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Subject: CUSTER, GEORGE ARMSTRONG (1839-1876)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 1, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I discovered the evidence
Last Line: He forgave me all my sins
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876)


CRAZY HORSE SPEAKS: 2, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Full Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little big horn / little big horn does not belong to me
Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; United States - Race Relations; Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Little Bighorn, Battle Of; Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief)


CUSTER, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What! Shall that sudden blade
Last Line: The light of thy renown!
Subject(s): Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Little Bighorn, Battle Of


CUSTER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All valor died not on the plains of troy
Last Line: Let tears complete the tale of him who failed, yet won.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Native Americans - Wars


CUSTER'S LAST CHARGE [JUNE 25, 1876], by FREDERICK WHITTAKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dead! Is it possible? He, the bold rider
Last Line: Needed but that death to render it full.
Subject(s): Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Little Bighorn, Battle Of; Patriotism


SITTING BULL SPEAKS TO GENERAL CUSTER, by BUCK ALLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Within this land, half desert in its making
Subject(s): Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Sitting Bull (hunkpapa Sioux Chief)


THE BOMBING OF BAGDAD, by JUNE JORDAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Began and did not terminate for 42 days
Last Line: With the dead
Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Bagdad, Iraq; Air Raids; Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Operation Desert Storm (1991)


THE REVENGE OF RAIN-IN-THE-FACE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In that desolate land and lone, / where the big horn and yellowstone
Last Line: In the year of a hundred years.
Subject(s): Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Little Bighorn, Battle Of; Rain-in-the-face (indian Chief); Revenge


THE SECOND DEPARTURE OF CUSTER, by MARY BOYNTON COWDREY    Poem Text                    
First Line: In phantom form and grand array
Last Line: To show a nation how they died.
Subject(s): Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


YOU CAN START THE POETRY NOW, OR: NEWS FROM CRAZY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I guess all I'm trying to say is I saw crazy horse die for
Last Line: Start the poetry!! Start the poetry now!!
Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief); Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Irony; Native Americans; Poetry & Poets; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America