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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: POLITICS Matches Found: 697 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 10, by RUTH IRUPE SANABRIA Poem Source First Line: Walking off the subway up the ramp through the turnstile Last Line: Meanings are not synonymous %in this language Subject(s): Politics; War 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 10, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A politician is an arse upon Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Hate; Politics & Government 1X1 (ONE TIMES ONE): 10, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A politician is an arse upon Last Line: Which everyone has sat except a man Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Hate; Politics 31-JAN-03, by CARY WATERMAN Poem Source First Line: Before sleep, I go out into the january dark afraid of the Last Line: Outside the raccoon snuffles through the dark Subject(s): Politics; War 3:45 AM, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She asks them what are you doing Last Line: Crushed bed posts, open night-cream jars Subject(s): Politics 4 THE PUMPKIN FIELD, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a grand lot they were Last Line: And glowing still when I awoke-- %as they do now, and as they always will Variant Title(s): The Pumpkin Fiel Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Politics; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) 9:40 PM, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear the footsteps. The flower shriek in my hand Last Line: Flashes through the curtain, flashes %across my forehead Subject(s): Politics A BACHELOR-BOOKWORM'S COMPLAINT OF LAST PRESENTIAL ELECTION, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man of peace, I never dared to marry Last Line: I may -- who knows -- forgive both hayes and tilden! Subject(s): Hayes, Rutherford B. (1822-1893); Tilden, Samuel J. (1814-1886); United States - Politics & Government A CHARACTER, PANEGYRIC, AND DESCRIPTION OF THE LEGION CLUB, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I strole the city, oft I / spy a building large and lofty Subject(s): Politics & Government A FOREIGN COUNTRY, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider that instant of anger when to the blow Subject(s): Anger; Russia; Communism; Politics & Government; Soviet Union; Russians A LESSON FROM THE CORPS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you find the body, it has cauliflower ears Last Line: Only the dead can tell you the distance from here to there - see more at: http://iwp.Uiowa.Edu/91st/ Subject(s): Politics & Government; War A LETTER FOR MARIAN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit musing, ten minutes from the jap Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Politics & Government; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty A LETTER TO THE LIBERALS, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not enough Subject(s): Politics & Government A LOCAL POLITICIAN FROM AWAY BACK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jedge is good at argyin'-- Last Line: Sence back in '56. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Judges; Money; Politics & Government A MISCONCEPTION, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: B, taught by pope to do his good by stealth Last Line: Does himself all the good he can by stealing. Subject(s): Politics & Government; Venality A NOTE ON THE LATE ELECTIONS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, friends, once more the revolution has performed its famous Last Line: But in every drop of the rain the sailors of the potemkin wake. Subject(s): Elections; Politics & Government; Voting; Voters; Suffrage A POLITICAL ALLEGORY, by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once there was a famous nation Last Line: Grew and prospered as of old. Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K. Subject(s): Politics & Government A POLITICAL CHARACTER, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In him the elements are strangely blent Last Line: And strength to follow out their thought through all. Subject(s): Politics & Government A POLITICAL LITANY, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From a junta that labor for absolute power Last Line: And britain go on -- to be damned, if she will. Variant Title(s): Libera Nos, Domine - Deliver Us, O Lord Subject(s): Great Britain - Rulers; Politics & Government; United States; America A POLITICAL REVERIE, SELECTION, by MERCY OTIS WARREN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let grecian bards, and roman poets tell Last Line: And lisping infants praise jehovah's name! Subject(s): Politics & Government A POLITICAL VISION, by BOB HICOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cellist in every lobby by love and law Last Line: That would moan if bowed Subject(s): Political Conventions; Politics & Government A PRIMROSE DAME, by GLEESON WHITE Poem Text First Line: She has a primrose at her breast Last Line: I almost wish I were a tory. Subject(s): Politics & Government; Primroses A REPORT FROM THE BORDER, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wars in peacetime don't behave like wars Last Line: "drowned crops, charred hopes, fear, stupor, prayer. Subject(s): Politics & Politicians; Social Commentaries A REPUBLIC!, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her faith abandoned and her place despised Last Line: Her gland pituitary being lost. Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; United States; America A SONG FOR OCCUPATIONS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I do of men and women like you Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Business; United States – Politics & Government A STATESMAN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He knew the mask of principle to wear Last Line: Chief eunuch, were but ours the sultan's court! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Duplicity; Politics & Government; Selfishness; Deceit A YEAR'S BURDEN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fire and wild light of hope and doubt and fear Last Line: Cry wellaway, but well befall the right. Subject(s): Change; Death; Hope; Politics & Government; Dead, The; Optimism ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin Last Line: And willing nations knew their lawful lord. Variant Title(s): Absalom And Achitophel: A Poem Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Conspiracy; Cooper, Anthony (1621-1683); Great Britain - Popish Plot (1678-80); Hyde, Lawrence. 1st Earl Of Rochester; James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460); Jews; Politics & Government; Scott, James. Duke Of Mon ADDRESS AND INVITATION TO A YOUNG FRIEND, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To tell you the truth, dear j., I was sorry Last Line: So come back—pray do—while the heather's in glory. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Elections; Ireland; Politics & Government; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Irish AFTER TENNYSON, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: You ask me why, though ill at ease Subject(s): Modern Life; Freedom; Politics & Government; United States; Liberty; America AFTER THE ANTI-WAR MARCH, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had a different driver on the way home. I sat Subject(s): Politics & Government; War AFTER THE ANTI-WAR MARCH, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had a different driver on the way home. I sat Last Line: Is eating some peppermint candies to stay awake Subject(s): Politics; War AFTER THE DELUGE, by WOLE SOYINKA Poet's Biography First Line: Once, for a dare Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Human Rights AFTER THE DELUGE, by WOLE SOYINKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once, for a dare Last Line: They hunt and mate %on crusted algae Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Human Rights AH RAIN!, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet scented, dripping from eaves and darkening Last Line: My religion is rain, my anger, hate, love is rain Subject(s): Politics & Government; Rain AH RAIN!, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet scented, dripping from eaves and darkening Last Line: I drench my body, shimmer, clothes wet, %my religion is rain, my anger, hate, love is rain Subject(s): Politics; Rain ALABANZA: IN PRAISE OF LOCAL 100, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Alabanza. Praise the cook with a shaven head Last Line: I will teach you. Music is all we have Subject(s): Politics; War ALIZA SAYS, by BRACHA SERRI Poem Source First Line: Aliza says %that everyone went to pray at the cave of machpelah Last Line: Immaterial %unidentified %frozen %barren Subject(s): Politics; Women's Rights ALL OF A SUDDEN, by UNKNOWN+152 Poem Source First Line: What is it with these people-swallowing streets Last Line: For 15 days, %for a month, %for ever Subject(s): Politics ALL OF SUDDEN, by UNKNOWN+152 Poem Source First Line: What is it with these people-swallowing streets Last Line: For a month, %for ever Subject(s): Chile; Politics AMBER & REAGAN & GORBACHEV BY STARLIGHT, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Acacia grouses %because she hates sleeping out Last Line: That they might wake to a different dance Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Politics; White House (washington, D.c.) AMELIA, MRS. BROOKS OF MY OLD CHILDHOOD, by LEO CONNELLAN Poem Source First Line: Amelia, mrs. Brooks of my old childhood %I have come to you again Last Line: For soon earth will cover us Variant Title(s): Amelia, Mrs. Brooks Of My Old Childhoo Subject(s): Children; Politics AMERICAN LIGHT, by GARY SHORT Poem Source First Line: I watched the distant explosions Last Line: Her lipstick flamed red on my cheek Subject(s): Politics; War AMERICAN WARS, by URSULA KROEBER LE GUIN Poem Source First Line: Like the topaz in the toad's head Last Line: And how we tell the story is forever after Subject(s): Politics; War AMONG THE YUROK, by JOAN JOFFE HALL Poem Source First Line: Among the california yurok Last Line: When the sky moves up and down %you are traveling in air Subject(s): Native Americans; Politics AN ELECTION ADDRESS (TO CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, 1882), by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I venture to suggest that I / am rather noticeably fit Last Line: Respectability I can. Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K. Subject(s): Cambridge University; Clergy; Elections; Politics & Government; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Voting; Voters; Suffrage AN EXCELLENT NEW SONG, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An orator dismal of nottinghamshire Last Line: And be a true whig, while I'm not in game. Subject(s): Politics & Government; Speech; Oratory; Orators AN EXPLANATION OF AMERICA, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As though explaining the idea of dancing Subject(s): Politics & Government; Social Problems; United States; America AN INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF A PROPHET, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And a voice like a voice in dreams cried out in the stone wilderness Last Line: Born from his dreaming blood was the red flag of the fifth Subject(s): Morality; Politics & Government; Prophecy & Prophets; Ethics AN ODE FOR THE NEW YEAR AS IT WAS SUNG BEFORE HIS MAJESTY, by LAWRENCE EUSDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Lift up thy hoary head, and rise Last Line: Britannia is a brunswick's care. Subject(s): Caroline Of Brunswick, Queen Of England; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Government; Politics & Government; South Sea Islands; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens AN ODE TO THE FRAMERS OF THE FRAME BILL, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh well done lord e - n! And better done r - r! Last Line: Who, when asked for a remedy, sent them a rope. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Politics & Government; Work; Workers AND TO RETURN, WHO IS A JEW?, by BRACHA SERRI Poem Source First Line: And again, who is a jew Last Line: All those that suffer %for the good of others Subject(s): Politics; Women's Rights ANNIVERSARY, by PATRICIA Y. IKEDA Poem Source First Line: End of summer and %orchards sell peaches so ripe Last Line: Turned red, turned round %and big as fire Subject(s): Politics; War APOLITICAL INTELLECTUALS, by OTTO-RENE CASTILLO Poem Source First Line: One day, %the apolitical Last Line: And you will be mute %in your shame Subject(s): Politics; Reason APRES MOI LE DELUGE, by EILEEN MURPHY Poem Source First Line: When I heard about Last Line: & said, 'have ya heard? We finally won the war' Subject(s): Politics; War ARMY BURN WARD, by MARTIN GALVIN Poem Source First Line: First the doctor peels dead skin away Last Line: Unblinking as the brides inside him die Subject(s): Politics; War ARS GUBERNANDI, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Thy subtlest gift is steersmanship, o sea! Last Line: Skills not that day when rigid moorings break. Subject(s): English Channel; Great Britain - Politics & Government; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails ARS POETICA, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, / poet by trade, / condemned so many times Last Line: I catch sight of the promised land Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government ARS POETICA, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, %poet by trade, %condemned so many times Last Line: I catch sight of the promised land Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Politics ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL, by JR. JOEL B. PECKHAM Poem Source First Line: I'm driving home from atlanta, down 441 - an unlit Last Line: The saint himself. I can't remember, but it seems %important now Subject(s): Politics; War ASSASSINATION OF THE POLO CHAMP, by ALFONSO QUIJADA URIAS Poem Source First Line: They killed the polo champ Last Line: And above all because he then started walking %as a poor man among the poor Subject(s): Politics; Polo; Poverty AT SAINT ANTHONY'S, by MAKETA GROVES Poem Source First Line: I almost ran up to her to say Last Line: Being poor %takes twice %the effort Subject(s): Politics AT WAT UMONG, by GALEN GARWOOD Poem Source First Line: Wat umong lies close to the city Last Line: And whose hunger cannot be sated Subject(s): Politics; War ATLAS; OR THE MINISTER OF STATE TO THE LORD TREASURER OXFORD, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Atlas, we read in ancient song Last Line: Sink down he must, or find upholders Subject(s): Politics AUNT CHLOE'S POLITICS, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of course, I don't know very much / about these politics Last Line: I go for voting clean . Subject(s): Politics & Government AUNTS, by ALFONSO QUIJADA URIAS Poem Source First Line: They always went out together every afternoon Last Line: Until they formed between their fingers a lump, a little