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Subject: BOSTON MASSACRE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CRISPUS ATTUCKS, by OLIVA WARD BUSH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The nation's heart beat wildly
Last Line: That attucks died for liberty.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bush-banks, Oliva Ward
Subject(s): African Americans; Attucks, Crispus (1723-1770); Boston Massacre; Stock Exchange; Negroes; American Blacks


CRISPUS ATTUCKS, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Name in a footnote. Faceless name
Last Line: By bayonets, forever falling
Subject(s): African Americans; Attucks, Crispus (1723-1770); Boston Massacre


CRISPUS ATTUCKS, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where shall we seek for a hero
Last Line: And so great a boon, by a brave man's death, is never dearly bought!
Subject(s): African Americans; Attucks, Crispus (1723-1770); Boston Massacre; U.s. - Colonial Period; Negroes; American Blacks


CRISPUS ATTUCKS, by JAY WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When we speak
Last Line: Another season drums your intense, communal daring
Subject(s): African Americans; Attucks, Crispus (1723-1770); Boston Massacre; Negroes; American Blacks


CRISPUS ATTUCKS, by JAY WRIGHT    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When we speak
Subject(s): African Americans; Attucks, Crispus (1723-1770); Boston Massacre


DE NIGGER'S GOT TO GO, by DANIEL WEBSTER DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear liza, I is bin down town
Last Line: "wez not a gwine to go."
Subject(s): African Americans; Attucks, Crispus (1723-1770); Boston Massacre; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


FIFTY YEARS (1863-1913), by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O brothers mine, today we stand
Last Line: God cannot let it come to naught.
Subject(s): Abolitionists; African Americans; African Americans - History; Attucks, Crispus (1723-1770); Boston Massacre; Brown, John (1800-1859); Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879); Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Lovej


POST WAR BALLAD, by DOROTHY VENA JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: If crispus attuck's statue
Subject(s): African Americans; Attucks, Crispus (1723-1770); Boston Massacre


THE ANSWER OF BOSTON, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Boston! With all thy glory, thy history high with / praise
Last Line: Hath pictured the greater boston through the fearless, future years.
Subject(s): Boston Massacre; History; Historians


UNHAPPY BOSTON, by PAUL REVERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Unhappy boston! See thy sons deplore
Last Line: Shall reach a judge who never can be bribed.
Subject(s): Boston Massacre; Collective Behavior; Social Protest; U.s. - History; Mobs; Crowds