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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 22-FEB, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three boys, american, in dungarees
Last Line: Looked forward to the summer that is past
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


6-JAN-19, by JULIAN STREET    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now let those slanderers whose tongues
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


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 FARMER REMEMBERS LINCOLN, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lincoln, / well, I was in the old second main
Last Line: "I guess even you young folks would 'a' liked him."
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


A GOOD, GREAT NAME, by FRANCES ELIZABETH CAROLINE WILLARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: A good, great name!' so speak the bells
Last Line: "it shall sing on, ""a good, great name!"
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


A MAN CHILD IS BORN (1809), by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind blows through the chinks it's snowing too
Last Line: With logs to mend the fire!
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


A MESSAGE TO AMERICA, by ALAN SEEGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You have the grit and the guts, I know
Last Line: Oh, look over here and learn from france!
Subject(s): France; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919); Soldiers' Writings; Tolerance; United States; World War I; America; First World War


A WELCOME TO LINCOLN'S REMAINS, by MARTHA A. PARKS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Illinois' immortal son
Last Line: Resting on her breast.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History


A.E.F. TO T.R, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gone is the joy, - gone is the thrill of
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


ABE LINCOLN BUILDS A COFFIN, by HAZEL HILLIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A coffin for my mother!
Last Line: No lips but mine to pray.
Subject(s): Coffins; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Mothers; Presidents, United States


ABERGAVENNY, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: This was the home of holy men
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by A. S. AMES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Born in a hovel, trained in hardship's school
Subject(s): Holidays; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Abraham lincoln was ten feet tall
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by FRED CLARE BALDWIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: With humor's wand inhands to hardship used
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by ROSEMARY CARR BENET    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lincoln was a long man
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by JOEL BENTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some opulent force of genius, soul, and race
Variant Title(s): Another Washingto
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by VIRGINIA FRAZER BOYLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here are a few stanzas from a poetic tribute to lincoln
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead is the roll of the drums
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by MARY LIVINGSTON BURDICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Safe in fame's gallery through all they years
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No glittering chaplet brought from other lands!
Last Line: From eyes that never loved a humble hearth.
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His people called, and forth he came
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: From these wild hills that ring with feudal strife
Last Line: In whose meek heart our great new age had birth.
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by AMASA STETSON CONDON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Somewhere today in dolor and in want
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by ROSE TERRY COOKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hundreds there have been, loftier than their kind
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by P. C. CROLL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Akin to all that's noble, abreast with all that's grand
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by J. T. GOODMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A nation lay at rest. The mighty storm
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by EUGENE J. HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: O honored name, revered and undecaying
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by JAMES NICOLL JOHNSTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bear him to his western home
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by WALTER MALONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A blend of mirth and sadness, smiles and tears
Variant Title(s): A Masterpiec
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by FRANCESCA FALK MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Alone? %in wilderness of lofty, virgin trees
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by FRANK MOORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stand like an anvil, when 'tis beaten
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by FLORENCE EVELYN PRATT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lincoln, the woodsman, in the clearing stood
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by FRANKLIN BENJAMIN SANBORN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Though forts are stormed and cities won
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Child of the boundless prairie, son of the virgin soil
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heroic statesman, hail!
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by MONROE SPROWL    Poem Source                    
First Line: In cabined solitude, bedise dim fires at midnight hour
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by TOM TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You lay a wreath on murdered lincoln's bier
Last Line: With much to praise, little to be forgiven.
Variant Title(s): British Tribute To Lincoln;punch's Apology
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Peaceful valley reaching wide
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No adulation vain the poet brings
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by ROBERT WHITAKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is no name in all our country's story
Last Line: He has a place alone.
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1), by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not as when some great captain falls
Last Line: Of that paternal soul.
Variant Title(s): An Horatian Ode;abraham Lincoln: An Horation Ode
Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; United States - History


ABRAHAM LINCOLN (2), by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This man whose homely face you look upon
Last Line: To this dear benefactor of the race.
Variant Title(s): Lincoln's Birthday;to A Portrait Of Lincoln
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN - 1863, by RICHARD REALF    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It touches to the quick the spirit of one
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN - 1865, by LEWIS V. F. RANDOLPH    Poem Source                    
First Line: What hast thou hidden, mournful night!
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN ON THE FOURTH NIGHT OF INSOMNIA, by RYAN G. VAN CLEAVE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The loud voice in the hallway. The skittish pony
Last Line: I am a shipwrecked dog whose eyes reflect nothing
Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History


ABRAHAM LINCOLN WALKS AT MIDNIGHT, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is portentous, and a thing of state
Last Line: That he may sleep upon his hill again?
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Injustice; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Peace; Presidents, United States; Social Protest; World War I - United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S CHRISTMAS GIFT, by NORA PERRY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in eighteen hundred and sixty-four
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, BORN FEB. 12, 1809, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To-day, from each and all, a breath of prayer - a pulse of thought
Last Line: To memory of him -- to birth of him.
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE MASTER, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: We need him now - his rugged faith that held
Last Line: Who willed us greater tasks, when set his sun.
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ABRAHAM LINCOLN; ASSASSINATED GOOD FRIDAY, 1865, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forgive them, for they know not what they do!'
Last Line: So let it smite, such deeds shall be no more!
Subject(s): Assassination; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ACROSTIC: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by HARTIE I. PHILLIPS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let none falter who thinks he is right
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


AMERICA'S TRIUMVIRATE, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three masters among men our land
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


AN ADDRESS TO THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF ... AMERICAN ARMY, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Accept, great men, that share of honest praise
Last Line: Alike in merits, and alike in fame!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Army - United States; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


ANCIENT ABE, by CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us up and do or die'
Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Miles
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ANDRE'S LAST REQUEST [OR, REQUEST TO WASHINGTON] [OCTOBER 1, 1780], by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not the fear of death
Last Line: By a soldier's death!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Andre, John (1750-1780); Capital Punishment; History; Military Justice; Presidents, United States; Soldiers; Washington, George (1732-1799); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Historians; Courts Martial


ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by LEVI LEWIS HAGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: This day, upon the scroll of fame
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


APOTHEOSIS, by RUSSELL J. WILBUR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Resilient world, gargantuan, picturesque
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


APPRECIATION OF LINCOLN, by ROBERTUS LOVE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Somewhar down thar round hodgeville, kaintucky
Variant Title(s): The Boy From Hodgensvill
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ART OF LOVE, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I learned in my mother's kitchen, at her hands
Last Line: Satisfied, I'll let you lay hands on me
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


AS BARBARA CARTLAND WOULD SAY, I LOVE YOU, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: O worldly one, my bodice is not heaving
Last Line: To say enough to care the very best
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


AS MY HUSBAND TRANSLATES FROM THE POLISH, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Unselfconscious as a statue, %he sits heavily on a thin green chair
Last Line: In love or in despair %at the hour %of someone else's death
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


AT LINCOLN'S GRAVE, by JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: May one who fought in honor for the south
Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, Maurice
Variant Title(s): Lincoln's Grav
Subject(s): Graves; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


AT LINCOLN'S TOMB, by ROBERTUS LOVE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Abe lincoln? Wull, I reckon! Not a mile f'om where we be
Variant Title(s): One Of Lincoln's Roommates Speak
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


AT SAGAMORE HILL, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All things proceed as though the stage were set
Last Line: As you desired them in these sixty years.
Subject(s): Home; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


AT THE GRAVE OF THOMAS LINCOLN, by BRUCE GUERNSEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Remember that winter, my father, just a score
Last Line: This prairie is our home. Care for it. I will be back
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


AT THE LINCOLN TOMB, by JOHN HOWARD BRYANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: This tomb, by loving hands up-piled
Subject(s): Graves; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


AT THE TOMB OF WASHINGTON, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here let the brows be bared
Last Line: His laurels dim!
Subject(s): Funerals; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799); Burials


BABEL, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Scum from the pickle crock, dumplings with plum
Last Line: And sang about a silver horse with wings
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


BABYLON, BABYLON, BAYBLON THE GREAT, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Isaiah, the country-boy,marched against ... Jazz
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


BALLAD OF 'TEDDY'S TERRORS', by STEPHEN FRENCH WHITMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There wus a lovely regiment whose
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


BALLAD OF GRIZZLY GULCH, by WALLACE IRWIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rocks are rough, the trail is tough
Alternate Author Name(s): Ginger; Hashimura Togo
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


BALLAD OF SAGAMORE HILL, by WALLACE IRWIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis morning, and king theodore
Alternate Author Name(s): Ginger; Hashimura Togo
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


BALLAD OF THE LINCOLN PENNY, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down in old kentucky
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


BALLAD OF THE ROUGH RIDERS, by MARION COUTHOUY SMITH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We heard the sound of galloping feet
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


BEYOND THE VELVET CURTAIN, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Monthly I have come to these sands, monthly I have braved the %surge
Last Line: Pilot this empty gondola, this navigable slipper, beyond the slap, the %first lungswell and shriek
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


BIRTHDAY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by MARY CLEMENT LEAVITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the tints and the tones of other years
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


BRESLAU, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I see everything in layers: %trees, cities, species, the sexuality
Last Line: As the lamps snuff out, the walls %crumble in, the canaries %leave of singing
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


BROTHER GONE, by GENE BAKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: How can we manage with our brother
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


BRUTUS LIVES AGAIN IN BOOTH, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What time is it?
Last Line: (he rushes off. Great confusion.)
Subject(s): Assassination; Booth, John Wilkes (1838-1865); Ford's Theater, Washington, D.c.; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


BWANA TUMBO'-THE GREAT HUNTER, by WALTER BEVERLY CRANE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beyond the sea there's much contented
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