gray ball Subject(s): Aunts; Politics BAD FAIRIES, by KEVIN ANDREW MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Like fairies at a christening Last Line: A single voice? Absurd Subject(s): Politics; War BAGHDAD, by KENT JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Oh, little crown of iron forged to likeness of imam's face Last Line: Soon wake up and rub your eyes and know that you are %dead Subject(s): Politics; War BALLAD OF A DISSENTER, by SAMUEL HAZO Poem Source First Line: The president speaks about government leaks Last Line: And to learn that your dream was mistaken Subject(s): Politics; War BANKING LESSON, 1970, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your hero's welcome was cleaning Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Politics & Government; Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BANKING LESSON, 1970, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your hero's welcome was cleaning Last Line: Stacks of bill rising in piles on the walls. %how far? Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Politics; Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BE SERIOUS, by RUTH STONE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps it will snow %oh do be serious Last Line: How the poor die in the streets Subject(s): Politics; War BEATITUDES, by ALFRED-MAURICE DE ZAYAS Poem Source First Line: Can you tell me who is good and who is bad? Last Line: Of christinaity? The sermon on the mount Subject(s): Politics; War BEFORE THE SCALES, TOMORROW, by OTTO-RENE CASTILLO Poem Source First Line: When the enthusiasm Last Line: When everything around %is still so cold, so dark Subject(s): Politics BEFORE THE SCALES, TOMORROW, by OTTO-RENE CASTILLO Poem Source First Line: And when the enthusiastic %story of our time Last Line: It's all still so cold, %so dark Subject(s): Politics BELIEF, by COLLEEN MORTON BUSCH Poem Source First Line: They don't want to go Last Line: You bare skin on the green grass could save him Subject(s): Politics; War BILLY BUSH SAM-TON, by FAWZIA AFZAL-KHAN Poem Source First Line: Osama %sam a %uncle sam Last Line: Are you proud %of me Subject(s): Politics; War BITCHES; ON AN ATTEMPT TO REPEAL THE TEST ACT, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A bitch that was full pregnant grown Last Line: But ilium's lost, and priam falls Subject(s): Politics BLACK SWIMMER CROSSES THE BLUE DEPTHS OF UNDERWATER, by PAUL LARAQUE Poem Source Last Line: The lecherous dancing of baron samedi throwing the salt of life on the fire Subject(s): Politics BLAST FURNACE, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: A foundry's stench, the rolling mill's clamor Last Line: It is blasting a bullet through your brain, %the last dying echo of one who enters %the volcano's mo Subject(s): Factories; Politics BLEST STATESMAN HE, WHOSE MIND'S UNSELFISH WILL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Perilous is sweeping change, all chance unsound Subject(s): Politics BLOOD KNOT, by EILEEN KOSTINER Poem Source First Line: Between us, mother and son Last Line: In your words you speak %what I remember Subject(s): Mothers And Sons; Politics BLOOD OF COLORADO MINERS, by SARAH MENEFEE Poem Source Last Line: On the boardroom walls of chase manhattan bank Subject(s): Capitalism; Politics; Rockefeller (family); Social Protest BLOOD OF OTHERS, by GIACONDA BELLI Poem Source First Line: I read the poems of the dead Last Line: Does the blood in our bodies that lets us love each other belong to us? Subject(s): Politics BLOOD OF OTHERS, by GIACONDA BELLI Poem Source First Line: I read the poems of the dead Last Line: Does the blood in our bodies that lets us love each other %belong to us? Subject(s): Politics BLOOM'S PHOTOGRAPH, by BILL WADSWORTH Poem Source First Line: In reykjavik that year the bomb Last Line: We shut the book on mooly's 'yes' Subject(s): Politics; War BLUE CLOUD RIDES HORSES, by EDGAR SILEX Poem Source First Line: Blue cloud rides horses behind the wheel Last Line: Harder and faster to the vanishing haze Subject(s): Politics BLUE HERONS, by SASCHA FEINSTEIN Poem Source First Line: Against a window of unresolved Last Line: Blue herons paralyzed in oil Subject(s): Politics; War BLUES FOR THE OLD REVOLUTIONARY WOMAN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A tick of time that stones the heads of kings Last Line: Points toward the indies of our mortal wish Subject(s): Politics & Government; Socialism; Women BLUES FOR UNEMPLOYED MERCENARIES, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All I wanted was a goddam cab Last Line: An ice bullet man makes %by the way, you like my hat? Subject(s): Aging; Politics; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 BLUES FOR WARREN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beasts in the schoolroom, whose transparent faces Last Line: Are beached the spring-tide flowers of our hopes Subject(s): Communism; Death; North Sea; Politics & Government; Socialism; Soldiers; War; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War BOHUNK LOVE, by DEBORAH O'HARRA Poem