Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Rhode Island; Time; Williams, Roger (1604-1683)


KILLED AT FREDERICKSBURG, by CHAUNCEY HICKOX    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fred mason came beside my fire
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


KILLED AT THE FORD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He is dead, the beautiful youth
Last Line: And the neighbors wondered that she should die.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History; War


KILLING OF KIROV, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: December 1: a man named leonid nikolayev
Last Line: To split up their shared motel room
Subject(s): U.s. - History


KILLINGS IN SARAJEVO, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: June 28: archduke francis ferdinand of austria
Last Line: After jaures had repeatedly called for the unity of euro-soc's 'gainst war
Subject(s): U.s. - History


KING EDWARD THE THIRD, SELS., by CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord audley, whiles our son is in the chase
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


KING HENRY V AND THE HERMIT OF DREUX, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He past unquestioned through the camp
Last Line: Upon his dying day.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Henry V, King Of England (1387-1422); Hermits; Punishment; Repentance; Sickness; Soldiers; War; English History; Penitence; Illness


KING HENRY V, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Agincourt, Battle Of (1415); Courage; Harfleur, France, Battle Of; History; War


KING HENRY VI, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Country Life; Courage; Faith; History; Religion


KING JOHN, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If england to itself do rest but true
Subject(s): Courage; Death; History


KING RICHARD III, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - History; Mothers; Sea


KING STEPHEN; A FRAGMENT OF A TRAGEDY, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If shame can on a soldier's vein-swoll'n front
Last Line: Can make his june december. Here he comes.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


KING'S MOUNTAIN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We have him on the mountain now, a lion fierce at bay
Subject(s): U.s. - History


KINGFISH, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They called huey long the kingfish
Last Line: By the son-in-law of a political enemy %& passed two days later
Subject(s): U.s. - History


KIT CARSON, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was nine when my father died
Subject(s): Carson, Kit (1809-1868); Scouts And Scouting; U.s. - History


KITTY HAWK, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: December 17: it was morning in the dunes of a lonely beach
Last Line: Built the first harley-davidson motorbike %fly & surge, o america
Subject(s): U.s. - History


KNELL SHALL SOUND ONCE MORE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know that the knell shall sound once more
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


KRISTALLNACHT, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: November 9 & 10 %were the nights of the broken glass
Last Line: So long, o war-drum year! %steeped in a crystal tear!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


L'ENVOI, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried
Last Line: Shall draw the thing as he sees it for the god of things as they are!
Subject(s): History; Religion; Historians; Theology


L.J. SAND IN HIS PAINT AND GENERAL STORE, 1959, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He reads about birds when he should be sorting shipments
Last Line: Crows and starlings, together, flashing on one horizon
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


LA WATER SCHEME, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The owens valley stretches many miles
Last Line: The bond to build the aquifer passed by a big margin in la
Subject(s): U.s. - History


LADY WASHINGTON, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come, all ye bold northwest men
Subject(s): U.s. - History


LAMENT OF RICHARD DURING HIS IMPRISONMENT, by RICHARD COEUR DE LION    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If one in prison may not tell his wrong
Alternate Author Name(s): Richard The Lion-hearted; Richard I Of England
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Greifenstein Castle, Austria; Prisons And Prisoners


LAND WITHOUT GRIEF, by DAVID MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sundays they went skiing on the mountain
Last Line: Probed by descending cars with lighted beams
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History


LANGUAGE OF FOSSILS (VANTANGE, WA.), by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: This desert is a plateau of light
Last Line: It will become an opal %with a woman's soul
Subject(s): Family Life; History


LAPIS LAZULI (FOR HENRY CLIFTON), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have heard that hysterical women say
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; History; Imagination; Religion; Vision; Historians; Fancy; Theology


LAPIS LAZULI (FOR HENRY CLIFTON), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have heard that hysterical women say
Last Line: Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes, %their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Art And Artists; History; Imagination; Religion; Vision


LAST, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The unsigned architecture of loneliness
Subject(s): Cold War; History; Relationships; Sons; Historians


LAST CENTURY, by WYATT PRUNTY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last century we took a lot of shots
Subject(s): United States - History


LAST CHARGE AT APPOMATTOX, by HENRY JEROME STOCKARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Scarred on a hundred fields before
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


LAST NIGHT IN SLEEP I SEEMED A KING, by VOLTAIRE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Arouet, Francoise Marie
Subject(s): History


LAST OF THE AZTECS, by JOSE LEON DEL VALLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, not for thee the pastoral flute's soft notes
Last Line: Neath the black feathers of thy royal plume!
Subject(s): Aztecs; History; Statues


LAST WORDS OF JOHN ADAMS, by JOHN ADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jefferson still lives
Subject(s): History


LAUS DEO!, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is done! / clang of bell and roar of gun
Last Line: Who alone is lord and god!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; God; Patriotism; United States - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty


LAUSANNE: IN GIBBON'S OLD GARDEN, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A spirit seems to pass
Last Line: "never without ill-fame to him who gives her birth""?'"
Subject(s): Consolation; Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794); History; Lausanne, Switzerland; Historians


LAW COMMUNE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A kid named jerry lefcourt graduated from nyu same year %as I did, '64
Last Line: Before it dissolved in the heraclitean panflow
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


LAWYER AND CHILD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How large was alexander, father
Last Line: About the size of me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Fathers; History; Childhood; Historians


LAYING THE CORNER STONE OF BUNKER HILL MONUMENT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The throng advanced amid the peal of joy
Subject(s): U.s. - History


LEARNING TO SING, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Those walls of muscle house the future
Last Line: In the world's raw entrance
Subject(s): World History


LEARNING TO SWIM IN LAKE ADLEY, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After church I drive in the rain to lake adley
Last Line: And dive in. We bob beside each other, %letting ourselves be carried anywhere, like gifts
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


LEAVING POMEROY; MRS. GRESHAM, by DAVID MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Running away is something children do
Last Line: That suddenly I feared what I had chosen
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History


LEDA: 1, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is nothing luminous
Last Line: Fucking god fucking me.
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Curses; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Black Heritage


LEE AT THE WILDERNESS, by MARY (MOLLIE) EVELYN MOORE DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twas a terrible moment
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


LEE TO THE REAR [MAY 12, 1864], by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn of a pleasant morning in may
Last Line: The gray-bearded man in the black slouched hat.
Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, John Randolph
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); Memorial Day; Patriotism; United States - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864); Declaration Day


LEE'S PAROLE, by MARION MANVILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Well, general grant, have you heard the news?
Last Line: Preserved the north in the south's parole.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pope, Marion Manville, Mrs.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Appomattox, Virginia; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); U.s. - History


LEFT BEHIND, by RUBY RAHMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A century's dialectic
Last Line: And our sitting face to face, all left behind
Subject(s): History; Loss


LEFT ON THE BATTLE-FIELD, by LAURA C. REDDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, my darling! My darling! Never to feel
Last Line: Out of the hateful light.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Grief; U.s. - History; Sorrow; Sadness


LEGENDS FROM CAMP, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: It began as truth, as fact
Last Line: Will anyone ever need %another camp director
Subject(s): Buddhism; Concentration Camps; Crime And Criminals; History; Japanese Americans - Internment; Legends; Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado, 1864; Terror


LEGION OF HONOR, by HENRY LYNDEN FLASH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why are we forever speaking
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


LEIT-MOTIF: OH GREAT CITY OF LIMA, by MIRKO LAUER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everything's interrelated: the weak
Last Line: There lie the true predictions
Subject(s): Bourgeoisie; Latin America - History; Peru; War


LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 1. THE MAGIC GLASS, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas fair and bright the first of may
Last Line: When fate shall weave thy destiny.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The


LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 10. NORTHERN CHIEF, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cold winter laid him down to rest
Last Line: "I'll even say farewell to-night."
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The


LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 16. THE MAIDEN'S PRAYER, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was a beauteous, heavenly night
Last Line: When walter draws to win lenare.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The


LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 17. THE RESCUE, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: At midnight's holy hour - a time
Last Line: They thought on their unburied dead.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The


LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 18. THE NUPTIALS, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twelve hours passed -- the grave had closed
Last Line: But wind as one through time forever.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The


LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 2. THE PICKET, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas night; on old potomac's shore
Last Line: And then resumed his weary pace.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The


LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 3. THE BATTLE, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: The cannon's roar booms on the air
Last Line: But deeper still in darkness go.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The


LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 5. RECOGNITION - APPEAL, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whiling the summer hours away
Last Line: But strength is given as we need.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The


LENIN FADING, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: By the end of '23
Last Line: Zip! It's open! Zip! It's closed'
Subject(s): U.s. - History


LEO FRANK, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In june the governor of alabama
Last Line: With soldiers swooping in behind them
Subject(s): U.s. - History


LET ERIN REMEMBER THE DAYS OF OLD, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: For the long-faded glories they cover
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Ireland – History


LET ME KISS HIM FOR HIS MOTHER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


LETTER TO NO ADDRESS, by DAVID MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Another winter holds the town at bay
Last Line: Its restoration under winter skies
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History


LETTER TO ROOSEVELT, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: August 2: albert einstein dictated a letter in german
Last Line: The letter to president roosevelt recommending that %atom bombs be made.'
Subject(s): U.s. - History


LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 1. APRIL THE 17/63, by GARY GILDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear woman I am well and hope you ar
Last Line: The boys ar well and in good hart -- john blood
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 10. MAY 30, 1963 CAMP NEAR VICKSBURG, by GARY GILDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear loved one well the last 2 days I spent
Last Line: From them sins I am in my station
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 11, by GARY GILDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear loved one did I mention general grants
Last Line: I sent my love to you and all your folks
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 12, by GARY GILDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear wife and bosom friend I hat seen hart
Last Line: We leave our arms and some come cleare acrost
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 13. JUNE 6/63 CAMP SE OF VICKSBURG, by GARY GILDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear cecelia well its shel and shel and
Last Line: Or wether I dont get them in this plase
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 14. JUNE 12/63 CAMP REAR VICKSBURG, by GARY GILDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear cecelia we hav hat some warm times
Last Line: What I want -- nothing -- if it aint by vote
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 15, by GARY GILDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some boys ar playing cards but I dont feal
Last Line: To bury aney stinking copy corps we shoot them
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 16. JULY 24, 1863 MILLIKENS BEND LA., by GARY GILDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear and most loved wife it is with pleasure
Last Line: Way I gess hes gone with grant to georgy
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 17., by GARY GILDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear and mutch loved one with pleasure I take
Last Line: A furlow and come home -- goodby -- john blood
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 18. BERWICK LA. OCT 2ND 1863, by GARY GILDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mrs. Blood. Dear madam, yours of sept. 13
Last Line: But o alas! In life we are in death
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Typhoid Fever; U.s. - History


LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 2. MAY THE 7/63, by GARY GILDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear woman I was glat to hear from you
Last Line: And I my cap for witch I thank the lord
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 3, by GARY GILDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We left the river seven days ago
Last Line: Helpt ourselfs to other things we wanted
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 4. MAY THE 8/63, by GARY GILDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear woman I again take pen in hand
Last Line: Road -- the male mule is here -- goodby -- john blood
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 5. MAY THE 17/63, by GARY GILDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear woman I am sor a littel bit
Last Line: The ground and wept as close as posable
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 6, by GARY GILDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear wife I feal prety rested now
Last Line: Of my own and ran - not knowing wher I went
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 7, by GARY GILDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear wife and friend I dozed but now will try
Last Line: And said our men wer going down like flys
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 8, by GARY GILDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I went with general logans men an we
Last Line: Steped over deat and wounded thick as sheep
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


LETTERS FROM VICKSBURG: 9. MAY THE 27/63 AT VICKSBURG, by GARY GILDNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear wife and friend I hav not mutch to write
Last Line: My love to you -- my sheat has no mor room
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


LEXINGTON MINUTE-MAN, by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas the gray of the morning, revere at the gate
Alternate Author Name(s): Richards, Laura E.
Subject(s): U.s. - History


LIBERTE EGALITE FRATERNITE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In early may %the ghosts of 1789
Last Line: I could feel the thrill of %those ghosts of '89 %liberte fraternite egalite
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


LIBERTY, SELS., by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - History; Greece; Italy; Roman Empire


LIBERTY: PART 4. BRITAIN, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Struck with the rising scene, thus I amazed
Last Line: "and lay the toil of ages in the dust."
Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - History; Liberty; English History


LIGHT ABOVE THE PENINSULA, by ALES DEBELJAK    Poem Source                    
First Line: You stand alone. Proud. Embedded in the ruins of the arena
Last Line: Merge: we are the roof above the fruit which grows and grows
Subject(s): Croatia; History


LIGHT THAT PASSES THROUGH STONES, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Are the same eyes that see %distance sealing a great door
Subject(s): Family Life; History


LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a young person whose history
Last Line: She sate in a ditch, although no one knew which, %and composed a small treatise on history
Subject(s): History; Youth


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


LINCOLN, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the norn mother saw the whirlwind hour
Last Line: And leaves a lonesome place against the sky.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States; Religion; United States - History; Theology


LINDBERGH, by ALINE MICHAELIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Alone, yet never lonely
Subject(s): Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974); U.s. - History


LINDBERGH, by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lone eagle of the wild atlantic plain
Subject(s): Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974); U.s. - History


LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: March 1: in the night %ann morrow & charles lindbergh's 19-month-old son
Last Line: & he was electrocuted in '36 for the murder
Subject(s): U.s. - History


LINES AROUND PETERSBURG, by SAMUEL DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, silence, silence! Now, when night is near
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


LINES FOR THE INGHAM MEMORIAL AT LE ROY, 1911, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Only yesterday it was morning
Last Line: The rose, that was seed and flame.
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; History; Memory; Historians


LINES ON JANE MCCREA, by PUBLIUS AELIUS HADRIANUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Very beautiful was she
Alternate Author Name(s): Hadrian
Subject(s): U.s. - History


LINES ON THE BACK OF A CONFEDERATE NOTE, by SAMUEL ALROY JONAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Representing nothing on god's earth now
Last Line: Like our hope of success it has passed.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Patriotism; United States - History; Confederacy


LINES UPON THE DEATH OF CHARLEY DU BIGNON, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The years of manhood had not tinged
Last Line: The laurel wreath of fame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Soldiers; United States - History; Dead, The


LISTENING TO BEETHOVEN'S FIFTH, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thunder growls hatred, lightning
Last Line: Rage, love, survive
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


LITANY OF BLACK HISTORY FOR BLACK PEOPLE, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For all our noble heritage
Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1)
Subject(s): African Americans - History


LITANY OF NATIONS, by WILLIAM GRIFFITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aeons of old were wandering down the seas
Last Line: What have we squandered?
Subject(s): Ambition; Europe; God; History; Nations; Prophecy & Prophets; War; Historians


LITTLE BLUE BOOKS BEGIN, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The far-famed little blue books
Last Line: Hail to the little blue books & %emanuel haldeman-julius!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


LITTLE GIFFEN, by FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the focal and foremost fire
Last Line: "for ""little giffen,"" of tennessee."
Variant Title(s): Little Giffen Of Tennessee
Subject(s): American Civil War; Giffen, Isaac Newton (1847-1865); Heroism; Murfreesboro, Battle Of (1862); Patriotism; United States - History; Giffen, Isaac; Heroes; Heroines


LITTLE SOLDIER, by JAMES LYMAN MOLLOY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I'm big I'll be a soldier ...'
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


LOGAN AT PEACH TREE CREEK; A VETERAN'S STORY [JULY 20, 1864], by HAMLIN GARLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You know that day at peach tree creek
Last Line: As on the day mcpherson died.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Atlanta Campaign (1864); Logan, John Alexander (1826-1886); Mcpherson, James Birdseye (1828-1864); United States - History


LONG MARCH, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: 1934-'35: after grim defeats by chiang kai-shek's-army
Last Line: When shall we tie up the gray dragon?
Subject(s): U.s. - History


LONGFELLOW, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Above his grave the grass and snow
Subject(s): Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); U.s. - History


LOOK-OUT MOUNTAIN; THE NIGHT FIGHT (NOVEMBER, 1863), by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who inhabiteth the mountain
Last Line: They are fortified in right.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Lookout Mountain, Battle Of (1863); U.s. - History


LOOKING INTO HISTORY, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): History; Wars; Historians


LORCA, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: August 18: the author of gypsy ballads o' '28
Last Line: And making an index of individuals and orgs
Subject(s): U.s. - History


LORENA, by HENRY CLINTON WEBSTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The years creep slowly by, lorena
Last Line: But there, up there, 'tis heart to heart.
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


LOST ETC., by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The expatriates of the
Last Line: Than the eighteenth amendment
Subject(s): History; Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Revolutions; U.s. - Constitution; U.s. - History; Historians


LOST ETC., by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The expatriates of the
Last Line: Than the eighteenth amendment
Subject(s): History; Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Revolutions; U.s. - Constitution; U.s. - History


LOU GEHRIG, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: For 15 seasons with the yankees
Last Line: Gehrig passed two years later
Subject(s): U.s. - History


LOUISIANA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Land of the mocking bird, sunlight, and beauty
Subject(s): U.s. - History


LOVE AGAIN, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This morning the tiger lilies bloomed beside the house
Last Line: No one will take you to the junkyard today!
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


LOVE, ATTRIBUTED CITY, by NANCY MOREJON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here I say again: the heart of the city has not yet died
Last Line: Here I say again: love, attributed city
Subject(s): Hearts; Latin America - History; Love; Patriotism; Poetry And Poets


LSD AND THE '68 REV'S, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Looking back in hindsight
Last Line: Had led them to tab their tongues
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


LUDLOW AMENDMENT FALLS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: January 10: back in 1935 a democratic congressman from indiana
Last Line: Were on show trial in the ussr, %bukharin was shot on march 14
Subject(s): U.s. - History


LUDLOW MASSACRE OF APRIL 20, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only by keeping the image alive
Last Line: From the mind of rockevom
Subject(s): U.s. - History


LUDLOW SHAKING THE NATION, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Word of the ludlow massacre shook the nation
Last Line: In the continuing dissolution of the ottoman empire
Subject(s): U.s. - History


LYON, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some hearts there are of deeper sort
Last Line: Where prophets now and armies greet pale lyon.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Springfield, Missouri, Battle Of (1861); U.s. - History


MADAMOISELLE FROM ARMENTIERES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O madamoiselle from gay paree, parley voo?
Subject(s): History


MADELON (AMERICAN VERSE), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When madelon comes tripping by our table
Subject(s): History


MADISON COUNTY: 1864, by RON RASH    Poem Source                    
First Line: No civil war could be fought
Last Line: If you die, die like a dog, %your teeth in somebody's throat
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; U.s. - History


MAGNA CARTA, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Magna carta! Magna carta!
Last Line: English brothers, we are waiting!
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Magna Carta; World War I; English History; First World War


MAGNANIMITY BAFFLED, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sharp words we had before the fight
Last Line: He snatched it -- it was dead.
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


MAHLER, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The austrian perfectionist gustav mahler passed may 18 at 50
Last Line: Dance in the time-track, o nation!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MAIDEN TRIBUTE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The noble king ramiro within the chamber sate
Last Line: That day began our freedom, and wiped away our shame
Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Fights; Moors (people); Spain - History


MAIN STREET, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sinclair lewis' main street
Last Line: Gleam onward, o century!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MAIN STREET, PARKERS PRAIRIE (LATER OLD TOWN), by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All their lives they've waited for
Last Line: Rolling across the prairie toward their future
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


MALVERN HILL, by ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Was there ever message sweeter
Last Line: Wishing they'd been better men?
Alternate Author Name(s): Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart; Phelps, Mary Gray
Variant Title(s): A Message
Subject(s): American Civil War; Malvern Hill, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History


MALVERN HILL [JULY 1, 1862], by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye elms that wave on malvern hill
Last Line: Leaves must be green in spring.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Malvern Hill, Battle Of (1862); United States - History


MANASSAS [JULY 21, 1861], by CATHERINE ANNE WARFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They have met at last - as storm-clouds
Last Line: At manassas.
Alternate Author Name(s): Warfield, Catherine M.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Manassas, Batlle Of; Declaration Day


MANHATTAN ARMING, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First o songs for a prelude
Last Line: But now you smile with joy exulting old mannahatta.
Variant Title(s): Drum-taps
Subject(s): American Civil War; New York City - 19th Century; Soldiers; United States - History


MANHATTAN, 1609, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where now the bells of trinity are heard
Last Line: Up went the flag of holland like a flame!
Subject(s): New York City; Sea Voyages; Tourists; United States - History; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


MAP-MAKER'S DAUGHTER, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The geography of love is terra infirma
Last Line: Territories we name %after ourselves
Subject(s): Family Life; History


MAPLE LEAF FOREVER, by ALEXANDER MUIR    Poem Source                    
First Line: In days of youre, from britain's shore
Subject(s): History


MARCH, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With rushing winds and gloomy skies
Last Line: "march!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): American Civil War; Seasons; U.s. - History


MARCH OF THE DEATHLESS DEAD, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gather the sacred dust
Last Line: Together still shall sleep.
Variant Title(s): Lines Respectfully Inscribed To The Ladies Memorial As'n
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History; Confederacy


MARCH ON ROME, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: October 28: the fascists tended to overmyth this putative march
Last Line: & stacks of gold-plated chariot wheels!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA, by HENRY CLAY WORK    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bring the good old bugle boys, we'll sing another song
Last Line: While we were marching through georgia.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Georgia (state); Holidays; Memorial Day; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History; Declaration Day


MARGARET SANGER, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Had been a housewife with kids in westchester
Last Line: The police can usually kill a publication %through indictments
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MARIAN AT THE LINCOLN, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: March: racist froth-heads in the daughters of the american revolution
Last Line: & 2/3 of a national gallup poll approved ms. Roosevelt's resignation
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MARIE TAGLIONI, by JOAN SWIFT    Poem Source                    
First Line: She wondered how she could leave the world behind
Last Line: In the mornings, of course, the ice is gone
Subject(s): History; Rape; Relationships; Snow; Women


MARMION: CANTO 6. THE BATTLE, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While great events were on the gale
Last Line: And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
Subject(s): Courage; Douglas, Alexander. 5th Earl Of Angus; Flodden, Battle Of (1513); Freedom; History; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Historians


MARQUIS OF LAFAYETTE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thy vineyards, o my sunny land ,are beautiful to see
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MARTA: CUTTING HAIR, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What kind of a name is marta?
Last Line: Martha and I am walking away %from my parents, backwards, fast
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


MARTA: LIVING IN THE BOXCAR, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In this boxcar where five families
Last Line: Blood before the babies come
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


MARTHY VIRGINIA'S HAND [SEPTEMBER 17, 1862], by GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There, on the left!' said the colonel; the battle had shuddered
Last Line: See! There is lifted the hand of a baby -- marthy virginia's hand!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Antietam, Battle Of (1862); United States - History


MARY STUART, SELS., by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): History


MARY TODD LINCOLN AT FORD'S THEATRE, by SUSAN TERRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: So I said no, no more dramas like these with pieces of my flesh
Last Line: Let me, too, be freed from myself and from this killing darkness
Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Death; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History; Violence


