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Subject: WILSON, WOODROW (1856-1924)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ASLEEP, by WILL CHAMBERLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: With silent, trembling hands they held ... Door
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


AT REST IN THE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL, by C. N. LUND    Poem Source                    
First Line: He is sleeping, calmly sleeping
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


AVATAR, by W. E. DAVENPORT    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is that man remote and singular
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


BEFORE YOU CAME, by MARY SIEGRIST    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


CRUSADER, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here lies a brave crusader, spent with grief
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


DAUNTLESS, by FRANK D. SWANEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dreamer of mighty dreams, wherein there lie
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


ELIOT TO WILSON, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Harvard, by that old man emeritus
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


ET NUNC ET SEMPER, by LAURA HELENA BROWER    Poem Source                    
First Line: He asked but bread of the world
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


HAD WE BUT KNOWN, by C. B. MCALLISTER    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


HEAR, O AMERICA!, by MARION PELTON GUILD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thus saith the lord through the least
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


ICARUS (TO THE LATE WOODROW WILSON), by EARL BOWMAN MARLATT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Icarus made himself wings
Last Line: Icarus made himself wings.
Subject(s): Icarus; Mythology - Classical; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


IDEALISTS, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hemlock cup for socrates
Subject(s): Idealism; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


IN MEMORIAM, by CHARLES RUSSELL WAKELEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our great leader treads our ways no more
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


IN WELCOME TO THE PRESIDENT, by W. H. ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: But yesterday the world was steeped
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


INTO THE SUNRISE, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Eastward our ark of government is gone
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


INTROSPECTION, by JOHN MARVIN DEAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Be still, mad world, cease from thy ... Strife
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


LAMENT OF THE PLAYERS, by ROLAND BURKE HENNESSY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our friend has gone -the one who sat in front
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


LEADER, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: When war first cast its flames across ... Skies
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


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)


LITANY OF HEROES, SELS., by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


LIVING DEAD, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In death he lives to read his wondrous dream
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


MAN OF PEACE, by GRACE GUILLE PURSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Behold! Here comes a man of peace
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


MAXIMA CARTA (INSCRIBED TO PRESIDENT WILSON), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail, newest charter of the hopes of man!
Last Line: When all the world gives bond to break the unhallowed sword?
Subject(s): League Of Nations; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


MEMORIAL DAY, 1925, by SQUIRE OMAR BARKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: There will be those today who weep their own
Alternate Author Name(s): Barker, S. Omar
Variant Title(s): Woodrow Wilso
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


ON THE DEATH OF WOODROW WILSON, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The eagle has passed on! ... Into the blue
Variant Title(s): Woodrow Wilso
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


PEACE HE SOUGHT, by HECTOR FULLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now he would fought for peace, finds peace!
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


RECESSIONAL, by RICHARD LINTHICUM    Poem Source                    
First Line: The tide is at the ebb, as if to mark
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


SCOT'S LAMENT, by DAVID PAUL ALLISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wi' heavisome hert's and tear'fu' een
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


STAR OF PEACE, by ADA ALDEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Only the dead are great
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


TAPS', by W. E. P. FRENCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Noble dead %we, thy sons
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


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 KNOWN SOLDIER; FOR THE DAY OF PRESIDENT WILSON'S BURIAL, by MARK ANTHONY DE WOLFE HOWE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now through the stifling air, thick with the murk
Last Line: While safe he sleeps among the deathless dead.
Subject(s): Funerals; Holidays; Veterans Day; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); Burials


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 WORLD IS ONE; DEDICATED TO WOODROW WILSON, by HINTON WHITE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The world is one; we cannot live apart
Last Line: The travail and the triumph of the years.
Subject(s): League Of Nations; Religion; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); Theology


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 OUR PRESIDENT, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hope of the nations, lift thy stricken heart
Subject(s): World War I; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); First World War


TO THOMAS WOODROW WILSON, by KATE SLAUGHTER MCKINNEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: To you who, striving, conquering life
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


TO W. W. IN HASTE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We have given you our money, we have given you our boys
Last Line: Get excited! Go the limit! And -- then -- more!
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); World War I; First World War


TO WOODROW WILSON, by JOHN DANIEL KREUTTNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You perish as the deepening blue
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


