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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 22-NOV-63, by ROBERT M. CHUTE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was, they say, the left hand struck him down
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


22-NOV-63, by ROBERT HOLLANDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You and the hoary poet
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


22-NOV-63, by DONALD L. JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: There the guard changes
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


22-NOV-63, by LEWIS PUTNAM TURCO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Weeping, I write this. You are dead. The dark
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


22-NOV-63, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR.    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Morning; the slow rising of a cold sun
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


22ND NOVEMBER, 1963, by GEORGE DEKKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Had not each distant good
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


25-NOV-63, by WILLIAM BUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Drums, drums, I too am dead
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


25-NOV-63, by THOMAS WHITBREAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: The assassination of the president
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


ABOUT THE KENNEDYS, by HENRI COULETTE    Poem Source                    
First Line: %bang! Bang! Bang! %and always in the head
Last Line: And their getting themselves killed. %this poem is for my last friend
Subject(s): Assassination; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963); Kennedy, Robert (1925-1968)


ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear things crying in the world
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


ASSASSINATION; NOVEMVBER 22, 1963, by MARVIN SOLOMON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Muzak played its gorceries
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


AT THE BROOKLYN DOCKS; NOVEMBER 23, 1963, by DOROTHY GILBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the morning air, the freighter havskar
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


BEFORE THE SABBATH, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The man is gone on a friday
Last Line: In unfinished corners we huddle, / growing cold
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963); Assasination


BEFORE THE SABBATH, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The man is gone on a friday
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


BELIEF, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Drums gather and humble us beyond escape
Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R.
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


BERLIN CRISIS, by FLORENCE VICTOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dentist drilled for two-and-one-half hours
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


BULLETIN, by CHANA FAERSTEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is dead. Is dead. How all
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


BY THIS TO REMEMBER, THIS SPRING AGAIN, by BARRY SPACKS    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


CAUSE AND EFFECT, by MAY SWENSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Am I the bullet %or the target
Last Line: A trigger pressed
Subject(s): Assassination; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


CHANNEL U.S.A. - LIVE, by ADRIEN STOUTENBURG    Poem Source                    
First Line: We all were passengers in that motorcade
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


CORTEGE, by JEROME ROTHENBERG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The drums have entered my heart
Last Line: You have returned with me
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


CORTEGE, by JEROME ROTHENBERG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The drums have entered my heart
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


DAVENPORT GAP, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The tulip poplar is not a %poplar it is magnolia
Variant Title(s): A Week From The Big Pigeon To The Little Tennessee Rive
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


DEATH BEFORE KILLING, by GRAY BURR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Raw ulcers and his aspirin signify
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


DEATH OF NEARCHUS; THRENODY IN FORM OF PASTORAL DIALOGUE, by ALAN ANSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This death is timely
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


DOWN IN DALLAS, by X. J. KENNEDY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down in dallas, down in dallas
Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph
Subject(s): Assassination; Dallas, Texas; Holidays; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963); Texas


ELEGY FOR J.F.K., by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why then, why there
Last Line: Lamentation and praise, %sorrow and joy, are one
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


ELEGY FOR THE NEW YEAR, by JACK MARSHALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dulled by the news, all day I keep behind
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


FALL; NOVEMBER 22, 1963, by WALTER KAUFMANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We fall like leaves
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


FINAL PROCESSION; FOR JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, by AUDREY MCGAFFIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Suddenly in sunlight
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


FINALLY A VALENTINE, by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is / a heart
Last Line: A / part
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


FINALLY A VALENTINE, by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is %a heart
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


FIVE POEMS FOR J.F.K.: CELEBRATION, by ROBERT SWARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Outside, the snow on a low
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


FIVE POEMS FOR J.F.K.: DEC. '63, by ROBERT SWARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The talk is of johnson and a congress
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


FIVE POEMS FOR J.F.K.: POEM, by ROBERT SWARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rocks dark, green as leaves. Moss clings
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


FIVE POEMS FOR J.F.K.: READING BUBER, by ROBERT SWARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Words escape me, I face a loss
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


FIVE POEMS FOR J.F.K.: THAT IT THAT THING - LIGHT, by ROBERT SWARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Night, light and the night, light
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


FOOTNOTE TO LORD ACTON, by CYNTHIA OZICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: While in the convention they were nominating the next president of the u.S.
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


FOR A WEDDING PERFORMED ON THANKSGIVING - KENNEDY'S DEATH, by GEORGE T. WRIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sunny day, the mild cool
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


FOR JOHN KENNEDY OF HARVARD, by EDWARD POLS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A tumult of images persist
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


FOR JOHN KENNEDY, JR., by RAYMOND FRANCIS ROSELIEP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stand at attention
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


FOREIGN LAND, SELS., by ROY FULLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sceptical of the cult, suspicious of the nation
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


FORMAL ELEGY, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A hurdle of water, and o these waters are cold
Last Line: Let us continue
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


FORMAL ELEGY, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A hurdle of water, and o these waters are cold
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


FOUR DAYS IN NOVEMBER, by MARJORIE MIR    Poem Source                    
First Line: In late autumn sun
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


