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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885) Matches Found: 19 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 Poem Explanation 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) |
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