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Subject: GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` APPOMATTOX; ON THE DEATH OF GRANT, by BENJAMIN DAVENPORT HOUSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: To peace-white ashes sunk war's lurid flame
Subject(s): American Civil War; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); U.s. - History


AT A DINNER TO GENERAL GRANT, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When treason first began the strife
Last Line: Our nation found its man!
Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885)


CAN'T, by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How history repeats itself
Last Line: The steadfast man whose name was grant.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); U.s. - History; Wilderness Campaign (1864)


CHATTANOOGA (NOVEMBER, 1863), by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A kindling impulse seized the host
Last Line: And death a starry night.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chattanooga Campaign; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); U.s. - History


DEATH OF GENERAL GRANT, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As one by one withdraw the lofty actors
Last Line: To admiration has it been enacted!
Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885)


ELEGY TO THE SIOUX, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The vase was made of clay
Last Line: Out of the sky into montana...
Subject(s): Birth; Genocide; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Native Americans; Small Pox; Child Birth; Midwifery; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


GENERAL GRANT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strong, simple, silent are the steadfast laws
Variant Title(s): On A Bust Of General Gran
Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885)


GRANT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What shall we say of the soldier
Last Line: And the driving rain of a nation's tears!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Heroism; Soldiers; Swords; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines


GRANT AT REST, by JOHN JAMES MEEHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not like the tombs where sleep egyptian kings
Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885)


IN MEMORY OF GENERAL GRANT, by HENRY ABBEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: White wings of commerce sailing far
Last Line: In every clime, to every age.
Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885)


LEE'S PAROLE, by MARION MANVILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Well, general grant, have you heard the news?
Last Line: Preserved the north in the south's parole.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pope, Marion Manville, Mrs.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Appomattox, Virginia; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); U.s. - History


THE AGED STRANGER; AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was with grant,' the stranger said
Last Line: Some three years before the war.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885)


THE BURIAL OF GRANT; NEW YORK, AUGUST 8, 1885, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye living soldiers of the mighty war
Last Line: And made it free and great.
Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); New York City - 19th Century


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 SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX [APRIL 9, 1865], by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As billows upon billows roll
Last Line: Lee.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Appomattox, Virginia; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); United States - History


ULYSSES GRANT, by RUTH WINSLOW GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A village lad
Last Line: Carved on the keystone of our unity.
Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885)


ULYSSES S. GRANT (1822-1885), by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The treasury voted nine to one against your ordinary
Last Line: As she lies without a coat of arms.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Death; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Heritage; Heredity; Dead, The


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


WHAT BEST I SEE; TO U.S.G. RETURN'D FROM HIS WORLD'S TOUR, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What best I see in thee
Last Line: Were all so justified.
Subject(s): Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885)