MASSACRE AT FORT WILLIAM HENRY, by FREDERIC ADAMS GAGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mists of the valley had fled on the gale
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MASSES, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: January: one of the century's finer magazines began
Last Line: During the mexican civil war, and to protect us territory from 'insurgents'
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MCNAMARA BROTHERS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: That april two brothers, john & james mcnamara
Last Line: Was broken into 34 separate companies
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MEANWHILE IN JAPAN, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In japan the military %kept getting more power
Last Line: February 26: hitler opens the first volkswagen factory
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MEDICINE MEN, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Slavers stole them out of akebulan
Last Line: Furious movement of african life %claiming its own
Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - History; Malcolm X (malcolm Little) (1925-1965); Movement; Protest, Social; Slavery


MEDICINE WOMAN'S DAUGHTER: CHARM TO KEEP YOU PART OF WHOLE, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: May the white bark be nine times your mother
Last Line: Rose blooming in snowy circles
Subject(s): Family Life; History


MEDITATING ON STAR LIGHT WHILE TRAVELING HIGHWAY 2, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are vistitors into
Subject(s): Family Life; History


MELT THE BELLS, by F. V. ROCKETT    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


MELTING OF THE EARL'S PLATE, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's the gold cup all bossy with satyrs and saints
Last Line: With the shouts of the multitude bringing the king.
Subject(s): Cavaliers; Great Britain - History; English History


MEMORIAL DAY, by FRANCES FREEMAN TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: The blue and the gray and the olive-drab
Last Line: The olive-drab, the blue and the gray.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History; Declaration Day


MEMORIAL DAY MASSACRE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In south chicago %that spring the cio's %steel workers organizing committee
Last Line: May 27: the golden gate bridge opened
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MEMORLAE POSITUM; R. G. S., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the trees
Last Line: And die as thine have done!
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


MEN, by MAURICE BELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the dusk of the forest shade
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


MEN OF THE NORTH, by JOHN NEAL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Men of the north, look up!
Last Line: Upon our haughty foe!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History; Declaration Day


MERCY, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I see him in the middle of a field
Last Line: Go about their loving
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Cruelty; History; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Mercy


MEXICO, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: President wilson meanwhile
Last Line: 19 americans perished %and 126 mexicans
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MEXICO IN '11, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Throughout '11, there were glorious uprisings all over mexico
Last Line: Helped found the eight-hour day league in oregon
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MICHELANGELO, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stern and grim-visaged, gaunt, and dark of gaze
Last Line: Into unfurrowed fields of light.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Decay; Genius; History; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Paintings & Painters; Sculpture & Sculptors; Sistine Chapel; Time; Rot; Decadence; Historians


MIDNIGHT RESERVES, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Late in the year the u.S. Congress
Last Line: And kellogg's corn flakes
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MILLIONS OF HANDS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Meanwhile, in skillful use of the motorcade
Last Line: On a cross-country jaunt to %the democratic convention
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


MIMICRY, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: On vacation, watching a parade from a crowded sidewalk
Last Line: What do you think, now she has recognized you?
Subject(s): World History


MINDING THE DARKNESS: IV. V, by PETER DALE SCOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: 6-oct-97
Last Line: Like the priests in utopia %saintly %and therefore very few
Subject(s): History; Language; Poetry And Poets


MIRANDA'S SUPPER (VIRGINIA, 1866), by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Between the solemn portico's
Last Line: Nothing is lost! Nothing is lost!
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


MISGIVINGS (1860), by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When ocean-clouds over inland hills
Last Line: The hemlock shakes in the rafter, the oak in the driving keel.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


MISSING, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the cool, sweet hush of a wooded nook
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


MOBILIZATION MANIA, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Testosterone levels were high
Last Line: On the first traffic lights, in cleveland, on august 5
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MONARCHS IN WINTER, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Their wings tear as easily
Last Line: That we forget all other hungers
Subject(s): World History


MONDAY AUGUST 26, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There were about twenty of us
Last Line: Three or four flat tires on each, busted windows %broken aerials
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


MONODY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ov'r erie's wave the moonbeam plays
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MONOGRAPH ON STONES, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: They hold within themselves the history of a place
Last Line: Directions. I believe in the mysticism of stone
Subject(s): History; Stones; Temples


MONUMENTS FOR A FRIENDLY GIRL AT A TENTH GRADE PARTY, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The only relics left are those long
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915)


MORE NATIVISM, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the national origins act of 1924
Last Line: And gangster groups took hold %hello, 1925!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MORE ON THE SCOTTSBORO CASE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In november the us supreme court ordered
Last Line: December 28: a resolution in congress against the cancellation of gemany's wwi debt
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MORE SHOW TRIALS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: January 23-30: trials of karl radek and 16 other commie leaders
Last Line: Helped franco take malaga in the south of spain
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MORE SOCIAL SECURITY!, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There were amendments to th' soc sec act
Last Line: Seething nation! Vast & flowing! %day & night & dawn!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MORE UH-OH FOR PARTICLES, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Physicist paul dirac propounds
Last Line: Noel coward private lives
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MORTARBOARD FOR FREUD, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sigmund freud came to the usa
Last Line: Which went to the states to be ratified
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MOSBY AT HAMILTON, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down loudon lanes, with swinging reins
Last Line: She would not scorn to bury.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Mosby, John Singleton (1833-1916); United States - History


MOSCOW PURGE TRIALS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: August 1936-'38: the entire remaining bolshevik leadership from th'
Last Line: Republicans controlled madrid, barcelona, bilbao and valencia
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MOTHER JONES, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: November 30: mary harris jones %60-year union organizer
Last Line: And the farm collectivization program back in the ussr
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MOTHER OF MOSQUITOS, by DIANE GLANCY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Woman %swat. %why mosquito fly near us?
Last Line: Your life is our blood
Subject(s): Forests; History; Native Americans - Wars; Trail Of Tears (1838-39)


MOTHER-LAND, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O young and mighty mother-land
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MOTION WE CANNOT SEE, by DAVID MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: We found the path somewhat as it had been
Last Line: Though it bears our blood almost forever
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History


MOUNDS OF AMERICA, by WILLIAM ROSS WALLACE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come to the mounds of death with me. They stretch
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MOUNTAINS KNOW, by CONCHA MELENDEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love my country's lofty mountains!
Last Line: The mountains lofty and unmoved!
Subject(s): Latin America - History; Mountains; Travel


MOVE ON THE COLUMNS! WHY DELAY?, by WILLIAM DAVIS GALLAGHER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


MR JOHN BLAIR WRITES FROM ST KILDA, by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I fear that I must write the truth, however rough
Last Line: I do not ask it easily: please see how soon you can replace me
Subject(s): History; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers


MR. RUSKIN AND THE VIOLET, by JOHN MATTHIAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Although apocrypha would plant his pizzle
Last Line: Among the violets & felt like bonaparte at austerlitz. %elle reparaitra au printemps!
Subject(s): History


MUCK, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Muckraking began in october!
Last Line: The code of hammurabi was discovered at susa in iran
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MUMFORD: THE MARTYR OF NEW ORLEANS, by INA MARIE PORTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where murdered mumford lies
Last Line: Our colors wave.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Capital Punishment; Mumford, William B.; New Orleans, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty


MUNICH CONFERENCE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: September 29: four nations met in munich
Last Line: (derived from the greek 'dry' & 'writing'
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MUSINGS ON THE WIG OF A SCARE-CROW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas for this world's changes and the lot
Last Line: And muse on fortune's mutability.
Subject(s): Change; Fate; History; Life Change Events; Morality; Scarecrows; Wigs; Destiny; Historians; Ethics; Toupees; Hairpieces


MY AUTUMN WALK, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On woodlands ruddy with autumn
Last Line: Roslyn, october, 1'64.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


MY COUNTRY, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look forth, o land, thy mountain-tops
Subject(s): Freedom; U.s. - History


MY HAND PLACED ON A RUBENS DRAWING: 3., by FRED CHAPPELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The ages work toward mastery
Last Line: Of the vision that burned to draw it whole
Subject(s): Drawing; History; Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)


MY MARYLAND, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The despot's heel is on thy shore
Last Line: Maryland, my maryland!
Variant Title(s): Maryland! My Maryland;maryland
Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Maryland; Patriotism; State Rights; United States - History; Liberty; Secession


MY MOTHER-LAND, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother-land! Thou wert the first to fling
Last Line: A prelude and a prophecy combined!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; United States - History; Confederacy


MY OWN LITTLE CIVIL WAR, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR.    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I come from the only county in tennessee that did not secede
Last Line: And half the weight and half-life %of a half-healed and hurting world
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles
Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Military Service, Compulsory; Soldiers' Writings; U.s. - History


MY WARRIOR BOY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thou hast gone forth, my darling one
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


MYSTERY OF VANGUARDISM, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: March saw the release of
Last Line: With 'prodnalog,' %an agricultural tax
Subject(s): U.s. - History


MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (1), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You see the terrain he has won back from but not won
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (1), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You see the terrain he has won back from but not won
Last Line: Transformation-scene-and-curtain, apocalypse-hippodrome!
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (2), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not stand witness; observe only
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (2), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not stand witness; observe only
Last Line: At the mercy of door-chimes?
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (3), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To the evangelicals: a moving image
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (3), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To the evangelicals: a moving image
Last Line: But shelve it under mercies
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (4), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ill-conceived, ill ordained, heart's rhetoric
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (4), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ill-conceived, ill ordained, heart's rhetoric
Last Line: Not to be taken down
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (5), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great gifts foreclosed on; loss and waste offset
Last Line: This is also admitted: introit turba
Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Religion; English History


MYSTICISM AND DEMOCRACY (5), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Great gifts foreclosed on; loss and waste offset
Last Line: This also is admitted: introit turba
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


MYTHICAL FOUNDING OF BUENOS AIRES, by JORGE LUIS BORGES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And was it along this torpid muddy river
Last Line: Hard to believe buenos aires had any beginning. %I feel it to be as eternal as air and water
Subject(s): Argentina; Cities; History; South America


NAACP, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the hundreth anniversary
Last Line: All glory to the dream
Subject(s): U.s. - History


NAMES OF HISTORY, by AL MAGINNES    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the first speared masts stabbed
Last Line: Into the wide blank spill of ocean
Subject(s): History; Sea


NAPOLEON II, by LYDIA SCHUYLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Poor babe of france and captive of her foes
Subject(s): History


NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY ACT, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The same day, june 16
Last Line: Roosevelt called for a law to prevent %small home foreclosures
Subject(s): U.s. - History


NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE!, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: June 14: for the first time in america's history
Last Line: Civil aeronautics authority was thereby created
Subject(s): U.s. - History


NATIONAL MONUMENT, by MILDRED M. JEFFREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My head is full of apaches
Last Line: Head of cochise said the plaque
Subject(s): Native Americans - History


NATIVE AMERICAN BROADCASTING SYSTEM, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Five hundred years from now, archaeologists will discover
Last Line: The grasses grow %the rivers flow
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Cherokee Indians; Greyhounds; Native Americans - History; Native Americans - Wars; Nuclear War; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Travel


NATIVE SONG, by JOHN CONSTANTINE MASTOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: The land was stolen &
Last Line: Dispersal from their land %a proud people stand tall
Subject(s): Native Americans - History


NATIVISM, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Congress voted a quota bill
Last Line: Time machine! Time machine!
Subject(s): Time Machines; U.s. - History


NATURAL HISTORY [OR, THE SOLAR SYSTEM], by DAVID KELLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: High up in a corner hung two sand-colored spider eggs
Last Line: How things work toward order, even happiness
Variant Title(s): Natural Histor
Subject(s): History; Museums; Nature


NEGRO, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a negro
Last Line: Black like the depths of my africa.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Blacks - History; Negroes; American Blacks


NELSON, by GERALD MASSEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our best belover of all the brave
Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


NEVER OR NOW; AN APPEAL, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen, young heroes! Your country is calling!
Last Line: Hear the last angel-trump, -- never or now!
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


NEVERNESS, OR THE ONE SHIP BEACHED ON ONE FAR DISTANT SHORE, by MARGARET AVISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old adam, with his fist-full of plump earth
Last Line: And none be left to witness the blank mist?
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; History; Humanity; Time; Eve; Historians


NEW DIXIE, by MARIA LOUISA EVE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wish I was in the land of cotton
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


NEW NATION, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A mountain of white ice
Subject(s): United States - History; Native Americans; Massacres; Slavery; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Serfs


NEW OBJECTIVES, NEW CADRES, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the inevitable act
Last Line: We already understand it
Subject(s): History


NEW PHYSICS, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A pig sails through the sky as my children and I
Last Line: Has been trying to get there, negotiating %every pebble
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


NEW YEAR'S EVE, by F. A. BARTLESON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tis twelve o'clock! Within my prison dreary
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


NEW YORK, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stream of the living world
Subject(s): History


NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Abolished the great wpa federal theater project
Subject(s): U.s. - History


NEWARK: 1866, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The dying roar of artillery
Last Line: O city of two hundred years!
Subject(s): History; New Jersey; Peace; War; Historians


NEWPORT NEWS, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The huge sea monster, the 'merrimac'
Last Line: And that is the picture of newport news.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): American Civil War; Monitor (ship); Newport News, Virginia; Sea Battles; U.s. - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship)


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


NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: June 30: ernst rohm's brown shirts, or sturmabteilung
Last Line: Most of the brown shirt duties, including the running of the camps %went to the ss
Subject(s): U.s. - History


NIGHT OF TRUTH, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Robert bly's book of verse %the light around the body
Last Line: Clifford called kennedy around 5 %with the word
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


NIJINSKY, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Late may in paris
Last Line: And in milan benito mussolini began to edit the socialist paper avanti
Subject(s): U.s. - History


NO LAND LIKE OURS, by J. R. BARRICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Though other lands may boast of skies
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


NO VALUE, by KEITH ANTAR MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is something winter time about my people
Last Line: Sombody's callin' my name'
Subject(s): Children; History


NO WAR MAN, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: On november 7 %woodrow wilson %was reelected on his summer o' '16 slogan
Last Line: Love and journalism by mauritz stiller
Subject(s): U.s. - History


NOCTURNO DE WASHINGTON: 1, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: They called forth the train whistle at midnight
Last Line: Blinking and defecating
Variant Title(s): Nocturno De Washingto
Subject(s): Grief; Railroads; Tourists; Travel; U.s. - History; United States; Washington Monument


NORTH AFRICA - ORAN - 1942, by SALVATORE GALIOTO    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was this place %called 'sloppy joe's'
Last Line: But ... That was yesterday
Subject(s): History; Oran, Algeria; War


NORTH CAMPAIGN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come unto me, ye heroes
Subject(s): U.s. - History


NORTHERN TRAVELLER, SELS., by UNKNOWN                       
Subject(s): U.s. - History


NORTHWARD, by JOHN MILTON HAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the high unclouded sun
Last Line: In dalliance deck the bridal bower.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Key West, Florida; United States - History


NORTHWEST, by JOHN KEARSLEY MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let araby boast of her soft spicy gale
Subject(s): U.s. - History


NOT THE PILOT, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship to port
Last Line: For a battle-call, rousing to arms if need be, years, centuries hence.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


NOT YET, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O country, marvel of the earth!
Last Line: Writes, in men's sight, the answer, no!
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


NOTE ON LABOR DAY, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes I think I'm
Last Line: Taking my breath away
Subject(s): History; Holidays; Labor And Laborers


NOTHING IS TAKEN THAT IS NOT GIVEN, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The rap beat of arrested development flared through the red
Last Line: Nothing was taken that was not given
Subject(s): Anthropology; Ethnic Identity; Explorers; Native Americans - History; Native Americans - Reservations; Tourists; Travel


NOTHING NIETZSCHE, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is nothing. Nietzsche
Last Line: Out of the wilderness %and the storm of history %dying east of my body
Subject(s): History; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900)


NOVEMBER HARVEST, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Barns huddle over the horns
Last Line: Sprouting out to us %in our mutual darkness
Subject(s): Family Life; History


NOVEMBER, 1941, by ROY FULLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The objects are disposed: the sky is suitable
Last Line: My blood reside in human power and guilt, %whose fathers made both myth and progeny
Subject(s): History; World War Ii


NUREMBERG LAWS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: September 15: the first law stripped citizenship from german jews
Last Line: Tracking the '34 nazi convention in nuremberg %premiered in germany
Subject(s): U.s. - History


NYE TAKES ON WWI GREED HEADS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: On april 12, the u.S. Senate appointed the progressive republican
Last Line: In the years leading to war
Subject(s): U.s. - History


O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: O captain! My captain! Our fearful trip is done
Last Line: Fallen cold and dead.
Variant Title(s): On The Death Of President Lincoln;my Captain;to Abraham Lincoln;on Lincoln
Subject(s): American Civil War; Assassination; Freedom; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Loss; Patriotism; Presidents, United States; Sea; United States - History; Liberty; Ocean


O LORD, HOW LONG, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up, widow, up, and swing the fly
Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer
Subject(s): History


O, TEMPORA! O, MORES!, by JOHN DICKSON BURNS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Great pan is dead!' so cried an airy tongue
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


O, THE PLEASANT DAYS OF OLD!, by FRANCES BROWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, the pleasant days of old, which so often people praise!
Last Line: Blessed times of old!
Subject(s): Contentment; Great Britain - History; English History


OBSEQUIES OF STUART, by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We could not pause, while yet the noontide air
Last Line: In victory careering!
Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, John Randolph
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cavalry; Stuart, James Ewell (jeb) (1833-1864); U.s. - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864)


OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 8, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blake hither brought his book-to con the sky
Last Line: And they are patient still and standing by.
Subject(s): History; Oxford, England; Historians


OCTOBER, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: A thick cider scent presses against the screen
Last Line: Beats its hands against the ground
Subject(s): World History


OCTOBER MORNING WALK, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the pond, frost floats like rice paper
Last Line: Into the dark-tufted meadow where frost's %fragile language sparkles on his tongue
Subject(s): Family Life; History


ODE, by DAVID LEHMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: People in the middle ages didn't think they were living
Subject(s): Middle Ages; Conduct Of Life; Medieval History; Medieval Civilization; Medieval Literature


ODE (IN HONOR OF THE BRAVERY AND SACRIFICES OF SOLDIERS OF THE SOUTH), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With bayonets slanted in the glittering sun
Last Line: Across those lonely desolated graves!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Courage; Soldiers; United States - History; Confederacy; Valor; Bravery


ODE FOR DECORATION DAY, by HENRY PETERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bring flowers, to strew again
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History


ODE ON RIGHT HON. WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE (1898), by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Give thanks to god! Our hero is at rest
Alternate Author Name(s): Benson, A. C.
Subject(s): History


ODE ON THE BATTLE OF BENNINGTON, by EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They came, as brave men ever come
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bury the great duke / with an empire's lamentation
Last Line: God accept him, christ receive him!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Variant Title(s): Let Us Bury The Great Duke
Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Great Britain - History; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; English History


ODE TO SPAIN - AFTER THE REVOLUTION OF MARCH, by MANUEL JOSE QUINTANA    Poem Source                    
First Line: What nation, tell me, in the older day
Last Line: With golden sceptre and device divine!
Subject(s): Patriotism; Revolutions; Spain - History


ODE TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Row after row with strict impunity
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cemeteries; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Graveyards; Confederacy


ODE TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Row after row with strict impunity
Last Line: Riots with his tongue through the hush- %sentinel of the grave who counts us all!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cemeteries; Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History


ODE TO THE DODGER DEAD, by LEIGH PALMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our clothesline parallels the union line
Last Line: The lion's corpse becomes a honeycomb
Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Death; Graves; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.)


