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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS Matches Found: 13 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 7-NOV-84, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Not one of my candidates won. Not one Last Line: Bristle with stickers and seeds Subject(s): Elections; Political Campaigns; Presidents, United States; Reagan, Ronald Wilson (b. 1911) A CANDID CANDIDATE; EPIGRAM, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When john was contending (though sure to be beat) Last Line: "the objection will cease by the time I am in it!" Subject(s): Candor; Political Campaigns AMBITION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: As a boy, he wished to be a comedian Last Line: Dublin would have lost a genuine clown Subject(s): Ambition; Dublin, Ireland; Fools; Political Campaigns AUTUMN, by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dick and will and charles and I Last Line: And shook his fist in a cornstalk's face. Subject(s): Political Campaigns BRYAN, BRYAN, BRYAN, BRYAN, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a nation of one hundred fine, mob-hearted, lynching Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Bryan, William Jennings (1860-1925); Political Campaigns; Politics & Government BRYAN, BRYAN, BRYAN, BRYAN, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a nation of one hundred fine, mob-hearted, lynching Last Line: Gone to join the shadows with altgeld the eagle, %where the kings and the slaves and the troubadours Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Bryan, William Jennings (1860-1925); Political Campaigns; Politics GREGOR SAMSA SYNDROME, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: My nixon began when I did Last Line: I once copied to quote myself %into my wife's love Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Political Campaigns; Presidents, United States LINES UPON HEARING A POLITICAL CONVENTION, by ALICE FAWLEY Poem Source First Line: Vain, boasting voices, empty as the autumn Subject(s): Farm Life; Political Campaigns PIGS IN POKES: ANY CANDIDATE TO ANY CONSTITUENT, by SAMRAT UPADHYAY Poem Text First Line: You ask me in a general way Last Line: Because -- no more can I, sir! Subject(s): Political Campaigns PSALM 5, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: Give ear to my words, o lord Last Line: As with armor-plated tanks Subject(s): Central America; Peace; Political Campaigns; Social Protest; War SIX YEARS AFTER WACO, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Who else among the contra'd congregations kneels Last Line: And was that texas conflagration %hot enough? Subject(s): Political Campaigns; Texas STATE OF THE UNION: 13. ELECTION REPORT, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was a numbers game from the start Last Line: It was, by all accounts, a numbers game Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Democratic Party (u.s.); Elections; Political Campaigns TO CAPTAIN SEAMAN WEEKS, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Captain weeks, your right hand Last Line: Tenth ward independent elector' myself Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Elections; Political Campaigns |
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