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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: UNITED STATES Matches Found: 2999 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 14TH STREET WAS GUTTED IN 1968, by CHERYL CLARKE Poem Source Last Line: For themselves %endangered %or extinct Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; New York City; U.s. - Race Relations 1977: POEM FOR MRS. FANNIE LOU HAMER, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You used to say, “june? Last Line: In a homemade field / of love Subject(s): Hamer, Fannie Lou (1917-1977); United States - Race Relations 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) 22-NOV-83, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were doing laundry Last Line: Your father held me %against his thin chest %for twenty years whispering %'ain't no indian loves mar Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States 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) 6TH GRADE - OUR LADY OF POMPEII, by VITTORIA REPETTO Poem Source Last Line: Mia noma e vittoria %2 t's - no c Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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) 8 HOPE ROAD, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: This is not my story Last Line: On its hinges, milk left to curdle %in the pitcher on the table Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States 8-BALL AT THE TWILITE, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The team of budweiser horses Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Popular Culture - United States; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons 8-BALL AT THE TWILITE, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The team of budweiser horses Last Line: Running hard for the far green corners Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Popular Culture - United States 95 POEMS: 39. THANKSGIVING 1956, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A monstering horror swallows Last Line: (because it begins to smell) Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Americans; United States A BACHELOR-BOOKWORM'S COMPLAINT OF LAST PRESENTIAL ELECTION, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man of peace, I never dared to marry Last Line: I may -- who knows -- forgive both hayes and tilden! Subject(s): Hayes, Rutherford B. (1822-1893); Tilden, Samuel J. (1814-1886); United States - Politics & Government A BALLAD OF THE BOSTON TEA-PARTY [DECEMBER 16, 1773], by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No! Never such a draught was poured Last Line: And cheer the wakening nations! Subject(s): Boston Tea Party; Freedom; Patriotism; United States - Colonial Period; Liberty A BATTLE BALLAD TO GENERAL J.E. JOHNSTON, by FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A summer sunday morning Last Line: The life-blood of the brave. Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; Johnston, Joseph E. (1807-1891); United States - History; Manassas, Batlle Of A CALL TO ARMS, by MARY RAYMOND SHIPMAN ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: It is I, america, calling! Last Line: Arm, arm, americans! And remember, remember, the tuscania! Subject(s): Army - United States; Patriotism; World War I; First World War A CREED, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, let me not in service lag Last Line: The starry flag which flies above. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Flags - United States; Fourth Of July; American Flag; Independence Day A CRY TO ARMS, by HENRY TIMROD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Woodsmen of the mountain side! Last Line: And for the lily's sake! Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Patriotism; United States - History; Confederacy A CURSE FOR A NATION: PROLOGUE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard an angel speak last night Last Line: I send it over the western sea. Subject(s): Curses; Slavery; United States; Serfs; America A DIRGE FOR MCPHERSON; KILLED IN FRONT OF ATLANTA, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arms reversed and banners craped Last Line: Sarpedon of the mighty war. Subject(s): American Civil War; Atlanta Campaign (1864); Funerals; Mcpherson, James Birdseye (1828-1864); United States - History; Burials A FAREWELL TO AMERICA, by RICHARD HENRY WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, my more than fatherland! Last Line: To leave with them and thee behind! Subject(s): United States; America A FAREWELL TO AMERICA, TO MRS. S. W., by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu, new-england's smiling meads Last Line: Of all its pow'r disarms! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Great Britain; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Sea Voyages; United States; America 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 HARVEST SONG, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the mellow days of autumn Last Line: And she sings the reaper's song. Subject(s): Army - United States; Grief; Marching & Marches; Memory; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness 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 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 MINOR PROPHET, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a friend, a vegetarian seer Last Line: Throbbing respondent to the far-off orbs. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Faith; Friendship; Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Salvation; United States; Belief; Creed; Theology; America A NAMELESS GRAVE; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A soldier of the union mustered out' Last Line: And I can give thee nothing in return. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History A NOTE ON MY SON'S FACE, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight, I look, thunderstruck / at the gold head of my grandchild Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; United States - Race Relations A PATRIOT I, by JEAN LEWIS MORRIS Poem Text First Line: A patriot I! This is my cry Last Line: I'm a munition maker. Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Patriotism; Selfishness; Social Protest; United States; War; America A POEM ABOUT INTELLIGENCE FOR MY BROTHERS & SISTERS, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A few years back and they told me black Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations A POET'S PROPHECY, by LUIGI PULCI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Know that this theory is false; his bark Last Line: To glad the nations with expected light. Subject(s): Explorers; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; America A POLITICAL LITANY, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From a junta that labor for absolute power Last Line: And britain go on -- to be damned, if she will. Variant Title(s): Libera Nos, Domine - Deliver Us, O Lord Subject(s): Great Britain - Rulers; Politics & Government; United States; America A PROPHECY, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O future bards / chant from skull to heart to ass Subject(s): United States; America A PSALM OF FOOLISH WISDOM, by LOUISE LEIGHTON Poem Text First Line: Lo, we are a nation of wise fools! Last Line: Before our foolishness destroys the universe. Alternate Author Name(s): Purdy, Susan Louise Subject(s): Fools; United States; Idiots; America A RAINBOW ENSIGN, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the red, and white, and blue Last Line: And frankly trust and aid and love us! Subject(s): Flags - United States; American Flag A REPUBLIC!, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her faith abandoned and her place despised Last Line: Her gland pituitary being lost. Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; United States; America A REQUIEM FOR SOLDIERS LOST IN OCEAN TRANSPORTS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, after storms that woodlands rue Last Line: Round the lone spar where mid-sea surges pour. Subject(s): American Civil War; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Soldiers; United States - History A SECOND REVIEW OF THE GRAND ARMY [MAY 24, 1865], by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read last night of the grand review Last Line: Awakened me from my slumber. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; Soldiers; United States - History; Declaration Day A SONG FOR AMERICA, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How comely is our motherland Last Line: And guard her as of yore. Subject(s): United States; World War I; America; First World War A SONG FOR INDEPENDENCE DAY, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Arise and shout, ye native sons! Last Line: Shall roll from sea to sea! Subject(s): Flags - United States; Fourth Of July; Patriotism; American Flag; Independence Day A SONG FOR OCCUPATIONS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I do of men and women like you Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Business; United States – Politics & Government A SONG FOR THE TIME, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up, laggards of freedom! - our free flag is cast Last Line: For earth wearies of them and god's over all! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Fremont, John Charles (1813-1890); Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Serfs A SONG OF AMERICAN FREEDOM (THE LIBERTY SONG), by JOHN DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come join hand in hand, brave americans all Last Line: Not as slaves, but as freemen our money we'll give. Alternate Author Name(s): Penman Of The Revolution Subject(s): Freedom; United States - Colonial Period; Liberty A SONG OF OUR FLAG, by WILBUR DICK NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your flag and my flag Last Line: The red and white and blue. Subject(s): Flags - United States; American Flag A SONG OF OUR NATION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crowding the eastern gates Last Line: Ever increase. Subject(s): United States; America 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 A STORY ABOUT CHICKEN SOUP, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup Last Line: But to live in the tragic world forever. Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; World War Ii; Shoah; Judaism; Second World War A STORY OFTEN TOLD IN BARS: THE READER'S DIGEST VERSION, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First I was born and it was tough on mom Last Line: The life that matters not the one I've led Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Popular Culture - United States; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons A SUPERMARKET IN CALIFORNIA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What thoughts I have of you tonight, walt whitman, for I walked down Subject(s): Humanity; Imagination; Markets; Poetry & Poets; Popular Culture - United States; Shopping; Vision; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Fancy; Supermarkets A TENT SCENE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our generals sat in their tent one night Last Line: "will be dislodged at morn!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History A TERROR IS MORE CERTAIN, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A terror is more certain than all the rare desirable popular songs I Last Line: Fuck on t.V. & all those cowboys watching Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Poetry & Poets A TOAST TO OUR NATIVE LAND, by ROBERT BRIDGES (1858-1941) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Huge and alert, irascible yet strong Last Line: Drink to our native land! God bless the state! Alternate Author Name(s): Droch Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America A UTILITARIAN VIEW OF THE MONITOR'S FIGHT, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plain be the phrase, yet apt the verse Last Line: And a singe runs through lace and feather. Subject(s): American Civil War; Monitor (ship); Sea Battles; United States - History; Naval Warfare A VISIT TO GETTYSBURG, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will / touch stone Subject(s): American Civil War; Blood; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); United States - History; War; Gettysburg, Battle Of A VOICE OF THE LOYAL NORTH, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sing 'our country's' song tonight Last Line: God keep us all! Amen! Subject(s): American Civil War; Classmates; United States - History; Schoolmates A VOICE PROPHETIC, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the carnage rose prophetic a voice Last Line: Nay, nor the world, nor any living thing, will so cohere.) Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Patriotism; United States - History A VOW, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will haunt these states Subject(s): United States; War; America A WANDERING LIFE, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Breathes there the man with soul so dead Last Line: Or the one that permits us to live? Subject(s): United States - Immigration & Emigration 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 JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. Stone Last Line: The curtain falls Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History 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 ABSTRACT OF THE SURGEON-GENERAL'S REPORT, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The surgeon-general by brevet Last Line: Editions of your cookery-books Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Army - United States; Generals; Poetry And Poets ACROSS THE LONG DARK BORDER, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sister and I learned about our first war Last Line: War between the states. Subject(s): American Civil War; Divorce; Novels & Novelists; United States - History 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 ADONIS THEATER, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It must have seemed the apex of dreams Subject(s): Americans; United States; America ADONIS THEATER, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It must have seemed the apex of dreams Last Line: In this light, whether we look to %or away from the screen Subject(s): Americans; United States ADVANCE OF THE DWEEBS, by EDMONDE HADDAD Poem Source First Line: Beath high washington domes amid rich paneling Last Line: No place fo ryou in the new usa Subject(s): United States; Washington, D.c. AFLOAT ON THE OCEAN, by CHARLES SWAIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Afloat on the ocean, my days gaily fly Last Line: No monarch on earth more happy than I Subject(s): Navy - United States AFTER APPLE PICKING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Last Line: Or just some human sleep. Subject(s): Americans; Apple Trees; Apples; Fruit; Trees; United States; America AFTER MY TENTH DEATH POEM IN A ROW, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: I tell myself that I've got to stop this, get out Last Line: That I might kill in some green place sometime if I want to Subject(s): Working Class - United States AFTER OUR WAR, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: After our war, the dismembered bits Last Line: After our war, how will love speak? Subject(s): Asian Americans; Poetry & Poets; Scars; Social Problems; Soldiers; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War AFTER READING MICKEY IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN FOR THE THIRD TIME, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter spreads her legs Last Line: And the pink's in us Subject(s): Daughters; Popular Culture - United States AFTER READING MICKEY IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN FOR THE THIRD TIME, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daughter spreads her legs Last Line: That we're in the pink %and the pink's in us Subject(s): Daughters; Popular Culture - United States AFTER SPOTSYLVANIA COURT HOUSE, by DAVID FERRY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read the brown sentences of my great-grandfather Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History AFTER TENNYSON, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: You ask me why, though ill at ease Subject(s): Modern Life; Freedom; Politics & Government; United States; Liberty; America AFTER THE ANTI-SEMITIC CALLS ON A LOCAL TALK STATION, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I want to check Last Line: Panes of crystal %was starting %to crack Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AFTER THE CENTENNIAL (A HOPE), by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Before our eyes a pageant rolled Last Line: Can hold the runners lest they fall! Subject(s): Hope; Nations; Soul; Summer; United States - Centennial Celebrations; Optimism AFTER THE FUUNERAL OF ASSAM HAMADY, by SAM HAMOD Poem Source First Line: Cast: %haji abbass habhab: my grandfather Last Line: As if the pain behind my eyes %could be absolution Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AFTER THE WEDDING PARTY, by MATT ROHRER Poem Source First Line: The sun set early on the forest Last Line: And I plugged heather griggs Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States AFTER THOUGHTS, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he kissed my nipple Subject(s): United States; America AFTER THOUGHTS, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he kissed my nipple Last Line: Foolish magic most likely Subject(s): United States AGAINST NOSTALGIA, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Nothing is more boring than my own life Last Line: Back when I was so young and impressionable? Subject(s): Jews - United States AGONY. AS NOW, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am inside someone %who hates me Last Line: Inside it. And that thing %screams Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Identity; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AIR FORCE PLAYS BASEBALL NEAR THE SOUTH CHINA SEA, by DALE RITTERBUSCH Poem Source First Line: He tells me a barrage of 8-inch guns Last Line: As if the fielders weren't even there Subject(s): Air Force - United States; Battleships; Soldiers; War AIR-FORCE HANGER IN DOVER, DELAWARE, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: The papers are full of the names of the dead Last Line: Such craft locks, not ours to move or break? Subject(s): Beirut - United States Troops (1982-3) AIRMAN, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He will watch the hawk with an indifferent eye Last Line: Hands, wings, are found. Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Air Force - United States; Aviation & Aviators; Birds; Hawks; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.) ALBERT JAMES, by REUBEN M. JACKSON Poem Source First Line: Albert james was black long before me Last Line: And extolled the benefits of fire. %I saw the flophouse where you %od'ed %likewise turn to ghost Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ALBERT SIDNEY JOHNSTON [APRIL 6, 1862], by KATE BROWNLEE SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: I hear again the tread of war go thundering through the land Last Line: One heart, one hope, one destiny, one flag from sea to sea. Subject(s): American Civil War; Johnston, Albert Sidney (1803-1862); Shiloh, Battle Of (1862); United States - History ALIEN IN AMERICA, by FRANCIS GARDNER CLOUGH Poem Text First Line: I have no ear to hear your alien word Last Line: And faith! -- the heart's last-labored codicil. Alternate Author Name(s): Clough, F. Gardner Subject(s): Aliens; Immigrants; United States; Extraterrestrials; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; America ALL I WANT, by LUCI TAPAHONSO Poem Source First Line: All I want is the bread to turn out like hers just once Last Line: On windy, woodchopping afternoons Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations; Women ALL OVER THE DRY GRASSES, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Motorburn, oil sump dirt smell Subject(s): Americans; United States; America ALL OVER THE DRY GRASSES, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Motorburn, oil sump dirt smell Last Line: Wrappt in wild iris %leaves Subject(s): Americans; United States ALL RIGHT, YOU HAVE NO MONEY, YOU'VE GIVEN IT UP, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): United States; Working Class; Boredom; Social Commentaries ALL THESE HEADLINES, by F. JOHN HERBERT Poem Source First Line: All these headlines about cabinets Last Line: And the heavy arms in london could be our teacher. %I hope this plot we have to play in the descent Subject(s): News; United States ALL-NIGHT DINER, by III MARKHAM P. JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Tonight, you will not tire Last Line: And turns over the vacancy sign to full Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Restaurants ALMOST, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: I forget %that I'm a stepmother Last Line: Looks exactly like his father Subject(s): Working Class - United States ALPHABET LETTERS, by KADYA MOLODOVSKY Poem Source First Line: In the bronx, in brooklyn and in new york city Last Line: For the card clubs and boy scout troops to which they belong Subject(s): Family Life; Jews - United States; New York City ALWAYS RUNNING, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: All night vigil Last Line: When all was gone, %the concrete river %was always there %and me, always running Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AMAZONE, by MARY JO BONA Poem Source First Line: Blond-haired, green-eyed, italian girl Last Line: For the opera, singing italian arias along %the way Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AMBERGRIS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Caught in the cobblestones, her heel Last Line: And the great barrier reef --%knocked, bone on bone Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States AMERICA, by RICHARD BLANCO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Although tía miriam boasted she discovered Last Line: Tío berto was the last to leave Subject(s): United States; America AMERICA, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: America, you ode for reality Last Line: Us, and nowhere but you to be Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations AMERICA, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: America, you ode for reality Last Line: Us, and nowhere but you to be Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AMERICA, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: And this was once the realm of nature, where Last Line: And charm the ear with numbers half divine. Subject(s): Change; Freedom; Nature; United States; Liberty; America AMERICA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: America I've given you all and now I'm nothing Subject(s): Americans; Imagination; United States; Vision; Fancy; America AMERICA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: America I've given you all and now I'm nothing Last Line: America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel Subject(s): Americans; Imagination; United States; Vision AMERICA, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then one of the students with blue hair and a tongue stud Last Line: Which turns the volume higher? Subject(s): United States; Materialism; America AMERICA, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred tsars shall rot to bone Last Line: And, fruitful, you shall feed them all. Subject(s): Peace; United States; America AMERICA, by MURRAY KETCHAM KIRK Poem Text Last Line: And usher in sweet brotherhood. Subject(s): Flags; Freedom; National Song - United States; Patriotism; Statue Of Liberty; United States; Liberty; American National Anthem; America AMERICA, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although she feeds me bread of bitterness Last Line: Like priceless treasures sinking in the sand. Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): African Americans; Freedom; United States; Negroes; American Blacks; Liberty; America AMERICA, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the wings of a sunny dome expand Last Line: And left her on the crag. Subject(s): United States; America AMERICA, by OTTO ORBAN Poem Source First Line: America, I've traveled your roads and the spark-hurling ghost Last Line: Like the stars of the milky way that drone as they pass %each other Subject(s): History; Travel; United States AMERICA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the need that bows us thus Last Line: America! America! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Nations; Patriotism; United States; America AMERICA, by SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My country, 'tis of thee Last Line: Great god our king. Variant Title(s): National Hymn Subject(s): Americans; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Patriotism; United States; Independence Day; Liberty; America AMERICA, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love thine inland seas Last Line: Thee I love best! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America AMERICA, by JAMES MONROE WHITFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: America, it is to thee Last Line: The wrongs we bear shall be redressed. Subject(s): Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; United States; Antislavery Movement - United States; America AMERICA, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Centre of equal daughters, equal sons Last Line: Chair'd in the adamant of time. Subject(s): United States; America AMERICA (1), by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mother of a mighty race Last Line: Upon their lips the taunt shall die. Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Patriotism; United States; Independence Day; Liberty; America AMERICA (2), by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look now abroad - another race has filled Last Line: How happy, in thy lap, the sons of men shall dwell? Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America AMERICA AND ENGLAND, by GEORGE HUNTINGTON Poem Text First Line: Two empires by the sea Last Line: Blessing and blest. Variant Title(s): Hymn Of World Peace;international Hymn;peace Hymn For England And America Subject(s): England; Patriotism; United States; English; America AMERICA AT ST. PAUL'S, by MARGARETTA BYRDE Poem Text First Line: Destiny knocked at the door Last Line: "and this is our war!" Subject(s): St. Paul's Cathedral, London; World War I - United States AMERICA FOREVER; OR, A DEFIANCE TO THE BULWARK OF RELIGION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Great britain in her glory, american doth engage Last Line: We will try the operation with powder, shot and bull Subject(s): American Revolution; Navy - United States AMERICA RESURGENT, by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is risen from the dead! Last Line: And a helmet full of stars! Subject(s): World War I - United States AMERICA SPEAKING, by DAVID RIVARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Speech; Immigrants; United States; Oratory; Orators; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; America AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O beautiful for spacious skies Last Line: From sea to shining sea! Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Patriotism; Prairies; United States; Independence Day; Plains; America AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL, by CHRISTINE D. BEYER Poem Source First Line: Oh pitiful Subject(s): United States AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL, by JR. STANLEY TRAVIS RICE Poem Source First Line: The logarithm. The fraction. The bead of dew Last Line: Nerves and follicles and arteries %ablaze in the suaveness of night Subject(s): United States AMERICA THE VULTUREFUL, by ALEXANDRA STORM Poem Source First Line: Dan rather showed me a dismal, old man Last Line: Most brave, very proud and seldom free Subject(s): United States AMERICA TO GREAT BRITAIN, by WASHINGTON ALLSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All hail! Thou noble land Last Line: "we are one." Subject(s): Great Britain; Patriotism; United States; America AMERICA TRIUMPHANT, by ELVIRA BUSH SMITH Poem Text First Line: America, thou peerless one Last Line: Bring forth a happier time! Subject(s): Patriotism; Peace; United States; America AMERICA WITHOUT BASEBALL, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: When baseball died Last Line: And felt for the first time %released into free agency Subject(s): Baseball; Sports; United States AMERICA'S EARLY SETTLERS, by MARTIN LUTHER PETER Poem Text First Line: Today we meet from far and near Last Line: And follow the light of their noble flame! Subject(s): History; United States; Historians; America AMERICA'S FLOWER SONG, by MARGARET PAXSON FLACK Poem Text First Line: Wild wayside flowers are we Last Line: Our country thee. Subject(s): Flowers; National Song - United States; American National Anthem AMERICA'S THANKSGIVING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father all bountiful, in mercy Last Line: Into a pastoral song of peace and rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): God; Holidays; Thanksgiving; United States; America 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) AMERICA'S WELCOME HOME, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, gallantly they fared forth in khaki and in blue Last Line: Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Homecoming; Victory; World War I - United States AMERICA, I DO NOT CALL YOUR NAME WITHOUT HOPE, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nursed on the blood of your inheritance Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; United States AMERICA: SONNET 1, by SYDNEY THOMPSON DOBELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men say, columbia, we shall hear thy guns Alternate Author Name(s): Yendys, Sidney Subject(s): United States AMERICA: SONNET 2, by SYDNEY THOMPSON DOBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nor force nor fraud shall sunder us! Oh ye Last Line: Ser's dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Yendys, Sidney Variant Title(s): England To America Subject(s): England; Patriotism; United States; English; America AMERICAN BOY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Father, look up and see the flag' Subject(s): Flags - United States AMERICAN CENTURY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blackbirds whistle over the young Last Line: In the century of horror Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Love; Parents; United States AMERICAN CONSTITUTION FRIGATE'S ENGAGEMENT ... GUERRIERE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come jolly lads, ye hearts of gold Last Line: Our barve commander now we'll toast, %in punch, and wine, and brandy Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 AMERICAN CRECHE, by SHARON L. MCCAMY Poem Source First Line: If I were an artist, I would draw this poem Last Line: Who don't care but want to leave and have a party %any party, even mine Subject(s): Parties; United States AMERICAN DREAM, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: The paiute in modesto Last Line: Began to sound the night, like crickets Subject(s): Dreams; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; United States AMERICAN DREAM: FIRST REPORT, by JOSEPH PAPALEO Poem Source First Line: First nobody liked us; they said we smelled Last Line: (who liked to spit on the floors while he talked Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AMERICAN FARM, 1934., by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Space is too full. Did nothing happen here? Last Line: Economy, economy! Who'll till this land? Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs. Subject(s): Americans; United States AMERICAN FLAG, by CHARLES CONSTANTINE PISE Poem Source First Line: They say I do not love thee Subject(s): Flags - United States AMERICAN FLAG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: This is our flag, and may it wave Subject(s): Flags - United States AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, by FRANCIS HOPKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Make room, all ye kingdoms, in history renown Last Line: When men fight for freedom, they must be victorious. Variant Title(s): Camp Ballad Subject(s): American Revolution; United States - Continental Congress; United States - Declaration Of Independence AMERICAN LIGHTS, SEEN FROM OFF ABROAD, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blue go up & blue go down Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Americans; United States; America AMERICAN LIGHTS, SEEN FROM OFF ABROAD, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blue go up & blue go down Last Line: Here comes a cropper.' that's what I said Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Americans; United States AMERICAN NAMES, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have fallen in love with american names Last Line: Bury my heart at wounded knee. Subject(s): Names; United States; America AMERICAN POETRY; A FRAGMENT, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Must every shore ring boldly to the voice Last Line: And canst thou then -- Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; United States; America AMERICAN SON, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I was ten Last Line: What good %is a son %in america Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Japanese Americans - Internment; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AMERICAN SONNETS FOR MY FATHER: 1, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: You died in spring, father, and now the autumn dies Last Line: To smell the still living vapor of your sweat Variant Title(s): American Sonnets For My Fathe Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AMERICAN SONNETS FOR MY FATHER: 2, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: You worked too hard, an oldest child of too many Last Line: If your dreams are mine, live again, breath in me and be Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AMERICAN SONNETS FOR MY FATHER: 3, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: You never understood america's scheme Last Line: To carry us full grown Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AMERICAN SPHINX, by PAUL HOOVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As it arranges Last Line: With scars, blur %to the bone Subject(s): Egypt; Sphinx; United States AMERICAN TRAINS, by WILLIAM REGINALD GIBBONS Poem Source First Line: The sante fe, still the one Last Line: I said when you asked me, 'what is this?' Subject(s): Americans; Railroads; United States AMERICAN TWILIGHT, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do I love the sound of children's voices in unknown games Last Line: Down on the other side, %no hand to help him, no tongue to wedge its weal Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Americans; United States AMERICAN VARIATION ON HOW RILKE LOVED A PRINCESS AND GO TO STAY IN ..., by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She said that underneath the surface Last Line: Cling to your knife Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; United States; America AMERICAN VARIATION ON HOW RILKE LOVED A PRINCESS AND GO TO STAY IN ..., by ALAN DUGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She said that underneath the surface Last Line: I was a good american poet Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; United States AMERICAN WAY: 1, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a great american Last Line: But I am afriad to return to america %I'm even afraid to go into the american express Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory Subject(s): United States AMERICANA, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gray within and gray without: the dusk Subject(s): United States; America 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) AN AGONY. AS NOW, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am inside someone / who hates me Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Identity; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations AN AMERICAN LOVE-ODE; TAKEN FROM SECOND VOLUME OF MONTAGNE'S ESSAYS, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, stay, thou lovely, fearful snake Last Line: Stay, lovely, fearful adder stay. Subject(s): Animals; Love; Montaigne, Michel De (1533-1592); Snakes; United States; Serpents; Vipers; America AN ANOINTING, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boys have to slash their fingers to become brothers. Girls Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States AN ANTE-BELLUM SERMON, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: We is gathered hyeah, my brothahs Last Line: Huh uh! Chillun, let us pray! Subject(s): African Americans; American Civil War; Freedom; United States - History; Negroes; American Blacks; Liberty AN ANTHEM, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our vision is our voice Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AN APPEAL, by F. ISABELL GOODWIN REID Poem Text First Line: Oh women of america. Arise! Last Line: Build again a mighty nation! Alternate Author Name(s): Reid, F. Isabelle Goodwin Subject(s): Clubs (associations); United States; Women; America AN APPEAL TO AMERICA ON BEHALF OF THE BELGIAN DESTITUTE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven millions stand Last Line: No man can say? Subject(s): Belgium; United States; World War I; America; First World War AN ARCTIC VISION [JUNE 20, 1867], by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the short-legged esquimaux Last Line: See the real magician's hammer. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Alaska Purchase (1867); United States - History AN ARMY CORPS ON THE MARCH, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With its cloud of skirmishers in advance Last Line: As the army corps advances. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History AN EXPLANATION OF AMERICA, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As though explaining the idea of dancing Subject(s): Politics & Government; Social Problems; United States; America 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 OLD BATTLE-FIELD, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The softest whisperings of the scented south Last Line: Dream of the battle and an unmarked grave! Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; United States - History AN OPEN WINDOW ON CHICAGO, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Midwinter night, / clark & halstead brushed with this week's snow Subject(s): United States; America AN UNINSCRIBED MONUMENT - BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silence and solitude may hint Last Line: Silent as I, and lonesome as the land. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864) ANCHORAGE, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This city is made of stone, of blood, and fish Last Line: To survive? Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; Survival; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts; Indians Of America; American Indians; 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 AND ONE FOR MY DAME, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A born salesman, / my father made all his dough Subject(s): Americans; Fathers; United States; America AND ONE FOR MY DAME, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A born salesman, %my father made all his dough Last Line: Its highways built up like new loves, raw and speedy Subject(s): Americans; Fathers; God; Religion; United States AND THE RIVERS RUN SOUTH, by FREDERICK R. MCCREARY Poem Text First Line: Rivers run south in america Last Line: My country, and her rivers running south. Subject(s): Rivers; United States; America 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 ANECDOTE OF THE JAR, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I placed a jar in tennessee Last Line: Like nothing else in tennessee. Subject(s): Americans; Art & Artists; Bottles; Civilization; United States; America ANIMAL LIFE ON THE GREAT PLAINS, by VICTOR CONTOSKI Poem Source First Line: Before man came to the great plains Last Line: And dream of the second coming of water Subject(s): Animals; United States 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 ANOINTING, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boys have to slash their fingers to become brothers. Girls Last Line: The katabatic action begins. Molly down my canal binnacle first, her %water breaking in me like an a Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States ANOTHER GLORIOUS VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Old neptune, the god of the ocean one day Last Line: The trident of neptune in future they'll wield, %and conquering ride on the blue wat'ry field Subject(s): Navy - United States; Privateers; Saratoga (ship); Sea Battles; War Of 1812 ANSWER WORLD!, by ANGELA MORGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I believe in armies Last Line: "here am I! Here am I!" Subject(s): Army - United States; Injustice; Justice; Nations; Problems; Social Protest; War ANTHEM, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our vision is our voice Last Line: It over my face and mouth Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ANTI VIETNAM-WAR PEACE MOBILIZATION, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White sunshine on sweating skulls Subject(s): United States; America ANTI VIETNAM-WAR PEACE MOBILIZATION, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White sunshine on sweating skulls Last Line: From the paranoia smog factory's east wing Subject(s): United States APOCALYPSE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turning from plato to the rocky sergeant Subject(s): Soldiers; War; Popular Culture - United States APOTHEOSIS, by RUSSELL J. WILBUR Poem Source First Line: Resilient world, gargantuan, picturesque Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) APPARITION, by CAROL J. PIERMAN Poem Source First Line: One admires the american form of these sightings Last Line: Mystery surpassing inexplicable desire Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States APPLE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Father %watching you peel the fruit Last Line: Eating the white meat %with the serpent Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States APPRECIATING OREGON, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: To appreciate what oregon has, and is Last Line: Looming like cities in the water Subject(s): Oregon; Poetry And Poets; Travel; United States 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 APRIL AND ITS FORSYTHIA, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's snowing on the unpedimented lions. On ventilator hoods Last Line: Where branches of sunshine were in bloom on monday Subject(s): Americans; United States APRIL FOOL BIRTHDAY POEM FOR GRANDPA, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today is your / birthday and I have tried Subject(s): Birthdays; Ethnic Groups - United States; Grandparents; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers APRIL FOOL BIRTHDAY POEM FOR GRANDPA, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today is your %birthday and I have tried Last Line: And not be ashamed Subject(s): Birthdays; Ethnic Groups - United States; Grandparents; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations APSARA, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: To carry the dead Last Line: Each time you traverse the sea Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States ARISE, AMERICA!, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Against the world's mad lust Subject(s): United States ARMISTICE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: And this was germany--this puff of dust Last Line: This worn gray shoddy, and this iron rust! Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; United States; World War I; Liberty; Germans; America; First World War ARMITAGE STREET, by DAVID HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: Waiting for the elevated train Last Line: It seems just like yesterday %on armitage street Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ARMY BUGLE CALLS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I can't get 'em up, I can't get 'em up" Last Line: To thy rest Subject(s): Army - United States;bugles ARMY CORRESPONDENT'S LAST RIDE; FIVE FORKS, APRIL 1, 1865, by GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Pony. Down the lonely road Last Line: And took the first despatch! Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; War; Declaration Day ARMY HYMN, by FREDERIC DENISON Poem Text First Line: O thou enthroned above the skies Last Line: And spread abroad thy grace. Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; United States - History ARMY HYMN; 'OLD HUNDRED', by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord of hosts! Almighty king! Last Line: Join our loud anthem, praise to thee! Subject(s): American Civil War; Prayer; United States - History ARROWHEAD CHRISTIAN CENTER AND NO-SMOKING LUNCHEONETTE, by JANET SYLVESTER Poem Source First Line: Each saturday, our father downtown to work Last Line: I would never go near the lunchonette again Subject(s): Lust; Popular Culture - 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 ARTHUR THINKS ON KENNEDY, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source First Line: When kennedy %come to our town Last Line: So I know what %that killing means Subject(s): United States ARTICLE OF FAITH, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: David: coming home from a film today, my brain Last Line: I am writing my way west to celebrate some old lies with you Subject(s): Jews - United States ARTURO, by MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN Poem Source First Line: I told everyone Last Line: Do not call me marie Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; U.s. - Race Relations 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 ASSURANCES, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: The soda cans you bag in bins Last Line: This will calm the others Subject(s): Jews - United States ASTRAEA AT THE CAPITOL; ABOLITION SLAVERY, DISTRICT COLUMBIA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first I saw our banner wave Last Line: Of judgment fringed with mercy's light! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Washington, D.c.; Antislavery Movement - United States AT ELLIS ISLAND, by MARGARET LIVINGSTON CHANLER ALDRICH Poem Text First Line: Across the land their long lines pass Last Line: A land to which all peoples turn. Subject(s): Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Jews; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sea Voyages; Travel; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Judaism; Journeys; Trips AT FREDERICKSBURG [DECEMBER 13, 1862], by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God send us peace, and keep red strife away Last Line: No matter what birth or what race or what creed. Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); United States - History AT HALF-MAST, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Fly the flag at half-mast Last Line: Till the day breaks again. Subject(s): Death; Flags - United States; Military; Social Protest; Veterans Day; War; Dead, The; American Flag AT HOME FROM CHURCH, by SARAH ORNE JEWETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lilacs lift in generous bloom Last Line: But only of a voice that sings. Subject(s): Americans; United States; America 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 MAGNOLIA CEMETERY, by HENRY TIMROD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep sweetly in your humble graves Last Line: By mourning beauty crowned! Variant Title(s): Ode Sung On The Occasion Of Decorating The Graves - Charleston;decoration Day At Charleston;magnolia Cemetery Ode;ode For Decoration Day;hymn For Memorial Day;ode On Decorating The Graves;magnolia Cemetery;lines;ode At Magnolia Cemetery;ode Sung At Magnolia Cemetery Subject(s): American Civil War; Cemeteries; Charleston, South Carolina; Confederate States Of America; Patriotism; United States - History; Graveyards; Confederacy AT NAVAJO MONUMENT VALLEY TRIBAL SCHOOL, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The football field rises Last Line: Wild horses, wild horses, wild horses Subject(s): Americans; Education; Schools; United States; Students; America AT NAVAJO MONUMENT VALLEY TRIBAL SCHOOL, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The football field rises Last Line: Wild horses, wild horses,wild horses Subject(s): Americans; Education; Schools; United States AT NIGHT THE STATES, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): United States; Love; America AT PORT ROYAL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tent-lights glimmer on the land Last Line: Their broken saxon words. Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; Port Royal, Battle Of (1861); United States - History 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 CANNON'S MOUTH, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Palely intent, he urged his keel Last Line: The star ascended in his nativity. Subject(s): Albemarle (ship); American Civil War; Cushing, William Barker (1842-1874); United States - History AT THE CEMETERY, WALNUT GROVE PLANTATION, SOUTH CAROLINA, 1989, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the rocks / at walnut grove Last Line: Here lies / hear Subject(s): Americans; United States; African Americans; Slavery; Cemeteries; America AT THE CEMETERY, WALNUT GROVE PLANTATION, SOUTH CAROLINA, 1989, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the rocks %at walnut grove Last Line: Here lies %hear Subject(s): Americans; United States AT THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER, by MIGUEL ALGARIN Poem Source First Line: I search the chemistry of specific emotions Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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 NUCLEAR RALLY, by LAURA BOSS Poem Source First Line: Thinking of my father Last Line: Next to me tonight Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AT THE PUBLIC MARKET MUSEUM: CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A volunteer, a daughter of the confederacy Subject(s): Americans; United States; America AT THE PUBLIC MARKET MUSEUM: CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, by JANE KENYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A volunteer, a daughter of the confederacy Last Line: Blue. It was what both sides %agreed to do Subject(s): Americans; 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 AURORA-BOREALIS; COMMEMORATIVE OF DISSOLUTION OF ARMIES,1865, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What power disbands the northern lights Last Line: Midnight and morn. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army - United States; U.s. - History AUTO POESY: ON THE LAM FROM BLOOMINGTON, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Setting out east on rain bright highways Subject(s): United States; America AUTO POESY: ON THE LAM FROM BLOOMINGTON, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Setting out east on rain bright highways Last Line: Washington town covered with rust-hm Subject(s): United States AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by ROBERT VISCUSI Poem Source First Line: In my house we had an elephant named italy Last Line: And are always putting in another sidewalk Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations AUTUMN GOLD: NEW ENGLAND FALL, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Coughing in the morning / waking with a steam beast, city destroyed Subject(s): United States; America AUTUMN GOLD: NEW ENGLAND FALL, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coughing in the morning %waking with a steam beast, city destroyed Last Line: Silent tiny golden hills, maya-joy in autumn %speeding 70 m.P.H. Subject(s): United States AWAKENING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: My mother is pinned to the clothesline Last Line: All these years they have lain silent Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States 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 BACKFLIP, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: There are the beautifully wind-deformed pine trees Last Line: Some days, he says, he'll go through half a case by noon Subject(s): Working Class - United States BAGEL SHOP JAZZ, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow people, projected on coffee-shop walls Last Line: Brief, beautiful shadows, burned on walls of night Subject(s): Americans; Jazz; Music & Musicians; United States; America BAGEL SHOP JAZZ, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow people, projected on coffee-shop walls Last Line: Brief, beautiful shadows, burned on walls of night Subject(s): Americans; Jazz; Music And Musicians; United States BAINBRIDGE'S VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When our good constitution was last moor'd in port Last Line: So our cans we toss'd off with good liquor quite full, %to bainbridge, and jones, and decatur, and h Subject(s): Bainbridge, William (1774-1833); Constitution (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 BALL'S BLUFF; A REVERIE, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One noonday, at my window in the town Last Line: Far footfalls died away till none were left. Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Ball's Bluff, Battle Of; United States - History; United States; War; America 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) BALLADE OF EXPANSION, by HILDA JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Time was he sang the british brute Last Line: The ethical expansionist! Subject(s): Imperialism; Philippines; United States; America BALLADE OF OLD NAVIES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Gone are the old-time wooden fleets Last Line: No more we battle man to man. Subject(s): Navy - United States; Past; War; American Navy BALTHUS, THE WINDOW, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: I've heard this one before Last Line: Like brushstrokes in the air Subject(s): Jews - United States; Windows BANNER OF AMERICA, by DENIS ALOYSIUS MCCARTHY Poem Source Subject(s): Flags - United States BANNER OF THE SEA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Of all the flags that float aloft Last Line: And fling it out 'mid song and shout, %the banner of the sea Subject(s): Navy - United States BARBARA FRIETCHIE [SEPTEMBER 13, 1862], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the meadows rich with corn Last Line: On thy stars below in frederick town! Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Courage; Flags - United States; Frietschie, Barbara (1766-1862); Maryland; Patriotism; United States - History; United States; Valor; Bravery; American Flag; Fritchie, Barbara (1766-1862); America BARBIE SAYS MATH IS HARD, by KYOKO MORI Poem Source First Line: As a boy, I'd still have asked Last Line: Her daughters: yes, math was hard %but not because we were girls Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Education; Popular Culture - United States; Schools; Women BARBIE'S MOLESTER, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His penis rises before him, a compulsion. He would take hormones if Last Line: He's doing things he never thought of Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States BARBIE'S MOLESTER, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His penis rises before him, a compulsion. He would take hormones if Last Line: He mistakes this for love. Suddenly he's doing things even he's never %thought of Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States BARNEY'S INVITATION, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come all ye lads who know no fear Last Line: Success to the hyder ali. Subject(s): American Revolution; Barney, Joshua (1759-1818); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; American Navy; Naval Warfare BARRIO BEATEO, by JESSE F. GARCIA Poem Source First Line: Woke up to one of those cold Last Line: Thanks murray, babe %I love you Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BARTOW BLACK, by TIMOTHY THOMAS FORTUNE Poem Text First Line: Twas when the proclamation came Last Line: There was no need to stay! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Racism; Antislavery Movement - United States; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry BASEBALL, by DAVE ETTER Poem Source First Line: We stand for 'the star-spangled banner.' the home-plate umpire Last Line: Third-base foul line Subject(s): Baseball; Flags - United States; Sports BATHED IN WAR'S PERFUME, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bathed in war's perfume - delicate flag! Last Line: Flag like the eyes of women. Subject(s): Flags - United States; American Flag BATTLE BETWEEN THE CHESAPEAKE AND SHANNON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Twas in the morning, the fifth day of june Last Line: If wounded - 'tis our country's intention, %for all that's d isabl'd to give a good pension Subject(s): Chesapeake (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 BATTLE BUNNY; MALVERN HILL, 1864, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bunny, lying in the grass Last Line: Twixt a rabbit's god and man's. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): American Civil War; Animals; Rabbits; United States - History; Hares BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord Last Line: While god is marching on. Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Freedom; Patriotism; Religion; United States - History; United States; War; Liberty; Theology; America BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To clear the lake of perry's fleet Last Line: With spirit laid him close on board - %they're ours - he said - and closed the game Subject(s): Lake Erie, Battle Of; Navy - United States; Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819); War Of 1812 BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sure wont you hear, what glory there Last Line: So I'll have bo more of it, but a little bit of - tid-re-I, &c Subject(s): Lake Erie, Battle Of; Navy - United States; War Of 1812 BATTLE OF PLATTSBURG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Twas autumn, around me leaves were descending Last Line: But nature and art will continue to charm us, %while so happy we'll live, on the banks of lake champ Subject(s): Navy - United States; Plattsburg, Battle Of; War Of 1812 BATTLE OF SOMERSET, by CORNELIUS C. CULLEN Poem Text First Line: I gazed, and lo! Afar and near Last Line: And cease this bloody strife. Subject(s): American Civil War; Somerset, Kentucky, Battle Of (1862); United States - History BATTLE OF THE POTOMAC WITH THE MALAYS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: As the sun was retiring behind the high mountains Last Line: May the potomac, with glory and honour come home, %and her name ne'er be stained with an unworthy de Subject(s): Navy - United States; Potomac (ship); Sea Battles BATTLE OF THE SHANNON AND CHESAPEAKE; A BRITISH BALLAD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: On board the shannon frigate in the merry month of may Last Line: Likewise to gallant captain broke and all his valiant crew, %who beat the bold americans and brought Subject(s): Navy - United States; Sea Battles; Shannon (ship); War Of 1812 BATTLE WON IS LOST, by PHILLIP WILLIAM GEORGE Poem Source First Line: They said, 'you are no longer a lad' Last Line: They said, 'to die is glorious.' %they lied Subject(s): United States BATTLE, OVER AND OVER AGAIN, by SAFIYA HENDERSON-HOLMES Poem Source First Line: My daughter came home from school one day Last Line: As if it were the last enemy's retreat Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BATTLE-PLANE IN FRANCE, by OSCAR C. A. CHILD Poem Source First Line: My driver came this morning on the run Last Line: Dear god! It's wonderful-that flag!' Subject(s): Flags - United States; Patriotism BATTLESHIPS, by LORI PETRI Poem Text First Line: They rock and ride like great grey gulls Last Line: The black lusts of the primal slime. Subject(s): Animals; Battleships; Bears; Navy - United States; American Navy BAY BILLY, by FRANK HARRISON GASSAWAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You may talk of horses of renown Last Line: "the whole line answered, ""here!" Alternate Author Name(s): Derrick Dogg Subject(s): American Civil War; Animals; Horses; United States - History; War BAYARD TAYLOR, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In other years - lost youth's enchanted years Last Line: Ay, he will come! To us he is not dead. Subject(s): Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878); United States - History BAYONNE ENTERING NYC, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smog trucks mile after mile high wire Subject(s): United States; America BAYONNE ENTERING NYC, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Smog trucks mile after mile high wire Last Line: Waiting I come back to new york & begin to sing Subject(s): United States BAYONNE TURNPIKE TO TUSCARORA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grey water tanks in grey mist, / grey robot Subject(s): United States; America BAYONNE TURNPIKE TO TUSCARORA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grey water tanks in grey mist, %grey robot Last Line: Crash of machineguns, ring of locusts, airplane roar, %calliope yell, bzzzs Subject(s): United States BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS!, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Beat! Beat! Drums! - blow! Bugles! Blow / through the windows - through doors Last Line: So strong you thump o terrible drums -- so loud you bugles blow. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day BEAUREGARD, by CATHERINE ANNE WARFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our trust is now in thee Last Line: Beauregard! Alternate Author Name(s): Warfield, Catherine M. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauregard, Pierre Gustave T. (1818-93); Confederate States Of America; Patriotism; Shiloh, Battle Of (1862); United States - History; Confederacy BEAUREGARD'S APPEAL, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yea! Since the need is bitter Last Line: The eucharist of prayer. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauregard, Pierre Gustave T. (1818-93); Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Confederacy BECAUSE OF MY FATHER'S JOB, by JAMES MASAO MITSUI Poem Source First Line: Spring hailstones would drive us Last Line: Embarrassed the moon with his curses & songs Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BECAUSE YOU'RE AMERICAN, by KEVIN STEIN Poem Source First Line: You love the hum of a well-oiled engine about to turn 200,000 Last Line: Back to yank his leg, oh blessings, white pelicans in iowa Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States BEFORE OUR DIVORCES, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: When my sister was tending bar weekends Last Line: And a dadgum freaking pair of heels %that she maybe could borrow Subject(s): Working Class - United States BEFORE THE DEBATE, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Before the debate each man checks his watch Last Line: Over the details of our new compromise Subject(s): Jews - United States BEFORE VICKSBURG, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While sherman stood beneath the hottest fire Last Line: "more cartridges, sir, -- calibre fifty-four!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History; Vicksburg Campaign (1862-63) BEGINNING OF A POEM OF THESE STATES, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the bluffs of oroville, blue cloud september Subject(s): United States; America BEGINNING OF A POEM OF THESE STATES, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the bluffs of oroville, blue cloud september Last Line: Face and television, money and new wanderings to come Subject(s): United States BEHAVING LIKE A JEW, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When I got there the dead opossum looked like Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BEHAVING LIKE A JEW, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I got there the dead opossum looked like Last Line: From his round belly and his curved fingers %and his black whiskers and his little dancing feet Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BEHIND GRANDMA'S HOUSE, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At ten I wanted fame. I had a comb Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BEING JEWISH IN A SMALL TOWN, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Someone writes kike on Last Line: That pulls you toward %honey in the snow Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BEIRUT, by AHMAD FARAZ Poem Source First Line: Whose headless body is this Last Line: Who take god's name %are silent! Subject(s): Beirut - United States Troops (1982-3); Blood; Enemies; Human Rights; Tyranny And Tyrants BEIRUT, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: This is the place we have come to Last Line: This land not ours? Subject(s): Beirut - United States Troops (1982-3) BELLE ISLE, 1949, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We stripped in the first warm spring night Subject(s): Americans; United States; America BELLE ISLE, 1949, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We stripped in the first warm spring night Last Line: To go back where we came from Subject(s): Americans; United States BELLES LETTRES, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: She had learned %to sip tea from a glass Last Line: They'd called it a 'vestibule,' %which made her love words Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States BEN BACKSTAY, by V. MOTT FRANCIS Poem Source First Line: Ben backstay was our boatswain, a merry, merry boy Last Line: Why, never mix your liquor, lads, but always take it neat Subject(s): Navy - United States BENEATH THE FLAG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: On the sunny hillside sleeping Last Line: Side by side march blue and gray! Subject(s): Flags - United States;holidays;memorial Day; American Flag;declaration Day BETHEL, by AUGUSTINE JOSEPH HICKEY DUGANNE Poem Text First Line: We mustered at midnight, in darkness we formed Last Line: "column! Forward!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Bethel, Virgina, Battle Of (1861); United States - History; Great Bethel (church), Virginia; Big Bethel (church), Virginia; Little Bethel (church), Virginia BETSY'S BATTLE FLAG, by MINNA IRVING Poem Text First Line: From dusk till dawn the livelong night Last Line: For betsy's battle flag! Alternate Author Name(s): Michener, Harry, Mrs. Subject(s): Flags - United States; Ross, Betsy (1752-1836); American Flag BEYOND THE POTOMAC, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They slept on the field which their valor had won Last Line: Since they passed o'er the river? Subject(s): American Civil War; Maryland; United States - History 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 BEYOND WORDS, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you bomb / the ind Subject(s): Music & Musicians; City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; Popular Culture - United States BIG CHILL VARIATIONS, by REUBEN M. JACKSON Poem Source First Line: He gives me a handshake Last Line: His treat - %paid with an american express card. %gold, %but with black trim Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BILLIE IN SILK, by ANGELA JACKSON Poem Source First Line: I have nothing to say to you, billie holiday Last Line: My mouth is on fire. Let it burn Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Music And Musicians; Popular Culture - United States; Singing And Singers BIRDFOOT'S GRAMPA, by JOSEPH BRUCHAC Poem Source First Line: The old man %must have stopped our car Last Line: They have places to go to too Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BIRTH OF RHYTHM AND BLUES, by PATRICIA SPEARS JONES Poem Source First Line: Mid-february in america. Cold everywhere but florida Last Line: So they cut my mother's belly and drag me %wailing too Subject(s): Popular Culture - 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 BISON CROSSING NEAR MT. RUSHMORE, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is our herd of cars stopped Last Line: Each behind the other, herdlike, where the highway leads Subject(s): Americans; United States BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see before me now a travelling army halting Last Line: Studded, breaking out, the eternal stars. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Drills & Minor Tactics; Declaration Day BIXBY CANYON, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Path crowded with thistle fern blue daisy Subject(s): United States; America BIXBY CANYON, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Path crowded with thistle fern blue daisy Last Line: So pipers pray to the avalanche Subject(s): United States BIXBY CANYON OCEAN PATH WORD BREEZE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Tiny orange-wing tipped butterfly Last Line: So pipes pray to the avalanche Subject(s): United States; America BIXBY CANYON OCEAN PATH WORD BREEZE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tiny orange-wing tipped butterfly Last Line: Silver hair ear to ear Subject(s): United States BLACK AND WHITE, by SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM Poem Source First Line: Why is it in my middle-aged dream Last Line: That her caring can be cleansed Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BLACK AND WHITE GALAXIE, by AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With water warm enough to make me Last Line: A black man gotta have a private world Alternate Author Name(s): Weaver, Michael S. Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BLACK BACK-UPS, by KATE RUSHIN Poem Source First Line: This is dedicated to merry clayton, fontella bass, vonetta Last Line: Do - do %do Alternate Author Name(s): Rushin, Donna Kate Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; African Americans - Women; Jazz; Music And Musicians; Popular Culture - United States; Singing And Singers; Women's Rights BLACK HAIR, by GARY SOTO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: At eight I was brilliant with my body Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Sports; United States - Race Relations BLACK HAIR, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At eight I was brilliant with my body Last Line: To the arms of brown people Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Sports; U.s. - Race Relations BLACK MAN'S SONATA, by AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here in west philadelphia Last Line: Our deep black stripes in a fire yellow Alternate Author Name(s): Weaver, Michael S. Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BLACK POWER POEM, by ISHMAEL REED Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A spectre is haunting america - the spectre of neo-hoodooism Last Line: May the best church win. Shake hands now and come %out conjuring Subject(s): Americans; United States BLACKBOTTOM: 1945, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When relatives came from out of town Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations BLACKBOTTOM: 1945, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When relatives came from out of town Last Line: Whose very existence %tore us down to the human Subject(s): Detroit, Michigan; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BLESSED GOSPEL LIGHT, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: A full-bore black-out alcoholic Last Line: It's the good lord shining %it's the blessed gospel light Subject(s): Working Class - United States BLESSED IS THE ONE WHO RELEASES ME FROM THIS RESPONSIBILITY', by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: The girl's over-rehearsed. Her rushed rendition of the prayers Last Line: And that shamed sneer on your lip: give it a name. Give it your own Subject(s): Jews - United States BLIND SOLO, by AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A young poet comes to me Last Line: But I was beautiful, wasn't I Alternate Author Name(s): Weaver, Michael S. Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BLONDE AMBITION, by MAUREEN SEATON Poem Source First Line: The only miracle I ever wanted as a kid Last Line: Fear lifting you up, cheeks hot with light Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States BLONDE WHITE WOMEN, by PATRICIA M. SMITH Poem Source First Line: They choke cities like snowstorms Last Line: Demanding that I explain %my treachery Subject(s): Blondes; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BLOOD, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A true arab knows how to catch a fly in his hands' Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations BLOOD, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A true arab knows how to catch a fly in his hands' Last Line: Where can the crying heart graze? %what does a true arab do now? Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ebbed and flowed the muddy pei-ho by the gulf of pechili Last Line: Blood is thicker, sir, than water, now as then. Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Americans; China; Navy - United States; Patriotism; Tattnall, Josiah (1795-1871); American Navy BLUE SUEDE SHOES, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heliotrope sprouts from your shoes, brother Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States BLUE SUEDE SHOES, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Heliotrope sprouts from your shoes, brother Last Line: There's nothing that doesn't belong to me Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States BOATSWAIN'S MATE'S POETRY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curled Last Line: How sweet could I live, and how calm could I die! Subject(s): Navy - United States BOOM!, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here at the vespasian-carlton, it's just one Last Line: Miss universe, for thy name's sake, amen Subject(s): Life, Modern; United States BOOMERS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: This is the last fallout shelter poem Last Line: Clinging to half-lives, as we are now Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States BORN IN THE U.S.A., by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Born in 1937 in the usa Subject(s): United States; Self; Patriotism; America BOSTON FRIGATE'S ENGAGEMENT WITH THE FRENCH CORVETTE ..., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The american frigate, from boston she came Last Line: Here's a health to captain little, and officers too, %not forgetting the seamen that were valiant an Subject(s): Navy - United States; Sea Battles BOSTON HYMN; READ IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY 1, 1863, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word of the lord by night Last Line: His way home to the mark. Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Patriotism; Pilgrim Fathers; United States - History; United States; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; America BOSTON PRIVATEERING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The argus with her hundred eyes Last Line: For know, that these brave fighting men, %have now restor'd his goods again Subject(s): Navy - United States; Privateers; War Of 1812 BOSTON YEAR, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My first week in cambridge a car full of white boys Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Americans; Boston; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; United States; Estrangement; Outcasts; America BOSTON YEAR, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My first week in cambridge a car full of white boys Last Line: No one. Red notes sounding in a grey trolley town Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Americans; Boston; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; United States BOY BRITTAN [FEBRUARY 8, 1862], by BYRON FORCEYTHE WILLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Boy brittan - only a lad a fair-haired boy - sixteen Last Line: "my darling, thou shalt rest!" Alternate Author Name(s): Willson, Forceythe Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Fort Henry, Battle Of (1862); Sailing & Sailors; United States - History; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails BOY, BARE YOUR HEAD WHEN THE FLAG GOES BY!, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Flags - United States BRAIN ON ICE, by MICHAEL WARR Poem Source First Line: There's a seat right next to me Last Line: In which we all %are hourly enslaved Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BRALY STREET, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every summer %the asphalt softens Last Line: Would equal, if alive Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BREASTS, by MAXINE CHERNOFF Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I were french, I'd write / about breasts Subject(s): Breasts; Love - Erotic; Food Habits; Popular Culture - United States; Potatoes BREASTS, by MAXINE CHERNOFF Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If I were french, I'd write %about breasts Last Line: Bogart is staring at lauren bacall's breasts %as if they might start speaking Subject(s): Breasts; Erotic Love; Food Habits; Popular Culture - United States; Potatoes 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 BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baron has decided to mate the monster Last Line: As his hideous body grabs them Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States BRIDES COME TO YUBA CITY, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is hot and yellow, filled Last Line: We cannot recognize a single face Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; India; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BRILLIANT NAVAL VICTORY ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O freemen! Raise a joyful strain Last Line: Till the bright arch of naval fame, %o'er the broad ocean bend Subject(s): Lake Champlain, Battle Of; Navy - United States; War Of 1812 BRILLIANT NAVAL VICTORY; PERRY, BETTER THAN ENGLISH CIDER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Huzza! For the brave yankee boys Last Line: But such perry as she's taken here %she never will wish for again, sir Subject(s): Lake Erie, Battle Of; Navy - United States; Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819); War Of 1812 BRILLIANT VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hark how the church bell's thundering harmony Last Line: Our wasp has stung the frolic hard, %and thus our laurels grow Subject(s): Decatur, Stephen (1779-1820); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 BRILLIANT VICTORY; ON CAPTURE OF BRITISH SCHOONER DOMINICO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come my jovial sons of america Last Line: Who daring fought the british schooner, %and as bravely overthrew Subject(s): Decatur (ship); Navy - United States; Privateers; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 BRIS, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: The strap from the pentax circles allen's forearm Last Line: We squint to hide the raw flesh of our eyes Subject(s): Jews - United States BRITANNIA TO COLUMBIA, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the voice I hear Last Line: "stronger than death is strong." Variant Title(s): England To America;a Voice From The West;to America Subject(s): England; Friendship; United States; English; America BRONCO BUSTING, EVENT #1, by MAY SWENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stall so tight he can't raise heels or knees Subject(s): Americans; Sports; United States; America BRONCO BUSTING, EVENT #1, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stall so tight he can't raise heels or knees Last Line: A horn squawks. Up from the dust gets a buster named tucson Subject(s): Americans; Sports; 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) BROWN OF OSSAWATOMIE [DECEMBER 2, 1859], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John brown of ossawatomie spake on his dying day Last Line: To love! Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Capital Punishment; Freedom; Slavery; United States - History; Anti-slavery; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Liberty; Serfs 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 BUCKET, by ROSE ROMANO Poem Source First Line: Why is it I can't sleep tonight Last Line: Something is rising in me Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BUGS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The lightning bug has wings of gold Last Line: But it gets there just the same Subject(s): United States BUILDING A NEW CHURCH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: They built the front, upon my word Last Line: They made the back part shabby Subject(s): United States BULLY, by MARTIN ESPADA Poet's Biography First Line: In the school auditorium / the theodore roosevelt statue Subject(s): Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Hispanic Americans; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Latinos; Students BULLY, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the school auditorium %the theodore roosevelt statue Last Line: Across the victorian mustache %and monocle Subject(s): Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Hispanic Americans; Minorities - United States; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations BULOSAN LISTENS TO A RECORDING OF ROBERT JOHNSON, by ALFRED ENCARNACION Poem Source First Line: You sing a hard blues Last Line: Our names so different, %our songs the same Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BUNNY ARKANSAS DAYS, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: I want to write about bob etta Last Line: My husband wants some other family member to own a pickup truck Subject(s): Working Class - United States BURIAL OF BARBER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bear him, comrades, to his grave Last Line: Of the freedom of the west! Subject(s): Barber, Thomas; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Funerals; Kansas; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Burials; Serfs 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 BURYING CARNATIONS, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Windy days in missouri, rosemary Last Line: Today she is looking for flowers Subject(s): Jews - United States BUSTED BOY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Social Commentaries; United States - Race Relations; Police BUT MY BLOOD, by ROSE ROMANO Poem Source First Line: I'm beginning to talk to myself Last Line: American as anyone. But my blood %will not change Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations BUTLER'S PROCLAMATION, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay! Drop the treacherous mask! Throw by Last Line: Save -- immortality of shame! Subject(s): American Civil War; Butler, Benjamin Franklin (1818-1893); New Orleans, Battle Of (1862); United States - History; Women 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) BY BLUE ONTARIO'S SHORE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By blue ontario's shore, / as I mused of these warlike days & of peace return'd Last Line: You by my charm I invoke. Variant Title(s): As I Sat Alone By Blue Ontario's Shore Subject(s): Democracy; Poetry & Poets; United States; America BY THE CONEMAUGH, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: Foreboding sudden of untoward change Last Line: "but I cannot hide them away from him!" Subject(s): Conemaugh (river), Pennsylvania; United States - History BY THE POTOMAC, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soft new grass is creeping o'er the graves Last Line: And all our heavy heritage of grief. Variant Title(s): Accomplices Subject(s): American Civil War; Potomac River; Rivers; United States - History BY-PRODUCTS, by BARON WORMSER Poem Source First Line: The legion hall in atherton contains Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Veterans 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 CABINS, by FRANK BIRD LINDERMAN Poem Source First Line: They was dirt-roofed, an 'homely, an' ramblin', an' squat Last Line: I'm old, but I'm glad that I lived when I did Subject(s): Americans; United States CADET GREY: CANTO 1, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Act first, scene first. A study. Of a kind Last Line: The train moved off, and here the first act ended, Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): United States - Military Academy CADET GREY: CANTO 2, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where west point crouches, and with lifted shield Last Line: That is best? Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): United States - Military Academy CADET GREY: CANTO 3, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the sun sinks through leagues of arid sky Last Line: Now meant stout mistress bloggs of blank blank square. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): United States - Military Academy CADILLAC MOON, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Basquiat, Jean-michel (1960-1988); Popular Culture - United States; Social Commentaries CALIFORNIA, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The headland towers over ocean Subject(s): Americans; United States; America CALIFORNIA, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The headland towers over ocean Last Line: In the bright simpleness and strangeness of the sands Subject(s): Americans; United States CALIFORNIA DREAMIN', by SAPPHIRE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Was I this lonely as a child Last Line: Trying to find the trees she taught us were ours? Subject(s): Americans; 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) CALYPSO, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Dese days, I doh even bada combing out mi locks Last Line: Well, dat the only romance I goin give de time a day Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States CAMPAIGN, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My packard bell was set up in the vacant lot near the stump Last Line: On record to the moon's blanched countenance. %who are you for? Subject(s): Americans; Politics; United States CAMPS OF GREEN, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not alone those camps of white, old comrades of wars Last Line: Nor drummer to beat the morning drum. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History CAN'T TELL, by NELLIE WONG Poem Source First Line: When world war ii was declared Last Line: We wore black arm bands, %put up a sign %in bold letters Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations; Women CANA, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: I walk the dog beside the sound Last Line: Just as the harbor waters turn to wine Subject(s): Cana, Galilee; Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let politicians talk their fill Last Line: That nations can as brothers love. Subject(s): Canada; United States; Canadians; America CANDY LADY, by LAURA BOSS Poem Source First Line: Aunt lily stood %behind her candy counter Last Line: And he told me her stone was glass Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations CANTICLE DE PROFUNDIS, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glory to thee, father of all the immortal Last Line: Glory to thee! Variant Title(s): A Canticle In War Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day CANTO, by OTTO ORBAN Poem Source First Line: For years I longed to translate pound Last Line: A can, a jackknife is poetry itself Subject(s): Freedom; History; Poetry And Poets; United States CANTO 37, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou shalt not', said martin vanburen. 'jail 'em for debt' Subject(s): United States - Politics & Government; Immigrants; Debt; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration CAPITALIST POEM #5, by CAMPBELL MCGRATH Poem Source First Line: I was at the 7-11 Last Line: I was aware of social injustice %in only the vaguest possible way Subject(s): Americans; Cooking And Cooks; United States CAPTAIN HULL'S VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye brave seamen all, where'er you be Last Line: Like true americans our rights will defend, %and to our government we'll all eb a friend Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 CAPTAIN JINKS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I'm captain jinks of the horse marines Last Line: "the officers they all did shout: / 'why, kick him out of the army'" Variant Title(s): Captain Junks (with Music) Subject(s): Marines - United States CAPTURE OF THE ESSEX; FREE TRADE - SAILORS' RIGHTS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Some two years since, the gallant ship %'the essex' known in fame, sirs Last Line: Her crown, wealth, empire, all must waste! %and sink, in endless ruin! Subject(s): Essex (ship); Free Trade; Navy - United States; War Of 1812 CAR CRASH, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow-blizzard sowing Subject(s): United States; America CAR CRASH, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow-blizzard sowing Last Line: Mussed & ruffled by policeman's rape Subject(s): United States CAROLINA [JANUARY, 1865], by HENRY TIMROD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The despot treads thy sacred sands Last Line: Carolina! Subject(s): American Civil War; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); South Carolina; United States - History CARROTS IN THE RAIN, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: I'm in the driver's seat Last Line: And asks if I'm gonna write a poem about this Subject(s): Working Class - United States CASEY JONES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all you rounders if you want to hear Last Line: Cause you've got another papa on the salt lake line' Subject(s): United States CASH IN HAND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all ye jolly seamen bold Last Line: The british boys, we always knew, %at jingling cash are handy Subject(s): Navy - United States; Rodgers, John (1773-1838); Sea Battles; War Of 1812 CATALOGUE ARMY, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something has happened to my name Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States CATALOGUE ARMY, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something has happened to my name Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States 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) CAUTION HORSES, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Hang their heads over the fence Last Line: Sweep the ground %at their feet Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States CAVALRY CROSSING A FORD, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A line in long array where they wind betwixt green islands Last Line: The guidon flags flutter gayly in the wind. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; Cavalry; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; United States - History; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Declaration Day CEDAR MOUNTAIN [AUGUST 9, 1862], by ANNIE (ADAMS) FIELDS Poem Text First Line: Ring the bells, nor ring them slowly Last Line: These lives that now we dedicate. Subject(s): American Civil War; Cedar Mountain, Battle Of (1862); United States - History CENTENNIAL HYMN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through calm and storm the years have led Last Line: The record of thy happier reign. Subject(s): United States - History CENTENNIAL HYMN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our fathers' god! From out whose hand Last Line: Let the new cycle shame the old! Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Patriotism; Peace; United States - Centennial Celebrations; Independence Day CENTENNIAL MEDITATION OF COLUMBIA, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From this hundred-terraced height Last Line: And wave the world's best lover's welcome to the world. Subject(s): Patriotism; United States - Centennial Celebrations CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH: 1, by KIMBERLY M. BLAESER Poem Source First Line: Shuffling papers %rushing to find some critical Last Line: You won't imprint me again Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH: 2, by KIMBERLY M. BLAESER Poem Source First Line: Or perhaps it was your capture Last Line: Mother, american indian. %daughter, mixedblood Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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) CHALLENGE TO AMERICANS, by DORA WARD Poem Text First Line: Americans, we've built a nation great Last Line: "we're the greatest nation in all the world!" Subject(s): Americans; Flags - United States; National Characteristics - American; American Flag CHANGING ADDRESS BOOKS, by MICHAEL S. GLASER Poem Source First Line: This is a project as overwrought Last Line: Who were loved, who are missed Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations CHANGING LIGHT, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The changing light at san francisco Last Line: The city drifts %anchorless upon the ocean Subject(s): Americans; United States CHARGE THAT CAN CHEERILY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now coil up your nonsense 'bout england's great navy Last Line: Disdaining to strike while a stick is left standing Subject(s): Navy - Great Britain; Navy - United States; War Of 1812 CHARLES GRANER IS NOT AMERICA, by GEOFFREY BROCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff Subject(s): Graner, Charles A., Jr.; Torture; United States; America CHARLES SUMNER, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Garlands upon his grave Last Line: Upon the paths of men. Subject(s): United States - History CHARLESTON, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calmly beside her tropic strand Last Line: Pass from the world to glory. Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; United States - History CHARLESTON, by HENRY TIMROD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calm as that second summer which precedes / the first fall of snow Last Line: April, 1'63. Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; United States - History CHARLESTON AT THE CLOSE OF 1863, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What! Still does the mother of treason uprear Last Line: Where her dead martyrs rest! Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; United States - History 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 CHERRY-RIPE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Here you are again, on that shaky ladder in the south Last Line: Chose one more night without love and left me barren Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States CHESAPEAKE AND SHANNON; A LIST OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Columbians here behold the list Last Line: Receive thy grateful sacrifice, %of holy freedom's choicest tear Subject(s): Chesapeake (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 CHESAPEAKE AND SHANNON; ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF CAPT. LAWRENCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Columbia mourns in silent woe Last Line: Vain though 'tis die, the sacred tear, %for lawrence is in heaven the same Subject(s): Chesapeake (ship); Lawrence, James (1781-1813); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 CHICAGO TO SALT LAKE BY AIR, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If hanson baldwin got a bullet in his brain, outrage? Subject(s): United States; America CHICAGO TO SALT LAKE BY AIR, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If hanson baldwin got a bullet in his brain, outrage? Last Line: Neal was born in paradise! Subject(s): United States CHICKAMAUGA, by MARY EVELYN DAVID Poem Text First Line: The sharp, clear crack of rifles, and the deep Last Line: By the river of death! Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Mollie E.; Davis, Mollie E. Moore Subject(s): American Civil War; Chickamauga, Battle Of (1863); Death; United States - History; Dead, The CHILD OF THE SUN, by LILLIAN M. FISHER Poem Source First Line: I am child of sand and sun Last Line: And my people... We are one! Subject(s): United States CHIVALRY AND SLAVERY, SELECTION, by JOHN BURKE Poem Text First Line: It chanced that in a southern state Last Line: * * * Subject(s): American Civil War; Cruelty; Death; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; United States - History; Dead, The; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs CHOICE MADE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: At night I feel the ocean Last Line: Nothing but bad luck will follow %all the days of your life Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States CHRISTMAS EVE, SOUTH, 1865, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poverty, remorseless spectre Last Line: For heaven is real, and earth deceiving. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): American Civil War; Christmas; Reconstruction (1865-1876); Southern States; United States - History; Nativity, The; South (u.s.) CINCINNATI, by MITSUYE YAMADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Freedom at last %in this town aimless Last Line: Everyone knew me Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Japanese Americans - Internment; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations CIRCLES, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white man drew a small circle in the sand Subject(s): United States; America CIRCLES, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white man drew a small circle in the sand Last Line: White man and the red man know nothing' Subject(s): United States CITIES: 7. NEW YORK, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A young amazon Last Line: Or proud mother of new and mighty tomorrows. Subject(s): New York City; Sea; United States; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Ocean; America CITIZENSHIP FOR THE RED MAN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mighty nation we have built Last Line: Merge proudly in american! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Native Americans - History; United States; America 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 CITY OF ORGIES, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: City of orgies, walks and joys Last Line: Lovers, continual lovers, only repay me. Subject(s): Americans; United States; America CIVIL WAR, by DEBORA GREGER Poem Source First Line: I will never forget that library in the rain Last Line: The librarian of the dead %surrendered its pages to be turned Subject(s): Librarians And Libraries; United States; War CIVIL WAR, by CHARLES DAWSON SHANLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rifleman, shoot me a fancy shot Last Line: "load again, rifleman, keep your hand in!" Variant Title(s): The Fancy Shot Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History; War CLAY PIPE, by J. O. GARRETT Poem Text First Line: The old log house, built by his own hands Last Line: "I shall sleep."" and a door closed silently." Subject(s): American Civil War; Grandparents; Pioneers; Southern States; United States - History; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; South (u.s.) CLERICAL OPPRESSORS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just god! And these are they Last Line: As in their home above. Subject(s): Clergy; Slavery; Social Protest; United States - History; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Serfs CLEVELAND, THE FLATS, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the flats, thru cleveland's Subject(s): United States; America CLEVELAND, THE FLATS, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the flats, thru cleveland's Last Line: Tsani yea hum hum hum %phat phat phat svaha! Subject(s): 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) COCA-COLA AND COCO FRIO, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: On his first visit to puerto rico Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Hispanic Americans; Minorities - United States; Popular Culture - United States; United States - Race Relations; Latinos COCA-COLA AND COCO FRIO, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On his first visit to puerto rico Last Line: Sagged heavy with milk, swollen %and unsuckled Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Hispanic Americans; Minorities - United States; Popular Culture - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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) COLOPHON, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The occident and the orient Last Line: Dares climb the other? Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Long Island (n.y.); United States; America COLOR GUARD, by CHARLES W. HARWOOD Poem Source First Line: There were waving hands and banners, as the crowded car rolled by Subject(s): Flags - United States COLUMBIA, by TIMOTHY DWIGHT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Columbia, columbia, to glory arise Last Line: "skies!" Variant Title(s): Star Of Columbia Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Patriotism; United States - Declaration Of Independence; Independence Day COLUMBIA RULES THE SEA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The pennon flutters in the breeze Last Line: Columbia free shall rule the sea %britannia ruled of yore Subject(s): Navy - United States COLUMBIA'S BANNER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God helping me,' cried columbus, 'though fair or foul the breeze Last Line: God bless you, youths and maidens, as you guard the stripes and stars! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Holidays; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; America COLUMBIA, THE GEM OF THE OCEAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O columbia, the gem of the ocean Subject(s): Flags - United States COLUMBIAN ODE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four hundred years ago a tangled waste Last Line: Now flutters in the breeze the stars and stripes! Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; America COLUMBUS AND THE MAYFLOWER, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O little fleet! That on thy quest divine Last Line: As in the straitness of the ancient ways. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Mayflower (ship); United States - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS TO FERDINAND, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Illustrious monarch of iberia's soil Last Line: Reason shall steer, and skill disarm the gale. Subject(s): United States - History COLUMBUS [AUGUST 3, 1492], by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Steer, bold mariner, on! Albeit witlings deride thee Last Line: What is promised by one, surely the other performs. Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; United States - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COLUMBUS, THE DISCOVERER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see a caravel of spanish make Last Line: Columbus, calm, his prescience verified. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; United States - History; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Seamen; Sails; Ocean; Journeys; Trips COLUMBUS; 1492-1892, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Westward columbus steered, while, day by day Last Line: His first te deum at san salvador. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; America 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 COME TO PAPA, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: Sitting in a rusty-armed lawn chair Last Line: You have shit running down one drawer-leg %doesn't mean it's running down the other Subject(s): Working Class - United States COME UP FROM THE FIELDS FATHER, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Come up from the fields father, here's a letter from our pete Last Line: To follow, to seek, to be with her dear dead son. Variant Title(s): A Letter From Camp Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; United States; War; Declaration Day; America COME, YE THANKFUL PEOPLE, COME, by GEORGE J. ELVEY Poem Source Last Line: Raise the song of harvest-home Subject(s): United States COMING (APRIL, 1861), by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: World, art thou 'ware of a storm? Last Line: Be swept, as by fire, away! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History; War COMING OF AGE, by MICHAEL PALMA Poem Source First Line: I was sitting on the roof with my grandmother Last Line: I grunted spontaneously in time with the hand Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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 COMMEMORATIVE OF A NAVAL VICTORY, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sailors there are of gentlest breed Last Line: Glides white through the phosphorus sea. Subject(s): American Civil War; Sea Battles; United States - History; Naval Warfare COMMODORE RODGERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Our commodore's return'd again Last Line: And all columbia's sailors, %they are her nation's pride Subject(s): Navy - United States; Rodgers, John (1773-1838); Sea Battles; War Of 1812 COMMUNITY GARDEN, SIXTH STREET AND AVENUE B, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Into this urban outback %a child could simply disappear Last Line: Sailing into the cartoon sky Subject(s): Americans; United States COMMUTER, by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Commuter - one who spends his life Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B. Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; United States; Railways; Trains; America COMMUTER, by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Commuter - one who spends his life Last Line: And rides back to shave again Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B. Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; United States COMPOSING ON THE COMPUTER, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: I've learned to love the clicking of the keyboard -- Last Line: Background noise now for every poem Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States COMPROMISE; INSCRIBED TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1861, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Compromise! Who dares to speak it Last Line: We will never, never yield!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Government; U.s. - History; United States; Liberty; America CONCILIATORY LETTER TO MORGAN, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Enclosed is the crushed ice I have promised you Last Line: Slowly pushing it all back into the earth where it belongs? Subject(s): Jews - United States CONCORD HYMN; SUNG AT COMPLETION OF CONCORD MONUMENT, 1836, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the rude bridge that arched the flood Last Line: The shaft we raise to them and thee. Variant Title(s): The Concord Fight;hymn: Sung At The Completion Of The Concord Mounument Subject(s): American Revolution; Americans; Concord, Massachusetts; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Massachusetts; Monuments; Mourning; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Patriotism; Soldiers; United States; War; Independence Day; Liberty; Bereavement; America 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) CONSTITUTION AND THE GUERRIERE (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: It ofttimes has been told how the british sea men Last Line: But let the world say what they will, %the yankee boys for fighting are the dandy, oh! Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Guerriere (ship); Navy - United States; War Of 1812 CONTINUATION OF A LONG POEM OF THESE STATES, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stage-lit streets / downtown frisco whizzing past, buildings Subject(s): United States; America CONTINUATION OF A LONG POEM OF THESE STATES, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stage-lit streets %downtown frisco whizzing past, buildings Last Line: Orion's muzzle %raised up %to the center of heaven Subject(s): United States 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 CORNS AND BUNIONS, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: Certainly, bunions are painful, hard Last Line: But she did have corns Subject(s): Working Class - United States CORPORAL WORKS OF MERCY, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Can there be passion in a house Last Line: One calls out into the fields %the other comes Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States CORPSE AND MIRROR: 3, by JOHN YAU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the movie ends and the lights come on, the audience is puzzled Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States CORPSE AND MIRROR: 3, by JOHN YAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the movie ends and the lights come on, the audience is puzzled Last Line: Long since fallen in. By then the mirror will have vanished and the %movie will have started. This t Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States CORTEZ'S HORSE, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Return, sweet horse, rise Last Line: Carry me into the stars Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations COUNTERFEIT EARTH!, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's 2157. Two adventuring spacemen rocketing home Last Line: Zen: the writing is the wall Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States COUNTRY -- AND COUNTRY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O country, my country, whose pride is on high Last Line: The child of dame nature, the daughter of god! Subject(s): United States; America 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) CRAB-BOIL, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do I remember the sky Last Line: We're kicked out now, I'm ready Subject(s): Americans; United States CRAVEN, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the turret, shut in his ironclad tower Last Line: Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud, and strong. Variant Title(s): Craven: Mobile Bay, 1864 Subject(s): American Civil War; Craven, Tunis Augustus M. (1813-1864); Mobile Bay, Battle Of (1864); Tecumseh (ship); United States - History CRAZY 'BOUT A MERCURY, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: As you know, my sister says, I talk to god Last Line: Not just for what I think I want, like sex Subject(s): Working Class - United States CRAZY BOYS, by BEVERLY MCLOUGHLAND Poem Source First Line: Watching buzzards, %flying kites Last Line: And they were wright Subject(s): United States CRAZY HORSE MONUMENT, by PETER BLUE CLOUD Poem Source First Line: Hailstones falling like sharp blue sky chips Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief); Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 1, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I discovered the evidence Last Line: He forgave me all my sins Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876) CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 1, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I discovered the evidence Last Line: He forgave all my sins Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 2, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little big horn / little big horn does not belong to me Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Little Bighorn, Battle Of; Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief) CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 2, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little big horn %little big horn does not belong to me Last Line: Survive - survive - survive Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 3, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wear the color of my skin Last Line: In this city where everyone / is afraid of horses? Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Horses; Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief) CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 3, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wear the color of my skin Last Line: In this city where everyone is %afraid-of-horses Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 4, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are places I cannot leave Last Line: The exact skin/ never the same home Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Sitting Bull (hunkpapa Sioux Chief); Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief) CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 4, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are places I cannot leave Last Line: Never the same house Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 5, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the mirror Last Line: It is the sound / of glass shattering Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief) CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 5, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the mirror Last Line: It is the sound %of glass shattering Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 6, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the verdict Last Line: Mortal and sinless Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief) CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 6, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the verdict Last Line: Close to their chests %mortal and sinless Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 7, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever it all begins again Last Line: I will be waiting Subject(s): Etethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief) CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 7, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever it all begins again Last Line: I will be waiting Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations CROSS AND FLAG, by FREDERICK LUCIAN HOSMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From age to age, they gather, all the brave of heart and strong Subject(s): Flags - United States CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face Last Line: Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the soul. Subject(s): Americans; Brooklyn, New York; Ferry Boats; United States; America CROSSING NATION, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under silver wing Last Line: My body? My neck? My personality? Subject(s): United States; America CROSSING NATION, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under silver wing Last Line: My body? My neck? My personality? Subject(s): United States CROWN HIS BLOODSTAINED PILLOW, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States CRUISE OF THE FAIR AMERICAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The twenty-second of august Last Line: Success to fair america %and our good privateer Subject(s): American Revolution; Navy - United States CRUISING THE SLAMMER, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: I am talking low self-esteem, this pretty woman says Last Line: She actually wrote them letters Subject(s): Working Class - 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 CULTURES, by GLORIA EVANGELINA ANZALDUA Poem Source First Line: Go out take the pick axe Last Line: Thistle sage and nettle Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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 DADDY POEM, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: My father is a handsome guy Last Line: You're good looking %for a colored man Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENADOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 1, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Long ere ruthless civil war laid waste Last Line: They idolized with fond, indulgent care. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 10, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: When the chieftain deep into the forest shade Last Line: And on his mangled bosom died. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 2, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Sounds of trumpet, drum, and shrilling fife Last Line: His lifeless flesh. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 3, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Upon the balmy breeze of that same morning Last Line: * * * Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 4, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: At early dawn the wounded federal Last Line: Of both the rescued and the rescuer. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 5, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: One bright morn as the lovers near the cot Last Line: Them in a loathsome dungeon south. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 6, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Down beside her senseless mother daisy Last Line: Death freed reuben from his clanking chains. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 7, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Soon upon the breeze she heard the tramp Last Line: Were lost, in the gloom of night enshrouded deeply. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 9, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Not till their victims charr'd remains exhaled Last Line: "but never from your wicked conscience.[""]" Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DANCE OF DEATH, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The mask. Look at the mask Last Line: Over the faulty pain of new york Subject(s): Death; Depressions, Economic; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Parades; United States DANCING, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In all these rotten shops, in all this broken furniture Last Line: From the other dancing - in poland and germany - %of god of mercy, oh wild god Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations DANCING SUNSHINE LOUNGE, by THOMAS RABBITT Poem Source First Line: The calendar is ironic. The stripper dances Last Line: She can't care. She loves us each like a friend Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States DARKLING I LISTEN, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: If I could write the truth Last Line: And moulting; the silence %of cannibal grass and trees Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States DATE OF THIRTY-NINE', by W. F. SPICER Poem Source First Line: Nay messmates sit you down again Last Line: Ha! Ha! Ha, ha, ha, ha! The 'date of thirty-nine' Subject(s): Navy - United States; U.s. - Naval Academy DAUGHTER, LEFT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: In dreams my mother returns Last Line: Go down to the sea %and fish for your true face Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States DAVID CASSIDY THEN, by DENNIS COOPER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: David cassidy picks me on the dating game Subject(s): Homosexuality; Popular Culture - United States DAWN IN NEW YORK, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dawn! The dawn! The crimson-tinted, comes Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Americans; United States; America DAWN IN NEW YORK, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dawn! The dawn! The crimson-tinted, comes Last Line: And I go darkly-rebel to my work Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Americans; United States DAY I LOOKED IN THE MIRROR AND SAW NOTHING, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: It was late afternoon. Ninety-plus degrees in dillard, oregon Last Line: And check to see if maybe %I'd grow a little bit Subject(s): Working Class - United States DAY THEY EULOGIZED MAHALIA, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The day the city eulogized mahalia Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States DAYS OF 1981, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cambridge street, summer Last Line: A blue I could barely see Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States DAYS OF 1981, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cambridge street, summer Last Line: The astonishing flowers, seething %a blue a could barely see Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States DE BUGLE ON DE HILL, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I doan like de noise ob de marchin' ob de boys Last Line: At de sound ob de bugle on de hill. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Army - Austria; Army - United States DEAR DAD, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: I wish I was there with you Last Line: With the radio, cruising through camas valley %hanging a right at brockway store Subject(s): Working Class - United States DEAR JOHN WAYNE, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: August and the drive-in picture is packed Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations DEAR JOHN WAYNE, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: August and the drive-in picture is packed Last Line: Those cells, burning, doubling, splitting out of their skins Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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 MARILYN MONROE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ambulance men touched her cold Last Line: Woman %breathing Subject(s): Monroe, Marilyn (1926-1962); Popular Culture - United States 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) DEATH OF STONEWALL JACKSON, by HENRY LYNDEN FLASH Poem Text First Line: Not midst the lightning of the stormy fight Last Line: He rises with the crown! Subject(s): American Civil War; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); United States - History DEATH ON ALL FRONTS, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A new moon looks down on our sick sweet planet Subject(s): United States; America DEATH ON ALL FRONTS, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A new moon looks down on our sick sweet planet Last Line: Left temple living death Subject(s): United States DEATH'S DETAILS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: She irons her mother's dress for the open casket Last Line: Into the shape of the neat collar she'll wear into the ground Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States DEBT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: All day she scrubs the house Last Line: This too is not enough Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States DECATUR'S VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye heroes who bled for the rights of mankind Last Line: For columbia still generous and brave, just and free, %ere long of the ocean the mistress shall be Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Decatur, Stephen (1779-1820); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 DECEMBER MORNING, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: Drinking chase & sanborn %form unmatched cups Last Line: And clink them together across the table %little fingers held high Subject(s): Working Class - United States DECEMBER SUNDAY, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: Two of my sisters and I decide to skip bible study Last Line: To unscrew the ugly things, get them down %without tearing them up Subject(s): Working Class - United States DEER CLOUD, by SUSAN CLEMENTS Poem Source First Line: The mohawk lover who told her he stripped all his clothes Last Line: On tranquilizers, and doesn't mention it Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations DEPARTED TRAVELLERS, by GRANT HYDE CODE Poem Text First Line: I have been exiled among stony hilltops Last Line: Have wistful eyes. Subject(s): Exiles; Travel; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Journeys; Trips DEPRESSION, by ISABEL JOSHLIN GLASER Poem Source First Line: We heard people were standing Last Line: We were growing up rich Subject(s): United States DEPRESSION DAYS (2), by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bought the dark with my last fifteen cents Last Line: This country, of the price of eggs and skin and names. Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Motion Pictures; Theater & Theaters; United States - Race Relations; Recessions; Movies; Cinema; Stage Life DESK, by S. C. HAHN Poem Source First Line: It is flat and cluttered as a kansas town I once drove through but whose Last Line: Idaho, I want to exist forever Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Maps; United States DESPISALS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the human cities, never again to Subject(s): Americans; United States; America DESPISALS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the human cities, never again to Last Line: With the it : to know that I am it Subject(s): Americans; United States DESTRUCTION OF COLUMBIA, by ELIZABETH OTIS MARSHALL DANNELLY Poem Text First Line: Methinks there'll be emblazoned on the dismal walls of hell Last Line: "time cannot teach forgetfulness,"" the past can never die." Subject(s): American Civil War; Columbia, South Carolina; United States - History DIALECT, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't remember the air, the light, the voices Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PEPSI AND COKE, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can't swim; uses credit cards and pills to combat Last Line: Knows the new maid steals; and forgives her Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States DIGGING IN THE STREETS OF GOLD, by BARRY SEILER Poem Source First Line: My parents were fish Last Line: And went to dig in the streets of gold Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations DINOSAURIA, WE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Born like this Subject(s): United States; America DIRGE FOR A SOLDIER [SEPTEMBER 1, 1862], by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Close his eyes; his work is done! Last Line: Lay him low! Subject(s): American Civil War; Kearny, Philip (1814-1862); Patriotism; United States - History 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 DISCOVERY, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Across the urban sky the slow bass sound Last Line: Once violence was real Subject(s): Explorers; Hotels; Travel; United States DIVORCE POEM, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: You got the house %with double car garage Last Line: I got both our boys Subject(s): Working Class - United States DIXIE, by DANIEL DECATUR EMMETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I was in de land ob cotton Last Line: Chorus. Variant Title(s): Dixie's Land Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Patriotism; United States - History; Liberty DIXIE, by ALBERT PIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Southrons, hear your country call you! Last Line: And conquer peace for dixie! Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; United States - History; Confederacy DIZZY GIRLS IN THE SIXTIES, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Back then even the good girls got dizzy Last Line: Thumb-long flesh beginning to steer me wrong Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States DOCTRINE, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Sundays I sit on the floor in a paper Last Line: And started for seattle Subject(s): Jews - United States DOCUMENT, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Page of dead letters. Dead words Last Line: But the name, sol, is clear and sharp as blood on glass Subject(s): Jews - 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) DOLLARES; OUR LADY OF THE WHEAT-CORNER (AFTER A.C.S.), by PHILIP GUEDALLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heavy white shafts and the golden Last Line: Our lady of gain. Subject(s): Materialism; Oxford University; Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909); United States; America DOMESDAY BOOK: THE JURY DELIBERATES, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jurymen are seated here and there Last Line: Your names, and I'll return it to the clerk. Subject(s): Death; Justice; Life; United States; Dead, The; America DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT ALGEBRA, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: All through grade school %I thought if I was really smart Last Line: Where the toilet never flushed and the place always smelled like salem cigarettes Subject(s): Working Class - United States DON'T PUT UP MY THREAD AND NEEDLE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Still surmise I stitch Variant Title(s): Poem: 617; Poem: 68 Subject(s): Americans; Sewing; United States DONE, FINISHED WITH THE BIGGEST COCK, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Done, finished, with the biggest cock you ever saw Subject(s): United States; America DONE, FINISHED WITH THE BIGGEST COCK, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Done, finished, with the biggest cock you ever saw Last Line: In chill breeze darkness under christmas moon Subject(s): United States DOREEN, by JANICE MIRIKITANI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Doreen had a round face Last Line: Because %no one could remember %doreen's face Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations DOUBLE FEATURES, by ED ROSSMAN Poem Source First Line: Grandma and I used to go Last Line: At the local ice cream store Subject(s): United States DOUGLAS' COMPLAINT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He punished me - in fight you see Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States DOVE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Imagine if you could have either cherry or stove Last Line: Of falling rain, a lover's hand grazing your neck Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States DOWN ON MY KNEES, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: Cleaning out my refrigerator Last Line: And happy enough under a warm and unexpected january sun Subject(s): Working Class - United States DRAFT OF A RAP FOR WEN HO LEE, by JUNE JORDAN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Asian Americans - Chinese; Racism; Chinese In The United States; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry DREADNOUGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There's a saucy, wild packet and a packet of fame Last Line: But the dreadnought's the clipper to beat one and all Subject(s): Dreadnought (ship); Navy - United States DREAM LIFE OF A COFFIN FACTORY IN LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, by JOHN YAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earlier in the century it was not unusual to spend an evening Last Line: And everyone glistened with pride Subject(s): Americans; United States DREAM OF AMERICA, by TROY GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here where the squalling cornets Last Line: That you might have filled. Subject(s): United States; America DREAM POEM, by MARY JO BONA Poem Source First Line: I miss my grandmother Last Line: Her eyes are older than mine Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations DREAMING AT THE REXALL DRUG, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In wyoming, at the confluence Last Line: Imperfect color after another Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States DREAMS IN HARRISON RAILROAD PARK, by NELLIE WONG Poem Source First Line: We sit on a green bench in harrison railroad park Last Line: And I dream %of embroidering %new skin Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations DRIFTED OUT TO SEA, by ROSE HARTWICK THORPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two little ones, grown tired of play Last Line: "my god is good, they are my own!" Subject(s): United States; America DRIVING HOME THE COWS, by KATE PUTNAM OSGOOD Poem Text First Line: Out of the clover and blue-eyed grass Last Line: Together they followed the cattle home. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; United States - History; Declaration Day 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 DUDE RANCH, by ARTHUR CHAPMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We used to run a cow-ranch Last Line: When his daily toil is through Subject(s): Americans; 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 DUST WORLD: 1, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whirlwinds of hot autumn dust Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations DUST WORLD: 1, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whirlwinds of hot autumn dust Last Line: For my people dying Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations DUST WORLD: 2, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With pupil-dilated putti in arms Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations DUST WORLD: 2, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With pupil-dilated putti in arms Last Line: This is the whiskey talking now Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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) DYING WITH THE WRONG NAME, by SAM HAMOD Poem Source First Line: These men died with the wrong names Last Line: In this house, in these people, in this moment Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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) EARLY AMERICAN, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From brazil to miami to a roadside motel to a super billboard Last Line: The pale hands of our brothers upon us Subject(s): Billboards; Native Americans; Popular Culture - United States; United States; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; America EARLY SPRING, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: We've all been devastated Last Line: Today she handed me s just-picked bouquet of daffodils %said he got them in the neighbor's yard Subject(s): Working Class - United States EAST TO WEST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunset smiles on sunrise: east and west are one Last Line: Die. Subject(s): England; Evening; Praise; Sea; United States; English; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean; America EAST WIND, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dream of a languorous, tideless shore Last Line: And the sea wind is the east wind, as the sea wind ought to be! Subject(s): New England; United States - Immigration & Emigtration EASTER, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was there not one, when in the upper room Last Line: Even as around them fell the greeting, 'peace'? Subject(s): Catholics - United States; Easter; Holidays; Peace; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology EASTER SUNDAY, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slope woods' snows melt Subject(s): United States; America EASTER SUNDAY, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slope woods' snows melt Last Line: Extended from the piney horizon Subject(s): United States ECOLOGUE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In a thousand years, if there's history Subject(s): United States; America ECOLOGUE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a thousand years, if there's history Last Line: How many bottles & cans piled up in our garbagepail? Subject(s): United States EDEN, by DAVID WOO Poem Source First Line: Yellow-oatmeal flowers of the windmill palms Last Line: To prefer real hell to any imaginary paradise Subject(s): Americans; United States EIGHT NAVAL VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Columbia's ships triumphant ride, %and humble haughty briton's pride Last Line: And bold in her defence have stood! %and suits the british henry's race Subject(s): Lake Erie, Battle Of; Navy - United States; Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819); War Of 1812 EIGHTEEN SIXTY-ONE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arm'd year - year of the struggle Last Line: I repeat you, hurrying, crashing, sad, distracted year. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History 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 EL ELVIS, by WASABI KANASTOGA Poem Source First Line: El elvis %puro pedo %bien chingon Last Line: Y no me voy Subject(s): Popular Culture - 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) ELECTION TIME, by LAMONT B. STEPTOE Poem Source First Line: Names will change Last Line: Ain't nothin' changed at all Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ELEGIAC SONNET: 56. CAPTIVE ESCAPED IN WILDS OF AMERICA, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If, by his torturing, savage foes untraced Last Line: As I, my harriet, bless thy friendship's cheering light. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): O'neill, Henrietta (1758-1793); United States; America ELEGY CHE GUEVARA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: European trib, boy's face photo'd eyes opened Subject(s): United States; America ELEGY CHE GUEVARA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: European trib, boy's face photo'd eyes opened Last Line: Confronting the electric networks Subject(s): United States ELEGY FOR CHLOE NGUYEN, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Chloe's father is a professor of linguistics Last Line: Chloe, we are finally americans now. Chloe, we are here Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ELEGY FOR NEAL CASSADY, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Ok neal / aethereal spirit Subject(s): Cassady, Neal (1926-1968); United States; America ELEGY FOR NEAL CASSADY, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ok neal %aethereal spirit Last Line: Sir spirit, an' I drift alone: %oh deep sigh Subject(s): Cassady, Neal (1926-1968); United States ELEGY: 1. WINEMAKING, by ARTHUR L. CLEMENTS Poem Source First Line: Eyes shining like wetted sapphires Last Line: In their redman's 'freedom, friendship, charity' %salud Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ELEGY: 2. IN THE GARDEN, by ARTHUR L. CLEMENTS Poem Source First Line: He journeyed past liberty and the island Last Line: In the garden green I followed Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ELEGY: 3. LAMBENT SUNDAYS, by ARTHUR L. CLEMENTS Poem Source First Line: Wineglass at hand Last Line: He dealt the cards %so I won Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ELEGY: 4. LAST DAY, by ARTHUR L. CLEMENTS Poem Source First Line: Gentle man, groaning, from the dying bed Last Line: Your shining eyes closed Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: FIELD, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wind sprays pale dirt into my mouth Last Line: A soil that sprouts nothing %for any of us Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Farm Life; Minorities - United States; San Joaquin Valley, California; U.s. - Race Relations ELENA, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My spanish isn't enough Last Line: When my children need my help Subject(s): Chicanos; Children; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations ELENA, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My spanish isn't enough Last Line: For if I stop trying, I will be deaf %when my children need my help Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ELEPHANT ROCK, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We take place in what we believe Last Line: Jesus saves Subject(s): Slavery; Social Problems; United States; Serfs; America ELLIS ISLAND, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How can we turn back to the ancient world Last Line: By future hordes who seek high destiny. Subject(s): Ellis Island, New York Harbor; United States - Immigration & Emigtration ELYSIAN FIELDS OF AMERICA, by ROBERT BENSE Poem Source First Line: There are no more cows Last Line: Of space. Slow descent %into time Subject(s): Fields; United States EMANCIPATION, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Fling out your banners, your honors be bringing Last Line: Onward to honor, to glory and fame. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States EMANCIPATION, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a time for much rejoicing Last Line: God is with us now, forever. Subject(s): African Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Negroes; American Blacks; Antislavery Movement - United States EMANCIPATION FROM BRITISH DEPENDENCE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deliver us, o lord / not only from british dependence, but also Last Line: And britain go on -- to be damn'd if she will. Variant Title(s): Libera Nos, Domine Subject(s): Fourth Of July; United States - Declaration Of Independence; Independence Day EMANCIPATION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, APRIL 16, 1862, by JAMES MADISON BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unfurl your banners to the breeze! Last Line: Hath lighter grown by marching on. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Washington, D.c.; Antislavery Movement - United States EMBARGO; A FAVORITE NEW SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Dear sirs, it is wrong %to demand a new song Last Line: And see who will do most, %to knock out the blocks of embargo Subject(s): Embargo Act Of 1807; Navy - United States EMBARGO; A NEW SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Attention pay, ye bonny lads Last Line: We'll soak our skins in good new rum, %or punch and apple brandy Subject(s): Embargo Act Of 1807; Navy - United States EMIGRATION, by LISA DOMINGUEZ ABRAHAM Poem Text First Line: Last week I scrubbed yellow shadows Subject(s): United States - Foreign Population; Women EMIGRES, by TED WALKER Poem Source First Line: Visiting from britain, I take my ease Last Line: Not to mention the droughts, the six-foot snows, %in the yard where nothing english ever grows Subject(s): Immigrants; Travel; United States EN-VI-RON-MENT, by LEE BENNETT HOPKINS Poem Source First Line: Homeless people %line up at 8:00 a.M. Last Line: To %protect %the %en-vi-ron-ment Subject(s): United States END OF THE REAGAN ERA, by PETER BALAKIAN Poem Source First Line: Endless horizons of wheat and corn Last Line: The way they tail off to the beautiful barns Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States ENEMIES, by CHARLOTTE SHAPIRO ZOLOTOW Poem Source First Line: We watch %tv Last Line: Which is a jew? Subject(s): United States ENGLAND AND AMERICA, 1863, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We only know that in the sultry weather Last Line: Of wildering passions and the crash of foes. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): England; United States; English; America ENGLAND TO AMERICA, by WILLIAM JAMES LINTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred years! / too long for memory of the justest feud! Last Line: And all we have done. Alternate Author Name(s): Spartacus Subject(s): England; United States; English; America 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 ENGLISH-SPEAKING PERSONS WILL FIND TRANSLATIONS: 1, by MICHAEL S. GLASER Poem Source First Line: The train whistles punctual as a clock Last Line: Pushing to be first, not miss a thing Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ENGLISH-SPEAKING PERSONS WILL FIND TRANSLATIONS: 2, by MICHAEL S. GLASER Poem Source First Line: In the museum, a sign tells of the catalogue Last Line: Sympathetic looks - difficult to understand Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ENGLISH-SPEAKING PERSONS WILL FIND TRANSLATIONS: 3, by MICHAEL S. GLASER Poem Source First Line: At the crematorium, caretakers brush Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ENGLISH-SPEAKING PERSONS WILL FIND TRANSLATIONS: 4, by MICHAEL S. GLASER Poem Source First Line: Later, I travel backward on an air-conditioned Last Line: By the bombs on hiroshima, negasaki Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ENGLISH-SPEAKING PERSONS WILL FIND TRANSLATIONS: 5, by MICHAEL S. GLASER Poem Source First Line: I wake to watch the sun rise silent and red Last Line: What we should do and what to declare when we land Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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) ENOUGH, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Every morning he brings coconut water Last Line: He coos, offering me the seeds %of his fettered fruit Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States 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 EPITHALAMION, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The carpenters came %who invited Last Line: That stirred her %and a black wing Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States ERIE CANAL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I've got a mule, her name is sal Last Line: If you've ever navigated on the erie canal Subject(s): 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) ESPRESSO, by CAROL LEE SAFFIOTI Poem Source First Line: Lemon rind rubbed on the rim Last Line: Elegant in its graceful arc %burns my hand Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ETHIOPIA SALUTING THE COLORS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human Last Line: Are the things so strange and marvellous you see or have seen? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; American Civil War; Georgia (state); Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History ETHNOGENESIS, by HENRY TIMROD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hath not the morning dawned with added light? Last Line: Strange tropic warmth and hints of summer seas. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Southern States; United States - History; Confederacy; South (u.s.) EULOGY ON THE TIMES, by THOMAS GREEN FESSENDEN Poem Text First Line: Let poets scrawl satirick rhymes Last Line: The foremost in society. Subject(s): United States - Civilization EVANGELINE; A TALE OF ACADIE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks Last Line: Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. Subject(s): Acadia; Love; Mothers; Social Protest; United States - History EVENING OF A TERRITORIAL FOURTH, by SELDEN LINCOLN WHITCOMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The location gang of engineers Last Line: Of the pioneers, of the south dakota to be. Subject(s): Flags - United States; National Songs; Pioneers; South Dakota; American Flag; National Anthems EVENING ON A VILLAGE STREET, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun flings lengthening shadows through the trees Last Line: The sum of streets like thisamerica! Subject(s): United States; Villages; America EVERY TRAVELER HAS ONE VERMONT POEM, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spikes of lavender aster under route 91 Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Americans; United States; America EVERY TRAVELER HAS ONE VERMONT POEM, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spikes of lavender aster under route 91 Last Line: Into cropped and fragrant air Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Americans; United States EVIDENTLY, SHE SAYS,, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: She's looking for a man physically Last Line: For a sick man. %the sicker, the better Variant Title(s): Evidently, She Say Subject(s): Working Class - United States EVOLUTION OF USEFUL THINGS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Consider a hammer %striking a nail Last Line: Hanging at odd angles %like broken limbs Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States EXCERPT, FROM AN OLD HOUSE IN AMERICA, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am an american woman: %I turn that over Last Line: Most of the time, in my sex, I was alone Subject(s): Americans; United States EXCERPT, INTRODUCTION, by EDWARD SANDERS Poem Source First Line: O america! How I thirst for you to shine Last Line: Who have made my nation a marvel Subject(s): Americans; United States EXCHANGE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: The first sound was his guitar Last Line: Than live in the vast, unbridled sea Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States 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 EXILE! EXILE!, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night the room breathes out its grief Subject(s): Ireland; United States; Irish; America EXPLANATION OF AMERICA, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As though explaining the idea of dancing Last Line: So large, and strangely broken, and unforseen Subject(s): Politics; Social Problems; United States EXTENSION IS NOT EXPECTED, by F. JOHN HERBERT Poem Source Last Line: One by one the ladies and gentlemen %are hung on the line again Subject(s): Navy - United States; Patriotism; Soldiers EXTRACT FROM THE EDWIN MEESE COMMISSION ON PORNOGRAPHY IN AMERICA, by TOM DOMEK Poem Source First Line: They're out there now, slick Last Line: And shut your eyes Subject(s): Pornography; Sex; United States EXTRACTS FROM NEW-YEAR'S VERSES FOR 1825, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the 'universal yankee nation' Last Line: And boast of such a sight in after years. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; United States; America F.B.C.; CHANCELLORSVILLE, MAY 3, 1863, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was our noblest, he was our bravest & best Last Line: Still our bravest and best! Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Death; Heroism; Honor; Soldiers; United States - History; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines FABLIAU OF FLORIDA, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Barque of phosphor Subject(s): Americans; Florida; United States; America FABLIAU OF FLORIDA, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Barque of phosphor Last Line: Fill yhour black hull %with white moonlight. %there will never be an end %to this droning of the sur Subject(s): Americans; Florida; United States FACING IT, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My black face fades Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): African Americans; Americans; Kent State University - Riot, 1970; United States; War; Negroes; American Blacks; America FACING IT, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My black face fades Last Line: No, she's brushing a boy's hair Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): African Americans; Americans; Kent State University - Riot, 1970; United States; War FAILURE OF AN INVENTION, by SAFIYA HENDERSON-HOLMES Poem Source First Line: I am not any of the faces Last Line: I've never been able to bear Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FALLING ASLEEP IN AMERICA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: We're in the great place, fable place, beulah, man wedded Subject(s): United States; America FALLING ASLEEP IN AMERICA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're in the great place, fable place, beulah, man wedded Last Line: Only the eye flickering grass green returns me to nashville Subject(s): 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 FAMOUS WOMEN - CLAUDETTE COLBERT, by KATHLEEN DE AZEVEDO Poem Source First Line: He was quite a guy how he laughed like oh what's the name of the guy Last Line: Not that we can tell which was which Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Colbert, Claudette (1903-1996); Motion Pictures; Popular Culture - United States FANCIES AT NAVESINK: 6, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proudly the flood comes in, shouting, foaming, advancing Last Line: Flaunting from many a spar the flag I love. Subject(s): Flags - United States; American Flag FAREWELL HYMN; DEDICATED TO OFFICERS AND MEN OF MERRIMAC, by PHINEAS STOWE Poem Source First Line: Saviour o'er the restless ocean Last Line: But we'll hope to dwell together, %on that calm and heavenly shore Subject(s): American Civil War; Navy - United States; Sea Battles; U.s. - History; Virginia (ship) FAREWELL TO THE OLD YEAR, 1863, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, old year 'the bourne' is near Last Line: To give new year good morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Civil War; Grief; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Time; United States; War; Sorrow; Sadness; America FAREWELL!, by C. H. VAN HOUSEN Poem Source First Line: Farewell! Farewell, great heart!' Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) FARMER, by PRINCE REDCLOUD Poem Source First Line: The farmer, worn from Last Line: Welcome, warm supper Subject(s): Farm Life; United States FARRAGUT, by WILLIAM TUCKEY MEREDITH Poem Text First Line: Farragut, farragut Last Line: Thunderbolt stroke! Subject(s): American Civil War; Farragut, David Glascow (1801-1870); Mobile Bay, Battle Of (1864); Patriotism; United States - History FARTHER VIEW, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: The united states of the world-our goal! Last Line: Good-will-land lies, I know Subject(s): Nations; Pacifism; Peace; United States; Peace Movements; America 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 FROM ASIA, by SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM Poem Source First Line: Father, you turn your hands toward me Last Line: And asia is dust, is dust Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FATHER MERCY, MOTHER TONGUE, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the english language was good enough for jesus Subject(s): Language; United States; Words; Vocabulary; America FATHER OF MY FATHER: 1, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: The way the incense gripped Last Line: Of incense to the bowl Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FATHER OF MY FATHER: 2, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Incense. Sucking the wind from him Last Line: Surrounding the pagoda of san jose Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FATHER OF MY FATHER: 3, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Have you ever seen Last Line: Nothing could stop me now Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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) FATHERS AND SONS, by JOSEPH T. COX Poem Source First Line: My boy lives a half a world away, a man Last Line: Will always and never again be my little boy Subject(s): Absence; Army - United States; Fathers And Sons; Soldiers FAVORITE SONG, CELEBRATING THE NAVAL PROWESS OF AMERICA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: That power that form'd th' unmeasur'd seas Last Line: The continent, and all the sea, %but rule proud albion too Subject(s): American Revolution; Navy - United States 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) FEAST TO CELEBRATE HIS MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: When I woke, I could hear them bleating Last Line: To her voices still echoing %yu hear me? Hear me gal? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States 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 FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the burden of our joy Last Line: Turned out the war-cloud's light to thee. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - 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) FILIPINO BOOGIE, by JESSICA TARAHATA HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under a ceiling high christmas tree Last Line: The yellow peril %bombs %pearl harbor Alternate Author Name(s): Hagedorn, Jessica Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FINAL CURTAIN, by ROGER WODDIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, say can you hear Last Line: He would turn in his grave. Subject(s): Key, Francis Scott (1780-1843); National Song - United States; Watergate; American National Anthem FINDING TOKEN CREEK, by ROBERT ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: Before the yahara enters lake mendota, it widens out and flows through Last Line: Surface. While the wind blows uncommonly from the cloudless northeast Subject(s): Brooks; Canoes And Canoeing; Rivers; Travel; United States; Wisconsin FIRE: 1, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: It seems our days are shaped by conflagration Last Line: Forever traced in mind Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FIRE: 2, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: In chicago, latino neighborhoods Last Line: The squeeze of skin, this memory %called our history Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FIRST, by GRACE CAVALIERI Poem Source First Line: Mrs. Conti was the first Last Line: She didn't have to fill her time on thursdays Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FIRST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: First in war Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) FIRST ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH, by JONES VERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With outward signs, as well as inward life Last Line: His providential purpose to fulfill Subject(s): Americans; United States FIRST CAROLINA SAID-SONG, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In them days %they won't hardly no way to know if Last Line: It's growed over with soapbushes and huckleberries now Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Americans; United States FIRST FRUITS IN 1812 [AUGUST 19, 1812], by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is that a-billowing there Last Line: Found a prize, a bully battle, and a breeze! Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Guerriere (ship); Hull, Isaac (1773-1843); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812; American Navy; Naval Warfare FIRST HAIR CUT, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The barber's rough bristles brushed Last Line: The fluorescent light licked %my bare neck to stone Subject(s): Barbers; Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States FIRST LOVE, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: In sixth grade %there was a boy I liked Last Line: There's nothing more to tell Subject(s): Working Class - United States FIRST NIGHT OF FIREFLIES, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: It would be this way: twilight Last Line: With a grass nest, a punctured lid %he was coming over Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States 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) FIRST RITES, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: At the top of the mountain Last Line: Think it is the face of god Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States FIRST ROCK AND ROLL SONG OF 1970, by PEDRO PIETRI Poem Source First Line: The unemployed sky above the clouds Last Line: Will learn how to read the help wanted ads Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States FIRST THANKSGIVING, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source First Line: Three days we had, %feasting, praying, singing Last Line: Praying, each to our god Subject(s): United States FISH PEDDLER AND COBBLER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always for thirty years now Last Line: Savage eyed whores paraded the streets Subject(s): Change; Past; Progress; Social Protest; United States; America FISH PEDDLER AND COBBLER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always for thirty years now Last Line: Savage eyed whores paraded the street Subject(s): Change; Past; Progress; Social Protest; United States FISHERMAN'S WIFE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Each day I will make you Last Line: Like salome's last veil come undone Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Seashore; Women Immigrants - United States FIVE KERNELS OF CORN [APRIL, 1622], by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the year of the famine in plymouth of old Last Line: To the thanksgiving feast bring five kernels of corn! Subject(s): Famine; Plymouth, Massachusetts; United States - Colonial Period FLAG, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a flag hangs over my threshold, whose folds are more dear to me Subject(s): Flags - United States FLAG, by HENRY CODMAN POTTER Poem Source First Line: O banner blazoned in the sky Subject(s): Flags - United States FLAG AND CROSS, by ALFRED J. HOUGH Poem Source First Line: The bands were playing in the street Subject(s): Flags - United States FLAG DAY, by MARTHA BURR BANKS Poem Source First Line: Run up our flag in the breeze Subject(s): Flags - United States FLAG O' MY LAND, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Up to the breeze of the morning I fling you Last Line: Flag o' my land! Flag o' my land! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Flags - United States; Love; American Flag FLAG OF OUR UNION [FOREVER], by GEORGE POPE MORRIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A song for our banner, the watchword recall Alternate Author Name(s): Morris, George Perkins Subject(s): Flags - United States; Patriotism FLAG OF STARS, by GRACE ELLERY CHANNING-STETSON Poem Source First Line: Oh not alone the eager south Subject(s): Flags - United States FLAG OF THE CONSTELLATION, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The stars of our morn on our banner borne Subject(s): Flags - United States FLAG OF THE FREE, by WALTER TAYLOR FIELD Poem Text First Line: Look at the flag as it floats on high Last Line: Will bless you and trust you, o flag of the free! Subject(s): Flags - United States; American Flag FLAG SONG, by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Out upon the four winds blow Subject(s): Flags - United States FLAG SONG, by LYDIA AVERY COONLEY WARD Poem Text First Line: Out on the breeze Last Line: Hearts will forever be singing. Variant Title(s): A Song For Flag Day Subject(s): Flags - United States; American Flag FLAG'S MESSAGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We honor our flag so bright Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) FLAG, OUR FLAG, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Flag, that waves the whole day through Last Line: Glorious red, white and blue. Subject(s): Flags - United States; Summer; American Flag FLAGS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Flags of every size Last Line: Or only from my hand. Subject(s): Flags - United States; Summer; American Flag FLASH BACK, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a car grey smoke over elmira Subject(s): United States; America FLASH BACK, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a car grey smoke over elmira Last Line: O women shut up, yelling for baby meat more Subject(s): United States FLASH FRIGATE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I'll sing of a frigate, a frigate of fame Last Line: For they'll beat you and bang you till you ain't worth a d--n, %and send you an invalid to your own Subject(s): Navy - United States; Sea FLESH, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Your newborn neck recalls the potter's fragrant spit Last Line: Just as mad and milky dim as when we buried them Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States FLORAL APRON, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The woman wore a floral apron around her neck Last Line: How to honor the village, the tribe, %that floral apron Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FLORIDA, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The state with the prettiest name Subject(s): Americans; United States; America FLORIDA, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The state with the prettiest name Last Line: Whimpers and speaks in the throat %of the indian princess Subject(s): Americans; United States 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 FLOWER-FED BUFFALOES OF THE SPRING, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With the pawnees, lying low %lying low Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Americans; Buffaloes; Railroads; Social Protest; United States FLOWERING CHERRY AND AUTUMN MAPLE WITH POEM SLIPS: 1, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Poems pressed into your palm with your fare receipt Last Line: Poems clipped and filed with family recipes Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States FLOWERING CHERRY AND AUTUMN MAPLE WITH POEM SLIPS: 2, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Poems (the smell of mothballs, of cedar) pinned to wirehangers Last Line: Was like to feel the garment from inside Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States FLU SEASON, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: We keep passing the fever between us, a monster's Last Line: While you are spiking, soaked in your own sweat Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States FLYING-MAN, by MOTHER GOOSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Flying-man, flying-man Last Line: Can't you take me? Subject(s): United States FONTANELLE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The soul keeps pouring in before it closes Last Line: More gently here on top, %before the small skull shuts Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States 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 DECORATION DAY: 1861-1865, by RUPERT HUGHES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But do we truly mourn our soldier dead Last Line: The peaceful barracks where their bodies sleep. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day FOR EMILY (DICKINSON), by MAUREEN OWEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The girl - working the xerox in the stationery store Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Popular Culture - United States FOR EMILY (DICKINSON), by MAUREEN OWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The girl - working the xerox in the stationery store Last Line: I knew you - when you %still had hair! Subject(s): Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Popular Culture - United States FOR GRANDMA LUCIA LA ROSA, LIGHT THE ROSE, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: On the crowded subway, %riding to the prison to teach Last Line: From giving and giving and giving %food and birth Variant Title(s): Bicentennial Anti-poem For Italian-american Wome Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FOR MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER: A MESSAGE LONG OVERDUE, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You with the beard as red as barbarossa's Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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 TALKING, by DENISE NICO LETO Poem Source First Line: In catholic school %they teach you Last Line: For talking %sometimes %takes years Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FOR THE AMERICAN HOSTAGES, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: We are lost out here in the world Last Line: Where the dark birds make their nest Subject(s): Beirut - United States Troops (1982-3); Hostages FOR THE AVERY 'KNICKERBOCKER', by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shade of herrick, muse of locker Last Line: This the muse can never do! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Boughton, George Henry (1833-1905); New York City - Dutch Period; Poetry & Poets; Smoking; United States - Dutch Settlements; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes FOR THE COLOR OF MY MOTHER, by CHERRIE MORAGA Poem Source First Line: At two %my upper lip split open Last Line: They cradle her silence %nodding to me Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FOR THE COMMEMORATION SERVICES; MEMORIAL VERSES, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four summers coined their golden light in leaves Last Line: Living and dead alike forever dear! Subject(s): American Civil War; 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 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) FOR YOU SWEETHEART, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I'll forget I have a name Last Line: Knowing you love %to watch flowers bloom Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States FORBIDDING MOURNING, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: In this light, at the window, her reflection Last Line: As paper, and as precious Subject(s): Jews - United States FOREIGN WAYS, by DIANA CHANG Poem Source First Line: If I were in china this minute Last Line: My lope with its prairie air Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FORGOTTEN, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgotten! Can it be a few swift rounds Last Line: For the old time's return! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History FORGOTTEN CITY, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When with my mother I was coming down Last Line: When so near the metropolis, so closely %surrounded by the familiar and the famous? Subject(s): Americans; United States FORMERLY A SLAVE' (AN IDEALIZED PORTRAIT, BY E. VEDDER), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sufferance of her race is shown Last Line: Sibylline, yet benign. Subject(s): American Civil War; Paintings & Painters; Slavery; United States - History; Vedder, Elihu (1836-1923); Serfs FRAGMENTS FROM AMERICA I LOVE YOU, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a little black Last Line: Don't like johnson %or goldwater either Subject(s): Dillinger, John (1902-1934); United States FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA AND ANTHROPOLOGIST INTERPRETER TEACHING GARTEWIEN, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's done phonetically, of course, at great Last Line: Dr, singh: mean: everybody - die - together - here Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States 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 FRANKENSTEIN, by CONNIE DEANOVICH Poem Source First Line: Frankenstein naps on a golden bed Last Line: Or will you quickly distribute fire? Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States FREDERICK DOUGLASS: 1817-1895, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Douglass was someone who Last Line: He died in 1895. %he is not dead Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Douglass, Frederick (1817-1895); United States FREDERICKSBURG, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The increasing moonlight drifts across my bed Last Line: Hark! -- the black squadrons wheeling down to death! Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day FREE FLAG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: O holy ensign! Symbol fair Subject(s): Flags - United States FREE TRADE AND SAILORS' RIGHTS!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ho! All ye brave tars of columbia Last Line: Free trade is the right we content for, %this right we still will maintain Subject(s): Enterprise (ship); Free Trade; Navy - United States; Sailors And Sailing; War Of 1812 FREEDOM AT MCNEALY'S, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All around old chattanooga Last Line: As you would a faithful horse. Subject(s): African Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Negroes; American Blacks; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty FREEDOM OF THE MIND, by WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High walls and huge the body may confine Last Line: And in its watches wearies every star. Variant Title(s): The Free Mind;freedom For The Mind;sonnet Written In Prison;liberty Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty FREELY ESPOUSING, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A commingling sky Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Social Commentaries; New York City; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY: 5. EMPIRE BUILDERS, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the making of america in five panels Last Line: When the land lay waiting for her westward people Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Variant Title(s): Empire Builders Subject(s): Capitalism; United States; America FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY: 5. EMPIRE BUILDERS, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the making of america in five panels Last Line: The yellowstone moved on the gravel and the grass grew %whenthe land lay waiting for her westward pe Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Variant Title(s): Empire Builder Subject(s): Capitalism; United States FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY: BACKGROUND WITH REVOLUTIONARIES, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they're shunting the cars on the katy a mile off Last Line: There is too much sun on the lids of my eyes to be listening Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): United States; Challenges; Strength FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY: BACKGROUND WITH REVOLUTIONARIES, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When they're shunting the cars on the katy a mile off Last Line: There is too much sun on the lids of my eyes to be listening Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Variant Title(s): Poem Subject(s): United States; Challenges; Strength FRESNO, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Fresno, california's eighth largest city, is the financial headquarters Last Line: Watered by want, the spirit thrives Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese; California; Ethnic Groups - United States FRIDAY IN JERUSALEM, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: We wake to roosters arguing over tractates of talmud Last Line: Reverently raises his new watch to the ceiling Subject(s): Jews - United States FRIDAY NIGHT, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: My oldest son called Last Line: I guess I'd go get drunk Subject(s): Working Class - United States FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blasts rip newspaper grey manahatta's mid day air spires Last Line: Down thru cloud-floor to chicago, sunset fire obliterate in %black gas Subject(s): United States FRIENDLY TOWN #1, by SAFIYA HENDERSON-HOLMES Poem Source First Line: It was august, I was inner city Last Line: Their teeth chasing our bus Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FRIENDLY TOWN #3, by SAFIYA HENDERSON-HOLMES Poem Source First Line: For thirteen days %she had threatened Last Line: New, dark, empty space %slowly Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS DAY, by JAY MEEK Poem Source First Line: Standing in the shadow of a hangar Last Line: As if they were stars of the show Subject(s): Air Force - United States; Aviation And Aviators; Grand Forks, North Dakota; Travel FROM A HEART OF RICE STRAW, by NELLIE WONG Poem Source First Line: Ma, my heart must be made of rice straw Last Line: Ma, hear me now, tell me your story %again and again Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FROM A TRAIN WINDOW, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Precious in the light of the early sun the housatonic Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Americans; Railroads; United States; Railways; Trains; America FROM A TRAIN WINDOW, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Precious in the light of the early sun the housatonic Last Line: Is the grave-scarred hillside. %as if after all, the earth might know what it is about Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Americans; Railroads; United States FROM AN ISLAND YOU CANNOT NAME, by MARTIN ESPADA Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty years ago, / your linen-gowned father stood Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Hispanic Americans; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Latinos FROM AN ISLAND YOU CANNOT NAME, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thirty years ago, %your linen-gowned father stood Last Line: That you're other, %that you're not Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Hispanic Americans; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FROM COLONY TO NATION, by IRVING LAYTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dull people Last Line: Of one of the meaner lakes, %their bones not even picked for souvenirs Subject(s): United States FROM EPHEMERA TODAY ON ALL MY CHILDREN, by CONNIE DEANOVICH Poem Source First Line: Natalie gets discovered in her pit an old, drunken transient Last Line: A sex offender enters - just his breath on the phone Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States FROM HAUNTS OF BEASTS, by JOSEPH BERNARD RETHY Poem Source Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) FROM JOSEF IN THE REST HOME, by SHARON CHMIELARZ Poem Source First Line: I'm still alive Last Line: By the t.V. Tray Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Immigrants; Nursing Homes; Old Age; Poland; United States FROM OKRA TO GREENS, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I haveta turn my television down sometimes cuz Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Variant Title(s): From Okra To Greens - A Different Love Poem Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations FROM OKRA TO GREENS, by NTOZAKE SHANGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I haveta turn my television down sometimes cuz Last Line: & sure can dream gd/soppin up the pot liquor %& them peppers Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, Paulette Variant Title(s): From Okra To Greens - A Different Love Poe Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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) FROM RICH UNEASY AMERICA TO MY FRIEND CHRISTOPHER LOGUE, by ADRIAN MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Jim hall's guitar walking around Last Line: It overflows, by christ, it overflows Subject(s): Hall, Jim (b. 1930); Jazz; Music And Musicians; United States FROM TEXAS TO MAINE', by GEORGE HENRY PREBLE Poem Source First Line: Hail, banner of glory! Hail, banner of light! Subject(s): Flags - United States 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 FRUIT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Spaghetti sliding %down our kitchen walls Last Line: To paint a smiling face upon Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States FUJI-YAMA, by A. WALTER SOLOMON Poem Text First Line: As an old noble-lady Last Line: A fiery heart leaps. Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese; Old Age; Women; Japanese In The 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 FUNICELLO AT 50, by KLIPSCHUTZ Poem Source First Line: Annette has ms, she needs mickey's help Last Line: On some far coast, the surf's up Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States FUNK LORE, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are the blues Last Line: We is ouselves / the blues Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations FUNK LORE, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are the blues Last Line: We is ourselves %the blues Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations G. A. R. TO A. E. F., by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hope and promise of the nation Last Line: You who fight to save the world! Subject(s): Army - United States; World War I; First World War G.S. READING POESY AT PRINCETON, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gold beard combd down like chinese fire - gold hair braid Subject(s): Princeton University; Snyder, Gary (b. 1930); United States; America G.S. READING POESY AT PRINCETON, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gold beard combd down like chinese fire - gold hair braid Last Line: Gary's voice echoing hollow under electric lamps Subject(s): Princeton University; Snyder, Gary (b. 1930); United States GALE, by W. F. SPICER Poem Source First Line: The dark scud scowls at the shrinking moon Last Line: We shame our course, and joyously %to western isles we sail Subject(s): Navy - United States; Storms GALLERY, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my grandfather stepped from the boat Last Line: And pretty as a picture Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration GARFIELD'S RIDE AT CHICKAMAUGA, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again the summer-fevered skies Last Line: By chickamauga river. Subject(s): American Civil War; Chickamauga, Battle Of (1863); Garfield, James Abram (1831-1881); Thomas, George Henry (1816-1870); United States - History GARRISON, by AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Freedom's first champion in our fettered land Last Line: Survived, -- its ruin and our peace to see. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879); Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty GARRISON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The storm and peril overpast Last Line: A hand to set the captive free! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879); Antislavery Movement - United States GATE A-4, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wandering around the albuquerque airport terminal, after learning Subject(s): Air Travel; Arabic Language; United States; America 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) GERMAN OUT-CAST, by W. FREDRIC KAUFMAN Poem Text First Line: A little lad is born Last Line: A little lad was born -- a jew. Subject(s): Ambition; Jews; Religious Discrimination; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Judaism; Religious Conflict GETTYSBURG [JULY 1-3, 1863], by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was no union in the land, / though wise men labored long Last Line: The sword of meade and lee! Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Patriotism; United States - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of GHOSTS, by WILLIAM CARPENTER Poem Source First Line: Every evening I do this. I stop work, and though Last Line: I raise the volume. I quicken my pace a little, to catch up Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States 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 GIFT, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: The preacher's sermon is on the parable of the talents Last Line: My sister says she knows what her one talent is %encouraging others Subject(s): Working Class - United States GIFT, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To pull the metal splinter from my palm Last Line: When he's given something to keep. %I kissed my father Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Men; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations GIFT OUTRIGHT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The land was ours before we were the land's Last Line: But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced, %such as she would become Subject(s): Inaugural Poem; United States; War GILLIGAN'S ISLAND, by DENNIS COOPER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The professor and ginger are standing in the space in front Last Line: To start. Clouds appear in the sky, and it begins to snow Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States GLORIOUS NAVAL VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come listen to my story the truth I will unfold Last Line: So may success attend these heroes of the constitution's crew Subject(s): Bainbridge, William (1774-1833); Constitution (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 GOD AND THE CHAPLAIN'S PRAYER, by PARK JERAULD WHITE JR. Poem Text First Line: You say it's never right to laugh at prayer? Last Line: You'd find your holy place filled by another! Subject(s): Army - United States; Clergy; Prayer; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops GOD BLESS AMERICA, by IRVING BERLIN Poem Source First Line: While the storm clouds gather far across the sea Last Line: God bless america, my home sweet home Subject(s): Patriotism; United States GOD COMES IN HANDY, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: When you're recently divorced Last Line: You drop the shit and flush Subject(s): Working Class - United States 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 GOD SAVE THE FLAG, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Washed in the blood of the brave and the blooming Last Line: Washed from its stains in the blood of the brave! Subject(s): American Civil War; Flags - United States; United States - History; American Flag GOD SAVE THE NATION!, by THEODORE TILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who ordainest, for the land's salvation Last Line: With peace elysian! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History GOING DOWN, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: I'm scrubbing my back bathroom toilet Last Line: And the ship is going down Subject(s): Working Class - United States GOING HOME, by WING TEK LUM Poem Source First Line: Ngoh m' sick song tong hwa Last Line: But chinamen aren't supposed to cry Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Language; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations GOING ROUND THE HORN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Nor'west winds are blowing Last Line: Bless me aint it pleasant %going round the horn? Subject(s): Navy - United States GOING TO CHICAGO, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 22,000 feet over hazed square vegetable planet floor Last Line: By man poet's eyes astounded in the fire haze, / carbon gas aghast Subject(s): United States; Air Travel; America GOING TO CHICAGO, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 22,000 feet over hazed square vegetable planet floor Last Line: Scream in despair over meat and metal microphone Subject(s): United States GOLDSBORO NARRATIVE #4: MY FATHER'S VIET NAM TOUR NEAR OVER, by FORREST HAMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The young dead soldier was younger Last Line: And, afterwards, there's nothing left %to look forward to Subject(s): Army - United States; Death - Children; War GONE IS ULYSSES, by MARIE L. EGLINTON Poem Source Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) GOOD MORNING AMERICA: 14, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now it's uncle sam sitting on top of the world Subject(s): United States GOOD MORNING AMERICA: 15, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In god we trust; it so written Subject(s): United States; God; America GOOD MORNING AMERICA: 16, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The silent litany of the workmen go on - Subject(s): United States; Labor & Laborers; America; Work; Workers GOOD MORNING, AMERICA!, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are two sights that make my heart feel gay Subject(s): Flags - United States GOOD NEWS, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: I've got to write a letter, card or something, anything Last Line: And give her a couple of turbans for free Subject(s): Working Class - United States GOOD TIMES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daddy has paid the rent Subject(s): Family Life; African Americans; Family Life; United States; Relatives; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives; America GOOD TIMES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daddy has paid the rent Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life; United States; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives; America GOOD TIMES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My daddy has paid the rent Last Line: Oh children think about the %good times Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life; United States GRAFFITI 12TH CUBICLE MEN'S ROOM SYRACUSE AIRPORT, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am married and would like to fuck someone else Subject(s): United States; America GRAFFITI 12TH CUBICLE MEN'S ROOM SYRACUSE AIRPORT, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am married and would like to fuck someone else Last Line: Way to really get your head together by first getting %it apart lsd forever Subject(s): United States GRANDFATHER AT THE INDIAN HEALTH CLINIC, by ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN Poem Source First Line: It's cold at last and cautious winds creep Last Line: To everyone who comes Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; U.s. - Race Relations GRANDMA IN THE SHOWER, by DALE KUSHNER Poem Source First Line: Puckered breasts like leiberman's Last Line: Grandma's moustache. Grandma's teeth in the glass Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations GRANDMOTHER, by GRACE CAVALIERI Poem Source First Line: What is the purpose of visits to me twice since you've died Last Line: A bright clock shaped like a train - %simply that it moves Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations GRANDMOTHER, A CARIBBEAN INDIAN, DESCRIBED BY MY FATHER, by YVONNE SAPIA Poem Source First Line: Nearly a hundred when she died Last Line: There would be room for me Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations GRANT PARK: AUGUST 28, 1968, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green air, children sat under trees with the old Subject(s): United States; America GRANT PARK: AUGUST 28, 1968, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green air, children sat under trees with the old Last Line: Who wants to be president of the %garden of eden? Subject(s): United States GRAPPLING, by ROBERT J. CLAWSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sergeant sets the throttle: troll Subject(s): Diving & Divers; Marines – United States 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 BELL ROLAND; SUGGESTED BY PRESIDENT'S CALL VOLUNTEERS, by THEODORE TILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Toll! Roland, toll! Last Line: Tool! Roland, toll! Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; United States - History 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 PLAINS IN WINTER, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Great Plains (united States); Winter GREAT WITHOUT POMP, WITHOUT AMBITION BRAVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) GREAT, STRONG, FREE, AND TRUE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great, my country, great in gold Last Line: Ever true to god and man. Subject(s): United States; World War I; America; First World War GREAT, WILD, FREE SOUL, by J. A. H. Poem Source Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) GREEN ASH, RED MAPLE, BLACK GUM, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: How often the names of trees consoled me Last Line: Black gum, black gum, black gum. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Marriage; Moving & Movers; Refugees; Trees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 GROTESQUE, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING Poem Text First Line: With the first light on the skyline came the rapping of the sickles Last Line: "and the fields with harvest teeming have forgot them all too soon!" Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Fields; Injustice; Labor & Laborers; Memory; Slavery; United States - Race Relations; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers; Serfs GROWING OLD NEAR CHARLESTON, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: I'm still a fossil point kid Last Line: And blue beach glass %finding only broken pieces Subject(s): Working Class - United States GROWING UP ITALIAN, by MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN Poem Source First Line: When I was a little girl Last Line: Like a bright, red flag Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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) GULF, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The airport coffee tastes less of america Last Line: Age after age, the uninstructing dead Subject(s): Air Travel; Texas; United States GULL HOUSE, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Those stilts have held their own Last Line: Yellow eyes, they own Subject(s): Jews - United States GURU OM, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: October 4, 1970 / car wheels roar over freeway concrete Last Line: I am leaving the world, I will close my eyes and rest my tongue & hand Subject(s): United States; America GURU OM, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: October 4, 1970 %car wheels roar over freeway concrete Last Line: Chest dark baby kingdom in the skull Subject(s): United States GYPSY TEACHERS HER GRANDCHILD WOLFEN WAYS, by SUSAN SWARTWOUT Poem Source First Line: All tongues tell their monsters, shapes Last Line: Pray the gleam shines from faith not fang Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States HABITUAL OFFENDER, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: My oldest sister sits Last Line: For his old man to just once tell him that he loves him Subject(s): Working Class - United States HACIENDO APENAS LA RECOLECCION, by TINO VILLANUEVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For weeks now Last Line: You shall not again %pick cotton Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations HAIL COLUMBIA, by JOSEPH HOPKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, columbia! Happy land! Last Line: Peace and safety we shall find. Subject(s): Navy - United States; Patriotism; United States; American Navy; America HAIL YE AMERICA, by ELSIE TAYLOR DUTRIEUILLE Poem Text First Line: Found ye a nation to stand without halter Last Line: Hail ye america, this be your home! Alternate Author Name(s): Du Trieuille, Elsie Taylor Subject(s): United States; America HAIL, AMERICA, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, son of peak and prairie Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Subject(s): Flags - United States HAIL, BRIGHTEST BANNER THAT FLOATS ON THE GALE, by WILLIAM S. ROBINSON Poem Source Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) HALF-BREED, by CHERRIE MORAGA Poem Source First Line: The difference between you and me Last Line: My reflection has always been %once removed Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations HAMMOCK, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ Poem Source First Line: The tainos of the antilles Last Line: You can go right down %to the bone Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Ethnic Groups - United States HANGING FIRE, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am fourteen / and my skin has betrayed me Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Teenagers; United States - Race Relations HANGING FIRE, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am fourteen %and my skin has betrayed me Last Line: And momma's in the bedroom %with the door closed Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Teenagers; U.s. - Race Relations HAPPY NEW YEAR TO COMMODORE RODGERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Huzza for the seamen undaunted by fear Last Line: Columbia's bright name then with glory shall sound, %and the praise of her heroes be sung the year r Subject(s): Navy - United States; Rodgers, John (1773-1838); War Of 1812 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) HAROLD AND IMOGENE, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The beautiful imogene is finally alone Last Line: His head against the mantelpiece and sobs Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States HARRIET TUBMAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In memory of harriet tubman Last Line: An' I nebber los' a passenger' Subject(s): United States HATCHET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: George washington, though great was he Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MOVIE?', by ALLEN GINSBERG Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Old maple hairytrunks root asphalt grass marge, november Subject(s): United States; America HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MOVIE?', by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old maple hairytrunks root asphalt grass marge, november Last Line: Lights on cars front western lane grey twilight falls on %rolling robotland Subject(s): United States HAVING THE WRONG NAME FOR MR. WRIGHT, by HELEN BAROLINI Poem Source First Line: Pietrofesso,' I repeat to mr. Wright, the science teacher in junior high Last Line: No teacher ever corrected me Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations HAZEL TELLS LAVERNE, by KATHARYN HOWD MACHAN Poem Source First Line: Last night %im cleanin out my Last Line: Me %a princess Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States 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 HEAVY BLUE VEINS, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: Heavy blue veins streaked across my mother's legs, some of them Last Line: Coming, never stops pouring, this memory of mama and blood and watts Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations HEAVY WATER BLUES, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The radio is teaching my goldfish jujitsu Last Line: But me and my son laughed in our furnished room Subject(s): Popular Culture - 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 HENRY WARD BEECHER, by CHARLES HENRY PHELPS Poem Text First Line: His tongue was touched with sacred fire Last Line: Wherever men lay bound he clave. Subject(s): Beecher, Henry Ward (1813-1887); Clergy; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Politics & Government; Writing & Writers; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Antislavery Movement - United States HERE'S A CHRISTMAS CARD, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: With the blank look of abbot thayer's angel Last Line: And not in the bright throbbing of the stars Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States HERE'S A HALTH TO THEE, TOM BREESE, by J. C. DRAKE Poem Source Last Line: May grief rest lightly on thy heart, %as feathers 'neath thy pillow Subject(s): Breese, Thomas; Navy - United States HERITAGE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: From my mother, the antique mirror Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indian HERITAGE, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From my mother, the antique mirror Last Line: Of never having a home Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; U.s. - Race Relations 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 HEROES, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In rich virginian woods Last Line: Of knightly deeds and dreams. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History HEROES, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds that once the argo bore Last Line: And the world is a braver world to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Heroism; United States - History; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines HIGH BARBAREE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There were two lofty ships form old england came Last Line: But the quarters that we gave them - we sunk them in the sea, %cruising down along the coast of the Subject(s): Navy - 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 LOVE OF HOME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As love of native land,' the old Last Line: "a hoosier's love is fer the old homestead." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flags - United States; Home; Love; Patriotism; American Flag 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 HISTORY OF AMERICA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A linear projection: a route. It crosses Last Line: Wonder you fear this bleeding pulse, no wonder Subject(s): History; United States HIWAY POESY L.A. TO WICHITA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up up and away! %we're off, thru america Last Line: Green signs, %welcome to wichita %population 280,000 Subject(s): United States HOMAGE TO ELVIS, HOMAGE TO THE FATHERS, by BRUCE WEIGL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All night the pimps' cars slide past the burning mill Last Line: Of our next moment alive Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States HOME ALONE, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: Cigarette smokers Last Line: After another, eating candy, flicking %my ashes on the floor Subject(s): Working Class - 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 HOME THOUGHTS FROM EUROPE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis fine to see the old world, and travel up and down Last Line: Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Variant Title(s): America For Me' Subject(s): Patriotism; Religion; United States; Theology; America HOME, SWEET HOME, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sharers of a common country Last Line: Be our watchwords evermore. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History HOMES FOR ALL, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Columbia, fairest nation of the world Last Line: The glory that thou wearest like a crown Subject(s): United States HOMEWARD BOUND, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh! To pensacola town we'll bid adieu Last Line: For you know we're outward bound Subject(s): Navy - United States HOMING SONG, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The waves come racing to my boat Last Line: To kiss my love. Subject(s): Longing; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Navy - United States; Sailing & Sailors; War; Male-female Relations; American Navy 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) HOOKER'S ACROSS, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Hooker's across! Hooker's across! Last Line: Hooker's across! Subject(s): American Civil War; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Hooker, Joseph (1814-1879); United States - History HOPE, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Edith b__ and her mother on a sunday afaaternoon. The Last Line: Voice, I hope I shall come to know you Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Jews; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations HORNET, OR VICTORY NUMBER FIVE, by SAMUEL WOODWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rejoice, rejoice, fredonia's sons rejoice Last Line: Our tars shall mars protect beneath our stars, %and fredonia's eagle hover o'er the sea Subject(s): Hornet (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 HORSE, by GLORIA EVANGELINA ANZALDUA Poem Source First Line: Great horse running in the fields Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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 ON MOSCOW STREET, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's the ragged source of memory Last Line: Generations lost to be found, %to be found Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Family Life; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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 HOUSEWIFE, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: Sits on her carefully made bed Last Line: She'll burn the hell out of dinner Subject(s): Working Class - United States HOW ARE YOU, SANITARY?', by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the picket-guarded lane Last Line: "pass in, sanitary!" Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; United States - History; Declaration Day HOW I CHANGED MY NAME, FELICE, by FELIX STEFANILE Poem Source First Line: In italy a man's name, here a woman's Last Line: And fanned my little neapolitan ass Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations HOW I GOT THAT NAME, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am marilyn mei ling chin Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations HOW I GOT THAT NAME, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am marilyn mei ling chin Last Line: Mesmerized %by all that was lavished upon her %and all that was taken away! Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations HOW I LEARNED ENGLISH, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was in an empty lot Subject(s): Baseball; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Sports; United States - Race Relations HOW I LEARNED ENGLISH, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was in an empty lot Last Line: Hum baby' sweetly on my lips Subject(s): Baseball; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Sports; U.s. - Race Relations HOW LONG!, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How long, and yet how long Last Line: Resound unto a yet unheard-of strain. Subject(s): United States; America HOW LONG?, by JAMES MONROE WHITFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long, o gracious god! How long Last Line: Exult in glorious liberty. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States HOW QUICKLY WE FORGET, by ASTORIA RED Poem Source First Line: How quickly we forget how this country was built Last Line: Feel the pain to learn the truth? Subject(s): History; United States HOW THE CUMBERLAND WENT DOWN [MARCH 8, 1862], by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gray swept the angry waves Last Line: As the cumberland went down. Subject(s): American Civil War; Cumberland (ship); Hampton Roads, Virginia; Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship) HOW WE BURNED THE 'PHILADELPHIA', by BARRETT EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: By the beard of the prophet the bashaw swore Last Line: And troubled his soul no more. Subject(s): Courage; Decatur, Stephen (1779-1820); Navy - United States; Patriotism; Philadelphia (ship); Pirates; Tripoli; Valor; Bravery; American Navy; Piracy; Buccaneers HOWARD AT ATLANTA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right in the track where sherman Last Line: A joy and blessing! Subject(s): Atlanta, Georgia; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Howard, Oliver Otis (1830-1909); Antislavery Movement - United States HULA SKIRT, 1959, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before my fourth birthday my father Last Line: That much I remember Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations HULA SKIRT, 1959, by BARBARA KINGSOLVER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Before my fourth birthday my father Last Line: That much I remember Subject(s): Americans; United States HULL'S VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye true sons of freedom, give ear to my song Last Line: And now with three cheers ere we sail to the main, %we will greet our brave captain again and again Subject(s): Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 HUM BOM!, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Whom bomb? / we bomb them! Subject(s): Nuclear War; United States; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; America HUM BOM!, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whom bomb? %we bomb them! Last Line: Whom bomb? %you bomb you! Subject(s): Nuclear War; United States HUNTER, TIRING OF THE CHASE, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE Poem Source Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) HUZZA FOR COMMODORE RODGERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Weighing the acnhor's the first thing I tell Last Line: With our iron pills, leaden pills, chain shot & powder. %oh!The land of columbia forever! Subject(s): Navy - United States; President (ship); Rodgers, John (1773-1838); War Of 1812 HUZZA FOR THE CONSTITUTION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Once more john bull may stamp and rave Last Line: And what she has been, be so still, %the boast and glory of our land Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Navy - United States; War Of 1812 HYGIENE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some men wash their hands five times a day Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States HYGIENE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some men wash their hands five times a day Last Line: In how to become someone else %who isn't moving anymore Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States 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 .. CELEBRATION OF 3RD ANNIVERSARY BRITISH EMANCIPATION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O holy father! Just and true Last Line: Be praise and glory evermore. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States HYMN AFTER THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Giver of all that crowns our days Last Line: With peace on earth, good-will to men! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States HYMN FOR AMERICA, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where's the man, in all the earth Last Line: Till each foe be friend. Subject(s): United States; America HYMN FOR THE CELEBRATION OF EMANCIPATION AT NEWBURYPORT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not unto us who did but seek Last Line: To whom be glory, first and last! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Newburyport, Massachusetts; Antislavery Movement - United States HYMN FOR THE FAIR AT CHICAGO, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O god! In danger's darkest hour Last Line: And all the earth is thine. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History 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 HYMN TO THE NATIONAL FLAG, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Float aloft, thou stainless banner! Subject(s): Flags - United States HYMN WRITTEN FOR THE GREAT CENTRAL FAIR IN PHILADELPHIA, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, send on earth again Last Line: Faithful to freedom and thee. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History I AM FORTUNATE IN A MEMORY OF SOUNDS, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Trains in the stockyard answer the piano Last Line: With your shoes dropping in the doorway Subject(s): Jews - United States I AM SINGING NOW, by LUCI TAPAHONSO Poem Source First Line: The moon is a white sliver Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations I AM THE FLAG, by LAWRENCE M. JONES Poem Source First Line: I am a composite being of all the people of america Subject(s): Flags - United States I AM WHAT YOU MAKE ME, NOTHING MORE, by FRANKLIN K. LANE Poem Source Subject(s): Flags - United States I ASK MY MOTHER TO SING, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: She begins, and my grandmother joins her Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Heritage; Heredity I ASK MY MOTHER TO SING, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She begins, and my grandmother joins her Last Line: Both women have begun to cry. %but neither stops her song Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations I DEFY YOU WALLACE STEVENS, by SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM Poem Source Last Line: The hungry and dead are this 'exquisity truth,' %and you an american fiction Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations I GIVE YOU BACK, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I release you, my beautiful and terrible Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Peace; United States - Race Relations I GIVE YOU BACK, by JOY HARJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I release you, my beautiful and terrible Last Line: I am alive and you are so afraid of dying Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Peace; U.s. - Race Relations I HAVE LOST THE ADDRESS OF MY COUNTRY, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: I have lost the address of my country Subject(s): Women Immigrants - United States; Islam I HAVE NOT SIGNED A TREATY WITH THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, by UNKNOWN+183 Poem Source First Line: Nor has my father nor his father Last Line: Take these words back with you Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations I HEAR AMERICA SINGING, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I hear america singing, the varied carols I hear Last Line: Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs. Subject(s): Americans; Labor & Laborers; Patriotism; Singing & Singers; United States; Work; Workers; Songs; America I HEAR THE BELLS OF THE ICE-CREAM VENDOR OUTSIDE MY DOOR, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: The sign on his cart says pancho's ice cream Last Line: Strawberry red in my cold hands Subject(s): Americans; United States I LIKE AMERICANS, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: They are fine people Subject(s): Americans; United States I LOOK ACROSS THE OCEAN, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And growing near your time— Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): United States I PROMISE YOU THIS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Water finds its own level Last Line: The hint of water %already filling their cribs Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States I PUNCH OUT JESUS, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: Peter, andrew, james, john Last Line: That part about no pain, no tears Subject(s): Working Class - United States I REMEMBER HAIFA BEING LOVELY BUT, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were snakes in the tent Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Shoah; Judaism I REMEMBER HAIFA BEING LOVELY BUT, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There were snakes in the tent Last Line: Appeared mysteriously, %tattooed on your arm Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations I SIT AND SEW, by ALICE RUTH MOORE DUNBAR-NELSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit and sew - a useless task it seems Last Line: It stifles me -- god, must I sit and sew? Alternate Author Name(s): Nelson, Alice Dunbar (moore) Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Americans; Sewing; United States; War; America I TELL THEM I'M A BIBLE SCHOOL TEACHER, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: I tell my old friends that I'm a housewife/homemaker Last Line: And I say I'm crazy %not to tell them that Subject(s): Working Class - United States I TRY NOT TO WRITE POEMS, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: About my dead sister's daughter's blocked fallopian tubes Last Line: Where I could write poetry all day long Subject(s): Working Class - United States I WAKE TO THE TOUCH, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, times out of dream Last Line: In the wild of america! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; United States I WALK IN THE HISTORY OF MY PEOPLE, by UNKNOWN+183 Poem Source First Line: There are women locked in my joints Last Line: How I am still walking Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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) I'M DYING, COMRADE, by MARY H. C. BOOTH Poem Text First Line: I think I'm dying, comrade Last Line: Is calling me from life. Subject(s): American Civil War; Martyrs; United States - History I, TOO, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, too, sing america. / I am the darker brother Last Line: I, too, am america. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Variant Title(s): Epilogue;i, Too, Sing America Subject(s): African Americans; United States; Negroes; American Blacks; America IF HE'S LUCKY, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: When his lower back goes out Last Line: His feet up %his eyes closed Subject(s): Working Class - United States 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 I WERE RITA HAYWORTH, by PATRICIA SPEARS JONES Poem Source First Line: I would hear spanish first Last Line: Wide enough to swallow the damnation of my beauty Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States 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 ILLINOIS FARMER, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bury this old illinois farmer with respect Last Line: Dream of illinois corn. Subject(s): Farm Life; United States; Agriculture; Farmers; America ILLITERATE, by RICHARD CLOKE Poem Source First Line: Us ranks 49th in literacy rate Last Line: I read that and my hair curled Subject(s): Education; Illiteracy; United States ILLUMINATION FOR VICTORIES IN MEXICO, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light up thy homes, columbia Last Line: Light up, light up your homes! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): United States - Mexican War (1846-1848) IMAGINARY UNIVERSES, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under orders to shoot the spy, I discharged Subject(s): United States; America IMAGINARY UNIVERSES, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under orders to shoot the spy, I discharged Last Line: That was true, yes Subject(s): United States IMITATION OF LIFE, by AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the movies were 35 Last Line: Pulsating fires in a fragile tapestry Alternate Author Name(s): Weaver, Michael S. Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations IMMIGRANTS, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: To be always carrying Last Line: Where the grains of sand are stars Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Immigrants; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration IMMIGRANTS, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wrap their babies in the american flag Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations IMMIGRANTS, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wrap their babies in the american flag Last Line: Our boy, our girl, our fine american %boy our fine american girl Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations IMMIGRANTS IN OUR OWN LAND, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are born with dreams in our hearts Last Line: So long gone from life itself, so many things have changed Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Social Problems; United States - Race Relations IMMIGRANTS IN OUR OWN LAND, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are born with dreams in our hearts Last Line: So long gone from life itself, so many things have changed Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Social Problems; U.s. - Race Relations IMPROVISATION FOR PIANO, by AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Freshly lit cigarette in his mouth Last Line: I slip away hoping there are angels Alternate Author Name(s): Weaver, Michael S. Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations IN A MOONLIT HERMIT'S CABIN, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Watching the white image, electric moon, white mist drift Last Line: Setting up the flag! Subject(s): United States IN A STRANGE LAND, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far hence a lonely exile strayed Last Line: He'd no nostalgia now. Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Magazines; Nostalgia; Travel; United States; Journeys; Trips; America IN A U-HAUL NORTH OF DAMASCUS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, what are the sins Last Line: To believe in new beginnings? Could I be moved? Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Pain; Popular Culture - United States; Suffering; Misery IN GEORGETOWN; HOLIDAY INN, WASHINGTON, D.C., by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is not where the rich and famous pursue their lifestyles Last Line: "melodiously at the door: ""are you all right, sir? Are you all right in there?" Subject(s): Americans; Corruption In Politics & Government; Hotels; Politics; Social Protest; United States; Washington, D.c.; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Politicians; Political Poetry; America 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 HERITAGE FARMS, SETTLED, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In their tennis whites, their pastel izods, all day the women Last Line: Of the hornworm inching toward the wings of the phoenix moth. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Consumerism; Discontent; Popular Culture - United States; Suburbs; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dissatisfaction IN HONOUR OF AMERICA, 1917; ANTITHESIS TO ROSSETTI'S 'REFUSAL OF AID', by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not that the earth is changing, o my god! / not that her brave demoracies Last Line: Our earth holds confident, steadfast, being young. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): United States; America IN HOSPITAL: 21. ROMANCE, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Talk of pluck!' pursued the sailor Last Line: "and they meant it too, by thunder!" Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; Hospitals; United States - History 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 MEMORY OF JAMES LAWRENCE, ESQUIRE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To life his name to high renown Last Line: Here lawrence rests, his country's pride, %on valor's decks who fought and died! Subject(s): Chesapeake (ship); Lawrence, James (1781-1813); Navy - United States; War Of 1812 IN MEMORY WE ARE WALKING, by MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN Poem Source Last Line: We don't want your kind here Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations IN MY OTHER LIFE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I was born with a stone in my hand Last Line: I was a goat on a hillside %sure of the path Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States IN PRAISE OF CALIFORNIA WINES, by YVOR WINTERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amid these clear and windy hills Last Line: In sunlight vanish quite away Subject(s): Americans; United States IN PRAISE OF WASHINGTON, by ELIZA COOK Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) IN THE BLACK CAMARO, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the orange glow of taillights, I crossed Last Line: A truck in a thicket a half-mile downstream. Subject(s): Conspiracy; Insurance & Insurance Agents; Popular Culture - United States; Worry IN THE BLUEMIST MOTEL, by GREG PAPE Poem Source First Line: I hear voices in the next room Last Line: Is falling asleep in his own bed Subject(s): Hotels; Popular Culture - United States 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 DAYS OF RIN-TIN-TIN, by DANIEL GERARD HOFFMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And overtook the little fellow on his way to school Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHOIR, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had never seen a cornfield in my life Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts; Students IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHOIR, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I had never seen a cornfield in my life Last Line: Des moines, I was saying to myself %baton rouge. Terre haute. Boise Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations IN THE GARDEN OF BANANA AND COCONUT TREES, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Before the woman's hips Last Line: Clapping hands, bells jingling %on her ankles Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States IN THE GOOD OLD U.S.A., by SR. JOSE ANGEL VILLALONGO Poem Source First Line: Here in the good old u.S.A. Last Line: My language %my brillo hair, %and my name Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations IN THE INNER CITY, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Like we call it %home Subject(s): Cities; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations IN THE LAND WHERE WE WERE DREAMING, by DANIEL BEDINGER LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair were our visions! Oh, they were as grand Last Line: In the land where we were dreaming. Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; United States - History 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 THE SLEEP OF REASON, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The pilot, returned, sees the village Last Line: At 40,000 feet Subject(s): Air Force - United States; Film (photography); News; War IN THE TIME OF STRIFE, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We may not know Subject(s): Flags - United States IN THE WAY BACK, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: The friday before labor day Last Line: Our parents left us free to look in both directions, %behind us and ahead Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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) INCOGNITO LOUNGE, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The manager lady of this Last Line: And were married to a deep %comprehension and terror Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States INDEPENDENCE DAY, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Orange hawkeye stronger than thought winking above a Last Line: Independence day! The cow's deep moo's an aum! Subject(s): United States INDEPENDENCE DAY, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Squeak the fife, and beat the drum Last Line: This glorious independence day! Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Variant Title(s): Ode Composed For The Fourth Of July Subject(s): Gallatin, Albert (1761-1849); Madison, James (1751-1836); United States - Declaration Of Independence INDEPENDENCE DAY 1960, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: Around the dawn of time Last Line: Our own independence day Subject(s): Flags - United States; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Independence; Sermons INDIAN BLOOD (2), by MARY TALLMOUNTAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blackbird teacher / white claw waving Last Line: Indian blood Alternate Author Name(s): Randle, Mary Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans - Children; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations; Students INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL: THE RUNAWAYS, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Home's the place we head for in our sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans - Education; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Students INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL: THE RUNAWAYS, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Home's the place we head for in our sleep Last Line: Face before it hardened, pale, remembering %delicate old injuries, the spines of names and leaves Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans - Education; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations INDIAN CAR, by CATRON GRIEVES Poem Source First Line: Driving to the winnebago pow-wow, across iowa in the august evening Last Line: To gas up this indian car Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States INDIAN MOVIE, NEW JERSEY, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not like the white filmstars, all rib Last Line: Sacrifice, success, love and luck, %the america that was supposed to be Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; India; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations INITIAL CONDITIONS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way the sun will slant Last Line: As you breathe, let your chest sag to feel bone Subject(s): Books; History; Restaurants; United States; Washington (state); Reading; Historians; Cafes; Diners; America INNER HISTORY (APRIL 19, 1775), by LENA HALL Poem Text First Line: I know a mother wise as solomon Last Line: And wise heart linked to heart, we understand. Subject(s): Colonialism; Great Britain; Revolutions; United States; America INSCRIPTION FOR A WELL IN MEMORY OF THE MARTYRS OF THE WAR, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fall, stream, from heaven to bless; return as well Last Line: So did our sons; heaven met them as they fell. Subject(s): American Civil War; Fountains; Martyrs; United States - History 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) INTRODUCTION, by JOHN YAU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It had to be from someone whose grandparents were born in shanghai Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Asian Americans - Chinese; Self; Heritage; Heredity; Chinese In The United States INVENTORY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanksgiving today. Soaked with sleet Last Line: Here: in america. In america. Subject(s): Belgium; Confessions; Daughters; Gardens & Gardening; Gratitude; Holidays; Honor; Larch Trees; Loss; Memory; Moving & Movers; Numbers; Omens; Refugees; Sons; Thanksgiving Day; Time; United States - Immigration & Emigtration INVITATION TO MISS MARIANNE MOORE, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From brooklyn, over the brooklyn bridge, on this fine morning Subject(s): Americans; Moore, Marianne (1887-1972); United States; America INVITATION TO MISS MARIANNE MOORE, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From brooklyn, over the brooklyn bridge, on this fine morning Last Line: Please come flying Subject(s): Americans; Moore, Marianne (1887-1972); United States INVOCATION, by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou whose equal purpose runs Last Line: Be lightning for the land we love! Variant Title(s): The Land We Love Subject(s): United States; America INVOCATION TO THE SOCIAL MUSE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Se??Ora, it is true the greeks are dead Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): United States; Social Classes; Poetry & Poets; America; Caste IOWA, by MICHAEL DENNIS BROWNE Poem Source First Line: Air as the fuel of owls. Snow Last Line: On their hills are strangely childlike Subject(s): Americans; Iowa; United States IOWA BLUES BAR SPIRITUAL, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little tokyo bar -- / ladies night, smoky gauze balcony, whispering tommy becker Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Popular Culture - United States; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons IOWA BLUES BAR SPIRITUAL, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little tokyo bar -- %ladies night, smoky gauze balcony, whispering tommy becker Last Line: Opal-eyed suzie in a flannel shirt; we beckon the spark, the body to live Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Popular Culture - United States IRISHMAN'S OBSERVATION ON BRITISH POLITICS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh what shall we do with the yankeys Last Line: For jammy has gave him a smack, %and no ships on the ocean to plunder Subject(s): Great Britain; Navy - United States ISLA, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In los angeles I grew up watching the three stooges, Subject(s): Women Immigrants - United States; Cuba; Mothers; Popular Culture - United States IT IS A LIVING CORAL, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A trouble / archaically fettered Subject(s): United States - History 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 IT IS THE FLAG, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sail some foreign sea Last Line: But it is the flag! Subject(s): Flags - United States; American Flag IT'S A YOUNG COUNTRY, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And we cannot bear to grow old Last Line: Pack lightly we move so fast Subject(s): Immigrants; Travel; United States IT'S ONLY ROCK AND ROLL BUT I LIKE IT : THE FALL OF SAIGON, 1975, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The guttural stammer of the chopper blades Last Line: His fists beating time. Then the hands giving way Variant Title(s): 'it's Only Rock And Roll But I Like It': The Fall Of Saigon, 197 Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 JACK CREAMER [OCTOBER 25, 1812], by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boarding nettings are triced for fight Last Line: And the nation was close to its maker then. Variant Title(s): Jack Cramer Subject(s): Decatur, Stephen (1779-1820); Sea Battles; United States (ship); War Of 1812; Naval Warfare JACK MAINMAST, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Jack mainmast once got half seas o'er Last Line: Here's to the lads of a-meri-ca Subject(s): Navy - United States JACK MANDOORA ME NO CHOOSE NONE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: It begins when the mother Last Line: Chopping steadily %into the silent woods Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States JACK, AFTERWARDS, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: It's difficult to say what it all meant Last Line: Not even my mother knew, when she could see Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States JACKET NOTES, by ISHMAEL REED Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being a colored poet Last Line: You're bigger than the %barrel Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations JACKIE IN CAMBODIA, by CATHERINE BOWMAN Poem Source First Line: The air force jet set down like a god Last Line: Jacqueline to us, not quite jackie o Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States JADE, by JANICE MIRIKITANI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a young hooker Last Line: Her dead eyes, glassy %as jewels Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations JAMAICA, 1978, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: It was always about the coconut tree Last Line: Yu haffa aks yuself: is who this tree go a shade from sun? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States JAMAICA, OCTOBER 18, 1972, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You tell me about the rickety truck Last Line: The water between us becoming a river Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States JAMES DEAN & THE PIG, by JOSEPH LIKE Poem Source First Line: You can't just call it a pig Last Line: This james dean balanced against this gilt Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States JASPER AT FORT MOULTRIE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm only a sergeant!' jasper said Last Line: All honor and praise to you! Subject(s): American Revolution; Courage; Flags - United States; Patriotism; Valor; Bravery; American Flag JAZZ, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: The music speaks for itself. And it certainly spoke to me. It called me Last Line: And before he knew it, he was writing poetry Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese; Ethnic Groups - United States; Jazz; Music And Musicians JEANNE DIXON'S AMERICA, by GERALD COSTANZO Poem Source First Line: San francisco remains in grave personal danger Last Line: Don't look for this to happen any time soon Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States JEFFERSON D., by HENRY SYLVESTER CORNWELL Poem Text First Line: You're a traitor convicted, you know very well Last Line: Jefferson d.! Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); United States - History; Confederacy JEFFERSON DAVIS, by WALKER MERIWETHER BELL Poem Text First Line: Calm martyr of a noble cause Last Line: A relic and a shrine! Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); United States - History; Confederacy JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 74. THE ENGLISH IN VIRGINIA, APRIL 1607, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: They landed and could Subject(s): United States - Colonial Periodl Nature JEW IN A NEW SUIT, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: (ice man) %there he goes, the old man selling ice Last Line: It's your sweet fruit in my bitter mouth Subject(s): Jews - United States JEW MARINE, by FERNAND ROQUEPLAN Poem Source First Line: Man, I thought I'd be a boot forever! I just Last Line: Brace & they thought I'd been shot, too. I said a bland grace Subject(s): Jews; Marines - United States JEWISH SINGLES EVENT, by STEWART J. FLORSHEIM Poem Source First Line: Here are those who are challenged by Last Line: Their branded arms embrace us Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations JOHN BROWN OF OSAWATOMIE [OCTOBER 16, 1859], by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John brown in kansas settled, like a steadfast yankee farmer Last Line: May trouble you more than ever, when you've nailed his coffin down! Variant Title(s): How John Brown Took Harper's Ferry;john Brown At Harper's Ferry;how Old John Brown Took Harper's Ferry Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Harpers Ferry, West Virginia; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Serfs 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 BURNS OF GETTYSBURG, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you heard the story that gossips tell Last Line: You'll show a hat that's white, or a feather. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): American Civil War; Burns, John; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Patriotism; United States - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of JOHN CHARLES FREMONT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy error, fremont, simply was to act Last Line: But the full time to harden into things. Variant Title(s): To John C. Fremont Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Fremont, John Charles (1813-1890); Missouri; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty 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 HANCOCK, by LEE BENNETT HOPKINS Poem Source First Line: There,' %he said Last Line: Proclaimed %the rebellious %john hancock Subject(s): United States JOHN HENRY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When john henry was a little boy Last Line: Lord, I've hammered my insides in two' Subject(s): United States 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 PELHAM, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just as the spring came laughing through the strife Last Line: Twining the victor's crown! Variant Title(s): The Dead Cannoneer Subject(s): American Civil War; Kelly's Ford, Virginia, Battle Of (1863); Pelham, John (1838-1863); United States - History 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 JOHNNY BULL'S BIG GUNS, AND BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Sure, have you not heard of that pesky john bull Last Line: That he'll scarcely be able to get out of port, %with his big guns and rockets and pumpkin-shell bom Subject(s): Lake Erie, Battle Of; Navy - United States; War Of 1812 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); JONAH'S PROMISE, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: I'm supposed to sit with the coffin for an hour and read psalms Last Line: Unto you will I sing praises Subject(s): Jews - United States JOURNEY SOUTH, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: How have you been, %my beautiful friend Last Line: Bless us, %eucalyptus Subject(s): California; Immigrants; Travel; United States JULY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: July's for independence day Last Line: July comes for flags and play. Subject(s): Flags - United States; Fourth Of July; Holidays; Summer; American Flag; Independence Day JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The continent's a tamed ox, with all its mountains, Last Line: How it would have feared us Subject(s): Sea; United States; Ocean; America JUNE FOURTEENTH, by CAROLINE BOWERS TOMBO Poem Source First Line: Once upon a summer's day Subject(s): Flags - United States JUNE'S FLAG, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: June flung her flag out Last Line: And wave on so forever, bright flag of the free! Subject(s): Flags - United States; Freedom; Summer; American Flag; Liberty JUNIOR HIGH DANCE, by ALLISON JOSEPH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No one wanted to dance with us Last Line: Right there, no matter how funky %the beat, no matter how delicious Subject(s): Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Schools; U.s. - Race Relations KA 'BA, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A closed window looks down Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Negroes; American Blacks KA 'BA, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A closed window looks down Last Line: Return, destroy, and create. What will be %the sacred words Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): African Americans; Black Nationalism; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations KANSAS CITY TO SAINT LOUIS, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaving k.C. Mo. Past independence past liberty Subject(s): United States; America KANSAS CITY TO SAINT LOUIS, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaving k.C. Mo. Past independence past liberty Last Line: Highway spanning highway, %bridged from suburb to suburb Subject(s): United States 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 KATORI MARU, OCTOBER 1920, by JAMES MASAO MITSUI Poem Source First Line: Two weeks across a strange sea Last Line: On the gray sidewalks of america Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations KEARNY AT SEVEN PINES [MAY 31, 1862], by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So that soldierly legend is still on its journey Last Line: Line. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Kearny, Philip (1814-1862); Memorial Day; Patriotism; Seven Pines, Battle Of (1862); United States - History; Declaration Day; Fair Oaks, Battle Of (1862) KEENAN'S CHARGE, by GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun had set Last Line: That saved the army at chancellorsville. Subject(s): American Civil War; Cavalry; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Holidays; Keenan, Peter (1834-1863); Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day KENTUCKY BELLE, by CONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer of 'sixty-three, sir, and conrad was gone away Last Line: Ah! We've had many horses since, but never a horse like her! Subject(s): American Civil War; Kentucky; Morgan, John Hunt (1825-1864); United States - History KILLED AT THE FORD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is dead, the beautiful youth Last Line: And the neighbors wondered that she should die. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History; War KING COMMITTEE', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm the nice demure congressional committee Last Line: Stick my tongue, a mite sarcastic, in my cheek Subject(s): United States – Congress; Wit & Humor KINGED, by SHALIN HAI-JEW Poem Source First Line: Crumpled like an embroidered pillowcase Last Line: Into her blood for it to be creeping %so slowly now. So red.Black Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations KISS ASS, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kissass is the part of peace Subject(s): United States; America KISS ASS, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kissass is the part of peace Last Line: Only pathway to peace, kissass Subject(s): United States KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I always like summer / best Last Line: And sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): African Americans; Americans; Appalachia; Family Life; Knoxville, Tennessee; Summer; United States; Women; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives; America 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 KONG BREAKS A LEG AT THE WILLIAM MORRIS AGENCY, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: First, this one: peetah, peetah, peetah! Last Line: Imagine you're pearl harbour, I said inscrutably Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States KOSCIUSKO (ON THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS AID TO AMERICA), by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: West point has many monuments of note Last Line: And in the land of william tell ... Met death. Subject(s): Kosciuszko, Thaddeus (1746-1817); United States - Military Academy LA MIGRA, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's play la migra Last Line: You do not understand / get ready Subject(s): Mexican Border; United States – Immigration & Emigration LA MIGRA, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's play la migra Last Line: You do not understand %get ready Subject(s): Chicanos; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LA NUIT AMERICAINE, by MARK SULLIVAN Poem Source First Line: The american night throws shadows Last Line: A white lie, not fooling anyone Subject(s): Automobiles; Night; United States LA PUCELLE DE VERCHERES, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Name of heaven! 'no woman, 'you say, 'may be Last Line: But to test our own was madeleine's soul lent us from heaven an hour. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Religion; United States - Colonial Period; Women; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Theology LABYRINTH OF HEARING, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: Sound, no Last Line: The labyrinth of hearing Subject(s): Cuba; Ethnic Groups - United States; Poetry And Poets; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration LACKAWANNA ELEGY, by IWAN GOLL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: America %the tongues of your rivers burn with thirst Last Line: In the rose-garden of your sick soul %the holocaust waits to begin Alternate Author Name(s): Goll, Yvan Subject(s): Exiles; United States; World War Ii LADY IN THE PINK MUSTANG, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun goes down for hours, taking more of her along Last Line: Until we're even. Until the last %coin is rubbed for luck and spent. %I don't sell for nothing less Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Popular Culture - United States LAKOTA SISTER/CHEROKEE MOTHER, by VICTORIA LENA MANYARROWS Poem Source First Line: We are both from the center of the continent Last Line: That no one could understand Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LAMENTING THE INEVITABLE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world dances with hate Last Line: Of the burning world Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LAMENTING THE INEVITABLE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world dances with hate Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LANDSCAPE WITH BARNS, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The barns like scarlet lungs are breathing in Subject(s): United States; America LANGUAGE LESSON 1976, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When americans say a man Subject(s): Americans; Language; Play; United States; Words; Vocabulary; America LANGUAGE LESSON 1976, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When americans say a man Last Line: And let me be %the one you never hold Subject(s): Americans; Language; Play; United States LANGUAGE OF GREAT-AUNTS, by ALBERTO ALVARO RIOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The great-aunts have a corner, and wrinkled skin Last Line: Later we stay tight, and pull in mirrors at our strong skin Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LAST CENTURY, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last century we took a lot of shots Subject(s): United States - History LAST GOOD WAR-AND AFTERWARD, by ISABEL JOSHLIN GLASER Poem Source First Line: We saved enough tinfoil Last Line: To love again, later Subject(s): United States LAST WOLF, by MARY TALLMOUNTAIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The last wolf hurried toward me Last Line: I know what they have done Alternate Author Name(s): Randle, Mary Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LAST WORD, by AMINA BARAKA Poem Source First Line: I'd rather my fist be made of steel Last Line: Be at least as mighty as the sword Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LAUGHING GAS, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: It was near the coliseum, rko Last Line: Laugh before breakfast, %cry before dinner Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LAUNCH; A FEDERAL SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye sons of columbia, your ardour display Last Line: To bravely oppose the proud foes of our nation Subject(s): Merrimack (ship); Navy - United States LAUS DEO!, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is done! / clang of bell and roar of gun Last Line: Who alone is lord and god! Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; God; Patriotism; United States - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty LAVENDER WINDOWPANES AND WHITE CURTAINS, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: Lavender window panes! They are like a pedigree of nobility Last Line: Homesick for earth Subject(s): New York City - Colonial Period; United States 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 LE MARAIS DU CYNGE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A blush as of roses Last Line: The march of the day. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Marais Du Cygne (river), Kansas; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs 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 LEARNING TO READ, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Very soon the yankee teachers / came down and set up school Last Line: As the queen upon her throne. Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Americans; Bible; Schools; Slavery; Southern States; United States; Students; Serfs; South (u.s.); America LEAVE, O LEAVE THEM WHERE THEY FELL, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From their far hesperides Last Line: Leave, o leave them where they fell! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): France; Soldiers; United States; War; America LEAVES, by SAM HAMOD Poem Source First Line: Tonight, sally and I are making stuffed Last Line: Though it seems so late Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LECOMPTON'S BLACK BRIGADE, by CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Single-handed, and surrounded by lecompton's Last Line: Through all the coming years. Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Miles Subject(s): Democratic Party (u.s.); Douglas, Stephen A. (1813-1861); Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Political Conventions; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs LED AND RULED?, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: English led and english ruled'! Last Line: That herald peace, outshining mars! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): England; Leadership; United States; English; America LEDA'S CHILDREN, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The swan honking of the woman Last Line: Shit she leaves behind, only to %step, once more, in my own Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States LEE TO THE REAR [MAY 12, 1864], by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn of a pleasant morning in may Last Line: The gray-bearded man in the black slouched hat. Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, John Randolph Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); Memorial Day; Patriotism; United States - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864); Declaration Day LEFT BANK JAZZ SOCIETY, by AFAA MICHAEL WEAVER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Freddie hubbard's music Last Line: Black and black -sweet Alternate Author Name(s): Weaver, Michael S. Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LEGACIES, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her grandmother called her from the playground Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Ethnic Groups - United States; Grandparents; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers LEGACIES, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her grandmother called her from the playground Last Line: Said what they meant %and I guess nobody ever does Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Ethnic Groups - United States; Grandparents; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LENOX HILL, by AGHA SHAHID ALI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hun so loved the cry, one falling elephant's Last Line: When I remember you – beyond all accounting o my mother? Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration LES ONCLES, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Snow on the roof but fire in the cellar' Last Line: I had learned enough of that language to ask %'but didn't you use the familiar?' Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - 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 LET THREE DAYS PASS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the one released from feeling Last Line: Showering every two hours and scrubbing their hair. Subject(s): Nuclear Accidents; Popular Culture - United States; Television; Chernobyl; Three Mile Island; Tv LETTER TO A CRETAN FLUTE-MAKER, by JUSTIN VITIELLO Poem Source First Line: We have not forgotten you but here they have you pretend to work Last Line: There are no peasants here, but my son is learning how to swim and play the flute Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LETTER TO MOTHER, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was good. You found your america. It was worth all Last Line: But there will be no america discovered by analogy Subject(s): Letters; Mothers; United States; America LETTER TO MOTHER, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was good. You found your america. It was worth all Last Line: But there will be no americas discovered by analogy Subject(s): Letters; Mothers; United States LETTER TO THE FRONT: 8, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evening bringing me out of the government building, Subject(s): War; Freedom; United States; Liberty; America LETTER TO THE FRONT: 9, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among all the waste there are the intense stories Subject(s): United States - Politics & Government; Women & War 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 LIBERACE, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It took generations to mature Subject(s): Liberace, Lee (1919-1987); Popular Culture - United States LIBERACE, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It took generations to mature Last Line: Knows. Thank you, it breathes %with ointment in its voice, %thank you very much Subject(s): Liberace, Lee (1919-1987); Popular Culture - United States 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 LIBERTY TREE, by THOMAS PAINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a chariot of light from the regions of day Last Line: In defence of our liberty tree. Subject(s): American Revolution; Freedom; United States - Continental Congress; War; Liberty LIFE, MCKENZIE, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: This is the envelope, my gap-toothed friend Last Line: Let them make for you a new exasperation Subject(s): Jews - 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 LIGHT ON THE PEWTER DISH, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Driving across the huge bridge Last Line: During the thirty years' war Subject(s): Navy - United States; War 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); LILIES OF THE FIELD, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The road is full of people Last Line: And her english has much improved Subject(s): United States - Immigration & Emigration 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 ADDRESSED TO MRS. H.B. STOWE ON HER VISIT TO GLASGOW, 1853, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lady, to thee, to fortune, and to fame Last Line: Shall meet theenot on earth; our goal's the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896); Temperance; Antislavery Movement - United States; Prohibition LINES FOR A FLAG RAISING CEREMONY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Full many a flag the breeze has kissed Last Line: Our flag shall sink into the dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Flags - United States; American Flag LINES ON THE BACK OF A CONFEDERATE NOTE, by SAMUEL ALROY JONAS Poem Text First Line: Representing nothing on god's earth now Last Line: Like our hope of success it has passed. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Patriotism; United States - History; Confederacy 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 LINES TO A FRIEND VISITING AMERICA, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now farewell to you! You are Last Line: To england, and to me my friend. Subject(s): England; United States; War; English; America LINES TO MARY ELLIOT FLANERY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As your eager eyes peruse Last Line: Live long your principles to prove. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States LINES UPON THE DEATH OF CHARLEY DU BIGNON, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The years of manhood had not tinged Last Line: The laurel wreath of fame. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Soldiers; United States - History; Dead, The LINES WRITTEN NEAR SAN FRANCISCO, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wake and feel the city trembling. Subject(s): Caruso, Enrico (1873-1921); United States; Social Commentaries; America 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) LISTENEN TO BIG BLACK AT S.F. STATE, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No mo meetings Last Line: Loud with blk/nation/hood %builden Subject(s): Americans; United States LITERALLY, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Abortion was merely a metaphor Last Line: I am now trying my best to ignore Subject(s): Abortion; Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States LITERARY IMPORTATION, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: However we wrangled with britain awhile Subject(s): Great Britain; United States LITTLE GIFFEN, by FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the focal and foremost fire Last Line: "for ""little giffen,"" of tennessee." Variant Title(s): Little Giffen Of Tennessee Subject(s): American Civil War; Giffen, Isaac Newton (1847-1865); Heroism; Murfreesboro, Battle Of (1862); Patriotism; United States - History; Giffen, Isaac; Heroes; Heroines 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 MAID OF FAR JAPAN, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Little maid upon my fan Last Line: Do you like this other place? Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese; Children; January; Japanese In The United States; Childhood 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) LIVING ALONE WITH JESUS, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can it be %I am the only jew residing in danville, kentucky Last Line: Out of your damaged hands Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Jews; Kentucky; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LIVING IN AMERICA, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Living in america,' / the intelligent people at harvard say, Subject(s): United States; America LIVING IN CHESTON, by CYNTHIA RYLANT Poem Source Last Line: There's nothing more, %but me and this frozen town %that somebody's been dreaming %into life Subject(s): United States LO! HE WOULD LIFT THE BURDEN, by WILLIAM DUDLEY FOULKE Poem Source Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) LOGAN AT PEACH TREE CREEK; A VETERAN'S STORY [JULY 20, 1864], by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You know that day at peach tree creek Last Line: As on the day mcpherson died. Subject(s): American Civil War; Atlanta Campaign (1864); Logan, John Alexander (1826-1886); Mcpherson, James Birdseye (1828-1864); United States - History LOLLAPALOSER, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: So your second marriage is not sad Last Line: About your being the milkman's daughter Subject(s): Working Class - United States LONELINESS OF LINCOLN, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At mount rushmore I look up into one Last Line: And he looked me in the eye and he said, alone Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): United States LONELY TYLENOL, by PETER GIZZI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You have to begin somewhere Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States LONELY TYLENOL, by PETER GIZZI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have to begin somewhere Last Line: There there. No place like home Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States LONG I THOUGHT THAT KNOWLEDGE ALONE WOULD SUFFICE ME, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It is to be enough for each of us that we are together—we never separate again Subject(s): United States; Poetry & Poets; Conduct Of Life LONG ISLAND SOUND, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see it as it looked one afternoon Last Line: All these fair sounds and sights I made my own. Subject(s): Americans; Long Island Sound; United States; America 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) LOOK TO THE END, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The german empire is no more Last Line: O, god!and we've been proud! Subject(s): Disasters; Germany; Lusitania (ship); Shipwrecks; United States; War; Germans; America LOOK WITHIN, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, let me not be silent while we fight Last Line: While worm-infested, rotten through within! Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Fascism & Fascists; Racism; United States; World War Ii; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; America; Second World War LOSING FOOTING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Did your father's breathing become the rasping Last Line: As you lifted your palms to the light? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States 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 LOST AND FOUND, by MAXINE CHERNOFF Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am looking for the photo that would make all the difference in my life. It's Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration LOST NAME WOMAN, by SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM Poem Source First Line: Mississippi china woman Last Line: Who will feed you when you die Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations LOST PARENTS, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It takes a fast car / to lead a double life Subject(s): Modern Man; Popular Culture - United States LOST PARENTS, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It takes a fast car %to lead a double life Last Line: For lost parents %their own age Subject(s): Modern Man; Popular Culture - United States LOT'S WIFE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The last time we cast shadows %on the wall Last Line: And god, his mouth, his wet mouth, %always the taste of Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States LOVE IN AMERICA, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever it is, it's a passion Subject(s): Americans; Modern Life; United States; America LOVE IN AMERICA, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever it is, it's a passion Last Line: Whatever it is, let it be without %affectation %yes, yes, yes, yes Subject(s): Americans; Life, Modern; United States LOVE POEM FOR MY BROTHER, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: You were so cool %so handsome in a white t-shirt Last Line: She lied. I'm sorry you were up there when momma died Subject(s): Working Class - United States LULLABY, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Your hands resting %against my scalp Last Line: Wind blowing in %colder than your kiss Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States LUNCH WITH GIRL SCOUTS, by SHARON BRYAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These ten-year-olds all want other names Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States LYRICS FOR THE BRIDE OF GOD: 2. AMERICA: SEEN AS A BIRD, by NATHANIEL TARN Poem Source First Line: The light in the skull of the bird Last Line: Slow fall to grasses like the dying snow Subject(s): Birds; United States MACARONI, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis made of the flour of wheat, so they say Last Line: And don't you forget the chianti! Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Food & Eating; Italian Americans; New York City; Pasta; Restaurants; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Spaghetti; Lasagna; Noodles; Macaroni; Cafes; Diners MADAM'S PAST HISTORY, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My name is johnson Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; United States; Negroes; American Blacks; America MADAM'S PAST HISTORY, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My name is johnson Last Line: I do cooking, %day's work, too ! %alberta k. Johnson %madam to you Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; United States MADAME LA GRIPPE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the seas meet the land, and the land quits the seas Last Line: So providence shield us from madame la grippe! Subject(s): Cities; Sickness; United States; Urban Life; Illness; America MADISON'S VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all ye madisonian's, ye have now gain'd your pitch Last Line: And for free commerce on the sea, %to columbia's sons Subject(s): Navy - United States; War Of 1812 MAFIOSO, by SANDRA M. GILBERT Poem Source First Line: Frank costello eating spaghetti in a cell at san quentin Last Line: To grind the organs out of you Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MAIL KING, by PAUL B. JANECZKO Poem Source First Line: Edward macdermott %came back from wwii Last Line: Me a catalog of garden supplies Subject(s): United States MAIL ORDER CATALOGS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pewter loons, ceramic bunnies, and faux bamboo Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MAIL ORDER CATALOGS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pewter loons, ceramic bunnies, and faux bamboo Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Popular Culture - 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 MALCOLM IS 'BOUT MORE THAN WEARING A CAP, by MICHAEL WARR Poem Source First Line: The problem is not the letter x Last Line: Only we can malcolm the x Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MALVERN HILL [JULY 1, 1862], by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye elms that wave on malvern hill Last Line: Leaves must be green in spring. Subject(s): American Civil War; Malvern Hill, Battle Of (1862); United States - History MAMA, COME BACK, by NELLIE WONG Poem Source Last Line: As warmly as you hugged strangers Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MAMA: 1. RICE CHILD, by CLAIRE KAGEYAMA Poem Source First Line: She is the lady %who microwaves tea Last Line: The last child to taste her rice candy Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MAMA: 2. THE MARRIAGE, by CLAIRE KAGEYAMA Poem Source First Line: Her marriage was arranged Last Line: And demanded a new wife Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MAMA: 3. FAMILY, by CLAIRE KAGEYAMA Poem Source First Line: She and her husband moved Last Line: Dropped in letters and flags Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MAMA: 4. HER WISH, by CLAIRE KAGEYAMA Poem Source First Line: During the fifties Last Line: As she cried, 'I want to die Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MAMA: 5. HER GIFT, by CLAIRE KAGEYAMA Poem Source First Line: In september %I became a woman Last Line: She is my obaachan Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MAN FOR MARY, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: One who wouldn't dream of insisting Last Line: Mary loves house plants, lots of windows, lots of light Subject(s): Working Class - United States MAN I LOVE AND I SHOP AT JEWEL, by JIM ELLEDGE Poem Source First Line: Untouched, the door swings open before us, and-voila!-we're in the produce Last Line: Universe, I belt out I feel pretty, oh, so retty in the best ethel merman I can %muster Subject(s): Popular Culture - 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) MAN SHE CALLED HONEY, AND MARRIED, by ALBERTO ALVARO RIOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In her hands she holds Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MAN WHO TOUCHED THE TWELVE-ARMED GODDESS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: I am clever,' says the man. 'the guards Last Line: Curving ram's horns, necklace of claws, tiger teeth Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States MANASSAS [JULY 21, 1861], by CATHERINE ANNE WARFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They have met at last - as storm-clouds Last Line: At manassas. Alternate Author Name(s): Warfield, Catherine M. Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Manassas, Batlle Of; Declaration Day MANE STORY, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Straight hair, black hair, brown hair, coarse hair, horse hair Last Line: Over paper is the sound of seeds tumbling inside a dry gourd Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Ethnic Identity; Native Americans - Women MANHATTAN ARMING, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First o songs for a prelude Last Line: But now you smile with joy exulting old mannahatta. Variant Title(s): Drum-taps Subject(s): American Civil War; New York City - 19th Century; Soldiers; United States - History MANHATTAN LULLABY, by RACHEL (LYMAN) FIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now lighted windows climb the dark Last Line: And boys like you are born Subject(s): United States MANHATTAN THIRTIES FLASH, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long stone streets inanimate, repetitive machine crash cookie-cutting Subject(s): New York City; United States; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; America MANHATTAN THIRTIES FLASH, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long stone streets inanimate, repetitive machine crash cookie-cutting Last Line: Con edison skyscraper clock-head gleaming gold-lit at sun dusk Subject(s): New York City; United States MANHATTAN'S DEAR ISLE; U.S.S. RELIEF, CALLAO, PERU, 1843, by W. F. SPICER Poem Source First Line: Tis the evening of christmas, the maskers have met Last Line: Until from the land of the stranger she's borne, %and anchors once more near manhattan's dear isle Subject(s): Christmas; Navy - United States MANHATTAN, 1609, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where now the bells of trinity are heard Last Line: Up went the flag of holland like a flame! Subject(s): New York City; Sea Voyages; Tourists; United States - History; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple MANNEQUINS, by DANIEL MARK EPSTEIN Poem Source First Line: This indecent procession of the undead Last Line: Kiss me, you desecration of a man Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MANTLE, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mantle ran so hard, they said Subject(s): Baseball; Mantle, Mickey (1931-1995); Popular Culture - United States; Sports MANTLE, by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mantle ran so hard, they said Last Line: Now a fastball, now a slow %curve hanging %like a model's smile Subject(s): Baseball; Mantle, Mickey (1931-1995); Popular Culture - United States; Sports MARCHING SONG, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When pershing's men go marching into picardy Last Line: And pershing's men are marching, marching into picardy. Subject(s): Army - United States; World War I; First World War MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA, by HENRY CLAY WORK Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Bring the good old bugle boys, we'll sing another song Last Line: While we were marching through georgia. Subject(s): American Civil War; Georgia (state); Holidays; Memorial Day; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History; Declaration Day MARILYN MONROE INDIAN, by LEO ROMERO Poem Source Last Line: Out by zuni %or someplace Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MARINES' HYMN, by L. Z. PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: From the halls of montezuma Last Line: They will find the streets are guarded %by the united states marines Subject(s): Marines - United States; Patriotism MARINES' HYMN [OR, SONG], by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: From the halls of montezuma Last Line: They will find the streets are guarded by %the united states marines Subject(s): Marines - United States; Navy - United States MARIO SAVIO, by CARL STILLWELL Poem Source First Line: There was a time Last Line: Mario savio %presente! Subject(s): United States 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 MARTHY VIRGINIA'S HAND [SEPTEMBER 17, 1862], by GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There, on the left!' said the colonel; the battle had shuddered Last Line: See! There is lifted the hand of a baby -- marthy virginia's hand! Subject(s): American Civil War; Antietam, Battle Of (1862); United States - History MARTIN AND MY FATHER, by DAVID HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: Martin was too peaceful for me Last Line: That martin, %he was something else Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MARTIN LUTHER KING, by AILEEN FISHER Poem Source First Line: Because he took a stand for peace Last Line: Of martin luther king Subject(s): United States 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 MORELLE SHOW, by DENISE NICO LETO Poem Source First Line: My aunt maria %had a show Last Line: But did anyone %really know %her Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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 MATINEE, by SUSAN CLEMENTS Poem Source First Line: Two o'clock on a saturday afternoon in november Last Line: And wounded bird. Pretend, pretend. You glitter as you fall Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MAY-81, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I was leaving my ninth year Last Line: With hair of coiling flames %each turned away his face Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - 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 SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: In school, I kept my papers neat Last Line: And I did %god help me, I did Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States 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) MEETING YOU AT THE PIERS, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should like to describe amerika to you Subject(s): United States; New York City; Immigrants; Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration 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) MEMORLAE POSITUM; R. G. S., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the trees Last Line: And die as thine have done! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History MEMORY GARDENS, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Covered with yellow leaves / in morning rain Subject(s): United States; America MEMORY GARDENS, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Covered with yellow leaves %in morning rain Last Line: Everything else, drunken %dumbshow Subject(s): United States 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 MEN: 1, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I saw black men Last Line: Holding their own Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MEN: 2, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our streets filled Last Line: Headlines ourselves Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MEN: 3, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the world Last Line: We jab and swing Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MEN: 4, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black men Last Line: Black hearts, black %hands Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MEN: 5, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young men Last Line: Just big enough %for love Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MENOPAUSE, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: I dreamed I had an alligator belly Last Line: To help me cut off this huge, bloody growth %hanging out of my crotch Subject(s): Working Class - United States MENTAL HORIZONS: 5. PROFESSOR WHITEPRIDE-RACE PREJUDICE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Anon approaches a critical sage Last Line: "whether jap or german, swede or kurd!" Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry MERCY AND THE BRAZOS RIVER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poet's Biography First Line: My great-greats came to hardscrabble plains Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Prairies - Texas; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Plains - Texas MERICN FST FD, by THOM TAMMARO Poem Source First Line: Sld bar 1.99+drnk Last Line: All u care 2 eat Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MERMAID (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: On friday morn we set sail Last Line: And the land lubbers lying down below Subject(s): Navy - United States MERRY CREW, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: The boiler boys below decks Last Line: Set course against the wind Subject(s): Jews - United States MIAMI HEART, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a long text, on live tv, in an amphitheater, in the soil Last Line: One writes with one's desire. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Discontent; Popular Culture - United States; Writing & Writers; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dissatisfaction MID-YEAR REPORT: FOR HARUKO, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By this time / 20,000 tusti had been slaughtered Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MID-YEAR REPORT: FOR HARUKO, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By this time %20,000 tusti had been slaughtered Last Line: Remember what %exactly Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MIDNIGHT VIGIL, by FRAN HARAWAY Poem Source First Line: At twelve o'clock midnight, the lights are cut Last Line: That liberty must never, ever sleep Subject(s): 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 MIDWIFE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Fingers a pelvis model %thrust on a stick like sculpture Last Line: Clatters his trucks, like anybody's son Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States 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) MIKEY LIKES IT, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: The way I wait on him Last Line: Mikey will give you our key Subject(s): Working Class - United States MILAREPA TASTE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Who am I? Saliva Subject(s): United States; America MILAREPA TASTE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who am I? Saliva Last Line: Light as ashes Subject(s): United States MILITARISM, by DERRICK NORMAN LEHMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like molten lava down the mountain steep Last Line: With nineveh, with tyre and babylon. Subject(s): Army - United States; Army Life; Militarism; War; Drills & Minor Tactics MILK COW BLUES, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: I never once saw dad kiss momma Last Line: It had to be %some kind of love Subject(s): Working Class - United States MINORITY REPORT, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My beloved land Last Line: You are the only land Subject(s): United States; America MINORITY REPORT, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My beloved land Last Line: You are the only land Subject(s): United States 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) MIRANDA'S SUPPER (VIRGINIA, 1866), by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the solemn portico's Last Line: Nothing is lost! Nothing is lost! Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History MISGIVINGS (1860), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When ocean-clouds over inland hills Last Line: The hemlock shakes in the rafter, the oak in the driving keel. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History MISGUIDED ANGELS, by GALE RENEE WALDEN Poem Source First Line: That summer the women sat on their porches Last Line: To become on our way to love Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MISS CLEMENT'S SECOND GRADE, by MARYFRANCES WAGNER Poem Source First Line: They sat in even rows Last Line: They didn't mind her italian name Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MISS SALLY'S WISDOM, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Chiniman say yu put purse pon ground Last Line: Up against yu chest. But remember, %wanty wanty no getty getty Subject(s): Women Immigrants - United States 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) MNEMONIC, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was tired. So I lay down Last Line: Once, I was cold. So my father took off his blue sweater Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MODERN MOSES, OR 'MY POLICY' MAN, by JAMES MADISON BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a tide in men's affairs Last Line: And the wonderful star of a wonderful age! Subject(s): Freedom; Johnson, Andrew (1808-1875); United States - Reconstruction (1865-1877); Liberty MODERN SECRETS, by SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM Poem Source First Line: Last night I dreamt in chinese Last Line: And hides still in the cupboard %with the china and tea-leaves Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MOLOCH IN STATE STREET, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon has set: while yet the dawn Last Line: God of the free! Subject(s): Boston; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Pilgrim Fathers; Antislavery Movement - United States MOM DID MARILYN, DAD DID FRED, by JACK MYERS Poem Source First Line: We sat there, her tiny audience Last Line: To have other notions of beauty Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MOMENT, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A person wakes from sleep Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration MONTEREY [SEPTEMBER 23, 1846], by CHARLES FENNO HOFFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We were not many, we who stood Last Line: Than not have been at monterey? Subject(s): Monterey, Battle Of (1846); Patriotism; Taylor, Zachary (1784-1850); United States - Mexican War (1846-1848) MOON WINX MOTEL, by EMILY HIESTAND Poem Source First Line: The moon winx with its neon eyes and sly smile Last Line: And one unknown: the so-called, still secret: 7x Subject(s): Hotels; Popular Culture - United States MORE OPPOSITES: 33, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the opposite of missouri? Last Line: In massachusetts, anyway Subject(s): English Language; Synonyms & Antonyms; United States MOSBY AT HAMILTON, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down loudon lanes, with swinging reins Last Line: She would not scorn to bury. Subject(s): American Civil War; Mosby, John Singleton (1833-1916); United States - History MOST BRILLIANT NAVAL VICTORY ON LAKE ERIE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: John bull in old times, thought each yankee a dunce Last Line: The huzza for yankees. They're brave and they're free. %huzza for columbia! 'sailors' rights' - libe Subject(s): Lake Erie, Battle Of; Navy - United States; Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819); War Of 1812 MOTHER, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: What were the angels' demands? Last Line: One by one, pulled from sleeping hands Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States MOTHER LOVE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I know what she knew Last Line: Moon still in its place. The water on the table Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States 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 MOTORCYCLISTS, by JAMES TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My cuticles are a mess. Oh honey, by the way Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MOTOWN/ SMOKEY ROBINSON, by JESSICA TARAHATA HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hey girl, how long you been here? Last Line: Strong now / you really gotta hold on me ... Alternate Author Name(s): Hagedorn, Jessica Variant Title(s): Motown / Smokey Robinson Subject(s): Popular Culture - 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) MOUTH OF THE HUDSON, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A single man stands like a bird-watcher Last Line: Of the unforgivable landscape Subject(s): Americans; United States MOUTHFUL OF SAND, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: I gave up on words when my daughter died Last Line: In a new language only the two of us know Subject(s): Jews - United States MOVING, SELS., by SAM HAMOD Poem Source First Line: So we move now Last Line: Grandfathers -- grandmothers -- fathers Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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) MUGFORD'S VICTORY, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our mother, the pride of us all Last Line: And who brought him, though dead, to his own! Subject(s): American Revolution; Mugford, James; Navy - United States; Sea Battles; American Navy; Naval Warfare MUSIC, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I rest for a moment near the equestrian Subject(s): Americans; New York City; United States; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; America MUSIC, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I rest for a moment near the equestrian Last Line: But no more fountains and no more rain, %and the stores stay open terribly late Subject(s): Americans; New York City; United States MY AMERICA, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: More famed than rome, as splendid as old greece Last Line: For all the earth, till every man and child be free! Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America MY AUTUMN WALK, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On woodlands ruddy with autumn Last Line: Roslyn, october, 1'64. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History MY COUNTRY, by FRANK CRANE Poem Source First Line: I am an american Subject(s): United States MY COUNTRY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mysterious, my country! -- she abides Last Line: With their dull shadows lying on the hills. Subject(s): United States; America MY COUNTRY NEED NOT CHANGE HER GOWN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That taunts her bayonet. Subject(s): Patriotism; United States MY COUNTRY'S FLAG, by JUNIATA STAFFORD Poem Text First Line: This is my country's flag Last Line: Will ever be my joy. Subject(s): Flags - United States; American Flag MY COUNTRY, 'TIS OF THEE, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My country, 'tis of thee %sweet land of felony Last Line: Whips to the quakers hide %and made him spring! Subject(s): United States MY DADDY'S TATTOO, by RICHARD SCHAAF Poem Source First Line: Goose-stepping over the pacific Last Line: And I spy you, huge and global %flying at half-mast Subject(s): Navy - United States; Politics MY FATHER AND THE FIGTREE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For other fruits my father was indifferent Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations MY FATHER AND THE FIGTREE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For other fruits my father was indifferent Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MY FATHER'S CORNET, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The parched leather case, flecked in the corners Last Line: To. We never learned much more Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States MY FATHER'S HANDS, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: It's a school night. While I get ready for bed Last Line: Raising me like a glass of wine Subject(s): Jews - United States MY FATHER'S PORNOGRAPHY, by DAVID WOJAHN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The semiotics not of sex but of concealment, the lessons Last Line: His first solid food in weeks Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MY FIRST RIOT: BRONX, NYC, by SAFIYA HENDERSON-HOLMES Poem Source First Line: We are ten, two %boys and a girl Last Line: Not far enough away Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MY KINSMAN, by CARLOS DAY Poem Source First Line: Dead! %the one word sped Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) MY MARYLAND, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The despot's heel is on thy shore Last Line: Maryland, my maryland! Variant Title(s): Maryland! My Maryland;maryland Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Maryland; Patriotism; State Rights; United States - History; Liberty; Secession MY MOTHER-LAND, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother-land! Thou wert the first to fling Last Line: A prelude and a prophecy combined! Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; United States - History; Confederacy MY NATIVE LAND, by CARLOS STUART Poem Text First Line: Though brighter beams may gild the shore Last Line: Profane my own, my native land! Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America MY PARENTS BUY A BURIAL PLOT, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: It took her fifteen years to get him Last Line: I'll be in hell if she's been right all along Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States MY PEOPLE ARE THE COLOR OF THE EARTH, by ALMA LUZ VILLANUEVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You cannot leave / my aunt's house Last Line: Offended. Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations MY POEM, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am 25 years old Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): Americans; United States; America MY POEM, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am 25 years old Last Line: If I never do %anything %it will go on Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Subject(s): Americans; United States MY RICH UNCLE, WHOM I ONLY MET THREE TIMES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were never invited to his house Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Jewish Families; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MY RICH UNCLE, WHOM I ONLY MET THREE TIMES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were never invited to his house Last Line: His last trick was to vanish himself forever Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Jewish Families; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MY RINGLESS FINGERS ON THE STEERING WHEEL TELL THE STORY, by LAURA BOSS Poem Source First Line: Never before without a ring Last Line: My fingers never looked so free Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations MY SISTER BELIEVES IN MIRACLES, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: The latest of which %is a short, bald, fifty-year-old italian Last Line: He believes in jesus Subject(s): Working Class - United States MY SISTER CALLS, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: To say she's lost weight Last Line: And I tell her I'm writing %just as fast as I can Subject(s): Working Class - United States MY SON SHOWS ME A PHOTOGRAPH OF MICHAEL JORDAN PERFORMING A SLAM DUNK, by LOUIS PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: What would jung make of such levitation? Last Line: Do anything this certain, any of us Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MY STATE-SOUTH DAKOTA, by ROBERTA ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: Mine is a state of prairie loveliness Last Line: the argus leader Subject(s): South Dakota; United States; America MY WIFE AND CHILD, by HENRY R. JACKSON Poem Text First Line: The tattoo beats - the lights are gone Last Line: O god, protect my wife and child! Subject(s): Consolation; United States - Mexican War (1846-1848) MYTHOLOGY, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Penelope as a garcon manque Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States MYTHOLOGY, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Penelope as a garcon manque Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States NAAYAWVA TAAWI, by WENDY ROSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Left in the field Last Line: See, pahana, how we nest %in your ruins Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations NABBY, THE NEW YORK HOUSEKEEPER, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, nanny, I am sorry to find, since you write us Last Line: The beefe is half rawand the bell rings for dinner! Subject(s): Friendship; Housekeeping; New York City - Revolutionary Period; United States - Congress NAMING, by GIOVANNA (JANET) CAPONE Poem Source First Line: Meant my grandfathers dominic and donato Last Line: The more I insist %on possessing %entirely who I am Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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 NANI, by ALBERTO ALVARO RIOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting at her table, she serves Last Line: Even before I speak, she serves Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations NARRATIVE OF THE VISION OF OUR LADY OF ARMEIRO, by NATHANIEL TARN Poem Text First Line: The photograph of our lady of armeiro has been placed Last Line: Have we ever known of any death so measured and so rigorous? Subject(s): Death; Memory; Old Age; Photography & Photographers; United States; Dead, The; America NAT LOVE: BLACK COWBOY, by LEE BENNETT HOPKINS Poem Source First Line: Whoever heard of a black cowboy? Last Line: A slave born down in tennessee Subject(s): United States NATION AND WORLD, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glory of our country Last Line: Nation of mankind! Subject(s): United States; America 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) NATIONAL ODE, JULY 4, 1876, SELS., by BAYARD TAYLOR Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Flags - United States; Freedom NATIONAL ODE; INDEPENDENCE SQUARE, PHILADELPHIA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sun of the stately day Last Line: And the greater task, for thee to live! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Variant Title(s): Centennial Ode Subject(s): United States - Centennial Celebrations NATIONAL SONG, by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: America, my own! Last Line: Imperial to save! Subject(s): National Song - United States; American National Anthem NATIVE PRIDE, by ALICIA SWIMMER Poem Source First Line: This is something on my mind Last Line: Or experience crazy horse's wrath Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Ethnic Identity; Racism NAVAL ACADEMY GRADUATE'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: We're gathered now, my class-mates, to chant our parting song Last Line: To the memory of annapolis and our alma mater o! Subject(s): Navy - United States; U.s. - Naval Academy NAVAL PHOTOGRAPH: 25 OCTOBER 1942: WHAT THE HAND, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reports of a japanese surface presence Last Line: Toward the camera, toward us, for all of the reasons anyone waves. Subject(s): Navy - United States; Photography & Photographers; Waves; World War Ii; American Navy; Second World War NAVAL RECRUITING SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now the president's ready for sea boys Last Line: We'll come back to sal, kate, and poll boys, %and cheer them with a hearty heo ho! Subject(s): Navy - United States NAVAL SONG: RISE COLUMBIA, BRAVE AND FREE, by EDWIN C. HOLLAND Poem Source First Line: When freedom first the triumph sung Last Line: Shall rule the billows of the sea, %and bid defiance to the world Subject(s): Navy - United States; War Of 1812 NAVAL SONG: THE PILLAR OF GLORY, by EDWIN C. HOLLAND Poem Source First Line: Hail to the heroes whose triumphs have brighten'd Last Line: Albion is heartless - and stoops to his glance Subject(s): Navy - United States; War Of 1812 NAVAL VICTORY, BY THE UNITED STATES FIRGATE CONSTITUTION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all ye hardy sailors, and join me in my song Last Line: And so to all our yankee crew, %who british seamen can subdue, %as true yankee boys Subject(s): Bainbridge, William (1774-1833); Constitution (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 NAVY FIELD, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Limped out of the hot sky a hurt plane, Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Navy - United States; Aviation & Aviators; Air Warfare; American Navy; Airplanes; Air Pilots NAY, TELL ME NOT TO-DAY THE PUBLISH'D SHAME, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: All day to these give audience Subject(s): Newspapers; United States NECESSITY, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: You need to live %near the edge of the world Last Line: You need to live on the edge of the world %and, oh, how you need jesus Subject(s): Working Class - United States 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) NEVER LAND, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I don't wish you were Last Line: Reproduce that face %in the oval mirror Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States NEVER OR NOW; AN APPEAL, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, young heroes! Your country is calling! Last Line: Hear the last angel-trump, -- never or now! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History NEW APARTMENT: MINNEAPOLIS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The floorboards creak Last Line: And deer walking quietly on the soft red earth Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Memory; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; U.s. - Race Relations NEW BANNER, by KATRINA TRASK Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: O fellow-citizens of storm-tossed lands Alternate Author Name(s): Trask, Kate Nichols Subject(s): Flags - United States NEW ENGLAND'S GROWTH, by WILLIAM BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: Famine once we had Last Line: If you will take the pains them to seek for. Subject(s): New England; United States - Colonial Period NEW GLORY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old glory is a gallant flag Last Line: New glory means in small. Subject(s): Flags - United States; American Flag NEW HAIL COLUMBIA, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look our ransomed shores around Last Line: Find the many still are one! Variant Title(s): Additional Verses To Hail Columbia Subject(s): United States; America NEW HAMPSHIRE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God bless new hampshire! From her granite peaks Last Line: What one brave state hath done, can ye not also do? Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; New Hampshire; Antislavery Movement - United States NEW NATION, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mountain of white ice Subject(s): United States - History; Native Americans; Massacres; Slavery; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Serfs NEW SONG, by JAMES CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Come all ye yankee heroes, come listen to my song Last Line: Come rouze ye yankee tars, firm united let us be, %resolv'd to fight and conquer for the rights of a Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Navy - United States; War Of 1812 NEWSMAN'S ADDRESS (1784), by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What tempests gloom'd the by-past year Last Line: That wrangling is the life of news Subject(s): Army - United States; News; Newspapers; Sailors And Sailing NICE THING ABOUT COUNTING STARS, by DWIGHT OKITA Poem Source First Line: So my mother begins Last Line: And peg and I hugged it during stormy days Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations NIGHT DRIVING, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: No one selling cherries %at roadside kiosks Last Line: Argument will be over. %two inches Subject(s): Jews - United States 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 NIKKI-ROSA, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Childhood remembrances are always a drag / if you're black Last Line: All the while I was quite happy Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki Variant Title(s): Nikki-roasa Subject(s): African Americans - Children; African Americans - Women; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Women 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 NO CODE; A PREARRANGED AGREEMENT FOR NO LIFE SUPPORT, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: I'm thankful that my brother wasn't drunk Last Line: With my sister over coffee while they waited Subject(s): Working Class - United States NO DEPOSIT NO RETURNS, by CARLOS CUMPIAN Poem Source First Line: While passing through a %pueblito en mexico Last Line: Only koca-capital brings Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States NO, SUPERMAN WAS NOT THE ONLY ONE, by KATHARYN HOWD MACHAN Poem Source First Line: In secret, lois lane wore coins and jewels Last Line: Even from clark she kept her crimbals hid Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States NOCTURNO DE WASHINGTON: 1, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: They called forth the train whistle at midnight Last Line: Blinking and defecating Variant Title(s): Nocturno De Washingto Subject(s): Grief; Railroads; Tourists; Travel; U.s. - History; United States; Washington Monument NORFOLK GIRLS, by W. F. SPICER Poem Source First Line: Our top-sails reef'd and filled away Last Line: Perhaps we'll meet the nofolk girls, %and portsmouth maidens, too Subject(s): Navy - United States NORMA, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a teen-ager I was very shy. I always felt so conspicuous that it Last Line: Then I pulled myself up and turned away; never to agree again Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations NORTH: 1991, by JOHN DUFFRESNE Poem Source First Line: In the euphoria that followed Last Line: Of saws, the rise and fall, %a crackling in the hard wood Subject(s): Air Warfare; News; Nuclear War; United States NORTHERN SOLDIER (1), by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ours not to sleep in shady bowers Subject(s): American Revolution; Army - United States NORTHWARD, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the high unclouded sun Last Line: In dalliance deck the bridal bower. Subject(s): American Civil War; Key West, Florida; United States - History NORTHWEST PASSAGE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Incense under horse heaven hills Last Line: Next to everybody's bank Subject(s): 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) NOT SLEEPING TOO GOOD MYSELF, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: My sister slips up and lets out Last Line: Her caseworker to come to church some sunday Subject(s): Working Class - United States NOT THE PILOT, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not the pilot has charged himself to bring his ship to port Last Line: For a battle-call, rousing to arms if need be, years, centuries hence. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History NOT YET, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O country, marvel of the earth! Last Line: Writes, in men's sight, the answer, no! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History NOTE ON MY SON'S FACE, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight, I look, thunderstruck %at the gold head of my grandchild Last Line: The worst is true. %everything you did not want to know Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Moving And Movers; Refugees; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; U.s. - Race Relations NOTES FOR A POEM ON BEING ASIAN AMERICAN, by DWIGHT OKITA Poem Source First Line: As a child, I was a fussy eater Last Line: And says, 'can you really tell the difference between a chinese and a japanese Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations NOVELTY SHOP, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: More grotesque than a row of laundromats Last Line: Into the sea at the end of the pier Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States NOVEMBER, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Here comes our last storm with thunder Last Line: And the dust that settles in the cleavage %of ripe plums? Subject(s): Autumn; Catholics - United States; Seasons; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States NOW WE SING OF WASHINGTON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) NOW, WHEN, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Outside, the granite field, ringed Last Line: Knowing what he wants Subject(s): Jews - United States NUNS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: When our nun drove the idiot's head into the blackboard Last Line: Not even from thirst, or from hunger Subject(s): Catholics - United States; Nuns; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States NUTCRACKER, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Not to be confused with the little wooden priapus Last Line: Secretly. I clicked her empty legs like castanets Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States 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 MOMMA, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: I come from a real life %soap opera family Last Line: But we're perceptive that way %we know hurt Subject(s): Working Class - United States O NAME FOREVER TO THY COUNTRY DEAR!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) O PIONEERS!, by JOHN PEALE BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white sagebrush desert. Noon Last Line: To ravage, and raving romped from sea to sea Subject(s): Americans; United States O SOUTHLAND!, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O southland! O southland! Last Line: The faint one at his side. Subject(s): African Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; South (u.s.) O THAT SUMMER, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: My sister and I Last Line: To slice our foot on beach glass Subject(s): Working Class - United States O WHITMAN, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O whitman, he was wrong Subject(s): Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); United States 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 (IN HONOR OF THE BRAVERY AND SACRIFICES OF SOLDIERS OF THE SOUTH), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With bayonets slanted in the glittering sun Last Line: Across those lonely desolated graves! Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Courage; Soldiers; United States - History; Confederacy; Valor; Bravery 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 ON THE FACELIFTING OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY, by EDWARD DORN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: America is inconceivable without drugs Subject(s): United States; Narcotics; America ODE TO AMERICA, by MARY P. DENNY Poem Text First Line: America, america! / we chant thy note of praise Last Line: Unto the perfect day! Subject(s): Praise; United States; Wealth; America; Riches; Fortunes 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 THE CONFEDERATE DEAD, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Row after row with strict impunity Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): American Civil War; Cemeteries; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Graveyards; Confederacy ODE TO THE FLAG, by CHARLES C. CRELLIN Poem Source First Line: Stars of the early dawning, set in a field of blue Subject(s): Flags - United States 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) ODE; SUNG BY THE CHILDREN OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, by W. T. ADAMS Poem Text First Line: No more the cannon peal Last Line: And deathless fame. Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Fame; Monuments; United States - History; Dead, The; Reputation OF BEING NUMEROUS, 24, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this nation Subject(s): United States; America OF FLESH AND SPIRIT, by WANG PING Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was a virgin till twenty-three, then always had more than Last Line: Never saw him again. Subject(s): Asian Americans - Chinese; Chinese In The United States 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) OF HISTORY AND HOPE, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: We have memorized america, Last Line: Press. Subject(s): United States - History OF IMMIGRATION, by JUDD TELLER Poem Source First Line: My mother leads me through streets Last Line: Of a little jew Subject(s): Immigrants; Jews - United States OF TIME AND THE LINE, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: George burns likes to insist that he always / takes the straight lines Subject(s): Language Poetry; Popular Culture - United States OF TIME AND THE LINE, by CHARLES BERNSTEIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: George burns likes to insist that he always %takes the straight lines Last Line: An angle but only one lime to make a margarita Subject(s): Language Poetry; Popular Culture - United States OFF FROM SWING SHIFT, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Late, just past midnight Last Line: No one speaks a word Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States OFFSET FOR THE CHESAPEAKE; OR, THE CAPTURE OF FORT GEORGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Bad news was the cry, on the second of june Last Line: For columbians their standard will never disgrace, %nor flinch when their duty the foe bids them fac Subject(s): Fort George, Battle Of (1813); Navy - United States; War Of 1812 OH, FOR A SON OF THY RELENTLESS POWER, by LILBURN HARWOOD TOWNSEND Poem Source Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) OH, I AM A MERRY SAILOR LAD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: I love, I love, I love the dark, blue sea Subject(s): Navy - United States OKLAHOMA AMERICA, by FRANK LIMA Poem Source First Line: The fathers of america Last Line: And neglected %specs of freedom? Subject(s): United States 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 AMUSEMENT PARK (BEFORE IT BECAME LA GUARDIA AIRPORT), by MARIANNE MOORE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hurry, worry, unwary / visitor, never vary Subject(s): Americans; Amusement Parks; United States; America OLD AMUSEMENT PARK (BEFORE IT BECAME LA GUARDIA AIRPORT), by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hurry, worry, unwary %visitor, never vary Last Line: When the triumph is reflective %and confusion, retroactive Subject(s): Americans; Amusement Parks; United States OLD BAWLING HAGS, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: Lonely, horny, divorced Last Line: We split a moon pie and cry Subject(s): Working Class - United States OLD BUILDINGS, by PEDRO PIETRI Poem Source First Line: (1422 amsterdam avenue) %everybody knew Last Line: That were not too expensive Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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) OLD FLAG, by HUBBARD PARKER Poem Text First Line: What shall I say to you, old flag? Last Line: Old flag. Subject(s): Flags - United States; American Flag OLD GLORY, by EMMA FRANCES DAWSON Poem Text First Line: Enchanted web! A picture in the air Last Line: "our hallowed, eloquent, beloved ""old glory""!" Subject(s): Flags - United States; United States - History; American Flag OLD GLORY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing for old glory a jubilant song Last Line: Live and die for old glory. Subject(s): Flags - United States; Patriotism; American Flag OLD GLORY ALOFT, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She's up there - old glory - where lightnings are sped Last Line: She's the flag of our country forever! Variant Title(s): Our Flag Forever;old Flag Forever Subject(s): Flags - United States; American Flag OLD IRONSIDES, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, tear her tattered ensign down Last Line: The lightning and the gale! Subject(s): Americans; Boats; Constitution (ship); Navy - United States; Patriotism; Sea; United States; American Navy; Ocean; America OLD WAR-DREAMS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In midnight sleep of many a face of anguish Last Line: I dream, I dream, I dream. Subject(s): American Civil War; Dreams; United States - History; Nightmares ON, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On yardbird corners of embryonic hopes, drowned in a heroin tear Last Line: On lonely poet corners of low lying leaves & moist prophet eyes Subject(s): Popular Culture United States; Social Commentary 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 ALABAMA AVE., PATERSON, NJ, 1954, by RACHEL GUIDO DEVRIES Poem Source First Line: At seven I dreamed again and again Last Line: On a blue plate, where they clattered like dice Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ON AN AMERICAN SOLDIER OF FORTUNE SLAIN IN FRANCE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You, who sought the great adventure Last Line: In the forest of argonne! Subject(s): Argonne, Battle Of (1918); Army - United States; World War I; First World War ON AN INVITATION TO THE UNITED STATES, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My ardours for emprize nigh lost Last Line: And their experience count as mine. Subject(s): United States; America ON BOARD THE CUMBERLAND, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand to your guns, men!' morris cried Last Line: For those beneath the wave! Variant Title(s): Attack Of The Cumberland Subject(s): American Civil War; Cumberland (ship); Hampton Roads, Virginia; Morris, George Upham; Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship) ON CERTAIN SUNNY SUNDAYS, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: On the way to k-mart Last Line: On certain sunny sundays Subject(s): Working Class - United States 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 LIBERTY AND SLAVERY, by GEORGE MOSES HORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! And am I born for this Last Line: With songs of liberty! Variant Title(s): Liberty And Slavery Subject(s): Americans; Freedom; Slavery; United States; Liberty; Serfs; America 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 NEAL'S ASHES, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Delicate eyes that blinked blue rockies all ash Subject(s): Cassady, Neal (1926-1968); United States; America ON NEAL'S ASHES, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Delicate eyes that blinked blue rockies all ash Last Line: All ashes, all ashes again Subject(s): Cassady, Neal (1926-1968); 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 ADMISSION OF MICHIGAN INTO THE UNION, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come in, little sister, so healthful and fair Last Line: "so, hold up your head with the ""old thirteen." Subject(s): Michigan; United States; America ON THE BEARING OF WAITRESSES, by RODNEY JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Always I thought they suffered, the way they huffed Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners ON THE BEARING OF WAITRESSES, by RODNEY JONES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Always I thought they suffered, the way they huffed Last Line: Chapters, filling the air with her glamour and her shame Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Restaurants ON THE BIRTH OF BOMANI, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have taken the best leaves Last Line: Art that made you fill your heart Subject(s): African Americans; Love - Cultural Differences; United States - Race Relations; Negroes; American Blacks 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 BRIGANTINE PRIVATEER PRINCE DE NEUFCHATEL, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is wealth, that men will roam, %risque their all, and leave their home Last Line: Little lost, and much to save, %had the prince of neufchatel Subject(s): Navy - United States; Prince De Neuchatel (ship); Privateers; War Of 1812 ON THE BRITISH BLOCKADE, AND EXPECTED ATTACK ON NEW YORK - 1814, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old neversink, with bonnet blue Last Line: And cockburn miss a handsome plunder. Subject(s): Naval Blockades; Navy - United States; New York City - War Of 1812; War Of 1812; American Navy ON THE CAPTURE OF THE UNITED STATES FRIGATE ESSEX, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From cruising near the southern pole Last Line: And though commanded by a lord %they'll have no cause to brag Subject(s): Essex (ship); Navy - United States; Porter, David (1780-1843); Valparaiso, Battle Of; War Of 1812 ON THE CIRCUIT, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among pelagian travelers Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Tourists; United States; America ON THE CIRCUIT, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among pelagian travelers Last Line: God bless the u.S.A., so large, %so friendly, and so rich Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Tourists; United States ON THE DEATH OF AUGUSTINE C. LUDLOW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Great spirit of the mighty dead Last Line: The foemen - are his brothers here, %and every hero - is his friend Subject(s): Navy - United States; Sailors And Sailing; War Of 1812 ON THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN NICHOLAS BIDDLE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What distant thunders rend the skies Last Line: And lost what honor won. Subject(s): American Revolution; Biddle, Nicholas (1786-1844); Navy - United States; American Navy ON THE DEATH OF CHARLES T. TORREY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe worth the hour when it is crime Last Line: His mercy to the oppressor's heart. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Torrey, Charles Turner (1813-1846); Antislavery Movement - United States ON THE DEATH OF LIEUT. WILLIAM HOWARD ALLEN, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He hath been mourned as brave men mourn the brave Last Line: It was a mother's -- and is broken now. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Death; Grief; Navy - United States; Pirates; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; American Navy; Piracy; Buccaneers ON THE DEFEAT OF HENRY CLAY [A GREAT MAN], by WILLIAM WILBERFORCE LORD Poem Text First Line: Fallen? How fallen? States and empires fall Last Line: Time's dim horizon with eternity. Subject(s): Clay, Henry (1777-1852); United States - History ON THE EMIGRATION TO AMERICA AND PEOPLING WESTERN COUNTRY, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To western woods and lonely plains Last Line: Than all the eastern sages knew. Subject(s): Middle West; Pioneers; United States; West (u.s.); Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; America; Southwest; Pacific States 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) ON THE HOME GUARDS; WHO PERISHED ... LEXINGTON, MISSOURI, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The men who here in harness died Last Line: Hearts sore beset, which died at bay. Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; United States - History ON THE LAKE EXPEDITIONS, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where niagara's awful roar Last Line: And, to extend the flames of war, %employs them both Subject(s): Navy - United States; War Of 1812 ON THE LATE ROYAL SLOOP-OF-WAR GENERAL MONK, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the washington ship by the english was beat Last Line: "all her guns should be wooden -- to suit with his head." Subject(s): American Revolution; General Monk (ship); Montagu, John, 4th Earl Of Sandwich; Navy - United States; Sea Battles; Twitcher, Jemmy; American Navy; Naval Warfare ON THE LAUNCHING OF THE FRIGATE CONSTITUTION, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The builders had the ship prepared Last Line: What should have long ago been done, %amendments - you know what Subject(s): Constitution (ship); Navy - United States ON THE LAUNCHING OF THE SEVENTY-FOUR GUN SHIP INDEPENDENCE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our trade to restore as it stood once before Last Line: Then stand to your arms, you shall ne'er be enslav'd, %let the battle go on till the nation is saved Subject(s): Independence (ship); Navy - United States ON THE LOSS OF THE PRIVATEER BRIGANTINE GENERAL ARMSTRONG, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The armstrong arrived in the port of fayal Last Line: May it ever be ready, the britons to maul, %as the armstrong behaved in the road of fayal Subject(s): Azores; General Armstrong (ship); Mountains; Navy - United States; Reid, Samuel Chester (1783-1861); War Of 1812 ON THE MEMORABLE VICTORY OF PAUL JONES, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the rough main with flowing sheet Last Line: They trembled and ador'd. Variant Title(s): Bonhomme Richard And Serapis Subject(s): American Revolution; Bon Homme Richard (ship); Jones, John Paul (1747-1792); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; American Navy; Naval Warfare ON THE NAVAL ATTACK NEAR BALTIMORE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sons of the old ocean advanced from the bay Last Line: And the sight, we expect, will be not very new %when they meet us again, with our tow-row-dow Subject(s): Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 ON THE NEW AMERICAN FRIGATE ALLIANCE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As neptune traced the azure main Last Line: "these sail -- to vanquish tyranny."" --" Subject(s): American Revolution; Navy - United States; Ships & Shipping; American Navy ON THE PROSPECT OF PLANTING ARTS AND LEARNING IN AMERICA, by GEORGE BERKELEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The muse, disgusted at an age and clime Last Line: Time's noblest offspring is the last. Variant Title(s): America, 1750;old World And The New;verses On The Prospect Of Planting Arts And Learning In America Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS, MARYLAND, by ENID DAME Poem Source Last Line: Dreamily %making a list %of new names Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ON THE SLAIN AT CHICKAMAUGA, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy are they and charmed in life Last Line: Make this memorial due. Subject(s): American Civil War; Chickamauga, Battle Of (1863); Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day ON THE SLAIN COLLEGIANS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth is the time when hearts are large Last Line: And kill them in their flush of bloom. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History; Youth ONE COUNTRY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One country! Treason's writhing asp Last Line: One country now and evermore! Subject(s): United States; America ONE LAND, ONE FLAG, ONE BROTHERHOOD, by THOMAS STEPHENS COLLIER Poem Source First Line: Now silent are the forests old, amid whose cool retreats Alternate Author Name(s): Collyer, Thomas Stephens Subject(s): Flags - United States ONE MEAT BALL, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You gets no bread with Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Popular Culture - United States; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons ONE MEAT BALL, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You gets no bread with Last Line: One meat ball Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Popular Culture - United States 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 ONE TODAY, by RICHARD BLANCO Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: One sun rose on us today, kindled over our shores Last Line: Waiting for us to name it – together Subject(s): Inaugural Poem; United States; America OPEN WINDOW ON CHICAGO, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midwinter night, %clark & halstead brushed with this week's snow Last Line: In windy metropolis %waiting for a bomb Subject(s): United States ORAL PALLIATIVE, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Even after the burned hat, the shattered broom Last Line: Let your scar stories be your best batter Subject(s): Jews - United States OSHI, by JAMES L. WHITE Poem Source First Line: Oshi has a very large buddha in him, one that can change the air into scented Last Line: His eyelashes, lacquered his nails, and the people cried Subject(s): Homosexuality; Popular Culture - United States OTHER LEO BAECK, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: I am trying to locate a figure who can say something Last Line: Or think about heroism as a concept. Which is something Subject(s): Jews - United States OUR AMERICA, by NELLIE H. EVANS Poem Text First Line: Today our peaceful land views with dismay Last Line: To life and liberty of all mankind. Subject(s): United States; America OUR BUSINESS IS REJOICING, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Between channels, brief snarls of static: commercials for massacre Last Line: The faint electric screech inside the house like tremolo violins Subject(s): Jews - United States 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 COLORS, by LAURA ELIZABETH HOWE RICHARDS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Red! 'tis the hue of battle Alternate Author Name(s): Richards, Laura E. Subject(s): Flags - United States OUR COUNTRY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God grant that we shall never see Last Line: God grant that we may keep it so. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): United States; America OUR COUNTRY, by FREDERICK LUCIAN HOSMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O beautiful, my country!' Last Line: Be peace the crowning gem. Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America OUR COUNTRY, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On primal rocks she wrote her name Last Line: The gift of faith, the crown of song! Subject(s): Patriotism; United States - Colonial Period OUR COUNTRY, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our country! Right or wrong,' Last Line: Our country,right or wrong! Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America OUR COUNTRY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our country! Whose eagle exults as he flies Last Line: As free as thy winds and as firm as thy hills! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Freedom; Patriotism; United States; Liberty; America OUR COUNTRY, by ANNA LOUISE STRONG Poem Text First Line: To all who hope for freedom's gleam Last Line: The gray world's golden dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Anise Subject(s): Religion; United States; Theology; America OUR COUNTRY, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a noble country where we dwell Last Line: A pause in the long westering caravan. Subject(s): Americans; Patriotism; United States; America OUR COUNTRY'S CALL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay down the axe; fling by the spade Last Line: And glorious must their triumph be. Subject(s): American Civil War; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; United States - History OUR COUNTRY'S DESTINY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My country! Dare we do it? Dare we be Last Line: And boldly equal to our destiny! Subject(s): United States; World War I; America; First World War OUR COUNTRY'S FLAG, by MARY SITZ PARKER Poem Text First Line: Our country's flag; emblem we love Last Line: True to our flag of liberty. Subject(s): Flags; United States; America OUR DEAD, OVERSEAS, by EDWARD ARCHIBALD MARKHAM Poem Text First Line: In italy, in belgium, in france Last Line: Something that swings the spirit to a star. Alternate Author Name(s): Markham, E. A. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; World War I - United States; Graveyards; Dead, The OUR FALLEN BRAVE, by CORNELIA J. M. JORDAN Poem Text First Line: They fell! In freedom's cause they fell Last Line: Our fallen and our free. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Freedom; Love; United States - History; Confederacy; Dead, The; Liberty OUR FLAG, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Of old it was our heritage, the red and white and blue Last Line: Of old it was our heritage -- to-day it is our child. Subject(s): Flags - United States; Patriotism; American Flag OUR FLAG, by FRANCES CROSBY HAMLET Poem Source First Line: Only a bit of color Subject(s): Flags - United States OUR FLAG, by MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER (1894-1981) Poem Source First Line: Fling it from mast and steeple Subject(s): Flags - United States OUR FLAG, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Let the sun of morning kiss it, let the evening sunset glow Last Line: You? Subject(s): Flags - United States; Patriotism; American Flag 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 FLAG IS THERE, by JOSEPH WATSON Poem Source First Line: Our flag is there! Our flag is there! Last Line: Behold the glorious stripes and stars! Subject(s): Flags - United States; Navy - United States 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 IMPERIAL POLICY', by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never is man a man Last Line: What god enacts and ordains Subject(s): United States – Foreign Relations OUR LEFT', by FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From dawn to dark they stood Last Line: "your all upon ""our left." Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; United States - History; Manassas, Batlle Of 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 MARTYRS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am sitting alone and weary Last Line: May rise to the calm of thine. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Confederacy 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 OLD FEUILLAGE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always our old feuillage! Last Line: Collect bouquets of the incomparable feuillage of these states? Subject(s): United States; America OUR ORDERS, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weave no more silks, ye lyons looms Last Line: And god, and truth, and freedom die! Subject(s): Flags - United States; Freedom; War; American Flag; Liberty 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 PRIVILEGE, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not ours, where battle-smoke upcurls Last Line: With valor's clashing steel. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History 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 STARS COME FROM IRELAND, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of him that I loved Subject(s): Ireland; Poetry & Poets; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Irish 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) OUT AND FIGHT, by CHARLES GODFREY LELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out and fight! The clouds are breaking Last Line: Be extinguished from the land. Alternate Author Name(s): Breitmann, Hans Subject(s): American Civil War; Soldiers; United States - History OUT OF OUR HANDS, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Out of a hat Last Line: The poem about being chinese, %skin the glorious color of chicken fat Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations OUTER BANKS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Horizon of islands shifting Last Line: On the edge of the moment that is now the center. %from the open sea Subject(s): Americans; United States OUTSIDE ROOM SIX, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down on my knees again, on the linoleum outside room six Last Line: Black square, white square goes the linoleum Subject(s): Hotels; Popular Culture - United States; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses OUTSIDE ROOM SIX, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down on my knees again, on the linoleum outside room six Last Line: Black square, white square goes the linoleum Subject(s): Hotels; Popular Culture - United States OVER DENVER AGAIN, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grey clouds blot sunglare, mountains float west, plane Last Line: & insects hop back and forth between metallic cities Subject(s): United States OVER LARAMIE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Western air boat bouncing Subject(s): United States; America OVER LARAMIE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Western air boat bouncing Last Line: The red plateau %into the new world Subject(s): United States OVER THE LINE (1882), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Up hill we've slowly plodded %from the boisterous wintry horn Last Line: We're sailing now so gaily %with canvas flowing free Subject(s): Navy - United States OYE MUNDO/ - SOMETIMES, by JESUS PAPOLETO MELENDEZ Poem Source First Line: Sometimes ( %when the night air feels chevere Last Line: & I forget about the junkies %on the stoop Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations PAEAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, joy and thanks forevermore! Last Line: The signal-call that freedom makes! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States PAGE OF SHORT POEMS, SELS, by EUGENE J. MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: Ending: %I am tired of the moon, she said Last Line: Let us go in and turn on the tv Subject(s): United States PAINTERS, by WILLIAM CORBETT Poem Source First Line: Dekooning, jack 'the dripper' Last Line: Painful grimace. We were all %in the future before we knew it Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; United States PALM BEACH, by MARY LEIGHTON Poem Text First Line: As, seeking broader lands to gain Last Line: From coral reef to blossom grown. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; America 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) PARADISE IS NOT A PLACE, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Bread in our mouths, %lightning in the belly of a whale Last Line: With gulls flapping gently around our peak Subject(s): Sex; Travel; United States 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 PARISH, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: The priests, the priests %in their loneliness imagined our lives Last Line: The men you imagine yourselves to be Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States 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 PARTING HYMN; 'DUNDEE', by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father of mercies, heavenly friend Last Line: Rule thou our throneless land! Subject(s): American Civil War; Prayer; United States - History PASSAGES 32, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John adams, marginalia to court de gebelin's monde primitif Subject(s): United States; America PAST SILVER DURANGO OVER MEXIC SIERRA WRINKLES, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Westward mother-mountains drift pacific, green sloped Subject(s): United States; America PAST SILVER DURANGO OVER MEXIC SIERRA WRINKLES, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Westward mother-mountains drift pacific, green sloped Last Line: From sky in sunlight, rocking back & forth in polluted %fields of air Subject(s): 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 PATRIA, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would not even ask my heart to say Last Line: Nor should I be at all, were I not thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America 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) PATRIOTICS, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday a little girl got slapped to death by her daddy Subject(s): United States; Patriotism; Death; America; Dead, The PATRIOTISM, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think my country needs my vote Last Line: And liberty will never die. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America PATRIOTISM AND A PENSION, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ole fo'th ob july Last Line: An' one jes' fo' comin' out alive. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): African Americans; Army - United States; Fourth Of July; Patriotism; Negroes; American Blacks; Independence Day PAUL JONES (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A song unto liberty's brave buccaneer Last Line: He gave freeman the spoils and long may they revere / the name of fair liberty's bold buccaneer Subject(s): "jones, John Paul (1747-1792);navy - United States;" American Navy PAUL JONES - A NEW SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Of heroes and statesmen I'll just mention four Last Line: "may they all fare alike, and the de'il pick the bones / of green, jemmy twitcher, lord north, and p Subject(s): "american Revolution;jones, John Paul (1747-1792);montagu, John, 4th Earl Of Sandwich;navy - United States;north, Frederick, Lord (1732-1792);" "twitcher, Jemmy;american Navy;north, Frederick. 2d Earl Of Guilford; PAUL JONES' VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: An american frigate, a frigate of fame Last Line: The loss of her sons in the ocean so deep. %hurrah! Hurrah! Our country for ever, hurrah! Subject(s): American Revolution; Bon Homme Richard (ship); Jones, John Paul (1747-1792); Navy - United States; Sea Battles PAUL REVERE SPEAKS, by MYRA COHN LIVINGSTON Poem Source First Line: Yes, %longfellow wrote about me Last Line: Remembered by that only his hands can make Subject(s): United States PAY UP OR ELSE, by LUCI TAPAHONSO Poem Source First Line: Vincent watchman was shot Last Line: The $3 worth of gas he paid for Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States PEACE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O land, of every land the best Last Line: They gained a better peace than ours. Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; United States - History PEACE TO THE BRAVE, by OLIVER OPTIC Poem Source First Line: Peace to the brave, who nobly fell Last Line: Forever sacred by their fame, %green their honored grave Subject(s): Death; Navy - United States PEACOCK STUNG BY THE HORNET, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When o'er the blue and trackless deep Last Line: For every true columbian tar, %will hail him hero of the wa r Subject(s): Hornet (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; War Of 1812 PEOPLE OF AMERICA, by DOROTHY QUICK Poem Text First Line: This age is epochal Last Line: Half of your seeds. Alternate Author Name(s): Mayer, John Adams, Mrs. Subject(s): Future; Hands; Nations; Seeds; United States; America 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 PERFECT HEART, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I am alone in the garden, separated Last Line: I would have cut away the crescent moon Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States PERRY'S VICTORY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: We sailed to and fro in erie's broad lake Last Line: "so six sail (the whole fleet) was our fortune to take, / here's a health to brave perry, who govern Subject(s): "lake Erie, Battle Of;navy - United States;perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819);war Of 1812;" American Navy PERRY'S VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye tars of columvia, give ear to my story Last Line: While britons drink cherry, columbians, perry, %we'll toast him about with full glass in hand Subject(s): Lake Erie, Battle Of; Navy - United States; Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819); War Of 1812 PERRY'S VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye tars of columbia, give ear to my story Last Line: Tho' the lords of the seas, we'll be lords of the lakes Subject(s): Lake Erie, Battle Of; Navy - United States; Perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819); War Of 1812 PERSEPHONE SETS THE RECOED STRAIGHT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You are all the rage these days Last Line: Who wouldn't exchange %one hell for another? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States PERSONAL HISTORY OF HANDS, by LORI JAKIELA Poem Source First Line: Spatulate is the word glamour magazine uses Last Line: And what we make for ourselves Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States PERTUSSIN, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always ether comes Subject(s): United States; America PERTUSSIN, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always ether comes Last Line: Aftertaste, midnight nostalgia Subject(s): United States PETER PAN IN NORTH AMERICA, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mary martin, leader of the lost boys Last Line: And grown-up play separated the marys from the boys Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States PETER STUYVESANT'S NEW YEAR'S CALL, 1 JAN. 1661, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where nowadays the battery lies Last Line: To breakfast at his bouwery. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; New York City - Dutch Period; Patriotism; Stuyvesant, Peter (1610-1672); United States - Dutch Settlements 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 PICCIOLA, by ROBERT HENRY NEWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a sergeant old and gray Last Line: That trembles first when earth is shaken. Alternate Author Name(s): Kerr, Orpheus Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History; War PIGEONS, by DAVID HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: Pigeons are the spiks of birdland Last Line: I tell you, %pigeons are the spiks of birdland Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations PILGRIM'S GUIDE TO CHAOS IN THE HEARTLAND: 4. C7OUNTING BACKWARDS, by JESSICA GOODFELLOW Poem Source First Line: 05181261 %the tall08 grass p5rairie states Last Line: 73548768095909 %1173929274 %1705 Subject(s): Counting; Mathematics; Numbers; United States PINON NUTS, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: We begged him to teach us spanish Last Line: Like a sweet, round nut Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Prisons And Prisoners; U.s. - Race Relations; Women PINTA, THE NINA AND THE SANTA MARIA: AND MANY OTHER ..., by JOHN TAGLIABUE Poem Source First Line: America %I Last Line: Of %july Subject(s): United States PIONEERING AMERICA, by MYRA C. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Where is the pioneer? Last Line: The pioneer at his resurrection. Subject(s): Pioneers; United States; America PIONEERS, by LILLIAN M. FISHER Poem Source First Line: They settled their tent pegs here Last Line: In the sands of the lonesome west Subject(s): United States PITY THIS POOR ANIMAL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And walks on grass %and has no need for fire Subject(s): African Americans; Ethnic Groups - United States PLACE PREPARED, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: It's such a sad world Last Line: Stepping into that place %he's promised to prepare Subject(s): Working Class - United States PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL JAMES, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Which I wish to remark Last Line: Which the same I am free to maintain. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Variant Title(s): The Heathen Chinee;plain Talk From Truthful James Subject(s): Asian Americans - Chinese; Gambling; Chinese In The United States; Wagering; Betting PLAINT OF THE DISGUSTED BRITON IN THE STATES, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't try america; I've tried it Last Line: To england I return to live. Subject(s): Homesickness; United States; America PLAZAS LAS AMERICAS, by BOB WANDS Poem Source First Line: This is a place of black-stretch-pants-bond Last Line: All sales final - no returns Subject(s): Capitalism; United States PLEASANT AVENUE, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is in manhattan %as only those who live there know Last Line: And of hurting children. And so here %I have nothing to fear Subject(s): Americans; United States PLEASANT HILL, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: This is the house you don't want to remember Last Line: Of the child waiting to be hushed Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States PLEASE MASTER, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Please master can I touch your cheek Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; United States; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; America PLEASE MASTER, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Please master can I touch your cheek Last Line: Over & over, bamming it in while I cry out your name I do love you %please master Subject(s): Homosexuality; United States PLEDGE, by LEE ANN BROWN Poem Source First Line: I pledge allergy to the flail of the united states of amigo Last Line: And to live by the gizmo scowl lawyer Subject(s): United States PLOWMAN ON HORSEBACK, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: The sun has sucked all fire from the blood Last Line: The swirled dust does not say. Subject(s): Animals; Horseback Riding; Horses; United States; America PLUS SHIPPING, by BOB HICOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Certainly it was a premonition of a navajo warrior that men Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration POEM, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: I am trying to find a parking space Last Line: And that's not nearly enough Subject(s): Jews - United States POEM ABOUT INTELLIGENCE FOR MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A few years back and they told me black Last Line: I do guess %that's genius for you Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations POEM ABOUT POLICE VIOLENCE, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me something Last Line: You think the accident rate would lower subsequently Subject(s): United States - Race Relations; Racism; African Americans; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Negroes; American Blacks POEM COMPOSED FOR .. THE VIGILANT COMMITTEE OF PHILADELPHIA, by DANIEL ALEXANDER PAYNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rise, god of freedom! From thy throne of light Last Line: "be free! Be free! Ye ransomed lands, be free!" Subject(s): African Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; United States; Negroes; American Blacks; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs; America POEM FOR THE YOUNG WHITE MAN WHO ASKED ME HOW I, AN INTELLIGENT ..., by LORNA DEE CERVANTES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my land there are no distinctions Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations POEM FOR THE YOUNG WHITE MAN WHO ASKED ME HOW I, AN INTELLIGENT ..., by LORNA DEE CERVANTES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my land there are no distinctions Last Line: But in this country %there is war Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations POEM WHERE MY MOTHER AND FATHER ARE ABSENT, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: My sisters and I %on the winding path Last Line: The empty porch swing %creaking in the wind Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States POEM, READ THE SOLDIERS' WELCOME, FRANKLIN, NEW YORK, AUG. 5, 1865, by B. H. BARNES Poem Text First Line: The heroes of a hundred fields Last Line: For peace and liberty! Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Homecoming; Life; Soldiers; United States - History; Dead, The POEM, SPOKEN BEFORE THE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, AUGUST, 1934, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is not this house a harp whose living chords Last Line: Shall greet with joy sublime the angel death. Subject(s): United States; America 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 POET: WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO LUTHER?, by HAKI R. MADHUBUTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was strange weather, this luther, he read books, mainly poetry and Last Line: Do, writing books, she also said that he smiles a lot and kinda got good teeth Alternate Author Name(s): Lee, Don L. Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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 POLITICAL COMPASSION (A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS), by TIM DIVITO Poem Source First Line: On this divided earth, play time is over Last Line: So we can preserve a strong america Subject(s): Social Protest; United States POMEGRANATE SEASON, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: First frost-the sugar-shocked leaves Last Line: Darkness-god, I'd barter my soul for these Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States POPPIES, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: In the corner of a room Last Line: But expecting %snow Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States PORNOGRAPHY, NEBRASKA, by SANDRA JEAN MCPHERSON Poem Source First Line: Once, on that highway where a traveler works hard Last Line: Away from their beds Subject(s): Popular Culture - 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) PORTRAIT OF ASSIMILATION, by UNKNOWN+183 Poem Source First Line: My father sits quietly in his brown naugahyde chair watching Last Line: Gets kinda cold nowadays for me Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations POST EARLY FOR SPACE, by PETER J. HENNIKER-HEATON Poem Source First Line: Once we were wayfarers, then seafarers, then airfarers Last Line: And will scribble a line to catch the post for space Subject(s): United States POSTCARDS TO COLUMBUS, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beginning at the front door of the white house, travel west Last Line: Of your television set? Can you hear the ghost of drums approasching? Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration POSTMODERN: A DEFINITION, by JOSEPH LIKE Poem Source First Line: Neither a lender nor a borrower be Last Line: All the others behind Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States POSTMODERNISM, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scene you loathe, the sheer fervor, the speed Last Line: And now even your pity is worthless Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration POWERS OF CONGRESS, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: How the lightstruck trees change sun Subject(s): Modern Life; United States - Congress POWWOW POLAROID, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were fancydancing, you see Last Line: My uncle held his great belly in his hands, walked amoung the fancy dancers / forgiveness Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations POWWOW POLAROID, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were fancydancing, you see Last Line: The fancydancers, said this: %forgiveness Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations PRACTISE CRUISE, by N. H. BARNES Poem Source First Line: Meet me tonight, comrades, gather around Last Line: Cross the wide ocean to london we've been, %plymouth and fun Subject(s): Navy - United States PRAIRIE SCHOONER, by KAREN KOVACIK Poem Source First Line: That house at tenth & grant Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Presidents, United States PRAISE THE TORTILLA, PRAISE THE MENUDO, PRAISE THE CHORIZO, by RAY GONZALEZ Poem Source First Line: I praise the tortilla in honor of el panzon Last Line: Our chins and drips away Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations PRAYER, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: God bless the chick in alaska Last Line: And bless the fat chick in alaska Subject(s): Working Class - United States PRAYER, by JOSEPH BRUCHAC Poem Source First Line: Let my words Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations PRAYER FOR AMERICA, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O lord of justice and of right Last Line: Oh, make us great! Subject(s): Patriotism; Prayer; United States; America PRAYER FOR THE MEDINA, by JACOB I. COHEN Poem Source First Line: When we call on thee, o righteous god, answer us Last Line: And may the redeemer come to zion, and let us say, amen Subject(s): Holidays; Prayer; Thanksgiving Day; 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 PRE-HOLIDAY PMS, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: I don't want to be thankful this year Last Line: Your charge cards %and all your cash Subject(s): Working Class - United States PREPARATIONS FOR SEDER, by MICHAEL S. GLASER Poem Source First Line: Preparing schmaltz for matzoh balls Last Line: And eat and praise the taste of, wanting more Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations PRESENT, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This woman vomiting her Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations PRESENT, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This woman vomiting her Last Line: Making pilgimage to herself. Walking Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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 LINCOLN'S PROCLAMATION OF FREEDOM, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It shall flash through coming ages Last Line: Break the refulgent on the sight. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - 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 PRIVATEERING AND PIRATEERING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come all ye noble warriors Last Line: And not like foolish children, %try each other's heads to break Subject(s): Navy - United States; Pirates; Privateers; War Of 1812 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 PRODUCT, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no beauty in new england like the boats Subject(s): Americans; United States; America PRODUCT, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no beauty in new england like the boats Last Line: Is all I've found: myself Subject(s): Americans; United States PROGRESSION; OR, THE SOUTH DEFENDED: SLAVERY, by MARY SOPHIE SHAW HOMES Poem Text First Line: The book of books we confidently quote Last Line: Gainst wild fanaticism's fickle laws. Alternate Author Name(s): Mayfield, Millie Subject(s): American Civil War; Bible; Cruelty; Slavery; Southern States; United States - History; Serfs; South (u.s.) 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) PROPHECY, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O future bards %chant from skull to heart to ass Last Line: Where rockets rise %to take me home Subject(s): United States PROSPECT, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: War will not always be Last Line: "but that was long ago." Subject(s): United States - History; War; World War I; First World War PROSPECTIVE IMMIGRANTS PLEASE NOTE, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Either you will Subject(s): Americans; Immigrants; United States; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; America PROSPECTIVE IMMIGRANTS PLEASE NOTE, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Either you will Last Line: Makes no promises %it is only a door Subject(s): Americans; Immigrants; United States PROUD RIDERS, by HAROLD LENOIR DAVIS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We rode hard, and brought the cattle from brushy springs Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, H. L. Subject(s): Americans; United States; America PROUD RIDERS, by HAROLD LENOIR DAVIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We rode hard, and brought the cattle from brushy springs Last Line: Down the flat frosty road we crowded the herd: %high stepped the horses for us, proud riders in autu Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, H. L. Subject(s): Americans; United States PSALM, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: We're late. She pulls on hose, as if her skin Last Line: Later, curtains drawn, when everyone is home and at rest Subject(s): Jews - United States PUBLIC SCHOOL NO. 18, PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, by MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN Poem Source First Line: Miss wilson's eyes, opaque %as blue glass, fix on me Last Line: And my rage will blow %your house down Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Loss; Minorities - United States; Moving And Movers; New Jersey; Refugees; Schools; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; U.s. - Race Relations PUNK PANTOUM, by PAMELA STEWART Poem Source First Line: Tonight I'll walk the razor along your throat Last Line: Tonight, dragging the white-hot razor across our throats %and back Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States PURE PRODUCTS OF AMERICA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of the southeast asian war Last Line: But I wish he'd quit Subject(s): Children; United States; War PUT IT THROUGH, by EDWARD EVERETT HALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, freeman of the land Last Line: Put it through! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History PUT OUT THE LIGHT!' AND SO IN DARK, by VILDA SAUVAGE OWENS Poem Source Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) PYROGRAPHY, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Out here on cottage grove it matters. The galloping Subject(s): United States; America QUEENS, 1963, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone seemed more american Last Line: Before the first foreigners owned %any of this free country Subject(s): Americans; Baby Boom Generation; Dominican Republic; Hispanic Americans; Travel; United States; Women QUESTIONS FOR ECCLESIASTES, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if on a foggy night in a beachtown, a night when the pacific leans close Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration R.O.T.C, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sons of the republic drill Last Line: The new goose-step fraternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Army - United States; Reserve Officers Training Course; Soldiers; War; R.o.t.c. RADIO BLUES, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Try 5 on the dial, try 10, 15; Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Radio RAILROAD CARS ARE COMING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The great pacific railway Last Line: The railroad cars are coming, humming %through new mexico Subject(s): United States RAIN-WET ASPHALT HEAT, GARBAGE CURBED CANS OVERFLOWING, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hauled down lifeless mattresses to sidewalk refuse-piles Subject(s): United States; America RAIN-WET ASPHALT HEAT, GARBAGE CURBED CANS OVERFLOWING, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hauled down lifeless mattresses to sidewalk refuse-piles Last Line: And sudden farewell to the bedbug-ridden mattresses piled soggy in dark rain Subject(s): United States RAMON, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Drunk and senseless in his place Last Line: Dead as stone! Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Mexico; Mines & Miners; Tragedy; United States; America RAPED, by GARY W. LONDON Poem Source First Line: America the beautiful Last Line: Dial 1-800 america %going, going, gone Subject(s): United States READING JAMES WRIGHT, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: If I go down all the way with you Last Line: Lank and rambling? She never %threw herself into the sea Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States; Wright, James (1927-1980) READING MY POEMS FROM WORLD WAR II, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ships in these verses course through a blue meadow Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; World War Ii; Navy - United States; Aviation & Aviators; Sailors & Sailing; Second World War; American Navy; Airplanes; Air Pilots READY, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loaded with gallant soldiers Last Line: Who was fitter to die than he! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Sailing & Sailors; United States - History; Seamen; Sails 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) REAL INDIAN LEANS AGAINST, by UNKNOWN+183 Poem Source First Line: The pink neon lit window full of plaster of paris & resin Last Line: Somewhere %where nobody is sold Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations REBEL COLOR-BEARERS AT SHILOH, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The color-bearers facing death Last Line: And think how grant met lee. Subject(s): American Civil War; Shiloh, Battle Of (1862); United States - History RECLASSIFIED, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: Ww ii took just about any man Last Line: And where some folks called him %a 4-f son of a bitch Subject(s): Working Class - United States RECOGNIZED FUTURES, by LISA SUHAIR MAJAJ Poem Source First Line: Turning to you, my name Last Line: All our tongues can sing Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations RECONCILIATION, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Word over all, beautiful as the sky Last Line: Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History RECOVERY, by EMILIE ROSE MACAULAY Poem Text First Line: When this so bitter tide Last Line: We shall cry and laugh, as sailors and children do. Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, Rose Subject(s): Navy - United States; Peace; War; American Navy RED AND THE BLUE, by H. A. ROBY Poem Source First Line: Oh, johnny bull! You know, john Subject(s): Flags - United States RED AND WHITE ROOFS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Red and white roofs, and the sky Last Line: Here's to you, our flag, here's to you! Subject(s): Flags - United States RED, THE WHITE, THE BLUE, by KATE BROWNLEE SHERWOOD Poem Source First Line: O comrades, on each lonely grave we place one flower today Subject(s): Flags - United States REFLECTIONS IN SLEEPY EYE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 3,489 friendly people Last Line: White eye, door mouth Subject(s): United States REGIMENT SONG, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The old flag is a-doin' her very level best Variant Title(s): We're Marchin' With The Countr Subject(s): Flags - United States REINFORCEMENTS, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The vestibule to experience is not to Last Line: The future of time is determined by the power of volition. Subject(s): World War I - United States RELIEVING GUARD, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Came the relief. 'what, sentry, ho!' Last Line: "somewhere had just relieved a picket." Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History REMAINS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I left the knife in the sink Last Line: Dearest. All I left for you to find Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States REMEMBER AGAIN, by R. W. S. Poem Text First Line: Rain in the blackness. Stabs of flame in the blackness Last Line: Remember again. Subject(s): Army - United States; Army Life; Memory; Pain; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; Veterans Day; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Suffering; Misery REMINDER, by INDRAN AMIRTHANAYAGAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You come from sri lanka, / said the toy-shop keeper at patti's Subject(s): Sri Lanka; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Ceylon 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) RESERVATION, by SUSAN CLEMENTS Poem Source First Line: You seldom talked about the indian side Last Line: Among spring beauties and curled adder's tongue Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations RESTROOM, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I push out of customs, stumble, almost fall, legs numb Last Line: Turn on the faucet. Water flows and flows over my hands, %warm and full of light, like a blessing Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; India; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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 RETURNED BATTLE FLAGS, by MOSES OWEN Poem Source First Line: Nothing but flags, but simple flags Subject(s): American Civil War; Flags - United States; U.s. - History RETURNED FROM THE WAR, by HENRY ABBEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shrouded by his country's flag Last Line: He was all the world to her. Subject(s): American Civil War; Grief; Marriage; United States - History; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RETURNING NORTH OF VORTEX, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red guards battling country workers Last Line: Returning down black superhighways to denver Subject(s): United States RETURNING TO EARTH, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She / pulls the sheet of this dance Last Line: Let the predator love his prey. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Despair; Introspection; Magic; United States; America REUBEN JAMES, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three ships of war had preble when he left the naples shore Last Line: For god never ranks his sailors by the register of earth! Subject(s): Decatur, Stephen (1779-1820); James, Reuben; Navy - United States; Pirates; Sailing & Sailors; Tripoli; American Navy; Piracy; Buccaneers; Seamen; Sails 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 REVIVAL, by PETER GIZZI Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Corso, Gregory (1930-2001) RIB SANDWICH, by JR. WILLIAM J. HARRIS Poem Source First Line: I wanted a rib sandwich Last Line: And didn't even %need a passport Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations RIDING THE EIGHTEEN, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Few words, I'd like to think it's because it's 6:30 Last Line: Trailing it like a memory of violence Subject(s): Jews - 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) RIGHT ON: WHITE AMERICA, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This country might have Last Line: Gun/shells on our blk/tomorrows. Subject(s): Racism; United States; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; America 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) RISING OVER NIGHT-BLACKENED DETROIT STREETS, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brilliant network-lights tentacle dim suburbs Last Line: Sweating & weeping ignorant on your own plastic-pain maya planet Subject(s): United States ROBBED (LEAGUE OF NATIONS REPUDIATED BY U.S. SENATE), by ETHELEAN TYSON GAW Poem Text First Line: I rode at dawn a chevalier of god Last Line: Butso much cannon fodder left to rot. Subject(s): League Of Nations; United States - Congress - Senate; War ROBERT E. LEE, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gallant foeman in the fight Last Line: We honor thee, virginia's son. Subject(s): American Civil War; Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); United States - History RODGERS & VICTORY: TIT FOR TAT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: John bull, who has for ten years past Last Line: And strike aloud the merry stave %of yankee doodle dandy Subject(s): American Revolution; Little Belt (ship); Navy - United States; Rodgers, John (1773-1838); Sea Battles RODNEY'S RIDE [JULY 3, 1776], by ELBRIDGE STREETER BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In that soft mid-land where the breezes bear Last Line: The day of delegate rodney's ride. Variant Title(s): Caesar Rodney's Ride Subject(s): American Revolution; Rodney, Caesar (1728-1784); United States - Continental Congress; United States - Declaration Of Independence ROGERS AND BINGHAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Once bingham took the little belt Last Line: From insult to protect our flag, %and tell an honest story Subject(s): American Revolution; Little Belt (ship); Navy - United States; Rodgers, John (1773-1838) ROGERS AND VICTORY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One night it was bout nine o'clock Last Line: Dey get it hot, as dey could sup, %hotter as french brandy Subject(s): American Revolution; Navy - United States; President (ship); Rodgers, John (1773-1838); Sea Battles ROLL-CALL, by MARION VAN LANINGHAM Poem Text First Line: I have seen you, kansas, shifting out Last Line: When the sagebush spreads the gaunt little seeds of tomorrow? Subject(s): United States; America ROLLS-ROYCE DREAMS, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: Using salal leaves for money Last Line: Headlights missing, and gas gauge on empty Subject(s): Working Class - United States ROMAIOS, by WILLAM GAY BALLANTINE Poem Text First Line: Twas in the crowded avenue; o'erhead Last Line: To shine resplendent in thy future's crown! Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Greek Language; New York City; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ROMANCE, by PAUL ZIMMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This frightened, horny boy Last Line: So sure it lasts a lifetime Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Popular Culture - United States ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE PRELUDE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This, then, is america! Last Line: Of the flag of barbarossa. Subject(s): United States; America 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 RUINED STATUES IN THE LOUVRE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Infant love left his palm print on this aphrodite's naked back Last Line: Against each other in their tombs-for the hundredth time or so %that day, you let my hand go Subject(s): Catholics - United States; Louvre, Paris; Statues; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States RULES OF THE ROAD, AT SEA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Two close-hauled ships upon the sea Last Line: In danger with no room to turn %ease her, stop her, go astern! Subject(s): Maritime Law; Navy - United States RUMPELSTILTSKIN CONVENTION, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Circus circus swarms with us: floors strewn Last Line: Thinking kevin, thinking jimmy, thinking bo Subject(s): Conventions; Las Vegas, Nevada; Popular Culture - United States RUNNING THE BATTERIES, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A moonless night - a friendly one Last Line: So porter proves himself a brave man's son. Subject(s): American Civil War; Navy - United States; Patriotism; United States - History; Vicksburg Campaign (1862-63); American Navy RUSSIA - AMERICA, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wind in the world! The dark departs Last Line: With brightened wings, and smiles and beckons home! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): World War I - Russia; World War I - United States S & M, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: The masochist confesses that his pain Last Line: Even if I have to be ... %what is that word they used? %even if I have to be ... A sadist.' Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Ethnic Groups - United States; Latin America - History; Protest, Social; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Tyranny And Tyrants SACRED AND THE PROFANE, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: We sit in a circle while our leader, a senior Last Line: And make petitions, some of which he grants, raybans glittering Subject(s): Jews - United States SACRED REFUGE FOR FEDERALS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Dear sir, you are wrong to tell lies in a song Last Line: They sigh for lost posts, then knock for their hosts, %and take on their twentieth embargo Subject(s): Embargo Act Of 1807; Navy - United States SADDER THAN A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG WOMAN, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: With money %a good man Last Line: Wouldn't want to preach %her a sermon or anything Subject(s): Working Class - 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) SAGEBRUSH, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These are the last days of its empire. No flags fly from its dead limbs, nor do Last Line: These stiff limbs? Ants, grass, and wind. What is the price of wisdom here? Only the priest and pris Subject(s): Army - United States; Military; Soldiers; Wisdom SAILOR'S GRAVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Night-winds are mournfully sweeping Last Line: Till the last trumpet awaking, %sound thro' the depths of the tomb Subject(s): Death; Navy - United States SAILOR'S LIFE FOR ME, by UNKNOWN+234 Poem Source First Line: A home on the rolling deep Last Line: A life on the ocean wave - %a grave in the dark blue sea! Subject(s): Navy - United States SAILORS' AND SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL DAY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When flow-ry summer is at hand Last Line: While the sweetest flowers we are bringing, %wreath'd in garlands of red, white and blue Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Navy - United States 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 SALT, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lisa, leona, loretta? %she's sipping a milkshake Last Line: In a wooden barrel Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SALUTE THE FLAG, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Off with your hat as the flag goes by! Variant Title(s): The Old Fla Subject(s): Flags - United States; Patriotism SAM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If he could have kept Last Line: What did you do to my father? Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Fathers & Daughters; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations SAM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If he could have kept Last Line: What did you do to my father Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Fathers And Daughters; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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) SATURDAY NIGHT SONG: 1, WRITTEN ON BOARD FRIGATE MACEDONIAN, by WILLIAM B. WHITING Poem Source First Line: Though far from home, o'er distant seas Last Line: We'll fear no host %nor ill Subject(s): Navy - United States SATURDAY NIGHT SONG: 2, WRITTEN ON BOARD FRIGATE MACEDONIAN, by JR. M. CR. PERRY Poem Source First Line: An another saturday night has come around Last Line: Pass by without drinking to sweet-hearts and wives Subject(s): Navy - United States SATURDAY NIGHT SONG: 3, WRITTEN ON BOARD FRIGATE MACEDONIAN, by HENRY ETTING Poem Source First Line: Though adverse winds, and currents strong Last Line: Sure every man is not a poet, %pray then excuse the bard, sirs Subject(s): Navy - United States SATURDAY NIGHT SONG: 4, WRITTEN ON BOARD FRIGATE MACEDONIAN, by J. C. RICH Poem Source First Line: On saturday night, when the red wine is flowing Last Line: And folds to his bosom in transports ecstatic %those dear ones so loved, be they sweet-hearts or wiv Subject(s): Navy - United States SATURDAY NIGHT SONG: 5, WRITTEN ON BOARD FRIGATE MACEDONIAN, by J. J. ALMY Poem Source First Line: Good songs have been written on sweet-hearts and wives Last Line: Then here's to true friends, who by us will stand, %and we'll drink to warm friends at sea or on lan Subject(s): Navy - United States SATURDAY NIGHT SONG: 6, WRITTEN ON BOARD FRIGATE MACEDONIAN, by J. HUNTINGTON Poem Source First Line: Old winter spreads his veil of snow Last Line: And his soul he gazes on home once more, %home, and the dear ones there Subject(s): Navy - United States SATURNALIA, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweetest calm man e'er beheld Last Line: The union ever one! Subject(s): Peace; Planets; United States; War; America SAVANNAH, by ALETHEA S. BURROUGHS Poem Text First Line: Thou hast not drooped thy stately head Last Line: Savannah! O savannah! Subject(s): American Civil War; Savannah, Georgia; United States - History SAVING AMERICA, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: I was twelve, we were at war %in korea. I did my part, climbing Last Line: And in the birdsong dawn, flying away, my fear Subject(s): Arms And Armor; Bombs; Korean War, 1950-1953; Soldiers; United States SCENE FROM THE MOVIE GIANT, by TINO VILLANUEVA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What I have from 1956 is one instant at the holiday Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Politics & Government; Popular Culture - United States; Movies; Cinema SCENE FROM THE MOVIE GIANT, by TINO VILLANUEVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What I have from 1956 is one instant at the holiday Last Line: Helpless light, local-looking, unthought of at fourteen Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Politics; Popular Culture - United States SCENE IN A COUNTRY HOSPITAL, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, lonely, wounded and apart Last Line: Thank heaven! This -- all -- ends with me soon. Subject(s): American Civil War; Hospitals; United States - History SCRABBLE, by DAVID STARKEY Poem Source First Line: I was summoned to the porter's lodge for an overseas call from Last Line: Street I would linger there in his presence, studying grace until I froze Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States SCREENING, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A society intent on living in the present tense Last Line: Of moonlessness overlooking a sea? Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Suburbs; Television; Tv SCUM O' THE EARTH', by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the gate of the west I stand Last Line: In the wealth of the richest bloods of earth. Subject(s): Freedom; New York City; Patriotism; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Liberty; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SEA RETURNS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Mother, mother, I hear the sound at the door Last Line: Daughta? Daughta? Daughta? Og gawd. She caan swim Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SEA! THE SEA!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, the sea, the sea, hath a charm for me Last Line: Is the happiest place for all to me, %then hurra for the sparkling wave Subject(s): Navy - United States SEA-BOY'S FAREWELL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Wait, wait, ye winds! Till I repeat Last Line: May harbor in the port of love, %and all be moored together Subject(s): Navy - United States; Sailors And Sailing SECOND-CLASS CITIZEN, by JENNIFER LAGIER Poem Source First Line: We laughed %calling it'latent wop syndrome' Last Line: Waiting official permission %to be let off the boat Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SECRET LOVE, by MILTON KESSLER Poem Source First Line: My father's back %heaves toward the sea Last Line: They shook on it Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SEDER, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: This is a strange seder Last Line: We keep on - we keep going on Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SEED, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I am a child of the sun, balancing Last Line: The husk and the heart %of the fruit Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SEGREGATION, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: My mother, my two bothers, myself Last Line: We want only to disintegrate %into small pieces Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Prejudice; Social Problems SELF PORTRAIT AS NANCY DREW, GIRL SLEUTH, by KRISTY NIELSEN Poem Source First Line: Sure there are some differences. I'm no virgin Last Line: I will find out. I will expose you Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States SENORA X NO MORE, by PAT MORA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Straight as a nun I sit Last Line: I carve my crooked name, and again at night %until my hand and arm are sore, %I carve my crooked nam Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SEPTEMBER ON JESSORE ROAD, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Millions of babies watching the skies Subject(s): United States; America SEPTEMBER ON JESSORE ROAD, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Millions of babies watching the skies Last Line: Millions of children nowhere to go Subject(s): United States SERVICE FLAG, by WILLIAM HERSCHELL Poem Source First Line: Dear little flag in the window there Subject(s): Flags - United States SESQUICENTENNIAL ODE; FOR JULY 24, 1926, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is your promise Last Line: In glory above! Subject(s): Flags; Growth; United States; America SEVENTH STREET, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Money burns the pocket, pocket hurts Subject(s): African Americans; City & Town Life; Social Commentaries; United States - Prohibition (1919-1933); Negroes; American Blacks 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 SHADES OF ORIGIN, by SEBASTIAN SALAZAR BONDY Poem Source First Line: I was born in a flimsy nest Last Line: Oppressed my childhood dreams with terror Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Ethnic Groups - United States; Peru 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) SHERIDAN AT CEDAR CREEK, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shoe the steed with silver Last Line: Where the nameless followers sleep. Subject(s): American Civil War; Cedar Creek, Battle Of (1864); Sheridan, Philip Henry (1831-1888); United States - History SHERIDAN'S RIDE [DECEMBER 19, 1864], by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the south, at break of day Last Line: "from winchester, -- twenty miles away!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Animals; Cedar Creek, Battle Of (1864); Courage; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Sheridan, Philip Henry (1831-1888); United States - History; War; Valor; Bravery; Declaration Day SHERMAN'S IN SAVANNAH [DECEMBER 22, 1864], by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like the tribes of israel Last Line: As it crowns savannah! Subject(s): American Civil War; Savannah, Georgia; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA, by SAMUEL HAWKINS MARSHALL BYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our camp-fires shone bright on the mountain Last Line: When sherman marched down to the sea. Variant Title(s): Song Of Sherman's March To The Sea Subject(s): American Civil War; Georgia (state); Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History SHILOH; A REQUIEM, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Skimming lightly, wheeling still Last Line: And all is hushed at shiloh. Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; Shiloh, Battle Of (1862); United States - History SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While this america settles in the mould of its vulgarity Last Line: God, when he walked on earth Subject(s): United States; Social Commentary; Religion; United States; America; Theology; America SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While this america settles in the mould of its vulgarity Last Line: There is the trap that catches noblest spirits, that caught - %they say - god, when he walked on ear Subject(s): Religion; United States SHOPLIFTERS, by MAURA STANTON Poem Full Text First Line: I'd smoke in the freezer Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States SHOPLIFTERS, by MAURA STANTON Poem Source First Line: I'd smoke in the freezer Last Line: Now he peers through the window, %watching me bag groceries %for hours until my hands sweat Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States SHOPLIFTING, by BARON WORMSER Poem Source First Line: The store dick lays a hand on your shoulder Last Line: You don't even own a camera Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States SHOPPING FOR MIDNIGHT, by G. E. MURRAY Poem Source First Line: There you go, it's everywhere Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States SHORT HISTORY OF THE SIXTIES, by HENRI COULETTE Poem Source First Line: Bang! Bang! Bang! %and always in the head Last Line: The plane, the widow, the mass. %we drive with our lights on Subject(s): Assassination; United States SHORT-ORDER COOK, by JIM DANIELS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: An average joe comes in Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Popular Culture - United States; Restaurants; Cookery; Cafes; Diners SHORT-ORDER COOK, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An average joe comes in Last Line: Pressure; responsibility, success, %thirty cheeseburgers, thirty fries Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Popular Culture - United States; Restaurants 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 SHOW THE FLAG, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Show the flag and let it wave Last Line: Show the flag and fall in line! Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Flags - United States; Patriotism; American Flag SHOWER SCENE IN PSYCHO, by DAVID TRINIDAD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shortly before midnight on friday, august 8, 1969, manson Last Line: Then I read the headline as my eyes adjusted to the sun Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States SHOYN FERGESSIN: 'I'VE FORGOTTEN' IN YIDDISH, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But now it's the yiddish itself I'm forgetting Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Yiddish 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) SHYLOCK VISITS DACHAU: 1991, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Shylock emerges form brandenburg gate blinking Last Line: Leah's pursed smile reemerging, the black %cloth finally removed Subject(s): Jews - United States SIAMESE TWINS IN LOVE, by SUSAN SWARTWOUT Poem Source First Line: A lifetime mirrored: chang and eng Last Line: Your tongue down his identical throat Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States SIEGE OF PLATTSBURG, SUNG IN CHARACTER OF A BLACK SAILOR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Back side albany stan' lake champlain Last Line: For gen'ral mccomb, and massa 'donough-home, %when he notion for anudder tea-party Subject(s): Navy - United States; Plattsburg, Battle Of; War Of 1812 SIEGE OF TRIPOLI (AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER, 1804), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Arise, arise, columbia's sons arise Last Line: Columbia still, columbia sails the main Subject(s): Decatur, Stephen (1779-1820); Navy - United States; Sea Battles SILOS, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Like martial swans in spring paraded against the city sky's Last Line: Dreading math work Subject(s): Americans; United States; America SILOS, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like martial swans in spring paraded against the city sky's Last Line: Were the ribs of the modern world Subject(s): Americans; United States SIMCHA, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: The men pogo into each other like wind-up toys Last Line: Back into the music, the riot, the sea of hands Subject(s): Jews - United States SIOUX SONGS: HARVEST, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Text First Line: Only the seasons and the years invade Last Line: The youth that bled beside these old stone walls. Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); United States - History; War; Gettysburg, Battle Of SIOUX SONGS: ROCKS, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Text First Line: Among these jagged rocks, whose height commands Last Line: At bay among these rocks, or charged this wood? Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); United States - History; War; Gettysburg, Battle Of SIOUX SONGS: THE BATTLE, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Text First Line: Three times the sun rose while the battle held Last Line: There lay the shadow of that agony. Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); United States - History; War; Gettysburg, Battle Of SIOUX SONGS: THE CEMETERY, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Text First Line: Here lincoln stood, in strong simplicity Last Line: And gave himself, these graves, this land, to god. Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); United States - History; War; Gettysburg, Battle Of SIREN ISLES, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Stranger %this is not your home Last Line: I am a fish no desire %will allow you to reach Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SIRENS' DEFENSE, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: When we sing Last Line: Steering them %into these rocks Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SISTER RITUAL, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: Every morning I Last Line: Call tana rae long distance. If she's busy I eat breakfast Subject(s): Working Class - United States SIXTH PSALM, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For america is a lady rocking on a porch in an unpainted house Last Line: Activity. / for america only your dolls are cheerful Subject(s): United States; Social Commentaries SKYSCRAPER, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: By day the skyscraper looms in the smoke and sun and Last Line: By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul. Subject(s): Skyscrapers; United States; America SLED BURIAL, DREAM CEREMONY, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While the south rains, the north Subject(s): American Civil War; Funerals; United States - History; Burials SLEEPING WITH DAD, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: I was in the seventh grade Last Line: That smell I'd never before liked, that touch %I'd always wanted Subject(s): Working Class - United States SLEET STORM ON THE MERRITT PARKWAY, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I look out at the white sleet covering the still streets Subject(s): Americans; United States; America SLEET STORM ON THE MERRITT PARKWAY, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I look out at the white sleet covering the still streets Last Line: The slave systems of rome and greece, and no one agreed Subject(s): Americans; United States 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) SMOKE ROLLING DOWN STREET, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red scabies on the skin Last Line: It's all over Subject(s): United States SMOKEY THE BEAR SUTRA, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once in the jurassic about 150 million years ago Subject(s): Buddhism; Pollution; Environment; Bears; United States; Buddha; Buddhists; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; America SMOKING AND DRINKING, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: Dad warns me Last Line: They've tried to kill me. Look how they killed your mother Subject(s): Working Class - United States 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 SO FAR, AND SO FAR, AND ON TOWARD THE END, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And you, contemporary america Subject(s): United States; Poetry & Poets; Modern Life SO I LOST MY TEMPER, by ROSE ROMANO Poem Source First Line: Another one was coming toward me Last Line: They lose their temper Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SO MEXICANS ARE TAKING JOBS FROM AMERICANS, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O yes? Do they come on horses Last Line: And the children too Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations SO MEXICANS ARE TAKING JOBS FROM AMERICANS, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O yes? Do they come on horses Last Line: What they really say is, let them die, %and the children too Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SOAP, by JANE CANDIA COLEMAN Poem Source First Line: The only time I ever watched dallas Last Line: At us - idle women with nothing to do %but surrender Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States SOLDIER SONG (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: You're in the army now Last Line: You're in the amry now Subject(s): Army - United States;soldiers SOLDIER SONG (3), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "uncle sammy, he's got the infantry" Last Line: "good-bye, kaiser bill" Subject(s): Army - United States;world War I; First World War SOLDIER SONG (4), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the infantry, the infantry, with the dirt behind their ears" Last Line: They couldn't lick the infantry in a hundred thousand years Subject(s): Army - 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 ADVENTURES OF JOHN KENNEDY, JR, by DENNIS COOPER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's hot, and smoggy as mars outside Last Line: Like a fastball, or a perfect pass Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States SOME VERSES UPON THE BURNING OF OUR HOUSE JULY 10, 1666, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In silent night when rest I took Last Line: My hope and treasure lies above. Variant Title(s): Upon The Burning Of Our House July 10th 1666;here Follows Some Verses Upon The Burning Of Our House July Subject(s): Americans; Children; Fire; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; United States; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness; America 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 ABOUT BEING AN INDIAN, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: There's something about being an indian Last Line: A place we call the fire water world Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; San Francisco; U.s. - Race Relations SOMETHING BETTER, by CLARA J. DENTON Poem Source First Line: I cannot be a washington Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) SOMETHING LIKE FLYING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You point them out to me Last Line: Another coming up to take the lead Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SOMETIMES A CLEANING LADY, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: Gets to feeling sorry for herself, her reflection these days Last Line: Sweetheart, make yourself at home Subject(s): Working Class - United States SONG, by JAMES CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: Ye sons of columbia, o hail the great day Last Line: He is a man, and shall therefore be free Subject(s): Lawrence, James (1781-1813); Navy - United States; War Of 1812 SONG, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: I'm thinking of things we can't do Last Line: Mary, he doesn't own you, stay Subject(s): Jews - United States SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When our banner went down Subject(s): Flags - United States SONG AT MIDNIGHT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brothers,/this big woman Last Line: If you do not? Subject(s): Women; Beauty; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Spiritual Life; United States - Race Relations; Women & Religion SONG FOR THE FLAG, by DENIS ALOYSIUS MCCARTHY Poem Source First Line: Here is my love to you, flag of the free, and flag of the Subject(s): Flags - United States SONG NO. 3, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cain't nobody tell me any different Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Literary Form; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SONG NO. 3, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cain't nobody tell me any different Last Line: Looka here, a pretty little black girl lookin' just like me Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Literary Form; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SONG OF LIBERTY, by LOUISE AYRES GARNETT Poem Source First Line: Lead on, lead on, america Subject(s): Flags - United States; Patriotism SONG OF THE '41 DATE, by JOHN G. WHITTAKER Poem Source First Line: Come gather round reefers Last Line: And all standing by, %will meet in heaven at last together Subject(s): Navy - United States; U.s. - Naval Academy SONG OF THE ANSWERER, by HELENE MAGARET Poem Source First Line: I celebrate america Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; United States; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) SONG OF THE BANNER AT DAY-BREAK, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O a new song, a free song Last Line: Flapping up there in the wind. Subject(s): Flags - United States; American Flag 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 SONG OF THE EXPOSITION, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah little recks the laborer Last Line: Our freedom all in thee! Our very lives in thee! Subject(s): Freedom; United States; Liberty; America SONG OF THE THIRD GENERATION, by JULIA LISELLA Poem Source First Line: I learned to read in the dark Last Line: In the old way, which is any way that we can Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SONG ON CAPTAIN BARNEY'S VICTORY OVER SHIP GENERAL MONK, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the waste of waters cruising Last Line: Yields the sceptre of the main. Subject(s): American Revolution; Barney, Joshua (1759-1818); General Monk (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; American Navy; Naval Warfare SONG WRITTEN AT CORIENTES ON THE AMERICAN FLEET .. 1858, by FRED MOWBRAY Poem Source First Line: At corientes lies a fleet, from o'er the distant sea Last Line: The hearts that man this gallant fleet are eager for the fray, %to avenge the insult offered us, by Subject(s): Navy - United States; Paraguay SONNET TO A NEGRO IN HARLEM, by HELENE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are disdainful and magnificent Last Line: You are too splendid for this city street. Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Americans; Harlem (new York City); United States; Negroes; American Blacks; America SONNET: 23. WENDELL PHILLIPS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stood upon the world's broad threshold; wide Last Line: Through all the wide-spread veins of endless good. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Phillips, Wendell (1811-1884); Antislavery Movement - United States SONNET: 26. TO J. R. GIDDINGS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Giddings, far rougher names than thine have grown Last Line: With a base dread that clings to them forever. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Giddings, Joshua Reed (1795-1864); Antislavery Movement - United States SONNET: ELLIOTT IN FORT SUMTER, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And high amongst these chiefs of iron grain Last Line: Confer an antique immortality! Subject(s): American Civil War; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; United States - History SONNET: ON THE CHIVALRY OF THE PRESENT TIME, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Foolish souls and false! Who loudly cried Last Line: Who had not shunned earth's haughtiest chivalry. Subject(s): American Civil War; Chivalry; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Confederacy SONNY'S PURPLE HEART, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: Man, if you're dead, why are you leading Last Line: We filed you under dry desert dirt Subject(s): Native Americans; Popular Culture - United States; San Francisco SONORA DESERT-EDGE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brown stonepeaks rockstumps %cloudless sunlight Last Line: Bird radios - hopi rain Subject(s): United States SOT-WEED FACTOR, by EBENEZER COOK Poem Source First Line: Condemn'd by fate to way-ward curse Last Line: May wrath divine then lay those regions wast %where no man's faithful, nor a woman chast Subject(s): United States SOUL MAKE A PATH THROUGH SHOUTING, by CYRUS CURTIS CASSELLS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thick at the schoolgate are the ones Last Line: I'm just going to school. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Civil Rights Movement; Dissenters; Education; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Little Rock, Arkansas; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Schools; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts; SOUP, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a famous man eating soup Subject(s): United States; America SOUP, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a famous man eating soup Last Line: He sat bending his head over a plate %putting soup in his mouth with a spoon Subject(s): United States SOURCES, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fish scales, wet newspapers, unopened cans Subject(s): Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Jews - United States SOURCES, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fish scales, wet newspapers, unopened cans Last Line: But not least, beloved of god. Each other Subject(s): Ellis Island, New York Harbor; Jews - United States SOUTH BRONX TESTIMONIAL: 1, by SANDRA MARIA ESTEVES Poem Source First Line: We live amidst hills of desolate Last Line: To read on and on Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SOUTH BRONX TESTIMONIAL: 2, by SANDRA MARIA ESTEVES Poem Source First Line: The I.R.T. Is hot and humid Last Line: One of the victims too Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SOUTH BRONX TESTIMONIAL: 3, by SANDRA MARIA ESTEVES Poem Source First Line: We were all insane,the eternal Last Line: Or molested, the list %goes on Subject(s): Bronx, New York City; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SOUTH BRONX TESTIMONIAL: 4, by SANDRA MARIA ESTEVES Poem Source First Line: In our wagon, oysters are treasured, their Last Line: We wear them in our hair, and %in our eyes Variant Title(s): Amor Negr Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SOUTHERN CROSS', by ST. GEORGE TUCKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Say can you see, through the gloom and the storm Subject(s): Flags - United States SOUTHERN SONG, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want my body bathed again by southern suns, my soul Last Line: Of the south, my body's song and me Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Americans; United States 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) SPAIN AND AMERICA, by RICARDO CARRASQUILLA Poem Source First Line: Her race, her language, laws and creed Last Line: In her our needs are understood Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Freedom; Spain SPEAKING THROUGH WHITE: FOR MY MOTHER: 1, by KYOKO MORI Poem Source First Line: Twenty years ago today, your death changed Last Line: The world outside your window tilted Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SPEAKING THROUGH WHITE: FOR MY MOTHER: 2, by KYOKO MORI Poem Source First Line: After the morning of honeybell oranges Last Line: Snow like our words through silence Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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.) SPECIMEN DAYS: THE REAL WAR WILL NEVER GET IN THE BOOKS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so good-bye to the war. I know not how it may have been, or may Last Line: Military, has already been - buried in the grave, in eternal darkness Subject(s): Army - United States; Hospitals; Sickness; Soldiers; War Injuries SPELL, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: A hag is riding my back Last Line: But the moon turns to stone Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States 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 SPIDERMAN VERSUS THE KACHINAS, by DAVE ALVIN Poem Source First Line: The hopis in shungopovi have closed their annual Last Line: Yes, he is. The hopi said, still not smiling Subject(s): Americans; United States SPIRIT WHOSE WORK IS DONE (WASHINGTON CITY, 1865), by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit whose work is done -- spirit of dreadful hours! Last Line: Let them identify you to the future in these songs. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History SPLITTING WOOD, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: It's best when you take off your shirt Last Line: Winter, this will burn between us Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JOHN WASSON, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! The dew-wet grass of the meadow in north carolina Last Line: Take it from mine! Subject(s): Flags - United States; Patriotism; Soldiers; American Flag SPOON RIVER GARLAND: 13. CARJACKING, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA Poem Source First Line: It's americana with anti-lock brakes Last Line: Reliving the american story Subject(s): Automobiles; Crime And Criminals; United States SPRING 61, by LENORE KANDEL Poem Source First Line: Country? Have lost our pride Last Line: I must go home and lead my people Subject(s): United States SPRING [IN WAR-TIME], by HENRY TIMROD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring, with that nameless pathos in the air Last Line: "behold me! I am may!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Nature; South Carolina; Spring; United States - History 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. MIHIEL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: They said the yankees wouldn't fight--that there was no living chance Last Line: That the yankees did come overthat the yanks are really there! Subject(s): Germany; United States; War; World War I; Germans; America; First World War 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) STAND BY THE FLAG, by JOHN NICHOLS WILDER Poem Text First Line: Stand by the flag! On land and ocean billow Last Line: Pales in its glories all the lights of time! Subject(s): Flags - United States; American Flag 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) STANZAS FOR THE TIMES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this the land our fathers loved Last Line: One voice shall thunder, we are free! Subject(s): Abolitionists; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs 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 STAR SPANGLED BANNER - WITH VARIATIONS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oh, say, can you sing from the start to the end Subject(s): National Song - United States; Patriotism; World War I STARLIGHT HAVEN, by SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM Poem Source First Line: Susie wong was at the starlight haven Last Line: In white who laugh, quack, quack Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations STARS AND STRIPES, by LORETTA G. NOBLE Poem Source First Line: The drums are beat, the trumpets blow Subject(s): Flags - United States STARS IN MY COUNTRY'S SKY - ARE YE ALL THERE?, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are ye all there? Are ye all there Subject(s): Flags - United States STARTING FROM SAN FRANCISCO, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here I go again Last Line: Myself I saw in the window reflected Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; United States; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips; America STARTING FROM SAN FRANCISCO, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here I go again Last Line: Myself I saw in the window reflected Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; United States STATE OF AFFAIRS OF STATE, by DAVID BRESKIN Poem Source First Line: Lamp black, flesh tint, scarlet lake, cobalt Last Line: The traction crackle of a fading painting Subject(s): Government; 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) STATES!, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: States! / were you looking to be held together by lawyers? Last Line: Of lovers tie you. Subject(s): United States; America STERRET'S SEA FIGHT (AUGUST 1, 1801), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Stand to your guns, my hearts of oak Last Line: To columbia's flag she strikes Subject(s): Navy - United States; Pirates; Sea Battles; Sterrett, Andrew STILL, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And our points %sharpening good as anybody's Subject(s): African Americans - History; Ethnic Groups - United States STONE AND FLOWER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in america, / by the other ocean Subject(s): England; Poetry & Poets; United States; War; English; America STONE AND FLOWER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in america, %by the other ocean Last Line: Sky to the black water %and turns it all to ice Subject(s): England; Poetry And Poets; United States; War STONEWALL JACKSON, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fashions and the forms of men decay Last Line: To know the long fruition of the just! Subject(s): American Civil War; Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); United States - History STONEWALL JACKSON'S WAY, by JOHN WILLIAMSON PALMER Poem Text First Line: Come, stack arms, men! Pile on the rails Last Line: That gets in stonewall's way. Subject(s): American Civil War; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); Patriotism; United States - History STONEWALL JACKSON; MORTALLY WOUNDED AT CHANCELLORSVILLE, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man who fiercest charged in fight Last Line: Because no wreath we owe. Subject(s): American Civil War; Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); United States - History STORY KEEPER, by WENDY ROSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The stories %would be braided in my hair Last Line: Like sun-dried greasy %gambling bones Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations STORY OF STONEWALL, by MAUREEN SEATON Poem Source First Line: A story of stonewall goes like this: on the night of judy garland's funeral Last Line: A proud mustache of milk Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States STORY OFTEN TOLD IN BARS: THE READER'S DIGEST VERSION, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First I was born and it was tough on mom Last Line: The life that matter's not the one I've led Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Popular Culture - United States STRIPPER, by ANITA ENDREZZE-DANIELSON Poem Source First Line: On the stage, mirrored many times Last Line: Matching the wine in my veins Subject(s): Family Life; History; Popular Culture - United States; Striptease Dancers 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 STUART, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cup of your potent 'mountain dew' Last Line: "ay, you and I shall be there." Subject(s): American Civil War; Stuart, James Ewell (jeb) (1833-1864); United States - History STUFF, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: I was thinking it was just me with my Last Line: I'm a poet, that I'll write this stuff down? Subject(s): Working Class - United States SUBWAYS ARE PEOPLE, by LEE BENNETT HOPKINS Poem Source Last Line: People I will never know Subject(s): United States SUCH A BOAT OF LAND, by LAMONT B. STEPTOE Poem Source First Line: Against a backdrop of pennsylvania hills Last Line: Ebbing and flowing on the beaches of time %in this american land Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SUMTER, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So they will have it! Last Line: On with the cannon! Subject(s): American Civil War; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; Patriotism; United States - History SUMTER [APRIL 12, 1861], by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Came the morning of that day / when the god to whom we pray Last Line: For the sin! Variant Title(s): The Twelfth Of April Subject(s): American Civil War; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; United States - History 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) SUNSET ON THE WHARF, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: John crows fill the red sky. Coming in Last Line: Grains disintegrating under the dying light of the sun Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States SUPERMAN IS DEAD, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to think that immortality Last Line: Back into bed, your body hard and warm Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States SUPERMAN IS DEAD, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to think that immortality Last Line: Back into bed, your body hard and warm Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States SUPERMARKET IN CALIFORNIA, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What thoughts I have of you tonight, walt whitman, for I walked down Last Line: Bank and stood watching the boat disappear on the black waters of lethe? Subject(s): Humanity; Imagination; Markets; Poetry And Poets; Popular Culture - United States; Shopping; Vision; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) SUSANS: 1, by SUSAN CLEMENTS Poem Source First Line: First day of kingergarten I slice my four-years' thumb Last Line: When the brown-eyed deer still came five feet close Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SUSANS: 2, by SUSAN CLEMENTS Poem Source First Line: In kindergarten class there is a second susan, a susan of blond hair Last Line: Favored the blue-eyed girl who sang in tune Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SUSANS: 3, by SUSAN CLEMENTS Poem Source First Line: My mother explains the second susan comes from a family Last Line: After a susan in a favorite poem, a wild girl who roamed outside among rain and flowers Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SUSANS: 4, by SUSAN CLEMENTS Poem Source First Line: A grown woman sunning in solitude on a high hill, freckling Last Line: Patients lie dying in hospital rooms white as her skin Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SUZY WONG'S BEEN DEAD A LONG TIME, by KITTY TSUI Poem Source First Line: A friend calls, says Last Line: And suzy wong's been dead a long time Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States SWEATERS, by LUCIA MARIA PERILLO Poem Source First Line: Used to be, fellows would ask if you were married Last Line: Have long since fallen to the moths of bitter days. & what %will I inherit to soften this hard skin, Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations SWEDISH LESSON, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Talk about the mother tongue Last Line: Buried alive in this, their language Subject(s): Immigrants; Language; Sweden; United States SWIRLS OF BLACK DUST ON AVENUE D, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White haze over manhattan's towers Subject(s): United States; America SWIRLS OF BLACK DUST ON AVENUE D, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White haze over manhattan's towers Last Line: The family car bumps over asphalt toward bright mexico Subject(s): United States SYMBOL OF OUR COUNTRY, by MAUD MCKINSEY BUTLER Poem Text First Line: Cabin stands in clearing, unkempt, deserted Last Line: Songs of the fearless. Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life; Progress; United States - History 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 TABLOID NEWS, by BLYTHE NOBLEMAN Poem Source First Line: Earthquakes could be caused Last Line: Clamor like a carillon Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOURSELF, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the runway at the roxy, the drag queen Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Gays & Lesbians; Popular Culture - United States; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOURSELF, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the runway at the roxy, the drag queen Last Line: For what we still had to lose. Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Homosexuality; Popular Culture - United States TAKING IT BACK, by DIXIE SALAZAR Poem Source First Line: Hand-tinted, creamy olive skin Last Line: [what] still splits off in the wind Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Prisons And Prisoners; U.s. - Race Relations; Women TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE FIRST DAY: PAUL REVERE'S RIDE [APRIL 1775], by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, my children, and you shall hear Last Line: And the midnight message of paul revere. Variant Title(s): The Landlord's Tale Subject(s): American Revolution; Americans; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Massachusetts; Revere, Paul (1735-1818); United States; Independence Day; Liberty; America TALISMAN, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You leave the house in its stillness Last Line: The iridescent husk spill %from your hands Subject(s): Women Immigrants - United States TALK SHOW, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman heard angels. The paper says angels Last Line: On earth as it is in heaven Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States TANGLEHAIR'S DREAM, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Your voice, like rain %blowing across the fields Last Line: Wolves bay in the distance. %the owl cries into the dawn Subject(s): Women Immigrants - United States TANGLEHAIR'S MOTHER, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You are the sound of scissors %that will not let me sleep Last Line: I am the fox, the wolf, the hawk Subject(s): Women Immigrants - United States TAPS, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are embosomed in the sod Last Line: With manifold fond measures. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Army - United States TATTERED FLAG, by JAMES BUCKHAM Poem Source First Line: What a line of them, brave and bright, flags that toss in the summer breeze Alternate Author Name(s): Pastnor, Paul Subject(s): Flags - United States TATTOO, by GREGG SHAPIRO Poem Source First Line: My father won't talk about the numbers Last Line: I would scrub the numbers from his arm, %extinguish the fire and give him back his life Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TEA, by HENRY T. PRAED Poem Text First Line: Chinese maiden, tea cup in her hand Last Line: In a cup of tea. Subject(s): Asian Americans - Chinese; Food & Eating; Tea; Chinese In The United States TEACHER TO A MAD STUDENT: 1, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Your face is like an angel's %I've kissed it Last Line: Mundane as a supermarket, %it's my life too Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States TEACHER TO A MAD STUDENT: 6, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: I wish you could have heard ginsberg Last Line: But cover the fire, boy, %cover the fire Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States TEACHING POETRY AT VOTECH HIGH, SANTA FE, THE WEEK JOHN LENNON WAS SHO, by PAULA GUNN ALLEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crepe paper christmas Last Line: Later that day it rained Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States TED'S BAR AND GRILL, by JIM DANIELS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Every night at this place Last Line: And twisting my own sour mouth into a grin Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Popular Culture - United States TEE, by REUBEN M. JACKSON Poem Source First Line: A bic lighter %cranked to the max Last Line: When the pusher comes Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TELL ME ABOUT COMPASSION, AMERICA, by BELINDA SUBRAMAN Poem Source First Line: This child %misses school Last Line: In an ordinary house %like she dreams of Subject(s): Compassion; Schools; United States TERRIFIC TORPEDOES; OR, SIR THOMAS HARDY'S SOLILOQUY, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then traitor come! As black revenge excites Last Line: Where you will have no beds to make, %nor I be doomed to lie awake Subject(s): Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Navy - United States; Poetry And Poets; War Of 1812 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) THANKSGIVING, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: If the almost perfectly fluted edge Last Line: Your door to strangers, entertaining all possible angels Subject(s): Working Class - United States THANKSGIVING, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Yes--we give thanks. Thanks that the fight is won Last Line: Waves in the forefront of a better world! Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving; United States; World War I; America; First World War THANKSGIVING DAY, by LYDIA MARIA CHILD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the river, and through the wood Last Line: Hurrah for the pumpkin pie! Variant Title(s): A Boy's Thanksgiving;the New-england Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day Subject(s): Americans; Holidays; Thanksgiving; Thanksgiving Day; United States; America THAT GREAT WINGLESS BIRD, by ADRIAN C. LOUIS Poem Source First Line: I was thrashing on the couch Last Line: Yes, hoping for beauty, %that great wingless bird Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; San Francisco; U.s. - Race Relations THE 'GOED VROW' AND THE DUTCH PILGRIM FATHERS, MAY 4, 1626, by EDWARD HOPPER Poem Text First Line: The old dutch pilgrims were a solid race Last Line: For those strong words that bind our states together! Subject(s): New York City - Dutch Period; United States - Dutch Settlements THE 'VARUNA', by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who has not heard of the dauntless varuna Last Line: Oh! For the dead let us all kneel to pray! Subject(s): American Civil War; New Orleans, Battle Of (1862); United States - History; Varuna (ship) THE ABSENT BOY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They miss him in the orchard, where the fruit is sunning over Last Line: For somewhere in the thick of strife they know their boy is there Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Army - United States; Unknown Soldier; War; Separation; Isolation THE ADDED STARTER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: They're lining up at the starting point, they're Last Line: The yankee horse looks 'round and seesthe kaiser's mount fall dead. Subject(s): Germany; United States; War; World War I; Germans; America; First World War THE ADVANCE GUARD, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the dream of the northern poets Last Line: And the battle of life be won. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 1, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You live in a sinking nation, stephen, in a stinking Last Line: Of all the beauty and comradeship I've lost. Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Dobyns, Stephen; Future Life; Letters; Social Protest; United States; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; America THE ALABAMA, by MAURICE BELL Poem Text First Line: She has gone to the bottom! The wrath of the tide Last Line: And the brave ship that bore him to glory! Subject(s): Alabama (ship); American Civil War; Sea Battles; United States - History; Naval Warfare THE AMERICAN BLACK (A STUDY IN RACE CONSCIOUSNESS), by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Night! Night! / and of the dawn no promise. Wrong is right Last Line: And dream of freedom that is not a name. Subject(s): African Americans; Freedom; Pain; Slavery; United States - Race Relations; Negroes; American Blacks; Liberty; Suffering; Misery; Serfs THE AMERICAN CENTURY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blackbirds whistle over the young Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Love; Parents; United States; Childhood; Parenthood; America THE AMERICAN DREAM, by WANDA COLEMAN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): United States; Money; America THE AMERICAN DREAM, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It would have to be something dark, Subject(s): Heroism; United States; Heroes; Heroines; America THE AMERICAN ENSIGN, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One morn, when orient beams were bright Last Line: And only sink in freedom's grave! Subject(s): Flags - United States; Freedom; United States; American Flag; Liberty; America THE AMERICAN FLAG, by JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When freedom, from her mountain height Last Line: And freedom's banner streaming o'er us! Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Variant Title(s): Flag Of The Free Subject(s): American Revolution; Flags - United States; Freedom; Patriotism; American Flag; Liberty THE AMERICAN FLAG, by LENA E. FAULDS Poem Text First Line: Lift it high, our glorious banner Last Line: Be of happiness and peace! Subject(s): Flags - United States; American Flag THE AMERICAN PARABLE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good boys are we to have retrieved Last Line: Each time heavier with gold / and less wieldly Subject(s): United States; Greed; Social Commentaries THE AMERICAN SOLDIER, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in a vale, a stranger now to arms Last Line: She leaves her soldier -- famine and a name! Subject(s): Army - United States THE AMERICAN SWORD, by AMELIA B. WELBY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sword of our gallant fathers, defender of the brave Last Line: And may god desert her standard when she surrenders thee Alternate Author Name(s): Coppuck, Amelia B. Subject(s): Patriotism; Swords; United States; America THE AMERICAN TRAVELLER, by ROBERT HENRY NEWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To lake aghmoogenegamook Last Line: Moosehicmagunticook. Alternate Author Name(s): Kerr, Orpheus Subject(s): Travel; United States; Journeys; Trips; America THE ANCESTRAL DWELLINGS, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear to my heart are the ancestral dwellings of america Last Line: The glory and strength of america come from her ancestral dwellings. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Houses; United States; America THE ANGELS OF BUENA VISTA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speak and tell us, our ximena, looking northward far away Last Line: And still thy white-winged angels hover dimly in our air! Subject(s): Buena Vista, Battle Of (1847); Taylor, Zachary (1784-1850); United States - Mexican War (1846-1848) 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 ARMSTRONG AT FAYAL, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the sun sets red, the moon shines white Last Line: Of the yankee privateer. Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Azores; General Armstrong (ship); Mountains; Navy - United States; War Of 1812; Hills; Downs (great Britain); American Navy THE ARMY OF REFORM, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, ye are few, - and they were few Last Line: The free tide of the mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Freedom; Reform & Reformers; United States; Liberty; America THE ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the arsenal. From floor to ceiling Last Line: The holy melodies of love arise. Subject(s): American Civil War; Peace; Springfield, Massachusetts; United States - History THE ARTILLERYMAN'S VISION, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long Last Line: And bombs bursting in air, and at night the vari-color'd rockets. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; United States - History; Drills & Minor Tactics THE AVENUE BEARING THE INITIAL OF CHRIST INTO THE NEW WORLD, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pcheek pcheek pcheek pcheek pcheek Subject(s): New York City; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE BALLAD OF CHICKAMAUGA [SEPTEMBER 19-20, 1863], by JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By chickamauga's crooked stream the martial trumpets blew Last Line: As one old soldier's ballad borne on breath of battle-song. Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, Maurice Subject(s): American Civil War; Chickamauga, Battle Of (1863); Thomas, George Henry (1816-1870); United States - History THE BALLAD OF NEW ORLEANS, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just as the hour was darkest Last Line: Were resting the will and the power. Subject(s): American Civil War; Farragut, David Glascow (1801-1870); New Orleans, Battle Of (1862); United States - History THE BATTLE AUTUMN OF 1862, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The flags of war like storm-birds fly Last Line: Ring peace and freedom in. Subject(s): American Civil War; Autumn; Seasons; United States - History; Fall THE BATTLE IN THE CLOUDS, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the dews and the rains of heaven have their Last Line: Chanting solemn music for the souls that passed below. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): American Civil War; Lookout Mountain, Battle Of (1863); United States - History THE BATTLE OF CHARLESTON HARBOR, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two hours, or more, beyond the prime of a blithe april day Last Line: And thou in clear-eyed faith hast seen god's angels near the guns! Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day THE BATTLE OF ERIE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "avast, honest jack! Now, before you get mellow" Last Line: "though they're lords of the sea, we'll be lords of the lakes" Subject(s): "lake Erie, Battle Of;navy - United States;perry, Oliver Hazard (1785-1819);war Of 1812;" American Navy THE BATTLE OF LA PRAIRIE, 1691, by WILLIAM DOUW LIGHTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That was a brave old epoch Last Line: "I'm here to answer you!" Alternate Author Name(s): Schuyler-lighthall, William Douw Subject(s): French & Indian Wars; La Prairie, Battle Of (1691); United States - Colonial Period THE BATTLE OF LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN [NOVEMBER 24, 1863], by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me but two brigades,' said hooker, frowning at fortified lookout Last Line: Standing, like demigods, in light and triumph upon their own lookout! Subject(s): American Civil War; Hooker, Joseph (1814-1879); Lookout Mountain, Battle Of (1863); United States - History THE BATTLE OF MANILA; A FRAGMENT, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By cavite on the bay Last Line: Will keep and hold the sea! Subject(s): Manila, Philippines; Navy - United States; Spanish-american War (1898); War; American Navy THE BATTLE OF MURFREESBORO, by KINAHAN CORNWALLIS Poem Text First Line: Ere murfreesboro's thunders rent the air Last Line: Who fought so grandly, to their country true. Subject(s): American Civil War; Murfreesboro, Battle Of (1862); United States - History THE BATTLE OF THE KEGS, by FRANCIS HOPKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gallants, attend and hear a friend Last Line: They'll make their boasts and brags, sir. Variant Title(s): British Valor Displayed Subject(s): American Revolution; Battleships; Great Britain - Civil War; Machinery & Machinists; Navy - United States; Patriotism; Soldiers; English Civil War; American Navy THE BATTLE OF THE KING'S MILL [SEPTEMBER 8, 1847], by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said my landlord, white-headed gil gomez Last Line: "to conquer the country by trade." Subject(s): Mexico City, Battle Of (1847); United States - Mexican War (1846-1848) THE BATTLE OF VALPARAISO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: From the laurel's fairest bough Last Line: "crying, 'sweetly may they sleep / 'neath the wave'" Subject(s): "navy - United States;porter, David (1780-1843);valparaiso, Battle Of;war Of 1812;" American Navy THE BATTLE-CRY OF FREEDOM, by GEORGE FREDERICK ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, we'll rally round the flag, boys, we'll rally once again Last Line: Shouting the battle-cry of freedom. Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Patriotism; Soldiers; United States - History; Vicksburg Campaign (1862-63); Liberty THE BAY FIGHT, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three days through sapphire seas we sailed Last Line: The green were one wide grave. Subject(s): American Civil War; Mobile Bay, Battle Of (1864); Patriotism; Tennessee (ship); United States - History 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 BEAN EATERS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair Last Line: Tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Farm Life; Old Age; United States; Women; Agriculture; Farmers; America THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SERIES: 2. JONATHAN TO JOHN, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It don't seem hardly right, john Last Line: "may larn, like you an' me!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Mason, James Murry (1798-1871); Patriotism; Slidell, John (1793-1871); United States - History; War THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SERIES: 4. A MESSAGE OF JEFF DAVIS ..., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sent you a messige, my friens, t' other day Last Line: Consists in triumphantly gittin' away. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); United States - History; Confederacy 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 BIGLOW PAPERS: 5. THE DEBATE IN THE SENNIT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here we stan' on the constitution, by thunder! Last Line: Thet slavery's airth s grettest boon,' sez he. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; United States - Congress - Senate; Antislavery Movement - United States THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD, by THEODORE O'HARA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The muffled drum's sad roll has beat Last Line: That gilds your deathless tomb. Subject(s): Buena Vista, Battle Of (1847); Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Peace; United States - Mexican War (1846-1848); Declaration Day THE BLACK BACK-UPS, by KATE RUSHIN Poem Full Text Recitation by Author First Line: This is dedicated to merry clayton, fontella bass, vonetta Alternate Author Name(s): Rushin, Donna Kate Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music; African Americans - Women; Jazz; Music & Musicians; Popular Culture - United States; Singing & Singers; Women's Rights; Songs; Feminism THE BLACK REGIMENT, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Dark as the clouds of even Last Line: Scorn the black regiment! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Patriotism; United States - History; War THE BLACK SAMPSON, by JOSEPHINE DEPHINE HENDERSON HEARD Poem Text First Line: There's a sampson lying, sleeping in the land Last Line: By his mighty arm his rights shall be obtained! Subject(s): African Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Slavery; Negroes; American Blacks; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Serfs THE BLUE AND THE GRAY, by FRANCIS MILES FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the flow of the inland river Last Line: Tears and love for the gray. Variant Title(s): Decoration Day;memorial Day Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Peace; Soldiers; United States - History; Tombs; Tombstones; Declaration Day THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG, by ANNIE CHAMBERS KETCHUM Poem Text First Line: Come, brothers! Rally for the right! Last Line: That bears the cross and star! Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Flags - United States; Patriotism; United States - History; Confederacy; American Flag THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE BILL, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The subcommittee submits: Subject(s): United States - Congress; Minerals; Disease; Labor & Laborers; Legislation; Work; Workers THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE BOOK OF THE DEAD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These roads will take you into your own country. Subject(s): Home; Progress; United States; Death; America; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DISEASE: THE AFTER-EFFECTS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the life of a congressman. Subject(s): United States - Congress; Minerals; Disease; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers THE BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The readers of the boston evening transcript Last Line: "and I say, ""cousin harriet, here is the boston evening transcript." Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Americans; United States; America 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 BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baron has decided to mate the monster Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States THE BRIDGE: PROEM. TO BROOKLYN BRIDGE, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest Last Line: And of the curveship lend a myth to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Americans; Bible; Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge; Freedom; Imagination; Religion; United States; Vision; Liberty; Fancy; Theology; America THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Build me straight, o worthy master! Last Line: Are all with thee,--are all with thee! Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Sea; United States; Independence Day; Liberty; Ocean; America THE CALL TO FREEMAN, by MOSES OWEN Poem Text First Line: But for three hundred thousand of freeman true and brave Last Line: That freedom's fires shall brighter glow -- that men can yet be free. Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Slavery; U.s. - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Serfs THE CALL TO THE COLORS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are you ready, o virginia Last Line: With their daggers towards the foe! Subject(s): Flags - United States; Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898); American Flag THE CAMPAIGN, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My packard bell was set up in the vacant lot near the stump Subject(s): Americans; Politics & Government; United States; America THE CENTENARIAN'S STORY, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me your hand, old revolutionary Last Line: Stands forever the camp of that dead brigade. Subject(s): American Civil War; Brooklyn, New York; Old Age; United States - History; Veterans THE CENTENNIAL YEAR, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred years - and she had sat, a queen Last Line: No pledge less true for her centennial year. Subject(s): Bells; Freedom; Peace; Storms; United States - Centennial Celebrations; Liberty THE CHANGING LIGHT, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The changing light at san francisco Last Line: Anchorless upon the ocean Subject(s): Americans; United States; America THE CHARGE BY THE FORD, by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eighty and nine with their captain Last Line: Give them the roll of the drum! Subject(s): American Civil War; Calvary; United States - History THE CHOICE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the judge of right and wrong Last Line: And not the living soul! Subject(s): World War I - United States THE CHURCHES' CUBA, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When north and south, with purpose strong Last Line: Thus, and thus only, we'll unite. Subject(s): Cuba; United States; America THE CITIZEN DREAMING, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the blue hour Last Line: And the lucky dead on all the roads that led from home to here! Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Fascism & Fascists; Politics & Government; United States; America THE COAT OF FADED GRAY, by GEORGE WASHINGTON HARRIS Poem Text First Line: A low hut rests in lookout's shade Last Line: Her soldier's coat of faded gray. Alternate Author Name(s): Harris, G. W. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History THE COLLEGE COLONEL, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He rides at their head Last Line: Ah heaven! -- what truth to him! Subject(s): American Civil War; Labor & Laborers; United States - History; War; Work; Workers THE COLORED SOLDIERS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: If the muse were mine to tempt it Last Line: Who fought for uncle sam! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; United States - History THE CONFLICT OF CONVICTIONS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On starry heights / a bugle wails the long recall Last Line: Wisdom is vain, and prophesy. Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Dreams; Hope; Past; United States - History; Wisdom; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism THE CONFLICT: 2. AMERICAN NEUTRALITY, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall we keep an armed neutrality Last Line: Our souls cannot keep neutral and keep true. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Duty; England; Peace; United States; World War I; English; America; First World War THE CONFLICT: 3. PEACE, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace! - but there is no peace. To hug the thought Last Line: Or would we crown with peace caligula? Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Caligula (12 A.d.- 41 A.d.); England; Peace; United States; World War I; English; America; First World War THE CONFLICT: 4. WILSON, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Patience - but peace of heart we cannot choose Last Line: The wolf of europe has not triumphed yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Duty; Patience; United States; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); World War I; America; First World War THE CONFUSION OF AMERICA, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lace that lay about the bones of danish kings Subject(s): United States; America THE CONQUERED BANNER, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Furl that banner, for 'tis weary Last Line: For its people's hoped are fled! Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Flags - United States; Patriotism; Peace; United States - History; Confederacy; American Flag THE CONSTELLATION AND THE INSURGENTE (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "come all ye yankee sailors, with swords and pikes advance" Last Line: And now 'the girl we love the most!' / my brave yankee boys Variant Title(s): Truxton's Victory; Or Brave Yankee Boys Subject(s): "constellation (ship);insurgente (ship);navy - United States;sea Battles;truxtun, Thomas (1755-1822);" "american Navy;naval Warfare;truxton, Thomas; THE CONSTITUTION AND THE GUERRIERE (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Britannia's gallant streamers Last Line: "while her cannon's fire is flashing fast, / and her yankee thunders roar" Variant Title(s): Yankee Thunders Subject(s): Constitution (ship);guerriere (ship);lumber & Lumbering;navy - United States;patriotism;war Of 1812; American Navy THE CORRIDORS OF CONGRESS (REVISITED IN VACATION), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tread soft, intruding step, this empty haunt Last Line: The walls that guard the freedom of the land. Subject(s): United States - Congress THE COUNTERFEIT EARTH!, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's 2157. Two adventuring spacemen rocketing home Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States THE COUNTERSIGNS, by MARK ANTHONY DE WOLFE HOWE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What said john paul jones on the brave bon homme Last Line: For such was the navy of long, long ago! Subject(s): Navy - United States; War; American Navy THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old colony days, in plymouth the land of the pilgrims Last Line: So through the plymouth woods passed onward the bridal procession. Subject(s): Pilgrim Fathers; Standish, Miles (1584-1656); United States - Colonial Period THE COVER OF MARS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lucille ball - desi arnaz hour concludes Last Line: I give you back my heaven. You're all in my head. Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States THE CRIME OF THE AGES; 1861, by AUGUSTA COOPER BRISTOL Poem Text First Line: Poet, write! / not of a purpose dark and dire Last Line: New life, new birth, or a nation's tomb? Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History THE CRISIS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the stony mountains, o'er the desert's drouth and sand Last Line: And mountain unto mountain call, praise god, for we are free! Subject(s): Slavery; United States - Mexican War (1846-1848); Serfs THE CROSSING AT FREDERICKSBURG, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay in my tent at mid-day Last Line: "and one more for michigan!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); United States - History THE CRUISE OF THE FAIR AMERICAN, by ARTHUR HALE Poem Text First Line: The twenty-second of august Last Line: And our good privateer. Subject(s): American Revolution; Navy - United States; American Navy THE CRUISE OF THE MONITOR [MARCH 9, 1862], by GEORGE M. BAKER Poem Text First Line: Out of a northern city's bay Last Line: Hurrah for the monitor's famous cruise! Subject(s): American Civil War; Hampton Roads, Virginia; Monitor (ship); Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship) THE CUMBERLAND, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some names there are of telling sound Last Line: Cumberland! Cumberland! Subject(s): American Civil War; Cumberland (ship); Hampton Roads, Virginia; Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship) THE CUMBERLAND [MARCH 8, 1862], by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At anchor in hampton roads we lay Last Line: And without a seam! Subject(s): American Civil War; Cumberland (ship); Hampton Roads, Virginia; Patriotism; Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship) THE DAY AFTER THE WAR, by JAMES MADISON BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twelve score of years were long to wait Last Line: A part, and help in the distress? Subject(s): Abolitionists; Brown, John (1800-1859); Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs THE DAY OF THE DEAD SOLDIERS; MARY 30, 1869, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, thou gray and fragrant sabbath-day Last Line: So rich a page of thrilling histories. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day THE DAY; NOVEMBER 11, 1918, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not as they planned it or will plan again Last Line: Who still are blind awhile, facing the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Freedom; Justice; Navy - United States; Veterans Day; War; Liberty; American Navy 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 GRANT, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Father! Whose hard and cruel law / is part of thy compassion's plan Last Line: Thy servant's soul in paradise. Subject(s): American Civil War; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day THE DEATH OF LYON, by HENRY PETERSON Poem Text First Line: Sing, bird, on green missouri's plain Last Line: And grave thy name immortal. Variant Title(s): Lyon Subject(s): American Civil War; Lyon, Nathaniel (1818-1861); United States - History; Wilson's Creek, Missouri, Battle Of THE DEATH OF MARILYN MONROE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ambulance men touched her cold Subject(s): Monroe, Marilyn (1926-1962); Popular Culture - United States 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 DEATH OF SLAVERY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou great wrong, that, through the slow-paced years Last Line: Dwell thou, a warning to the coming times. Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Declaration Day THE DEBT UNPAYABLE, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What have I given Last Line: (god grant!) all weeds in ours. Subject(s): Army - United States; Death; Honor; Navy - United States; Sacrifices; Soldiers; War - Home Front; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The; American Navy THE DECISION (APRIL 14, 1861), by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So there are five? Last Line: Call the troops! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History THE DEFENSE OF LAWRENCE [SEPTEMBER 14, 1856], by RICHARD REALF Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All night upon the guarded hill Last Line: The pulses of the grass. Variant Title(s): The Defence Of Lawrence Subject(s): Courage; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Kansas; Slavery; Valor; Bravery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs THE DESTROYER OF DESTROYERS, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From santiago, spurning the morrow Last Line: Wainwright! The gloucester! Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Gloucester (ship); Navy - United States; Santiago, Cuba; Sea Battles; Spanish-american War (1898); Troy; Wainwright, Richard (1817-1862); American Navy; Naval Warfare THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PEPSI AND COKE, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can't swim; uses credit cards and pills to combat Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States THE DRAFT RIOT, by CHARLES DE KAY Poem Text First Line: Is it the wind, the many-tongued, the weird Last Line: And burns the town. Subject(s): American Civil War; New York Draft Riots (1863); United States - History THE DREAM LIFE OF A COFFIN FACTORY IN LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, by JOHN YAU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earlier in the century it was not unusual to spend an evening Subject(s): Americans; United States; America THE DRUMMER-BOY'S BURIAL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: All day long the storm of battle through the startled valley swept Last Line: Laid the body of our drummer-boy to undisturbed repose Subject(s): Tragedy;united States; America THE DYING WORDS OF STONEWALL JACKSON, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stars of night contain the glittering day Last Line: Solace hast thou for pain! Subject(s): American Civil War; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); United States - History THE EAGLE OF CORINTH, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Did you hear of the fight at corinth Last Line: On the nation's loftiest dome. Subject(s): American Civil War; Birds; Corinth, Mississippi, Battle Of (1862); Courage; Eagles; United States - History; Valor; Bravery THE EAGLE OF THE BLUE, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aloft he guards the starry folds Last Line: The eagle of the blue. Subject(s): American Civil War; Birds; Eagles; United States - History THE EAGLE'S SONG, by RICHARD MANSFIELD Poem Text First Line: The lioness whelped, and the sturdy cub Last Line: Now that the two are one again! Subject(s): Patriotism; Peace; United States - History THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: FIELD, by GARY SOTO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The wind sprays pale dirt into my mouth Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Farm Life; Minorities - United States; San Joaquin Valley, California; United States - Race Relations; Agriculture; Farmers 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 EMIGRANT IRISH, by EAVAN BOLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Like oil lamps we put them out the back Last Line: Program. She has published nine volumes of poetry Variant Title(s): The Emigrant Man Subject(s): United States - Immigration & Emigtration 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 FADING OF THE MAYFLOWER, by THEODORE TILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But is it fading? Is it doomed to die? Last Line: ^18^ so named from the town of worstead in england. Subject(s): Mayflower (ship); Pilgrim Fathers; United States; America THE FALL OF RICHMOND [APRIL, 1865], by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What mean these peals from every tower Last Line: God's way adore. Subject(s): American Civil War; Richmond Campaign (1864); United States - History THE FIGHT OF THE ARMSTRONG PRIVATEER, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell the story to your sons Last Line: In the harbor of fayal the azore! Subject(s): Azores; Courage; General Armstrong (ship); Mountains; Navy - United States; United States; War Of 1812; Valor; Bravery; Hills; Downs (great Britain); American Navy; America THE FIGHT OVER THE BODY OF KEITT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sing, o goddess, the wrath, the ontamable dander of keitt" Last Line: "like to heralds of old, stepped the sergeant-at-arms and the speaker" Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation;kansas;slavery;u.s. - Congress; Antislavery Movement - United States;serfs THE FIGHT WITH THE SNAPPING TURTLE; OR, THE AMERICAN ST. GEORGE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you heard of philip slingsby Last Line: All in pennsylvanian bonds!' Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Clay, Henry (1777-1852); Fights; Turtles; Tyler, John (1790-1862); United States - Politics & Government; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852); Tortoises THE FIREBOMBERS, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are america Subject(s): United States; Theology THE FIRST AMERICAN CONGRESS, by JOEL BARLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Columbus looked; and still around them spread Last Line: And independence thunder'd from his tongue. Subject(s): United States - Congress THE FLAG, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirits of patriots, hail in heaven again Last Line: And make the issue sure! Subject(s): Flags - United States; American Flag THE FLAG, by HENRY LYNDEN FLASH Poem Text First Line: Up with the banner of the free! Last Line: Beneath its steadfast stars. Subject(s): Flags - United States; Spanish-american War (1898); American Flag THE FLAG, by EDWARD A. HORTON Poem Text First Line: Why do I love our flag? Ask why Last Line: God give it leadership, and might! Subject(s): Flags - United States; World War I; American Flag; First World War THE FLAG, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let it idly droop, or sway Last Line: In undreamed-of day! Subject(s): Flags - United States; American Flag THE FLAG GOES BY, by HENRY HOLCOMB BENNETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hats off! / along the street there comes Last Line: The flag is passing by! Subject(s): Flags - United States; Marching & Marches; Patriotism; American Flag THE FLAG ON THE FARM, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We've raised a flagpole on the farm Last Line: "as if to say: ""I'll do my bit!" Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Flags - United States; American Flag THE FLAG TRIUMPHANT, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across my window blow the splendid folds Last Line: Flag of my country! Subject(s): Flags - United States; Patriotism; American Flag THE FLAG WE LOVE SO WELL (MARCHING SONG), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: March along, march along, with a song Last Line: Chorus: on, on, by dark or dawn, etc. Subject(s): Flags - United States; World War I; American Flag; First World War THE FLEET AT SANTIAGO, by CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heart leaps with the pride of their story Last Line: How we thrill with the joy of their fame! Subject(s): Navy - United States; Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Santiago, Cuba; Spanish-american War (1898); American Navy THE FLOWER OF LIBERTY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What flower is this that greets the morn Last Line: The starry flower of liberty! Subject(s): American Revolution; Flags - United States; Patriotism; American Flag THE FOE AT THE GATES, by JOHN DICKSON BRUNS Poem Text First Line: Ring round her! Children of her glorious skies Last Line: The last grand holocaust of liberty. Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; United States - History THE FORGOTTEN CITY, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When with my mother I was coming down Subject(s): Americans; United States; America THE FOURTH OF JULY, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day of glory! Welcome day! Last Line: Till there's war no more! Subject(s): Fourth Of July; United States - Declaration Of Independence; Independence Day THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1776, by MAURICE HENRY HEWLETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When england's king put english to the horn Last Line: On england with more honour to her name. Subject(s): World War I - Great Britain; World War I - United States THE FREED ISLANDS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A few brief years have passed away Last Line: "to new-world tyrants, old-world kings!" Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; West Indies; Antislavery Movement - United States; British Empire; England - Empire; Caribbean Islands 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 GATHERING OF THE GRAND ARMY, by CHARLOTTE L. FORTEN GRIMKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through all the city's streets there poured a flood Last Line: And love and peace prevail from shore to shore. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army - United States; United States - History THE GENERAL ARMSTRONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "come, all you sons of liberty, that to the seas belong" Last Line: Then haul'd our wind and stood again for freedom's happy shore Subject(s): General Armstrong (ship);navy - United States;war Of 1812; American Navy THE GENERAL'S BRIEFING, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the infant formula plant Last Line: No salt for tears no sea for sewage -- Subject(s): Apathy; Military-industrial Complex; Popular Culture - United States; War; War - Home Front THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS, by ABRAHAM LINCOLN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fourscore and seven years ago Last Line: Shall not perish from the earth. Variant Title(s): At Gettysburg Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Religion; United States - History; United States; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Theology; America THE GIFT, by LI-YOUNG LEE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: To pull the metal splinter from my palm Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Men; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations THE GIFT OUTRIGHT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The land was ours before we were the land's Last Line: Such as she was, such as she would become Subject(s): Inaugural Poem; United States; War; America 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 GRAVEYARD AT WEST POINT, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On this sweet sabbath morning, let us wander Last Line: Until the end of all! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Soldiers; United States - Military Academy; Graveyards; Dead, The THE GREAT AMERICAN HOME, by MRS. F. C. JAHNKE Poem Text First Line: America promised them freedom Last Line: Is the great american home. Subject(s): Home; United States - Immigration & Emigtration THE GULF, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The airport coffee tastes less of america Subject(s): Air Travel; Texas; United States; America THE GUNS IN THE GRASS [MAY 8, 1846], by THOMAS FROST Poem Text First Line: As hang two mighty thunderclouds Last Line: We battle -- and the field is won! Subject(s): Palo Alto, Battle Of (1846); Taylor, Zachary (1784-1850); United States - Mexican War (1846-1848) THE HALLOWED STAR OF GOLD, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Twas a little gray house by an old country road Last Line: "the voice of this star through my art." Subject(s): Flags - United States; Patriotism; Soldiers; American Flag 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 HERO OF FORT WAGNER, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fort wagner! That is a place for us Last Line: "and you can scale the wall!" Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History THE HIGH TIDE AT GETTYSBURG [JULY 3, 1863], by WILL HENRY THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cloud possessed the hollow field Last Line: Lamenting all her fallen sons! Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; United States - History; War; Liberty; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Declaration Day THE HISTORY OF AMERICA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A linear projection: a route. It crosses Last Line: Wonder you fear this bleeding pulse, no wonder Subject(s): History; United States; Historians; America THE HOMING, by JOHN JEROME ROONEY Poem Text First Line: Admiral, admiral, sailing home Last Line: Our men, as of old, are men in truth! Subject(s): Navy - United States; American Navy 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 HOUSE OF BONDAGE, by AUGUSTINE JOSEPH HICKEY DUGANNE Poem Text First Line: From mossy woods and cypress bolls Last Line: O god! Break not mine oath for me! Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; United States - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty THE HOUSE ON MOSCOW STREET, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's the ragged source of memory Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Family Life; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Relatives THE HULA SKIRT, 1959, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before my fourth birthday my father Last Line: That much I remember Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations THE HUSBAND'S RETURN, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The proud, majestic southern sun Last Line: And lit with joy his way. Subject(s): African Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Negroes; American Blacks; Antislavery Movement - United States THE INCOGNITO LOUNGE, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The manager lady of this Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States THE INDIAN BURYING GROUND, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In spite of all the learned have said Last Line: To shadows and delusions here. Subject(s): Americans; Cemeteries; Native Americans; United States; Graveyards; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; America THE INDIAN'S WELCOME TO THE PILGRIM FATHERS, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above them spread a strange sky Last Line: Say, who shall welcome thee? Subject(s): Americans; Native Americans; Pilgrim Fathers; United States; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; America THE JACKET OF GREY, by CAROLINE AUGUSTA BALL Poem Text First Line: Fold it up carefully, lay it aside Last Line: The jacket of grey our loved soldier boy wore! Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Confederacy THE JEW IN AMERICA, by FELIX NAPOLEON GERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wing thee, my song, and in majestic flight Last Line: We shall emerge, unchanged, to face our god. Subject(s): Jews; Jews - United States; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Right To Asylum; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Judaism THE JUBILEE SINGERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Voice of a people suffering long Last Line: And slavery's every wrong undone! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We cross the prairie as of old Last Line: The homestead of the free! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Homesteaders; Kansas; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs THE KNIGHTS OF THE NEW CHIVALRY, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What does our soldier take to war? Last Line: Could knightly soldier take to war? Subject(s): Army - United States THE LADY IN THE PINK MUSTANG, by LOUISE ERDRICH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun goes down for hours, taking more of her along Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Popular Culture - United States; Estrangement; Outcasts 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 LANDING OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS IN NEW ENGLAND [NOVEMBER 19, 1620], by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The breaking waves dashed high / on a stern and rock-bound coast Last Line: Freedom to worship god. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Variant Title(s): The Landing Of The Pilgrim Fathers;the Pilgrim Fathers Subject(s): Freedom; Holidays; Patriotism; Pilgrim Fathers; Plymouth, Massachusetts; Thanksgiving Day; United States; Women; Liberty; America THE LAST APPENDIX TO YANKEE DOODLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Yankee doodle sent to town Last Line: As having been completely licked / by glorious yankee doodle Subject(s): United States; America THE LAST CHARGE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, men of the north! Will you join in the strife Last Line: His sceptre once broken, the world is our own! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History THE LAST REVIEW, by EMILY J. BUGBEE Poem Text First Line: Twenty-one miles of boys in blue Last Line: His spirit would thrill at a scene like this. Subject(s): American Civil War; Religion; United States - History; Theology THE LAST WOLF, by MARY TALLMOUNTAIN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last wolf hurried toward me Alternate Author Name(s): Randle, Mary Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations THE LEADER, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Down the hollow, up the hill Last Line: Where the flag goesthere go I! Subject(s): Flags - United States; Freedom; Patriotism; Summer; American Flag; Liberty THE LEGEND OF BOASTFUL BILL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At a roundup on the gily Last Line: "huh! Are you the great grandchildren of the west!" Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Americans; Cowboys; Ranch Life; United States; West (u.s.); America; Southwest; Pacific States THE LETTER ON THE BRINK OF WAR, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dears, / you're already painting the porch? You ladies are up early Last Line: And dare we talk about the future? / love, eddie Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Letters; Social Commentaries; Politics & Government; United States THE LIBERTY SONG (WITH MUSIC), by JOHN DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come join hand in hand, brave americans all Last Line: Not as slaves, but as freemen our money we'll give. Alternate Author Name(s): Penman Of The Revolution Subject(s): Freedom; United States - Colonial Period; Liberty 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 LITTLE CLOUD, by JOHN HOWARD BRYANT Poem Text First Line: As when, on carmel's sterile steep Last Line: The blessed liberty of god. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Missouri Compromise; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty THE LITTLE FLAGS, by JOHN CLAIR MINOT Poem Text First Line: Oh, when you see them flying Last Line: "not sometime, by and by!" Subject(s): Flags - United States; American Flag THE LITTLE WHITE GLOVE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The early springtime faintly flushed the earth Last Line: "but, god of heaven! I dreamed that stain was blood!" Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History THE LONESOME DREAM, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the america of the dream Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Dreams; United States; Race Awareness; Nightmares; America 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 LOST WAR-SLOOP, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the pride of portsmouth water Last Line: Still a rover of the seas and glory's own! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Navy - United States; New Hampshire; War Of 1812; Wasp (ship); American Navy THE MAIL HAS COME, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the bitter pangs of hope deferred Last Line: Each kind letter thence is thrice welcome to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): American Civil War; Postal Service; United States - History; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen 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 IN CHRYSANTHEMUM LAND, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a brave little berry-brown man Last Line: Who fight for chrysanthemum land. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Courage; Fights; Japan; United States; Valor; Bravery; Japanese; America 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 MARCH INTO VIRGINIA, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did all the lets and bars appear Last Line: Thy after shock, manassas, share. Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; United States - History; Manassas, Batlle Of THE MARINE, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: In assorted shades of green Last Line: "will be there!" Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Freedom; Marines - United States; Liberty 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 MARYLAND BATTALION [AUGUST 27, 1776], by JOHN WILLIAMSON PALMER Poem Text First Line: Spruce macaronis, and pretty to see Last Line: And fair freedom is singing sweet home in the west. Subject(s): American Revolution; Brooklyn Heights, Battle Of (1776); Patriotism; United States - Continental Army 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 MATCHLESS FLAG, by JOSEPH FULFORD FOLSOM Poem Text First Line: The flag that ripples on the breeze Last Line: To publish liberty afar. Subject(s): Flags - United States; Patriotism; American Flag 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 MEN BEHIND THE GUNS, by JOHN JEROME ROONEY Poem Text First Line: A cheer and salute for the admiral, and here's to the captain bold Last Line: Men behind the guns! Subject(s): Navy - United States; Patriotism; Spanish-american War (1898); American Navy THE MEN: 1, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I saw black men Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations THE MEN: 2, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our streets filled Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations THE MEN: 3, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the world Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations THE MEN: 4, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black men Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations THE MEN: 5, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young men Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations 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 MINKS, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the backyard of our house on norwood, Last Line: Character and beauty Variant Title(s): Captivity: The Minks Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration THE MORAL WARFARE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When freedom, on her natal day Last Line: The light, and truth, and love of heaven. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty 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 MOTHERS OF THE WEST, by WILLIAM DAVIS GALLAGHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mothers of our forest-land! Last Line: "the dark and bloody ground." Subject(s): Middle West; Pioneers; United States; Women; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; America THE MOTORCYCLISTS, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My cuticles are a mess. Oh honey, by the way Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States THE MOUTH OF THE HUDSON, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A single man stands like a bird-watcher Subject(s): Americans; United States; America THE MUSTER; SUGGESTED BY TWO DAYS' REVIEW AT WASHINGTON, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The abrahamic river - / patriarch of floods Last Line: By rills from kansas lone. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army - United States; U.s. - History THE NAME OF OLD GLORY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old glory! Say, who Last Line: . . . So I came by the name of old glory. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flags - United States; Patriotism; American Flag 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 NATION'S COURAGE (WRITTEN IN THE WORLD WAR), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As thou hast kept our nation, lord Last Line: Lead thou the armies of the right! Subject(s): Prayer; United States; World War I; America; First World War THE NATION'S PRAYER, by CRAMMOND KENNEDY Poem Text First Line: Before thy throne we bow Last Line: The jubilee! Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; United States - History THE NEW ALLY, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Their great gray ships go plunging forth Last Line: Their pact with freedom while we slept! Subject(s): World War I - United States THE NEW ANTHEM, by NORMAN BOLKER Poem Text First Line: Hammered steel strips laid out Last Line: With joy and peace on every face. Subject(s): Poverty; Racism; Religious Discrimination; Social Protest; United States; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Religious Conflict; America THE NEW APARTMENT: MINNEAPOLIS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The floorboards creak Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Memory; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians THE NEW COLOSSUS, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not like the brazen giant of greek fame Last Line: "I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Subject(s): Americans; Art & Artists; Freedom; Immigrants; Religion; Statue Of Liberty; United States; Liberty; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Theology; America THE NEW CRUSADE, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is a trifle Last Line: Who war against war. Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I - United States THE NEW WORLD; TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time of the splendour of youth Last Line: Hail to the sunrise! Hail to the pioneers! Subject(s): World War I - United States THE NEW YEAR; ADDRESSED TO PATRONS OF PENNSYLAVNIA FREEMAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wave is breaking on the shore Last Line: A new and happy year. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Holidays; New Year; Antislavery Movement - United States THE NIGHT ORCHARD, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: They have given me a room near the power station Subject(s): United States; America THE NINETEENTH OF APRIL, 1861, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This year, till late in april, the snow fell thick and light Last Line: Our blood may seal the victory, but god will shield the right! Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day THE NORTHERN SOLDIER (2), by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In vain you talk of fruits and flowers Last Line: Our free-born limbs to bind. Subject(s): American Revolution; Army - United States THE OLD COVE, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As vonce I valked by a dismal swamp Last Line: "all that I axed vos, let me alone." Variant Title(s): Let Us Alone;all We Ask Is To Be Let Alone Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); State Rights; United States - History; Confederacy; Secession THE OLD THIRTEEN, by CHARLES TIMOTHY BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The curtain rises on a hundred years Last Line: She on her anchor, hope, leans, and will ever lean. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooks, C. T. Subject(s): United States - Colonial Period THE PACIFIC RAILWAY, by C. R. BALLARD Poem Text First Line: Tis done - the wondrous thorough-fare Last Line: And nations shall learn war no more. Subject(s): Railroads; United States - History; Railways; Trains THE PALLOR OF SURVIVAL, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm lucky: autumn is flawless today Last Line: Turns, an open gate. Subject(s): Christianity; Converts, Catholic; Evans, Bill (1929-1980); Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Loss; Moving & Movers; Nuns; Refugees; Survival; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Violence; Judaism THE PANORAMA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the long hall the shuttered windows shed Last Line: And shame his poor word with your nobler deed. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Serfs 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 PASTORAL LETTER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So, this is all, - the utmost reach Last Line: Shall deeper joy be felt in heaven! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States THE PATRIOT'S LAMENT, by JOSEPH CEPHAS HOLLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, weep for columbia! Oh, weep for the time! Last Line: And forever the glorious, and happy to reign. Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America THE PEOPLE'S PRAYER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God bless our dear united states Last Line: And ever guard her liberty. Subject(s): Prayer; United States; America THE PICKET-GUARD [NOVEMBER, 1861], by ETHEL LYNN BEERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All quiet along the potomac,' they say Last Line: The picket's off duty forever. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, Ethelinda; Lynn, Ethel Variant Title(s): All Quiet Along The Potomac Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; Potomac River; Rivers; United States - History THE PINE TREE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lift again the stately emblem on the bay state's rusted shield Last Line: And to plant again the pine-tree in her banner's tattered field! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Massachusetts; Pine Trees; Trees; Antislavery Movement - United States THE POET, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You would procure the oil of forgiveness from the angel Last Line: With great humility, bathed in tears and barefoot. Subject(s): Americanization; Cities; Decay; Modern Man; United States; Urban Life; Rot; Decadence; America THE POLITICAL BALANCE; OR THE FATES OF BRITAIN & AMERICA ..., by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deciding fates, in homer's stile, I shew Last Line: "a curse to mankind -- and a blot on the ball." Subject(s): Great Britain; United States; America THE PORTENT, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hanging from the beam Last Line: The meteor of the war. Subject(s): Abolitionists; American Civil War; Brown, John (1800-1859); Slavery; Social Protest; United States - History; Anti-slavery; Serfs THE PRAIRIE-GRASS DIVIDING, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The prairie-grass dividing, its special odor breathing Last Line: Those of inland america. Subject(s): Prairies; United States; Plains; America THE PRESENT CRISIS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a deed is done for freedom, through the broad earth's aching breast Last Line: Blood-rusted key. Subject(s): Freedom; Justice; Religion; United States; Liberty; Theology; America 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 PRIZE OF THE MARGARETTA, by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four young men, of a monday morn Last Line: That men may follow and boys may lead. Alternate Author Name(s): Carleton, Will Subject(s): American Revolution; Margaretta (ship); Navy - United States; Sea Battles; American Navy; Naval Warfare 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 PURE PRODUCTS OF AMERICA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of the southeast asian war Last Line: But I wish he'd quit Subject(s): Children; United States; War; Childhood; America 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 RAISING OF THE FLAG, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lift up the banner of our love Last Line: The whole earth shining on! Subject(s): Flags - United States; American Flag THE REBEL, by INNES RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I'm a good old rebel, that's what I am Last Line: I won't be reconstructed and I don't give a damn. Variant Title(s): Unreconstructed Subject(s): American Civil War; Hate; United States - History THE REED, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when the poet, muttering low Last Line: "come,"" said she, ""sing thy reed-song through the world." Subject(s): Civilization; Criticism & Critics; Justice; Music & Musicians; Nations; Poetry & Poets; United States; America THE REGENT'S EXAMINATION, by JESSIE WALLACE HUGHAN Poem Text First Line: Muffled sounds of the city climbing to me at the window Last Line: Neuter and safe shall it be? Or a flame to burst us asunder? Subject(s): Examinations; Immigrants; Racism; United States - Race Relations; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry THE RELIC, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Token of friendship, true and tried Last Line: And turn the spoiler from his prey. Subject(s): Arson; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Antislavery Movement - United States THE REST, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O helpless few in my country Last Line: I have beaten out my exile. Subject(s): Exiles; United States; America THE RETURN OF THE BIRDS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear, from many a little throat Last Line: "and freedom to the slave!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Birds; Holidays; Trees; United States - History 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 REVEILLE, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands Last Line: "lord, we come!" Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Variant Title(s): What The Drums Say Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; United States - History THE RISING GLORY OF AMERICA, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now shall the adventurous muse attempt a theme Last Line: And future years of bliss alone remain. Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Native Americans; Science; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Scientists; America THE RIVER FIGHT; APRIL 18, 1862, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you know of the dreary land Last Line: And the traitor flags come down. Subject(s): American Civil War; Farragut, David Glascow (1801-1870); Navy - United States; New Orleans, Battle Of (1862); Patriotism; Slavery; United States - History; American Navy; Serfs THE RUNAWAY, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH Poem Text First Line: Ya, I'm a runaway wife. God's truth, which I don't deny Last Line: I'll see you in hell before I'll go backmy girl is american born. Subject(s): Escapes; Peasantry; Police; Russia; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Fugitives; Soviet Union; Russians THE SEA GULL, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I seek not the grove where the wood-robins whistle Last Line: And a white wing flap o'er his early grave. Subject(s): Navy - United States; Porter, David (1780-1843); Ships & Shipping; American Navy 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 SELF-BETRAYAL WHICH IS NOTHING NEW, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look now, miraculous, mirabillis, and true! Subject(s): Fame; United States; Reputation; America THE SETTLER: AMERICA IN THE MAKING, by ALFRED BILLINGS STREET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His echoing ax the settler swung Last Line: A nation's freedom won. Subject(s): Pioneers; United States; America THE SEVENTH VIAL, by WILLARD WATTLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These are the days when men draw pens for swords Last Line: Tho this is war, there is another war! Subject(s): Democracy; United States; War; America 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 SINKING OF THE MERRIMAC [MAY 10, 1862], by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Gone down in the flood, and gone out in the flame! Last Line: Then sink them together, -- the ship and the name! Subject(s): American Civil War; Sea Battles; United States - History; Virginia (ship); Naval Warfare; Merrimac (ship) THE SLAVE MOTHER, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heard you that shriek? It rose Last Line: Oh, father! Must they part? Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Americans; Slavery; United States; Serfs; America THE SLAVE-MONGERS' CONVENTION: CANTO 2, SELECTION, by J. P. RANDOLPH Poem Text First Line: My brethren, most beloved and dear Last Line: Your whips -- Subject(s): American Civil War; Bible; Clergy; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; U.s. - History; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs THE SOCIAL SWIM, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The social swim! You know the rules Last Line: The social swim. Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Social Classes; Social Protest; Caste THE SOLDIER BOY'S DREAM, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A soldier boy lay dreaming Last Line: Of liberty, new found. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): American Civil War; Dreams; Freedom; Soldiers; United States - History; Nightmares; Liberty THE SOLDIER'S FIRESIDE, AFTER A BATTLE, by M. T. C. Poem Text First Line: They sat by the dying embers Last Line: And hope for their country too. Subject(s): American Civil War; Anxiety; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); United States - History THE SONG OF SHERMAN'S ARMY, by CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pillar of fire by night Last Line: For sherman and grant, hurrah! Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Miles Subject(s): American Civil War; Georgia (state); Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History THE SONG OF THE FOREIGN-BORN, by ROBERT EMMET CARROLL Poem Text First Line: We came, and you bade us welcome Last Line: The stars and stripes unfurled. Subject(s): Freedom; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Liberty THE SOUTH CAROLINA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My dear brother ned Last Line: "she will us attend, / for the south carolina we've lost" Subject(s): American Revolution;navy - United States;sea Battles;south Carolina (ship); American Navy;naval Warfare THE SPARROW HARK IN THE RAIN (ALEXANDER STEPHENS HEARS NEWS), by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That's done! And well, I'd rather not have gone Last Line: And I arose and left. Subject(s): American Civil War; Stephens, Alexander Hamilton (1812-1883); United States - History THE SPIRIT VOICE; OR, LIBERTY CALL TO THE DISENFRANCHISED, by CHARLES L. REASON Poem Text First Line: Come! Rouse ye brothers, rouse! A peal now breaks Last Line: From partial bondage to a life indeed. Subject(s): African Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803); Negroes; American Blacks; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty THE SPOILS OF WAR, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What does our soldier bring from war? Last Line: Could knightly soldier bring from war? Subject(s): Army - United States; World War I; First World War 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 STAR OF LIBERTY, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: There shone a gem on england's crown Last Line: On thy calm breast, america! Subject(s): Freedom; United States; Liberty; America THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was sure then, as I sang along Last Line: Ricky's accent so much like how she remembers yours Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER, by FRANCIS SCOTT KEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light Last Line: Brave. Variant Title(s): Final Curtain;defence Of Fort Mchenry Subject(s): Flags - United States; Fort Mchenry, Battle Of (1814); Fourth Of July; Freedom; Napoleon I (1769-1821); National Song - United States; Patriotism; United States; War Of 1812; American Flag; Independence Day; Liberty; American National Anthem; America THE STARS AND STRIPES, by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rally round the flag, boys Last Line: And god will bless the right. Subject(s): Flags - United States; American Flag 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 STRIPES AND THE STARS; APRIL, 1861, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O star-spangled banner! The flag of our pride! Last Line: One country one banner the stripes and the stars! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Flags - United States; Freedom; Patriotism; U.s. - History; American Flag; Liberty THE STUDENT, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In america everybody must have a degree,' the french man Subject(s): Schools; Education; France; United States; Students; America THE SUBSTITUTE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How say'st thou? Die to-morrow? Last Line: Knelt by the corse -- alone. Subject(s): American Civil War; Capital Punishment; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Confederacy THE SUCCESSION, by FRANCES LAUGHTON MACE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As one by one the singers of our land Last Line: For his soul's peace his life to song has given. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; United States; America THE SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX [APRIL 9, 1865], by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As billows upon billows roll Last Line: Lee. Subject(s): American Civil War; Appomattox, Virginia; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); United States - History THE SURVIVAL OF THE UNFIT, by HEINRICH LEHR Poem Text First Line: A trillion trillion years ago Last Line: And grow into the sons of god. Subject(s): Army - United States; Military; Soldiers; Survival; World War I; First World War THE SWAMP ANGEL, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a coal-black angel Last Line: Christ, the forgiver, convert his mind. Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; Guns; United States - History THE SWEET LITTLE MAN; DEDICATED TO THE STAY-AT-HOME RANGERS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, while our soldiers are fighting our battles Last Line: Take your white-feather plume, sweet little man! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History THE TALK SHOW, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman heard angels. The paper says angels Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States THE TEARS OF A MUSE IN AMERICA, by FRANK TEMPLETON PRINCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call out, celebrate the beam Last Line: Stand silent as a tree, this verse no longer weeps. Alternate Author Name(s): Prince, F. T. Subject(s): United States; America THE TEMERAIRE, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gloomy hulls, in armor grim Last Line: O, the temeraire no more! Subject(s): American Civil War; Art & Artists; Paintings & Painters; Sea Battles; Turner, Joseph Mallord W. (1775-1851); United States - History; Naval Warfare THE TEMPERANCE ARMY, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come all ye friends, and citizens Last Line: Will do you all no harm. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Army - United States THE THREE GIVERS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: England gave me sun and storm Last Line: That gave the richest gift to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; England; Ireland; United States; English; Irish; America 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 TOPOGRAPHY OF HISTORY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All cities are open in the hot season Last Line: "calling out ""o love, love,"" but finding none" Subject(s): Death; Hate; History; Maps; United States; Dead, The; Historians; America THE TRAGIC CONDITION OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me your tired, your poor Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty; Social Commentaries; Popular Culture - United States 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 TRUTH IS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my left pocket a chickasaw hand Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Women; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; 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 TWILIGHT HOUR, by JOSHUA MCCARTER SIMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I sat one evening in sweet meditation Last Line: The captive from bondage, will shortly release. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States THE TWO BRAVE SOLDIERS, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My friends, I pray you listen, Last Line: And caused them both to fall. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Army - United States THE UNDEFEATED FLAG, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Aye, set that banner in the sky--let every towering crag Last Line: Show out old glory in the sunthe undefeated flag! Subject(s): Flags - United States; World War I; American Flag; First World War 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 UNIFORM, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the sleeves, I remember their weight, like wet wool Last Line: A wounded eardrum wasn't much in the scheme. Subject(s): Army - United States; Clothing & Dress; Military THE UNITED STATES, by JOHN KEBLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tyre of the farther west! Be thou too warned Last Line: Her towers, and lone sands heap her crowned merchants' graves. Subject(s): United States; America THE UNITED STATES, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven years long was the bow / of battle bent, and the heightening Last Line: Shout for the joy of her face. Subject(s): United States; America THE UNITED STATES AND MACEDONIAN (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How glows each yankee patriot bosom that boasts yankee heart Last Line: "who 'fore they'd strike, will nobly sink / our yankee boys" Subject(s): Macedonian (ship);sea Battles;united States (ship);war Of 1812; Naval Warfare THE UNITED STATES AND MACEDONIAN (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The banner of freedom high floated unfurled Last Line: "shall ne'er be known to yield - be known to yield or fly, / her motto is 'glory! We can conquer or Subject(s): Macedonian (ship);sea Battles;united States (ship);war Of 1812; Naval Warfare THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: They stand like sentries at a country's gates Last Line: While men have no appeal except to him. Subject(s): Judges; Justice; Law & Lawyers; Trials; United States - Supreme Court; Attorneys THE UNITED STATES TO OLD WORLD CRITICS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here first the duties of to-day, the lessons of the concrete Last Line: The solid-planted spires tall shooting to the stars. Subject(s): United States; America THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT SERVICE FLAG - 1517 STARS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It surely does you good Last Line: Will guard your honor still. Subject(s): Education; Flags - United States; Schools; Universities & Colleges; Vermont; American Flag; Students THE UNSUNG HEROES, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A song for the unsung heroes who rose in the country's need Last Line: Who fought their way from night to day and struggled up to god. Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; United States - History; Liberty THE VICTOR AT ANTIETAM [SEPTEMBER 17, 1862], by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When tempest winnowed grain from bran Last Line: And great antietam's cheers renew. Subject(s): American Civil War; Antietam, Battle Of (1862); Mcclellan, George Brinton (1826-1885); United States - History THE VICTORIES OF PEACE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Gone is the tempest that clouded Last Line: Hope for the days that have brightened. Subject(s): Peace; United States; America THE VIRGINIANS OF THE VALLEY, by FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The knightliest of the knightly race Last Line: But not a knight asleep. Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; United States - History; Virginia (state) THE VISION OF GETTYSBURG (1863-1913), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What if, that day, when on those tawny slopes Last Line: The squandered blood of gettysburgs to come. Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); United States - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of THE VOICE OF WEBSTER, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silence was envious of the only voice Last Line: Long shall its echoes rouse the patriot's heart. Subject(s): American Civil War; Democracy; United States - Congress - Senate; United States - History; United States - Reconstruction (1865-1877); Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) THE VOLUNTEERS, by WILLIAM HAINES LYTLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The volunteers! The volunteers / I dream, as in the by-gone years Last Line: Shall spring the volunteers once more. Subject(s): Army - United States; Heroism; U.s. - Mexican War (1846-1848); Heroes; Heroines 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 WAR SHIP OF PEACE, by SAMUEL LOVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet land of song, thy harp doth hang Last Line: Columbia's glorious name. Subject(s): Ireland - Famine; Jamestown (ship); Navy - United States; American Navy THE WASHERS OF THE SHROUD; OCTOBER, 1861, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along a river-side, I know not where Last Line: While waking I recalled my wandering brain. Subject(s): American Civil War; Potomac River; Rivers; United States - History 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) THE WASP AND THE HORNET, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The two proud sisters of the sea Last Line: The paths they swept of old! Subject(s): Hornet (ship); Navy - United States; Wasp (ship); American Navy THE WAY THINGS ARE IN FRANKLIN, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even the undertaker is going out Subject(s): Americans; United States; America THE WHITE HOUSE, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: Marines mount guard at the white house palace Last Line: Says alice. Subject(s): Marines - United States; White House (washington, D.c.) THE WHITE WITCH, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, brothers mine, take care! Take care! Last Line: And in her smile there is a blight. Subject(s): Miscegenation; United States - Race Relations THE WILLIAM P. FRYE [FEBRUARY 28, 1915], by JEANNE ROBERT FOSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw her first abreast the boston light Last Line: To make the harbor glad because she's come. Subject(s): Submarines; William P. Frye (ship); World War I - United States; Submarine Warfare; U-boats THE WOMAN HANGING FROM THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR WINDOW, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is the woman hanging from the 13th floor Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Gays & Lesbians; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE WORLD'S CONVENTION OF FRIENDS OF EMANCIPATION IN LONDON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, let them gather! Summon forth Last Line: The fire shall fall from heaven! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States THE WOUND-DRESSER, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: An old man bending I come among new faces Last Line: Many a soldier's kiss dwells on these bearded lips.) Variant Title(s): The Dresser Subject(s): American Civil War; Nurses; Travel; United States - History; War; Journeys; Trips THE YANKEE MAN-OF-WAR (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Tis of a gallant yankee ship that flew the stripes and stars Last Line: Down the north channel paul jones did steer just at the break of day Subject(s): "american Revolution;jones, John Paul (1747-1792);navy - United States;ranger (ship);" American Navy THE YANKEE PRIVATEER, by ARTHUR HALE Poem Text First Line: Come listen and I'll tell you Last Line: For the yankee privateer! Subject(s): American Revolution; Navy - United States; Patriotism; Privateers; Providence (ship); Whipple, Abraham (1733-1819); American Navy THE YANKEE VOLUNTEERS, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye yankee volunteers! Last Line: Poor yankee doodle! Subject(s): United States; America THE YANKEE'S RETURN FROM CAMP [JUNE, 1775], by EDWARD BANGS Poem Text First Line: Father and I went down to camp Last Line: Locked up in mother's chamber. Variant Title(s): Yankee Doodle Subject(s): American Revolution; United States - Continental Army THE YEAR OF JUBILEE, by HENRY CLAY WORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, darkeys, hab you seen de massa Last Line: An' de yar ob jubilo. Variant Title(s): Year Of Jubilo;kingdom Coming Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Richmond Campaign (1864); United States - History THE ZEBRA GOES WILD WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS, by HENRY DUMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neon stripes tighten my wal Subject(s): United States; Racism; Fathers; America; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry 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) THERE IS POWER IN A UNION, by JOE HILL Poem Source First Line: Would you have freedom from wage-slavery? Last Line: One industrial union grand Alternate Author Name(s): Hillstrom, Joesph; Hagglund, Joel Subject(s): United States THERE'S NO LAND LIKE OUR LAND, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text Last Line: Loyal service all life through Subject(s): Patriotism; United States THESE STATES, INTO L.A., by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Organs and war news / radio static from saigon Subject(s): United States; America THESE STATES, INTO L.A., by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Organs and war news %radio static from saigon Last Line: Turquoise brilliance shining on sidestreets Subject(s): United States THESE UNITED STATES, by BENJAMIN ROBBINS CURTIS LOW Poem Text First Line: New, for the most part: very, very new Last Line: But make her worthy, for we love her, lord! Subject(s): United States; America THESE YET TO BE UNITED STATES, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tremors of your network Last Line: Which fill your children's throats Subject(s): United States; America THESE YET TO BE UNITED STATES, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tremors of your network Last Line: And cannot hear the curses %which fill your children's throats Subject(s): United States THEY DIDN'T GET ME, by ALMA LUZ VILLANUEVA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: All on its own %and I'm amazed Variant Title(s): They Didn't Get M Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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) THIRTY AND FIVE BOOKS, by MYUNG MI KIM Poem Source First Line: Never having been here when the sun rose Last Line: All harmonics sound Subject(s): Aliens; Ethnic Groups - United States; Korea; Labor And Laborers; Navigation; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration THIS IS A FATHERLAND TO ME, by JOSEPH CEPHAS HOLLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Tell me not of fatherland Last Line: We may abide if anywhere. Subject(s): African Americans; United States; Negroes; American Blacks; America THIS POEM, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: Some minor family crisis last night Last Line: Or the way my legs are crossed, my toes turning blue Subject(s): Working Class - United States 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 THOMPSON'S LUNCH ROOM: GRAND CENTRAL STATION: STUDY IN WHITES, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wax white - / floor, ceiling, walls Subject(s): Americans; United States; America THOMPSON'S LUNCH ROOM: GRAND CENTRAL STATION: STUDY IN WHITES, by AMY LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wax white - %floor, ceiling, walls Last Line: Sharp, invisible zigzags %of silver Subject(s): Americans; United States THOREAU, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father and I have no place to go Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Exiles; Loss; Marginality, Social; Moving & Movers; Refugees; Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862); United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Estrangement; Outcasts THOSE REBEL FLAGS, by JOHN H. JEWETT Poem Text First Line: Shall we send back the johnnies their bunting Last Line: Is america's watchword to-day. Subject(s): Flags - Confederate States Of America; Flags - United States; United States; American Flag; America 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) THOUGHT (2), by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness Last Line: The lead of those who do not believe in men. Subject(s): United States; America THOUGHTS ON THE LATE WAR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was for union - you, ag'in it Last Line: Durin' the army. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Army - United States; Peace; War THRASH, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Fifteen minutes of the backstreet downbeat syncopated terrorism coming off Last Line: Through the air like a gun Subject(s): Jews - United States THREE GYPSIES, by SHALIN HAI-JEW Poem Source First Line: Blancing on oriental spike heels Last Line: He turns to watch this parade of gypsies Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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 THREE: 1) NOT POETRY, by ALEXANDRA THURMAN Poem Source First Line: And you've lowered the basket of salt Last Line: For nothing. You'll never go home again Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Poverty; United States THREE: 2) EXILE, by ALEXANDRA THURMAN Poem Source First Line: Gold, books, money, dust, home Last Line: Shriveled. No one thought to water them Subject(s): Exiles; United States TIGER, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white man is a tiger at my throat Last Line: The tiger in his strength his thirst must slake! Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Racism; United States; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; America TIME AND MONEY, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: Monday. March 10th. Exactly Last Line: The sooner it all falls out the better %same with my teeth Subject(s): Working Class - United States TIME FOR A NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM (FOR GEORGE BUSH), by DAVID R. TILLEY Poem Source First Line: Oh, say, can you flee by the dawn's early light Last Line: Strangled banger yet wave o'er the land of tv %and the home of the knave? Subject(s): Bush, George; United States TIPPERARY: 1. BY OUR OWN JAMES OPPENHEIM, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far, far, / the lineally-measured distance from east Last Line: But my sky-soaring soul, my myriad-hearted heart is there. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Geography; Oppenheim, James (1882-1932); Tipperary, Ireland; Travel; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Journeys; Trips 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 CERTAIN CIVILIAN, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did you ask dulcet rhymes from me? Last Line: For I lull nobody, and you will never understand me. Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History TO A FRENCH GIRL IN AMERICA, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: I cannot tell just where the difference lies Last Line: mabel kingsley richardson Subject(s): Freedom; History; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; United States; Liberty; Historians; America TO A FRIEND IN THE NAVY, SICK AT HOME, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wave, the wave, the yankee wave Last Line: You love the yankee wave. Subject(s): Navy - United States; Patriotism; American Navy TO A LADY ON HER REMARKABLE PRESERVATION IN AN HURRICANE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though thou did'st hear the tempest from afar Last Line: And what the blessings of maternal care! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Americans; Hurricanes; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; United States; America TO A MOTHER, by A. I. AMBLER Poem Text First Line: Oh mother, when with thy sorrow alone Last Line: Thou wilt call the lost once more thine own. Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Grief; Love; Mothers; United States - History; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness 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 tidefor 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 AMERICA, by LUCILE CHANDLER Poem Text First Line: For centuries, america, you lay Last Line: And find a friend, america, in you. Subject(s): United States; America TO AMERICA, by H. LEYVIK Poem Source First Line: For forty-one years I have lived in your borders, america Last Line: Embracing the glare of intimacy and farewell, america Subject(s): Jews - United States; United States TO AMERICA, by CHARLES LANGBRIDGE MORGAN Poem Text First Line: When the fire sinks in the grate Last Line: The fruits of hope, and love shall be awake. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Charles Subject(s): World War I - United States TO AMERICA, by MORLEY ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Whatever penman wrote or orator Last Line: And hear your armies thundering prophecy. Subject(s): World War I - United States TO AMERICA AFTER READING SOME UNGENEROUS CRITICISMS, by RICHARD GARNETT (1835-1906) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What though thy muse the singer's art Last Line: A homer or a shakespeare worthy thee. Subject(s): United States; America TO AMERICA IN WAR TIME, by OSCAR W. FIRKINS Poem Text First Line: Grave hour and solemn choice - bare is the sword Last Line: Love that we dreamt not, dared notsoar to thee! Subject(s): World War I - United States TO AMERICA'S UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by KARL E. MUNDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When from your silent sleep in france you came Last Line: the classmate Subject(s): Death; Graves; Soldiers; United States; Unknown Soldier; War; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; America TO AMERICA, CONCERNING ENGLAND, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Art thou her child, born in the proud midday Last Line: Without the crown divine thou might'st have worn. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): England; United States; English; America TO AMERICAN FLYERS IN MOROCCO, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have wished you wounded, I have wished you dead Last Line: That he may live to cringe at his own name. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Air Force - United States; Morocco TO ARMS, by PARK BENJAMIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awake! Arise, ye men of might! Last Line: Are sure to win the day! Subject(s): United States - Mexican War (1846-1848) TO BE SUNG ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We come to this country Subject(s): Fourth Of July; United States; Songs; Independence Day; America TO BECOME AN ISLANDER, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Steal a sloop from the harbor Last Line: Burn your face brown before sunset Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States TO CANAAN; A PURITAN WAR-SONG, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are you going, soldiers Last Line: A whirlwind from the north! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History TO DELAWARE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice welcome to thy sisters of the east Last Line: Glory and praise to god! Another state is free! Subject(s): Delaware; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States TO ELSIE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The pure products of america Subject(s): United States; Social Commentaries; America TO FANEUIL HALL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men! If manhood still ye claim Last Line: Up, to faneuil hall! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Faneuil Hall, Boston; Antislavery Movement - United States TO FOREIGN LANDS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle the new world Last Line: Therefore I send you my poems that you behold in them what you wanted. Subject(s): United States; America 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 H. N., by DAVID MURA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is always easy to sentimentalize old lovers. They are distant Last Line: You're probably indifferent. Which is just as well Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TO HAVE DONE WITH THE JUDGMENT OF GOD, SELS., by ANTONIN ARTAUD Poem Source First Line: I learned yesterday Last Line: Which he has tempered in a cut of his blood Subject(s): United States TO HELL AND BACK, WITH CAKE, by SAFIYA HENDERSON-HOLMES Poem Source First Line: It was spring, saturday Last Line: But holding my breath Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TO JESUS VILLANUEVA, WITH LOVE, by ALMA LUZ VILLANUEVA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My first vivid memory of you Last Line: Enough. Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Fathers; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations 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 MASSACHUSETTS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What though around thee blazes Last Line: Was sleeping, but not dead! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Massachusetts; Antislavery Movement - United States 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 MY COUNTRY, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've never praised you in my poems Last Line: And blame the poor for being poor Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): United States; Poetry & Poets; Social Commentaries TO ONE 'INVESTIGATED' BY THE LAST SENATE COMMITTEE, OR THE NEXT, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And though the walls have ears Last Line: To make a craven safety / count for honor's part Subject(s): Mccarthyism; United States - Congress - Senate 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 PENNSYLVANIA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O state prayer-founded! Never hung Last Line: And thy triumphal song. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Pennsylvania; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs TO PERSCEUTED FOREIGNERS, by PENINA MOISE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fly from the soil whose desolating creed Last Line: Come to the homes and bosoms of the free. Subject(s): Anti-semitism; Freedom; Immigrants; United States; Liberty; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; America TO POE: OVER THE PLANET, AIR ALBANY-BALTIMORE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Albany throned in snow Last Line: In the deathly gutter of 19th century Subject(s): United States TO ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Robert louis stevenson! / blue the lift and braw the dawn Last Line: Robert louis stevenson. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894); Strangers; United States; Writing & Writers; America 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 ROOSEVELT, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The voice that would reach you, hunter, must speak Last Line: And though you have everything, you are lacking one thing: god! Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): America - Exploration; Imperialism; United States TO SEDNA, THE INUIT SEA GODDESS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: In the storm when your father flung Last Line: Has brought your father, and all his work, down Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States TO THE CLOSE FRIEND MOST UNLIKE ME, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Sunday I thought of you-- Last Line: The little boy under the wheel of that car, for instance--alive Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States TO THE FEDERAL CONVENTION, by TIMOTHY DWIGHT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be then your counsels, as your subject, great Last Line: And grant new scions from each friendly sky. Subject(s): Federal Constitutional Convention; United States - History TO THE FIRST OF AUGUST, by ANN PLATO Poem Text First Line: Britannia's isles proclaim Last Line: That they may not depart. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; British Empire; England - Empire; Serfs TO THE FLAG OF STARS, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Source First Line: Yours was a wondrous story Subject(s): Flags - United States TO THE INVINCIBLE REPUBLIC, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: America! I have never breathed thy air Last Line: Of some vast advent that makes all things new. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): England; Kisses; Life; Soul; United States; English; America TO THE LAKE SQUADRONS, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brilliant task to you assign'd Last Line: Till, foundering in ontario's lake, %you swamp them all! Subject(s): Navy - United States; War Of 1812 TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS DAVIS, by JOHN FISHER MURRAY Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: When on the field where freedom bled Last Line: For slaves and cowards living on. Subject(s): Davis, Thomas Osborne (1814-1845); Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs TO THE RETURNING DEAD; OCTOBER 29, 1983, by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: There are no tears. How can there be a tear Last Line: And cruelly shining (like a rifle), bier Subject(s): Beirut - United States Troops (1982-3) TO THE RIGHT HON! WILLIAM EARL OF DARTMOUTH, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Happy day! When smiling like the morn Last Line: Where, like the prophet, thou shalt find thy god. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Americans; Freedom; Legge, William. 2d Earl Of Dartmouth; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; United States; Liberty; America 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 SOLDIERS BRAVE (ON THE DEPARTURE FROM BEIRUT), by JOCELYN HOLLIS Poem Source First Line: As to the soldiers brave I lend my courage Last Line: And fly away, and never look back Subject(s): Beirut - United States Troops (1982-3) 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 THE TENTH LEGION, NEW YORK STATE VOLUNTEERS, 1862, by RUTH NATALIE CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Marching along!-marching to the war Last Line: "for god and their country, they were marching along." Subject(s): American Civil War; Marching & Marches; Military Service, Voluntary; New York City - 19th Century; Patriotism; United States - History TO THE UNITED STATES ARMY, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It felt unusual Subject(s): Army - United States TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brothers in blood! They who this wrong began Last Line: Freedom and honor and sweet loving-kindness. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Patriotism; World War I - United States TO THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: United states, your banner wears Last Line: They mean your negroes' scars. Subject(s): Slavery; United States - Race Relations; Serfs TO THE UNITED STATES SENATE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And must the senator from illinois Last Line: Of the popular term armageddon in present day politics.] Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): United States - Congress - Senate TO THE WESTERN WORLD, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A siren sang, and europe turned away Subject(s): United States; America TO THE WHITE PEOPLE OF AMERICA, by JOSHUA MCCARTER SIMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er this wide, extended country Last Line: The judgment day will come by and by. Subject(s): Slavery; United States; Serfs; America TO THEE, MY COUNTRY, by LOUISE BURTON LAIDLAW Poem Text First Line: America, unbend that troubled brow! Last Line: Shall false and foolish fears hold thee in thrall? Alternate Author Name(s): Backus, L., Mrs. Subject(s): League Of Nations; Nations; Peace; United States; War; 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 THOSE WHO SING AMERICA, by FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, gentlemen, %your flag wavers Last Line: The other verses %anyway Subject(s): Patriotism; Racism; United States 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 TO WILLIAM E. CHANNING, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pages of thy book I read Last Line: This dread apocalypse! Subject(s): Channing, William Ellery (1780-1842); Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States TO WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Champion of those who groan beneath Last Line: And god alone be lord! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879); Antislavery Movement - United States TODAY I AM A HOMICIDE IN THE NORTH OF THE CITY, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this bus to oblivion I bleed in the seat Last Line: I know my killer is out there Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Americans; United States; America TODAY I AM A HOMICIDE IN THE NORTH OF THE CITY, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this bus to oblivion I bleed in the seat Last Line: I know my killer is out there Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Americans; United States TODAY WAS A BAD DAY LIKE TB, by UNKNOWN+183 Poem Source First Line: Saw whites clap during a sacred dance Last Line: All that comes %is blood & spit Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TODAY WE WILL NOT BE INVISIBLE NOR SILENT, by VICTORIA LENA MANYARROWS Poem Source Last Line: And in all the earth and rivers of the americas Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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 TOM BOWLING ['S EPITAPH], by CHARLES DIBDIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor tom bowling, / the darling of our crew Last Line: His soul has gone aloft. Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr. Variant Title(s): Poor Tom;a Perfect Sailor Subject(s): Mourning; Navy - United States; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Bereavement; American Navy; Seamen; Sails; Ocean TOMORROW, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although the car radio warned that / 'war threatened' as 'europe mobilized' Subject(s): Americans; Kent State University - Riot, 1970; United States; America TOMORROW, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although the car radio warned that %'war threatened' as 'europe mobilized' Last Line: At the red lights of intersections Subject(s): Americans; Kent State University - Riot, 1970; United States TOPOGRAPHY, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After we flew across the country we Subject(s): United States; Togetherness; America TOWARD THE GULF; DEDICATED TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the cordilleran highlands Last Line: Till east and west shall be one in the west of heaven and earth! Subject(s): United States; America TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. ON AN ATLANTIC STEAMSHIP, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mid-ocean, night Last Line: Light sways slowly. Subject(s): Sea; Ships & Shipping; Steamboats; Tourists; Travel; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Ocean; Journeys; Trips TOYS, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing them like this Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Popular Culture - United States; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men TOYS, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing them like this Last Line: That it also comes this way, in parts Subject(s): Homosexuality; Popular Culture - United States TRACT, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old tract, the houses of wood siding Last Line: More callas, more houses Subject(s): Americans; United States; America TRACT, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old tract, the houses of wood siding Last Line: For some, beyond the outskirts of the houses, %more callas, more houses Subject(s): Americans; United States TRADITION AND CHANGE, by NORA NARANJO-MORSE Poem Source First Line: My mission was to sell pottery from booth 109 Last Line: On this hot, full day Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States TRAGEDY OF THE MERMAID, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: Is not that she must leave her home Last Line: She must not feel an ocean %falling from her eyes Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States TRAIL BREAKERS, SELS, by JAMES DAUGHERTY Poem Source First Line: Pack train, stage coach, pony express, climb over the Last Line: The terror and the splendor of the %atomic age Subject(s): United States TRANSCONTINENT, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the cities end, the Last Line: They’re nearly there Subject(s): Americans; United States; America TRANSCONTINENT, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the cities end, the Last Line: See cars and shacks, they know %they're nearly there Subject(s): Americans; United States TRANSIENT HOTEL SKY AT THE HOUR OF SLEEP, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the late shift, front desk Last Line: By the desk, then leered %at the jabbering smokers Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Hotels; Popular Culture - United States TRANSLATED FROM THE AMERICAN, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After all the drive-in theaters have closed Last Line: I'll give them exa t directions Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations TRANSLATED FROM THE AMERICAN, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After all the drive-in theaters have closed Last Line: I'll give them exact directions Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TRAVELS IN THE SOUTH: 1. EAST TEXAS, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I left the alabama-coushatta people Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TRAVELS IN THE SOUTH: 1. EAST TEXAS, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I left the alabama-coushatta people Last Line: It would be the morning, the sun Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TRAVELS IN THE SOUTH: 2. THE CREEK NATION EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in a story, I wrote that indians are everywhere Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TRAVELS IN THE SOUTH: 2. THE CREEK NATION EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in a story, I wrote that indians are everywhere Last Line: No stopping except in case of emergency %and hugged a tree Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TRAVELS IN THE SOUTH: 3. CROSSING THE GEORGIA BORDER INTO FLORIDA, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I worried about my hair, kept my car locked Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TRAVELS IN THE SOUTH: 3. CROSSING THE GEORGIA BORDER INTO FLORIDA, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I worried about my hair, kept my car locked Last Line: And I didn't blame them Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TREASON'S LAST DEVICE, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sons of new engaland in the fray Last Line: But you -- do you hear it, yankee boys? Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - United States TRIBUTE TO AMERICA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a people mighty in its youth Last Line: Nay, start not at the name -- america! Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America TRUE PATRIOTISM, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Not in the belching cannon's roar Last Line: Confound the misanthrope. Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America TRUE STORY OF SNOW WHITE, by BRUCE BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Almost before the princess had grown cold Last Line: Which not a prince on earth has power to break Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States TRUE YANKEE SAILOR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When a boy, harry bluff left his friends and his home Last Line: And columbia's colors he nailed to the mast, %and died like a true yankee sailor Subject(s): Navy - United States TRUTH IS, by LINDA HOGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In my left pocket a chickasaw hand Last Line: The left shoe %and the right one with its white foot Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; U.s. - Race Relations; Women TRUXTON'S VICTORY (1), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Brave truxton on the briny waves Last Line: Maintain the honour of your flag, %and fight for freedom's laws Subject(s): Navy - United States; Sea Battles; Truxtun, Thomas (1755-1822) TRUXTON'S VICTORY (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "when freedom, fair freedom, her banner display'd" Last Line: "resolved, firm, and steady / to fight, and to conquer, to conquer or die" Subject(s): "navy - United States;sea Battles;truxtun, Thomas (1755-1822);" "american Navy;naval Warfare;truxton, Thomas; 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 O LIBERTAD, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turn o libertad, for the war is over Last Line: Is swiftly, surely preparing for you. Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; United States - History; Liberty TURN THEM LOOSE!, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now turn loose teddy roosevelt Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) TV, by RODNEY JONES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All the preachers claimed it was satan Last Line: Then everyone disappearing into the houses Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States TV IN BLACK AND WHITE, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the mid-sixties Last Line: We miss you ozzie Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States TWO GRANDMAS, by STANLEY H. BARKAN Poem Source First Line: One grandma %I knew Last Line: Cooking, singing: %'alein, alein - %alles far miene kinder Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations TWO SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF BLONDEL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twere no hard task, perchance, to win Last Line: And blondel were royal himself, if he knew it! Subject(s): American Civil War; Blondel De Nesle; United States - History TWO SLIDES: 1. THE ASPARA ADDRESSES THE FISHERMAN, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: There is no boat Last Line: This catch will be the one %to harvest your soul Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States TWO SLIDES: 2. THE FISHERMAN RESPONDS, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You are the silver light Last Line: I am the water %filling your gills Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States TWO: 3, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Next to of course god america I Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Americans; Freedom; Hypocrisy; Patriotism; Politics & Government; United States; World War I; Liberty; America; First World War TWO: 3, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Next to of course god america I Last Line: He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Americans; Freedom; Hypocrisy; Patriotism; Politics; United States; World War I TYRONE (4), by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We made it through the swamps Last Line: Tyrone %is Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; U.s. - Race Relations U.S. AIR FORCE; OFFICIAL SONG OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE, by ROBERT MACARTHUR CRAWFORD Poem Source First Line: Off we go into the wild blue yonder Last Line: Nothing'll stop the army air corps! Subject(s): Air Force - United States U.S.A., SELS, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So we march into the present Last Line: Will be rather ancient history in 2033 Subject(s): United States ULTIMA THULE: BAYARD TAYLOR, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead he lay among his books Last Line: The peace of god in all thy looks! Subject(s): Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878); United States - History UN-AMERICAN INVESTIGATORS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The committee's fat Last Line: With delight in %its manure Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; United States 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) UNCOVER TO THE FLAG, by E. C. CHEVERTON Poem Source Subject(s): Flags - United States 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) UNDER THE SHADE OF THE TREES [MAY 10, 1863], by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What are the thoughts that are stirring his breast? Last Line: Under the shade of the trees! Subject(s): American Civil War; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); United States - History; War UNDER THE STARS, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me what sail the seas Last Line: Under the stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Flags - United States; Holidays; Memorial Day; American Flag; Declaration Day UNDER THE STARS AND STRIPES, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: High on the world did our fathers of old Subject(s): Flags - United States UNDRESSING AUNT FRIEDA, by RICHARD MICHELSON Poem Source First Line: Undressing aunt frieda, I think of how Last Line: I lift her gently, hoping she'll sleep %the hour drive home Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations UNFURLING OF THE FLAG, by CLARA ENDICOTT SEARS Poem Source First Line: There's a streak across the sky line Subject(s): Flags - United States; Patriotism; World War I UNGUARDED GATES, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wide open and unguarded stand our gates Last Line: The lean wolf unmolested made her lair. Subject(s): United States - Immigration & Emigtration UNION AND LIBERTY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flag of the heroes who left us their glory Last Line: Union and liberty! One evermore! Subject(s): American Civil War; United States - History UNITED STATES, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He shall be great who serves his country well Last Line: Who loves his land too much to stoop to shame. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): United States; America UNITED STATES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: United -- for what? To extort and oppress? Last Line: Our brotherly united states. Subject(s): United States; America UNMOORING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: All hands on deck!' the bos'n cries Last Line: And I'll think of my love when I'm far, far at sea Subject(s): Navy - United States UNTITLED BLUES, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I catch myself trying Last Line: Where your skin %is your passport Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr. Subject(s): African Americans; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations UP, by BILL KUSHNER Poem Source First Line: This? It's my lounge lizard look, very Last Line: Love & thank you for the best performance by a male Subject(s): Homosexuality; Popular Culture - United States UPKEEP, by MIRIAM GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: My father died of a heart attack Last Line: Same as the day before Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations UPON THE HILL BEFORE CENTREVILLE, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll tell you what I heard that day Last Line: Strike for the crown of victory! Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; United States - History; Manassas, Batlle Of UPSIDE DOWN BASKET, by ALAN CHONG LAU Poem Source First Line: My grandmother %rakes up chicken shit Last Line: We drink gallons %of lemonade Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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) VANNA WHITE'S BREAD PUDDING, by MICHAEL PETTIT Poem Source First Line: If not famous ourselves, oh let us Last Line: Into my heretofore but no more anonymous lap Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Restaurants VAPOR TRAILS, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twin streaks twice higher than cumulus Last Line: spotting that design. Subject(s): Air Force - United States; Antinuclear Movement; Nuclear War; Nuclear Freeze; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb VARIATIONS ON JONAH: 3, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: When they threw me over Last Line: Nothing to do-I let every muscle go slack Subject(s): Jews - United States VEGAS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: There was a frozen tree that I wanted to paint Last Line: I kept my mouth / shut Subject(s): Americans; Doolittle, Hilda (1886-1961); Las Vegas, Nevada; United States; America VEGAS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a frozen tree that I wanted to paint Last Line: I kept my mouth %shut Subject(s): Americans; Doolittle, Hilda (1886-1961); Las Vegas, Nevada; United States VERMILION FLYCATCHER FLEW TOO FAR NORTH, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But don't mind it. I rise again the third day Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Nature; United States VERMONT CHEESEMAKING, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When white grass makes the pasture white Last Line: Your man is 'mazing fond of cheese. Subject(s): Cheese; Milk; United States; Vermont; Milkmen; Milkmaids; America VERY IDEA OF 2 LEGS, by MARY MOLINARY Poem Source First Line: The lower %part of the body, an idea pressed thin Last Line: Singular and blue-dyed: a desire. An excretion of worms. %glimmering Subject(s): Beauty; Factories; Labor And Laborers; Legs; Women Immigrants - United States VICKSBURG, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For sixty days and upwards Last Line: To the music in their hearts. Variant Title(s): The Bombardment Of Vicksburg Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Vicksburg Campaign (1862-63); Declaration Day VICTOR GALBRAITH, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the walls of monterey Last Line: "of victor galbraith!" Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Galbraith, Victor; Military Justice; Monterey, Mexico; United States - Mexican War (1846-1848); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Courts Martial VIDEO RAIN, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am flown to your good side now Last Line: Sunsets outside quiet silent towns. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Discontent; Materialism; Popular Culture - United States; Television; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dissatisfaction; Tv VIENNA MARCH, by ADAM SOL Poem Source First Line: Boys in uniform call from a bridge above Last Line: Remember how their knees were thin as wrists? Subject(s): Jews - United States VIET KONG, by WILLIAM TROWBRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Each one showed me his gold medal Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States VIETNAM, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was just back Subject(s): United States; War; America VIETNAM, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was just back Last Line: & everybody %is just killing %& killing %like crazy Subject(s): United States; War VIEW ON THE HUDSON, by BARTHOLOMEW SIMMONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sound to the sun thy solemn joy for ever Last Line: To spread her worship o'er a second world. Subject(s): Hudson River; United States; America VIOLENCE, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mexcity drugstore table, giant %sexfiend in black spats Last Line: Hustle after midnight to cut my throat from its beard Subject(s): United States VIOLENCE, by JUANITA TORRENCE-THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: Shots ring out! Last Line: Riots. Los angeles. %rodney king Subject(s): Racism; United States; Violence VIRGINIA - THE WEST, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The noble sire fallen on evil days Last Line: For you provided me washington -- and now these also. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Virginia (state); Confederacy VIRGINIA'S DEAD, by CORNELIA J. M. JORDAN Poem Text First Line: Proud mother of a race that reared Last Line: There sleep virginia's dead. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Virginia (state); Confederacy 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 (2), by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No money for lunch so I rode an elevator to the top of the onb Last Line: Voice or his song. %extras, we're all extras Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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 VOW, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will haunt these states Last Line: Over puerto rican agony lawyers' screams in slums Subject(s): United States; War VOYAGE OF THE GOOD SHIP UNION, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis midnight: through my troubled dream Last Line: One nation, evermore! Subject(s): American Civil War; Classmates; United States - History; Schoolmates VULAR, THE COMIC, AND THE WRETCHED SUBSCRIBE TO THE SAME MAGAZINES, by GREG KUZMA Poem Source First Line: Who lived all as one in a pretty how town Last Line: Plastic credit and microwave %roll us rock us the night away Subject(s): Life; United States WAITRESS, by JASON SHINDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a table in the back where she opens Last Line: Not to keep it, but holdit long enough to change Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners WAITRESS, by JASON SHINDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a table in the back where she opens Last Line: Not to keep it, but to hold it long enough to change Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Restaurants WAKE, MASSACHUSETTS, by MARION PERHAM GALE Poem Text First Line: This place has known a sturdy growth of men Last Line: Set the glance backward! To our grandsires, hail! Subject(s): Army - United States; Freedom; Gratitude; Statesmen; Liberty WALKING BACK UP DEPOT STREET, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In hollywood, california (she'd been told), women travel Last Line: Without, send money, call home long distance about the heat Subject(s): Americans; United States WALKING BY THE CLIFFSIDE DYEWORKS, by ROBERT CARNEVALE Poem Source First Line: Even the dark end of belmont avenue Last Line: To tell them it's ten after two Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WALT WHITMAN IN THE CIVIL WAR HOSPITALS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prescient, my hands soothing Last Line: To death which I have praised Subject(s): American Civil War; Hospitals; Poetry & Poets; United States - History; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WALT WHITMAN'S CAUTION, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the states, or any one of them, or any city of the states Last Line: Ever afterward resumes its liberty. Subject(s): Slavery; United States; Serfs; America WAR, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH Poem Text First Line: Relentless mars, indulging insane wrath Last Line: Unleashed the lusts of men, and called itwar! Subject(s): Child Molesting; Cruelty; Death; Insanity; War; Women Immigrants - United States; Child Abuse; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness WAR IS KIND: 1, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind Last Line: War is kind. Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Men; Social Protest; United States - History; United States; America WAR PROFIT LITANY, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the names of the companies that have made money from this war Last Line: 1967 furthers this poem of these states Subject(s): United States; America WAR PROFIT LITANY, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These are the names of the companies that have made money from this war Last Line: And the first form of this litany begun first day december 1967 furthers this poem of these states Subject(s): United States WARNING, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: My sister tells me that people see it Last Line: That waist, that butt %and those eyes Subject(s): Working Class - United States WARNING, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: I am the shoal you cannot cross Last Line: To which your mother warned you %not to listen Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WARREN'S ADDRESS [TO THE AMERICANS] [AT BUNKER HILL] [JUNE 17, 1775], by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stand! The ground's your own, my braves! Last Line: Of his deeds to tell? Variant Title(s): Warren's Address To The American Soldiers Subject(s): American Revolution; Bunker Hill, Battle Of; Fourth Of July; Freedom; History; Patriotism; United States - History; War; Warren, Joseph (1741-1775); Independence Day; Liberty; Historians 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 UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Washington, the brave, the wise, the good Last Line: And in the hope of religion, immortality Subject(s): United States 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 WATCH THE LIGHTS FADE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Gray steel, cloud-shadow-stained Last Line: Sea-wind salts your head white Subject(s): Future; United States; America 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 WAY PAST DANCING, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: It doesn't bother him that he can't get it up anymore Last Line: How he's fixed them good as new with crazy glue Subject(s): Working Class - United States WAY THINGS ARE IN FRANKLIN, by JANE KENYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even the undertaker is going out Last Line: We sometimes feel when others fail Subject(s): Americans; 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, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We ought to drop the bomb at once before Subject(s): Cold War; United States; Social Classes; Social Commentaries; America; Caste WE ARE AMERICANS NOW, WE LIVE IN THE TUNDRA, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN Poet's Biography First Line: Today in hazy san francisco, I face seaward Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts WE ARE AMERICANS NOW, WE LIVE IN THE TUNDRA, by MARILYN MEI LING CHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today in hazy san francisco, I face seaward Last Line: Hide your daughters, lock your doors Alternate Author Name(s): Chin, Marilyn Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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 COVERED A FONDER TIME, by F. JOHN HERBERT Poem Source Last Line: A spy is rebuked for a change %and a well-wrought peal and aprayer. %god save the queen Subject(s): Marching And Marches; Military; United States WE ENCOUNTER NAT KING COLE AS WE INVENT THE FUTURE, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Camme and I listened to nat king cole and she sweetly lay her head Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States WE ENCOUNTER NAT KING COLE AS WE INVENT THE FUTURE, by JOY HARJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Camme and I listened to nat king cole and she sweetly lay her head Last Line: Became love %suddenly Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States WE EXIST, by HELEN BAROLINI Poem Source First Line: Indians must be the loneliest people on earth Last Line: Which say we exist Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WE HEARD HEALTH CARE, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We heard health care and we thought public option Subject(s): Health Care & Insurance; United States - Politics & Government; Social Classes; Racism; Caste; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry 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 NEVER STOPPED CROSSING BORDERS, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: We never stopped crossing borders. The rio grande (or rio Last Line: The refrain 'this is not your country' echoed for a lifetime Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WE REAL COOL; THE POOL PLAYERS. SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We real cool. We / left school. We Last Line: Die soon. Variant Title(s): We Real Cool Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Children; Americans; Death; Labor & Laborers; Men; United States; Youth; Negroes; American Blacks; Dead, The; Work; Workers; America WE SHALL OVERCOME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: We'll walk hand in hand some day Subject(s): United States 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 WE'RE ALL IN THE TELEPHONE BOOK, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That's america's telephone book Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Americans; 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 WEEK'S END, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet to rest serenely in the gloaming Last Line: Heaps of mon. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Pride; Wages; Working Class - United States; Work; Workers; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Salaries WELCOME, by DAVID HERNANDEZ Poem Source First Line: When I was little and brown Last Line: Chicago wind %slapped my face Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WELCOME TO THE NATIONS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright on the banners of lily and rose Last Line: Thrones of the continents! Isles of the sea! Subject(s): Fourth Of July; United States - Centennial Celebrations; Independence Day WELCOME; DEDICATED TO THE SAENGERBUND OF THE NORTHWEST, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, o brothers, joy and cheer! Last Line: Forward, with god, for fatherland!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific; Patriotism; United States; America WELLFLEET: THE HOUSE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roof overwoven by a soft tussle of leaves Last Line: Can time have any foreignness or fears Subject(s): Americans; United States; America WELLFLEET: THE HOUSE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roof overwoven by a soft tussle of leaves Last Line: Can time have any foreignness or fears Subject(s): Americans; United States WENDELL PHILLIPS, by AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: People's attorney, servant of the right Last Line: Impartial history dare not leave thee out. Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Phillips, Wendell (1811-1884); Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty WENDELL PHILLIPS, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What shall we mourn? For the prostrate tree that sheltered the Last Line: Union was traitor to right! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Phillips, Wendell (1811-1884); Antislavery Movement - United States WEST POINT REMEMBERED, by HENRI COLE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such is the way with monumental things Last Line: Cut loose the very detritus of our lives Subject(s): United States - Military Academy WESTERN WAGONS, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They went with axe and rifle, when the trail was still to blaze Last Line: But we're going west, tomorrow, with our fortune in our hands Subject(s): Pioneers; United States; West (u.s.); America; Southwest; Pacific States WESTERN WAGONS, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They went with axe and rifle, when the trail was still to blaze Last Line: But we're going west tomorrow, with our fortune in our hands Subject(s): Pioneers; United States; West (u.s.) 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 DOES IT MEAN TO BE AMERICAN?, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What does it mean? I look across the years Last Line: A worthy daughter, or a noble son. ... Subject(s): United States; America WHAT I SAVED, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You %drinking milo Last Line: Your tongue unable to form an r as you called my name Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT I'M TELLING YOU, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: My father played music. He played a guitar and sang. My father Last Line: Four or five as a recoed somewhere in a studio in jamaica started to spin Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE A BLACK GIRL, by PATRICIA M. SMITH Poem Source First Line: First of all, it's being nine years old and Last Line: Were teaching me what it meant to be a black girl Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WHAT LIES BENEATH, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: The woman inside turns flour to dumplings Last Line: Kept at bay by a few pieces of wood Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States 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 MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: When god closes a door, there are no windows Last Line: Even careful chickens get caught by the hawk Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT OF THE DAY?, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sound of tumult troubles all the air Last Line: Flailed by the thunder, heaped with chaffless grain! Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Antislavery Movement - 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 SHALL WE DO FOR THE STRIKING SEAMEN?, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: Help them win their battle! Subject(s): United States WHAT THE BIRDS SAID, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The birds against the april wind Last Line: And in the evening there was light. Subject(s): American Civil War; Birds; United States - History WHAT THE CLEANING LADY KNOWS, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: Cleanliness is not and never has been next to godliness Last Line: Cash is better than checks Subject(s): Working Class - United States WHAT THE FLAGS SAID, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great gay flag that ran on the jubilant breeze Last Line: "lo, I am the nation's prayer!" Subject(s): Flags - United States; American Flag WHAT THE GYPSY SAID TO HER CHILDREN, by JUDITH ORTIZ COFER Poem Source First Line: We are like the dead, %invisible to those Last Line: Out of the granite of their hatred, %with our own brown hands Variant Title(s): The Birthplace: What The Gypsy Said To Her Childre Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WHAT THE JANITOR HEARD IN THE ELEVATOR, by BARBARA KINGSOLVER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The woman in gold bracelets tells her friend Last Line: The woman in gold agrees %that is a plus Subject(s): Americans; United States WHAT THE ORACLE SAID, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You will leave your home Last Line: The sea will never take you back Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT THE STORIES TEACH, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: The man playing the flute Last Line: Beneath the caramel glaze Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Seashore; Women Immigrants - United States WHAT WE FORGET, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: He died the same month Last Line: The tingling of her skin bein healed Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States 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) WHAT WERE YOU PATCHING?, by RUTH LISA SCHECHTER Poem Source First Line: Needling %threading nighttime sewing machine Last Line: Ma/ma what were you patching Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WHAT WOULD I DO WHITE?, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I would do nothing. %that would be enough Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WHEN DEY 'LISTED COLORED SOLDIERS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dey was talkin' in de cabin, dey was talkin' in de hall Last Line: W'en dey 'listed colo'ed sojers an' my 'lias went to wah. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; United States - History 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 I FIRST SAW SNOW, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bing crosby was singing 'white christmas' Last Line: I was falling deeply into america Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WHEN I THINK ABOUT AMERICA SOMETIMES (I THINK OF RALPH KRAMDEN), by DOROTHY BARRESI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Raising the truncheon of an arm Last Line: The dust may never settle Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States WHEN I THINK OF YOU, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: You are still diving into the sea Last Line: A stream of darkness in your wake Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States WHEN I WAS GROWING UP, by NELLIE WONG Poem Source First Line: I know now that once I longed to be white Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME, by PATRICK SARSFIELD GILMORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When johnny comes marching home again hurrah! Last Line: When johnny comes marching home. Alternate Author Name(s): Lambert, Louis Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; Peace; United States - History; United States; America 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 MY GRANDMOTHER SAID 'PUSSY', by CAROLE BERNSTEIN Poem Source First Line: It was when we were living Last Line: Against all that was trying, and would try, %to claim my attention and consume me Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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) WHEN THE GREAT GRAY SHIPS COME IN [AUGUST 20, 1898], by GUY WETMORE CARRYL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To eastward ringing, to westward winging, o'er mapless miles of sea Last Line: Gray ships come in! Subject(s): Navy - United States; New York Harbor; Spanish-american War (1898); American Navy WHEN YOU GET HOME, REMEMBER ME, by HENRY CLAY WORK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Starving beside the frozen lena! Last Line: Still in our ears its words are ringing, %'when you get home, remember me!' Subject(s): Jeannette Artic Exploration; Navy - United States WHERE DID LOVE GO?, by STEPHEN SARTARELLI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One notable casualty of the Subject(s): Diplomacy & Diplomats: Iraq War (2003); United States; France; America WHERE IS MY COUNTRY?, by NELLIE WONG Poem Source Last Line: Where is my country? %where does it lie Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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) WHERE TYRANTS PERISH, by JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sail on, columbus! Sail right onward still Last Line: Where tyrants perish and all men are free. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Tyranny & Tyrants; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; America WHERE'ER YOU ARE, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: When the pale stars glimmer o'er the battlefield Last Line: And bring you safely home. Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Navy - United States; War; Parting; American Navy WHIPPOORWILL CALLS, by BEVERLY MCLOUGHLAND Poem Source First Line: No one hears her %coming Last Line: And only the slaves know %it is harriet Subject(s): United States 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) WHITMAN, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On long island, they moved my clapboard house Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955); Poetry & Poets; Popular Culture - United States; United States; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); America WHITMAN, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On long island, they moved my clapboard house Last Line: To find me now will cost you everything Subject(s): Jazz; Music And Musicians; Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955); Poetry And Poets; Popular Culture - United States; United States; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) WHO BLEW UP AMERICA, by AMIRI BARAKA Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): United States; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001; America WHO FOLLOW THE FLAG; PHI BETA KAPPA ODE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day long in the city's canyon-street Last Line: And draw a countless human host to follow after thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Flags - United States; Harvard University; American Flag 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) WHO RUNS AMERICA?, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oil brown smog over denver Subject(s): United States; America 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) WHY DON'T I?, by O. F. DIAZ-DUQUE Poem Source First Line: It came one day like a thunderbolt Last Line: Tell me %why? Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States WHY I DON'T SPEAK ITALIAN, by ARTHUR L. CLEMENTS Poem Source First Line: God knows, teaching the renaissance I could use it Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WHY THAT'S BOB HOPE, by WILLIAM HATHAWAY Poem Source First Line: The comedian, holding a chunk of flaming shale Last Line: Where he'll bust our boys' guts on tour in el salvador Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States WHY WE ARE TRULY A NATION, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because we rage inside Last Line: Who die on their knees in pairs Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Americans; United States WHY WE BOMBED HAIPHONG, by JONATHAN HOLDEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I bought bubble gum Last Line: Like a girl. Then the rest %of us pitched in and hit Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 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 WILD GIRLS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Wild girls are all around us %and the memory of snow Last Line: Wild girls are dancing %bears groan in the forest Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a small chamber, friendless and unseen Last Line: Ye earn the crown, and wear it not in vain. Variant Title(s): To William Lloyd Garrison Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879); Politics & Government; Antislavery Movement - United States WINGFOOT LAKE, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On her 36th birthday, thomas had shown her Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Swimming & Swimmers; United States - Race Relations WINGFOOT LAKE, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On her 36th birthday, thomas had shown her Last Line: Under the company symbol, a white foot %sprouting two small wings Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Swimming; U.s. - Race Relations WINGS LIFTED OVER THE BLACK PIT, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: City flats, coal yards and brown rivers Last Line: "watercourses running with oil Subject(s): United States; America WINGS LIFTED OVER THE BLACK PIT, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: City flats, coal yards and brown rivers Last Line: Watercourses running with oil %fish fellows dead Subject(s): United States WINNINGS, by GARRETT KAORU HONGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's gardena, late saturday afternoon Last Line: In a brief symphony of candied light Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WINTER SOLSTICE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: Our new pup backs into her plastic den Last Line: As she leapt straight for him into the sun Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States WIRED IN, by LAMONT B. STEPTOE Poem Source First Line: My entire life %has been spent Last Line: The nature of %captivity %or madness Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WITH A WICKED LITTLE JAB, by GINGER ANDREWS Poem Source First Line: I stop/eject the golden oldies cassette Last Line: He wants to die at home %and he wants us there when it happens Subject(s): Working Class - United States WITH ALL THY GIFTS AMERICA, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The mothers fit for thee? Subject(s): United States; Women WITH CORSE AT ALLATOONA, by SAMUEL HAWKINS MARSHALL BYERS Poem Text First Line: It was less than two thousand we numbered Last Line: "this morning up there on the hill." Subject(s): Allatoona Pass, Georgia; American Civil War; Atlanta Campaign (1864); Corse, John Murray (1835-1893); United States - History 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 HANGING FROM THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR WINDOW, by JOY HARJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is the woman hanging from the 13th floor Last Line: Window on the east side of chicago, or as she %climbs back up to claim herself again Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Homosexuality; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations 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) WOMEN, by CYRUS CURTIS CASSELLS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My cotton shirts float on the line Last Line: A childhood of breezes by the yard Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations WOMEN AND MEN: A RETROSPECTIVE, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: I know they exist, I saw them -- Last Line: Bearing burdens on their backs, %walking uphill, fully clothed Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States 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 WOODSTOCK, by JAN MITCHELL SHERRILL Poem Source First Line: That summer I went to woodstock Last Line: Him and touching him in middle-aged sunlight Subject(s): Popular Culture - United States WOOLWORTHS, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Went to woolworths Last Line: We ducked out of there %and fled on the first bus back to the indian school Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Ethnic Groups - United States; Native Americans - Children; Racism 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 WORK GANGS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Box cars run a mile long Subject(s): Americans; Justice; Labor & Laborers; United States; Work; Workers; America WORK GANGS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Box cars run a mile long Last Line: There is no song mouth; these are my people Subject(s): Americans; Justice; Labor And Laborers; United States WORKING CLASS, by SUSAN GUBERNAT Poem Source First Line: How often in my presence someone's used Last Line: And he was. And they were. And we have been Subject(s): Catholics - United States; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; Working Class - United States WORKING CLASS HAIKU, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Scorpion shadow %of the backhoe falls Last Line: Hurry it up, man!' Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Working Class - United States WRITTEN ON THE DEATH OF OUR BELOVED GENERAL STONEWALL JACKSON, by CAROLINE AUGUSTA BALL Poem Text First Line: There's a wail of woe on the summer breeze Last Line: His last victory gained, his rest has won. Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Heroism; Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); United States - History; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines WRITTEN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1864, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more, despite the noise of war Last Line: For only such can save us now. Subject(s): American Civil War; Fourth Of July; United States - History; Independence Day WYOMING, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: With each new death I push Last Line: The sky that leads us on Subject(s): Death; Loss; Travel; United States; Wyoming YAHRTZEIT LIGHT, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dusty, with some skeletons of Last Line: Mother's cheeks are caverns %no light fills Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations YANKEE CHRONOLOFY: OR, HUZZA FOR THE AMERICAN NAVY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I need not now tell what it was drove our sires Last Line: Then huzza for the sons of columbia so free: %they are lords of the soil - they'll be lords of the s Subject(s): Navy - United States; War Of 1812 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) YANKEE FROLICS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: No more of your blathering nonsense Last Line: For our seamen will never disgrace thee, %they're getting soused to the job Subject(s): Navy - United States; War Of 1812 YANKEE PRIVATEERING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ye yankee privateersmen, %of courage stout and bold Last Line: Have found that e'en a whale-boat, %a match for them can be Subject(s): Navy - United States; Privateers; War Of 1812 YANKEE SAILOR, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Yankee sailors have a knack Last Line: They made us strike the yankee flag, %haul away! Yeo ho, boys! Subject(s): Navy - United States YANKEE TARS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: When nature, kind goddess, first form'd this big ball Last Line: And a navy and commerce our country shall grace. %down, down, down, down, derry down Subject(s): Navy - United States; Sailors And Sailing; War Of 1812 YE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND (AMERICAN TEXT) (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ye parliament of england, / you lords and commons too" Last Line: That yankee ships in time of peace / to any sport may trade Subject(s): Navy - United States;sailing & Sailors;war Of 1812; American Navy YE SONS OF COLUMBIA, by THOMAS GREEN FESSENDEN Poem Text First Line: Ye sons of columbia, unite in the cause Last Line: Till the continent sinks, and the ocean is dry! Subject(s): Napoleon I (1769-1821); United States - History YES, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: According to culture shock: / a guide to customs and etiquette Last Line: What he means by his yes Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration YORKTOWN CENTENNIAL LYRIC, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Hark! Down the century's long reaching slope Last Line: The lilies, the luminous lilies of france. Subject(s): United States - Centennial Celebrations; Yorktown Campaign (1781) YOU NO SEND. ME NO COME, by SHARA MCCALLUM Poem Source First Line: The first night back and rain falls Last Line: What assures them they will come down? Subject(s): Mothers And Daughters; Women Immigrants - United States YOU SAY YOU SAID, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Few words are best' Last Line: "me against subterfuge." Subject(s): World War I - United States YOU, GENOESE MARINER, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who have been wrong as you Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Marines - United States; Sailors And Sailing; Seashore; Ships And Shipping YOUNG AMERICA - OLD ENGLAND, by WILLIAM CHARLES MARK KENT Poem Text First Line: What! Shall saxon bonds be sundered Last Line: Hand-in-hand, not sword to sword! Alternate Author Name(s): Kent, Charles Subject(s): England; United States; English; America 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 YOUNG MIDSHIPMAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I'm here and there, a jolly dog Last Line: To fight or kiss or touch the grog, %for I'm a gay, young midshipman Subject(s): Navy - United States; Sailors And Sailing 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 YOUNG WOMAN AT A WINDOW, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sits with / tears on Last Line: To the glasss Subject(s): United States; America YOUNG WOMAN AT A WINDOW, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sits with %tears on Last Line: Pressed %to the glass Subject(s): United States YOUR HONOR, by PARTHENIA GADDY WILSON Poem Text First Line: When walking down the street Last Line: We lift old glory the u. S. Around. Subject(s): Pride; United States; Self-esteem; Self-respect; America YOUR LAD, AND MY LAD, by RANDALL PARRISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down toward the deep-blue water, marching to throb of Last Line: As your dear lad, and my dear lad, go on their way to france. Subject(s): Army - United States; World War I; First World War YOUR LONESOME AMERICAN, by CHRISTOPHER DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Sniff the radiator Last Line: Our only chance %to torch loud love Subject(s): United States YOUTH, by SAMUEL DUFF MCCOY Poem Text First Line: You say new york is lovelier than ever? Last Line: But, oh, how gay it was! What prophecies! Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Food & Eating; New York City; Restaurants; Youth; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Cafes; Diners YUBA CITY SCHOOL, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the black trunk I shake out Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; India; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts YUBA CITY SCHOOL, by CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the black trunk I shake out Last Line: From me, nail shut my lips. My son %will keep sitting in the last row %among the red words that drin Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; India; Minorities - United States; U.s. - Race Relations ZAGONYI, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bold captain of the body-guard Last Line: To death or victory! Subject(s): American Civil War; Cavalry; Springfield, Missouri, Battle Of (1861); United States - History; Zagonyi, Charles 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) ZOLLICOFFER, by HENRY LYNDEN FLASH Poem Text First Line: First in the fight, and first in the arms Last Line: Dead on the field of glory! Subject(s): American Civil War; Somerset, Kentucky, Battle Of (1862); United States - History; Zollicoffer, Felix Kirk (1812-1862) |
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