TOWERS OF REMEMBRANCE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great laureate of england, mighty voice
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


UNFINISHED CATHEDRAL, by GRACE GUILLE PURSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rough brick on brick & carved stone on stone
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


VALIANT-FOR-TRUTH, by LOUISE MANNING HODGKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In an old story, dear to pilgrim-soul
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


VERDICT, by DANIEL GARNETT BICKERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They have laid him away with the ages
Alternate Author Name(s): Bickers, D. G.
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WARRIOR PASSES, by HUBERT KELLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In s street trod the phantom guard
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WASHINGTON MONUMENT, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A flash of lightning petrified, austere
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WATCHMAN, by EUNICE MITCHELL LEHMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The people went in darkness; and they strove
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WHEN YEARS HAVE PASSED, by ELIZABETH WARREN JONES    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WILSON, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: First of the men of state
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WILSON, by DIXON LANIER MERRITT    Poem Source                    
First Line: He rests. The world-weight of the years ... Past
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WOODROW WILSON, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spirit long shaping for sublime endeavor
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WOODROW WILSON, by DANIEL GARNETT BICKERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: One day the world will wonder why
Alternate Author Name(s): Bickers, D. G.
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WOODROW WILSON, by EDITH CHERRINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: From service freed he takes his last ... Rest
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WOODROW WILSON, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: A heavenly vision, born of love and faith
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WOODROW WILSON, by EDWARD PARKER DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: He gave his life for those he loved
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WOODROW WILSON, by JOHN JORDAN DOUGLASS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dead on the field of honor' - now at last
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WOODROW WILSON, by W. E. P. FRENCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Death loved thee so, that when ... Day was done
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WOODROW WILSON, by DONALD GILLIES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Strange justice walks abroad tonight
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WOODROW WILSON, by JEAN GRAHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thy country, robed in sorrow, bowed in grief
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WOODROW WILSON, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now gentle time shall write his record down
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WOODROW WILSON, by NORMAN SHANNON HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: No cannon-sung recessional accompanied
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WOODROW WILSON, by JAMES COLUMBUS HORAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: On your frail shoulders lay the burden ... World
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WOODROW WILSON, by WORRELL KIRKWOOD    Poem Source                    
First Line: They call him dreamer, and they mocked ... Dream
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WOODROW WILSON, by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He stands, his hand extended to guide
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


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, by HARRY NOYES PRATT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth was too small to hold him long
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WOODROW WILSON, by NELSON ROBINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Death found him as he faced his foes
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WOODROW WILSON, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A strange star tore through a twanging night
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WOODROW WILSON, by LAURA SIMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Atlas! Who for a moment held a world
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WOODROW WILSON, by EDYTHE C. TONER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bugles of departure blow the call
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WOODROW WILSON, by ANNAH ROBINSON WATSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: His voice above the crash of crumbling throne
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WOODROW WILSON, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The force of patience: conqueringly mild
Last Line: Our scholar prince, our princeton president!
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WOODROW WILSON (A FRAGMENT), by JOSEPH H. APPLEGATE    Poem Source                    
First Line: They call him egotist
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WOODROW WILSON (FEBRUARY, 1924), by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It said 'come home, here in an end'
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WOODROW WILSON (FEBRUARY, 1924), by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It said 'come home, here in an end'
Last Line: Worse pain, the bitter enlightment that buys peace
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


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


WOODROW WILSON - IN MEMORIAM, by W. T. PEARMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Reverse your arms! Half-mast the flag!
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WOODROW WILSON ARISEN, by JANET BOLTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bitter hate and harsh reproaches no more
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WOODROW WILSON DEAD, by NORMAN H. CROWELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dead! %what nobler shroud was ever spun
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WOODROW WILSON RETURNS FROM VERSAILLES, by ETHELEAN TYSON GAW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Give us the calf of gold,' the people say
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WOODROW WILSON', by CELIA P. MCGOWAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dogs of war have slipped the leash
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


WOODROW WILSON'S EARS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You've earned, wise dr. Wilson
Last Line: Such wise advice as -- ours!
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


YOU CALL HIM DEAD, by BARBARA YOUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: You men - you people - simple and perverse
Subject(s): Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)