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Subject: BOOTH, JOHN WILKES (1838-1865)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A MAN CHILD IS BORN (1839), by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After such pain this child against my breast!
Last Line: Look at that darling face -- it must be so!
Subject(s): Booth, John Wilkes (1838-1865)


ADELAIDE AND JOHN WILKES BOOTH, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, even this you can surmount by art
Last Line: (he goes out.)
Subject(s): Booth, John Wilkes (1838-1865)


BOOTH'S PHILIPPI, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If this must be, I take it. Be a man
Last Line: (he dies.)
Subject(s): Booth, John Wilkes (1838-1865)


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


JOHN WILKES BOOTH AT THE FARM (JANUARY 12, 1848), by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother, I'm breathless! I have seen a man
Last Line: I am so frightened.
Subject(s): Booth, John Wilkes (1838-1865)


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


THE BURIAL OF BOSTON CORBETT (ONE WARDEN TO ANOTHER), by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So this is what we bury? How his face
Last Line: Should he be raised?
Subject(s): Booth, John Wilkes (1838-1865); Funerals; Burials


WINTER GARDEN THEATRE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you - if you had told me this before
Last Line: Look on your face again!
Subject(s): Booth, John Wilkes (1838-1865)