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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "INDEPENDENCE BELL - JULY 4, 1776", by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a tumult in the city
Last Line: "which, please god, shall never die!"
Subject(s): American Revolution;fourth Of July;liberty Bell;patriotism; Independence Day


A CREED, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, let me not in service lag
Last Line: The starry flag which flies above.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Flags - United States; Fourth Of July; American Flag; Independence Day


A SONG FOR INDEPENDENCE DAY, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Arise and shout, ye native sons!
Last Line: Shall roll from sea to sea!
Subject(s): Flags - United States; Fourth Of July; Patriotism; American Flag; Independence Day


A SONG FOR LEXINGTON, by ROBERT KELLEY WEEKS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The spring came earlier on
Last Line: Our first immortal name!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Fourth Of July; Lexington, Battle Of (1775); Independence Day; Concord, Battle Of


A YEAR'S CAROLS: JULY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail, proud july, whose fervent mouth
Last Line: And midnight's rapturous plenilune.
Subject(s): July; Music & Musicians; Seasons


AFTER THE FOURTH OF JULY, by M. PHELPS DAWSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: We put him to bed in his little nightgown
Subject(s): Fourth Of July


AMERICA, by SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My country, 'tis of thee
Last Line: Great god our king.
Variant Title(s): National Hymn
Subject(s): Americans; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Patriotism; United States; Independence Day; Liberty; America


AMERICA (1), by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O mother of a mighty race
Last Line: Upon their lips the taunt shall die.
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Patriotism; United States; Independence Day; Liberty; America


AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O beautiful for spacious skies
Last Line: From sea to shining sea!
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Patriotism; Prairies; United States; Independence Day; Plains; America


AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, by ALFRED BILLINGS STREET    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail to the planting of liberty's tree!
Subject(s): Fourth Of July


AN ODE FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1876, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Entranced I saw a vision in the cloud
Last Line: Shall not be unbeloved of thee.
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Independence Day


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


ANTIQUITY OF FREEDOM, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here are old trees, tall oaks and gnarled pines
Last Line: Beheld thy glorious childhood, and rejoiced.
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Trees; Independence Day; Liberty


BARN DOORWAY IN JULY, by JOHN PECK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where may heart cut through the mesh of evil and good?
Last Line: Though blank here, I stand in the knowledge. And souls, the bees
Subject(s): Barns; July


BEGINNING, by RUBEN MARTINEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Summer. Winter. The rain and the palm trees
Last Line: After drawing up my dreams %from the spoon
Subject(s): Fourth Of July


CALL IN THE MIDST OF THE CROWD: JULY. DECLARATION, JULY 4, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It enters its second hundredth
Last Line: To be self-evident: that all men
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; New York City


CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, by JULIA A. MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the year eighteen seventy-six
Last Line: In our centennial celebration.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Independence Day


CENTENNIAL HYMN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our fathers' god! From out whose hand
Last Line: Let the new cycle shame the old!
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Patriotism; Peace; United States - Centennial Celebrations; Independence Day


CENTENNIAL POEM, SELS., by JAMES WATTS DE PEYSTER                       
Subject(s): Burgoyne, John (1722-1792); Fourth Of July


CHOICE, by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I had just one penny
Last Line: And the sweetness of a lollypop %is something that will last
Subject(s): Fourth Of July


CLOUDS, by MELVILLE CANE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There were no flowers in the sky
Last Line: Fragrant and without a stain.
Subject(s): Clouds; Flowers; July; Sky


COLUMBIA, by TIMOTHY DWIGHT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Columbia, columbia, to glory arise
Last Line: "skies!"
Variant Title(s): Star Of Columbia
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Patriotism; United States - Declaration Of Independence; Independence Day


COLUMBIA, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mated to the millennium - time's last heir
Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L.
Subject(s): Fourth Of July


CONCORD HYMN; SUNG AT COMPLETION OF CONCORD MONUMENT, 1836, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By the rude bridge that arched the flood
Last Line: The shaft we raise to them and thee.
Variant Title(s): The Concord Fight;hymn: Sung At The Completion Of The Concord Mounument
Subject(s): American Revolution; Americans; Concord, Massachusetts; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Massachusetts; Monuments; Mourning; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Patriotism; Soldiers; United States; War; Independence Day; Liberty; Bereavement; America


CONSECRATED GROUND; READ AT THE NEW YORK CITY HALL, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let there be prayer and praise
Last Line: There where the deathless climb the deathless skies.
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; New York City; Independence Day; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


CONVIVIAL SONG, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come fill each brimming glass, boys
Last Line: At our next fed'ral meeting.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; New England; Patriotism; Independence Day


DAWNING FUTURE, by WILLIAM PRESTON JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thus, in the march of time, and long procession
Subject(s): Fourth Of July


