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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GEORGIA (STATE) Matches Found: 20 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 |
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