FRONTIER, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Daniel boone stepped up to a window
Last Line: But just one pot, pure, indiividual shot
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


FRONTIER, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Daniel boone stepped up to a window
Last Line: To win again us back to wilderness, %but just one pot, pure,individual, shot
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


GIFT OUTRIGHT OF 'THE GIFT OUTRIGHT'; WITH SOME PRELIMINARY HISTORY .., by ROBERT FROST    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Summoning artists to participate
Last Line: Such as she was, such as she would become
Subject(s): Inaugural Poem; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


GIFT OUTRIGHT OF 'THE GIFT OUTRIGHT'; WITH SOME PRELIMINARY HISTORY .., by ROBERT FROST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Summoning artists to participate
Last Line: Of which this noonday's the beginning hour
Subject(s): Inaugural Poem; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


GOOD FIGHT, by THOMAS KINSELLA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once upon a time a certain phantom
Last Line: Falls back in black dissolution in its box
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


GUARD OF HONOR: LIGHT AT ARLINGTON, by ROBERT HAZEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: At arlington the fall sunlight dies
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


GUARD OF HONOR: RIDERLESS HORSE, by ROBERT HAZEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: From andrews field you ride into the capital
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


GUARD OF HONOR: SUPPLICATION OF THE POOR, by ROBERT HAZEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bipartisan committees of congress hail
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


GUARD OF HONOR: THE POST-CHRISTIAN ERA: AN ORATION, by ROBERT HAZEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: But the witless prayers of children in the dark
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


GUARD OF HONOR: WEST TO DALLAS, by ROBERT HAZEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Leave the flattering libraries, the graceful eastern towns
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


GUARD OF HONOR: WIDOW, by ROBERT HAZEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let her take his blood
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


HAIKU, by GERALD VIZENOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Kennedy is dead
Last Line: Waiting to be turned
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


HISTORY (I.M. J.F.K.), by ROBIN SKELTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am a monster
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


HUSTINGS, by CHARLES OLSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the eyes
Subject(s): Elections; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


I M J F K, by RUTH LANDSHOFF YORCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: We may stop worrying %our best man died
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


IN ARLINGTON CEMETERY, by G. STANLEY KOEHLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the city of memorials
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


IN IDENTITY, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As difference blends into identity
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


IN IDENTITY, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As difference blends into identity
Last Line: From ourselves, for ourselves?
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


INSTEAD OF AN ELEGY, by GEORGE SUTHERLAND FRASER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bullets blot out the life-time smile
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


INTIMATE PARTY IN GUADALAJARA, DEC. 1963, by ANTHONY OSTROFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jorge hernandez, architect
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


J.F.K., by RALPH GORDON    Poem Source                    
First Line: To pierce through the power
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


JACQUELINE, by JR. WILLIAM ARCHIBALD MCGIRT    Poem Source                    
First Line: And when she stride
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


JFK FOR A DAY: THE TOUR, by VIRGIL SUAREZ            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For $25 bucks, you can sit in the back
Subject(s): Death; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963); Memory; Dead, The


JFK FOR A DAY: THE TOUR, by VIRGIL SUAREZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For $25 bucks, you can sit in the back
Last Line: A little extra, for the sake of verisimilitude
Subject(s): Death; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963); Memory


JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All generous hearts lament the leader killed
Last Line: The promise of his spirit be fulfilled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Assassination; Dallas, Texas; Death; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963); Lament; Presidents, United States; Dead, The


JOHN KENNEDY, by NYAGAK PINIEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My love is called john, kuac reu
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


JOURNALS NOV. 22, 1963, by ALLEN GINSBERG            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The black & white glare in the inky air force night
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


JOURNALS NOV. 22, 1963, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The black & white glare in the inky air force night
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


KENNEDY, by MICHAEL JOSEPH HEFFERNAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: One late afternoon I hitched from galway down to kinvara on the edge
Last Line: The sunlight, and holy ireland all all asleep, while the grand brave %light of day held darkness bac
Subject(s): Communism; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


KENNEDY POEM, by NEIL MYERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The shot, the horse
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


KENNEDY UCCISO, by RICHARD HUGO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't scream at me you god damn' wops
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


KENNEDY'S INAUGURATION (VERSION A), by ROBERT BLY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sister hands it to me - the seed
Last Line: And the president %in the cold - the old white- %haired poet nearby - %lays one hand on the bible
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


KILLER; ON THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There I go, with an inscrutable face
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


KIND OF LIBATION; FOR J.F.K., by JAMES L. WEIL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sorry I %can't pour
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


LINES FOR A PRESIDENT: THE INAUGURATION AND SHORTLY AFTER, by ROBERT WINTHROP WATSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: You could not stop the snow the sky dumped down
Last Line: You praise the spartans
Variant Title(s): Lines For A Presiden
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


LINES WRITTEN NOV. 22, 23 - 1963 IN DISCORD, by GREGORY NUNZIO CORSO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So what's it like being an american assassin this silly uncertain day?
Last Line: And though the crew weeps the loss %the stars in the skies %are still boss
Alternate Author Name(s): Corso, Gregory
Subject(s): Assassination; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


