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Subject: DAVIS, JEFFERSON (1808-1889)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ELEGY ON JEFFERSON DAVIS, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No more the white refulgent streets
Last Line: Orestes fled in night and day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Consolation; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); U.s. - History; Confederacy


JEFFERSON D., by HENRY SYLVESTER CORNWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: You're a traitor convicted, you know very well
Last Line: Jefferson d.!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); United States - History; Confederacy


JEFFERSON DAVIS, by WALKER MERIWETHER BELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Calm martyr of a noble cause
Last Line: A relic and a shrine!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); United States - History; Confederacy


JEFFERSON DAVIS, by HARRY THURSTON PECK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And now he slinks through dark oblivion's gate
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); U.s. - History


OUR DEAD HEROES, by MORTON BRYAN WHARTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The angels above us hover
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); U.s. - History


THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SERIES: 4. A MESSAGE OF JEFF DAVIS ..., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sent you a messige, my friens, t' other day
Last Line: Consists in triumphantly gittin' away.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); United States - History; Confederacy


THE OLD COVE, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As vonce I valked by a dismal swamp
Last Line: "all that I axed vos, let me alone."
Variant Title(s): Let Us Alone;all We Ask Is To Be Let Alone
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); State Rights; United States - History; Confederacy; Secession