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Subject: JEFFERSON, THOMAS (1743-1826)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BALLAD OF THE COMMON MAN (FOR THE JEFFERSON MEMORIAL), by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To him who felt a human sea
Last Line: Keep on building men!
Subject(s): Freedom; Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)


DIRGE ON THE DEATH OF ADAMS AND JEFFERSON, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Toll not the bell and muffle not
Last Line: And angel harps may hymn their prayers.
Subject(s): Adams, John (1735-1826); Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826); Presidents, United States


HONEST HEART -- A KNOWING HEAD, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time now begins to become precious
Last Line: Yours affectionately, %thomas jefferson
Subject(s): Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)


JEFFERSON, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If vision can dilate, my noble lord
Subject(s): Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)


JEFFERSON AND LIBERTY (WITH MUSIC), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The gloomy night before us flies
Last Line: Here plenty cheers the humblest cot, %and smiles on every village-green
Subject(s): Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)


MEMORIAL FOR MR. JEFFERSON, by FRANCIS COLEMAN ROSENBERGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The white marble stands among the mosquitoes
Subject(s): Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)


ON THE STEPS OF THE JEFFERSON MEMORIAL, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We invent our gods
Subject(s): Mythology; Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)


THE DEATH OF JEFFERSON, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas midsummer; cooling breezes all the languid forests fanned
Last Line: Gone his soul into all nations, gone to live and not to die.
Subject(s): Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)


THE LIE, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, meriwether, murdered by your lie
Subject(s): Lewis, Meriwether (1774-1809); Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826); Suicide; Lies