ODE TO THE INHABITANTS OF PENNSYLVANIA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Still shall the tyrant scourge of gaul
Last Line: "our inexperienced troops inspire, / and conquest's laurels gain!"
Subject(s): French & Indian Wars;pennsylvania;u.s. - History


ODE TO THE VETERANS OF THE BATTLE OF BENNINGTON, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our patriot sires are gone
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ODE: OUR CITY BY THE SEA, by WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our city by the sea
Last Line: To his temple let us throng -- %praise and pray
Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Heroism; Soldiers; U.s. - History


ODE; SUNG BY THE CHILDREN OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, by W. T. ADAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: No more the cannon peal
Last Line: And deathless fame.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Fame; Monuments; United States - History; Dead, The; Reputation


OF COMING-INTO-BEING AND PASSING-AWAY, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rosa sericea: its red spurs / blooded with amber
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


OF COMING-INTO-BEING AND PASSING-AWAY, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rosa sericea: its red spurs %blooded with amber
Last Line: The unsustaining %wondrously sustained
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


OF CONSTANCY AND MEASURE, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One sees again how it goes
Last Line: With so much else believed to be fire and air
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


OF HISTORY AND HOPE, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: We have memorized america,
Last Line: Press.
Subject(s): United States - History


OF THE UNIVERSAL LOVE OF PLEASURE; TO A FRIEND, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All human race, from china to peru
Last Line: Enjoy unlimited benevolence!
Subject(s): Business; Greed; History; Mankind; Pleasure; Travel; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Avarice; Cupidity; Historians; Human Race; Journeys; Trips


OF WHITMAN BROOKS, by DAVID MENZIES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everything is wrong %and yet it's not so wrong
Last Line: The piling years. Evian is for the rest
Subject(s): Books; Death; History; Writing And Writers


OFF FROM BOSTON, by HUGH HENRY BRECKENRIDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sons of valour, taste the glories
Subject(s): U.s. - History


OFFERINGS, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: You've been feasting on words again
Last Line: Swift strokes, %sparrow, chickadee, finch
Subject(s): World History


OH, NO, HE'LL NOT NEED THEM AGAIN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


OH, YOU KID!, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The body's coming later! The cop shouted
Last Line: Get turned around in the other direction
Variant Title(s): Oh You Ki
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


OLD GLORY, by EMMA FRANCES DAWSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Enchanted web! A picture in the air
Last Line: "our hallowed, eloquent, beloved ""old glory""!"
Subject(s): Flags - United States; United States - History; American Flag


OLD HICKORY, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the day when we honor 'old hickory'
Subject(s): Jackson, Andrew (1767-1845); U.s. - History


OLD HOUSE, by DAVID MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: We called her ghost
Last Line: Caught up in brambles underneath the boughs
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History


OLD OSAWATOMIE, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: John brown's body under the morning stars
Last Line: On a six-foot stage of dust.
Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; U.s. - History; Anti-slavery; Serfs


OLD VERSE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hark! Hark! The trumpet sounds, the din of war's alarms
Subject(s): U.s. - History


OLD WAR-DREAMS, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In midnight sleep of many a face of anguish
Last Line: I dream, I dream, I dream.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Dreams; United States - History; Nightmares


ON A NATURAL MONUMENT IN A FIELD OF GEORGIA, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No trophy this - a stone unhewn
Last Line: This healing sleep alone was sure.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cemeteries; U.s. - History; Graveyards


ON BOARD THE CUMBERLAND, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stand to your guns, men!' morris cried
Last Line: For those beneath the wave!
Variant Title(s): Attack Of The Cumberland
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cumberland (ship); Hampton Roads, Virginia; Morris, George Upham; Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship)


ON FORT SUMTER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was a noble roman
Last Line: "who says with 'southern daring,' / 'I'll find a way, or make it!'"
Subject(s): "american Civil War;confederate States Of America;fort Sumter, South Carolina;u.s. - History;" Confederacy


ON JEFFERSON, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go wretch, resign thy presidential chair
Subject(s): History


ON SEEING A PHOTOGRAPH BY MATTHEW BRADY, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In 1863 whole towns %carried luches to hillsides
Last Line: A war too far for us to say %which are kin. All could as well %be kin for all that we can tell
Subject(s): American Civil War; Brady, Matthew (1823-1896); U.s. - History


ON SHERMAN'S MEN; WHO FELL IN THE ASSAULT KENESAW MOUNTAIN, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They said that fame her clarion dropped
Last Line: And gentler hearts are bared to deadlier war.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Kenesaw Mountain, Battle Of; U.s. - History


ON THE DEATH OF DECATUR, by WILLIAM CRAFTS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sweet-scented flower's on beauty's grave
Subject(s): Decatur, Stephen (1779-1820); U.s. - History


ON THE DEATH OF JACKSON, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not where the battle red
Last Line: "and this your battle-cry, / 'jackson and victory'"
Subject(s): "alexandria, Virginia;american Civil War;ellsworth, Elmer Ephraim (1837-18610;u.s. - History;


ON THE DEFEAT OF HENRY CLAY [A GREAT MAN], by WILLIAM WILBERFORCE LORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fallen? How fallen? States and empires fall
Last Line: Time's dim horizon with eternity.
Subject(s): Clay, Henry (1777-1852); United States - History


ON THE GRAVE, OF A YOUNG CAVALRY OFFICER, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beauty and youth, with manners sweet, and friends
Last Line: His happier fortune in this mound you see.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; U.s. - History; Tombs; Tombstones


ON THE HEIGHTS OF MISSION RIDGE, by J. AUGUSTINE SIGNAIGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the foes in conflict heated
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


ON THE HOME GUARDS; WHO PERISHED ... LEXINGTON, MISSOURI, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The men who here in harness died
Last Line: Hearts sore beset, which died at bay.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; United States - History


ON THE MEN OF MAINE KILLED IN VICTORY OF BATON ROUGE, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Afar they fell. It was the zone
Last Line: The republic's earnest faith and courage high.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Baton Rouge, Battle Of; U.s. - History


ON THE PHOTOGRAPH OF A CORPS COMMANDER, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ay, man is manly. Here you see
Last Line: And feel the bonds that draw.
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


ON THE ROAD TO PROMOTE THE TREATY, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Meanwhile wilson %realized that the republican senate
Last Line: But the house and senate overrode it
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ON THE SLAIN AT CHICKAMAUGA, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Happy are they and charmed in life
Last Line: Make this memorial due.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chickamauga, Battle Of (1863); Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day


ON THE SLAIN COLLEGIANS, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Youth is the time when hearts are large
Last Line: And kill them in their flush of bloom.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History; Youth


ON TO RICHMOND, by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Major general scott / an order had got
Last Line: Was that pleasant excursion to richmond.
Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, John Randolph
Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History; Manassas, Batlle Of; Confederacy


ONCE AND FUTURE DEAD, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Weep for their history. We call it %rain
Subject(s): Death; Grief; History; Tears


ONCE UPON A TIME, by W. L. WERNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am in love with a foreign word, / jadis
Last Line: Loudly I'm singing to banish reason, jadis!
Alternate Author Name(s): Jacob
Subject(s): Middle Ages; Past; Medieval History; Medieval Civilization; Medieval Literature


ONE DAY'S HISTORY, by FERN WEEMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I watched as day's near evidence
Last Line: And strolled beside the streams.
Subject(s): History; Memory; Time; Historians


ONE THING, TOO MUCH, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: We all love one thing too much
Last Line: Is like a burning woman %calling for more wood
Subject(s): Family Life; History


ONLY A PRIVATE, by F. W. D.    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only a private! His jacket of gray
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


ONLY A PRIVATE, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Only a private - and who will care
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


ONLY ONE KILLED - IN COMPANY B, by JULIA L. KEYES    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


OPENING DAY, by DAVID MCKAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gusts of wind cruise like fish
Last Line: Else gets up, the seagulls yammering upriver.
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; History; Pacifism; Social Protest; Nuclear Freeze; Historians; Peace Movements


OPERATIONS: DESERT SHIELD, DESERT STORM, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who / are these two women, walking
Last Line: America, welcome home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Grief; Gulf War (1991); History; Sorrow; Sadness; Operation Desert Storm (1991); Historians


ORAL HISTORY: THE BATTLE OF STALLUPONEN, EASTERN FRONT, 1914, by EILEEN GARNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nineteen fourteen, darling
Last Line: The bright white glare of the sun, %the mocking sun
Subject(s): History; War


ORGANIZATION MEN IN AFFLUENT SOCIETY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is deep twilight, my wife
Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Books; Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); History; Love; Marcus Antonius; Anthony, Mark; Reading; Historians


ORGANIZATION MEN IN AFFLUENT SOCIETY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is deep twilight, my wife
Last Line: Armpits, the bed full of bugs
Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Books; Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); History; Love


ORIGIN OF FLOWERING PLANTS, by MAURA STANTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some say the first flower, complex, waxy
Last Line: Unnoticed, shy, but radiant with the future
Subject(s): Flowers; History


ORISKANY, by JAMES WATTS DE PEYSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old seventeen hundred and seventy-seven
Subject(s): U.s. - History


OSTRACIZED ELF, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Another career I was thinking of pursuing
Last Line: Or erase it. %farewell, o '68
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


OTTAWA, MN, CEMETERY-1992, by PHILIP S. BRYANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A million years ago
Last Line: Seem to squawk at the thought of it
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Racism; Slavery; U.s. - History


OUR BOY, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wings and the boy I sing, who, braving fate
Subject(s): U.s. - History


OUR CHRISTMAS HYMN, by JOHN DICKSON BRUNS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Good will and peace! Peace and good will!'
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


OUR CONFEDERATE DEAD, by MORTON BRYAN WHARTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Unknown to me, brave boy, but still I wreathe
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


OUR COUNTRY'S CALL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lay down the axe; fling by the spade
Last Line: And glorious must their triumph be.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; United States - History


OUR DEAD HEROES, by MORTON BRYAN WHARTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The angels above us hover
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); U.s. - History


OUR DEPARTED COMRADES, by J. MARION SHIRER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am sitting alone by a fire
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


OUR FALLEN BRAVE, by CORNELIA J. M. JORDAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: They fell! In freedom's cause they fell
Last Line: Our fallen and our free.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Freedom; Love; United States - History; Confederacy; Dead, The; Liberty


OUR FLAG, SELS., by T. H. UNDERWOOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I heard the furious stamping of a heel
Last Line: As royally as lies the noblest clay
Subject(s): American Civil War; Life; Pain; Slavery; U.s. - History


OUR HISTORY, by CATHERINE CATE COBLENTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our history sings of centuries
Last Line: It ends with skies and wings
Subject(s): History


OUR LEFT', by FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From dawn to dark they stood
Last Line: "your all upon ""our left."
Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; United States - History; Manassas, Batlle Of


OUR MARTYRS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am sitting alone and weary
Last Line: May rise to the calm of thine.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Confederacy


OUR MOON'S AN ATTIC USED FOR STORAGE SPACE, by DAWSON POWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our moon's an attic used as storage space
Last Line: From lunar shores when dawn's mist curtains burn.
Subject(s): Attics; History; Moon; Historians


OUR PASSWORD, by ISIDORE G. ASCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No hate can stifle our religion's birth
Last Line: Our prayer in life and death that god is one.
Subject(s): History; Jews; Religious Education; Historians; Judaism; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


OUR PRIVILEGE, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not ours, where battle-smoke upcurls
Last Line: With valor's clashing steel.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


OUT AND FIGHT, by CHARLES GODFREY LELAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out and fight! The clouds are breaking
Last Line: Be extinguished from the land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Breitmann, Hans
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; United States - History


OUT OF RANGE, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION    Poem Source                    
First Line: You wouldn't keep the books you'd packed for long
Last Line: Beneath the vague and barren shade outside
Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War


OUT OF THE EMBERS (SIOUX), by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Embers, embers, in the night
Last Line: Embers, embers, keep your glow.
Subject(s): History; Memory; Past; Historians


OUTCROP, by MATTHEW JOY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Red-tinged rock outcrop
Last Line: Through millions of years %recording these secrets
Subject(s): Fossils; High School Students; History; Teenagers


OUTSIDE CONNECTICUT HOSPICE WITH MY FATHER, by VIVIAN SHIPLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The silence between us has softened
Last Line: My heart, you start it beating again
Variant Title(s): With My Father Outside The West Wing Of Hospic
Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; U.s. - History


OVER THE RIVER, by JANE T. H. CROSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We hail your 'stripes' and lessened 'stars,'
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


OVERTAKELESSNESS, by PETER GIZZI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: To speak inaudibly, the outside,
Subject(s): History; Historians


OXFORD PLEDGE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Meanwhile some students at oxford
Last Line: A national poll showed 39 %of students endorsed the pledge
Subject(s): U.s. - History


PAEAN TO ORISKANY, by CHARLES D. HELMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beleaguered men of stanwix, brave as those
Subject(s): U.s. - History


PALMER BOMBING, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: June 2: a bomb went off outside the home of us attorney general
Last Line: American women at last allowed to vote
Subject(s): U.s. - History


PALMETTO PICTURES, SELS., by VOLNEY HICKOX    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beautiful land, where the bountiful sun
Last Line: This is the land that his servants shall win -- %liberty's eden from slavery's rod
Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement And Proclamation; Southern States; U.s. - History


PALMYRA: OCTOBER 18, 1862, by CAROLINE COLLINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Missouri: dark wind in the trees
Last Line: Renegade, unrepentant, unforgiving
Subject(s): American Civil War; Capital Punishment; Crime And Criminals; Fights; Military Service, Voluntary; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Violence


PANICS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Panics, of course, are the dry heaves of the american dream
Last Line: He took huge walks %to tire himself to sleep
Subject(s): U.s. - History


PARADE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Four brilliant artists %pablo picasso, erik satie, jean cocteau & leonide
Last Line: Urge kerensky, then minister of war, to continue it
Subject(s): U.s. - History


PARDON, by JULIA WARD HOWE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pains the sharp sentence
Last Line: Greatest, forgive!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Assassination; Booth, John Wilkes (1838-1865); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; United States - History


PARENTALIA (1), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The here-and-now finds vigil transfiguring
Last Line: In the faint rasp of dry autumnal flowers
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


PARENTALIA (2), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go your ways, as if in thanksgiving
Last Line: The other harvest
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


PARKER HOMESTEADS, 1867, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After the last spadeful of earth - his
Last Line: The monstrous silver eye of money shuts, %and the horizon passes into him like god
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


PARKERS PRAIRIE CELEBRATION ON SOO STREET, 1920, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I want to put my arms around the woman
Last Line: Turn any direction now and begin running, %it will end happily. It's not what you think
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


PARTING HYMN; 'DUNDEE', by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Father of mercies, heavenly friend
Last Line: Rule thou our throneless land!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Prayer; United States - History


PARTY YEARS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They called them the roaring twenties
Last Line: For the great novel babbitt
Subject(s): U.s. - History


PASSAGE, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When you deliberate the page
Last Line: In a moon's course, are history.
Subject(s): Easter; History; Holidays; The Resurrection; Historians


PASSING OF RICHARD SOMERS, by WALLACE RICE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He breaks and gives his finger ring
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): U.s. - History


PASSING OF THE ARMIES; JOSHUA LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAIN, 1865, by JOHN BURT    Poem Source                    
First Line: He was at falling waters in a dream
Last Line: Ahead lay washington, half swamp, half shrine
Subject(s): American Civil War; Appomattox, Virginia; Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence (1828-1914); U.s. - History


PASSION DRINKER, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: When he was young, he broke horses
Last Line: The passion drinker thinks he's seen it all, %but the dead say only the earth endures
Subject(s): Cowboys; Family Life; History


PAULINUS AND EDWIN, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The black-hair'd gaunt paulinus
Subject(s): History


PEACE, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O land, of every land the best
Last Line: They gained a better peace than ours.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; United States - History


PEACE, by ADELINE DUTTON (TRAIN) WHITNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Daybreak upon the hills!
Last Line: On the right hand and left!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; U.s. - History


PEACE EYE BOOKSTORE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I rented an old kosher meat market
Last Line: Qualms about the war
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


PERKIN WARBECK, by JOHN FORD (1586-1639)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: Studies have of this nature been of late
Last Line: And often find a welcome to the muses.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Henry Vii, King Of England (1457-1509); Impostors & Imposture; English History; Fitzroy, Henry, Duke Of Richmond; Tudor, Henry


PERMANENT COLLECTION, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a rich provincial city there is a museum as imposing and quite as
Last Line: With their faces shining?
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Cities; History; Museums; Tourists; Travel


PERSISTENCE OF THE GREAT BLIZZARD, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So deep into mud season, now, that I can't tell you
Last Line: Whirring from the corn. Be my hand %gripping this dark fence
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


PETTY BOURGEOISIE, by ROQUE DALTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those who %in most cases
Last Line: Nature %and future
Subject(s): History; Humanitarianism; Revolutions


PHANTOM HOST, by PERONNEAN D. HAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My form was wrapped in the slumber
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


PHANTOM MAIL COACH, by L. O. WELCOME    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gather up the ribbons, give the 'orn a toot!
Subject(s): History


PICCIOLA, by ROBERT HENRY NEWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a sergeant old and gray
Last Line: That trembles first when earth is shaken.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kerr, Orpheus
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History; War


PICCIOLA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was a sergeant old and gray
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


PICNIC WAR, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the first of may
Last Line: And took manila august 13
Subject(s): U.s. - History


PIGASUS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The yippies decided to run a pig for president
Last Line: Of the peace eye bookstore
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


PILGRIM'S GUIDE TO CHAOS IN THE HEARTLAND: 2. DEVICES OF CHANCE, by JESSICA GOODFELLOW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Definition of randomness: an inexplicable misfeature
Last Line: Trapped. Re9sist. Decay
Subject(s): Egypt; History; Pilgrims And Pilgrimages


PISGAH, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am ashamed and grieve, having seen you then
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


PISGAH, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am ashamed and grieve, having seen you then
Last Line: Perhaps I too am a shade
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


PITCHING THE WAR, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the us %there was a big public relations effort
Last Line: & another mutiny april 29 %& more through the summer
Subject(s): U.s. - History


PLANNED ECONOMY IN A BIG WATERSHED, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: May 18: congress passed the tennessee valley act
Last Line: Of all of the material facts relating to new security issues'
Subject(s): U.s. - History


PLEA FOR THE HISTORIAN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forbear to deem the chronicler unwise
Last Line: Should animate, but not mislead, the pen.
Subject(s): History; Historians


PLURALITY OF WORLDS, by WASHINGTON DELGADO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fifty worlds lie on my table
Last Line: I light a cigarette and divide it among fifty %meaningless worlds
Subject(s): Latin America - History; Peru


POEM FOR THE MISSING BEAUTY OPERATOR, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I notice the women are missing
Last Line: Lost mother. What was your name?
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


POEM, READ THE SOLDIERS' WELCOME, FRANKLIN, NEW YORK, AUG. 5, 1865, by B. H. BARNES    Poem Text                    
First Line: The heroes of a hundred fields
Last Line: For peace and liberty!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Homecoming; Life; Soldiers; United States - History; Dead, The


POET'S GRAVE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In this pleasant beechen shade
Subject(s): U.s. - History


POETIC HISTORY OF THE 7TH IOWA REGIMENT: ARRIVED AT CAMP MONTGOMERY, by GEORGE S. RUTHERFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Arrived in good season at our journey's end
Last Line: Whose tribe was assembled through this rebels advice.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; U.s. - History; Drills & Minor Tactics


POETIC HISTORY OF THE 7TH IOWA REGIMENT: BATTLE OF SHILOH, by GEORGE S. RUTHERFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Soon war-clouds o'ershadowed this place of delight
Last Line: And the rattle of hailstones completed the blast.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Shiloh, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History


POETIC HISTORY OF THE 7TH IOWA REGIMENT: MARCH TO CAMP MONTGOMERY, by GEORGE S. RUTHERFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Again we have orders, from high sources to march
Last Line: We completed this journey of four or five miles.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Camping; U.s. - History; Walking; Camps; Summer Camps


POETIC HISTORY OF THE 7TH IOWA REGIMENT: SECOND DAY'S BATTLE, by GEORGE S. RUTHERFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The army of buell came forth with the light
Last Line: A little good water while they might remain.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Shiloh, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History


POETIC HISTORY OF THE 7TH IOWA REGIMENT: TRIP TO PITTSBURG LANDING, by GEORGE S. RUTHERFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Again our good regiment got under way
Last Line: From sweet smelling blossoms the north has in june.
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


POLIO AT CAMPOBELLO, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: He'd worked for woodrow wilson
Last Line: At a ku klux klan parade in lorena, texas
Subject(s): U.s. - History


POND, by DAVID MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Downcast thermometers record one truth
Last Line: The mind ghosting out in a shoal of stars
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History


PONZI '20, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Charles ponzi scammed bostonians
Last Line: The concept of nature a.N. Whitehead
Subject(s): U.s. - History


POOR PEOPLE'S MARCH, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The great martin king %was leading the plans
Last Line: As was james earl ray, %in hypnotism
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


POPEYE'S KITCHEN, A LETTER FROM THE INDIAN SCHOOL 2, by LAURA TOHE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Went to the presbyterian church this morning. May jean said they served
Last Line: Washing those pots and don't mess with popeye
Subject(s): Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Navajo Indians; Racism; Slavery


POPULAR FRONT AGAINST FASCISM, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: July 25-august 20: at the 7th congress of the 3rd comintern %held in moscow
Last Line: Ranting at roosevelt %who were giving power to fascism
Subject(s): U.s. - History


POPULAR FRONT GOV'T IN FRANCE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: June,1936-june,1937: the popular front in france won big on may 3
Last Line: & the nazis suffered an aryan-gasm
Subject(s): U.s. - History


PORTO RICO, by JOSE GAUTIER BENITEZ    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: Borinquen! Name as sweet to the thought
Last Line: To the sweet influence of the world without!
Subject(s): Islands; Latin America - History; Puerto Rico; West Indies


PORTRAIT OF AN HISTORIAN, by EDWARD NAGLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A grin; / two rows of omnivorous decayed teeth
Last Line: And two rows of omnivorous teeth.
Subject(s): History; Historians


POSSIBLE CAREER MISTAKE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I used to take a cab over the hollywood hills
Last Line: And hungered for wilson's fame
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


POSSIBLY FAULTY WOBBLY COURT STRATEGY, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: April: john reed covered the five-month trial of
Last Line: Big bill jumped bail to russia, where he passed ten years later
Subject(s): U.s. - History


POST OFFICE KILLS THE MASSES, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The espionage act of june 1917
Last Line: For conspiring to obstruct the draft
Subject(s): U.s. - History


POSTLUDE, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rose-douched ammoniac
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


POSTLUDE, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rose-douched ammoniac
Last Line: Swallow their parturitions
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


PRAISE OF PRINCESS MARY, by JOHN HEYWOOD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If all the world were sought full far
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


PRAYER FOR PEACE, by S. TEACKLE WALLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Peace! Peace! God of our fathers grant us peace
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


PRELUDE TO 'WALKING SHADOWS', by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of those who fought and died
Last Line: Then let them sleep, at dawn, with the forgotten.
Subject(s): History; Shadows; Truth; Historians


PRESENTATION TO AUTHORITIES BY PRIVATES, OF COLORS CAPTURED, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These flags of armies overthrown
Last Line: To waiting homes with vindicated laws.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Flags - Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History


PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S BURIAL HYMN, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd
Last Line: There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim.
Variant Title(s): When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloomed
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Flowers; Grief; Lilacs; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Loss; Mourning; Patriotism; Presidents, United States; United States - History; United States; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; America


PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OPENS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: September 29: roosevelt began his campaign for reelection on 9-29
Last Line: October 6: the british labour party rejected affiliation with th' communist party
Subject(s): U.s. - History


PRESSURE ON RIGHT WING SUPREME COURT, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: March 1: the supreme court retirement act was passed
Last Line: Merged as the falange epanola tradicionalista
Subject(s): U.s. - History


PRETTY BOY FLOYD, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: He was a hero in oklahoma
Last Line: You can find him in steinbeck's grapes of wrath
Subject(s): U.s. - History


PRINCES IN THE TOWER, by THOMAS HEYWOOD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How does your lordship?
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


PRO FEMINA: ONE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From sappho to myself, consider the fate of women
Last Line: Flux, efflorescence -- whatever you care to call it!
Subject(s): Free Will & Determinism; History; Juvenal (decimus Junius Juvenalis); Man-woman Relationships; Women; Women's Rights; Historians; Male-female Relations; Feminism


PRO MEMORIA, by INA MARIE PORTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lo! The southland queen, emerging
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


PROEM, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tells the cumbrous page historic how the missions rose / and fell
Last Line: As loved tagus or as darro from granada's rugged steep.
Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; History; Missions & Missionaries; Sea Voyages; Historians


PROGRESSION; OR, THE SOUTH DEFENDED: SLAVERY, by MARY SOPHIE SHAW HOMES    Poem Text                    
First Line: The book of books we confidently quote
Last Line: Gainst wild fanaticism's fickle laws.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mayfield, Millie
Subject(s): American Civil War; Bible; Cruelty; Slavery; Southern States; United States - History; Serfs; South (u.s.)