CABIN WHERE LINCOLN WAS BORN, by ROBERT MORRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only a cabin, old and poor
Alternate Author Name(s): Gibbons, James Sloane
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


CALL HIM THE CHILD OF GOD, by WILLIAM H. DRAPER    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Draper, W. H.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


CALL OF THE HOUR, by MARION COUTHOUY SMITH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Open the gates to roosevelt; make way
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


CATARACT OF T.R, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How do the speeches
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


CHAIN OF DATES, by ADA SIMPSON SHERWOOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: In seventeen hundred thirty-two
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


CHECKERS, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: O my master of the armchair and the ottoman
Last Line: Narrow trenches of leather lined with ripe, damp fur
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


CITOYEN, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh missionary, oh honey,' I say
Last Line: We begin the slow march on the capital, we beat %the slow sheep home
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


CLOSE TO A NATION'S BEATING PULSE HE STANDS, by LISKA STILLMAN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


CLOSE UP THE RANKS!, by EDWARD SIMS VAN ZILE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gently death came to him and bent
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


COLONEL ROOSEVELT IN DOMINICA, by RICHARD BUTLER GLAENZER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A handful of blacks drawn up on the
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


COME AS YOU ARE, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: She drives all night through the bovine dark
Last Line: Abundance? How, later, to fit back in the box?
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


COMMEMORATION ODE READ AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Weak-winged is song
Last Line: But ask whatever else, and we will dare!
Variant Title(s): Ode Recited At The Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865
Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Harvard University; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Peace; Presidents, United States; United States - History; Valor; Bravery


CONSOLER, by MARION COUTHOUY SMITH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the great bronze lincoln, strong
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


CONTRAST, by WILDA LEE CUMMINGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He was a man of greatness and glory
Last Line: That was washington, too.
Subject(s): Boys; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


COOL TOMBS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: When abraham lincoln was shoveled into the tombs, he forgot the copperheads
Last Line: The dust ... In the cool tombs.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


COURIER, by MARGARET DE KAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There came a courier in the night
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


CROWN HIS BLOODSTAINED PILLOW, by JULIA WARD HOWE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


CUBA LIBRE, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The plywood bar in the basement %glistened with silverfish
Last Line: The primer of mother's muted heels %popping and sparking up above
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


CURRICULUM VITA, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Antoni szymonik, born 1983, subject of franz-joseph
Last Line: 1974, died of a stroke beside a statue of the blessed virgin
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


DEATH AND ROOSEVELT, by ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES    Poem Source                    
First Line: He turned your lance, o death
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by ELEAZAR PARMLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lincoln is dead! And all the land
Last Line: The other, slavery's cursed chains.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History


DEATH OF ROOSEVELT, by THERESA VIRGINIA BEARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out of the west the wind
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


DIRGE ON THE DEATH OF ADAMS AND JEFFERSON, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Toll not the bell and muffle not
Last Line: And angel harps may hymn their prayers.
Subject(s): Adams, John (1735-1826); Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826); Presidents, United States


DOES HE HUNT WITH THE GREAT ORION, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


DOUGLAS' COMPLAINT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He punished me - in fight you see
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


DROUGHT, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: After the grass burned, after our great
Last Line: In your hair, death %and the banishment of death, wave %after wave
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


DURING THE SORTIES OVER BAGHDAD, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: A woman works with lace panels
Last Line: A city that has never been bombed
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


DUST DEVILS, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today, on the thirtieth of the drought
Last Line: And dust devils, hot wind and sod, the gray scale %between black and white?
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


DUTCH ODE TO WASHINGTON, SELS., by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: No lofty monument thy greatness needs
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


EAGLE, by CAROLINE RUSSELL BISPHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: A glorious sun has set. And lo
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


EINSTEIN'S TRAIN, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: For years I will track you, tunnel
Last Line: And let lightning strike you twice
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


ELECTION DAY, by MARGARET BOYCE BONNELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: We miss thy figure in the throng
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


ENGLAND'S SORROW, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hand of an assassin, glowing red
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ENOUGH, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Doesn't seem much chance to doubt it
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


EPITAPH FOR LINCOLN, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This dust was once the man
Last Line: Was saved the union of these states.
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ESCORT OF THE YELLOWSTONE, by JOHN STEVEN MCGROARTY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above him the wild skies bending
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


EXILE, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: O marble aunts and grandparents %planted in this alien soil
Last Line: For lilies in my arms and growing hair
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


FAME OF LINCOLN, by A. DALLAS WILLIAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whereever men are civilized they know
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


FAREWELL!, by C. H. VAN HOUSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Farewell! Farewell, great heart!'
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


FATHER ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by EDWARD WILLIAM THOMSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: My private shrine. The gettysburg address
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


FATHER OF OUR COUNTRY, by MRS. MADRID H. SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: George washington, a name to love and revere
Last Line: Founder of old glory, the red, white, and blue.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY, by MARION COUTHOUY SMITH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was star-time when he died
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


FEBRUARY 12, 1809, by GAIL BROOK BURKET    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, setting sun, had you no aureole?
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


FEBRUARY SPEAKS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Because I am so very small
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


FEBRUARY TWELFTH, by MARY F. HEPBURN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Loyal to country and comrades and then
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


FIGHTING STOCK, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Quentin, the eagle, nobly dead!
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


FIRST, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: First in war
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


FIRST PAGER, by GUY FORRESTER LEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Scholar and soldier, wit and sage
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


FLAG'S MESSAGE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We honor our flag so bright
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


FLOWER CAST, by F. JOHN HERBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A flower cast has taken place for three days
Last Line: Films in new york and a worldwide gold sealer %summed up that's one small step for %man one small st
Subject(s): News; Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States; Radio


FOR A LITTLE PUPIL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Napoleon was great, I know
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


FOR SERVICES IN MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN; MEMORIAL VERSES, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou of soul and sense and breath
Last Line: And bless thy name forever!
Variant Title(s): Hymn For The Services In Memory Of Abraham Lincoln
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


FOR THEODORE ROOSEVELT, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a mighty sound a-comin'
Last Line: Fightin' trim.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


FRANK BROKE, by F. JOHN HERBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Frank broke the precedent and traveled to the odd east
Last Line: He moves early and evacuates the fifth jet to washington. %in nineteen days it fit
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Travel


FROM HAUNTS OF BEASTS, by JOSEPH BERNARD RETHY    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


FROM POTOMAC TO MERRIMAC, by EDWARD EVERETT HALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you know how the people of all the land
Last Line: Forever and a day!
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


FROST HEAVES, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the winter retches so hard the roads contort
Last Line: Frost heaves when I touch myself %pretending to touch her
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


FUNERAL HYMN, by PHINEAS DENSMORE GURLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rest, noble martyr! Rest in peace
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


FUNERAL HYMN, by PHOEBE A. HANAFORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hushed today are the sounds of gladness
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


GEORGE WASHINGTON, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In seventeen hundred thirty-two
Last Line: And earthly life shall end
Subject(s): "presidents, United States;washington, George (1732-1799);


GEORGE WASHINGTON, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: By broad potomac's silent shore
Last Line: Art to his fame no aid hath lent; / his country is his monument
Subject(s): "presidents, United States;washington, George (1732-1799);


GEORGE WASHINGTON, by LAURA REW BIXBY    Poem Text                    
First Line: A nation was born in a vast new domain
Last Line: Of a self-governed people. May they honor his name!
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; United States - History; United States - Politics & Government; Washington, George (1732-1799)


GEORGE WASHINGTON, by ALICE CRAIG EDGERTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: From time's beginning it was foreordained
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


GEORGE WASHINGTON, by MARYANN WEEKS ELLIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: First in war was he
Last Line: His valiant deeds will ever recall.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


GEORGE WASHINGTON, by ROSE L. HERZOG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas in seventeen hundred and thirty - two
Last Line: Yet each may have part in this bicentenary.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


GEORGE WASHINGTON, by JOHN HALL INGHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: This was the man god gave us when the hour
Last Line: The everlasting surges of the tide.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


GEORGE WASHINGTON, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: How did george washington look
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


GEORGE WASHINGTON, by CARLO VILLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes the captain feels unwell
Last Line: We must write him a letter
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


GEORGE WASHINGTON - A PORTRAIT, by MINNIE PARKER MCCOWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: We do not think of him as fair of face
Last Line: A soul of adamant, undaunted and sublime.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THE LOSS OF HIS TEETH, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An ultimate / in the un-romantic
Last Line: Got the teeth in your mouth
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Teeth; Washington, George (1732-1799); Toothaches


GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THE LOSS OF HIS TEETH, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An ultimate %in the un-romantic
Last Line: Got the teeth in your mouth
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Teeth; Washington, George (1732-1799)


GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS LUCKY!, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am eight years old
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


GEORGE WASHINGTON, LOVER, by GREG HEWETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I always preferred the quiet life
Last Line: I am the good wife
Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology); Men; Presidents, United States; Washington, D.c.; Washington, George (1732-1799)


GHOSTS OF THE NEW WORLD, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are no ghosts, you say
Last Line: Calls to the slumbering host.
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Death; Dreams; Earth; Explorers; Ghosts; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Supernatural; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


GOD SAVE OUR PRESIDENT, by FRANCIS DE HAES JANVIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All hail! Unfurl the stripes and stars!
Last Line: God save our president!
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States; United States; America


GONE IS ULYSSES, by MARIE L. EGLINTON    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


GRAVE OF ROOSEVELT, by SNOW LONGLEY HOUGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: He had found joy in these wide-reaching trees
Alternate Author Name(s): Snow Longley
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


GRAY IS THE PALL OF THE SKY, by ROGER STERRETT    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


