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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: UNITED STATES - CENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS Matches Found: 7 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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 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 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 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 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) |
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