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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BOSTON TOAST, by JOHN COLLINS BOSSIDY    Poem Text                    
First Line: And this is good old boston
Last Line: And the cabots talk only to god.
Variant Title(s): On The Aristocracy Of Harvard
Subject(s): Harvard University; History; Historians


A BRIEF MANUAL FOR SWIMMERS, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: History has written its ritual runes and we
Subject(s): History; Writing & Writers; Swimming & Swimmers; Historians; Swimmers


A CALL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dusk its ash-grey blossoms sheds on violet skies
Last Line: Come, my children, with me to the ancient go.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): History; Nature; Historians


A DECANTER OF MADEIRA, AGED 86, TO GEORGE BANCROFT, AGED 86, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good master, you and I were born
Last Line: The wine we drank, the man we knew.
Subject(s): Bancroft, George (1800-1891); History; Old Age; Historians


A GEOGRAPHIC QUESTION, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "a maiden once, with eyes of blue"
Last Line: Degrees down there are n't bigger
Subject(s): Geography;history;household Employees; Historians;servants;domestics;maids


A LATE HISTORY, by WELDON KEES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Black, under the candlesticks, moving in harness
Last Line: Do I wake or sleep? It is late tonight as it will ever be
Subject(s): History; Poetry & Poets; Books & Reading; Social Commentary; Nature; Eton College; Historians


A MAN'S VOCATION IS NOBODY'S BUSINESS, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Overcome with humility in the american west
Last Line: Bound for the edge of the world
Subject(s): History; Past; West (u.s.); Youth; Historians; Southwest; Pacific States


A SUMMARY HISTORY OF LORD CLIVE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: About a hundred and fifty years ago
Last Line: But the greatest of them all was robert clive.
Subject(s): Biography; Clive, Robert, Baron (1725-1774); History; India; Biographers; Historians


A SUMMARY HISTORY OF SIR WILLIAM WALLACE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir william wallace of ellerslie
Last Line: Who had fought for scotland so well.
Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; History; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); Historians


A THEORY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As thucydides said
Last Line: "murdering
Subject(s): Greece; History; Greeks; Historians


AMERICA'S EARLY SETTLERS, by MARTIN LUTHER PETER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Today we meet from far and near
Last Line: And follow the light of their noble flame!
Subject(s): History; United States; Historians; America


AMONG THE MILLION OF THINGS THAT HISTORY WILL FORGET, by STEVE SCAFIDI JR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Orange zinnias growing wild at the blunt base of the tower of babel
Subject(s): History; Historians


AN EPIGRAM ON LAURENCE ECHARD'S AND GILBERT BURNET'S HISTORIES, by MATTHEW GREEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gil's history appears to me
Last Line: Whose fathers were gil's skeletons.
Subject(s): Burnet, Bishop Gilbert (1643-1715); Echard, Rev. Laurence; History; Historians


ANCESTRESS, by MARGUERITE JANVRIN ADAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I become as history, - long - past history
Last Line: When our great-grandson bends above my hand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Adams, M.j.
Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Future; History; Heritage; Heredity; Historians


ANDRE'S LAST REQUEST [OR, REQUEST TO WASHINGTON] [OCTOBER 1, 1780], by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not the fear of death
Last Line: By a soldier's death!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Andre, John (1750-1780); Capital Punishment; History; Military Justice; Presidents, United States; Soldiers; Washington, George (1732-1799); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Historians; Courts Martial


ANNIVERSARIES, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forty-odd years ago
Last Line: This whispering wrist sustains the dream of nations
Subject(s): Anniversaries; History; Time; Historians


AT AN INN, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We are talkative proud, and assured, and self-sufficient,
Last Line: When we are cold.
Subject(s): England; History; Poetry & Poets; English; Historians


AT ROME - REGRETS - IN ALLUSION TO NIEBUHR (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those old credulities, to nature dear
Last Line: Assent is power, belief the soul of fact.
Subject(s): History; Niebuhr, Barthold Georg (1776-1831); Rome, Italy; Historians


AT ROME - REGRETS - IN ALLUSION TO NIEBUHR (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Complacent fictions were they, yet the same
Last Line: For the blood-thirsty mead of odin's riotous hall.
Subject(s): History; Niebuhr, Barthold Georg (1776-1831); Rome, Italy; Historians


AUSONIUS, EPISTLE VII, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A letter from a flier
Last Line: I bribe the spring with wine
Subject(s): Ausonius, Decimus Magnus (310-394); History; Historians


BALLAD OF THE LADIES OF OLDEN TIMES, by FRANCOIS VILLON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me where, in what foreign place / is flora, who wore roman dress
Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De
Subject(s): History; Melancholy; Historians; Dejection


BEGINNINGS; NATURAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND, by JEFFREY GREENE    Poem Text                    
First Line: On the ground floor called 'beginnings'
Subject(s): Artifacts; History; National Museum Of Scotland; Historians