GREAT IS OUR GRIEF, by NINA JONES    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


GREAT OAK, by BENNETT CHAPPLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some men are born, while others seem to grow
Last Line: When he might save a nation in its strife.
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


GREAT WITHOUT POMP, WITHOUT AMBITION BRAVE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


GREAT, WILD, FREE SOUL, by J. A. H.    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


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


GUARDIAN OF THY LAND, by HERMAN MONTAGU DONNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The world grows tow'rd its disenthralled
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


GUESS WHO?, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes fantastical %often bombastical
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


HAIL, BRIGHTEST BANNER THAT FLOATS ON THE GALE, by WILLIAM S. ROBINSON    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


HAPPY WARRIOR, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: In early years our valiant fight began
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


HATCHET, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: George washington, though great was he
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


HE ENTERETH AMERICA BY THE FRONT DOOR, by WALLACE IRWIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Muses, lend me an earthquake
Alternate Author Name(s): Ginger; Hashimura Togo
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


HE HATED SHAM, by JOHN W. LOW    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


HE IS ALL OURS', by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I could forge you verses that would ring
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


HE LEADS US STILL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dare we despair? Through all the nights and days
Last Line: The nation lincoln died for cannot fail!
Subject(s): Holidays; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


HELLO NEIL AND BUZZ FROM OMAHA, by F. JOHN HERBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hello neil and buzz from omaha and the church camp
Last Line: Thirty-four hours all the utilities and tvs can %start anytime you want
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


HERMANN KAFKA'S DINNERTIME PANTOUM, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: When father says it's time, it's time!
Last Line: And when father says it's time, it's time!
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


HIS DAY, by WILLIAM SAMUEL JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: There were earth-men and wing-men
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Celestial choir! Enthron'd in realms of light
Last Line: With gold unfading, washington! Be thine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis
Variant Title(s): George Washington
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


HIS LAST WORDS, by EDITH DALEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Put out the light!' although the
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


HIS LIVING MONUMENT, by MINNA IRVING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Though many a year above his dust
Alternate Author Name(s): Michener, Harry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


HIS NAME, by PAULINE FRANCES CAMP    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Just a wee little scrap of a laddie, so fair
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


HISTORIC EPISODES, by PETER WELLINGTON CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Toussaint %sticking out his tongue
Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872-1906); Jesus Christ; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Slavery; Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803)


HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Higgledy-piggledy, / benjamin harrison
Last Line: Didn't do much
Subject(s): Harrison, Benjamin (1833-1901); Presidents, United States


HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Higgledy-piggledy, %benjamin harrison
Last Line: Idiosyncracy, %didn't do much
Subject(s): Harrison, Benjamin (1833-1901); Presidents, United States


HOME MOVIE, 1960, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who were you before you could speak?
Last Line: I wish I could cover you with language
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


HONEST ABE' WHAT STRANGE VEXATION, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


HONOR WASHINGTON, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We're here today to honor washington
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


HOUSE IN SPRINGFIELD, by GAIL BROOK BURKET    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here in this simple house his presence clings
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


HOUSE WHERE LINCOLN DIED, by ROBERT MACKAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Above jedea's purple-mantled plain
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


HUNTER, TIRING OF THE CHASE, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


HYMN, by JR. ABNER CHENEY GOODELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: O thou who givest life
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


HYMN, by JONES VERY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O god! Who dost the nations lead
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


HYMN TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by WILLIAM WILBERFORCE NEWTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Saw you in his boyhood days
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


I WONDER IF HE KNOWS IT - HOW THE BOYS, by WILBUR DICK NESBIT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


IF I SHOULD CARVE A LINCOLN, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I should carve a lincoln, I would take
Last Line: Some new gibraltar, by our western sea.
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


IF I WERE PRESIDENT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I were president, I'd speak
Last Line: Is -- just -- what -- taft -- does -- do.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Taft, William Howard (1957-1930)


IF LINCOLN SHOULD RETURN, by MARGARET E. BRUNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: If lincoln were to come again to earth
Last Line: Distress would somehow know the thing to do.
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


IF ROOSEVELT HAD BEEN BAD, by JOHN WALLACE CRAWFORD    Poem Source                    
First Line: You never spoke a greater truth
Alternate Author Name(s): Jack, Captain
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


ILLINOIS, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shaped like lincoln's face, veined red and blue
Last Line: And cottonmouth, the submerged willow root %I could wreck my life on
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


IN HARDIN COUNTY, 1809, by LULU E. THOMPSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: With flintlock guns and polished stocks
Subject(s): History; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


IN MEMORIAM, by GEORGE DOUGLASS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Men come and go, as comes and goes
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


IN MEMORIAM (ABRAHAM LINCOLN), by DEXTER SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Columbia weeps! Her cherished son
Last Line: Our future is alone with god.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History


IN MEMORIAM: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by JAMES THOMPSON MCKAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a burden of grief on the breezed of spring
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


IN MEMORIAM: THEODORE ROOSEVELT, by ANNETTE KOHN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let there be light!' - god's voice was heard
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


IN PRAISE OF WASHINGTON, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


IN THE COVE, by MARY FANNY YOUNGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There's a hill above the harbor
Last Line: Beyond the shining west.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


IN THE PARKING LOT AT THE JUNIOR COLLEGE ON THE EVE OF A PRESIDENTAL, by JANE MEAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've been sitting in this parking lot %for a long time-thinking
Last Line: Abraham. Abraham- %I'm talking about the wonder
Subject(s): Elections; Presidents, United States


IN WHICH ROOSEVELT IS COMPARED TO SAUL?, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where is david? - oh, god's people
Last Line: "singing like a mountain rill!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919); Saul (11th Century B.c.)


INAUGURATION DAY: JANUARY 1953, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow had buried stuyvesant
Subject(s): Elections; Presidents, United States; Stevenson, Adlai (1900-1965); Voting; Voters; Suffrage


INAUGURATION DAY: JANUARY 1953, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The snow had buried stuyvesant
Last Line: The mausoleum in her heart
Subject(s): Elections; Presidents, United States; Stevenson, Adlai (1900-1965)


INTO THE SILENCE, by WILLIAM HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stalwart hands, with firmness
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


IT IS MY DUTY (1), by F. JOHN HERBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: And it is my duty to say yesterday
Last Line: That is our rate of salt %that is our agreement of chrome and autumn
Subject(s): Duty; Military; Presidents, United States; World War I - Naval Actions


IT IS MY DUTY (2), by F. JOHN HERBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is my duty to say that the united states
Last Line: Mr. Churchill will not forget the mortal cereal %but organize and slowly bring the horses on the sta
Subject(s): Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Presidents, United States


JOHN BROWN'S BODY, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They came on to fish-hook gettysburg in this way, after this fashion
Last Line: And the strange south moved against you, lean members lost in the corn
Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Slavery; United States - History; Anti-slavery; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Serfs


JOHN BROWN'S BODY, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They came on to fish-hook gettysburg in this way, after this fashion
Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Slavery; U.s. - History


JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All generous hearts lament the leader killed
Last Line: The promise of his spirit be fulfilled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Assassination; Dallas, Texas; Death; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963); Lament; Presidents, United States; Dead, The


JOHN HENRY JONES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I think I'll be like washington
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, by ELIZABETH H. WHITTIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He rests with the immortals; his journey has been long
Last Line: Shall his voice be heard to cheer us, shall his finger point the way.
Subject(s): Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848); Presidents, United States


JOLLY SOLDIER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I once was a seaman stout and bold
Last Line: "abd I'll still be the jolly, jolly soldier"
Subject(s): "holidays;presidents, United States;washington, George (1732-1799);


KATHE KOLLWITZ, AFTER A VISIT TO THE NEW RUSSIA, 1927, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: My model sleeps. But no matter
Last Line: Even there hunger rattles on %like an empty train
Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Kollwitz, Kathe (1867-1945); Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


KNUCKS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In abraham lincoln's city
Last Line: This is abraham lincoln's home town.
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Secondhand Trade


LAWRENCE WELK, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I loved my gram, but couldn't stand her show
Last Line: Would polka her around the universe
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


LEAGUE OF NATIONS; THE PRESIDENT RETURNS TO AMERICA, by NANCY BYRD TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Back to our shores he comes from the sad strand
Last Line: A watch-fire on the topmost hill of time.
Subject(s): League Of Nations; Nations; Presidents, United States; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


LEARNING TO DRAW, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Leonardo! I'm learning to see %in fractions: the body in eighths
Last Line: In their saucers, and my frogs any moment %will leap off the page
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


LET THERE BE LIGHT, by JOHN PIERPONT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the beginning the eternal cause
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LEWINSKI STEW, by PAT D'AMICO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Monica squealed while linda was taping
Last Line: Though I fear she will soon have him fixed
Subject(s): Clinton, William Jefferson (b. 1946); Lewinski, Monica; Politics; Presidents, United States; Sex


LIBERATOR, by HORACE SPENCER FISKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Uprisen from his fasced chair of state
Variant Title(s): St. Gauden's Lincoln Statue, Chicag
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LIFE-MASK OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by GERTRUDE BLOEDE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, countless wonders brought from every zone
Alternate Author Name(s): Sterne, Stuart
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LIKE A TREE, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw a sturdy tree, wind crucified
Last Line: He stood quite like the scarred and noble tree!
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Peace; Presidents, United States; Silence; War


LIKE WASHINGTON, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: We cannot all be washingtons
Last Line: They do their best when they are smaller
Subject(s): "presidents, United States;washington, George (1732-1799);