MAN OF MY DREAMS, by GEORGE (MICHAEL) CUOMO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wild man that last night I dreamed
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


MEMORIAL FOR PRESIDENT KENNEDY, by ROBERT G. TUCKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The old man's fleet that wounded the pacific
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


MOTORCADE, by DEBRA MARQUART    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was seven when it happened
Last Line: And accelerating madly %out of view of the camera
Subject(s): Assassination; Death; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963); Schools; Youth


MR. KENNEDY PROPOSES TO PACIFY THE CARIBBEANS, by GEORGE PARKS HITCHCOCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Recalling the manicured nails on the mandolin
Last Line: The brick the ash the dispersal of seed %we await the angels
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


NATIONAL COLD STORAGE COMPANY, by HARVEY SHAPIRO    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The national cold storage company contains
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


NATIONAL COLD STORAGE COMPANY, by HARVEY SHAPIRO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The national cold storage company contains
Last Line: Must be fed by everything -- ships, poems, %stars, all the years of our lives
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


NEKROS, by RICHARD O'CONNELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: It slouched at the window changing
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


NIGHT OF THE PRESIDENT'S FUNERAL, by RICHARD BARKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sixty thousand faces go dark on the strip
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


NIGHT PICTURE OF POWNAL; FOR J.F.K., by BARBARA HOWES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thanks to the moon
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


NO RETREAT, by REED WHITTEMORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We who must write gm a stinging letter
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


NOT THAT HURRIED GRIEF; FOR JOHN F. KENNEDY (D. 1963), by LORENZO THOMAS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You were only a grainy face in the newspapers
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


ON NOT WRITING AN ELEGY, by RICHARD FROST    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My friend told me about kids in a coffee house
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


ON SEEING A MOVIE BASED ON AN EPISODE FROM KENNEDY'S LIFE, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tonight we took
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


OUT OF THE WEST OF LUCKY RIDERS, by MYRON LEVOY    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


PAVANE FOR THE WHITE QUEEN; LOVED WIFE FALLING SLOWLY AWAKE, by CAROL PEPPIS BERGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not as the word death. But
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


POSTSCRIPT, by VERNON WATKINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Consistently his courage fought
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


PROBES, by MICHAEL GOLDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let us section his nude body
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


REMEMBERING FROST AT KENNEDY’S INAUGURATION, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even the flags seemed frozen
Subject(s): Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


SONNET FOR JOHN-JOHN, by MARVIN SOLOMON    Poem Source                    
First Line: My father died in nineteen thirty-four
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


SPIDER HEAD, by DONALD HALL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The spider glints
Last Line: Humming in a cement hole %electric glass
Variant Title(s): The Assassi
Subject(s): Assassination; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


SPIRIT OF POETRY SPEAKS, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each man must suffer his fate
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


SPONTANEOUS MAN, THE GIFTED ASSASSIN, by MICHAEL GOLDMAN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


THANKSGIVING 1963, by PHILIP BOOTH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She walks a beach assaulted by the sea
Last Line: And finally weep, this night of our dark thanks
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963); Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy (1929-1994)


THANKSGIVING 1963, by PHILIP BOOTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She walks a beach assaulted by the sea
Last Line: Now may she sleep by how the slow sea breaks. %and finally weep, this night of our dark thanks
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963); Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy (1929-1994)


THAT DYING, by ALASTAIR REID    Poem Source                    
First Line: As often as not, on fair days, there is time
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


THE ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear things crying in the world
Last Line: The tilt and jangle of this death
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


THREE DEATHS: 2. DALLAS, 1973, by JIM BARNES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He jumped from a freeway bridge
Last Line: You write the best you can and are free to fall
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


THREE NIGHTS OF MOURNING: JOHN F. KENNEDY, by H. L. MOUNTZPURES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sea begins, far out beyond the light
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


TOMB OF THE KENNEDYS, by SANDOR WEORES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We went to arlington cemetery
Last Line: Droned by a lunatic in the marketplace
Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Graves; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


TOWARD COLONOS; FOR THE DEATH OF JOHN F. KENNEDY, by DABNEY STUART    Poem Source                    
First Line: Think of this loss
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


TRACTION, by HOWARD MOSS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His brother said that pain was what he knew
Subject(s): Assassination; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


UNTIL DEATH DO US PART, by ANSELM HOLLO                        Poet's Biography
First Line: To think of them
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


UNTIL DEATH DO US PART, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To think of them
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


VERBA IN MEMORIAM, by BARBARA GUEST            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How to speak of it
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


VERBA IN MEMORIAM, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How to speak of it
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


WE WHO DO NOT GRIEVE IN SILENCE, by OSCAR MANDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: First came the special issues of the magazines
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


WIDOWS OF JOHN F, by KAY ANN MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: That first death was a big one
Last Line: The open convertible, sleek %as texas oil, the crowds cheering, %a few boos, a few bullets mingling
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


YOUNG PRESIDENT: MARCH 1964, by JOHN TAGLIABUE    Poem Source                    
First Line: He sort %of embodied
Subject(s): Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)