DECORATION DAY ON THE PLACE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It's lonesome - sorto' lonesome, - it's
Last Line: On ev'ry soldier's grave I'd love to lay a lily thare.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Flowers; Fourth Of July; Graves; Patriotism; Roses; Soldiers; Independence Day; Tombs; Tombstones


EMANCIPATION FROM BRITISH DEPENDENCE, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Deliver us, o lord / not only from british dependence, but also
Last Line: And britain go on -- to be damn'd if she will.
Variant Title(s): Libera Nos, Domine
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; United States - Declaration Of Independence; Independence Day


FIFTY YEARS AGO; FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1826, by CHARLES SPRAGUE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fifty years have rolled away
Last Line: Fifty years ago!
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Time; Independence Day


FIGHTING PARSON, by HENRY AMES BLOOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was brave young parson webster
Subject(s): Fourth Of July


FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY, by ELIZA LEE CABOT FOLLEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My country, that nobly could dare
Last Line: And send forth the glorious word, %this is not the land of the slave
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Slavery


FOURTH OF JULY, by PAMELA GEMIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: How do I tell a stranger the way
Last Line: Kiss me: the weeds %are taller than our faces
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Holidays


FOURTH OF JULY, by CHARLES LEONARD MOORE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let be the herds and what the harvest brings
Subject(s): Fourth Of July


FOURTH OF JULY ELECTRICAL STORM, by HEID E. ERDRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I take you on a family picnic
Last Line: White rock and people who belong to that earth
Subject(s): Fireworks; Fourth Of July; Storms; Thunder


FOURTH OF JULY IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When july fourth was getting near
Last Line: And tell the rest another year.
Subject(s): Brooks; Country Life; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Vermont; Streams; Creeks; Independence Day; Liberty


FOURTH OF JULY NIGHT, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The little boat at anchor
Subject(s): Fireworks; Fourth Of July; Independence Day


FOURTH OF JULY NIGHT, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The little boat at anchor
Last Line: The little boat at anchor %in black water sat murmuring %to the tall black sky
Subject(s): Fireworks; Fourth Of July


FOURTH OF JULY ODE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our fathers fought for liberty
Last Line: But ourselves must set us free.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Fourth Of July; Independence Day


FREEDOM'S NATAL DAY, by ELIZABETH M. GRISWOLD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wake her with voice of cannon-give her
Subject(s): Fourth Of July


FREEDOM, OUR QUEEN, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Land where the banners wave last in the sun
Last Line: She shall reign over us, world without end!
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Independence Day; Liberty


GRANDFATHER WATTS'S PRIVATE FOURTH, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grandfather watts used to tell us boys
Last Line: And marched off home, nor'-west by nor'.
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Independence Day


HE AND I, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just drifting on together
Last Line: For the sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; July; Life; Love; Nightmares; Joy; Delight


HORSESHOE CONTEST, by JEFFREY HARRISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: East woodstock, connecticut
Last Line: To be able to do anything %that well
Subject(s): Connecticut; Fourth Of July; Horseshoes


HYMN FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1863, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lord, the people of the land
Subject(s): Fourth Of July


IMPROMPTU LINES ON JULY FOURTH, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold from the brow of the mountain advancing
Last Line: Here's to the fourth and our country forever.
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Independence; Independence Day; Liberty


IN JULY (SOUTH OF ROME), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pale-rose the dust lying thick upon the road
Last Line: Faint through the golden glimmer of the heat.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): July; Rome, Italy; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Wind


INDEPENDENCE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come all you brave soldiers, both valiant and free
Last Line: And from all who'd deprive us of our %liberty
Subject(s): American Revolution; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Soldiers; U.s. - Congress; U.s. - Declaration Of Independence


INDEPENDENCE DAY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In days of old, certain patriots bold
Last Line: With great demonstration and more perspiration, %we celebrate fourth of july
Subject(s): Fourth Of July


INDEPENDENCE DAY - 1919, by MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER (1894-1981)    Poem Source                    
First Line: Over the mists of a century they come, and their tramping feet
Last Line: They march to their rendezvous with the ones who died in the yesterday
Variant Title(s): Independence Day Toda
Subject(s): Fourth Of July


INDEPENDENCE DAY 1960, by PHILIP S. BRYANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Around the dawn of time
Last Line: Our own independence day
Subject(s): Flags - United States; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Independence; Sermons


INDEPENDENCE DAY, 1956, A FAIRY TALE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think this house's mouth is full of dirt
Last Line: I know because someone, or his assistant, suffered here
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Independence Day


JULY, by MAHLON LEONARD FISHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: It must be summer: but of such a calm
Last Line: Close to a stone, and in her own shade sleeps.
Subject(s): July