BRUCE AND THE SPIDER, by BERNARD BARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For scotland's and for freedom's right
Last Line: And patience wins the race.
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): History; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); War; Historians; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce


BUILDING, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We started our house midway through the cultural revolution
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; History; Historians


CALVIN COOLIDGE, 1872-1933: 2. CREDO, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Do the day's work,' he said, 'and do not be
Last Line: The time of coolidge was the golden age?
Subject(s): Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933); History; Historians


CANTO: ROCKS: WHICH HOLD THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD THUS FAR, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look! It's a rock depicting the solid
Last Line: Forward & back
Subject(s): History; Nature; Stones; Historians; Granite; Rocks


CHANUKAH, by MARION HARTOG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down-trodden 'neath the syrian heel
Last Line: And live for evermore.
Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Hanukkah; History; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Memory; Temples; Historians; Shoah; Judaism; Mosques


CHIMALPOA; A MONODRAMA - FOUNDED ON AN EVENT IN THE MEXICAN HISTORY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Subjects! Friends! Children! I may call you my children
Last Line: Perform your office!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Duty; History; Mexico; Public Worship; Sacrifices; Dead, The; Historians; Church Attendance


CODA, OVERTURE, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She stepped out of the framing circle of the dark
Last Line: Of hoofs trampling the wind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): History; Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Paintings And Painters; Statues; Stones; Historians; Granite; Rocks


DEATH OF ALEXANDER III, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When alysandyr our king was dede
Last Line: That stad is in perplexytie
Subject(s): "alexander Iii, King Of Scotland (1241-86;history;scotland;" Historians


DEDICATION TO 'A VILLAGE TRAGEDY', by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A jewelled tale, an antique historie
Last Line: The obscure cry of toiling, suffering man.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): History; Pain; Tragedy; Historians; Suffering; Misery


DIGRESSION ON THE NUCLEAR AGE, by ELIZABETH S. ADCOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In some difficult part of africa, a termite tribe
Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Betty
Subject(s): History; War; Historians


DISTRIBUTION OF HONOURS FOR LITERATURE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The grandest writer of late ages
Last Line: Died without star or cross or ribbon.
Subject(s): Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794); History; Historians


EGYPT, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun, a scarabaeus of bronze gold
Last Line: And but as shards the remnants of their power!
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Egypt; History; Historians


ESSAY: OF SUN, OF HISTORY, OF SEEING, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In this one, seeing is a form of touching
Last Line: I shall survive on prairie mice
Subject(s): History; Historians


FAREWELL, O EGYPT!, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The pink-pearl blush of dawn crept o'er our / barge
Last Line: Yet diviner thou—through every century.
Subject(s): Egypt; Farewell; History; Parting; Historians


FEARFUL WOMEN, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Arms and the girl I sing -- o rare
Last Line: It's not from you we learned to be magnanimous.
Subject(s): History; Women; Women's Rights; Historians; Feminism


FOREST HISTORY, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the vans of doom did men pass in
Last Line: Nor let the poet's awe in rapture wane.
Subject(s): Forests; History; Mythology; Woods; Historians


FOUR QUARTETS: LITTLE GIDDING (1-5 COMPLETE), by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Midwinter spring is its own season
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Variant Title(s): Little Gidding
Subject(s): Flowers; History; Perseverance; Roses; Self; Time; Winter; Historians


FROM BIRTH TO BATTLEFIELD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A child is born - it gasps and cries
Last Line: End in a lump of lifeless clay
Subject(s): History;soldiers;war;war - Home Front; Historians


GIBBON, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou too, whilst pondering history's vast plan
Last Line: Than those of hapless, injured switzerland!
Subject(s): Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794); History; Lausanne, Switzerland; Historians


GIBBON AND VOLTAIRE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lausanne! And ferney! Ye have been the abodes
Last Line: T will be forgiven, or suffer what is just.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794); History; Lausanne, Switzerland; Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet De; Historians


GREATNESS, by KARL E. MUNDT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great men of ancient times were men of brawn
Last Line: To battle when the modern conflicts call.
Subject(s): History; Life, Modern; Men; Morality; Strength; Historians; Ethics


HE WROTE THE HISTORY BOOK,' IT SAID, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There! You shed a ray
Last Line: Your father's autograph.
Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; History; Historians


HERE IS MUSIC: 19. BEFORE AND AFTER: BEFORE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Books as my background. Books
Last Line: Of e'er-increasing anger, ice-cold, hun-ward hate.
Subject(s): Books; History; Libraries & Librarians; Scholarship & Scholars; Youth; Reading; Historians


HISTORIC GROUND, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No song lends these calm vales a deathless name
Last Line: This place obscure is true historic ground!
Subject(s): Death; History; War; Dead, The; Historians


HISTORIES: A WOMAN WAS CONSTRUCTED N 20 OZ. ANTIQUITY, CERTAINLY SHE, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is true that ( ) discovered the
Last Line: Chassis in the glove of a chandelier
Subject(s): History; Man-woman Relationships; Historians; Male-female Relations


