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Subject: LINCOLN MEMORIAL, WASHINGTON, D.C.
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL, by WILLIAM E. BROOKS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I think he would have hated this white shrine
Last Line: I think he would have hated this white shrine!
Subject(s): Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.c.


AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Slow potomac, tarnished water
Last Line: To scour the hate clean and the rusted blood
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.c.


AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Slow potomac, tarnished water
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.c.


AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL, by BARON WORMSER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Young couples with sticky, squalling children
Last Line: Root like the weeds between the cracks
Subject(s): Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.c.


AT THE LINCOLN MONUMENT IN WASHINGTON, AUGUST 28, 1963, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There they stand together, like moses standing with aaron
Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1)
Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.c.


LINCOLN MEMORIAL, by THOMAS HORNSBY FERRIL    Poem Source                    
First Line: When you look at abraham lincoln sitting
Subject(s): Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.c.


LINCOLN MEMORIAL, by JAYE GIAMMARINO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sun casts patches of light
Last Line: Who now sits in the lap of time %caressed by gentle winds %of history
Subject(s): Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.c.


LINCOLN MONUMENT: WASHINGTON, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let's go see old abe
Last Line: Of time -- %old abe
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Holidays; Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.c.


THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL, by ALMA ADAMS WILEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Man of the rugged frame and calm, worn face
Last Line: How pure the soul that healed a nation's woe.
Subject(s): Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.c.; Presidents, United States