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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HISTORY Matches Found: 2120 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "'THE BRIGADE MUST NOT KNOW, SIR!' [MAY 2, 1863]", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text 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 thouthrough 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-twoso 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'sand 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 englandthe 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 bethe 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) |
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