LINCOLN, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I knew the man. I see him, as he stands
Last Line: Lord of himself, an inborn gentleman!
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Crown we our heroes with a holier wreath
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hour was on us; where the man?
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whence came this man? As if on the wings
Last Line: And belongs to the ages now!
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Hurt was the nation with a mighty wound
Last Line: And wrote thee down among her treasured few.
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN, by LYDIA LANDO ELLIOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The deeds of him who bore that name
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a gaunt, scraggly pine
Last Line: Bitter for remembrance of the healing which has passed.
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States


LINCOLN, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER    Poem Source                    
First Line: New heroes rise above the toiling throng
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Would I might rouse the lincoln in you all
Last Line: Fire that freed the slave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN, by RICHARD LINTHICUM    Poem Source                    
First Line: What strong, sure hand shall guide the laboring ship
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN, by THOMAS MACKELLAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: So deep our grief, it may be silence is
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chained by stern duty to the rock of state
Last Line: Who always on earth's little ones hath smiled.
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN, by WILBUR DICK NESBIT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We mark the lovly place where he was born
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN, by ROBERT HENRY NEWELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas needed - the name of a martyr sublime
Alternate Author Name(s): Kerr, Orpheus
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN, by BENJAMIN S. PARKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The voice is hushed, the heart is still
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We lift the curtain of the past to-day
Last Line: The world shall echo with our lincoln's name.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A peaceful life; - just toil and rest
Last Line: Of self, his peaceful life.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Brave soul, heir of sturdy mountaineers
Last Line: The great american.
Subject(s): Americans; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I mused by lincoln's statue on the square
Last Line: Ring out his eulogy in silver songs.
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Praise; Presidents, United States; Statues


LINCOLN, by B. F. M. SOURS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Over snowy fields of cotton
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN, by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Say - if men asked for him - he has gone home
Last Line: "they have the power to will, the will to wait."
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN, by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heroic soul, in homely garb half hid
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN, by HENRY TYRRELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lincoln arose! The masterful, great man
Last Line: Blending of puritan and cavalier.
Variant Title(s): The Masterful Great Man;lincoln's Way
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In him distilled and potent the choice essence of a race!
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN, by RICHARD WIGHTMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: And he was once a babe, little and like any other
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A log cabin, rude and rough
Last Line: Of that dim shadowy firelit room.
Subject(s): February; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN (1), by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wise with the wisdom of ages
Last Line: Deathless, he enters life.
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN (2), by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: He walked among us and we passed him by
Last Line: The goal of their desires, with breaking dawn.
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN - THE BOY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O simple as the rhymes that tell
Last Line: The loving man he was.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN AND HIS PSALM, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TAYLOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Move on, ye pilgrims, to the springfield tomb
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG, by MARY MATHEWS ADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A nation's voice, a nation's praise
Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History


LINCOLN BOULDER, by LOUIS BRADFORD COUCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: O mighty boulder, wrought by god's own hand
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN CAMPAIGN SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We hear a cry increasing still
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN CENTENARY ODE, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No ceremonial
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN IN BRONZE, by ROBERTUS LOVE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here do I look upon historic form
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN LEADS, by MINNA IRVING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the page of history
Last Line: For lincoln leads them all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Michener, Harry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN SLAIN, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the moment of his glory
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN STILL LIVES, by CHARLES MUMFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: This mask of bronze cannot conceal his heart
Last Line: O shame-faced death, you sped your shaft in vain.
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN TRIUMPHANT, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lincoln is not dead
Last Line: To make the world a world of friends.
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN! WHEN MEN WOULD NAME A MAN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On pleasure bent, see how the pressing hordes
Last Line: Lincoln alone, in an eternal scene.
Subject(s): Assassination; Comedy; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Plays & Playwrights ; Presidents, United States; Tragedy; Dramatists


LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sacred day is this
Last Line: All glorified!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY, by NATHAN HASKELL DOLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: As back we look across the ages
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY, by IDA VOSE WOODBURY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Again thy birthday dawns, o man beloved
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY - 1918, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When over-burdened with its care
Last Line: Mine eyes will find their way to light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN'S DREAM, by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How can I tell them what it was I saw
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN'S PASSING BELL, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tolling, tolling, tollint!
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the norn mother saw the whirlwind hour
Last Line: And leaves a lonesome place against the sky.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States; Religion; United States - History; Theology


LINCOLN: A RETROSPECT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now that the winds of peace have blown away
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINCOLN; APRIL, 1865-1915, by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou that on this april day
Last Line: No marble white enough for thee!
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LINES ON THE DEATH OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, by JAMES MONROE WHITFIELD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The great, the good, the just, the true
Last Line: The blessings, truth and virtue given
Subject(s): Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848); Amistad (schooner); Presidents, United States; Slavery


LION THAT ROOSEVELT SHOT, by ISABEL FISKE CONANT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was a king of beasts, and he, all valor
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


LITTLE GIRL AND WASHINGTON, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'd like to be like washington
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


LITTLE ORPHANT TEDDY'S COME TO OUR, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


LIVE THOU IN NATURE, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


LO! HE WOULD LIFT THE BURDEN, by WILLIAM DUDLEY FOULKE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


LONG SHADOW OF LINCOLN, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be sad, be cool, be kind
Last Line: By the light of the hard old teaching: %'we must disenthrallouselves'
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


LONG, LONG AGO (2), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Back in our history long, long ago
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


LOSING LANGUAGE, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's pan zbyszek's funeral, and I'm running late
Last Line: I will neither fidget nor flinch
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


MAKING PIEROGI, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dough is not turning out. It refuses
Last Line: And float in the salty water, and rescue them %again and again
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The chance-flung favorite of no lucky
Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


MAN OF MEN, by LEONARD VAN NOPPEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bred in a low place, lord of little deeds
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


MAN OF STRAIGHT WORD AND VALIANT DEED, by MARGARET BOYCE BONNELL    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


MARTAL DIPTYCH, by GLYN MAXWELL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By stock-still flags on the hottest day
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; War


MARTYR, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No, not in vain he died, not all in vain
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


MARY TODD LINCOLN AT FORD'S THEATRE, by SUSAN TERRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: So I said no, no more dramas like these with pieces of my flesh
Last Line: Let me, too, be freed from myself and from this killing darkness
Subject(s): American Civil War; Civil War; Death; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History; Violence


MARY TODD ON HER DEATHBED, by JULIANNA BAGGOTT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can hear them, choking on spoons, screaming
Last Line: In my handmade girlhood hoop-skirt snapping
Subject(s): Death; Insanity; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


MARY, MOTHER OF WASHINGTON, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Children of fair saint botolph's town
Last Line: Mary, mother of washington!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799); Washinton, Mary Ball


MASTER OF HEARTS OF MEN THAT JUSTICE, by JOHN LINCOLN BLAUSS    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


MASTERY, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: At 22, I snuck up on rembrandt's pose
Last Line: Of what was lost: a rescue or refuge
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


MEANING OF W-A-S-H-I-N-G-T-O-N, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: W is for washington, noble and brave
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


MEETING, by ELLA GRANDOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Upward and onward his brave soul is
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


MEMORIES OF WHITMAN AND LINCOLN, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lilacs shall bloom for walt whitman
Last Line: And lilacs for abraham lincoln.
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Poetry & Poets; Presidents, United States; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891)


MEMORY OF LINCOLN AND THE YANKEES, by JAMES EPHRIAM MCGIRT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Among the dear old friends we people cherish
Last Line: And tell them of the yankees' blessed deed.
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


MIDWESTERN AUTUMN, by IMRE ORAVECZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun still shines warmly
Last Line: To the recent immigrants
Subject(s): Guests; Presidents, United States; Roads; Tourists; Travel


MIGHTY OAK, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It hath crashed down-the mighty oak
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


MINUTE-GUNS, by WILLIAM SYDNEY THAYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A steel-gray sky and a slaty sea
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


MISS VICTORY (1895), by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: You can't fool us, miss victory, queening it
Last Line: Your left hand flaming, the other hugging the hilt
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


MISSING, by JEFFERSON TOOMBS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I lay down my fresh morning paper
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


MOTHER OF LINCOLN, by BENJAMIN DAVENPORT HOUSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out on the lie of 'lowly born!'
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


MOUNT VERNON, THE HOME OF WASHINGTON, by WILLIAM DAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There dwelt the man, the flower of human kind
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


MOURNING CLOUD LIES BLACK ACROSS THE SUN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


MR. VALIANT PASSES OVER, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the post came. And told him that
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


MY KINSMAN, by CARLOS DAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dead! %the one word sped
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


NANCY HANKS, MOTHER OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sweet girl graduate, lean as a fawn
Last Line: Nancy hanks, in a lost log cabin, %nancy hanks had the loveliest face!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Hanks, Nancy (1783-1818); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


NATIONAL COLORS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The red has been dyed with the blood of the brave
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


NEGLECTED GRAVE OF LINCOLN'S MOTHER, by JAMES CORBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A wooded hill - a low-sunk grave
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


NEIL AND BUSS SAY A WORD, by F. JOHN HERBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Neil and buss say a word from the president
Last Line: They put an assembly for a return. %they put a panic last %the operation like a sunburn a doubts the
Subject(s): Presidents, United States


NEVER BREAK A PROMISE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: If you wish to be respected
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


NIGHT RIDE OF ANCIENT ABE, by CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not a drum was heard, not a party cry
Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Miles
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


NIXON AND NIKITA IN THE KITCHEN, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the threshold of the model american home
Last Line: To tell the truth, and the young are rarely capable of it
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


NIXON ON THE PLEASURES OF UNDRESSING A WOMAN, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: With us, it is easy: a tug on the tie, the ubiquitous zipper
Last Line: But for silence, longing, a residue of perfume
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


