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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DECLARATION DAY Matches Found: 103 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF HEROES, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because you passed, and now are not Last Line: The deeds you wrought are not in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Heroism; Holidays; Memorial Day; Heroes; Heroines; Declaration Day A GEORGIA VOLUNTEER, by MARY ASHLEY TOWNSEND Poem Text First Line: Far up the lonely mountain-side Last Line: A georgia volunteer. Alternate Author Name(s): Xariffa Subject(s): American Civil War; Georgia (state); Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History; Declaration Day A MEMORIAL DAY POEM FOR THE CONFEDERACY, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wearing the gray, wearing the gray Last Line: The old rebel jacket our dead boy had on! Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Confederacy; Declaration Day A MONUMENT FOR THE SOLDIERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day A ROUTE FOR THE PROCESSION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall the veterans march to-day Last Line: "soon we too shall be lying here." Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Parades; Declaration Day A SECOND REVIEW OF THE GRAND ARMY [MAY 24, 1865], by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I read last night of the grand review Last Line: Awakened me from my slumber. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; Soldiers; United States - History; Declaration Day A SOLDIER POET, by ROSSITER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where swell the songs thou shouldst have sung Last Line: That silence here is music there. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Declaration Day AN ODE IN TIME OF HESITATION, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the living bronze saint gaudens made Last Line: Blindness we may forgive, but baseness we will smite. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Holidays; Memorial Day; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898); United States; War; Declaration Day; America AN ODE ON THE UNVEILING OF THE SHAW MEMORIA BOSTON COMMON, MAY 31, 1897, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not with slow, funereal sound Last Line: To him, to him, the dead that shall not die! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Holidays; Memorial Day; Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; Declaration Day ARMY CORRESPONDENT'S LAST RIDE; FIVE FORKS, APRIL 1, 1865, by GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Pony. Down the lonely road Last Line: And took the first despatch! Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; War; Declaration Day BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS!, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Beat! Beat! Drums! - blow! Bugles! Blow / through the windows - through doors Last Line: So strong you thump o terrible drums -- so loud you bugles blow. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day BENEATH THE FLAG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: On the sunny hillside sleeping Last Line: Side by side march blue and gray! Subject(s): Flags - United States;holidays;memorial Day; American Flag;declaration Day BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see before me now a travelling army halting Last Line: Studded, breaking out, the eternal stars. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Drills & Minor Tactics; Declaration Day BUGLE SONG OF PEACE; A PROPHECY FOR MEMORIAL DAY, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Blow, bugle, blow! Last Line: The day has dawned at last. Subject(s): Bugles; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; Veterans Day; War; Declaration Day CANTICLE DE PROFUNDIS, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glory to thee, father of all the immortal Last Line: Glory to thee! Variant Title(s): A Canticle In War Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day CAVALRY CROSSING A FORD, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A line in long array where they wind betwixt green islands Last Line: The guidon flags flutter gayly in the wind. Subject(s): American Civil War; Army Life; Cavalry; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; United States - History; War; Drills & Minor Tactics; Declaration Day CHICKAMAUGA: 1898, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: They are camped on chickamauga Last Line: In the freedom-war of life Subject(s): "american Civil War;chickamauga, Battle Of (1863);holidays;memorial Day;u.s. - History;" Declaration Day COME UP FROM THE FIELDS FATHER, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Come up from the fields father, here's a letter from our pete Last Line: To follow, to seek, to be with her dear dead son. Variant Title(s): A Letter From Camp Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; United States; War; Declaration Day; America DEATH, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Death! Is it thou whom bravest souls do fear Last Line: Reviving, creeping to calamity. Subject(s): Creation; Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Rest; Tragedy; Dead, The; Declaration Day DECORATION DAY, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep comrades, sleep and rest Last Line: The memory shall be ours. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day DECORATION DAY, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: There are graves on many hill-sides Last Line: Their censers swing in air. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Holidays; Honor; Memorial Day; Prayer; Spanish-american War (1898); Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Declaration Day DECORATION DAY PRAYER, by ARTHUR ROSZELLE BEMIS JR. Poem Text First Line: Lord of our fathers, hear our prayer Last Line: Them from the awful fray. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day DIRGE FOR TWO VETERANS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last sunbeam / lightly falls from the finish'd sabbath Last Line: My heart gives you love. Variant Title(s): Two Veterans Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Veterans; Declaration Day DRIVING HOME THE COWS, by KATE PUTNAM OSGOOD Poem Text First Line: Out of the clover and blue-eyed grass Last Line: Together they followed the cattle home. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; United States - History; Declaration Day EPITAPH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who died fighting Last Line: The rose is your joy. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Westminster Abbey; Graveyards; Dead, The; Declaration Day FALL IN!, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall march with the veteran band Last Line: Fall in, and march with the soldiers! Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day FOR DECORATION DAY: 1861-1865, by RUPERT HUGHES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But do we truly mourn our soldier dead Last Line: The peaceful barracks where their bodies sleep. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day FOR DECORATION DAY: 1898-1899, by RUPERT HUGHES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And now the long, long lines of the nation's graves Last Line: In grand review swing past the throne of god. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Spanish-american War (1898); Declaration Day FREDERICKSBURG, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The increasing moonlight drifts across my bed Last Line: Hark! -- the black squadrons wheeling down to death! Subject(s): American Civil War; Fredericksburg, Battle Of (1862); Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day FROM BEYOND, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Text First Line: Pity us not Last Line: Oh, god, the shame that they should be so blind! Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; War; Declaration Day GARLANDS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What are the garlands we lay on the graves? Last Line: We know what garlands will please you the best! Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day HOW ARE YOU, SANITARY?', by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the picket-guarded lane Last Line: "pass in, sanitary!" Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; United States - History; Declaration Day HYMN FOR MEMORIAL DAY, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Lift your eyes to yonder city Last Line: Over every land and sea. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day KEARNY AT SEVEN PINES [MAY 31, 1862], by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So that soldierly legend is still on its journey Last Line: Line. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Kearny, Philip (1814-1862); Memorial Day; Patriotism; Seven Pines, Battle Of (1862); United States - History; Declaration Day; Fair Oaks, Battle Of (1862) KEENAN'S CHARGE, by GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun had set Last Line: That saved the army at chancellorsville. Subject(s): American Civil War; Cavalry; Chancellorsville, Battle Of (1863); Holidays; Keenan, Peter (1834-1863); Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day LEE TO THE REAR [MAY 12, 1864], by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn of a pleasant morning in may Last Line: The gray-bearded man in the black slouched hat. Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, John Randolph Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); Memorial Day; Patriotism; United States - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864); Declaration Day MANASSAS [JULY 21, 1861], by CATHERINE ANNE WARFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They have met at last - as storm-clouds Last Line: At manassas. Alternate Author Name(s): Warfield, Catherine M. Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Manassas, Batlle Of; Declaration Day MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA, by HENRY CLAY WORK Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Bring the good old bugle boys, we'll sing another song Last Line: While we were marching through georgia. Subject(s): American Civil War; Georgia (state); Holidays; Memorial Day; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History; Declaration Day MAY 30, 1893, by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It seemed to be but chance, yet who shall say Last Line: It was to die unknown and rest forgot? Alternate Author Name(s): Hotair, Dopeton Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Unknown Soldier; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by MICHAEL ANANIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is easily forgotten, year to Last Line: And walking, our own sway and balance, fails us Subject(s): Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by WILLIAM E. BROOKS Poem Text First Line: I heard a cry in the night from a far-flung host Last Line: In the name of our dead will we hear? Will we grant them sleep? Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; Veterans Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by FLORIA DORIA Poem Text First Line: The dead immortal! They are the ones whom we honor today Last Line: To the ashes of our mourned and lost immortal youths! Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Dead, The; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Why deck with flow'rs these humble mounds? Last Line: A dearer destiny than dirgeful death. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by EMERETTE H. DUNNING Poem Text First Line: To all the heart-wounds touched afresh this day Last Line: This eventide. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The finest tribute we can pay Last Line: And free men wear no tyrant's chain. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bugle echoes shrill and sweet Last Line: The prince of peace . . . Who brought a sword. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by EMMA A. LENT Poem Text First Line: A day of tender memory Last Line: Upon each resting-bed. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After noon, in the plaza, cries, shrill yells, running and breaking Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After our march from the hudson to the top Last Line: Ticks on its chain. Subject(s): Holidays; Honor; Memorial Day; Veterans; War; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Again it is memorial day Last Line: On decoration day. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Veterans; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Noblest of martyrs in a glorious fight! Last Line: That they who fell with jackson rise with lee! Subject(s): Heroism; Holidays; Memorial Day; War; Heroes; Heroines; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers for our dead! Last Line: Love for our dead! Variant Title(s): For Our Dead Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are not dead! They are not dead! Last Line: On thids memorial day. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strew the fair garlands where slumber the dead Last Line: Grateful the living and honored the dead. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by FRANCES FREEMAN TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: The blue and the gray and the olive-drab Last Line: The olive-drab, the blue and the gray. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by CY WARMAN Poem Text First Line: Gather the garlands rare today Last Line: And water the garlands with their tears. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day of memories! -- remembering what? Last Line: Upon our sacred day of memories. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Is it enough to think to-day Last Line: And be ourselves, in turn, the brave! Subject(s): Courage; Holidays; May (month); Memorial Day; Valor; Bravery; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY 1889, by SAMUEL ELLSWORTH KISER Poem Text First Line: Twine laurels to lay o'er the blue and the gray Last Line: Entwine. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY FOR THE WAR DEAD, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memorial day for the war dead. Add now Last Line: Behind all this some great happiness is hiding Subject(s): Grief; Memorial Day; Sorrow; Sadness; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, POST-WAR, by MARGUERITE MOOERS MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: For golden lads, a-faring Last Line: A memory—of rue! Subject(s): Hate; Holidays; Memorial Day; Social Protest; War; Declaration Day MEMORIALS, by JOHN WATKINS MOSELEY JR. Poem Text First Line: Memorial days crowd the past into the present Last Line: If they would be wafted into the realm of greatness. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day MEN OF THE NORTH, by JOHN NEAL Poem Text First Line: Men of the north, look up! Last Line: Upon our haughty foe! Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History; Declaration Day MUSIC; AND THE SAVAGE BREAST, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd read the kaiser's note Last Line: .... I thank you, band of germans. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Bands; German Americans; Holidays; Memorial Day; Music & Musicians; Patriotism; Orchestras; Declaration Day ODE FOR MEMORIAL DAY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Done are the toils and the wearisome marches Last Line: Which their unfaltering valor has won! Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day ODE WRITTEN IN [THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR] 1746, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sleep the brave, who sink to rest Last Line: To dwell a weeping hermit there! Variant Title(s): The Sleep Of The Brave;how Sleep The Brave Subject(s): England; Freedom; Heroism; Holidays; Memorial Day; Peace; Soldiers; English; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines; Declaration Day ON MEMORIAL DAY, by EMMA BERGSTROM Poem Text First Line: I have no graves to decorate on this day Last Line: Beneath the waves—the graves where I can place no flower. Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea; Graves; Holidays; Memorial Day; Waves; Burials At Sea; Tombs; Tombstones; Declaration Day ON THE SLAIN AT CHICKAMAUGA, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy are they and charmed in life Last Line: Make this memorial due. Subject(s): American Civil War; Chickamauga, Battle Of (1863); Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day REMEMBRANCE, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: I keep no days for fast and mourning-lay Last Line: Deep hid within the tear-sealed casket of my heart. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Holidays; Love - Loss Of; Memorial Day; Mourning; Dead, The; Declaration Day; Bereavement REVEILLE, by MICHAEL O'CONNOR (1837-1862) Poem Text First Line: The morning is cheery my boys, arouse! Last Line: Fall in! Fall in! Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day SAN DIEGO, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: In the college san fernando, in the state of mejico Last Line: ^1^ the yucca, or spanish bayonet. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Missions & Missionaries; Sailing & Sailors; San Diego, California; Soldiers; Declaration Day SEA SORROW, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: We lay along the steamer's deck Last Line: Twill be memorial day. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Grief; Holidays; Memorial Day; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Declaration Day SHERIDAN'S RIDE [DECEMBER 19, 1864], by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the south, at break of day Last Line: "from winchester, -- twenty miles away!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Animals; Cedar Creek, Battle Of (1864); Courage; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Sheridan, Philip Henry (1831-1888); United States - History; War; Valor; Bravery; Declaration Day SHERMAN, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glory and honor and fame and everlasting laudation Last Line: Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); Declaration Day SONG FOR DECORATION DAY, by HELEN C. BACON Poem Text First Line: Bring forth the flowers Last Line: Bright garlands strew o'er their graves everywhere. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day THE ACCUSING HANDS; A 1918 MEMORIAL DAY THOUGHT, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I had a vision of the nearer past Last Line: The clay that wore the khaki and the blue! Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Sacrifices; Soldiers; World War I; Declaration Day; First World War THE BATTLE OF CHARLESTON HARBOR, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two hours, or more, beyond the prime of a blithe april day Last Line: And thou in clear-eyed faith hast seen god's angels near the guns! Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD, by THEODORE O'HARA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The muffled drum's sad roll has beat Last Line: That gilds your deathless tomb. Subject(s): Buena Vista, Battle Of (1847); Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Peace; United States - Mexican War (1846-1848); Declaration Day THE BLUE AND THE GRAY, by FRANCIS MILES FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the flow of the inland river Last Line: Tears and love for the gray. Variant Title(s): Decoration Day;memorial Day Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Peace; Soldiers; United States - History; Tombs; Tombstones; Declaration Day THE BLUE AND THE GRAY (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Each thin hand resting on a grave Last Line: Why harry wore the gray Subject(s): American Civil War;holidays;memorial Day;u.s. - History; Declaration Day THE COUNTERSIGN (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Alas! The weary hours pass slow Last Line: "whether in pleasure or in pain, / I still may have the countersign" Subject(s): Holidays;memorial Day;war; Declaration Day THE DAY OF THE DEAD SOLDIERS; MARY 30, 1869, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, thou gray and fragrant sabbath-day Last Line: So rich a page of thrilling histories. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day THE DEATH OF GRANT, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Father! Whose hard and cruel law / is part of thy compassion's plan Last Line: Thy servant's soul in paradise. Subject(s): American Civil War; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day THE DEATH OF SLAVERY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou great wrong, that, through the slow-paced years Last Line: Dwell thou, a warning to the coming times. Subject(s): American Civil War; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; Declaration Day THE DUTCH PATROL, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When christmas-eve is ended Last Line: Proclaim 'tis christmas day. Subject(s): Christmas; Holidays; Memorial Day; Netherlands; New York City - Dutch Period; U.s. - Dutch Settlements; Nativity, The; Declaration Day; Holland; Dutch People THE FALLEN, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Toll the bell slowly Last Line: "where is no death nor shadow of the grave." Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Rest; Declaration Day THE HIGH TIDE AT GETTYSBURG [JULY 3, 1863], by WILL HENRY THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A cloud possessed the hollow field Last Line: Lamenting all her fallen sons! Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; United States - History; War; Liberty; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Declaration Day THE HOUR OF THOUGHT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The orb of day is sinking Last Line: Grave oblivious, thou shalt hear! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Solitude; Thought; Declaration Day; Loneliness; Thinking THE LAST FIGHT, by LEWIS FRANK TOOKER Poem Text First Line: That night I think that no one slept Last Line: My past rose up and mocked at death. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day THE LENGTHENING LINES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In heaven too, each blossoming may Last Line: To that review beyond the skies. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day THE NATION'S DEAD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Four hundred thousand men Last Line: "made this our ransomed soil their grave, / for me and you! / good friend, for me and you!" Subject(s): American Revolution;holidays;memorial Day; Declaration Day THE NEW MEMORIAL DAY, by ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the roses we plucked for the blue Last Line: Slumber our heroes to-day. Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; U.s. - History; Declaration Day THE NINETEENTH OF APRIL, 1861, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This year, till late in april, the snow fell thick and light Last Line: Our blood may seal the victory, but god will shield the right! Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day THE THINNING RANKS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The bugles sound, the rolling drums Last Line: To honor noble dead. Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Honor; Memorial Day; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Declaration Day THE VOLUNTEER, by ELBRIDGE JEFFERSON CUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At dawn,' he said, 'I bid them all farewell ...' Last Line: "I follow, though I die!" Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Declaration Day TRAMP, TRAMP, TRAMP, by GEORGE FREDERICK ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the prison cell I sit Last Line: Of freedom in our own beloved home. Subject(s): Adversity; Freedom; Holidays; Memorial Day; Prisons & Prisoners; War; Liberty; Declaration Day; Convicts UNDER THE STARS, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me what sail the seas Last Line: Under the stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Flags - United States; Holidays; Memorial Day; American Flag; Declaration Day VANQUISHED; ON THE DEATH OF GENERAL GRANT, by FRANCIS FISHER BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not by the ball or brand Last Line: Vanquished but by death. Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day VICKSBURG, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For sixty days and upwards Last Line: To the music in their hearts. Variant Title(s): The Bombardment Of Vicksburg Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Vicksburg Campaign (1862-63); Declaration Day WAR NOTES: 4. DECORATION DAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The uses of adversity are sweet Last Line: The rose, the lily, and the violet. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; War; Declaration Day WE KEEP MEMORIAL DAY, by KATE BROWNLEE SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: When the may has culled her flowers for the summer waiting long Last Line: We keep memorial day. Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day WHAT MARCHES?, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What marches when the veterans march Last Line: But lift the hat, and pray? Subject(s): Holidays; Memorial Day; Declaration Day WHAT THE BULLET SANG, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O joy of creation / to be! Last Line: Lieth there so cold? Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Bullets; Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Dead, The; Declaration Day |
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