PROLEGOMENON, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In early august %the yippies published a
Last Line: The nsa, and military intelligence
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


PROLOGUE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The century began %with the war against spain
Last Line: Through the streets %of pliant nations
Subject(s): U.s. - History


PROMETHEUS VINCTUS, by FANNY DOWNING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Prometheus on the cold rock bound
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


PROOFREADING THE HISTORIES, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I start at the end, proofread backwards
Last Line: And infer the words from sounds I do not hear
Subject(s): World History


PROPHECY OF THE DEAD, by AMANDA THEODOSIA JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is the groaning earth stabbed to its core?
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


PROPHET'S-TOWN FIGHT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: O'er western hills, columbia's martial band
Subject(s): U.s. - History


PROPOSAL FOR NATIONAL HEALTH CARE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: On january 23 president roosevelt urged congress
Last Line: And soon the spanish republic was to fall %(for a few decades
Subject(s): U.s. - History


PROSPECT, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: War will not always be
Last Line: "but that was long ago."
Subject(s): United States - History; War; World War I; First World War


PSALMS OF ASSIZE, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should I strike you with my name
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


PSALMS OF ASSIZE, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why should I strike you with my name
Last Line: With the elect justified %to his right hand
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


PURIFICATION OF THE TRIBE, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Used to be, %we threw our different ones
Last Line: A purification of the tribe
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Poetry And Poets; Slavery


PUT IN A QUAVER, HERE AND THERE, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is smooth, fairly uniformly gray
Last Line: Vicinity: mute witnesses, they could yet prove to be guides.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; History; Philosophy & Philosophers; Historians


PUT IT THROUGH, by EDWARD EVERETT HALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, freeman of the land
Last Line: Put it through!
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


PUTNAM'S LEAP, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Put rowels to thy steed and sweep
Subject(s): U.s. - History


QUANTRILL'S RAID; LAWRENCE, KANSAS, AUGUST 21, 1863, by JAMES IRVIN MAGORIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nothing out of the ordinary
Last Line: A cat befuddled by the approaching horsemen
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fights; Soldiers; U.s. - History


QUEEN ELIZABETH, by SARAH (SADIE) WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dying, and loth to die, and long'd to die
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


QUEEN MARY; A DRAMA, SELS., by ALFRED TENNYSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Love


QUEEN VICTORIA (1901), by OWEN SEAMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tears we disallow to lesser ill
Subject(s): History


QUESTION OF INVOLVEMENT, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Did the usa have to do it?
Last Line: Were nothing against %the crackdown to come
Subject(s): U.s. - History


QUESTION OF TIME, by ANTONIO CISNEROS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In 1964, %where your bearded eyes
Last Line: Would have shipwrecked beneath the sun
Subject(s): Death; Fights; Latin America - History; Soldiers; Spanish Armada


QUESTIONS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I will not rest easy with my questions
Last Line: But the men %cloaked in darkness
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; History; Human Rights - Argentina; Silence


R. MUTT READYMADE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the war-swirl of april
Last Line: But it was banned from the show
Subject(s): U.s. - History


RACE OF VETERANS, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Race of veterans - race of victors!
Last Line: Race of passion and the storm.
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


RACE RIOTS IN APRIL, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Riots began in 25 cities in april
Last Line: Counterattack %on the whites
Subject(s): U.s. - History


RACISM, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It took till '02 to stomp down the filipinos
Last Line: Not mentioned in most of the text books %then or now
Subject(s): U.s. - History


RACIST, CLASSIST TUSKEGEE SYPH STUDY, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In macon county, georgia
Last Line: Ended the classist, pain-worshiping syph-scam
Subject(s): U.s. - History


RALEIGH'S CELL IN THE TOWER, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here writ was the world's history by his hand
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


RANCHO ARRIBA, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rancho arriba is far from the crowds
Last Line: Rancho arriba is a thorn that reminds me, %that reminds them of who I am, %of who we are
Subject(s): Latin America - History; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


RAPE, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So I can never forget, I've kept one small glove
Last Line: That afternoon I thought I hated all of them. %I thought I hated jesus
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


RAPPAHANNOCK ARMY SONG, by JOHN C. MCLEMORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The toil of the march is over
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


RAT HELL; LT. MITCHELL, by DAVID MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The winter of 1863 and 4
Last Line: And carried back, still moaning in my dreams
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History


RAVEN/MOON, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In first people's sky there is no moon
Last Line: Raven listens, whistling in stunted trees
Subject(s): Family Life; History; Legends, Native American


READY, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loaded with gallant soldiers
Last Line: Who was fitter to die than he!
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Sailing & Sailors; United States - History; Seamen; Sails


REBEL COLOR-BEARERS AT SHILOH, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The color-bearers facing death
Last Line: And think how grant met lee.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Shiloh, Battle Of (1862); United States - History


REBEL SOLDIER KILLED IN THE TRENCHES BEFORE PETERSBURG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Killed in the trenches! How cold and bare
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


RECONCILIATION, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Word over all, beautiful as the sky
Last Line: Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


RED ROCK CEREMONIES, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The clear moon arcs
Last Line: I am making the words %speak in circles
Subject(s): Family Life; History; West (u.s.); Women


REDWOODS, by ETHEL RICHARDSON STILLWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not all the piles of rome and greece
Last Line: And point the ancient stars.
Subject(s): History; Sequoia Trees; Historians; Redwoods


REFLECTIONS AT THE GRAVE OF JANE MCCREA, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bright and beautiful, the wise and good
Subject(s): U.s. - History


REICHSTAG FIRE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The parliament building in berlin, known as the reichstag
Last Line: People from grabbing out their money %fearing the big burn
Subject(s): U.s. - History


RELIC, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing, muse, of the lace dresser-scarf
Last Line: Sing how you stay with us until the end
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


RELIEVING GUARD, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Came the relief. 'what, sentry, ho!'
Last Line: "somewhere had just relieved a picket."
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


REMINDER, by SHERRY KANE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tell me, sages, what shadowy street
Subject(s): History


REMNANT OF AN OLD CONTEMPORARY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: To take the stores and cattle
Subject(s): U.s. - History


REPLANTING THE PEACH ORCHARD, by RONALD E. MCFARLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: The way blood flowed and flesh
Last Line: Larry's pockets bulged with lead
Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Death; Fights; Military; U.s. - History; Violence; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.)


REPORT FOR ISOLDA, by JULIO ORTEGA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last night, december 24th, 1966
Last Line: Like a new god on this earth
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Christmas; Death; History; Paintings And Painters; War


RESPUBLICA, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The srident high
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


RESPUBLICA, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The srident high
Last Line: Back from the dead
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


REST IS HISTORY, by KENNETH LEONHARDT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Noah did build a mighty ark
Last Line: Dinosaurs had become extinct
Subject(s): History


RESTORED CAPTIVE, by WILLIAM LEETE STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In yonder sylvan dale
Subject(s): U.s. - History


RETALIATION, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Of old, when scarron his companions invited
Last Line: He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Paintings & Painters; English History


RETREAT FROM BARREN HILL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A morn in may, and howe and grant held converse deep
Subject(s): U.s. - History


RETURN, by ROSARIO CASTELLANOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I walk the land of anahuac which is
Last Line: Are so needy
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; History; Mankind


RETURN OF THE WOLVES, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: All through the valley, the people are whispering
Last Line: And my scars are not from loving wolves
Subject(s): Family Life; History


RETURNED BATTLE FLAGS, by MOSES OWEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nothing but flags, but simple flags
Subject(s): American Civil War; Flags - United States; U.s. - History


RETURNED FROM THE WAR, by HENRY ABBEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shrouded by his country's flag
Last Line: He was all the world to her.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Grief; Marriage; United States - History; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


RETURNING THE GIFT, by HAUNANI-KAY TRASK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An ocean and a half a continent away
Last Line: Of mourning %in our ma'I
Subject(s): Hawaii; Native Americans - History


REV NOT HAPPENING, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The soviet union noticed that
Last Line: It was a further stalemate, giving nazzi storm troopers more chance to make moil & kill
Subject(s): U.s. - History


REVERIE, by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the crowded shelves the lamplight falls
Last Line: Gazes on satan hurled from paradise.
Subject(s): Death; History; Memory; Dead, The; Historians


REVERIE WHILE GIVING BLOOD, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The needle sinks in the vein
Last Line: Beloved europe is going down
Subject(s): World History


REVIEWING PAST LIVES WHILE LEAF-BURNING, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The air is a smoke-tree, the wind
Subject(s): Family Life; History


REWARD, by KEVIN YOUNG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Run away from this sub- / scriber for the second time
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Slavery; Escapes; Black Heritage; Serfs; Fugitives


RICHARD HAKLUYT'S MEN, by WALLACE RICE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here sighs the breath of the sea
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): 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


RIDING WITH STRANGERS, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Late summer, moist air, and the smell of foxgrapes
Last Line: The car would leap into the singing, whirling dark
Subject(s): World History


RIFFRAFF, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cities of the world are burning
Last Line: Let her kiss me with the kisses of her mouth
Subject(s): World History


RIGHT, by SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Always do right
Alternate Author Name(s): Twain, Mark
Subject(s): History


RIGHT-WING SUPREME COURT, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: On may 6 the right-wing majority on the supreme court
Last Line: July 13: usa-ussr trade pact
Subject(s): U.s. - History


RIGHT-WING SUPREME COURT STRIKES AGAIN, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: January 6: the court maced down the agricultural adjustment act
Last Line: Chaplin sang a song %and whew! %his voice was fine
Subject(s): U.s. - History


RITORNELLI, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Angel of tones
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


RITORNELLI, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Angel of tones
Last Line: With sounds of joy
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


RITUAL, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Swerving to miss the dead squirrel
Last Line: Down like a toy wagon, three wheels stopped, %one still turning
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


RIVERA COMPLETES DETROIT FRESCOES, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: March 13: diego rivera had worked on his huge detroit industry frescoes
Last Line: March 23: hitler was given dictatorial powers till '37
Subject(s): U.s. - History


RIVERA'S ROCKEFELLER MURAL, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: After his great frescoes in detroit were completed
Last Line: A jolt of thrill from the jungian oversoul!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ROBERT E. LEE, by JULIA WARD HOWE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A gallant foeman in the fight
Last Line: We honor thee, virginia's son.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); United States - History


ROBO, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the risk of being accused a 'noid
Last Line: Assassin in six months
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


ROBO BY MAY, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: If we accept the paradigm
Last Line: And the oo-ee-oo of its soundtrack %grew louder and louder
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


ROMANOV DYNASTY ENDED, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The whites were about to overrun ekaterinsburg
Last Line: In their early-century right-wing drift
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ROOSEVELT ASKS CONGRESS FOR SOCIAL SECURITY, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: January 17: the president asked congress to pass legislation
Last Line: To help owners and tenants move to better land'
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ROOSEVELT IS NOMINATED IN CHICAGO, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Franklin roosevelt broke the stupid tradition
Last Line: But to win in this crusade to restore america to its own people.'
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ROOSEVELT SAYS HI TO HATRED, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Madison square garden, october 31: the right was %gnawing like a hen-door
Last Line: These forces met their master.'
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ROOSEVELT WINS AGAIN!, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: November 3: confounding all those newspapers and
Last Line: The spanish gov't moved to valencia %on the coast southwest of madrid
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ROOSEVELT/MERCER, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: September: assistant secretary of the navy
Last Line: On oct 14 the turks sent a message to wilson %also wanting an armistice
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ROOT, ABE, OR DIE (DERIVED FROM THE SONG ROOT HOG OR DIE), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dutch came to missouri, as well you all do know
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


ROSA LUXEMBURG, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rosa luxemburg %was arrested at night
Last Line: Peace conference in paris
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ROVING REBEL, by D. F. LEMARR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I left my home in virginia
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


RUNNING ACROSS TO THE LOT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Our fathers were dead and %our brothers were dying
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Despair; Ethnic Identity; Slavery


RUNNING THE BATTERIES, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A moonless night - a friendly one
Last Line: So porter proves himself a brave man's son.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Navy - United States; Patriotism; United States - History; Vicksburg Campaign (1862-63); American Navy


RUNNING THE BLOCKADE, by WILL WALLACE HARNEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hove in the stays, she lay
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


S & M, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The masochist confesses that his pain
Last Line: Even if I have to be ... %what is that word they used? %even if I have to be ... A sadist.'
Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Ethnic Groups - United States; Latin America - History; Protest, Social; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Tyranny And Tyrants


SA-CA-GA-WE-A; THE INDIAN GIRL WHO GUIDED LEWIS AND CLARK, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sho-sho-ne sa-ca-ga-we-a - captive and wife was she
Last Line: "sho-sho-ne sa-ca-ga-we-a, who led the way to the west!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Clark, William (1770-1838); Explorers; History; Lewis, Meriwether (1774-1809); Native Americans; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Historians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SACCO & VANZETTI, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: That spring %an anarchist typesetter named andrea salsedo
Last Line: June 10: the water powers act created the federal power commission %to regulate power plants
Subject(s): U.s. - History


SALVATION FROM FORECLOSURE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Roosevelt signed the home owners loan act
Last Line: Ahh bring back those five percenters!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


SAM DAVIS, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me his name and you are free
Last Line: Who dies to save an enemy!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Davis, Samuel (1842-1863); Heroism; Loyalty; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Heroes; Heroines


SAME OLD STORY, by HARRY BACHE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: History, and nature, too, repeat themselves, they say
Last Line: Same old baby -- nothing new!
Subject(s): Boredom; Cynicism; History; Life; Nature; Ennui; Historians


SANDINO, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: February 21: the national guard in nicaragua
Last Line: 33 years after the racist slaughter %of the philippine war
Subject(s): U.s. - History


SATELLITES ABOVE THE PARK?, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cia admitted later using
Last Line: Honk honk %go the geese of canada
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


SATIRICAL VERSES IN HONOR OF SIR JOHN BURGOYNE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We, the parliament of england
Subject(s): U.s. - History


SATIRICAL VERSES IN HONOR OF SIR JOHN BURGOYNE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nous, le parlement d'angleterre
Subject(s): U.s. - History


SATURDAY, by MIQUEL MARTI I POL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every saturday
Last Line: By its virtue
Subject(s): Spain - History; Travel; Villages


SATURDAY AUGUST 24, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: After a gathering in rm 817
Last Line: & the police waited outside %to save western civ
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


SAVANNAH, by ALETHEA S. BURROUGHS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou hast not drooped thy stately head
Last Line: Savannah! O savannah!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Savannah, Georgia; United States - History


SAVING THE PAST, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It won't shut down, the crying upstairs
Last Line: The silent bones, new as morning, %watching the sun rise
Variant Title(s): Saving The Past:
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


SCENE IN A COUNTRY HOSPITAL, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, lonely, wounded and apart
Last Line: Thank heaven! This -- all -- ends with me soon.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Hospitals; United States - History


SCENES WITH HARLEQUINS, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Distance is on edge
Last Line: Foreknowledge-I forget- %in 'retribution'
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


SCOPES ARREST, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In march %the state of tennessee
Last Line: July 10: the tass news agency in the ussr
Subject(s): U.s. - History


SCOPES TRIAL, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The trial of john scopes in dayton
Last Line: Ah, that time could have augured better %for robert francis kennedy!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


SCOTT AND THE VETERAN, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An old and crippled veteran to the war department
Last Line: "my soul would go to washington's, and not to arnold's place!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; Scott, Winfield (1786-1866); U.s. - History


SCOTTSBORO CASE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A freight train %was moving through alabama march 25
Last Line: And a new trial was scheduled for 1933
Subject(s): U.s. - History


SEA SALT DISOBEDIENCE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: April 6: gandhi and 30 associates
Last Line: Tragicomic novel babbitt %the first american to win
Subject(s): U.s. - History


SEA-WEEDS, by ANNIE CHAMBERS KETCHUM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Friend of the thoughtful mind and gentle heart
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


SEASONS AT ODDS WITH THEMSELVES, by SANDOR CSOORI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's fall, just take a good look at the bushes
Last Line: Like the centuries lugged into museums?
Subject(s): History; Seasons


SECESSION, by T. A. R. NELSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: What pen can trace, with just impression
Last Line: "be ""damned to everlasting fame!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Nelson, Thomas A. R.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Fame; State Rights; U.s. - History; Confederacy; Reputation; Secession


SECOND INTERNATIONAL, 1907, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There was a meeting of the second international in stuttgart
Last Line: Major then, minor later %non existent now
Subject(s): U.s. - History


SECOND NEW DEAL, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They called '35 the second new deal
Last Line: Was marked by their hatred by their hatred of social legislation
Subject(s): U.s. - History


SECRET POLICE GO AGAINST THE FUNDING OF THE UNDERGROUND PRESS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A cia chaos program analyst, %saving western civ
Last Line: (with a little help from his friends %in chaos and garden plot
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


SEDITION, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: May 16: congress passed the sedition act
Last Line: Because so few had surged forward %to take up rifles
Subject(s): U.s. - History


SEED SYLLABLES FROM O, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had written charles olson in gloucester
Last Line: To general delivery %atlanta %king's home city
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


SENDING SPRING NORTH TO GLENN MCKEE IN MAINE, by DORY L. HUDSPETH    Poem Source                    
First Line: They say spring marches
Last Line: Under a pearl-gray sky
Subject(s): American Civil War; Military; Soldiers; U.s. - History


SEVERAL MEASURES FOR THE LITTLE LOST, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lesson begins in a heated room
Last Line: After all of the lamb has left the bone it warned.
Subject(s): History; Hunger; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Teaching & Teachers; Historians; Educators; Professors


SEWING, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember how that morning
Last Line: Toward beauty, move toward %the empty spaces
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


SEX IN HISTORY, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only the pope partook, the cardinals, priests, monks
Last Line: Was hitting what he made
Subject(s): History; Religion; Sex; Historians; Theology


SEX IN HISTORY, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only the pope partook, the cardinals, priests, monks
Last Line: Watching what he had made
Subject(s): History; Religion; Sex


SHAMAN/BEAR, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: He sniffs the autumn air
Subject(s): Family Life; History


SHELLING OF VERACRUZ, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Around the time the lineman found the bed-pitted bodies
Last Line: To prevent german munitions coming ashore for %huerta's troops
Subject(s): U.s. - History


SHENANDOAH, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the shenandoah valley, one rider grey and one rider blue, and
Last Line: Heads of a rider blue and a rider gray in the shenandoah.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; U.s. - History


SHERIDAN AT CEDAR CREEK, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shoe the steed with silver
Last Line: Where the nameless followers sleep.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cedar Creek, Battle Of (1864); Sheridan, Philip Henry (1831-1888); United States - History


SHERIDAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TAYLOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, hour supreme, of, deed sublime
Subject(s): American Civil War; Sheridan, Philip Henry (1831-1888); U.s. - History


SHERIDAN'S RIDE [DECEMBER 19, 1864], by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the south, at break of day
Last Line: "from winchester, -- twenty miles away!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; Animals; Cedar Creek, Battle Of (1864); Courage; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Sheridan, Philip Henry (1831-1888); United States - History; War; Valor; Bravery; Declaration Day


SHERMAN'S IN SAVANNAH [DECEMBER 22, 1864], by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like the tribes of israel
Last Line: As it crowns savannah!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Savannah, Georgia; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History


SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA, by SAMUEL HAWKINS MARSHALL BYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our camp-fires shone bright on the mountain
Last Line: When sherman marched down to the sea.
Variant Title(s): Song Of Sherman's March To The Sea
Subject(s): American Civil War; Georgia (state); Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History


SHILOH; A REQUIEM, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Skimming lightly, wheeling still
Last Line: And all is hushed at shiloh.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; Shiloh, Battle Of (1862); United States - History


SHIRTWAIST MAKERS STRIKE OF '09-'10, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let us sing the shirtwaist makers strike
Last Line: On child actress gladys smith - %voila mary pickford!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


SHOOTING OF STANFORD WHITE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: June 25: the architect stanford white
Last Line: One of the good laws of teddy's reign
Subject(s): U.s. - History


SHOP AND FREEDOM, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Though with the north we sympathize
Last Line: "free trade, or sable brothers free? / oh, will we choose the latter"
Subject(s): American Civil War;free Trade;great Britain - Foreign Relations;u.s. - History


SHORT HISTORY OF ANXIETY, by MARY ANN SAMYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Consider dresses: the shapes
Last Line: So, what is your particular purpose? %what is your urgent need?
Subject(s): Anxiety; Frontier And Pioneer Life; History; Women - Captives


SHORT RATIONS, by GEORGE PALMER GARRETT JR.    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Toomer porter (my kinsman)
Last Line: Would have been pure luxury
Alternate Author Name(s): Garrett, George
Subject(s): American Civil War; Military; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War


SHORT REVIEW OF BURGOYNE'S EXPEDITION, by ROBERT DINSMORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My faithful friend and uncle, kind
Subject(s): U.s. - History


SHOT THROUGH THE HEART', by INA MARIE PORTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Across the brown and wintry morn
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


SHOVE OF BACCHUS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bacchus, as ever, %pushed into the grief
Last Line: And lincoln thereafter %was our place
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


SIGNATURE, by BOB DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: What was that glinting
Subject(s): U.s. - History


SILENT MARCH, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


SIMON DE MONTFORT, by GEORGE ELLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In song my grief shall find relief
Alternate Author Name(s): Gander, Sir Gregory
Subject(s): History


SIMON DE MONTFORT, EARL OF LEICESTER, by JAMES LINCOLN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Born and bred in a castle of france
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


SIMULTANEITY, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am trying to explain when time lost
Last Line: Than when you started reading
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


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


SITTING BULL AT THE CIRCUS, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The treaty broken again, the lands lost
Subject(s): Native Americans - History; Sitting Bull (hunkpapa Sioux Chief)


SITTING BULL'S WILL VERSUS THE SIOUX TREATY .. & MONTY HALL, by A. K. REDWING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clarence short bull died
Last Line: And a vast army of granite-faced clowns
Subject(s): Native Americans - History; Sitting Bull (hunkpapa Sioux Chief)


SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY, by JACK LINDEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am walking as fast as I can
Last Line: And the whole seething world on the brink
Subject(s): U.s. - History; War


SKOAL! CHARLES LINDBERGH, SKOAL!, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Speak! Speak! Thou fearless boy ...'
Subject(s): Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1902-1974); U.s. - History


SLED BURIAL, DREAM CEREMONY, by JAMES DICKEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While the south rains, the north
Subject(s): American Civil War; Funerals; United States - History; Burials


SLED BURIAL, DREAM CEREMONY, by JAMES DICKEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While the south rains, the north
Last Line: On utter foreignness, before he fills and sails down
Subject(s): American Civil War; Funerals; U.s. - History


SLEEPIN' AT THE FOOT OF THE BED, by LUTHER PATRICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Did ye ever sleep at the foot o' the bed
Last Line: A-sleepin' at the foot o' the bed.
Subject(s): Beds; History; Historians


SLOW MOTION, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The flecks sink into the water
Last Line: Cannot know, and cannot keep
Subject(s): World History


SO FAR, SO GOOD, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm peering through my son's telescope
Last Line: Way out at the edge, so far, %so good
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


SO MUCH FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: May 23: new york city police broke up an
Last Line: & several were arrested
Subject(s): U.s. - History


SO OLD, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ice remembers what men forget
Last Line: He's not born yet.
Subject(s): God; History; Ice


SOBIESKI'S SHIELD, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blackberry, white
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


SOBIESKI'S SHIELD, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The blackberry, white
Last Line: And what they have about them dark to dark
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


SOCIAL SECURITY!, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: August 14: the great & great great social security act
Last Line: To register with the security & exchange commission
Subject(s): U.s. - History


SOJOURNERS; LT. MITCHELL, by DAVID MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Someone told me that mankind always moves
Last Line: His men were hungary too, quite a little
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History


SOLDIER IN THE RAIN, by JULIA L. KEYES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ah me! The rain has a sadder sound
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


SOLDIER'S AMEN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As a couple of good soldiers were walking one day
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


SOLDIERS, APPOMATTOX, by KEVIN MCFADDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They do a fine job at the court house, walking the line
Last Line: Permission to drum and dutifully die. Granted. Fall in
Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Military Service, Compulsory; Soldiers; U.s. - History


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


SOMETHING LIKE A SONNET FOR PHILLIS MIRACLE WHEATLEY, by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Girl from the realm of birds florid and fleet
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784); Black Heritage


SOMETHING LIKE A SONNET FOR PHILLIS MIRACLE WHEATLEY, by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Girl from the realm of birds florid and fleet
Last Line: Your early verse sweetens the fame of our race
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784)


SONG OF DEGREES, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is said adonai your hidden word
Last Line: To his blind faith
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


SONG FOR COLUMBUS DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I took my three little trusty boats
Last Line: The niña, and santa marie.
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; U.s. - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


SONG OF IRON, SELS., by KANE O'DONNEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: O'er flaming, roaring forges
Last Line: Hurrah! The brand of freedom, %the iron arm of god!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Industry; Singing And Singers; Slavery; U.s. - History


SONG OF OUR GLORIOUS SOUTHLAND, by MARY WARE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, sing of our glorious southland
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


SONG OF SLAVES, SELS., by KANE O'DONNEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hang thy sword upon the wall
Last Line: As cowards on their father's graves, %and slaves, slaves all
Subject(s): American Civil War; Slavery; U.s. - History


SONG OF THE EXILE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh! Here I am in the land of cotton
Last Line: Fight away, fight away, fight away for %dixie's land
Subject(s): American Civil War; Flags - United States; Independence; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States; U.s. - History


SONG OF THE POWERS, by DAVID MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mine, said the stone
Last Line: They all end alone %as you will, you will
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History


SONG OF THE TEXAS RANGERS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The morning star is paling
Subject(s): American Civil War; Texas Rangers; U.s. - History


SONG TO BEING INDEFATIGABLE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is a song to florence kelly
Last Line: & a member of the socialist party %florence kelly
Subject(s): U.s. - History


SONG TO FIDEL, by ERNESTO GUEVARA    Poem Source                    
First Line: You said the sun would rise
Last Line: Nothing more
Subject(s): Castro, Fidel (b. 1926); Communism; Cubism; Guerrillas; Latin America - History; Militarism


SONGS OF NEW SWEDEN: 4. THE LADY ARMAGOT, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In her garden, where the river / round the isle of tinicum
Last Line: Fold her closely to his breast!
Subject(s): Delaware; History; Historians


SONNET: 16. TO THE LORD GENERAL CROMWELL, MAY 1652, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cromwell, our chief of men, who through a cloud
Last Line: Of hireling wolves, whose gospel is their maw.
Variant Title(s): To The Lord General Cromwell;to Lord General Cromwell, May 1652, On Proposals
Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Great Britain - History; English History


SONNET: ELLIOTT IN FORT SUMTER, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And high amongst these chiefs of iron grain
Last Line: Confer an antique immortality!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; United States - History


SONNET: ON THE CHIVALRY OF THE PRESENT TIME, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! Foolish souls and false! Who loudly cried
Last Line: Who had not shunned earth's haughtiest chivalry.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chivalry; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Confederacy


SORREL, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Very common and widely distributed...It is called sorrow
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


SORREL, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Very common and widely distributed...It is called sorrow
Last Line: Salvation's troth-plight, plumed, of the elect
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


SOUTH SONG, by ROY ADDISON HELTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm for the south, - for the black-eyed south
Last Line: From beauty's warm lips on the bride-bed of june.
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Southern States; Black Heritage; South (u.s.)