NIXON'S BRIEFCASE BY JOSEPH CORNELL, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nixon rubs his palm across the large pores
Last Line: He feels like a pharaoh at the mouth of his own tomb
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


NIXON'S NIGHTMARE, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: B-52s with heavy payloads whinny %over the reflecting pools at versailles
Last Line: Untwits the pin of a grenade. Serpents %of reel-to-reel shoot through the pool
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


NOT DEAD, by MINNIE D. WILBUR    Poem Source                    
First Line: We cannot think of him as dead
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


NOW WE SING OF WASHINGTON, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: O captain! My captain! Our fearful trip is done
Last Line: Fallen cold and dead.
Variant Title(s): On The Death Of President Lincoln;my Captain;to Abraham Lincoln;on Lincoln
Subject(s): American Civil War; Assassination; Freedom; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Loss; Patriotism; Presidents, United States; Sea; United States - History; Liberty; Ocean


O NAME FOREVER TO THY COUNTRY DEAR!, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


OCCASIONED BY GENERAL WASHINGTON'S ARRIVAL IN PHILADELPHIA, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The great unequal conflict passed
Last Line: And all the pageant scene expires.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


ODE FOR GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No spartan tube, no attic shell
Last Line: That palsied arm no more whirls on the waste of war.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


ODE FOR THE BURIAL OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, slow to smite and swift to spare
Last Line: Who perished in the cause of right.
Variant Title(s): Abraham Lincoln;the Death Of Lincoln
Subject(s): Funerals; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Burials


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 FOR WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome to the day returning
Last Line: Trust us, while we honor thee!
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


ODE IN MEMORY OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT, by RUDOLPH ALTROCCHI    Poem Source                    
First Line: A man has died. We pause to meet
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


ODE TO T.R, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou who, with sword or pen
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


ODE TO WASHINGTON, by LILLIAN R. FLETCHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out of the pages of history, beyond our memories' kin
Last Line: Beyond the dim horizon, light of tomorrow's star.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


ODE, BY THE CONSTITUENTS OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, by JOHN PIERPONT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not from the bloody field
Last Line: New life to give.
Subject(s): Abolitionists; Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848); Presidents, United States; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Serfs


ODE; FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE WASHINGTON LIGHT INFANTRY, by CHARLES SPRAGUE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bugle is hushed, and the war-blade is sheathed
Last Line: "sleep, spoiler of nations, the slumber of time!"
Subject(s): American Revolution; Lafayette, Marie Joseph, Marquis De; Presidents, United States; Veterans; Washington, George (1732-1799)


OF HIM WHO LOVED NOT REST, by HELEN GRAY CONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: How shall we say 'god rest him!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Green, Coroebus
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


OH, FOR A SON OF THY RELENTLESS POWER, by LILBURN HARWOOD TOWNSEND    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


OLD ABE, by GEORGE E. TOMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let's go and look
Last Line: Maybe we should take our hats off, eh?
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


OLD CAMBRIDGE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And can it be you've found a place
Last Line: As all the world shall know!
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


ON A BUST OF LINCOLN, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This was a man of mighty mould
Last Line: Stand as his cenotaph!
Subject(s): Heroism; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Heroes; Heroines


ON A CANDIDATE ACCCUSED OF YOUTH, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Too young' do they call him? Who say it? Not they
Last Line: Ask the foe by which weapon he fears most to fall!
Subject(s): Elections; Politics & Government; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919); Voting; Voters; Suffrage


ON GUARD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pain-weary, sore oppressed by time's
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


ON LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A day of joy, a holiday!
Last Line: The treasures of mankind!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton
Subject(s): Holidays; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ON READING OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S WORK POLICE COMMISSIONER, by WILLIAM NOBLE ROUNDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Men of his mould arouse the dawdling
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


ON READING PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S LETTER, by H. L. GORDON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Perish the power that, bowed to dust
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ON THE BIRTHDAY OF WASHINGTON, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold the mossed corner-stone dropped from the wall
Last Line: And to thee be the glory alone.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


ON THE HILL, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There on the summit was your 'crowded hour'
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


ONE OF OUR PRESIDENTS, by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He sits there on the low, rude, backless bench
Last Line: "I thought, ""thank god, thank god the ship rides true!"
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Statues


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)


OUR FLAG IS FLOATING TODAY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The stories of battle and raid
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


OUR GOOD PRESIDENT, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our sun hath gone down at the noon-day
Last Line: With its great seal of blood!
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


OUR GUIDE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We celebrate the memory of our first president
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


OUR HEROIC THEMES, SELS., by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


OUR LOST CAPTAIN, by WILLIAM DUDLEY FOULKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A kingly soul is dumb within the
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


OUR NOBLE WASHINGTON, by MARIE IRISH    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is a hero we love well
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


OUR PRESIDENT READS A BOOK -- NOT LOUIS L'AMOUR, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before all the world
Last Line: We have sought his love for a thousand days
Subject(s): Books; Poetry Readings; Presidents, United States; Reagan, Ronald Wilson (b. 1911); White House (washington, D.c.)


OUR PRESIDENTS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: First stands the lofty washington
Last Line: "twenty-eighth, wilson holds the place, / a nation's problems has to face"
Subject(s): "presidents, United States;


OUR PRESIDENTS, by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: First came general washington
Alternate Author Name(s): Richards, Laura E.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States


OUR ROOSEVELT, by MARY DILLINGHAM FREAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grant us grace that we may greet him
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


OUR TWENTY-SIX PRESIDENTS IN RHYME, by JOHN NELSON DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: First is a name the world reveres
Last Line: To end our rhyme.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States


OUR WASHINGTON, by ELIZA W. DURBIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: O son of virginia, thy mem'ry divine
Last Line: And the land that is hallowed by washington's grave.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


PANEGYRIC ON WASHINGTON, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He fought, but not with love of strife; he struck but to defend
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


PARDON, by JULIA WARD HOWE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pains the sharp sentence
Last Line: Greatest, forgive!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Assassination; Booth, John Wilkes (1838-1865); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; United States - History


PARRICIDE; ABRAHAM LINCOLN - APRIL 14, 1865, by JULIA WARD HOWE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er the warrior gauntlet grim
Last Line: From his ashes makes us freemen still.
Subject(s): Assassination; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Parricide; Presidents, United States


PAT NIXON SPEAKS OF HER HUSBAND'S SNORING, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: For all I know his communiques %animate the gray pacific or ascend
Last Line: Cliffs of rock along the coast, and the ocean %with its everlasting in and out
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


PATRIOTIC POEM, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: George washington, your name is on my lips
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


PATRIOTIC POEM, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: George washington, your name is on my lips
Last Line: When will I finally become the first president's wife?
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


PEOPLE'S PRESIDENT, by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Reverberant music of rejoicing bells
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


PHILOSOPHER NIXON AT FRISBEE, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: It began as a game with his grandkids, an absurd pursuit
Last Line: His body not the aimless arrow %but the tightened bow
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


POET'S WIFE, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: She curses the half moon hanging
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


POINT OF THAT PYRAMID WHOSE SOLID BASE, by ? AIKIN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


POLISH JOKES, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the deep freeze of the cold war
Last Line: For feigning detente while dreaming of exile
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


PORTRAIT, by HARRY GRAHAM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alert as bird or early worm
Alternate Author Name(s): Streamer, Col. D.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


PRAIRIE SCHOONER, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: That house at tenth & grant
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


PRAYER FOR THE PRESIDENT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lay thou, o god, thy quickening hand
Last Line: Bestow thy crowning praise. Amen.
Subject(s): Prayer; Presidents, United States


PRESIDENT, by PHILIP DACEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: One day the president remembers the silence
Last Line: And the scent of the ground %touching him the whole length of his body
Subject(s): Presidents, United States


PRESIDENT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hunter and soldier stalwart to the core
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S BURIAL HYMN, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd
Last Line: There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim.
Variant Title(s): When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloomed
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Flowers; Grief; Lilacs; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Loss; Mourning; Patriotism; Presidents, United States; United States - History; United States; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; America


PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S GRAVE, by CAROLINE ATHERTON BRIGGS MASON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lay his dear ashes where ye will
Alternate Author Name(s): Caro
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION, by LAURA CATHERINE REDDEN SEARING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lift up the bowed, desponding head
Alternate Author Name(s): Glyndon, Howard
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


PRESIDENTIAL COTILLION, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Caste garden was splendid one night - though the wet
Last Line: And it rung to the music of liberty's march.
Subject(s): Lafayette, Marie Joseph, Marquis De; Presidents, United States


PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1789-1845, by JACKSON MACLOW    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: George washington never owned a camel
Last Line: Small enough to be %hidden in the palm of a hand
Alternate Author Name(s): Mac Low, Jackson
Subject(s): Presidents, United States


PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: 1853, by JACKSON MACLOW    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Are all the presidents whose names begin with 'p' dark horses?
Last Line: As hawthorne did in a preface %for being a good friend
Alternate Author Name(s): Mac Low, Jackson
Subject(s): Presidents, United States


PRIVATE CITIZEN, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He has this dream where he walks
Last Line: Him and his wife
Subject(s): Dreams; Presidents, United States


PROCLAMATION, by CHARLES GODFREY LELAND    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now who has done the greatest deed
Alternate Author Name(s): Breitmann, Hans
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


PROGRESSIVE, by JULIA COOLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The world is waiting, in a crucial pause
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


PUT OUT THE LIGHT!' AND SO IN DARK, by VILDA SAUVAGE OWENS    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


READY FOR TEDDY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hello, teddy! All th' west is watchin'
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


REQUIEM FOR PRESIDENT TAYLOR, BOSTON, 1850, by GEORGE LUNT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Enshrined in glory, as the golden west
Last Line: And unborn nations love to speak his fame.
Subject(s): Honor; Presidents, United States; Taylor, Zachary (1784-1850)


RESURGIT THEODORE, by CLARENCE H. WILLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our champion, great-heart, answered
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


RETURN, by WALTER TRUMBULL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cyclone-cellar's open wide
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old upright piano, she says, I am home
Last Line: Canada has returned. Stroke the quilted %nap of her feathers, and take good aim
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


REVISING SYLVIA, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Eight-millimeter woman, phosphoric semaphore
Last Line: Who hovers, wavers %but refuses to descend
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


RIGHT IDEA, WRONG RIVER, by NED PASTOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Washington crossed the delaware
Last Line: Across the hudson for that man?
Subject(s): Bridges; Memory; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


RIND DOWN LIFE'S MAMMOTH CURTAIN, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


ROOSEVELT, by JOHN JAY CHAPMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Life seems belittled when a great man
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


ROOSEVELT, by ROBERT H. DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He came out the void
Last Line: Asleep.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


ROOSEVELT, by PETER FANDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Columbia %if aught but loss of honor
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


ROOSEVELT, by HERMANN HAGEDORN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The breakers pound the rocks and the
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


ROOSEVELT, by T. E. THOMAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twas not in him to deal with cringing touch
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


ROOSEVELT DEAD, by ROBERT A. DONALDSON    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


ROOSEVELT IN WYOMING, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you know yancey's? Where the
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


ROOSEVELT TO FRANCE', by SAM MORTLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Send roosevelt %ower tae france
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


ROOSEVELT'S GUEST, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a cry abroad that the president
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


ROOSEVELT, THE LEADER, by MARY SIEGRIST    Poem Source                    
First Line: From her red veins the mother fashioned him
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


ROUGH RIDER, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where lift the peaks of purple
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


ROUGH RIDERS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Their horses are picketed leagues away
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


ROUGH RIDERS, by EDWIN L. SABIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From where the chaparrals uplift
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


ROUGH RIDING AT EL CANEY, by JOHN PAUL BOCOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was on july the first
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


RUGGED FACES, by MARY R. HARTMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I love the hills and mountains
Last Line: A friend to all mankind.
Subject(s): Character; Faces; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


SAGAMORE, by COLETTA RYAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The birds fly low at oyster bay
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


SAINT ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF HUNGARY, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nights, under the tasseled brocade of my canopy
Last Line: Feast. No man can live without it
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


SAN JUAN, by GEORGE MACDONALD MOORE    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                
First Line: A health to you, teddy
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


SAPPHIC SONNETS, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why do I try to glid you in this form?
Last Line: While wishing someone would swing you, at last
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


SARGENT'S PORTRAIT OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT, by MARGARET RIDGELY PARTRIDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Art such as this has power to withstand
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919); Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925)


SEX LIFE OF POLITICIANS, by PETER RABBIT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The days of devil-may-care sex
Last Line: Just before he comes
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Sex


SHE DANCED WITH WASHINGTON, by ELVIRA SNYDER MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: With powdered locks and brocade gown
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


SHORTWAVE, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: From moscow, london, and tripoli %shortwaves winged through the steel v
Last Line: Attending to concerts, quiz shows, propaganda, war
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


SHOULD, SHOULD NOT, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I should have pocketed the key left in the front door of the embassy and used
Last Line: I should have asked charon for permission to troll. %I should have thrown back what I caught.
Subject(s): Inaugural Poem; Politics; Presidents, United States; Waterloo


SHRINE OF THE LION, by WILLIAM E. BROOKS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When men, as pilgrims journeying
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


SMALL MEN AT GRAPPLE WITH A MIGHTY HOUR, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


SNARLERS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the mighty maccabean led the armies of the lord
Last Line: While the snarlers are forgotten,-or remembered, which is worse
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States


SOLDIER, STATESMAN, PRESIDENT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We're here to pay all honor to
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


SOLILOQUY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At first the infant
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


SOME YEARS IN WASHINGTON'S LIFE, by M. LIZZIE STANLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: This wintry month of storm and cold
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


SOMETHING BETTER, by CLARA J. DENTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I cannot be a washington
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


SONG OF THE EXILE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh! Here I am in the land of cotton
Last Line: Fight away, fight away, fight away for %dixie's land
Subject(s): American Civil War; Flags - United States; Independence; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States; U.s. - History


SPACIOUS DAYS OF ROOSEVELT, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These were the spacious days of roosevelt
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


SPECIMEN DAYS: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: August 12th. - I see the president almost every day, as I happen to live
Last Line: Of two or three centuries ago is needed
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Paintings And Painters; Portraits; Presidents, United States; White House (washington, D.c.)


SPIDER ELECTRIC, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was advent. You wanted to be a shepherd
Last Line: The smoke, you are patient all right, twirling the skillet %for hours, till the stickiness %is right
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


SQUIRE BOWLING GREEN, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You missed it - case all over! Lincoln's gone
Last Line: Ten dollars, I believe, and went to springfield.
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ST. ROOSEVELTIUS, by C. D.    Poem Source                    
First Line: America! America! She maketh loud complaint
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


STAG, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A stag-upon time's quivering heights
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


STANDING THE GAFF, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you have made some costly break, don't
Last Line: Station, and with it you will always hold the world's respect and admiration.
Subject(s): Admiration; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


STAR OF SANGAMON, by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not out of the east but the west
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


STATES CROWNING WASINGTON (EXERCISE), by KATE BROWNLEE SHERWOOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Maine comes marching on as one
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


STROKE OF JUSTICE, by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hour was come, the nation's crucial hour
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


SUN, MOON, STARS, AND WINDS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am the south wind
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


SYNECDOCHE, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Curious the mute relics you left me
Last Line: Without consuming for freezing the kingdom?
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


THAN GOD FOR A MAN!, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thank god for a man! There was need
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


THE BEACON LIGHT, by MURRAY KETCHAM KIRK    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the gray dim light where time is not
Last Line: Protect this land that is your own.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


THE BRAVE, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For whom are your gyves? For the cowardly one
Last Line: But never, in mercy, place chains on the brave!
Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Presidents, United States; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); Washington, George (1732-1799); Valor; Bravery; Liberty


THE DEAR PRESIDENT, by JOHN JAMES PIATT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Abraham lincoln, the dear president
Last Line: "abraham lincoln, the dear president."
Subject(s): Funerals; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Burials


THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN, by NEAL" "NEFF [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: Of him who stood foremost in this mighty age
Last Line: "that the soil be not curs'd by the blood of the slave, / now the land of the free and the home of t
Alternate Author Name(s): "neff, Neal;
Subject(s): "american Civil War;assassination;lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865);nations;presidents, United States;u.s. - History;


THE EMANCIPATION GROUP, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Amidst thy sacred effigies
Last Line: And righteousness than wrong.
Subject(s): Boston; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Antislavery Movement - United States


THE EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF WASHINGTON, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Well done! The statue, on its base of granite
Last Line: Still sit supremely, and survive the storm!
Subject(s): Honor; Presidents, United States; Statues; Washington, George (1732-1799)


THE EYES OF LINCOLN, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sad eyes, that were patient and tender
Last Line: From the luminous slopes of the stars.
Subject(s): Eyes; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


THE FUNERAL DIRGE, by L. M. DAWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: All our land is draped in mourning
Last Line: Rest forever, rest in peace.
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


THE GRAVE OF LINCOLN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now must the storied potomac
Last Line: Freedom's jerusalem thou!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Variant Title(s): Lincoln
Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History; Tombs; Tombstones


THE HAND OF LINCOLN, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look on this cast, and know the hand
Last Line: The thought that bade a race be free!
Subject(s): Hands; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Statues


THE HONEST LITTLE BOY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once there was a little boy
Last Line: Because he never tells a lie
Variant Title(s): The Boy Who Never Told A Lie
Subject(s): "honesty;presidents, United States;washington, George (1732-1799);


THE LADY OF THE WHITE HOUSE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She bears no crown upon her brow
Last Line: Nature and freedom taught her.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Marriage; Presidents, United States; White House (washington, D.c.); Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE LINCOLN CABIN, by KALFUS KURTZ GUSLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Behold! The timbers rough, the lintel low
Last Line: He, from this dark beginning, found the way.
Subject(s): Houses; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


THE LINCOLN HOME, by ZELLA ACKERMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: One sunday, on july the twelfth
Last Line: We know his creed lives -- others can, who will.
Subject(s): Heroism; History; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Parks; Presidents, United States; Heroes; Heroines; Historians


THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL, by ALMA ADAMS WILEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Man of the rugged frame and calm, worn face
Last Line: How pure the soul that healed a nation's woe.
Subject(s): Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.c.; Presidents, United States


THE LINCOLN-CHILD, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Clearing in the forest
Last Line: Work wrought through love!
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


THE LONG SHADOW OF LINCOLN, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Be sad, be cool, be kind
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


THE MAN FROM SANGAMON, AT GETTYSBURG, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am a man who knew abe lincoln well
Last Line: That was abe lincoln, friend of all the world.
Subject(s): Gettysburg Address (1863); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


THE MAN OF PEACE, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What winter holiday is this?
Last Line: To paradise, -- to peace.
Subject(s): Holidays; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


THE MAN WHO LOVES, by ZUELLA STERLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: George washington wore buckle and rosette
Last Line: "the man who loves his mother loves his wife."
Subject(s): Mothers; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


THE MANTLE OF WASHINGTON, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! Heard ye not the cannons roar
Last Line: For washingtons mantle is peace and free trade.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