HISTORIES: BIRTH, WITHOUT THE THEME OF BURNING: US, BORN OF A THICKET, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Then all the forests divided & them oceans &
Last Line: Lobsters? Sweetmeats?
Subject(s): Birth; History; Mankind; Child Birth; Midwifery; Historians; Human Race


HISTORIES: THE FLESH, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Living in the lap / of lux- / ury
Last Line: Animate the factory, the flush
Subject(s): History; Mankind; Historians; Human Race


HISTORIES: THE GREAT HANDIWORK: WATER, & SOFT, DELICIOUS AIR, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All of them the great...Mmm...Did
Last Line: Take.
Subject(s): History; Water; Historians


HISTORY, by MALCOLM COWLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I told you that in this house
Last Line: Nothing more than this.
Subject(s): History; Home; Historians


HISTORY, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes, when walls and occupation seem
Last Line: And the things that they choose for history-making pass.
Subject(s): History; Historians


HISTORY, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The massif of the dahlias lay between
Last Line: Under the coming storm.
Subject(s): History; Storms; Time; Historians


HISTORY, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: History has to live with what was here
Subject(s): History; Historians


HISTORY, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two men unto the temple went
Last Line: And went home justified.
Subject(s): History; Religion; Historians; Theology


HISTORY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All night the wind
Last Line: Creek remembers; and rages
Subject(s): History; Morning; Night; Rain; Wind; Historians; Bedtime


HISTORY, by DOROTHY E. REID    Poem Text                    
First Line: When xerxes beat the sea with rods
Last Line: Uncertain if to shake -- or kiss.
Subject(s): Greece; History; Greeks; Historians


HISTORY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou chronicle of crimes! I read no
Last Line: As sidney in his hall of bliss may love.
Subject(s): Greece; History; Muses; Mythology - Classical; Story-telling; Greeks; Historians


HISTORY, by ROBERTA TEALE SWARTZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: If, by the number of pebbles in the hand
Last Line: Even your hand is my bewilderment.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chalmers, Gordon Keith, Mrs.
Subject(s): History; Time; Historians


HISTORY BOOKS, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That is, their authors, leave out
Subject(s): Books; History; Reading; Historians


IL Y A CNET ANS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That march of the funereal past behold
Last Line: And one without a shell, decisive odds.
Subject(s): History; Napoleonic Wars; Nations; Historians


IN ALLUSION TO RECENT HISTORIES ... FRENCH REVOLUTION (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Portentous change when history can appear
Last Line: The sacred limits of humanity.
Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); History; Historians


IN ALLUSION TO RECENT HISTORIES ... FRENCH REVOLUTION (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who ponders national events shall find
Last Line: Is to control and check disordered powers?
Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); History; Historians


IN ALLUSION TO RECENT HISTORIES ... FRENCH REVOLUTION (3), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long-favoured england! Be not thou misled
Last Line: Not scourge, to save the people -- not destroy.
Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); History; Historians


IN THE COUNTRY OF GILBERT WHITE (OBIIT JUNE 26, 1793), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ghosts of great men in london town
Last Line: We love her servant much!
Subject(s): History; London; Nature; Pride; White, Gilbert (1720-1793); Historians; Self-esteem; Self-respect


INITIAL CONDITIONS, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The way the sun will slant
Last Line: As you breathe, let your chest sag to feel bone
Subject(s): Books; History; Restaurants; United States; Washington (state); Reading; Historians; Cafes; Diners; America


INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT AT OLD SARUM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Reader, if thou canst boast the noble name
Last Line: An individual's rights, how happy all!
Subject(s): England; History; Law & Lawyers; Legislation; Patriotism; English; Historians


INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET AT PENSHURST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Are days of old familiar to thy mind
Last Line: Lives and shall live, immortalized in song.
Subject(s): History; Honor; Immortality; Penshurst, England; Presence; Singing & Singers; Historians


INVOCATION, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Men of old, men of old
Last Line: Heart of iron, lips of gold.
Subject(s): History; Singing & Singers; Historians; Songs


IS IT TRUE?, by MARIE HARROLD GARRISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Said the child of the bright yellow hair
Last Line: "like elsie's—and said: ""I'm a jew."
Subject(s): Catholics; Children; History; Jesus Christ; Jews; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Childhood; Historians; Judaism


ISRAEL, by MAX MEYERHARDT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How great, o israel, have thy sufferings been
Last Line: "the god of judah is our lord and king!"
Subject(s): Bible; History; Inquisition; Israel; Jews; Historians; Judaism


JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 5, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Scarce had the earliest ray from chinon's towers
Last Line: So saying, conrade from the tent went forth.
Variant Title(s): The Maid Of Orleans Girding For Battle
Subject(s): France; Heroism; History; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Orleans, France; War; Heroes; Heroines; Historians


JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 6, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The night was calm, and many a moving cloud
Last Line: Renewing the remembrance of the storm.
Subject(s): France; Heroism; History; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Orleans, France; Victory; War; Heroes; Heroines; Historians


JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 7, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strong were the english forts, by daily toil
Last Line: Betaking them, for now the night drew on.
Subject(s): England; Faith; France; Heroism; History; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Religion; Victory; War; English; Belief; Creed; Heroes; Heroines; Historians; Theology


KAISER & CO., by ALEXANDER MACGREGOR ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Der kaiser auf der vaterland
Last Line: Meinself -- und gott.
Subject(s): History; Historians


L'ENVOI, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried
Last Line: Shall draw the thing as he sees it for the god of things as they are!
Subject(s): History; Religion; Historians; Theology


LAPIS LAZULI (FOR HENRY CLIFTON), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have heard that hysterical women say
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; History; Imagination; Religion; Vision; Historians; Fancy; Theology


LAST, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The unsigned architecture of loneliness
Subject(s): Cold War; History; Relationships; Sons; Historians


LAUSANNE: IN GIBBON'S OLD GARDEN, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A spirit seems to pass
Last Line: "never without ill-fame to him who gives her birth""?'"
Subject(s): Consolation; Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794); History; Lausanne, Switzerland; Historians


LAWYER AND CHILD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How large was alexander, father
Last Line: About the size of me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Fathers; History; Childhood; Historians


LINES FOR THE INGHAM MEMORIAL AT LE ROY, 1911, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Only yesterday it was morning
Last Line: The rose, that was seed and flame.
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; History; Memory; Historians


LITANY OF NATIONS, by WILLIAM GRIFFITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Aeons of old were wandering down the seas
Last Line: What have we squandered?
Subject(s): Ambition; Europe; God; History; Nations; Prophecy & Prophets; War; Historians


LOOKING INTO HISTORY, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): History; Wars; Historians


LOST ETC., by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The expatriates of the
Last Line: Than the eighteenth amendment
Subject(s): History; Poetry & Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Revolutions; U.s. - Constitution; U.s. - History; Historians


MARMION: CANTO 6. THE BATTLE, by WALTER SCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While great events were on the gale
Last Line: And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
Subject(s): Courage; Douglas, Alexander. 5th Earl Of Angus; Flodden, Battle Of (1513); Freedom; History; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Historians


MICHELANGELO, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stern and grim-visaged, gaunt, and dark of gaze
Last Line: Into unfurrowed fields of light.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Decay; Genius; History; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Paintings & Painters; Sculpture & Sculptors; Sistine Chapel; Time; Rot; Decadence; Historians


MUSINGS ON THE WIG OF A SCARE-CROW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas for this world's changes and the lot
Last Line: And muse on fortune's mutability.
Subject(s): Change; Fate; History; Life Change Events; Morality; Scarecrows; Wigs; Destiny; Historians; Ethics; Toupees; Hairpieces


NEVERNESS, OR THE ONE SHIP BEACHED ON ONE FAR DISTANT SHORE, by MARGARET AVISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old adam, with his fist-full of plump earth
Last Line: And none be left to witness the blank mist?
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; History; Humanity; Time; Eve; Historians


NEWARK: 1866, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The dying roar of artillery
Last Line: O city of two hundred years!
Subject(s): History; New Jersey; Peace; War; Historians


OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 8, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blake hither brought his book-to con the sky
Last Line: And they are patient still and standing by.
Subject(s): History; Oxford, England; Historians


OF THE UNIVERSAL LOVE OF PLEASURE; TO A FRIEND, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All human race, from china to peru
Last Line: Enjoy unlimited benevolence!
Subject(s): Business; Greed; History; Mankind; Pleasure; Travel; Businessmen; Businesswomen; Avarice; Cupidity; Historians; Human Race; Journeys; Trips


ONE DAY'S HISTORY, by FERN WEEMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I watched as day's near evidence
Last Line: And strolled beside the streams.
Subject(s): History; Memory; Time; Historians


OPENING DAY, by DAVID MCKAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gusts of wind cruise like fish
Last Line: Else gets up, the seagulls yammering upriver.
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; History; Pacifism; Social Protest; Nuclear Freeze; Historians; Peace Movements


OPERATIONS: DESERT SHIELD, DESERT STORM, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who / are these two women, walking
Last Line: America, welcome home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Grief; Gulf War (1991); History; Sorrow; Sadness; Operation Desert Storm (1991); Historians


ORGANIZATION MEN IN AFFLUENT SOCIETY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is deep twilight, my wife
Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Books; Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); History; Love; Marcus Antonius; Anthony, Mark; Reading; Historians


OUR MOON'S AN ATTIC USED FOR STORAGE SPACE, by DAWSON POWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our moon's an attic used as storage space
Last Line: From lunar shores when dawn's mist curtains burn.
Subject(s): Attics; History; Moon; Historians


