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Subject: WASHINGTON SQUARE, NEW YORK CITY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AT THE FARRAGUT STATUE, by ROBERT BRIDGES (1858-1941)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: To live a hero, then to stand
Last Line: Still helps to make them loyal, strong, and free!
Alternate Author Name(s): Droch
Subject(s): Farragut, David Glascow (1801-1870); Heroism; Statues; Washington Square, New York City; Heroes; Heroines


OLD TRAILS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I met him, as one meets a ghost or two
Last Line: I wish the bells in boris would be quiet.
Subject(s): Washington Square, New York City


ON SICK LEAVE, 1916, by HAMILTON FISH ARMSTRONG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He limped beneath the arch, across the square
Last Line: That smell which only is where war has been.
Subject(s): Washington Square, New York City; World War I; First World War


VILLANELLE OF WASHINGTON SQUARE, by WALTER ADOLPHE ROBERTS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The starshine on the arch is silver white
Last Line: The green-robed spring has come to town tonight.
Subject(s): Washington Square, New York City


WASHINGTON SQUARE, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the end of town I love the best
Last Line: The cross of light,—that looms from the sacred tower.
Subject(s): Washington Square, New York City


WASHINGTON SQUARE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Starless and still
Last Line: She is thinking of me.
Subject(s): Washington Square, New York City


WASHINGTON SQUARE, NORTH, by WALTER PRICHARD EATON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Red-brick and sunny in a cheerful row
Last Line: Unsoiled, unwearied, when my day is done.
Subject(s): Washington Square, New York City