THE MARTYR; INDICATIVE OF PASSION OF PEOPLES APRIL 15, 1865, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Good friday was the day
Last Line: When they bare the iron hand.
Subject(s): Assassination; Freedom; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Liberty


THE MASTER, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A flying word from here and there
Last Line: And have one titan at a time.
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States


THE MAUL, by MARY E. NEALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw a boy in a black-jack wood
Last Line: Write half of its toil and glory.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Antislavery Movement - United States


THE MESSAGE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let every south american beware, for lo! The strenuous
Last Line: Has learned as thoroughly as we know.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long hast thou slept unnoted. Nature stole
Last Line: Led by your teachings, and your prayers to god.
Subject(s): Mothers; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


THE NAME OF WASHINGTON, by GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sons of the youth and the truth of a nation
Last Line: The name of washington!
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


THE PASSING OF WOODROW WILSON, PROPHET OF PEACE, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more a grieving nation bows its head
Last Line: When war forever shall give place to peace!
Subject(s): Death; Honor; Peace; Presidents, United States; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); Dead, The


THE PRESIDENT (THE PANAMA TOLLS), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He plead for honor and the country's good
Last Line: But left to history the ungrudging sort.
Subject(s): Panama Canal; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919); Canal Zone


THE PRESIDENT SPEAKS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown'
Last Line: The head confined within a stovepipe hat!
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Taft, William Howard (1957-1930)


THE PRESIDENT WHO DOES IT ALL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The president who does it all
Subject(s): Presidents, United States


THE PRINCE OF WALES AT THE TOMB OF WASHINGTON, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold he reared a race and ruled them not
Last Line: The kingdom of the lord.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


THE PROCLAMATION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Saint patrick, slave to milcho of the herds
Last Line: And heal with freedom what your slavery cursed.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patrick, Saint (5th Century); Presidents, United States; Antislavery Movement - United States


THE PROPHET, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: America has nourished wiser sons
Last Line: Stout heart, high mind, great-souled american.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


THE QUAKERS ARE OUT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not vainly we waited and counted the hours
Last Line: For lincoln goes in, when the quakers are out!
Subject(s): Elections; Friends, Religious Society Of; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Quakers


THE REVEALER, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The palms of mammon have ordained
Last Line: Just where the boundary begins.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


THE SECOND COMING, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Clutching their bosomed wealth, they made their cry
Last Line: Grew dark with sneers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Judgments; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


THE SILENT MARTYR, by BERTHA V. WALKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: We've honored martha washington
Last Line: Of serving just one man.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


THE STAR, by MARION COUTHOUY SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great soul, to all brave souls akin
Last Line: Shall lead them, as a star!
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


THE STATUE, by ELLA (RHOADS) HIGGINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That I might chisel a statue, line on line
Last Line: Enough, enough! We know thy statue's name!'
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Statues


THE TIDES AT PANAMA, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As effort gigantic
Last Line: "to prevent trust-promotion."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Panama Canal; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919); Canal Zone


THE TRIP TO CAMBRIDGE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When congress sent great washington
Last Line: "so off they marched, with patriot zeal, / and took a patriot dinner"
Subject(s): "presidents, United States;washington, George (1732-1799);


THE TROOPERS (1778), by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We clattered into the village street, and up to the rose and crown
Last Line: "but death to a thing like a tyrant king, and his vassal, my great lord howe!"
Subject(s): American Revolution; Great Britain - Rulers; Howe, Richard. Earl Howe (1726-1799); Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


THE TWENTY-SECOND OF FEBRUARY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pale is the february sky
Last Line: Increase of honors to his name.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


THE UNFINISHED WORK, by JOSEPH FULFORD FOLSOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: The crowd was gone, and to the side
Last Line: And sank beside him on the bench.
Subject(s): Freedom; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Statues; Liberty


THE VOW OF WASHINGTON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sword was sheathed: in april's sun
Last Line: Repeat with us the pledge a century old!
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


THE WASHINGTON BICENTENNIAL, by CLARA BECK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dreams are visions of the night
Last Line: And nations join to hail him chief.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, D.c.; Washington, George (1732-1799)


THEODORE ROOSEVELT, by MORRIS ABEL BEER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A boy of old manhattan
Last Line: Became a nation's tower!
Variant Title(s): Boy Of Old Manhattan
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


THEODORE ROOSEVELT, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Iron is in his blood. He lives to fight
Last Line: The record of his battles for the good.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


THEODORE ROOSEVELT, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now with the dust that bore him he is one
Last Line: He stands anointed at jehovah's throne.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


THEODORE ROOSEVELT, by WILLIAM W. PEAVYHOUSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: His name, when uttered, thrills the world
Last Line: As the world joins in his praise.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


THEODORE ROOSEVELT, by LEONARD WOOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: He was a many-sided man, but four-square
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S LETTERS TO HIS CHILDREN, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What happy, kindly memories fill
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


THEODORE ROOSEVELT; DIED AT DAYBREAK, JANUARY 6, 1919, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Knell nor deep minute gun gave the world warning
Last Line: Liberty's champion, cid of the west!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Variant Title(s): Cid Of The West
Subject(s): Death; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919); Dead, The


THEODORE ROOSEVELT; WRITTEN WHILE HE WAS PRESIDENT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sturdy mountain sides have dowered him
Last Line: Pour the serenity of hills and trees.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


THERE ARE MANY FLAGS IN MANY LANDS, by MARY HOWSLISTER    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


THIRTEEN COLONIES, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: One little colony in a land so new
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


THOMAS AND NANCY LINCOLN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fit us for humblest service,' prayed
Last Line: Will hallow their repose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Freedom; Indiana; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Lincoln, Nancy Hanks (1784-1818); Lincoln, Thomas (1778-1851); Parents; Presidents, United States; Liberty; Parenthood


THOU SHOULDST BE LIVING AT THIS HOUR!, by KENYON WEST    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lincoln! 'thou shouldst be living at this hour!'
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


THOUGH OTHERS SLEPT, HE PACED, by WILLIAM B. GILBERT    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MORE, by ROBERT MORRIS    Poem Text                 Recitation    
First Line: We are coming, father abraham, three hundred thousand more
Last Line: We are coming, father abraham, three hundred thousand more!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gibbons, James Sloane
Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States; United States - History


TIS NOT ALONE IN FLANDERS FIELDS, by FLORENCE MCLANDBURGH    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Mclandburgh
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


TO A PATRIOT, by HARRY T. BAKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not his the craven's role, nor any share
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


TO A PORTRAIT OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by EDITH COLBY BANFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thy rugged features more heroic are
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


TO A PRESIDENT, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All you are doing and saying is to america dangled mirages
Last Line: Off from these states.
Subject(s): Buchanan, James. President (1791-1868); Presidents, United States; United States; America


TO A RELATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by HENRY HARRISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: You snicker that you do not care for him
Last Line: It's you who live, but never can survive!
Subject(s): Ignorance; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Racism; Shame; Dullness; Stupdity; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within the temple of our heart
Last Line: Beats in one mighty tide—for you!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by JOHN JAMES PIATT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Stern be the pilot in the dreadful hour
Last Line: Made by god's providence the anointed one.
Variant Title(s): Sonnet In 1862
Subject(s): American Civil War; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History


TO FRASER'S DEATH-MASK OF ROOSEVELT, by L. UPTON WILKINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Can this be your face, this whose calm
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


TO LINCOLN'S BUST IN BRONZE, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This bronze doth keep the very form and mold
Last Line: Of armed strength: his pure and mighty heart.
Variant Title(s): On The Life-mask Of Lincoln
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Sculpture & Sculptors


TO MY BROTHER, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I loved you for you loving ways
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


TO ONE WHO PASSED: WOODROW WILSON, by LOUISE BURTON LAIDLAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Great men have passed
Last Line: Thy vision still shall lead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Backus, L., Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Honor; Presidents, United States; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); Dead, The


TO ROOSEVELT, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis only with the bible or with walt whitman's verse
Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben
Subject(s): Imperialism; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919); United States


TO THE SHADE OF WASHINGTON, by RICHARD ALSOP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Exalted chief, in thy superior mind
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


TO THE SPIRIT OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shade of our greatest, o look down today!
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


TO THE STATES. TO IDENTIFY THE 16TH, 17TH, OR 18TH PRESIDENTIAD, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why reclining, interrogating? Why myself and all drowsing
Last Line: South, north, east, west, inland and seaboard, we will surely awake.)
Subject(s): Men; Politics & Government; Presidents, United States; United States; America


TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT, by JOHN MILTON HAY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Son of a sire whose heart beat ever true
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear a mighty people asking now
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT, by OWEN WISTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today your threescore years have
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


TO VICE-PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, by FREDERIC ALMY    Poem Source                    
First Line: If '80's scribe had to express
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


TO WARSAW, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your kino moscow gleams like a pink dish
Last Line: I have few words, but will tell of it
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


TOLL THE BELLS, by GRACE D. VANAMEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The knell it has sounded
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


TOLLING, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


TUREEN, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Through the lid-hole cut for a ladle %I smell onions and broccoli %breathing
Last Line: I hold you with a loose grip, one-handed, %to keep from slipping
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


TURN THEM LOOSE!, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now turn loose teddy roosevelt
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


UNAFRAID, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Only the lion kings the land
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


UNDER THE OLD ELM; READ AT CAMBRIDGE ON 100TH ANNIVERSAY ..., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Words pass as the wind, but where great deeds were done
Last Line: Virginia, fitly named from england's manly queen!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


VALIANT-FOR-TRUTH, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Valiant-for-truth has gone - alas, that he has left us
Last Line: Rode to the final goal, where all is well.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


