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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FREMONT CAMPAIGN SONG, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sound now the trumpet warningly!
Last Line: Fremont and victory!
Subject(s): Elections; Fremont, John Charles (1813-1890); Voting; Voters; Suffrage


A LETTER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis over, moses! All is lost!
Last Line: "than laborers in new hampshire""!"
Subject(s): Elections; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Hale, John Parker (1806-1896); New Hampshire; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Antislavery Movement - United States


A NOTE ON THE LATE ELECTIONS, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold, friends, once more the revolution has performed its famous
Last Line: But in every drop of the rain the sailors of the potemkin wake.
Subject(s): Elections; Politics & Government; Voting; Voters; Suffrage


A SONG: INSCRIBED TO THE FREMONT CLUBS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath thy skies, november!
Last Line: What may not four years do?
Subject(s): Elections; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Fremont, John Charles (1813-1890); Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Antislavery Movement - United States


ADDRESS AND INVITATION TO A YOUNG FRIEND, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To tell you the truth, dear j., I was sorry
Last Line: So come back—pray do—while the heather's in glory.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Elections; Ireland; Politics & Government; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Irish


AFTER ELECTION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day's sharp strife is ended now
Last Line: The weary heart of freedom rest!
Subject(s): Elections; Freedom; Peace; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Liberty


AN ELECTION ADDRESS (TO CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, 1882), by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I venture to suggest that I / am rather noticeably fit
Last Line: Respectability I can.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K.
Subject(s): Cambridge University; Clergy; Elections; Politics & Government; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Voting; Voters; Suffrage


AN ELECTION BALLAD, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The laddies by the banks o' nith
Last Line: Up and waur them, &c.
Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage


ANOTHER STAR, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are five a-light before us
Last Line: The baby, the home!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins
Subject(s): Elections; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism


CAMPAIGN THUNDER, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My friends, when I'm elected, the people
Last Line: Elected a change will be detected—no man will have to work!
Subject(s): Elections; Social Protest; Tyranny & Tyrants; Voting; Voters; Suffrage


CANDIDATING IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You bet that folks up here this week
Last Line: "with candidating in vermont."
Subject(s): Elections; Politics & Government; Vermont; Voting; Voters; Suffrage


COLORED HEROES, HARK THE BUGLE; POLITICAL, by ROBERT CHARLES O'HARA BENJAMIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Colored heroes seek your standard
Last Line: Cowards they, who turn and fly.
Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage


COMING, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because the time is ripe, the age is ready
Last Line: Comes woman to her hour.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins
Subject(s): Elections; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism


DELIVERANCE, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rise up! Rise up! Oh israel
Last Line: Their first great jubilee.
Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage


ELECTION DAY, 1984, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Did you ever see someone coldcock a blind nun?
Last Line: If evil could be safer, on the whole.
Subject(s): Elections; Evil; Ignorance; Politics & Government; Reagan, Ronald Wilson (1911-2004)); Women; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Dullness; Stupdity; Feminism


ELECTION DAY, NOVEMBER, 1884, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I should need to name, o western world, your powerfulest scene and show
Last Line: Swell'd washington's, jefferson's, lincoln's sails.
Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage


ELECTION YEAR, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A jet of mere phantom
Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage


EPISTLE TO ROBERT GRAHAM OF FINTRY (1), by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fintry, my stay in wordy strife
Last Line: To grind them in the mire!
Subject(s): Elections; Scotland - Relations With England; Voting; Voters; Suffrage


FOR FEAR, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For fear of prowling beasts at night
Last Line: Garden and home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins
Subject(s): Elections; Fear; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism


HURRAH FOR COOPER AND CARY, by JULIA A. MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We will rally in the city
Last Line: Right will yet conquer might, boys.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan
Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage


HYMN FOR EQUAL SUFFRAGE, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They have strewn the burning hearths of man with / darkness and with mire
Last Line: When mothers of men are free.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Elections; Human Rights; Justice; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism


INAUGURATION DAY: JANUARY 1953, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem 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


OLD TIPPECANOE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "come, rouse up, ye bold-hearted whigs"
Last Line: And 'go it for' tyler and 'tippecanoe'
Subject(s): "elections;harrison, William Henry (1773-1841);" Voting;voters;suffrage


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 A GREAT ELECTION; EPIGRAM, by HILAIRE BELLOC            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The accursed power which stands on privilege
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Variant Title(s): On A General Election
Subject(s): Elections; Politics & Government; Voting; Voters; Suffrage


PROTEST AGAINST THE BALLOT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forth rushed from envy sprung and self-conceit
Last Line: Pierced by thy spear in glorious victory.
Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage


SONG FOR EQUAL SUFFRAGE, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Day of hope and day of glory! After slavery and woe
Last Line: As his world goes marching on!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins
Subject(s): Elections; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism


SUFFRAGE MARCHING-SONG, by LOUIS JAMES BLOCK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lo! The nations have been toiling up a steep and rugged road
Last Line: For the hope still leads them on!
Subject(s): Elections; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism


THE ANTI-SUFFRAGISTS, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fashionable women in luxurious homes
Last Line: To great democracy and womanhood!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins
Subject(s): Americans; Elections; United States; Women; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; America; Feminism