SOUTHERN DEAD, by MORTON BRYAN WHARTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where are the men who at the call
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


SOUTHERN HOMES IN RUIN, by R. B. VANCE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Many a gray-haired sire has died
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


SOUTHERN REPUBLIC, by OLIVIA THOMAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the galaxy of nations
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History


SOUTHERN TENANT FARMERS UNION, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: An interracial protest group began among sharecroppers and
Last Line: To bring economic justice to rural production %- you can look up their history
Subject(s): U.s. - History


SOUVENIR OF FORT MIMMS, by CHARLES L. S. JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: O dim waned the moon, through the flitting clouds of night
Subject(s): U.s. - History


SPANISH CIVIL WAR BEGINS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: July 18: four right wing generals
Last Line: Which would allow the triumph of the fascist right
Subject(s): U.s. - History


SPANISH REPUBLIC, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: February 16: in new elections in spain
Last Line: A tale we'll limn-trace soon
Subject(s): U.s. - History


SPANISH RIGHT WING VOWS TO GET RID OF MARXISTS, MASONS, SEPARATISTS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: On november 19: the spanish confederation of autonomous right wing groups
Last Line: Roman polanski aug 18 %henryk gorecki dec 6
Subject(s): U.s. - History


SPARTACISTS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: That fall in germany
Last Line: Roll yet again o cap-eyes
Subject(s): U.s. - History


SPECIALIST FROM CHICAGO', by ANN RUSSELL DARR    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Breast? Suppose he had never been called? %who makes history?
Subject(s): History; Mothers; Physicians


SPIDER-CRAB, by DAVID GEORGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A spindly spider-crab with spokes for legs
Last Line: But empty now, where once a spider stood
Subject(s): History; Insects; Spiders; Stones


SPIRIT IN ARMS, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the just ire of england
Subject(s): U.s. - History


SPIRIT OF FREEDOM, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Author and god of freedom, thou dost plant
Last Line: And freedom, throttled, perish from the earth
Subject(s): Freedom; U.s. - History


SPIRIT WHOSE WORK IS DONE (WASHINGTON CITY, 1865), by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spirit whose work is done -- spirit of dreadful hours!
Last Line: Let them identify you to the future in these songs.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


SPOTLESS KING, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some lights there be within the heavenly spheres
Subject(s): History


SPRING [IN WAR-TIME], by HENRY TIMROD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring, with that nameless pathos in the air
Last Line: "behold me! I am may!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; Nature; South Carolina; Spring; United States - History


ST. ANDREW'S HEAD, by KEVIN PILKINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the tenth century a.D.
Last Line: His eyes closed to the world
Subject(s): History; Italy; Tourists; Travel


ST. AUGUSTINE, by MONTGOMERY M. FOLSOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: A city built upon the sands
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ST. CLAIR'S RETREAT, AND BURGOYNE'S DEFEAT, by WHEELER CASE    Poem Source                    
First Line: St. Clair is stationed in our nothern fort
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ST. DAVID'S HEAD, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Salt sprays deluge it, wild waves buffet it, hurricanes rave
Last Line: I hold the measure of you all.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; St. David's Head, Wales; English History


ST. VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: February 14: some thugs for mobster al capone
Last Line: & he was given 11 years in the slams %-syph killed him in '39
Subject(s): U.s. - History


STALIN CRACKS DOWN ON ART, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ghastly power-mad stalin
Last Line: And in the usa the first tv broadcasts
Subject(s): U.s. - History


STAMP-ACT CONGRESS, by GEORGE LANSING RAYMOND    Poem Source                    
First Line: The commons framed the stamp-act
Subject(s): U.s. - History


STAR-SPANGLED BANNER, PARAPHRASED, by CHARLES EDWARD BUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light
Subject(s): U.s. - History


STILL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And our points %sharpening good as anybody's
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Ethnic Groups - United States


STILL KNIT THE BONES, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: In catch-22, the hero turns a man over
Last Line: When a body falls into your hands?
Subject(s): World History


STOCK MARKET CRASHES, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: October 24-29: first there was black thursday october 24
Last Line: Circled the south pole for an hour %the first flight
Subject(s): U.s. - History


STONE QUARRY: LATE CAPITALISM COMES TO THE REMOTE WEST COAST OF, by LINDA MCCARRISTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From here the stones were drawn
Last Line: To take it and eat it %digesting even its name?
Subject(s): History; Ireland; Stones


STONEWALL JACKSON, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fashions and the forms of men decay
Last Line: To know the long fruition of the just!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); United States - History


STONEWALL JACKSON (ASCRIBED TO A VIRGINIAN), by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One man we claim of wrought renown
Last Line: "and he fell in the south's great war."
Subject(s): American Civil War; Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); U.s. - History


STONEWALL JACKSON'S WAY, by JOHN WILLIAMSON PALMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come, stack arms, men! Pile on the rails
Last Line: That gets in stonewall's way.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); Patriotism; United States - History


STONEWALL JACKSON; MORTALLY WOUNDED AT CHANCELLORSVILLE, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The man who fiercest charged in fight
Last Line: Because no wreath we owe.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); United States - History


STONEWALL'S REQUIEM, by M. DEEVES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The muffled drum is beating
Subject(s): American Civil War; Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); U.s. - History


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.)


STORMING OF HAVANA, by WALLACE RICE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a lovely summer day
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): U.s. - History


STORY OF BEHMUS' HEIGHTS, by E. W. B. CANNING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Please tell us,' said the boys who stood
Subject(s): U.s. - History


STRAFFORD; A TRAGEDY, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I say, if he be here
Last Line: Straf. O god, I shall die first -- I shall die first!
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Wentworth, Thomas. Earl Of Strafford; English History


STREETS OF BALTIMORE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "woman weak and woman mortal, through the spirit's open portal"
Last Line: "fled, and left my shattered dwelling to the dust of baltimore"
Subject(s): "baltimore, Maryland;history;poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849);" Historians


STRIKE WAVE O' '19, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wilson had promised %a new time of abundance for labor unions
Last Line: Which the gov't shortened by threatening to send in the us navy
Subject(s): U.s. - History


STRIPPER, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the stage, mirrored many times
Last Line: Matching the wine in my veins
Subject(s): Family Life; History; Popular Culture - United States; Striptease Dancers


STUART, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A cup of your potent 'mountain dew'
Last Line: "ay, you and I shall be there."
Subject(s): American Civil War; Stuart, James Ewell (jeb) (1833-1864); United States - History


STUKA, by WILLIAM KLOEFKORN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The word for the long long moment is stuka
Last Line: Of the black-pigmented tumor, mela- %noma
Subject(s): History; Mystery; Past


SUMMER OF 1883, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, they chose, all right
Last Line: She is holding the sun %in its vast pouch of space
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


SUMMER OF LOVE, by DAVID MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I went to sea in the summer of love
Last Line: And we would never lose
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History


SUMMER ON A, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: That summer I divided my time
Last Line: To the three guys from brooklyn vegetable store %on first avenue
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


SUMMER SOLSTICE FESTIVAL IN PARKERS PRAIRIE, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At midnight I send my complaints flying
Last Line: Even my hobble will count as dancing
Variant Title(s): Summer Solstice Festival In Parkers Prairie, 193
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


SUMTER, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So they will have it!
Last Line: On with the cannon!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; Patriotism; United States - History


SUMTER - A BALLAD OF 1861, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas on the twelfth of april
Last Line: "our soil's redeemed from hateful yoke, / we'll keep it pure or die"
Subject(s): "american Civil War;confederate States Of America;fort Sumter, South Carolina;u.s. - History;" Confederacy


SUMTER [APRIL 12, 1861], by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Came the morning of that day / when the god to whom we pray
Last Line: For the sin!
Variant Title(s): The Twelfth Of April
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; United States - History


SUNDAY AUGUST 25 THE FESTIVAL OF LIFE BEGINS & THE DEMOCRATIC, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'd found a safe place for the fugs to stay %during the blood
Last Line: In chicago were government spies
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


SUNSET AT TWIN LAKE, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The heron stalks
Subject(s): Family Life; History


SUNSET ON GIBRALTAR, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis sweet upon a summer eve to stand
Last Line: Far buena vista's lights allure my weary feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Gibraltar; Soldiers; Spain - History; War; Weariness; Fatigue


SURGE TO UNIONIZE THE AUTO INDUSTRY, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: After passage of the national industrial recovery act
Last Line: & the right wing, from nut to noir, %waxed bonk-bonk
Subject(s): U.s. - History


SURVIVAL, by CHERYL SAVAGEAU    Poem Source                    
First Line: On cape cod
Last Line: Holding the earth safe %through furious winds
Subject(s): Native Americans - History


SWEET, SWEET DARLING, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes still, I pine for the bad old days
Last Line: And feel %like skin and sorrow
Subject(s): World History


SYMBOL OF OUR COUNTRY, by MAUD MCKINSEY BUTLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cabin stands in clearing, unkempt, deserted
Last Line: Songs of the fearless.
Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life; Progress; United States - History


T. ROOSEVELT, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: For his part, the hamster man wanted martial law
Last Line: The british, at enormous death count, pushed forward 8 miles
Subject(s): U.s. - History


TARDY GEORGE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "what are you waiting for, george, I pray?"
Last Line: "but to drill and cypher, and hammer and forge - / what are you waiting for, tardy george?"
Subject(s): "american Civil War;mcclellan, George Brinton (1826-1885);u.s. - History;


TEARS OF WASHINGTON, by ERNEST L. VALENTINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: We lesser folk from a poorer plan
Subject(s): U.s. - History


TELLING WHAT HAPPENED, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The kwakiutl said one word
Last Line: Nearby in the night would know %it was safe to sleep now
Subject(s): History; Nature


TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When lenin returned in october
Last Line: Lenin formed a soviet of people's commissars %as new gov't
Subject(s): U.s. - History


THADDEUS KOSCIUSZKO, by ROBERT STEVENSON COFFIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hail, patriot, statesman, hero, sage
Subject(s): U.s. - History


THAT MAN AS A RATIONAL ANIMAL, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Abiding provenance I would have said
Last Line: Innocence of first inscription
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


THAT THE GREAT MOUNT DEFIANCE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): U.s. - History


THAT THING CALLED YIP-IN, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The yippies called for an early spring yip-in
Last Line: Action will never be a revolutionary.'
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


THE 'VARUNA', by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who has not heard of the dauntless varuna
Last Line: Oh! For the dead let us all kneel to pray!
Subject(s): American Civil War; New Orleans, Battle Of (1862); United States - History; Varuna (ship)


THE ADVANCE GUARD, by JOHN MILTON HAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dream of the northern poets
Last Line: And the battle of life be won.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


THE ALABAMA, by MAURICE BELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: She has gone to the bottom! The wrath of the tide
Last Line: And the brave ship that bore him to glory!
Subject(s): Alabama (ship); American Civil War; Sea Battles; United States - History; Naval Warfare


THE ANCIENT SACRIFICE, by MAHLON LEONARD FISHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ye dead and gone great armies of the world
Last Line: About the blood-stained shrine of bygone wars!
Subject(s): Death; History; Legacies; Military; Sacrifices; War; Dead, The; Historians


THE ANSWER OF BOSTON, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Boston! With all thy glory, thy history high with / praise
Last Line: Hath pictured the greater boston through the fearless, future years.
Subject(s): Boston Massacre; History; Historians


THE ARMIES OF THE WILDERNESS (1863-4), by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like snows the camps on southern hills
Last Line: Of the funeral light.
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864)


THE ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the arsenal. From floor to ceiling
Last Line: The holy melodies of love arise.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; Springfield, Massachusetts; United States - History


THE ARTILLERYMAN'S VISION, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long
Last Line: And bombs bursting in air, and at night the vari-color'd rockets.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; United States - History; Drills & Minor Tactics


THE ATTACK, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In hampton roads, the airs of march were bland
Last Line: She sank, thank god! Unsoiled by foot of traitor!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cumberland (ship); Hampton Roads, Virginia; Morris, George Upham; Sea Battles; U.s. - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship)


THE AUTHOR'S EPITAPH, MADE BY HIMSELF, by WALTER RALEIGH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation             Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Even such is time, that takes in trust
Last Line: My god shall raise me up, I trust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter
Variant Title(s): Verses Found In His Bible .. At Westminster;the Conclusion;lines Written The Night Before His Execution;to-day A Man, To-morrow None;last Line;his Epitaph;lines Found In His Bible In The Gate-house;even Such Is Time;verses Made The Night Before His Beheading;verses Made The Night Before He Died;lines Said To Have Been Written On The Eve Of His Execution;epitaph;verses Written In His Bible
Subject(s): Ambition; Death; Easter; Faith; Great Britain - History; Heaven; Holidays; New Year; Religion; Time; Transience; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Belief; Creed; English History; Paradise; Theology; Impermanence


THE AXIS, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear on the radio that anastasio somoza
Last Line: And the others appear infinite.
Subject(s): History; Knowledge; Historians


THE BADLANDS, by ELMA SCHEEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The badlands are priceless canvasses
Last Line: Of yesterday.
Subject(s): History; Past; Historians


THE BALLAD OF CHICKAMAUGA [SEPTEMBER 19-20, 1863], by JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By chickamauga's crooked stream the martial trumpets blew
Last Line: As one old soldier's ballad borne on breath of battle-song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, Maurice
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chickamauga, Battle Of (1863); Thomas, George Henry (1816-1870); United States - History


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 BALLAD OF NEW ORLEANS, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just as the hour was darkest
Last Line: Were resting the will and the power.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Farragut, David Glascow (1801-1870); New Orleans, Battle Of (1862); United States - History


THE BARONS BOLD, by WILLIAM JOHNSON FOX    Poem Text                    
First Line: The barons bold on runnymede
Last Line: Our wrongs shall all be righted.
Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - History; Magna Carta; Liberty; English History


THE BATTLE AUTUMN OF 1862, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The flags of war like storm-birds fly
Last Line: Ring peace and freedom in.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Autumn; Seasons; United States - History; Fall


THE BATTLE FOR THE BAY (AUGUST, 1864), by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O mystery of noble hearts
Last Line: Because of the tecumseh's glorious deed.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Farragut, David Glascow (1801-1870); Mobile Bay, Battle Of (1864); U.s. - History


THE BATTLE FOR THE MISSISSIPPI (APRIL, 1862), by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When israel camped by migdol hoar,
Last Line: Who nobly yield their lives in this.
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


THE BATTLE IN THE CLOUDS, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the dews and the rains of heaven have their
Last Line: Chanting solemn music for the souls that passed below.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Lookout Mountain, Battle Of (1863); United States - History


THE BATTLE OF ATBARA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye sons of great britain, pray list to me
Last Line: And to annihilate barbarity, and to establish what is right.
Subject(s): Death; Great Britain - History; Rifles; War; Dead, The; English History


THE BATTLE OF CHARLESTON HARBOR, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two hours, or more, beyond the prime of a blithe april day
Last Line: And thou in clear-eyed faith hast seen god's angels near the guns!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day


THE BATTLE OF CULLODEN: A HISTORICAL POEM, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year of 1746, and in april the 14th day
Last Line: Looking to the trials and struggles you passed through.
Subject(s): Culloden, Battle Of (1746); History; Historians


THE BATTLE OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN [NOVEMBER 24, 1863], by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me but two brigades,' said hooker, frowning at fortified lookout
Last Line: Standing, like demigods, in light and triumph upon their own lookout!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Hooker, Joseph (1814-1879); Lookout Mountain, Battle Of (1863); United States - History


THE BATTLE OF MORRIS' ISLAND; A CHEERFUL TRAGEDY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The morn was cloudy and dark and gray
Last Line: Look our for the battle that's yet to come / down there on morris' island
Subject(s): "american Civil War;anderson, Robert (1805-1871);fort Sumter, South Carolina;soldiers;u.s. - History;


THE BATTLE OF MURFREESBORO, by KINAHAN CORNWALLIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ere murfreesboro's thunders rent the air
Last Line: Who fought so grandly, to their country true.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Murfreesboro, Battle Of (1862); United States - History


THE BATTLE OF OMDURMAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye sons of great britain! Come join with me
Last Line: And to establish what's right wherever they go.
Subject(s): Death; Fights; Great Britain - History; Military; Victory; War; Dead, The; English History


THE BATTLE OF SHERIFFMUIR: A HISTORICAL POEM, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year 1715, and on the 10th of november
Last Line: And to allay all doubts about which party won, we must feel content.
Subject(s): Death; History; Sheriffmuir, Battle Of (1715); Victory; War; Dead, The; Historians


THE BATTLE-CRY OF FREEDOM, by GEORGE FREDERICK ROOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys, we'll rally once again
Last Line: Shouting the battle-cry of freedom.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Patriotism; Soldiers; United States - History; Vicksburg Campaign (1862-63); Liberty


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 BAY FIGHT, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three days through sapphire seas we sailed
Last Line: The green were one wide grave.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Mobile Bay, Battle Of (1864); Patriotism; Tennessee (ship); United States - History


THE BELLS OF ATLANTA (AN INCIDENT OF THE CIVIL WAR), by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Autumn sunset on atlanta painting banners / red of mars
Last Line: And the notes of drums are drownèd in thy melodies of peace.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Atlanta Campaign (1864); Soldiers; U.s. - History


THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SERIES: 2. JONATHAN TO JOHN, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It don't seem hardly right, john
Last Line: "may larn, like you an' me!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; Mason, James Murry (1798-1871); Patriotism; Slidell, John (1793-1871); United States - History; War


THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SERIES: 4. A MESSAGE OF JEFF DAVIS ..., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sent you a messige, my friens, t' other day
Last Line: Consists in triumphantly gittin' away.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); United States - History; Confederacy


THE BLACK REGIMENT, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Dark as the clouds of even
Last Line: Scorn the black regiment!
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Patriotism; United States - History; War


THE BLUE AND THE GRAY, by FRANCIS MILES FINCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By the flow of the inland river
Last Line: Tears and love for the gray.
Variant Title(s): Decoration Day;memorial Day
Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Peace; Soldiers; United States - History; Tombs; Tombstones; Declaration Day


THE BLUE AND THE GRAY (2), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Each thin hand resting on a grave
Last Line: Why harry wore the gray
Subject(s): American Civil War;holidays;memorial Day;u.s. - History; Declaration Day


THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG, by ANNIE CHAMBERS KETCHUM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come, brothers! Rally for the right!
Last Line: That bears the cross and star!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Flags - United States; Patriotism; United States - History; Confederacy; American Flag


THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG, by HARRY MACARTHY    Poem Text                    
First Line: We are a band of brothers
Last Line: Hurrah! For the bonnie blue flag has gain'd th' eleventh star!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History; Confederacy


THE BRITISH COUNTRYSIDE IN PICTURES, by JAMES MCMICHAEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The frontispiece fixes as / british
Subject(s): Great Britain; History; Landscape; World War Ii; Historians; Second World War


THE BUFFALO COAT, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see him moving, in his legendary fleece
Last Line: Is old and cold in a world his death began
Subject(s): Buffaloes; History; Native Americans; Historians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE BURIAL OF LATANE, by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The combat raged not long; but ours the day
Last Line: Change cannot harm him now, nor fortune touch him more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, John Randolph
Variant Title(s): Captain Latane
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE AT [OR AFTER] CORUNNA, by CHARLES WOLFE    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note
Last Line: But we left him alone with his glory.
Variant Title(s): After Corunna;the Burial Of Sir John Moore
Subject(s): Corunna, Spain; Courage; Death; Funerals; Great Britain - History; Moore, Sir John (1761-1809); Napoleonic Wars; Pennisular War (1808-1814); Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Burials; English History


THE C. S. ARMY'S COMMISSARY, by EDWARD PORTER THOMPSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Well, this is bad!' we sighing said
Last Line: "but still press on, to do or die!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; Southern States; U.s. - History; War; South (u.s.)


THE CALL TO FREEMAN, by MOSES OWEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: But for three hundred thousand of freeman true and brave
Last Line: That freedom's fires shall brighter glow -- that men can yet be free.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Slavery; U.s. - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Serfs


THE CENTENARIAN'S STORY, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me your hand, old revolutionary
Last Line: Stands forever the camp of that dead brigade.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Brooklyn, New York; Old Age; United States - History; Veterans


THE CHARGE BY THE FORD, by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eighty and nine with their captain
Last Line: Give them the roll of the drum!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Calvary; United States - History


THE CHILDREN OF THE PALE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "whence comes this motley, dark-eyed, swarthy / crowd"
Last Line: Recalling ancient stories proudly told / of israel's line
Subject(s): Children;history;israel;jews; Childhood;historians;judaism


THE CHOSEN, by ELIZABETH MCMURTRIE DINWIDDIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Chosen of old, the guardians of the law
Last Line: The freedom of the strong.
Subject(s): Clergy; History; Jews; Prophecy & Prophets; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Historians; Judaism


THE CLOCK IN THE TOWER OF THE CHURCH, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How patient man is in his time
Subject(s): Middle Ages; Millenium; Second Advent; Medieval History; Medieval Civilization; Medieval Literature; Second Coming Of Christ


THE COAT OF FADED GRAY, by GEORGE WASHINGTON HARRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A low hut rests in lookout's shade
Last Line: Her soldier's coat of faded gray.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harris, G. W.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


THE COLLEGE COLONEL, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He rides at their head
Last Line: Ah heaven! -- what truth to him!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Labor & Laborers; United States - History; War; Work; Workers


THE COLORED SOLDIERS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: If the muse were mine to tempt it
Last Line: Who fought for uncle sam!
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; United States - History


THE CONFLICT OF CONVICTIONS, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On starry heights / a bugle wails the long recall
Last Line: Wisdom is vain, and prophesy.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Dreams; Hope; Past; United States - History; Wisdom; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism


THE CONQUERED BANNER, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Furl that banner, for 'tis weary
Last Line: For its people's hoped are fled!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Flags - United States; Patriotism; Peace; United States - History; Confederacy; American Flag


THE CONQUERORS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the conquerors riding by
Last Line: Came christ, the swordless, on an ass!
Subject(s): Conquistadors; History; War; Historians


THE CORNISH COAST, by JOHN NICHOL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: Far in the west a windy music rings
Last Line: The beacons of a nobler earth to be.
Subject(s): History; Historians


THE CRIME OF THE AGES; 1861, by AUGUSTA COOPER BRISTOL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Poet, write! / not of a purpose dark and dire
Last Line: New life, new birth, or a nation's tomb?
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


THE CRISIS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spirit of russia, now has come
Last Line: Say to thy land, let there be light.
Subject(s): History; Nations; Russian Revolution; Historians


THE CROSSING AT FREDERICKSBURG, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I lay in my tent at mid-day
Last Line: "and one more for michigan!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); United States - History


THE CRUISE OF THE MONITOR [MARCH 9, 1862], by GEORGE M. BAKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out of a northern city's bay
Last Line: Hurrah for the monitor's famous cruise!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Hampton Roads, Virginia; Monitor (ship); Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship)


THE CUMBERLAND, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some names there are of telling sound
Last Line: Cumberland! Cumberland!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cumberland (ship); Hampton Roads, Virginia; Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship)


THE CUMBERLAND [MARCH 8, 1862], by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At anchor in hampton roads we lay
Last Line: And without a seam!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cumberland (ship); Hampton Roads, Virginia; Patriotism; Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship)


THE CURATOR EXPLAINS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is my kingdom, this my small domain
Last Line: That leave my heart aglow with joy and praise
Subject(s): Books; History; Museums; Reading; Historians; Art Gallerys


THE CURSE OF THE CHARTER-BREAKERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In westminster's royal halls
Last Line: Rests the city of our god!
Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain; Great Britain - History; Magna Carta; Westminster Abbey; Liberty; English History


THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who with the soldiers was stanch danger-sharer
Last Line: Just one more cheer for her, kady brownell!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Brownell, Kady; U.s. - History


THE DAY IS COMING, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come hither lads and hearken
Last Line: And forth the banners go.
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Great Britain - History; Peace; English History


THE DAY OF THE DEAD SOLDIERS; MARY 30, 1869, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome, thou gray and fragrant sabbath-day
Last Line: So rich a page of thrilling histories.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day


THE DEATH OF GRANT, by AMBROSE BIERCE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Father! Whose hard and cruel law / is part of thy compassion's plan
Last Line: Thy servant's soul in paradise.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day


THE DEATH OF LYON, by HENRY PETERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sing, bird, on green missouri's plain
Last Line: And grave thy name immortal.
Variant Title(s): Lyon
Subject(s): American Civil War; Lyon, Nathaniel (1818-1861); United States - History; Wilson's Creek, Missouri, Battle Of


THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN, by NEAL" "NEFF [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: Of him who stood foremost in this mighty age
Last Line: "that the soil be not curs'd by the blood of the slave, / now the land of the free and the home of t
Alternate Author Name(s): "neff, Neal;
Subject(s): "american Civil War;assassination;lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865);nations;presidents, United States;u.s. - History;


THE DEATH OF SLAVERY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou great wrong, that, through the slow-paced years
Last Line: Dwell thou, a warning to the coming times.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Declaration Day


THE DEATH OF WALLACE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Joy, joy in london now!
Last Line: Go, edward, to thy god!
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Happiness; London; Scotland - Relations With England; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); English History; Joy; Delight


THE DECISION (APRIL 14, 1861), by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So there are five?
Last Line: Call the troops!
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


THE DIAMOND JUBILEE; AN ODE. JUNE 20, 1897, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rejoice, give thanks for all the centuries
Last Line: And bless with heart and voice this fair auspicious day.
Subject(s): Anniversaries; Great Britain - History; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); English History


THE DIRGE OF THE FOUR CITIES, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Finias and falias, / where are they gone?
Last Line: The city of murias.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Cities; History; Lament; Nostalgia; Time; Urban Life; Historians


THE DRAFT RIOT, by CHARLES DE KAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is it the wind, the many-tongued, the weird
Last Line: And burns the town.
Subject(s): American Civil War; New York Draft Riots (1863); United States - History


THE DREAM SONGS: 290, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why is ireland the wettest place on earth
Last Line: Fate across all them rolls
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): History; Iowa; Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Historians; Irish


THE DYING WORDS OF STONEWALL JACKSON, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars of night contain the glittering day
Last Line: Solace hast thou for pain!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); United States - History


THE EAGLE AND THE VULTURE, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In cherbourg roads the pirate lay
Last Line: "and for heroes like winslow is shouting, ""thank god!"
Subject(s): Alabama (ship); American Civil War; Cherbourg, France; Kearsarge (ship); Sea Battles; U.s. - History; Winslow, John Ancrum (1811-1873); Naval Warfare


THE EAGLE OF CORINTH, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Did you hear of the fight at corinth
Last Line: On the nation's loftiest dome.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Birds; Corinth, Mississippi, Battle Of (1862); Courage; Eagles; United States - History; Valor; Bravery


THE EAGLE OF THE BLUE, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Aloft he guards the starry folds
Last Line: The eagle of the blue.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Birds; Eagles; United States - History


THE EAGLE'S SONG, by RICHARD MANSFIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The lioness whelped, and the sturdy cub
Last Line: Now that the two are one again!
Subject(s): Patriotism; Peace; United States - History


THE END OF THE LINE, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The iron horse is rusting
Last Line: Baby, I tell you, the big train don't go there no more
Subject(s): Change; History; Railroads; Historians; Railways; Trains


THE EROTICS OF HISTORY, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sex and history. And skin and bone
Last Line: Could hear it but him: make me a heroine
Variant Title(s): Heroic
Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Heroism; History; Heroes; Heroines; Historians


THE FALL OF RICHMOND [APRIL, 1865], by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What mean these peals from every tower
Last Line: God's way adore.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Richmond Campaign (1864); United States - History


THE FATHER OF THE FOREST, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old emperor yew, fantastic sire
Last Line: "toils the indomitable world."
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): History; Historians


THE FEDERAL CONVENTION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Concentred here th' united wisdom shines
Last Line: "yeomen and tradesmen, pillars of the state; / on whose decision hangs columbia's fate"
Subject(s): Federal Constitutional Convention;u.s. - History


THE FIGHT AT SUMTER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas a wonderful brave fight!
Last Line: And a stern retribution / to the south
Subject(s): "american Civil War;fort Sumter, South Carolina;u.s. - History;


THE FINE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN, by CHARLES DICKENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll sing you a new ballad, and I'll warrant it first-rate
Last Line: Hail to the coming time!
Subject(s): England; Great Britain - History; Wealth; English; English History; Riches; Fortunes


THE FLAG OF GREEN'S BRIGADE, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O when I stood before the tatter'd flag of / green's brigade
Last Line: To fight their country's battles 'round the flag of green's brigade.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Flags; Patriotism; Soldiers; U.s. - History


THE FLIGHT, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O wild heart, track the land's perfume
Last Line: "one with the wild heart yearning."
Subject(s): History; Mankind; Religion; Historians; Human Race; Theology


THE FOE AT THE GATES, by JOHN DICKSON BRUNS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ring round her! Children of her glorious skies
Last Line: The last grand holocaust of liberty.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; United States - History


THE FORESTERS: NATIONAL SONG, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no land like england
Last Line: Cho. -- for the french, etc.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; National Song - England; English History; English National Anthem


THE FRENZY IN THE WAKE; SHERMAN'S ADVANCE ... CAROLINAS, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So strong to suffer, shall we be
Last Line: Shall never our hate rescind.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); U.s. - History


THE GALLANT FIGHTING 'JOE', by JAMES STEVENSON (19TH CENTURY)    Poem Text                    
First Line: From yorktown on the fourth of may
Last Line: Wherever he does go.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Hooker, Joseph (1814-1879); U.s. - History; Williamsburg, Virginia, Battle Of (1862)


THE GATHERING OF THE GRAND ARMY, by CHARLOTTE L. FORTEN GRIMKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through all the city's streets there poured a flood
Last Line: And love and peace prevail from shore to shore.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Army - United States; United States - History


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 GHETTO-JEW, by ISRAEL GOLDBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: I marked in the midst of the glittering throng
Last Line: A jeer be the last of its pages?
Alternate Author Name(s): Learsi, Rufus
Subject(s): History; Jews; Jews - Persecution; Memory; Old Age; Historians; Judaism


THE GIANTS OF HISTORY, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The little people behind the scenes are getting ugly
Last Line: No good to them now, in their hour of need
Subject(s): Friendship; Giants; History; Historians


THE GRAVE OF LAWRENCE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Morn and noon of day and even, human ebb and flow
Last Line: As a burning inspiration both on land and sea.
Subject(s): Lawrence, James (1781-1813); Trinity Churchyard (new York); U.s. - History


THE GRAVE OF LINCOLN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now must the storied potomac
Last Line: Freedom's jerusalem thou!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Variant Title(s): Lincoln
Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History; Tombs; Tombstones


THE GREETING, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: They have waited, waited yonder
Last Line: In the camp on the other side!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; U.s. - History; Dead, The


THE HARP, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This harp was all my father gave
Last Line: "their strength could not restore."
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Heroism; Ireland - History; Heroes; Heroines


THE HERETIC IN THE TEMPLE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Lone did I go within the ancient place
Last Line: Across the world, in its death-seeking quest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; History; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt; Temples; Historians; Mosques


THE HERO OF FORT WAGNER, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fort wagner! That is a place for us
Last Line: "and you can scale the wall!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


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 HISTORY OF AMERICA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A linear projection: a route. It crosses
Last Line: Wonder you fear this bleeding pulse, no wonder
Subject(s): History; United States; Historians; America


THE HISTORY OF BRITAIN: BRUTUS' PRAYER TO DIANA, by GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Goddess of shades, and huntress, who at will
Last Line: Shall awe the world, and conquer nations bold.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Mythology - Classical; English History


THE HISTORY OF INSPIDS; A LAMPOON, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chast, pious, prudent, charles the second
Last Line: Prove wretched, king'd by storks and loggs.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Great Britain - History; English History


THE HISTORY OF MY LIFE, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once upon a time there were two brothers
Last Line: It up for what seemed like months or years
Subject(s): History; Life; Historians


THE HISTORY OF THE U.S, by WINIFRED SACKVILLE STONER    Poem Text                    
First Line: In fourteen hundred ninety-two, columbus sailed the ocean
Last Line: And we are praying that she'll stay forever in our u. S. A.
Subject(s): U.s. - History


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 HOTEL NORMANDIE POOL, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Around the cold pool in the metal light
Subject(s): Blacks - History; Holidays; Middle Age; New Year


THE HOUR, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is the hour all history shall claim
Last Line: And stand, and strike, and you must overcome.
Subject(s): History; Oppression; War; Historians


THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE, by AUGUSTINE JOSEPH HICKEY DUGANNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: From mossy woods and cypress bolls
Last Line: O god! Break not mine oath for me!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; United States - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty


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 HURON'S ADDRESS TO THE DEAD, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brother, thou wert strong in youth
Last Line: Rest in the bower of delight!
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Funerals; Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; U.s. - History; War; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Burials; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE INDIAN DEATH WAIL, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: All the village of rikawrus
Last Line: Beats the aching heart of man.
Subject(s): Cheyene Indians - Wars; Native Americans - History; West (u.s.) - Exploration


THE IRON AGE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: How came this pigmy rabble spun
Last Line: The iron age's avatar.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): History; Historians


THE JACKET OF GREY, by CAROLINE AUGUSTA BALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fold it up carefully, lay it aside
Last Line: The jacket of grey our loved soldier boy wore!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Confederacy


THE JACOBITE ON TOWER HILL, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He tripped up the steps with a bow and a smile
Last Line: With the life of the bravest of any that bled.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Jacobites; Patriotism; English History


THE JEWS OF ENGLAND (1200-1902), by ISRAEL ZANGWILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An edward's england spat us out-a band
Last Line: Her triumph o'er her own intolerance.
Subject(s): Battleships; History; Jews; Right To Asylum; War; Historians; Judaism


THE LAST CHARGE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, men of the north! Will you join in the strife
Last Line: His sceptre once broken, the world is our own!
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


THE LAST REVIEW, by EMILY J. BUGBEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twenty-one miles of boys in blue
Last Line: His spirit would thrill at a scene like this.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Religion; United States - History; Theology


THE LINCOLN HOME, by ZELLA ACKERMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: One sunday, on july the twelfth
Last Line: We know his creed lives -- others can, who will.
Subject(s): Heroism; History; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Parks; Presidents, United States; Heroes; Heroines; Historians


THE LITTLE DRUMMER, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis of a little drummer
Last Line: With his rat-tat-too.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Missouri; U.s. - History; Valor; Bravery


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 LITTLE WHITE GLOVE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The early springtime faintly flushed the earth
Last Line: "but, god of heaven! I dreamed that stain was blood!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


THE LIVING, by KEVIN YOUNG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After independence day / all our toys began to tear
Subject(s): Cotton; Farm Life; African Americans - History; Agriculture; Farmers; Black Heritage


THE LONE SENTRY, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas at the dying of the day
Last Line: Who watched the camp that night.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); U.s. - History


THE LOST HERITAGE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Beauty gone, and beauty gone
Last Line: And loveliness its toy.
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Beauty; History; Knowledge; Love; Time; Historians


THE LOST REGIMENT, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dying land cried; they heard her death call
Last Line: Who silently died in the swamp that day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


THE MAIL HAS COME, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the bitter pangs of hope deferred
Last Line: Each kind letter thence is thrice welcome to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): American Civil War; Postal Service; United States - History; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen


THE MAN WHO DOES THE CHEERING, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: This war with spain reminds me o' the spring o' '61
Last Line: Come / back
Subject(s): American Civil War;history;homecoming;u.s. - History; Historians


THE MARCH INTO VIRGINIA, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Did all the lets and bars appear
Last Line: Thy after shock, manassas, share.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; United States - History; Manassas, Batlle Of


THE MARCH TO THE SEA (DECEMBER, 1864), by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not kenesaw high-arching
Last Line: Marching to the sea.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); U.s. - History


THE MASSY WAYS, CARRIED ACROSS THESE HEIGHTS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of those pure minds that reverence the muse
Subject(s): Ruins; Time; Roads; History & Historians


THE MESSAGE OF VICTORY, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: News to the king, good news for all!'
Last Line: And the dying lie with the dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Variant Title(s): Song (4)
Subject(s): History; Victory; War; Historians


THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, by LLOYD MIFFLIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Immurmurous hall, with aisles of grateful shade
Last Line: The flower of man's creative, god-like mind!
Subject(s): Exhibitions; History; Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York; World's Fairs; Expositions; Historians


THE MINISTRY OF NATURE; OR, THE TEMPLE SERVICE OF THE SEASONS, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ordained of god to preach the truth to men
Last Line: Thus nature worships god the whole year through.
Subject(s): Indian Summer; Native Americans - History; Nature; Preaching & Preachers; Seasons


THE MISSISSIPPI; JULY, 1863, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down the silent mississippi, with his saintly soul aflame
Last Line: Far to eastward, far to westward, touch the shining ocean sands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): American Civil War; Mississippi; Mississippi River; Rivers; Sailing & Sailors; U.s. - History


THE MOUND BY THE LAKE, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The grass shall never forget this grave
Last Line: Who like a mother comforted.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; Mothers; U.s. - History; Tombs; Tombstones


THE MUSTER; SUGGESTED BY TWO DAYS' REVIEW AT WASHINGTON, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The abrahamic river - / patriarch of floods
Last Line: By rills from kansas lone.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Army - United States; U.s. - History


THE NATION'S PRAYER, by CRAMMOND KENNEDY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Before thy throne we bow
Last Line: The jubilee!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; United States - History


THE NEGRO BOATMAN'S SONG, by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: "oh, praise and tanks! De lord he come"
Last Line: Or death-rune of our doom!
Subject(s): African Americans;american Civil War;freedom;slavery;u.s. - History; Negroes;american Blacks;liberty;serfs


THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've known rivers
Last Line: My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Holidays; New Year; Racism; Rivers; Time; Black Heritage; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE NETWORK, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In 1861, george hew sailed in a rowboat
Last Line: The sound barrier and shatters glass.
Subject(s): History; Historians


THE NEW MEMORIAL DAY, by ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the roses we plucked for the blue
Last Line: Slumber our heroes to-day.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History; Declaration Day


THE NINETEENTH OF APRIL, 1861, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This year, till late in april, the snow fell thick and light
Last Line: Our blood may seal the victory, but god will shield the right!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day


THE NORMAN BARON, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In his chamber, weak and dying
Last Line: Unconsumed by moth or rust
Subject(s): History; Historians


THE OLD ASTRONOMER TO HIS PUPIL, by SARAH (SADIE) WILLIAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Reach me down my tycho brahe, I would know him when we meet
Last Line: I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
Subject(s): History; Historians


THE OLD CAVALIER, by FRANCIS HASTINGS CHARLES DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For our martyr'd charles I pawn'd my plate
Last Line: "with my son on worcester plain."
Subject(s): Cavaliers; Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Great Britain - History; English History


THE OLD COVE, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As vonce I valked by a dismal swamp
Last Line: "all that I axed vos, let me alone."
Variant Title(s): Let Us Alone;all We Ask Is To Be Let Alone
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); State Rights; United States - History; Confederacy; Secession


THE PACIFIC RAILWAY, by C. R. BALLARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis done - the wondrous thorough-fare
Last Line: And nations shall learn war no more.
Subject(s): Railroads; United States - History; Railways; Trains


THE PATRIOT MOTHER, by JOHN SAVAGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When o'er the land the battle brand
Last Line: "but never come a coward."
Subject(s): American Civil War; Mothers; Patriotism; U.s. - History


THE PENNACESSE LEPER COLONY FOR WOMEN, CAPE COD: 1922, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The island, you mustn't say, had only rocks and scrub pine
Last Line: Most everything for you. And I'll be gone.
Subject(s): Absence; Cape Cod; Fathers & Daughters; History; Leprosy; Separation; Isolation; Historians; Lepers


THE PEOPLE'S PETITION, by WATHEN MARK WILKS CALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O lords! O rulers of the nation!
Last Line: Give us our daily bread!
Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - History; Liberty; English History


THE PETTY BOURGEOISIE, by ROQUE DALTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those who / in most cases
Last Line: Nature / and future
Subject(s): History; Humanitarianism; Revolutions; Historians


THE PICKET-GUARD [NOVEMBER, 1861], by ETHEL LYNN BEERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All quiet along the potomac,' they say
Last Line: The picket's off duty forever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, Ethelinda; Lynn, Ethel
Variant Title(s): All Quiet Along The Potomac
Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; Potomac River; Rivers; United States - History


THE PORTENT, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hanging from the beam
Last Line: The meteor of the war.
Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; Social Protest; United States - History; Anti-slavery; Serfs


THE PRE-ADAMITE WORLD, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who shall declare the glory of the world
Last Line: Whose last pang was the first each creature knew?
Subject(s): Nature; Pre-human History


THE PRESS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A worthy parson, once upon a time
Last Line: On freedom's shores a weak and venal press.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Freedom; History; Libraries & Librarians; Literature; Newspapers; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Liberty; Historians; Journalism; Journalists


THE PRINCE AND THE CZAR, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The prince and the czar ride into the streets
Last Line: Let the wild wars cease and the nations rest!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Alexander Ii, Czar Of Russia (1818-1881); Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Freedom; History; Leadership; London; Liberty; Historians


THE REBEL, by INNES RANDOLPH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, I'm a good old rebel, that's what I am
Last Line: I won't be reconstructed and I don't give a damn.
Variant Title(s): Unreconstructed
Subject(s): American Civil War; Hate; United States - History


THE REBEL SOLDIER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "one morning, one morning, one morning in may"
Last Line: I am a rebel soldier and far from my home
Subject(s): American Civil War;u.s. - History


THE RED CROSS OF ENGLAND: ENTRY OF THE MARINES, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old england! Thy name shall yet warrant thy fame
Last Line: Neath the red cross of england—the flag of the brave.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Marines - Great Britain; Sailing & Sailors; War; Waterloo; English History; Seamen; Sails; Battle Of Waterloo


THE RED KING, by CHARLES KINGSLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The king was drinking in malwood hall
Last Line: Shall england never bide again.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; New Forest, England; Tirel, Sir Walter; William Ii, King Of England (1056-1100); English History; Tyrell, Sir Walter


THE RELEASED REBEL PRISONER (JUNE, 1865), by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Armies he's seen - the herds of war
Last Line: Who see him listless go.
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


THE RETURN OF THE BIRDS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear, from many a little throat
Last Line: "and freedom to the slave!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; Birds; Holidays; Trees; United States - History