Source First Line: We're coming off the grapevine careening Last Line: Alive with their terrible love Subject(s): Family Life; Fights; Love; Politics BRAVE WOMAN, by GRACE MONTE DE RAMOS Poem Source First Line: I am a mother of sons Last Line: Who kill and are killed Subject(s): Politics; War BROKEN SONNET, by JOHN YAU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world weeps. There are no tears Subject(s): Politics & Government; Social Commentaries BRYAN, BRYAN, BRYAN, BRYAN, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a nation of one hundred fine, mob-hearted, lynching Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Bryan, William Jennings (1860-1925); Political Campaigns; Politics & Government BRYAN, BRYAN, BRYAN, BRYAN, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a nation of one hundred fine, mob-hearted, lynching Last Line: Gone to join the shadows with altgeld the eagle, %where the kings and the slaves and the troubadours Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Bryan, William Jennings (1860-1925); Political Campaigns; Politics BURNING OF MALMAISON, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a brisk cool evening when the wind Last Line: All that was left: this small blue stain Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Politics; Trail Of Tears (1838-39) CALL AND ANSWER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me why it is we don't lift our voices these days Last Line: Hurry, cry now! Soon sunday night will come Subject(s): Politics & Government; War CALL AND ANSWER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me why it is we don't lift our voices these days Last Line: Hurry, cry now! Soon sunday night will come Subject(s): Politics; War CAMBRIDGE RANT, by WILLIAM IRWIN THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: Dear mr. President, %when first did standing up before a crowd Last Line: American movies are played in the dark Subject(s): Politics; War CAMPAIGN, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My packard bell was set up in the vacant lot near the stump Last Line: On record to the moon's blanched countenance. %who are you for? Subject(s): Americans; Politics; United States CANDIDATING IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You bet that folks up here this week Last Line: "with candidating in vermont." Subject(s): Elections; Politics & Government; Vermont; Voting; Voters; Suffrage CANTO 37, by EZRA POUND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou shalt not', said martin vanburen. 'jail 'em for debt' Subject(s): United States - Politics & Government; Immigrants; Debt; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration CARMEN BOMBA: POET, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Luisa always felt refreshed when she remembered carmen bomba Last Line: To say the verses he composed that day Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Politics & Government CARMEN BOMBA: POET, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Luisa always felt refreshed when she remembered carmen bomba Last Line: Each open window in the neighborhood to recite the verses he had composed that day Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Politics CARRYING MY TOOLS, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: Any good craftsman carries his tools Last Line: So there may not be any work today, %but when there is, I'll be ready. %I got my tools Subject(s): Craftsmanship; Politics; Tools CASH REGISTER, by MARIANNE LARSEN Poem Source First Line: She wakes up Last Line: With one of the shop's cheap bottles %of wine under her arm oh god Subject(s): Politics CASUALTY, by VIRGINIA HAMILTON ADAIR Poem Source First Line: Fear arrived at my door Last Line: And the green rains Subject(s): Politics; War CELLO, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a dead tree falls in a forest Subject(s): Politics & Government; War CELLO, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a dead tree falls in a forest Last Line: Shouldering the dead Subject(s): Politics; War CERTAINTY, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After four hours of torture, the apache and the two other cops Last Line: Of course they continued torturing him Subject(s): Politics CHARACTER, PANEGYRIC, AND DESCRIPTION OF THE LEGION CLUB, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As I strole the city, oft I %spy a building large and lofty Last Line: I concluded, looking round 'em, %may their god, the devil confound 'em Subject(s): Politics CHIAPAS, by HOLLY THOMAS Poem Source First Line: I don't now you, child Last Line: Your father, 'disappeared' after the burning %eats his own Subject(s): Politics; War CHILDREN OF OUR AGE, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are children of our age Subject(s): Politics & Government CHILDREN PLAYING - AFTER THE PERSIAN GULF WAR, by JOHN L. STANIZZI Poem Source First Line: The heavy equipment, %done for the day Last Line: April exploding everywhere Subject(s): Politics; War CHOICES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would