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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN GEORGIA. 1953, by WYATT PRUNTY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Marching through georgia to bed, he stopped, listened,
Subject(s): Georgia (state); Christmas; Family Life; Childhood Memories; Nativity, The; Relatives


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 TRUCKER BREAKS DOWN, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Remembering himself pulling onto a highway
Last Line: Flowing down through absolute darkness into a pool of rising vapor.
Subject(s): Georgia (state); Solitude; Southern States; Trucks & Trucking; Loneliness; South (u.s.); Teamsters; Truckers; Freight


CHURCH BURNING, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Already it is almost nothing, a darkness
Last Line: With a guttural spark: niggers, niggers. %his ancient prayer flares
Subject(s): African Americans; Churches; Fire; Georgia (state)


D.C., by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bad breed of the natives with their hates
Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Georgia (state); Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); Confederacy


D.C., by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bad breed of the natives with their hates
Last Line: The ways of lee, who, having lost the slaves, died farther south, a general in the wrong
Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Georgia (state); Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870)


ETHIOPIA SALUTING THE COLORS, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who are you dusky woman, so ancient hardly human
Last Line: Are the things so strange and marvellous you see or have seen?
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; American Civil War; Georgia (state); Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History


GEORGIA, by ROBERT LOVEMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the mountains to the sea
Subject(s): Georgia (state)


GEORGIA DUSK, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes there's a wind in the georgia dusk
Last Line: To sprout its bitter barriers %where the sunsets bleed
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Georgia (state)


GEORGIA DUSK, by JEAN TOOMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sky, lazily disdaining to pursue
Last Line: Bring dreams of christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs.
Subject(s): Georgia (state); Picnics; Barbecues


GEORGIA WATERS; SONG, by THOMAS HOLLEY CHIVERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On thy waters, thy sweet valley-waters
Last Line: For thy daughters, thy sweet-smiling daughters, %oh! Georgia! Give beauty to thee
Subject(s): Georgia (state)


JULY IN GEORGY, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm back down in ole georgy w'ere de sun is / shinin' hot
Last Line: Shade.
Subject(s): Georgia (state); Nature; Southern States; South (u.s.)


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


NATURE'S SONG OF GEORGIA, by VERA MCELVEEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down in sunny southland
Last Line: Then they never sing them out.
Subject(s): Georgia (state)


PAST AND PRESENT, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our fathers in the georgian era
Last Line: Suits the yet thinner conversation.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Georgia (state); Past


PORTRAIT IN GEORGIA, by JEAN TOOMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hair--braided chestnut,
Subject(s): Lynching; Racism; Georgia (state) African Americans - Women; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA, by SAMUEL HAWKINS MARSHALL BYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our camp-fires shone bright on the mountain
Last Line: When sherman marched down to the sea.
Variant Title(s): Song Of Sherman's March To The Sea
Subject(s): American Civil War; Georgia (state); Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History


THE SONG OF SHERMAN'S ARMY, by CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A pillar of fire by night
Last Line: For sherman and grant, hurrah!
Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Miles
Subject(s): American Civil War; Georgia (state); Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); United States - History


THE WINDOW, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On allgood road two miles off georgia 41, you round a curve
Last Line: Waiting in that room, patient and promiscuous.
Subject(s): Adolescence; Georgia (state); Promiscuity; Teen Agers


THESE DAYS, by LEON STOKESBURY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These days I live on top of a piney ridge
Last Line: Of an engine grinding down. That takes my breath away
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Fields; Geography; Georgia (state); Travel