THE ASS-ELECTION, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Being tired of freedom for some time past
Last Line: With evident gratification.
Subject(s): Elections; Germany; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Germans


THE BALLOT, by JOHN PIERPONT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A weapon that comes down as still
Last Line: As lightning does the will of god.
Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage


THE BIGLOW PAPERS: 3. WHAT MR. ROBINSON THINKS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Guvener b. Is a sensible man
Last Line: Gee!
Subject(s): Elections; Politics & Government; United States; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; America


THE BOROUGH: LETTER 5. ELECTIONS, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, our election's past, and we've been free
Last Line: And our good vicar would have less to do.
Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage


THE CANDIDATE, by CHARLES CHURCHILL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Enough of actors -- let them play the player
Last Line: To grace a stuart brow, she plants on thine.
Subject(s): Cambridge University; Critics & Criticism; Elections; Montagu, John, 4th Earl Of Sandwich; Yorke, Philip. 2d Earl Of Hardwicke; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Twitcher, Jemmy


THE CANDIDATE, by THOMAS GRAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When sly jemmy twitcher had smugg'd up his face
Last Line: He's christian enough, that repents, and that -------.
Subject(s): Cambridge University; Elections; Montagu, John, 4th Earl Of Sandwich; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Twitcher, Jemmy


THE CONSCIENTIOUS VOTER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The conscientious voter leaned against the voting-booth
Last Line: "the names of worthy men for whom a man may wisely vote."
Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage


THE COUNTRY CLERGYMAN'S TRIP TO CAMBRIDGE; ELECTION BALLAD, by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I sat down to breakfast in state
Last Line: We were rumbling o'er trumpington stones.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, 1st Baron
Subject(s): Clergy; Elections; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Voting; Voters; Suffrage


THE DEMONSTRATION, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They bob above us all afternoon
Last Line: Their spells had summoned up.
Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Conventions; Democratic Party (u.s.); Elections; Protest, Social; Racism; Assemblies; Meetings; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE ELECTION, by ROBERT FERGUSSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rejoice, ye burghers, ane an' a'
Last Line: O' death yon night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert
Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage


THE EVE OF THE ELECTION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From gold to gray
Last Line: When god and man shall speak as one!
Variant Title(s): Indian Summer
Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage


THE FIVE CARLINS; AN ELECTION BALLAD, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was five carlins in the south
Last Line: May look weel to himsel.
Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage


THE HERON BALLADS: 1. FIRST BALLAD IN THROAT, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whom will you send to london town
Last Line: They wad be blest that saw that.
Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage


THE HERON BALLADS: 2. THE ELECTION, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fy, let us a' to kirkcudbright
Last Line: But gied the auld naig to the lord.
Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage


THE HERON BALLADS: 3. JOHN BUSBY'S LAMENTATION, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the seventeen hunder year
Last Line: To keep that knave frae scaith.
Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage


THE HERON BALLADS: 4. NEW SONG OF A SEDITIOUS PAMPHLET, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wha will buy my troggin, fine election ware
Last Line: Buy braw troggin, &c.
Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage


THE NEW IDEA, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last fall I heard a candidate stand on a
Last Line: With broken backs.
Subject(s): Democratic Party (u.s.); Elections; Freedom; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Liberty


THE POOR VOTER ON ELECTION DAY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The proudest now is but my peer
Last Line: A man's a man to-day!
Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage


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 SOCIALIST AND THE SUFFRAGIST, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Said the socialist to the suffragist
Last Line: "just get into the game!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins
Subject(s): Elections; Socialism; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism


THE TWO SCALES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hughes and fairbanks, a judicial couple!
Last Line: Finely matched with the fairbanks scales!
Subject(s): Elections; Fairbanks, Henry (1830-1918); Hughes, Charles Evans (1862-1948); Voting; Voters; Suffrage


TO A BULL MOOSE, by EUGENE GLADSTONE O'NEILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Braw, snortin', roarin', fearsome beastie
Last Line: The self-same way.
Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Elections; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Voting; Voters; Suffrage


TO THE INDIFFERENT WOMEN; A SESTINA, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You who are happy in a thousand homes
Last Line: Is joined with man's to care for all the world!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins
Subject(s): Elections; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism


WE AS WOMEN, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a cry in the air about us
Last Line: We shall lift the world indeed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins
Subject(s): Elections; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism


WHY I VOTED THE SOCIALIST TICKET, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am unjust, but I can strive for justice
Last Line: And make us sages with transfigured faces.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Elections; Socialism; Voting; Voters; Suffrage


WOMEN DO NOT WANT IT, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the woman suffrage argument first stood upon its legs
Last Line: When he himself admits the right of what we ask today?
Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins
Subject(s): Elections; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Feminism


WOMENS' SUFFRAGE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fellow men! Why should the lords try to despise
Last Line: And ye will gain the parliamentary franchise before very long.
Subject(s): Elections; Freedom; Wages; Women - Employment; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Liberty; Salaries; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; Feminism


YOUNG SAMMY'S FIRST WILD OATS, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mid uncle sam's expanded acres
Last Line: "on ""young sammy's first wild oats."
Subject(s): Elections; Spanish-american War (1898); United States; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; America