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Subject: SUMNER, CHARLES (1811-1874)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CHARLES SUMNER; ON SEEING SOME PICTURES OF THE INTERIOR OF HIS HOUSE, by CHARLOTTE L. FORTEN GRIMKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only the casket left, the jewel gone
Last Line: Whose dearest hopes seem lost in losing thee
Subject(s): Sumner, Charles (1811-1874)


HYMN AT THE FUNERAL SERVICES OF CHARLES SUMNER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more, ye sacred towers
Last Line: "god reigneth. All is well!"
Subject(s): Sumner, Charles (1811-1874)


SUMNER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O mother state! The winds of march
Last Line: Shall longest pause at sumner's name!
Subject(s): Abolitionists; Slavery; Sumner, Charles (1811-1874); Anti-slavery; Serfs


THE NATION'S FRIEND, by ALFRED ISLAY WALDEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This nation has a faithful friend
Last Line: And hail the name of sumner.
Subject(s): Sumner, Charles (1811-1874)


THIS NOBLE HEAD, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The very conditions of the game must always be
Last Line: Werever they may wander in the earth
Subject(s): Social Protest; Sumner, Charles (1811-1874)


TO CHARLES SUMNER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I have seemed more prompt to censure wrong
Last Line: The tumult, hears the angels say, well done!
Subject(s): Sumner, Charles (1811-1874)


WHAT STATE STREET SAID TO SOUTH CAROLINA ..., by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Muttering 'fine upland staple,' 'prime sea island finer,'
Last Line: "blind in that pestilent anakim, sumner!"
Subject(s): Abolitionists; Boston; Slavery; South Carolina; Sumner, Charles (1811-1874); Anti-slavery; Serfs


WHILE THESE IS A COUNTRY TO SHARE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We hear the screams of hunted wives and children
Last Line: And depart to some land where freedom exists
Subject(s): Social Protest; Sumner, Charles (1811-1874)