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Subject: JOHNSTOWN FLOOD (1889)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF THE CONEMAUGH FLOOD, by HARDWICKE DRUMMOND RAWNSLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The windows of heaven were wide open
Last Line: "did they hear heaven's great ""well done""?"
Subject(s): Conemaugh (river), Pennsylvania; Johnstown Flood (1889)


A VOICE FROM DEATH, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A voice from death, solemn and strange, in all his sweep and power
Last Line: In which and upon which we float, and every one of us is buoy'd.
Subject(s): Johnstown Flood (1889)


CONEMAUGH, by ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fly to the mountain! Fly!
Last Line: "teach us, altho' we die, to stand."
Alternate Author Name(s): Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart; Phelps, Mary Gray
Subject(s): Conemaugh (river), Pennsylvania; Johnstown Flood (1889)


INCIDENT OF THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD, by MONNIE MOORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jesus, lover of my soul
Subject(s): Johnstown Flood (1889)


THE MAN WHO RODE TO CONEMAUGH, by JOHN ELIOT BOWEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the town of conemaugh
Last Line: "run for your lives to the mountain side!"
Subject(s): Conemaugh (river), Pennsylvania; Courage; Johnstown Flood (1889); Valor; Bravery


THE PENNSYLVANIA DISASTER, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year of 1889, and in the month of june
Last Line: And accidents will happen until doomsday!
Subject(s): Disasters; Johnstown Flood (1889)