THE RETURNED VOLUNTEER TO HIS RIFLE, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over this hearth - my father's seat
Last Line: Long rest! With belt, and bayonet, and canteen.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Consolation; U.s. - History; Veterans


THE REVEILLE, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands
Last Line: "lord, we come!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Variant Title(s): What The Drums Say
Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; United States - History


THE RIVER FIGHT; APRIL 18, 1862, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you know of the dreary land
Last Line: And the traitor flags come down.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Farragut, David Glascow (1801-1870); Navy - United States; New Orleans, Battle Of (1862); Patriotism; Slavery; United States - History; American Navy; Serfs


THE RUN FROM MANASSAS JUNCTION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yankee doodle went to war
Last Line: "moreover, when you've turned your tail / won't hesitate to follow"
Subject(s): "american Civil War;bull Run, Battles Of;u.s. - History;" "manassas, Batlle Of;


THE SCOUT TOWARD ALDIE, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cavalry-camp lies on the slope
Last Line: To mosby-land the dirges cling.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Mosby, John Singleton (1833-1916); U.s. - History


THE SECOND COMING, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Turning and turning in the widening gyre
Last Line: Slouches towards bethlehem to be born?
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Chaos; Easter; History; Holidays; Imagination; Judgment Day; Men; Millenium; Religion; Vision; War; The Resurrection; Historians; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology


THE SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK, by JAMES W. BLAKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down in front of casey's old brown wooden stoop
Last Line: On the sidewalks of new york.
Subject(s): History; New York City; Historians; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE SINKING OF THE MERRIMAC [MAY 10, 1862], by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Gone down in the flood, and gone out in the flame!
Last Line: Then sink them together, -- the ship and the name!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship)


THE SLAVE-MONGERS' CONVENTION: CANTO 2, SELECTION, by J. P. RANDOLPH    Poem Text                    
First Line: My brethren, most beloved and dear
Last Line: Your whips --
Subject(s): American Civil War; Bible; Clergy; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; U.s. - History; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs


THE SOLDIER BOY'S DREAM, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A soldier boy lay dreaming
Last Line: Of liberty, new found.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): American Civil War; Dreams; Freedom; Soldiers; United States - History; Nightmares; Liberty


THE SOLDIER'S FIRESIDE, AFTER A BATTLE, by M. T. C.    Poem Text                    
First Line: They sat by the dying embers
Last Line: And hope for their country too.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Anxiety; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); United States - History


THE SONG OF SHERMAN'S ARMY, by CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A pillar of fire by night
Last Line: For sherman and grant, hurrah!
Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Miles
Subject(s): American Civil War; Georgia (state); Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History


THE SOUTH CAROLINA HYMN OF INDEPENDENCE, by CLAUDIAN BIRD NORTHROP    Poem Text                    
First Line: South carolinians! Proudly see
Last Line: The drum has beat th' alarm.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; South Carolina; U.s. - History; Confederacy


THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 1, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis the warm south, where europe spreads her lands
Last Line: (exeunt.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Christianity; Gypsies; Jews; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Plays & Playwrights ; Spain - History; Travel; War; Gipsies; Judaism; Male-female Relations; Dramatists; Journeys; Trips


THE SPANISH GYPSY: BOOK 2, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Silva was marching homeward while the moon
Last Line: "maketh himself as allah true to friends."
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Inquisition; Letters; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Moors (people); Spain - History; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Male-female Relations


THE SPARROW HARK IN THE RAIN (ALEXANDER STEPHENS HEARS NEWS), by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That's done! And well, I'd rather not have gone
Last Line: And I arose and left.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Stephens, Alexander Hamilton (1812-1883); United States - History


THE SPHINX, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Couchant upon the illimitable sand
Last Line: Inscrutable as is the face of death!
Subject(s): Egypt; History; Monuments; Sphinx; Historians


THE STATE OF WYOMING, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Perhaps a childhood magic-writing tablet
Last Line: To the shadow of an antelope stare.
Subject(s): History; Imagination; Wyoming; Historians; Fancy


THE STONE AGE; A FANCY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun is sultry o;er the marble lands
Last Line: Looks with an innocent and curious glance.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): History; Nature; Historians


THE STONE FLEET; AN OLD SAILOR'S LAMENT (DECEMBER, 1861), by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a feeling for those ships
Last Line: Was your old stone fleet.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Ships & Shipping; U.s. - History


THE STREETS OF TIME, by CHARLES A. TUPPER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wandered down the streets of time
Last Line: Shone clear and still, glowed warm and still!
Subject(s): History; Time; Historians


THE STRIPES AND THE STARS; APRIL, 1861, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O star-spangled banner! The flag of our pride!
Last Line: One country — one banner — the stripes and the stars!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): American Civil War; Flags - United States; Freedom; Patriotism; U.s. - History; American Flag; Liberty


THE STWONEN STEPS, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thease stwonen steps a-zet so true
Last Line: O' veet trod vu'st the steäirs?
Subject(s): Family Life; History; Mortality; Stairs; Time; Relatives; Historians


THE SUBSTITUTE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How say'st thou? Die to-morrow?
Last Line: Knelt by the corse -- alone.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Capital Punishment; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Confederacy


THE SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX [APRIL 9, 1865], by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As billows upon billows roll
Last Line: Lee.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Appomattox, Virginia; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); United States - History


THE SURRENDER OF CORNWALLIS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "come, all ye bold americans, to you the truth"
Last Line: And with the arms of freedom cause the wars they are all o'er
Subject(s): U.s. - History


THE SURRENDER OF NEW ORLEANS, by MARION MANVILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: All day long the guns at the forts
Last Line: A glory for one is another's lost cause.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pope, Marion Manville, Mrs.
Subject(s): American Civil War; New Orleans, Battle Of (1862); U.s. - History


THE SWAMP ANGEL, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a coal-black angel
Last Line: Christ, the forgiver, convert his mind.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; Guns; United States - History


THE SWEET LITTLE MAN; DEDICATED TO THE STAY-AT-HOME RANGERS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, while our soldiers are fighting our battles
Last Line: Take your white-feather plume, sweet little man!
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


THE TEACHING OF THE BLOWS OF FORTUNE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye that nourish hopes of fame!
Last Line: Which tames the noblest efforts of poor flesh.
Subject(s): Fame; Fortune; History; Reputation; Historians


THE TEMERAIRE, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gloomy hulls, in armor grim
Last Line: O, the temeraire no more!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Sea Battles; Turner, Joseph Mallord W. (1775-1851); United States - History; Naval Warfare


THE THREE LITTLE SHIPS, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There, are great big ships and they / ride all day
Last Line: The pinta, the niña, the santa marie.
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; October; Ships & Shipping; U.s. - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


THE THREE TROOPERS DURING THE PROTECTORATE, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the devil tavern
Last Line: "god send this crum-well-down!"
Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Great Britain - History; English History


THE TOPOGRAPHY OF HISTORY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All cities are open in the hot season
Last Line: "calling out ""o love, love,"" but finding none"
Subject(s): Death; Hate; History; Maps; United States; Dead, The; Historians; America


THE TRAITOR, by JAMES SHIRLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Didst bid him come
Last Line: There is no stay in proud mortality. [exeunt.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


THE TRAVELLER AT THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In sunset's light, o'er afric thrown
Last Line: Thine own sweet paths in search of thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Africa; African Americans - History; Nile (river); Travel; Black Heritage; Journeys; Trips


THE TRIUMPH OF PEACE, by JAMES SHIRLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Most grave opinion!
Last Line: Yet with your smiles shall be restored again.
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Masques; Peace; English History


THE TURTLE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "caesar, afloat with his fortunes!"
Last Line: Of the old sea-hoss / and a regular terror-pin
Subject(s): American Civil War;sea Battles;u.s. - History;virginia (ship); Naval Warfare;merrimac (ship)


THE UNKNOWN, by ELMER O. LAUGHLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I do not understand
Last Line: She won't forget.
Subject(s): History; Unknown Soldier; Historians


THE UNSUNG HEROES, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A song for the unsung heroes who rose in the country's need
Last Line: Who fought their way from night to day and struggled up to god.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; United States - History; Liberty


THE VICTOR AT ANTIETAM [SEPTEMBER 17, 1862], by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When tempest winnowed grain from bran
Last Line: And great antietam's cheers renew.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Antietam, Battle Of (1862); Mcclellan, George Brinton (1826-1885); United States - History


THE VIRGINIA SCAFFOLD; JOHN BROWN, DECEMBER 2, 1859, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rear on high the scaffold-altar! All the world will turn to see
Last Line: And his sowing find its reaping in the birthday of the free!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; Social Protest; U.s. - History; Anti-slavery; Serfs


THE VIRGINIANS OF THE VALLEY, by FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The knightliest of the knightly race
Last Line: But not a knight asleep.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; United States - History; Virginia (state)


THE VISION OF DON RODERICK, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lives there a strain, whose sounds of mounting fire
Last Line: I strike my red-cross flag, and bind my skiff to land.
Subject(s): Roderick, King Of The Visigoths (d. 711); Spain - History


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


THE VOICE, by RUSTICUS [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through mists of tears I saw the vanished past
Last Line: "try exercise, old sport, and simpler diet"
Alternate Author Name(s): Rusticus
Subject(s): History;memory; Historians


THE VOICE OF WEBSTER, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Silence was envious of the only voice
Last Line: Long shall its echoes rouse the patriot's heart.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Democracy; United States - Congress - Senate; United States - History; United States - Reconstruction (1865-1877); Webster, Daniel (1782-1852)


THE VOICES OF HISTORY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The poet in his vigil hears
Last Line: And moral nature's lord!
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): History; Poetry & Poets; Historians


THE WASHERS OF THE SHROUD; OCTOBER, 1861, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Along a river-side, I know not where
Last Line: While waking I recalled my wandering brain.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Potomac River; Rivers; United States - History


THE WATCHERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside a stricken field I stood
Last Line: "but all is possible with god!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


THE WESTWARD MARCH, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beside some lost alaskan lake
Last Line: As the waters fill the sea!
Subject(s): Native Americans - History; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Travel; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Seamen; Sails; Native Americans - Removal; Journeys; Trips


THE WHITE SHIP, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By none but me can the tale be told
Last Line: (the sea hath no king but god alone.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; Henry I, King Of England (1068-1135); Sea Pilots; English History


THE WHITE SLAVES; 1860, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The household of a roman, in rome's luxurious time
Last Line: Let every soul cry, 'liberty!' and 'liberty for all!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Household Employees; Rome, Italy; Slavery; U.s. - History; Liberty; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Serfs


THE WOUND-DRESSER, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: An old man bending I come among new faces
Last Line: Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips.)
Variant Title(s): The Dresser
Subject(s): American Civil War; Nurses; Travel; United States - History; War; Journeys; Trips


THE YEAR OF JUBILEE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "say, darkeys, hab you seen de massa"
Last Line: "it mus' be now de kingdum cumin', / an' de yar ob jubilo"
Subject(s): African Americans - Military;american Civil War;u.s. - History;war


THE YEAR OF JUBILEE, by HENRY CLAY WORK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Say, darkeys, hab you seen de massa
Last Line: An' de yar ob jubilo.
Variant Title(s): Year Of Jubilo;kingdom Coming
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Richmond Campaign (1864); United States - History


THE YELLOW BADGE, by RUTH SCHECHTER ALEXANDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hundreds of years agone, my brothers
Last Line: Of the people god called his crown.
Subject(s): History; Jews; Tradition; Historians; Judaism


THEM AND US, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Something in their psyche insists on elvis
Last Line: Death and elvis, but watching for marvin gaye.
Subject(s): Death; Fame; History; Presley, Elvis (1937-1977); Dead, The; Reputation; Historians


THEN CUBA, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The 9th & 10th cavalry were
Last Line: In the first fight of th' picnic war
Subject(s): U.s. - History


THEODORE ROOSEVELT, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Concerning brave captains
Variant Title(s): Great Hear
Subject(s): History


THEODORE ROOSEVELT, by FLORENCE MCLANDBURGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our hero is a man of peace
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Mclandburgh
Subject(s): History


THEODORE ROOSEVELT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A smack of lord cromer, jeff davis a touch of him
Subject(s): History


THIS FLAT EARTH, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I bear my body toward you
Last Line: We read about it in the papers
Subject(s): World History


THIS IS YOUR GIFT, by DAVID MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who is the lover sleeping beside you?
Last Line: Breathe with the body beside you and know
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History


THOMAS AT CHICKAMAUGA, by KATE BROWNLEE SHERWOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was that fierce contested field where chickamauga lay
Last Line: "they in the thickest fight shall stand and proudly answer, ""here!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chickamauga, Battle Of (1863); Courage; Thomas, George Henry (1816-1870); U.s. - History; Valor; Bravery


THOMAS EAKINS AND THE PHOTOGRAPH OF A MAN IN MOTION, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Something in us spins out of control, colliding with frame-by
Last Line: Implication of the sequence is undeniable
Subject(s): Eakins, Thomas (1844-1916); History; Photography And Photographers


THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The regiment has waited long
Last Line: Who would hold the colonel?
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (1823-1911); U.s. - History


THOMPSON'S VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The book, by george! I'd rather own
Last Line: "in zadock thompson's book ""vermont."
Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; History; Native Americans; Travel; Vermont; Reading; Historians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips


THOROUGHBREDS (AN INCIDENT OF THE FIGHT AROUND ATLANTA), by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Straight at the breastworks, flanked with / fire
Last Line: Will be—the sons of the thoroughbred!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Camp-meetings; Fights; Militarism; Soldiers; U.s. - History; U.s. - Military Academy


THOUGH NOT ADMONISHED OF YOUR INTENTIONS IN WORK, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft thumps in the earth as you approach
Last Line: No longer visit my love
Subject(s): Fire; History; Historians


THOUSAND AND THIRTY-SEVEN, by CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three years ago today
Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Miles
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


THREAD THROUGH HISTORY, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is it, what really is it, this sacred or secular
Subject(s): History; Human Conduct; Historians


THREE CHARACTERS FROM A LOST HOME; CEDAR, by DAVID MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Though they drill and count my rings
Last Line: I grow unmoving till I die
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History


THREE CHARACTERS FROM A LOST HOME; WATER, by DAVID MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: No one can record my travels
Last Line: And wait for my unravelling
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History


THREE CHARACTERS FROM A LOST HOME; WOODSMOKE, by DAVID MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'll make your eyes tear up
Last Line: Into the woods alone
Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; U.s. - History


THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MORE, by ROBERT MORRIS    Poem Text                 Recitation    
First Line: We are coming, father abraham, three hundred thousand more
Last Line: We are coming, father abraham, three hundred thousand more!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gibbons, James Sloane
Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States; United States - History


THREE KINGS, by MAREK BATEROWICZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are nearing the end of the voyage
Last Line: Has the stone of the world slip form his hands
Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; History


THREE PORTRAITS OF PRINCE CHARLES, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful face of a child
Last Line: O'er the last of the stuart line.
Subject(s): Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788); Great Britain - History; Bonnie Prince Charlie; Young Pretender; Young Chevalier; English History


THROUGH BALTIMORE, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on friday morn: the train grew near
Last Line: O baltimore!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): American Civil War; Baltimore, Maryland; U.s. - History


THROUGH FIRE IN MOBILE BAY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'd weave a wreath for those who fought
Last Line: He waits to greet the gallant tars / who fought in mobile bay
Subject(s): "american Civil War;farragut, David Glascow (1801-1870);mobile Bay, Battle Of (1864);u.s. - History;


THROUGH FIRE IN MOBILE BAY, by DAVID GLASGOW FARRAGUT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'd weave a wreath for those who fought
Last Line: He waits to greet the gallant tars %who fought in mobile bay
Subject(s): American Civil War; Farragut, David Glascow (1801-1870); Mobile Bay, Battle Of (1864); U.s. - History


THY WILL BE DONE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We see not, know not; all our way
Last Line: Thy will be done!
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


TITANIC, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The huge titanic on its maiden voyage
Last Line: & modeled on the french, italian and spanish %syndicated experiment
Subject(s): U.s. - History


TO A CERTAIN CIVILIAN, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Did you ask dulcet rhymes from me?
Last Line: For I lull nobody, and you will never understand me.
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


TO A DEJECTED FRIEND, by MORTON BRYAN WHARTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: What though thy way is often dark
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


TO A FRENCH GIRL IN AMERICA, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I cannot tell just where the difference lies
Last Line: —mabel kingsley richardson
Subject(s): Freedom; History; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; United States; Liberty; Historians; America


TO A HISTORIAN, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You who celebrate bygones
Last Line: I project the history of the future.
Subject(s): History; Historians


TO A MOTHER, by A. I. AMBLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh mother, when with thy sorrow alone
Last Line: Thou wilt call the lost once more thine own.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Grief; Love; Mothers; United States - History; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by JOHN JAMES PIATT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stern be the pilot in the dreadful hour
Last Line: Made by god's providence the anointed one.
Variant Title(s): Sonnet In 1862
Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History


TO BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside our way the streams are dried
Last Line: And lead us to the promised land!
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915); Black Heritage


TO CANAAN; A PURITAN WAR-SONG, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where are you going, soldiers
Last Line: A whirlwind from the north!
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


TO CLEMENT EDMONDS, ON HIS CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES OBSERVED (2), by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who edmonds, reads thy book and doth not see
Last Line: They murder him again, that envy thee.
Subject(s): Edmondes, Clement (1564-1622); History; Rome, Italy; Historians


TO CLEMENT EDWARDS, ON HIS CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES OBSERVED (1), by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not caesar's deeds, nor all his honours won
Last Line: His life, but makes, that he can die no more.
Subject(s): Edmondes, Clement (1564-1622); History; Rome, Italy; Historians


TO DON FRANCISCO GINER DE LOS RIOS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, when the master left us
Last Line: Dreamt his sweet dream of spain's new blossoming
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Mourning; Spain - History


TO ENGLISHMEN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You flung your taunt across the wave
Last Line: The pirate's skull-bone blazon!
Subject(s): American Civil War; England; Slavery; U.s. - History; English; Serfs


TO HIS TEACHER, by ANNE GOODWIN WINSLOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear humanist, this roaring street
Last Line: Who gravely walks with you.
Subject(s): History; Modern Man; Historians


TO JOHN CONSTABLE: IN ABSENTIA, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Anxious griefs, grievous anxieties, are not to be
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


TO JOHN CONSTABLE: IN ABSENTIA, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Anxious griefs, grievous anxieties, are not to be
Last Line: The abrupt rainbow's errant visitation
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


TO JOHN FORSTER, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forster! Whose zeal hath seiz'd each written page
Last Line: Gushes redundantly her golden hair.
Subject(s): Forster, John (1812-1876); History; Historians


TO MY SOLDIER BROTHER, by SALLIE M. BALLARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: When softly gathering shades of ev'n
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


TO SAMUEL E. SEWALL AND HARRIET W. SEWALL OF MELROSE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Olor iscanus queries: 'why should we'
Last Line: The eyes that smile no more, the unreturning feet!
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That late, in half-despair, I said
Last Line: For freedom's flag and freedom's land!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


TO THE FEDERAL CONVENTION, by TIMOTHY DWIGHT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be then your counsels, as your subject, great
Last Line: And grant new scions from each friendly sky.
Subject(s): Federal Constitutional Convention; United States - History


TO THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT (1), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where's probity in this
Last Line: Into the lens of oblivion
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


TO THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT (1), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where's probity in this
Last Line: Into the lens of oblivion
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


TO THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT (2), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Keep what in repair?
Last Line: The voice of amos / past its own enduring
Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Amos (bible); English History


TO THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT (2), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Keep what in repair?
Last Line: Past its own enduring
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


TO THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT (3), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who could outbalance poised
Last Line: Densely reflective, long-drawn, procession of waters?
Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Religion; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); English History


TO THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT (3), by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who could outbalance poised
Last Line: Densely reflective, long-drawn, procession of waters?
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


TO THE LEAST AMERICAN, IF NOT THE GREATEST...AMERICAN POETS, by WILLIAM GRIFFITH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They say that edgar allan poe, was buried in baltimore
Subject(s): U.s. - History


TO THE NIEUPORT SCOUT, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How swiftly they cease to be
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


TO THE NIEUPORT SCOUT, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How swiftly they cease to be
Last Line: Quenched in a cloud
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


TO THE PANAMA CANAL, by BENIGNO PALMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hail, prodigy of human effort, emblem of freedom
Last Line: Nobly to the sacrifice, to exclaim: 'for the good of the %world!'
Subject(s): Freedom; Latin America - History; Panama Canal


TO THE PORTRAIT OF NAPOLEON, AS FIRST CONSUL, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brilliant as lucifer, son of the morning
Last Line: Beautiful gem of the larian shore.
Subject(s): History; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Portraits; Stars; Time; Historians


TO THE TENTH LEGION, NEW YORK STATE VOLUNTEERS, 1862, by RUTH NATALIE CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Marching along!-marching to the war
Last Line: "for god and their country, they were marching along."
Subject(s): American Civil War; Marching & Marches; Military Service, Voluntary; New York City - 19th Century; Patriotism; United States - History


TO WILLIAM COBBETT: IN ABSENTIA, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I say it is not faithless
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


TO WILLIAM COBBETT: IN ABSENTIA, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I say it is not faithless
Last Line: Awed by its own predation
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


TO WILLIAM LAW: IN ABSENTIA, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To fall asleep in the flesh
Last Line: Light to the unmoved miraculous / pool of siloam
Subject(s): Great Britain – History; Religion; Law, William (1686-1761); English History


TO WILLIAM LAW: IN ABSENTIA, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To fall asleep in the flesh
Last Line: Pool of siloam
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


TOKINISH, by JAMES THOMAS STEVENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Truth is a native
Last Line: Drunke, and they shall sleep a perpetuall sleepe, and not wake
Subject(s): America - Exploration; History; Islands; Native Americans; Navigation; Sea Voyages; Trail Of Tears (1838-39)


TOMATOS, by DIANE GLANCY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A string of tamoots
Last Line: Red skinned \ ottomas
Subject(s): History; Native Americans - Wars


TOUCHING MISS LEONA GIFFORD'S HAIR, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long before my father died
Last Line: And shook out her blond hair like a gift %into the darkness
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A VILLAGE CHURCH, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A stump of oak - a huge old ruin of a tree, shored up with props
Last Line: The peacock flew from its tree overhead to the east and into the night.
Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Clergy; History; Mankind; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Historians; Human Race


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. AT MENTONE, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why speak ye not, ye beautiful lands and seas
Last Line: Why utterest not the voice we long to hear?
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Earth; History; Mankind; Peasantry; Graveyards; Dead, The; World; Historians; Human Race


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. STANDING BEYOND TIME, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Standing beyond time
Last Line: Standing beyond time.
Subject(s): Earth; History; World; Historians


TOWER OF BABEL, by THOMAS JAMES MERTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: History is a dialogue between
Last Line: The movement into the web
Subject(s): History; Language


TRAGICAL DEATH OF MISS JANE MCCREA, by WHEELER CASE    Poem Source                    
First Line: As I was passing thro' a certain wood
Subject(s): U.s. - History


