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Subject: SHAW, ROBERT GOULD (1847-1863)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN ODE IN TIME OF HESITATION, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the living bronze saint gaudens made
Last Line: Blindness we may forgive, but baseness we will smite.
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Holidays; Memorial Day; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898); United States; War; Declaration Day; America


AN ODE ON THE UNVEILING OF THE SHAW MEMORIA BOSTON COMMON, MAY 31, 1897, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not with slow, funereal sound
Last Line: To him, to him, the dead that shall not die!
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Holidays; Memorial Day; Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; Declaration Day


BURY THEM, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bury the dragon's teeth!
Last Line: Fighting against great god.
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Fort Wagner, Battle Of (1863); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; United States - History


FOR THE UNION DEAD, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old south boston aquarium stands
Variant Title(s): Colonel Shaw And The Massachusetts 54
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Boston; Duty; Heroism; Massachusetts; Monuments; Racism; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; United States - History; Heroes; Heroines; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


FOR THE UNION DEAD, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old south boston aquarium stands
Last Line: A savage servility %slides by on grease
Variant Title(s): Colonel Shaw And The Massachusetts 5
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Boston; Duty; Heroism; Massachusetts; Monuments; Racism; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; U.s. - History


MY HERO; TO ROBERT GOULD SHAW, by BENJAMIN GRIFFITH BRAWLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flushed with the hope of high desire
Last Line: And galahad to me.
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers


ROBERT G. SHAW, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When war's red banners trailed along the sky
Last Line: In rev'rent love we guard thy memory.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; African Americans - Women; Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers


ROBERT GOULD SHAW, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why was it that the thunder voice of fate
Last Line: Have died, the present teaches, but in vain!
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers