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Subject: ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO (1882-1945)
Matches Found: 11

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANNIVERSARIES: CLAREMONT AVENUE, FROM 1945, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm sitting on a bench at one hundred and fifteenth
Last Line: No place to go.
Subject(s): Chinese Language; Death; Grief; Memory; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); Teaching & Teachers; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Educators; Professors; Feminism


AT WARM SPRINGS, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the room at warm springs
Subject(s): Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945)


BALLAD OF ROOSEVELT, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pot was empty
Last Line: What's the matter here?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945)


CONFIDENTIAL REPORT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The president of the corporation
Last Line: Let the old boat take %water till she sank
Subject(s): Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945)


DANISH WIT, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Higgledy-piggledy %franklin d. Roosevelt
Last Line: Something is groton in %denmark, at least
Subject(s): Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945)


GREAT MEN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Consider greatness
Last Line: While far down the long slope gleams the pale sea
Subject(s): Greatness; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945)


HOMAGE TO OUR LEADERS, by JULIAN SYMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: These larger-than-life comic characters
Subject(s): Churchill, Winston (1874-1965); Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945)


MEXICO CITY BLUES (4TH CHORUS), by JOHN KEROUAC    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Roosevelt was worth 6.7 million dollars
Last Line: In a big barrel %stunk but good
Alternate Author Name(s): Kerouac, Jack
Subject(s): Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945)


MY LITANY, by BLANCHE C. HOWLETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: O lord, deliver me from snobbery
Last Line: Reality, existence, knowledge, bliss.
Subject(s): Prayer; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945)


TO THE LEADER OF A GREAT NATION (A TRIBUTE TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT), by ERNESTINE RENEE (WHITE) SELLIER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Calmly and alone / he lives his life
Last Line: Safely through the maze.
Subject(s): Leadership; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945)


VISITOR, by GEORGE BOGIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was storming and there was someone at the door
Last Line: Who had been in our house many times %how good it was to see him again!
Subject(s): Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945)