you rather have health insurance Subject(s): Politics & Government; War CHOICES, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would you rather have health insurance Last Line: And it's hard to tell the difference Subject(s): Politics; War CHORAL SONG, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soon greek oars will whip up Subject(s): Politics & Government; War CHORAL SONG, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soon greek oars will whip up Last Line: As easily as one plucks a flower?' Subject(s): Politics; War CLASSIC OF POETRY: 93, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Huge rat, huge rat Last Line: Happy meadows, happy meadows %where none need wail and cry Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Politics; Rats CLAY'S MEMORY, by SALAM AL-ASADI Poem Source First Line: The night is a descending myth Last Line: And sparrows trembling against closed horizons Subject(s): Politics; War CLIMBER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: A man entering politics is a man Last Line: Climbing %into a garbage can. Subject(s): Politics; Refuse And Refuse Disposal COLONIAL ALBUM, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They saw mirrored %in the gleaming teeth Last Line: And the children play on them as if %they had never been more than piles of stone Subject(s): Aging; Politics; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 COLOSSUS, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's awesome to have straddled a century Last Line: To crumble into ruins with it Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Social Commentaries COMMON GRIEF, by ROBERTO SOSA Poem Source First Line: We %daughters and mothers of the word Last Line: No one can sever or divide our common grief %amen Subject(s): Politics COMPLAINT AND PETITION, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. President: on a clear cold Last Line: And love will quit the world Subject(s): Politics & Government; War COMPLAINT AND PETITION, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. President: on a clear cold Last Line: And love will quit the world Subject(s): Politics; War COMPRESSION, by SEBASTIAN EGGERT Poem Source First Line: In a darkened corner of the shop Last Line: I often wonder when that old metal tank will blow Subject(s): Politics; War CONCRETE RIVER, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: We sink into the dust Last Line: To pierce colors of virgin skies. %not here, along a concrete river, %but there-licked by tongues of Subject(s): Politics CONFUSION, by EFRAIN HUERTA Poem Source First Line: As for %my old %teachers %of marxism Last Line: Some are %in prison %others are %in power Subject(s): Politics CONJUNCTION, by GIACONDA BELLI Poem Source First Line: Outside %the crouching night %waits like a tiger Last Line: I still feel like I need a kiss on my leg Subject(s): Politics COPLAS ON THE BAD GOVERNMENT OF TOLEDO, by GOMEZ MANRIQUE Poem Source First Line: When mighty rome was conqueror Last Line: Full little thrust will it deliver! Subject(s): Government; Politics; War CORRUPTION; AN EPISTLE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Boast on, my friend -- though stripp'd of all beside Last Line: O england! Sinking england! Boast no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Freedom; Great Britain - Revolution, 1688; Liberty; English Revolution, 1688 CRANES IN AUGUST, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: They clutter the house Last Line: From many throats, repeated Subject(s): Cranes (birds); Politics; War CREMAINS, by BERNHARD HILLILA Poem Source First Line: When leaves no longer live, they Last Line: They happen to be tobacco Subject(s): Fire; Leaves; Politics CROSSTOWN, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back in new york I grab a taxi at port authority Last Line: X-rays, so it’s cancer Subject(s): New York City; City Traffic; Taxis; Buses; Democracy; War; Politics & Politicians; African Americans; Racism; Nightmares CUI BONO?, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: My lords and commons, in your place of trust Last Line: Seems quite the thing in teaching moderation. Subject(s): Nationalism - Germany; Politics & Government; War CYNICAL ODE TO AN ULTRA-CYNICAL PUBLIC, by CHARLES MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You prefer a buffoon to a scholar Last Line: Pig of a public! Subject(s): Cynicism; Politics & Government DANIEL WEBSTER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, stricken by the freezing blast Last Line: On the blue tablet of the deep! Subject(s): Politics & Government; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852) DAUGHTERS OF THE HORSELEECH CRYING 'GIVE! GIVE!', by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And who will keep his five charming daughters? Subject(s): Hate; Politics DAY OF THE NIGHT, by JAMES SCULLY Poem Source First Line: The day of the night %they arrested fernando %I'm lounging on a bench Last Line: A black %hood over his head %if we had wings, roots, petals %we would not