TREATIES OF AMITY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She stands before the powers of earth
Subject(s): U.s. - History


TREATY ELM, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see the treaty elm and hear the rustle
Subject(s): U.s. - History


TREATY OF PARIS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: America has won the day
Subject(s): U.s. - History


TREATY OF PEACE WITH ALGIERS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dey of algiers, not being afraid of his ears
Subject(s): U.s. - History


TREATY OF VERSAILLES, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: June 28: the treaty of versailles was signed in france
Last Line: Be set up independently to set the amount germany would have to pay
Subject(s): U.s. - History


TREE, THE SERPENT, AND THE STAR, by A. P. GRAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the silver sands of a gleaming shore
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FIRE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The top three floors of 25 washington place at greene street
Last Line: Against workers had there ever been
Subject(s): U.s. - History


TRIUMPH, O RAND SCHOOL, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: 1906: the rand school of social science was founded
Last Line: The first president to visit foreign soil
Subject(s): U.s. - History


TROTSKY IN 1925, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: On january 16 %leon trotsky was tossed out
Last Line: And thrown out of russia in '29
Subject(s): U.s. - History


TROTSKY NOT DIGGING IT, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Trotsky kept his vision of worldwide rev
Last Line: Over interstate bus and truck traffic
Subject(s): U.s. - History


TROUBLE IN HISTORY, by DAVID KELLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In our fields there weren't even stones
Last Line: Some place, some woods and life %where we were not the bad, first children
Subject(s): Children; History


TRYING TO FINISH AN ALBUM, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Right away I leaped back into
Last Line: Which I later edited out of the time-flow
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


TRYPTYCH, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Morning: %6:30 (2) sunrise
Last Line: Stops. Jolting %finale avoided
Subject(s): History; Poetry And Poets; Time


TUESDAY AUGUST 27, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: At dawn on the 27th %the yippies promised
Last Line: The chicago police at the hilton
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


TUNNELS, by KATHERINE HARER    Poem Source                    
First Line: American tourists are looking for new ways to spend their dollars. They
Last Line: Enlarge them, renovate history. This will be done
Subject(s): History; Tourists; Travel; Vietnam


TURN O LIBERTAD, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Turn o libertad, for the war is over
Last Line: Is swiftly, surely preparing for you.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; United States - History; Liberty


TWERPONOMY, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: March 1: to get around the supreme court's twerponomy
Last Line: March 29: 99 %of the german electorate voted for nazi candidates
Subject(s): U.s. - History


TWILIGHT ON SUMTER, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still and dark along the sea
Last Line: Hell shall rise in grim derision and make room!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; U.s. - History


TWO APPEALS TO JOHN HARRALSON: 1, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: John harralson, john harralson, you are a wretched creature
Last Line: That when a lady lifts her shift she's killing off a yankee
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


TWO APPEALS TO JOHN HARRALSON: 2. A YANKEE VIEW, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: John harralson, john harralson, we've read in song and story
Last Line: No soldier could sniff it without having an erection
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


TWO ARMIES STAND ENROLLED BENEATH, by HENRY TIMROD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


TWO FURROWS, by CHARLES HENRY WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The spring-time came, but not with mirth
Alternate Author Name(s): Paul, John
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


TWO HISTORIANS, by THOROLD ROGERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: While ladling butter from alternate tubs
Last Line: Stubbs butters freeman, freeman butters stubbs
Subject(s): History


TWO HISTORIES, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two histories there are in england's isle
Last Line: Forbidding civil war to imp its wings.
Subject(s): Butterfield, Herbert (1900-1979); Great Britain - Civil War; History; English Civil War; Historians


TWO SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF BLONDEL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twere no hard task, perchance, to win
Last Line: And blondel were royal himself, if he knew it!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Blondel De Nesle; United States - History


TWO VOMS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Muss-vom paid a visit to hit-vom on 9-25
Last Line: Big crowds adoring the two voms
Subject(s): U.s. - History


TYPHOID MARY, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A ny city health official named dr. George soper
Last Line: American fantasy figment %typhoid mary
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ULRIC DAHLGREN, by KATE BROWNLEE SHERWOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: A flash of light across the night
Last Line: In our republic's coronet!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Dahlgren, Ulric; Richmond Campaign (1864); U.s. - History; Valor; Bravery


ULTIMA RATIO REAGAN, by HOWARD NEMEROV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The reason we do not learn from history is
Last Line: And history will not blame us if once again %the light at the end of the tunnel is the train
Subject(s): History; Reagan, Ronald Wilson (b. 1911); Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War


ULTIMA THULE: BAYARD TAYLOR, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead he lay among his books
Last Line: The peace of god in all thy looks!
Subject(s): Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878); United States - History


ULYSSES, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The great sylvia beach published ulysses
Last Line: A 'legal convention' was held for the new young workers league
Subject(s): U.s. - History


UNDER THE CLOUD AND THROUGH THE SEA, by ADELINE DUTTON (TRAIN) WHITNEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


UNDER THE SHADE OF THE TREES [MAY 10, 1863], by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What are the thoughts that are stirring his breast?
Last Line: Under the shade of the trees!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); United States - History; War


UNE GENERATION PERDUE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: That's what you are. That's what you all are,'
Last Line: You are a lost generation.'
Subject(s): U.s. - History


UNHAPPY BOSTON, by PAUL REVERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Unhappy boston! See thy sons deplore
Last Line: Shall reach a judge who never can be bribed.
Subject(s): Boston Massacre; Collective Behavior; Social Protest; U.s. - History; Mobs; Crowds


UNION AND LIBERTY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flag of the heroes who left us their glory
Last Line: Union and liberty! One evermore!
Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History


UNITED AUTO WORKERS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beginning december 30 %there was a crest of strikes in the us auto industry
Last Line: Hooray! To %the u.A.W. In the time-fount
Subject(s): U.s. - History


UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE, by JOSEPHINE ROBINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In every race, in every creed
Subject(s): History


UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by VIRGINIA EATON    Poem Source                    
First Line: How peacefully he sleeps out there
Subject(s): History


UNTIL THE WORLD IS FREE, by JOHN JARVIS HOLDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mighty in purpose, strong in truth and right
Subject(s): U.s. - History


UNTIL YOU PASS, by ARTHUR NEWBERRY CHOYCE    Poem Source                    
First Line: And when you search through wounded france
Alternate Author Name(s): Choyce, A. Newberry
Subject(s): History


UPON THE HILL BEFORE CENTREVILLE, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll tell you what I heard that day
Last Line: Strike for the crown of victory!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; United States - History; Manassas, Batlle Of


UPTON SINCLAIR RUNS FOR GOVERNOR, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The writer named upton sinclair
Last Line: It worked & %sinclair lost 'narrowly,' as they say %on november 7
Subject(s): U.s. - History


URANIUM, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Italian physicist enrico fermi %uh-oh
Last Line: Learned about the effects of bombarding uranium atoms with neutrons
Subject(s): U.s. - History


VACANT CHAIR, by GEORGE FREDERICK ROOT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We shall meet, but we shall miss him
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


VALLEY FORGE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our path is traced by a crimson stain
Subject(s): U.s. - History


VAST WHIRL OF FAST-WHIRLS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The vast subatomic whirl %came more to confusing view as
Last Line: Recorded for victor %go, jelly roll, go!
Subject(s): U.s. - History


VERDUN, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The spring that dada
Last Line: A nonexistent victory
Subject(s): U.s. - History


VICKSBURG, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For sixty days and upwards
Last Line: To the music in their hearts.
Variant Title(s): The Bombardment Of Vicksburg
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Vicksburg Campaign (1862-63); Declaration Day


VICTORIOUS MARCH, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the early part of may
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


VICTORY AT MONMOUTH, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hold them in check, - that british host
Subject(s): U.s. - History


VICTORY AT NEW ORLEANS, by WALLACE RICE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a blare of bugles blowing
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): U.s. - History


VICTORY WHICH IS PEACE, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the hand that sprinkles midnight
Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L.
Subject(s): History


VIRGINIA - THE WEST, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The noble sire fallen on evil days
Last Line: For you provided me washington -- and now these also.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Virginia (state); Confederacy


VIRGINIA CAPTA, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Unconquer'd captive! - close thine eye
Last Line: Thy chains, -- virginia victrix still!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Richmond Campaign (1864); U.s. - History


VIRGINIA'S DEAD, by CORNELIA J. M. JORDAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Proud mother of a race that reared
Last Line: There sleep virginia's dead.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Virginia (state); Confederacy


VISION, by WALTER GREENOUGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Reach down, o steady hand, enclose him fast
Subject(s): U.s. - History


VISION OF JUDGEMENT, by JOHN TRUMBULL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I saw along the prostrate land
Subject(s): U.s. - History


VISION OF THE CIVIL WAR, by BYRON FORCEYTHE WILLSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see the champion sword-strokes flash
Last Line: Till the dead nation rise transformed by truth to triumph over all!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Willson, Forceythe
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


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


VISITING PARKERS PRAIRIE, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wilsons lived across the street
Last Line: Even god is motion
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


VOICES OF THE GUNS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Within a green and shadowy wood
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


VOYAGE OF THE GOOD SHIP UNION, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis midnight: through my troubled dream
Last Line: One nation, evermore!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Classmates; United States - History; Schoolmates


WAIT FOR THE WAGON, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A hundred thousand northmen
Last Line: "if red-tape so wills it, / wait till judgment-day"
Subject(s): American Civil War;u.s. - History


WAITING FOR COM-REV, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since early december the peace conference
Last Line: (the treaty later was nullified by the defeat of th' central powers
Subject(s): U.s. - History


WAITING ON THE QUAY, by EVA HAMMOND CHURCHILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Known you before? Yes, aeons we have known
Last Line: Glanced modern lights in geometric line.
Subject(s): History; Historians


WALT WHITMAN IN THE CIVIL WAR HOSPITALS, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Prescient, my hands soothing
Last Line: To death which I have praised
Subject(s): American Civil War; Hospitals; Poetry & Poets; United States - History; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891)


WALT WHITMAN IN THE CIVIL WAR HOSPITALS, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Prescient, my hands soothing
Last Line: To death which I have praised
Subject(s): American Civil War; Hospitals; Poetry And Poets; U.s. - History; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891)


WANTED - A MAN, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Back from the trebly crimsoned field
Last Line: "abraham lincoln, give us a man!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; Mcclellan, George Brinton (1826-1885); Men; U.s. - History


WAR, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In his speech asking congress for war %on april 2
Last Line: Against which to issue notes
Subject(s): U.s. - History


WAR AGAINST THE PHILIPPINES, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The filipino insurrectos
Last Line: To set off a 1,000 days of blood & blot
Subject(s): U.s. - History


WAR IN CUBA, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cuba was discovered by columbus on his first voyage
Last Line: Taking out the forward third of the ship
Subject(s): U.s. - History


WAR IS KIND: 1, by STEPHEN CRANE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind
Last Line: War is kind.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Men; Social Protest; United States - History; United States; America


WAR MOVES FORWARD, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ny republican machine
Last Line: To give the filipinos their freedom
Subject(s): U.s. - History


WAR OF THE WORLDS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Weirdo-entities slithering in new jersey %orson welles was 23
Last Line: Dems 69 to 23 reps in the senate
Subject(s): U.s. - History


WARHOL, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A writer named valerie solanas %had visited me at peace eye
Last Line: Pick up awards at the %american television and radio commercials festival
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


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


WASHINGTON, by ABRAHAM LINCOLN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On that name no eulogy is expected
Subject(s): History


WAT TYLER'S ADDRESS TO THE KING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: King of england %petitioning for pity is most weak
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


WATER TO LA, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: November 5: six years it took to build the la aqueduct
Last Line: The first ship through the panama canal
Subject(s): U.s. - History


WAY TO THE NEUTRAL GROUND, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, ride with me! Old memories surround
Subject(s): U.s. - History


WAYS TO SEE, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: A waterfall is one way river sheds its skin
Last Line: And to know, oh, the sad ways the heart boils dry
Subject(s): Family Life; History


WE ARE GOING, FATHER ABRAHAM, by MARCUS P. WHEELER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are coming, father abraham, 600, more'
Last Line: But, we're going, father abraham, we soon are going home!
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


WEDNESDAY AUGUST 28, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ghastly word inked forth that
Last Line: Of demonstrators outside the convention
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


WEEK-END INDIAN, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In red wool jacket and earflaps
Last Line: Thinking it to be only %the grave of an animal
Subject(s): Family Life; History


WELCOME TO MARGARET TUDOR, by WILLIAM DUNBAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now fayre, fayrest off every fayre
Subject(s): History


WEST INDIES, SELS., by JAMES MONTGOMERY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot
Subject(s): U.s. - History; West Indies


WHAT COMES NEXT, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: She flexes her fingers
Last Line: Scalded her, she could not keep up
Subject(s): World History


WHAT HAPPENS NEXT, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And then one day, you find you're falling
Last Line: And everyone can hear you two, like dirty water %swishing down the same drain over and over
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


WHAT THE BIRDS SAID, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The birds against the april wind
Last Line: And in the evening there was light.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Birds; United States - History


WHAT THE OLD BEDOUIN TOLD ME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once in my long ago
Last Line: In my long ago I have know these abominations against nature, these deadly marvels
Subject(s): Arabs; History


WHAT THE VILLAGE BELL SAID, by JOHN C. MCLEMORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Full many a year in the village church
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


WHAT: YOU NEVER HEARD OF DUAL UNIONISM?, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: This was the year for a
Last Line: & stocks began to fall
Subject(s): U.s. - History


WHEN BROADWAY WAS A COUNTRY ROAD, by CHARLES COLEMAN STODDARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: No rushing cars, nor tramping feet
Last Line: To broadway as a country road.
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Country Life; U.s. - History


WHEN DEY 'LISTED COLORED SOLDIERS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dey was talkin' in de cabin, dey was talkin' in de hall
Last Line: W'en dey 'listed colo'ed sojers an' my 'lias went to wah.
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; United States - History


WHEN FELL ROME'S FABRIC IN THE CHASM IT WROUGHT, by ALFRED BILLINGS STREET    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): U.s. - History


WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME, by PATRICK SARSFIELD GILMORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When johnny comes marching home again hurrah!
Last Line: When johnny comes marching home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lambert, Louis
Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; Peace; United States - History; United States; America


WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME (WITH MUSIC), by PATRICK SARSFIELD GILMORE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When johnny comes marching home again hurrah!
Last Line: And we'll drink stone wine %when johnny comes marching home
Alternate Author Name(s): Lambert, Louis
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


WHEN THE MOON DIED, by LAURA TOHE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The earth is angry at the people. %we're not living right
Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Death; Leadership; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Navajo Indians; Prisons And Prisoners


WHEN THIS CRUEL WAR IS OVER, by HENRY TUCKER    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


WHEN YA GOTTA GO, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It probably won't be sidney carton style
Last Line: The salesclerk means, but it'll have to do
Subject(s): Death; History


WHERE'S THE DEPRAVO DATA?' PART III, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hung up as always
Last Line: Ron loewinsohn and michael palmer %raise a few hundred
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


WHETHER MORAL VIRTUE COMES BY HABITUATION, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is said that sometimes even fear
Last Line: The processionals of seared array
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


WHETHER THE VIRTUES ARE EMOTIONS, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Overnight-overnight
Subject(s): Great Britain - History; English History


WHETHER THE VIRTUES ARE EMOTIONS, by GEOFFREY HILL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Overnight-overnight
Last Line: The tree of heaven
Subject(s): Great Britain - History


WHIP TAIL OF THE ONE-EYED CHIEF, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This motley quilt in oils
Last Line: Stare of lady field hand
Subject(s): Animals; Colonialism; History; Paintings And Painters; Slavery; West Indies; Whips


WHITE PACHA, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Vain is the dream! However hope may rave
Subject(s): Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885); History


WHO RIDE, by STELLA KOBRIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, say, who comes to town today
Subject(s): U.s. - History


WHO'S READY?; JULY, 1862, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God help us! Who's ready? There's danger before!
Last Line: All forward! We're ready, and conquer we will!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): American Civil War; Enemies; Freedom; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Liberty


WHY HORSES SLEEP STANDING UP, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our lungs can no longer bear
Last Line: The east. Gleaming pewter hooves
Subject(s): World History


WHY THE FIDDLER'S WIFE IS THINKING OF LEAVING TOWN, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Opening the door after a day at the diner
Last Line: Where she used to think it was him she listened to
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


WIDOW; 2ND NEW JERSEY BRIGADE, LATE AUTUMN, 1862, by LISA RUSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I call still question god-how now forsake me?
Last Line: Borrow its blue forever from your cloud-crossed stare?
Subject(s): Absence; American Civil War; Military; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Women And War


WILFRED AND JOSEPHINE ARRIVE IN PITTSBURGH, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After driving three days, I saw it
Last Line: A heart nobody can change or fill up, ever
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


WILL ROGERS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: His vestiges in america
Last Line: Increasing taxes on inheritances and gifts
Subject(s): U.s. - History


WILLIAM AND ANNIE; OR, A TALE OF LOVE AND WAR, SELS., by CHARLES T. DANIELS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Most glorious southern land, of thee I sing
Last Line: To gain the heaven of one warm embrace?
Subject(s): American Civil War; Southern States; U.s. - History


WILLIAM MILLIGAN SLOANE, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: As on the blissful fields musaeus stood
Last Line: Old plutarch would have loved and envied him.
Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; History; Sloane, William Milligan (1906-1974); Teaching & Teachers; Reading; Historians; Educators; Professors


WILSON GOES TO EUROPE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like a rock star
Last Line: Richard feynman may 11 %o america
Subject(s): U.s. - History


WILSON RETURNS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In early july the president
Last Line: Then race riots and lynchings throughout the nation
Subject(s): U.s. - History


WINDOW IN THE POEM, by JACK ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In painting after painting -- sacred or secular
Last Line: Would this be bravery or cowardice
Subject(s): History; Paintings And Painters; Windows


WINDSOR FOREST, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thy forests, windsor! And thy green retreats
Last Line: First in these fields I sung the sylvan strains.
Subject(s): Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667); Denham, Sir John (1615-1669); Freedom; Great Britain - History; Howard, Henry, Earl Of Surrey (1517-47); Landscape; Windsor Forest, England; Liberty; English History


WITH CORSE AT ALLATOONA, by SAMUEL HAWKINS MARSHALL BYERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was less than two thousand we numbered
Last Line: "this morning up there on the hill."
Subject(s): Allatoona Pass, Georgia; American Civil War; Atlanta Campaign (1864); Corse, John Murray (1835-1893); United States - History


WIZZERDE WYNKIN'S DETHE; AN ANCIENT BALLAD, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wizzerde's een grewe derke and dimme
Last Line: Gramercye on his soulle!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Spain - History; War


WOBBLIES AGAIN DEFEND FREEDOM, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everett, washington on the puget sound
Last Line: At a birth control demonstration %the summer o' '16
Subject(s): U.s. - History


WOMAN WADING IN LAKE ADLEY AROUND 1900, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She must be looking for something, the woman
Last Line: As she says, 'oh, be careful. Once a child fell in'
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


WOMAN'S PITY, by JOHN JARVIS HOLDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In savage pomp sat powhatan
Subject(s): U.s. - History


WOODROW WILSON, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Could he return to us, how would we greet him
Subject(s): U.s. - History


WORD WITH THE WEST, by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more to the breach for the land of the west!
Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, John Randolph
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


WORDS FORCING CHANGE, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Upton sinclair's the jungle was published
Last Line: June 3 %the singer / dancer josephine baker %came to life
Subject(s): U.s. - History


WORLD TAKE GOOD NOTICE, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: World take good notice, silver stars fading
Last Line: Now and henceforth flaunt from these shores.
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


WOULDST THOU HAVE ME LOVE THEE, DEAREST, by ALEXANDER BEAUFORT MEEK    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): American Civil War; U.s. - History


WOUNDED KNEE: 1890-1973, by WENDY ROSE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I fear to see
Subject(s): Native Americans - History; Wounded Knee, Battle Of (1890)


WRESTLING WITH THE ANGEL, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: A beautiful young man streaks beneath
Last Line: It holds the lost, cherishes, grinds them
Subject(s): World History


WRITTEN IN THE BEGINNING OF MEZERAY'S HISTORY OF FRANCE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whate'er thy countrymen have done
Last Line: Unwilling to retire, though weary.
Subject(s): Fame; France; History; Life; Pain; Reputation; Historians; Suffering; Misery


WRITTEN ON THE DEATH OF OUR BELOVED GENERAL STONEWALL JACKSON, by CAROLINE AUGUSTA BALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a wail of woe on the summer breeze
Last Line: His last victory gained, his rest has won.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Heroism; Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); United States - History; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines


WRITTEN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1864, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more, despite the noise of war
Last Line: For only such can save us now.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fourth Of July; United States - History; Independence Day


YANKEE PRIVATEER, by WALLACE RICE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To the port of fayal britain pays a sunset call
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): U.s. - History


YE SONS OF COLUMBIA, by THOMAS GREEN FESSENDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ye sons of columbia, unite in the cause
Last Line: Till the continent sinks, and the ocean is dry!
Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); United States - History


YEAR OF FEAR, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was a time of whispery 'nola
Last Line: July 1 %62 nations, including us, uk and ussr, signed the nuclear %nonproliferation treaty
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


YEAR WE WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP, by JEANNE MURRAY WALKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was whispered danny had a missing ball
Last Line: For jesus and the lincoln christian day school
Subject(s): History; Minnesota


YEAR'S-END, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now winter downs the dying of the year
Variant Title(s): At Year's End;at Yearsend;year's End
Subject(s): History; Holidays; New Year; Historians


YEAR'S-END, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now winter downs the dying of the year
Last Line: The new-year bells are wrangling with the snow
Variant Title(s): At Year's End; At Yearsend; Year's En
Subject(s): History; Holidays; New Year


YEATS IN THE GAS, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Phil ochs later mentioned how
Last Line: It lurked in my files %till time for this book
Subject(s): Nineteen Sixty-eight (year); U.s. - History


YELLOW JOURNALISM, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They say it was a war brought on in part
Last Line: To pound the drums of the masses
Subject(s): U.s. - History


YOU ARE THERE, by NORA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let's suppose you are really there
Last Line: You want others to get it, too. %and then what?
Subject(s): World History


YOUNG WERTHER, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She was reading the concise history of knowledge
Last Line: He would have believed anything
Subject(s): History; Poetry And Poets


ZAGONYI, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bold captain of the body-guard
Last Line: To death or victory!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cavalry; Springfield, Missouri, Battle Of (1861); United States - History; Zagonyi, Charles


ZIMMERMAN TELEGRAM, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: On january 19 %a coded message was sent from
Last Line: To keep them from german hands, and to guard the panama canal
Subject(s): U.s. - History


ZOLLICOFFER, by HENRY LYNDEN FLASH    Poem Text                    
First Line: First in the fight, and first in the arms
Last Line: Dead on the field of glory!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Somerset, Kentucky, Battle Of (1862); United States - History; Zollicoffer, Felix Kirk (1812-1862)