OUR PASSWORD, by ISIDORE G. ASCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No hate can stifle our religion's birth
Last Line: Our prayer in life and death that god is one.
Subject(s): History; Jews; Religious Education; Historians; Judaism; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools


OUT OF THE EMBERS (SIOUX), by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Embers, embers, in the night
Last Line: Embers, embers, keep your glow.
Subject(s): History; Memory; Past; Historians


OVERTAKELESSNESS, by PETER GIZZI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: To speak inaudibly, the outside,
Subject(s): History; Historians


PASSAGE, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When you deliberate the page
Last Line: In a moon's course, are history.
Subject(s): Easter; History; Holidays; The Resurrection; Historians


PLEA FOR THE HISTORIAN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forbear to deem the chronicler unwise
Last Line: Should animate, but not mislead, the pen.
Subject(s): History; Historians


PORTRAIT OF AN HISTORIAN, by EDWARD NAGLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A grin; / two rows of omnivorous decayed teeth
Last Line: And two rows of omnivorous teeth.
Subject(s): History; Historians


PRELUDE TO 'WALKING SHADOWS', by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of those who fought and died
Last Line: Then let them sleep, at dawn, with the forgotten.
Subject(s): History; Shadows; Truth; Historians


PRO FEMINA: ONE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From sappho to myself, consider the fate of women
Last Line: Flux, efflorescence -- whatever you care to call it!
Subject(s): Free Will & Determinism; History; Juvenal (decimus Junius Juvenalis); Man-woman Relationships; Women; Women's Rights; Historians; Male-female Relations; Feminism


PROEM, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tells the cumbrous page historic how the missions rose / and fell
Last Line: As loved tagus or as darro from granada's rugged steep.
Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; History; Missions & Missionaries; Sea Voyages; Historians


PUT IN A QUAVER, HERE AND THERE, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is smooth, fairly uniformly gray
Last Line: Vicinity: mute witnesses, they could yet prove to be guides.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; History; Philosophy & Philosophers; Historians


REDWOODS, by ETHEL RICHARDSON STILLWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not all the piles of rome and greece
Last Line: And point the ancient stars.
Subject(s): History; Sequoia Trees; Historians; Redwoods


REVERIE, by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the crowded shelves the lamplight falls
Last Line: Gazes on satan hurled from paradise.
Subject(s): Death; History; Memory; Dead, The; Historians


SA-CA-GA-WE-A; THE INDIAN GIRL WHO GUIDED LEWIS AND CLARK, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sho-sho-ne sa-ca-ga-we-a - captive and wife was she
Last Line: "sho-sho-ne sa-ca-ga-we-a, who led the way to the west!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Clark, William (1770-1838); Explorers; History; Lewis, Meriwether (1774-1809); Native Americans; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Historians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SAME OLD STORY, by HARRY BACHE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: History, and nature, too, repeat themselves, they say
Last Line: Same old baby -- nothing new!
Subject(s): Boredom; Cynicism; History; Life; Nature; Ennui; Historians


SEVERAL MEASURES FOR THE LITTLE LOST, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lesson begins in a heated room
Last Line: After all of the lamb has left the bone it warned.
Subject(s): History; Hunger; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Teaching & Teachers; Historians; Educators; Professors


SEX IN HISTORY, by THOMAS LUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only the pope partook, the cardinals, priests, monks
Last Line: Was hitting what he made
Subject(s): History; Religion; Sex; Historians; Theology


SLEEPIN' AT THE FOOT OF THE BED, by LUTHER PATRICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Did ye ever sleep at the foot o' the bed
Last Line: A-sleepin' at the foot o' the bed.
Subject(s): Beds; History; Historians


SONGS OF NEW SWEDEN: 4. THE LADY ARMAGOT, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In her garden, where the river / round the isle of tinicum
Last Line: Fold her closely to his breast!
Subject(s): Delaware; History; Historians


STREETS OF BALTIMORE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "woman weak and woman mortal, through the spirit's open portal"
Last Line: "fled, and left my shattered dwelling to the dust of baltimore"
Subject(s): "baltimore, Maryland;history;poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849);" Historians


THE ANCIENT SACRIFICE, by MAHLON LEONARD FISHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ye dead and gone great armies of the world
Last Line: About the blood-stained shrine of bygone wars!
Subject(s): Death; History; Legacies; Military; Sacrifices; War; Dead, The; Historians


THE ANSWER OF BOSTON, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Boston! With all thy glory, thy history high with / praise
Last Line: Hath pictured the greater boston through the fearless, future years.
Subject(s): Boston Massacre; History; Historians


THE AXIS, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear on the radio that anastasio somoza
Last Line: And the others appear infinite.
Subject(s): History; Knowledge; Historians


THE BADLANDS, by ELMA SCHEEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The badlands are priceless canvasses
Last Line: Of yesterday.
Subject(s): History; Past; Historians