VISION, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Friend of the people, purposeful and
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


VISION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by WENDELL PHILLIPS GARRISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dreaming, he woke, our martyr president
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


VISITING MOUNT VERNON AND PLAYING HOMAGE ..., by K'ANG YU-WEI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Swiftly flows the emerald potomac river
Last Line: Democracy for myriad ages will celebrate these three sacred %mounds
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


VOICE OF AMERICA 1961, by JAMES LIDDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: My hour switched on the cameras take
Last Line: Let me steer close to touch. Your big whiskers
Subject(s): Americans; Presidents, United States


VOICE OF DESTINY, by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hour was come, and in that hour he stood
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


WASHINGTON, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: We all will honor washington
Last Line: While battle and freedom lead us on / we all will honor washington
Subject(s): "presidents, United States;washington, George (1732-1799);


WASHINGTON, by JOHN PAUL BOCOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Those glorious wars are long since sped
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON, by D. H. BOLLES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Transcendent man! His mortal part
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Arise - 'tis the day of our washington's glory
Last Line: Whose honor was gained by his service to man!
Variant Title(s): Crown Our Washington
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Privations grim were his to bear
Last Line: Men's right to freedom might have been %a century more delayed
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON, by WILLIAM HERBERT (1778-1847)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A better prize / there is for man, a glory for this world
Last Line: Sway'd once by vicious caesars.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON, by JOSEPH HOPKINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sound, sound the trump of fame
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON, by HARRIET MONROE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, hero of our younger race!
Last Line: The strong who, having wrought, can never, never die.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God wills no man a slave. The man most meek
Last Line: While time endures, first citizen of earth.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great and loved and rev'renced patriot
Last Line: And fame shall evermore be thine.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON, by NANCY BYRD TURNER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He played by the river when he was young
Last Line: He loved america all his life!
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Washington, washington, we would ask that we
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON, by BERTYE YOUNG WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long are the years since he fell asleep
Last Line: "first in the hearts of his countrymen."
Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, B. Y.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON, by MARY WINGATE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O noble brow, so wise in thought!
Last Line: Shall turn to thee, o washington.
Variant Title(s): When Shall We See Thy Like Again?
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: First of our great, we bring
Last Line: Our debt for your great worthiness.
Subject(s): February; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON ACROSTIC (FROM BYRON'S ODE TO NAPOLEON), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where may the wearied eye repose
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON AT HOME, by JENNIE TRIPLETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Today I fain would walk or ride
Last Line: Here I would toil and cast my lot.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON AT TRENTON, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since ancient time began
Last Line: Or can against the heroic heart of man prevail.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON AT VALLEY FORGE, by R. G. SUTHERLAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: With his lean, ragged levies, undismayed
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON HYMN, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Praise to thee, o god of freedom
Last Line: Than another washington.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


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)


WASHINGTON PLAYLET, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: George washington was born
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON! FEB. 22, 1732, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright natal morn! What face appears
Last Line: Where'er thou rulest, -- washington!
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY, by CHARLES S. DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: All hail, thou glorious morn
Last Line: Columbia's son.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Holidays; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No rockets flamed in sudden fire
Last Line: The grandest name that stars the state.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Babies; Birthdays; Mothers; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799); Infants


WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER (1894-1981)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis splendid to live so grandly
Last Line: Keep the thought of your natal day.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY (FIRST CELEBRATION IN THE NEW CENTURY), by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth, that hast countless aeons of swift days
Last Line: But was foreplanned with elemental things.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON'S CHERRY TREE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is the trunk so black and straight
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON'S CHRISTMAS PARTY, by ADA SIMPSON SHERWOOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come, all who love a merry tale
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON'S COLORS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I bring, today, three emblems
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON'S FLAG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flags flying in the air
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON'S LIFE IN SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: First there was the little boy
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON'S MUSIC, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The violin speaks
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON'S NAME IN THE HALL OF FAME, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Republics are ungrateful, but ours, its best-loved son
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON'S RUSE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When georgie would not go to bed
Last Line: "you know I cannot lie."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON'S STATUE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes! Rear thy guardian hero's form
Last Line: Of brothers o'er the deep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON'S STATUE, by HENRY THEODORE TUCKERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The quarry whence thy form majestic sprung
Last Line: Renew the patriot's vow!
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON'S VOW, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How felt the land in every part
Subject(s): Holidays; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON-MONTH, by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: February, february %how your moods and actions vary
Alternate Author Name(s): Carleton, Will
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON; BRIGHTEST NAME ON HISTORY'S PAGE, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Land of the west! Though passing brief the record of thine age
Last Line: But bear me from my own fair land to that of washington!
Variant Title(s): Washington;tribute To Washington
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WASHINGTON; INSCRIPTION AT MOUNT VERNON, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "washington, the brave, the wise, the good"
Last Line: "and in the hope of religion, immortality"
Subject(s): "presidents, United States;religion;washington, George (1732-1799);" Theology


WASHINTON'S TOMB, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tomb of the mighty dead!
Last Line: Washington!
Subject(s): Graves; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799); Tombs; Tombstones


WATCHING MY FATHER PRAY, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are no longer in europe, in his father's provincial town
Last Line: All the hours on our knees, praying for the wrong thing
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


WCW ON MARSDEN HARTLEY, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: He's a querulous bit of baggage
Last Line: And you would have made %the most charming whore %in new york
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


WE CANNOT THINK OF HIM AS OF THE DEAD, by JOHN JEROME ROONEY    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


WE MISS HIM SO! IN CLASH OF MEN AND THINGS, by WILLIAM P. F. FERGUSON    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


WE NEED NO MARBLE SHAFT, by HIRAM MOE GREENE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


WE TALKED OF LINCOLN, by EDWARD WILLIAM THOMSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: We talked of abraham lincoln in the night
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


WEDDING SONG, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I do what I can for hanka, daughter
Last Line: The pale eagle of poland sweeping off its crest, %our stamping and whirring heard %as far as the sil
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


WHAT DID WASHINGTON DO, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: If we are going to choose today
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WHAT DO WE SPELL, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Great was the hero whose name we shall spell
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WHAT MY FATHER TAUGHT ME ABOUT SEX, by KAREN KOVACIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: That my mother and he never 'had relations'
Last Line: Of the piano, for he had always wanted to play
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States


WHAT ROOSEVELT ONCE SAID AT HARVARD, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Said mr. Roosevelt: 'those are sticks
Last Line: But downright roosevelt common sense!
Subject(s): Politics & Government; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


WHAT WE WANT FROM MR. TAFT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear mr. Taft, so smiling sweet
Last Line: A grand-stand play.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Taft, William Howard (1957-1930)


WHEN HE DIED, by ETHEL BROOKS STILLWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I would not sing his greatness
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


WHEN LINCOLN CAME TO SPRINGFIELD, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


WHEN LINCOLN DIED, by EDWARD WILLIAM THOMSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Already appomattox day
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


WHEN SHALL WE LOOK UPON HIS LIKE AGAIN?, by MAY L. RESTARICK    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


WHEN TEDDY HITS THE WEST, by THADDEUS C. HISTED    Poem Source                    
First Line: He can have my old revolver
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


WHEN THE FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY WAS A LITTLE BOY LIKE ME, by ALICE CRAIG EDGERTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I do not picture washington
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WHERE ROOSEVELT SLEEPS, by HARRY VARLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is america! Within this tiny space
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


WHERE THE TREE FALLETH', by VILDA SAUVAGE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: That great american and patriot
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


WHITE FRIEND, by CHRIS FLEET    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last november I drove a white friend
Last Line: The white soiled locks of george washington %disappearing into the corn
Subject(s): Friendship; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


WHO GOES THERE?, by GRACE DUFFIE BOYLAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who goes there? An american!
Last Line: Honor and faith for roosevelt.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


WHOSE SPIRIT IS SPED', by DEAN COLLINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nay, we would not choose us a funeral
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


WIDE-AWAKE CLUB'S SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, hear you not the wild huzzas
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


WITH THE TIDE (TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT), by EDITH WHARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Somewhere I read, in an old book
Last Line: Out with the ebb tide, on some farther quest.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


WITHIN THE TORRENT'S ONWARD WHIRL, by MABEL KINNEY HALL    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


WOMAN SPEAKS TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S SISTER, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I never clasped his hand
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)


WOODROW WILSON, by EMMA VORIES MEYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: That all the world might smile again, I gave
Last Line: "and hear their clear glad voices: ""peace on earth!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Meyer, Emma Voorhees
Subject(s): Death; Pacifism; Peace; Presidents, United States; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); Dead, The; Peace Movements


WOODROW WILSON - 1856-1924, by MARGUERITE MOOERS MARSHALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The chill of no man's land had touched his lips
Last Line: "one conqueror's work""—said harden—""wilson's thought."
Subject(s): Pacifism; Peace; Praise; Presidents, United States; War; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); Peace Movements


WORDS ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Continents twisted in the grip of war
Last Line: Was that a whisper in the evening trees?
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Unknown Soldier


YANKEE DOODLE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn this morning burned all red
Last Line: While seas roll on in laughter.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Patriotism; Presidents, United States; Singing & Singers; Washington, George (1732-1799); Songs


YANKEE DOODLE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When washington was very young
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


YOUNG LINCOLN, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Men saw no portents on that winter night
Last Line: To bend the law to let his mercy out.
Variant Title(s): The Coming Of Lincoln
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


ZEALOUS PATRIOT, by SUSIE MONTGOMERY BEST    Poem Source                    
First Line: If there was a war I'd get my gun
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)