JULY, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blue july, bright july
Last Line: To the nightingale's 'sweet-sweet.'
Subject(s): July; Seasons; Summer


JULY, by ALEXANDER L. POSEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The air without has taken fever
Last Line: In the cornfield and the thirsty grass.
Subject(s): July


JULY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long and hot days go by
Last Line: In july.
Subject(s): July; Summer


JULY, by SUSAN HARTLEY SWETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the scarlet cardinal tells
Subject(s): July


JULY, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: July's for independence day
Last Line: July comes for flags and play.
Subject(s): Flags - United States; Fourth Of July; Holidays; Summer; American Flag; Independence Day


JULY 4TH, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wood green. Grandfather built it
Subject(s): Fourth Of July


JULY FOURTH, by MONICA OCHTRUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fireworks are a little like war. These explosions. I think veterans watch-
Last Line: The river: is almost like bells, if you happen to be there
Subject(s): Fireworks; Fourth Of July


JULY FOURTH, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hurrah for our fourth, our glorious fourth
Subject(s): Fourth Of July


JULY FOURTH; 1867, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Awake, anew, columbia's anthems!
Last Line: Let distant ages swell the strain.
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Nations; Independence Day; Liberty


JULY, AND FAT BLACK FLIES, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Right out of the air
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Flies; July; Nature


LIBERTY FOR ALL, by WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They tell me, liberty! That in thy name
Last Line: And, by a mighty hand, the oppressed he yet shall save!
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Fourth Of July; Slavery; Social Protest; Independence Day; Serfs


LOVE'S CALENDAR: JULY, by MAX DAUTHENDEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I met you at shut of day
Last Line: Lay like joy in a garnered heap.
Subject(s): July


MCFEETERS' FOURTH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was needless to say 'twas a glorious day
Last Line: Of this most patriotic republic on earth?
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Nations; Patriotism; Independence Day; Liberty


MID-JULY TWILIGHT, EIGHT O'CLOCK, by JULES LAFORGUE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After a light shower, the pools, muddy green in color
Last Line: All the rest is an immobile mass of hills, space, and pale gray sky
Subject(s): Evening; July


NEW NATIONAL HYMN, by FRANCIS MARION CRAWFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hail, freedom! Thy bright crest
Last Line: Take thou, at last, our souls to thine eternal peace.
Variant Title(s): National Hymn
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Independence Day


NEW PARAGRAPH, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One hoped the brilliant sunset of july
Last Line: Not ever. This is the unending end.
Subject(s): July; Night; Bedtime


ODE FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY, by CHARLES SPRAGUE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To the sages who spoke, to the heroes who bled
Last Line: And the beacon-fire raised that gave light to the world.
Subject(s): Adams, John (1735-1826); Fourth Of July; Presidents, United States; Independence Day


ODE SUNG IN THE TOWN HALL, CONCORD, JULY 4, 1857, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O tenderly the haughty day
Last Line: Ere freedom out of man.
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Patriotism; Independence Day; Liberty


ON INDEPENDENCE, by JONATHAN MITCHELL SEWALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come all you brave soldiers, both valiant and free
Last Line: And from all who'd deprive us of our liberty.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Fourth Of July; Independence Day


ONE AFTERNOON OF LOTUS PAINTING, by XI MURONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: In that july afternoon
Last Line: In that july afternoon, %if you didn't look back
Subject(s): Afternoon; July; Lotus; Paintings And Painters


OPPOSITES: 27, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of july?
Last Line: The opposite of july’s july
Subject(s): English Language; July; Synonyms & Antonyms


OPPOSITES: 27, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the opposite of july?
Last Line: The opposite of july's july
Subject(s): English Language; July; Synonyms And Antonyms


OUR COUNTRY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We give thy natal day to hope
Last Line: And at thy need shall die for thee!
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Independence Day


OUR COUNTRY SAVED, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Boom, cannon, boom to all the winds and waves!
Subject(s): Fourth Of July


PARKING GARAGE ROOF, FOURTH OF JULY, by MARTHA KINNEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: O, jessie steven
Last Line: A double duty sky show %soaring up the street
Subject(s): Fireworks; Fourth Of July


PATRIOTIC SONG, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come all ye federal heroes
Last Line: That we'll defend, that we'll defend, defend america.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Patriotism; Stark, John (1728-1822); Warner, Seth (1743-1784); Independence Day


PATRIOTISM AND A PENSION, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ole fo'th ob july
Last Line: An' one jes' fo' comin' out alive.
Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben
Subject(s): African Americans; Army - United States; Fourth Of July; Patriotism; Negroes; American Blacks; Independence Day


SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR, SELS., by JOHN CLARE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): July; Mnemonics


SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR: JULY 1, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Daughter of pastoral smells & sighs
Last Line: Thus evening deepning to a close %leaves toil & nature to repose
Subject(s): July


SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR: JULY 2, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: July the month of summers prime
Last Line: The quiet of summers eve
Subject(s): July


SONG, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shout for those whose course is done
Last Line: O'er columbia
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Patriotism; Independence Day


SONG OF THE CANNON, by SAM WALTER FOSS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the diplomats cease from their capers
Subject(s): Fourth Of July


SONNETS OF THE MONTHS: JULY, by GIACOMO DI MICHELE    Poem Source                    
First Line: For july, in siena, by the willow tree
Alternate Author Name(s): Folgore Da San Gimignano; Di Michele, Giacomo
Subject(s): July


SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 12, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A few more days in this unkind july
Last Line: But you -- but you will then be far away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Variant Title(s): At The Season's End
Subject(s): July; Kisses; Moon; Thames (river)


SPECIMEN DAYS: A JULY AFTERNOON BY THE POND, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fervent heat, but so much more endurable in this pure air - the
Last Line: Yet may - be the most real reality and formulator of everything - who %knows?
Subject(s): July; Nature; Summer


TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE FIRST DAY: PAUL REVERE'S RIDE [APRIL 1775], by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Last Line: And the midnight message of paul revere.
Variant Title(s): The Landlord's Tale
Subject(s): American Revolution; Americans; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Massachusetts; Revere, Paul (1735-1818); United States; Independence Day; Liberty; America


THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Build me straight, o worthy master!
Last Line: Are all with thee,--are all with thee!
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Sea; United States; Independence Day; Liberty; Ocean; America


THE FOURTEENTH OF JULY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou shouldst have risen as never dawn yet rose
Last Line: 07/05/80
Subject(s): Dawn; France; July; Sunrise


THE FOURTH OF JULY, by JOHN PIERPONT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Day of glory! Welcome day!
Last Line: Till there's war no more!
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; United States - Declaration Of Independence; Independence Day


THE NATION'S BIRTHDAY, by MARY E. VANDYNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ring out the joy bells! Once again
Last Line: The story of our glorious fourth.
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Independence Day


THE POET'S CALENDAR: JULY, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My emblem is the lion, and I breathe
Last Line: I am the emperor whose name I bear.
Subject(s): July


THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER, by FRANCIS SCOTT KEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light
Last Line: Brave.
Variant Title(s): Final Curtain;defence Of Fort Mchenry
Subject(s): Flags - United States; Fort Mchenry, Battle Of (1814); Fourth Of July; Freedom; Napoleon I (1769-1821); National Song - United States; Patriotism; United States; War Of 1812; American Flag; Independence Day; Liberty; American National Anthem; America


THE SUCCESSION OF THE FOUR SWEET MONTHS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First, april, she with mellow showers
Last Line: More wealth brings in, then all those three.
Variant Title(s): The Four Sweet Months
Subject(s): April; July; June; Spring; Summer


THE TROPHY GUNS, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the fourth of july, a. D. 1874, an impromptu
Last Line: "banner."
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Guns; Nations; Independence Day


THE ULTIMATE JOY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have felt the thrill of passion in the poet's mystic book
Subject(s): Art & Artists;happiness;july;nature; Joy;delight


THE WAY IT WUZ, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Las' july - and, I persume
Last Line: As me and you is!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): July; Past


TICONDEROGA, by V. B. WILSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cold, gray light of the dawning
Last Line: Of the capture of old carillon, %the chime of the silver bells
Subject(s): American Revolution; Fourth Of July; Patriotism


TO BE SUNG ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, by WYATT PRUNTY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We come to this country
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; United States; Songs; Independence Day; America


TORCH OF LIBERTY, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw it all in fancy's glass
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Fourth Of July


TWO JULYS, by CHARLES JOHN BEECH MASEFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was so vague in 1914
Subject(s): July; Soldiers; World War I


UNCLE WILLIAM'S PICTURE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Uncle william, last july
Last Line: Smile, and wipe my eyes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Family Life; July; Uncles; Dead, The; Relatives


WALPOLE ODE, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Favorite land of freedom, hail!
Last Line: And echoing angels quit the skies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Walpole, New Hampshire; Independence Day


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


WELCOME TO THE NATIONS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright on the banners of lily and rose
Last Line: Thrones of the continents! Isles of the sea!
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; United States - Centennial Celebrations; Independence Day


WESTMINSTER ODE; FOR THE 4TH OF JULY, 1799, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Join to hail this festive morn
Last Line: Peace and independence.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Westminster, Vermont; Independence Day


WINDSOR ODE, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The blushing east displays the dawn
Last Line: Shout! Shout columbia's &c.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Bennington, Battle Of (1777); Fourth Of July; Truxtun, Thomas (1755-1822); Windsor, Vermont; Independence Day; Truxton, Thomas


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