THE BATTLE OF CULLODEN: A HISTORICAL POEM, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year of 1746, and in april the 14th day
Last Line: Looking to the trials and struggles you passed through.
Subject(s): Culloden, Battle Of (1746); History; Historians


THE BATTLE OF SHERIFFMUIR: A HISTORICAL POEM, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year 1715, and on the 10th of november
Last Line: And to allay all doubts about which party won, we must feel content.
Subject(s): Death; History; Sheriffmuir, Battle Of (1715); Victory; War; Dead, The; Historians


THE BRITISH COUNTRYSIDE IN PICTURES, by JAMES MCMICHAEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The frontispiece fixes as / british
Subject(s): Great Britain; History; Landscape; World War Ii; Historians; Second World War


THE BUFFALO COAT, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see him moving, in his legendary fleece
Last Line: Is old and cold in a world his death began
Subject(s): Buffaloes; History; Native Americans; Historians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE CHILDREN OF THE PALE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "whence comes this motley, dark-eyed, swarthy / crowd"
Last Line: Recalling ancient stories proudly told / of israel's line
Subject(s): Children;history;israel;jews; Childhood;historians;judaism


THE CHOSEN, by ELIZABETH MCMURTRIE DINWIDDIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Chosen of old, the guardians of the law
Last Line: The freedom of the strong.
Subject(s): Clergy; History; Jews; Prophecy & Prophets; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Historians; Judaism


THE CONQUERORS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw the conquerors riding by
Last Line: Came christ, the swordless, on an ass!
Subject(s): Conquistadors; History; War; Historians


THE CORNISH COAST, by JOHN NICHOL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: Far in the west a windy music rings
Last Line: The beacons of a nobler earth to be.
Subject(s): History; Historians


THE CRISIS, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spirit of russia, now has come
Last Line: Say to thy land, let there be light.
Subject(s): History; Nations; Russian Revolution; Historians


THE CURATOR EXPLAINS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is my kingdom, this my small domain
Last Line: That leave my heart aglow with joy and praise
Subject(s): Books; History; Museums; Reading; Historians; Art Gallerys


THE DIRGE OF THE FOUR CITIES, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Finias and falias, / where are they gone?
Last Line: The city of murias.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Cities; History; Lament; Nostalgia; Time; Urban Life; Historians


THE DREAM SONGS: 290, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why is ireland the wettest place on earth
Last Line: Fate across all them rolls
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): History; Iowa; Ireland; Poetry & Poets; Historians; Irish


THE END OF THE LINE, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The iron horse is rusting
Last Line: Baby, I tell you, the big train don't go there no more
Subject(s): Change; History; Railroads; Historians; Railways; Trains


THE EROTICS OF HISTORY, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sex and history. And skin and bone
Last Line: Could hear it but him: make me a heroine
Variant Title(s): Heroic
Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Heroism; History; Heroes; Heroines; Historians


THE FATHER OF THE FOREST, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old emperor yew, fantastic sire
Last Line: "toils the indomitable world."
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): History; Historians


THE FLIGHT, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O wild heart, track the land's perfume
Last Line: "one with the wild heart yearning."
Subject(s): History; Mankind; Religion; Historians; Human Race; Theology


THE GHETTO-JEW, by ISRAEL GOLDBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: I marked in the midst of the glittering throng
Last Line: A jeer be the last of its pages?
Alternate Author Name(s): Learsi, Rufus
Subject(s): History; Jews; Jews - Persecution; Memory; Old Age; Historians; Judaism


THE GIANTS OF HISTORY, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The little people behind the scenes are getting ugly
Last Line: No good to them now, in their hour of need
Subject(s): Friendship; Giants; History; Historians


THE HERETIC IN THE TEMPLE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Lone did I go within the ancient place
Last Line: Across the world, in its death-seeking quest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; History; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt; Temples; Historians; Mosques


THE HISTORY OF AMERICA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A linear projection: a route. It crosses
Last Line: Wonder you fear this bleeding pulse, no wonder
Subject(s): History; United States; Historians; America


THE HISTORY OF MY LIFE, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once upon a time there were two brothers
Last Line: It up for what seemed like months or years
Subject(s): History; Life; Historians


THE HOUR, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: This is the hour all history shall claim
Last Line: And stand, and strike, and you must overcome.
Subject(s): History; Oppression; War; Historians


THE IRON AGE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: How came this pigmy rabble spun
Last Line: The iron age's avatar.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): History; Historians


THE JEWS OF ENGLAND (1200-1902), by ISRAEL ZANGWILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An edward's england spat us out-a band
Last Line: Her triumph o'er her own intolerance.
Subject(s): Battleships; History; Jews; Right To Asylum; War; Historians; Judaism


THE LINCOLN HOME, by ZELLA ACKERMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: One sunday, on july the twelfth
Last Line: We know his creed lives -- others can, who will.
Subject(s): Heroism; History; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Parks; Presidents, United States; Heroes; Heroines; Historians


