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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: HISTORIANS Matches Found: 190 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 thouthrough 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'sand 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 |
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