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Subject: LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807-1870)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` D.C., by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bad breed of the natives with their hates
Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Georgia (state); Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); Confederacy


D.C., by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bad breed of the natives with their hates
Last Line: The ways of lee, who, having lost the slaves, died farther south, a general in the wrong
Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Georgia (state); Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870)


LEE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother's people
Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers; Generals; Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); Slavery; Southern States; Virginia (state); Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs; South (u.s.)


LEE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother's people
Last Line: Chaining his mother to lee
Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers; Generals; Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); Slavery; Southern States; Virginia (state)


LEE, by ARCHIBALD HAMILTON RUTLEDGE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As arthur is to england
Subject(s): Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870)


LEE IN THE CAPITOL (APRIL, 1866), by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hard pressed by numbers in his strait
Last Line: We march with providence cheery still.
Subject(s): Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); Reconstruction (1865-1876)


LEE IN THE MOUNTAINS, 1865-1870, by DONALD (GRADY) DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking into the shadows, walking alone
Last Line: Unto all generations of the faithful heart
Subject(s): Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870)


LEE IN THE MOUNTAINS, 1865-1870, by DONALD (GRADY) DAVIDSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Walking into the shadows, walking alone
Last Line: Unto all generations of the faithful heart
Subject(s): Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870)


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


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


ROBERT E. LEE, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: O, robert lee, you paladin
Last Line: "good friend, it really doesn't matter."
Subject(s): Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870)


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


SENTINEL SONGS: 6, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But, oh! If in song or speech
Last Line: Nor fame -- another lee.
Subject(s): Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870)


STATUE INSCRIBED 'LEE,' RICHMOND, by MARY SINTON LEITCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here where virginia's storied river runs
Variant Title(s): Le
Subject(s): Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870)


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 SWORD OF ROBERT LEE, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forth from its scabbard, pure and bright
Last Line: Proudly and peacefully!
Subject(s): Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); Patriotism; Swords