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Subject: LITTLE BIGHORN, BATTLE OF
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BY THE LITTLE BIG-HORN, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down to their death in the valley of silence
Last Line: The eight nameless horsemen who never shall die.
Subject(s): Courage; Heroism; Honor; Little Bighorn, Battle Of; Loyalty; Military Service, Compulsory; Monuments; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Heroes; Heroines; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service


CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 2, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little big horn / little big horn does not belong to me
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Little Bighorn, Battle Of; Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief)


CUSTER, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What! Shall that sudden blade
Last Line: The light of thy renown!
Subject(s): Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Little Bighorn, Battle Of


CUSTER'S LAST CHARGE [JUNE 25, 1876], by FREDERICK WHITTAKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dead! Is it possible? He, the bold rider
Last Line: Needed but that death to render it full.
Subject(s): Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Little Bighorn, Battle Of; Patriotism


HUFFMAN'S PHOTOGRAPH OF THE GRAVES OF THE UNKNOWN AT LITTLE BIGHORN, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Taken a year after, in '77
Last Line: Turning silver in the wind.
Subject(s): Death; Little Bighorn, Battle Of; War; Dead, The


LITTLE BIG HORN, by ERNEST MCGAFFEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beside the lone river
Last Line: The shades of the dead through the ages lie dreaming.
Subject(s): Little Bighorn, Battle Of


MILES KEOGH'S HORSE, by JOHN MILTON HAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the bluff of the little big-horn
Last Line: Have not yet perished from earth.
Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Little Bighorn, Battle Of


ON THE BIG HORN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The years are but half a score
Last Line: Break forth into praise of god!
Subject(s): Little Bighorn, Battle Of; Native Americans; Rain-in-the-face (indian Chief); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


ON THE LITTLE BIGHORN: 1. THEN - THE SIOUX, by RAY SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: That was our country, the four winds know it
Last Line: Some were lost in the powder river burning
Subject(s): Little Bighorn, Battle Of


THE REVENGE OF RAIN-IN-THE-FACE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In that desolate land and lone, / where the big horn and yellowstone
Last Line: In the year of a hundred years.
Subject(s): Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Little Bighorn, Battle Of; Rain-in-the-face (indian Chief); Revenge