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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NEW YORK CITY - REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD Matches Found: 26 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "EVACUATION OF NEW YORK BY THE BRITISH, 1783", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: They come!-they come!-the heroes come Last Line: "and bless, oh! Bless america!" Subject(s): American Revolution;freedom;new York City - Revolutionary Period;peace;victory; Liberty A RAID OF THE NEUTRAL GROUND, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up! Bully boys of the nepperhan!' Last Line: Peace rules the vale of the nepperhan. Subject(s): New York City - Revolutionary Period; Soldiers; War DANCE OF DEATH, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The mask. Look at the mask Last Line: Over the faulty pain of new york Subject(s): Death; Depressions, Economic; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Parades; United States DECATUR'S TOAST, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up rose, triumphant, from his seat Last Line: "our country! -- right or wrong!" Subject(s): Decatur, Stephen (1779-1820); Heroism; Nations; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Toasts; Heroes; Heroines FORT TRYON, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again there's a golden haze Last Line: Rides alone in a peaceful sky! Subject(s): Death; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Dead, The FRAUNCES' TAVERN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Restore, o thought, whose potent weird Last Line: The honest love of gallant men! Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Fraunces' Tavern, New York City; Memory; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Past; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons GOLDEN HILL, by HAMILTON FISH ARMSTRONG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: East of the rumble of broadway Last Line: On top of golden hill. Subject(s): New York City - Revolutionary Period HAARLEM HEIGHTS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They've turned at last! Goodby, king george Last Line: That we shall claim our own! Subject(s): American Revolution; Harlem Heights, Battle Of (1776); New York City - Revolutionary Period MARY MURRAY OF MURRAY HILL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lady of belmont looked out to the east Last Line: "kind hostess, thy bounty hath cost us too dear!" Subject(s): Army Life; Murray Hill, New York; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Drills & Minor Tactics NABBY, THE NEW YORK HOUSEKEEPER, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, nanny, I am sorry to find, since you write us Last Line: The beefe is half raw—and the bell rings for dinner! Subject(s): Friendship; Housekeeping; New York City - Revolutionary Period; United States - Congress NEW YORK (OFFICE AND ATTACK), by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Beneath all the statistics Last Line: Where the hudson is getting drunk on its oil Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Death; Men; New York City - Revolutionary Period OLD TRINITY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This was a merchant, and that was a belle Last Line: Sorrow and ecstasy, hatred and love. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Passion; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails OUR COLONEL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep loving, well knowing Last Line: "but always said, ""come, boys!" Subject(s): New York City - Revolutionary Period; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) THE BALLAD OF JOHN PAUL JONES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He hath masted the flag of the crimson bars Last Line: By the sweep of the moonlit steel! Subject(s): Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Jones, John Paul (1747-1792); New York City - Revolutionary Period; British Empire; England - Empire THE BLOCK-HOUSE IN THE PARK, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The north wind storms my rugged front Last Line: May all their wars be such as these! Subject(s): Dreams; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Nightmares THE CONGRATULATION, by JONATHAN ODELL Poem Text First Line: Joy to great congress, joy an hundred fold Last Line: Saint denis and saint tammany, go rot. Subject(s): American Revolution - French Involvement; Clergy; Estaing, Jean Baptiste De (1729-1794); New York City - Revolutionary Period; Saints; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops THE DYCKMAN HOUSE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Plain as the brass of an old sword-hilt Last Line: "shall look the world in the face again." Subject(s): Faith; Freedom; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Belief; Creed; Liberty THE FATE OF THE HESSIAN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who blusters along with his clattering blade Last Line: And field, camp, and prison knew friedrich no more! Subject(s): Fate; Hate; Legends; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Soldiers; Destiny THE INN: AN OLD EPITAPH, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Post-haste we ride the road of men Last Line: Who soonest goes hath least to pay. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hotels; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE OLD 'CONSTITUTION', by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the wind that greets the sun Last Line: A hundred years ago. Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Freedom; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Sailing & Sailors; Liberty; Seamen; Sails THE PRISON SHIPS, 1776, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: O martyrdom of hope!-to lie Last Line: Holds back to god,—earth's brightest answering star. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Monuments; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Prison Ships; Ships & Shipping THE STORMING OF STONY POINT [JULY 16, 1779], by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Highlands of hudson! Ye saw them pass Last Line: "over the parapet, ""spear in hand!" Subject(s): American Revolution; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Soldiers; Stony Point, Battle Of (1779); Wayne, Anthony (1745-1796) THE TOMB OF THE PATRIOTS, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Britain! We cite you to our bar, once more Last Line: These, once so wretched near manhattan's shore. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Patriotism; Prison Ships; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE WALLABOUT MARTYRS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Greater than memory of achilles or ulysses Last Line: The stepping stones to thee to-day and here, america. Subject(s): American Revolution; New York City - Revolutionary Period UNCLE SAM TO JOHN BULL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John bullikins, my jo, john Last Line: John bullikins, my jo. Subject(s): Friendship; New York City - Revolutionary Period WASHINGTON IN WALL STREET, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sublime, where traffic's billows beat Last Line: Their father blesses them. Subject(s): Love; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Presidents, United States; Wall Street, New York City; Washington, George (1732-1799) |
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