THE LITTLE ODYSSEY OF JASON QUINT, OF SCIENCE, DOCTOR, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Betrayed by his five mechanic agents, falling
Last Line: And confirmation of his loneliness.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); History; Travel; U.s. - History; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Historians; Journeys; Trips


THE LOST HERITAGE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Beauty gone, and beauty gone
Last Line: And loveliness its toy.
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Beauty; History; Knowledge; Love; Time; Historians


THE MAN WHO DOES THE CHEERING, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: This war with spain reminds me o' the spring o' '61
Last Line: Come / back
Subject(s): American Civil War;history;homecoming;u.s. - History; Historians


THE MASSY WAYS, CARRIED ACROSS THESE HEIGHTS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of those pure minds that reverence the muse
Subject(s): Ruins; Time; Roads; History & Historians


THE MESSAGE OF VICTORY, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: News to the king, good news for all!'
Last Line: And the dying lie with the dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Variant Title(s): Song (4)
Subject(s): History; Victory; War; Historians


THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, by LLOYD MIFFLIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Immurmurous hall, with aisles of grateful shade
Last Line: The flower of man's creative, god-like mind!
Subject(s): Exhibitions; History; Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York; World's Fairs; Expositions; Historians


THE NETWORK, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In 1861, george hew sailed in a rowboat
Last Line: The sound barrier and shatters glass.
Subject(s): History; Historians


THE NORMAN BARON, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In his chamber, weak and dying
Last Line: Unconsumed by moth or rust
Subject(s): History; Historians


THE OLD ASTRONOMER TO HIS PUPIL, by SARAH (SADIE) WILLIAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Reach me down my tycho brahe, I would know him when we meet
Last Line: I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
Subject(s): History; Historians


THE PENNACESSE LEPER COLONY FOR WOMEN, CAPE COD: 1922, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The island, you mustn't say, had only rocks and scrub pine
Last Line: Most everything for you. And I'll be gone.
Subject(s): Absence; Cape Cod; Fathers & Daughters; History; Leprosy; Separation; Isolation; Historians; Lepers


THE PETTY BOURGEOISIE, by ROQUE DALTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those who / in most cases
Last Line: Nature / and future
Subject(s): History; Humanitarianism; Revolutions; Historians


THE PRESS, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A worthy parson, once upon a time
Last Line: On freedom's shores a weak and venal press.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Books; Freedom; History; Libraries & Librarians; Literature; Newspapers; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Liberty; Historians; Journalism; Journalists


THE PRINCE AND THE CZAR, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The prince and the czar ride into the streets
Last Line: Let the wild wars cease and the nations rest!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Alexander Ii, Czar Of Russia (1818-1881); Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Edward Vii, King Of England (1841-1910); Freedom; History; Leadership; London; Liberty; Historians


THE SECOND COMING, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Turning and turning in the widening gyre
Last Line: Slouches towards bethlehem to be born?
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Chaos; Easter; History; Holidays; Imagination; Judgment Day; Men; Millenium; Religion; Vision; War; The Resurrection; Historians; Fancy; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology


THE SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK, by JAMES W. BLAKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down in front of casey's old brown wooden stoop
Last Line: On the sidewalks of new york.
Subject(s): History; New York City; Historians; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE SPHINX, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Couchant upon the illimitable sand
Last Line: Inscrutable as is the face of death!
Subject(s): Egypt; History; Monuments; Sphinx; Historians


THE STATE OF WYOMING, by KAREN SWENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Perhaps a childhood magic-writing tablet
Last Line: To the shadow of an antelope stare.
Subject(s): History; Imagination; Wyoming; Historians; Fancy


THE STONE AGE; A FANCY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun is sultry o;er the marble lands
Last Line: Looks with an innocent and curious glance.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): History; Nature; Historians


THE STREETS OF TIME, by CHARLES A. TUPPER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wandered down the streets of time
Last Line: Shone clear and still, glowed warm and still!
Subject(s): History; Time; Historians


THE STWONEN STEPS, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thease stwonen steps a-zet so true
Last Line: O' veet trod vu'st the steäirs?
Subject(s): Family Life; History; Mortality; Stairs; Time; Relatives; Historians


THE TEACHING OF THE BLOWS OF FORTUNE, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye that nourish hopes of fame!
Last Line: Which tames the noblest efforts of poor flesh.
Subject(s): Fame; Fortune; History; Reputation; Historians


THE TOPOGRAPHY OF HISTORY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All cities are open in the hot season
Last Line: "calling out ""o love, love,"" but finding none"
Subject(s): Death; Hate; History; Maps; United States; Dead, The; Historians; America


THE UNKNOWN, by ELMER O. LAUGHLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I do not understand
Last Line: She won't forget.
Subject(s): History; Unknown Soldier; Historians


THE VOICE, by RUSTICUS [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through mists of tears I saw the vanished past
Last Line: "try exercise, old sport, and simpler diet"
Alternate Author Name(s): Rusticus
Subject(s): History;memory; Historians


THE VOICES OF HISTORY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The poet in his vigil hears
Last Line: And moral nature's lord!
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): History; Poetry & Poets; Historians


THE YELLOW BADGE, by RUTH SCHECHTER ALEXANDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hundreds of years agone, my brothers
Last Line: Of the people god called his crown.
Subject(s): History; Jews; Tradition; Historians; Judaism


THEM AND US, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Something in their psyche insists on elvis
Last Line: Death and elvis, but watching for marvin gaye.
Subject(s): Death; Fame; History; Presley, Elvis (1937-1977); Dead, The; Reputation; Historians


THOMPSON'S VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The book, by george! I'd rather own
Last Line: "in zadock thompson's book ""vermont."
Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; History; Native Americans; Travel; Vermont; Reading; Historians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips


THOUGH NOT ADMONISHED OF YOUR INTENTIONS IN WORK, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft thumps in the earth as you approach
Last Line: No longer visit my love
Subject(s): Fire; History; Historians


THREAD THROUGH HISTORY, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is it, what really is it, this sacred or secular
Subject(s): History; Human Conduct; Historians


TO A FRENCH GIRL IN AMERICA, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I cannot tell just where the difference lies
Last Line: —mabel kingsley richardson
Subject(s): Freedom; History; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; United States; Liberty; Historians; America


TO A HISTORIAN, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You who celebrate bygones
Last Line: I project the history of the future.
Subject(s): History; Historians


TO CLEMENT EDMONDS, ON HIS CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES OBSERVED (2), by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who edmonds, reads thy book and doth not see
Last Line: They murder him again, that envy thee.
Subject(s): Edmondes, Clement (1564-1622); History; Rome, Italy; Historians


TO CLEMENT EDWARDS, ON HIS CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES OBSERVED (1), by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not caesar's deeds, nor all his honours won
Last Line: His life, but makes, that he can die no more.
Subject(s): Edmondes, Clement (1564-1622); History; Rome, Italy; Historians


TO HIS TEACHER, by ANNE GOODWIN WINSLOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dear humanist, this roaring street
Last Line: Who gravely walks with you.
Subject(s): History; Modern Man; Historians


TO JOHN FORSTER, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Forster! Whose zeal hath seiz'd each written page
Last Line: Gushes redundantly her golden hair.
Subject(s): Forster, John (1812-1876); History; Historians


TO THE PORTRAIT OF NAPOLEON, AS FIRST CONSUL, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brilliant as lucifer, son of the morning
Last Line: Beautiful gem of the larian shore.
Subject(s): History; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Portraits; Stars; Time; Historians


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A VILLAGE CHURCH, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A stump of oak - a huge old ruin of a tree, shored up with props
Last Line: The peacock flew from its tree overhead to the east and into the night.
Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Clergy; History; Mankind; Cathedrals; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Historians; Human Race


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. AT MENTONE, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why speak ye not, ye beautiful lands and seas
Last Line: Why utterest not the voice we long to hear?
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Earth; History; Mankind; Peasantry; Graveyards; Dead, The; World; Historians; Human Race


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. STANDING BEYOND TIME, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Standing beyond time
Last Line: Standing beyond time.
Subject(s): Earth; History; World; Historians


TWO HISTORIES, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two histories there are in england's isle
Last Line: Forbidding civil war to imp its wings.
Subject(s): Butterfield, Herbert (1900-1979); Great Britain - Civil War; History; English Civil War; Historians


WAITING ON THE QUAY, by EVA HAMMOND CHURCHILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Known you before? Yes, aeons we have known
Last Line: Glanced modern lights in geometric line.
Subject(s): History; Historians


WARREN'S ADDRESS [TO THE AMERICANS] [AT BUNKER HILL] [JUNE 17, 1775], by JOHN PIERPONT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stand! The ground's your own, my braves!
Last Line: Of his deeds to tell?
Variant Title(s): Warren's Address To The American Soldiers
Subject(s): American Revolution; Bunker Hill, Battle Of; Fourth Of July; Freedom; History; Patriotism; United States - History; War; Warren, Joseph (1741-1775); Independence Day; Liberty; Historians


WILLIAM MILLIGAN SLOANE, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: As on the blissful fields musaeus stood
Last Line: Old plutarch would have loved and envied him.
Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; History; Sloane, William Milligan (1906-1974); Teaching & Teachers; Reading; Historians; Educators; Professors


WRITTEN IN THE BEGINNING OF MEZERAY'S HISTORY OF FRANCE, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whate'er thy countrymen have done
Last Line: Unwilling to retire, though weary.
Subject(s): Fame; France; History; Life; Pain; Reputation; Historians; Suffering; Misery


YEAR'S-END, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now winter downs the dying of the year
Variant Title(s): At Year's End;at Yearsend;year's End
Subject(s): History; Holidays; New Year; Historians