be men Subject(s): Politics DEAD DO NOT WANT US DEAD, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Even a cucumber, even a single anise seed: feasting Subject(s): Politics; War DEAR AUNT CHOFI, by DAISY ZAMORA Poem Source First Line: You weren't the aunt chofi of jaime sabines' poem Last Line: Perhaps you recognize yourself %in this mirror Subject(s): Aunts; Politics DEMOCRACY, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Social Commentaries; Politics & Government; Winter DENIAL, by LUCIE MCKEE Poem Source First Line: Today we are quite light - levitated by Last Line: The bed, read about spain with a flashlight Subject(s): Politics; War DEPARTMENT OF LABOR HAIKU, by CHERYL SAVAGEAU Poem Source First Line: In the winter snow Last Line: And men out of work Subject(s): Politics; Unemployment DESTINY IS MEMORY, by TIA BALLANTINE Poem Source First Line: After bombs remove oil-stained pavement, bricks Last Line: A fire burns the last remaining tree Subject(s): Politics; War DIFFICULT EVOLUTION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The donkey and the elephant were in a desert land Last Line: As he lumbered o'er the desert with a plod, plod, plod. Subject(s): Politics & Government; Temperance; Prohibition DIFFICULT TO SLEEP, by ELISABETH HALLETT Poem Source First Line: Difficult to sleep this way Last Line: We haven't got your forwarding address Subject(s): Politics; War DISCRETIONS OF ALCIBIADES, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First frost is weeks off, but yj prudent man Subject(s): Mythology; Adultery; Politics & Government DISH, by BRACHA SERRI Poem Source First Line: Mother cooked meat in the pot Last Line: Your body's %senses Subject(s): Politics; Women's Rights DISPATCH, by ALFONSO QUIJADA URIAS Poem Source First Line: I content myself that some day Last Line: Cannot savour his sugar nor his coffee Subject(s): Politics DNA SHOWS THAT I'M THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Only politicians shitting out of their mouths Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Politics; Social Protest; Unknown Soldier DO LEN, by NGUYEN BA CHUNG Poem Source First Line: When I was a boy I spent my days fishing at the na brook Last Line: A grassy mound all that was left Subject(s): Politics DOG, by VICTOR MONTEJO Poem Source First Line: Near the military barracks Last Line: On the barracks posts of the frightened colonels Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Politics DOG AND THE THIEF, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Quoth the thief to the dog, 'let me into your door' Last Line: That would turn a man out of his own? Subject(s): Elections; Politics DOING ZAZEN ON THE SNOW IN FRONT OF THE COLORADO STATE CAPITOL AN..., by LEN EDGERLY Poem Source First Line: I'm new at this, %unsure of my arguments Last Line: Ready t be written down Subject(s): Politics; War DOMESDAY BOOK: THE GOVERNOR, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm home at last. How long were you asleep? Last Line: To coroner merival on the street one day: Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; Life; Politics & Government; Attorneys DON'T TELL ME NOT TO BOTHER YOU, by FERRUCCIO BRUGNARO Poem Source First Line: Giant cement blocks %huge iron scaffoldings Last Line: Don't tell me you're not interested Subject(s): Politics DOOMSDAY VERSE, by SIDNEY WADE Poem Source First Line: In the dying order, they go first Last Line: Our vehicles possess a ranging thirst Subject(s): Politics; War DOWN TO THE CAPITAL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'be'n down to the capital at washington, d.C. Last Line: They's nothin' much patheticker'n jes' a-bein' rich! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Politics & Government; Washington, D.c. DR. RIMMER'S HAMILTON ON COMMONWEALTH AVENUE AND ARLINGTON STREET, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Granite unsharded by the fires of revolt Last Line: Hamilton, voice of sovereignty. Subject(s): Politics & Government; Sculpture & Sculptors DRAFT-DODGERS VS. POETRY-DODGERS, by UNKNOWN+12 Poem Source First Line: Rather than fulfilling their military obligation Last Line: Now the young are needed to go to poetry Subject(s): Politics; War DREAM & LIE OF GEORGE W. BUSH (AFTER PICASSO'S DREAM & LIE OF..., by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Owl fandango escabeche swords of octopus of evil omen Last Line: Embedded in the rock Subject(s): Politics; War DUKE UPON DUKE; A NEW BALLAD TO THE TUNE OF CHEVY CHASE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To lordings proud I lay my tune Last Line: That pride will have a fall. Subject(s): Guise, Sir John (1677-1732); Politics & Government E-MAIL FOR SAM, by SAMUEL HAZO Poem Source First Line: Dear sam, %I received your email request for a poem. I too saw the Last Line: And I am sending the enclosed as my contribution Subject(s): Politics; War EARTH IS A SATELLITE OF THE MOON, by LEONEL RUGAMA Poem Source First Line: Apollo 2 cost more than apollo 1 Last Line: Blessed are the poor for they shall inherit the moon Subject(s): Politics; Poverty; Space And Space Travel EAST OF NEW YORK, by MICHAEL WOLFE Poem Source First Line: Fifty thousand crickets are talking to the moon Last Line: Accompanied by clouds and by our outcry Subject(s): Politics; War EAVESDROPPING ON AMERICA, by BILL RANSOM Poem Source First Line: Women in the next booth compare shades of makeup Last Line: Where can love, that thin guerrilla, take a stand? Subject(s): Politics; War ECLOGUE: THE TIMES, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, tom, how be'st? Zoo thou'st a-got thy neame Last Line: You'll goo vor wool, an' then come hwome a-sheär'd. Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Economics; Fables; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Pigs; Politics & Government; Social Protest; Wages; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Boars; Hogs; Salaries ECOLOGY, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: You saw more coyotes near san ubaldo in september Last Line: Is also one of lakes, rivers, trees, animals Subject(s): Politics EISENHOWER'S VISIT TO FRANCO, 1959, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The american hero must triumph over %the forces of darkness Last Line: Clean new bombers from america muffle their engines %and glide down now Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Politics ELECTION DAY, 1984, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did you ever see someone coldcock a blind nun? Last Line: If evil could be safer, on the whole. Subject(s): Elections; Evil; Ignorance; Politics & Government; Reagan, Ronald Wilson (1911-2004)); Women; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Dullness; Stupdity; Feminism ELEGIAC VERSES ON THE DEATH OF LORD PALMERSTON, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A loftier muse, in higher strains, may sing Last Line: Still vibrates strong for him, revered of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; England; Politics & Government; Praise; Dead, The; English ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The men that worked for england / they have their graves at home Last Line: They have no graves as yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): England; Politics & Government; Soldiers; World War I; English; First World War ENGLAND AND THE S.A. REPUBLICS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Be just and generous! Fear not thou Last Line: The april buds remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Great Britain - Politics & Government ENOUGH, by MATTHEW SHENODA Poem Source First Line: It's happening again %it never stopped Last Line: Everything I know to love Subject(s): Politics; War EPIGRAM, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midas, they say, possessed the art of old Last Line: Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please. Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Politics & Government EPIGRAM ON SEEING A PAIR OF SCALES IN A LAWYER'S OFFICE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo here's the place where law prevails Last Line: "a sign that justice there is sold." Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Hypocrisy; Law & Lawyers EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shut, shut the door, good john! Fatigued I said Last Line: Thus far was right, the rest belongs to heav'n. Variant Title(s): Prologue To The Satires Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735); Booksellers; Critics & Criticism; Gay, John (1685-1732); Hate; Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Writing & Writers; Bookstores; Doctors EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: A DEAD STATESMAN, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could not dig: I dared not rob Last Line: Mine angry and defrauded young? Subject(s): Politics & Government; War - Home Front; World War I; First World War EPOLOGUE TO CONSTANTINE THE GREAT, BY LEE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our hero's happy in the play's conclusion Last Line: To turn for this may surely be forgiven: %who'd not be circumcised for such a heaven? Subject(s): Constantine I (the Great) (d. 337); Politics; Religious Discrimination ETYMOLOGY: CHICANO, by LEROY V. QUINTANA Poem Source First Line: Filemon says that when the movimiento began Last Line: So dishonest and deceitful Subject(s): Politics EXISTENCE OF SARGE, by TINO VILLANUEVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The old man places his hat on the table Last Line: Tendons of his thick arms in bold relief Subject(s): Old Age; Politics EXPLANATION OF AMERICA, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As though explaining the idea of dancing Last Line: So large, and strangely broken, and unforseen Subject(s): Politics; Social Problems; United States EXQUISITE CANDIDATE, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can promise you this: food in the white house Subject(s): Politics And Politicians EXTEMPORE, by JOHN ST. LEDGER Poem Text First Line: Thou little tory, why the jest Last Line: The whiteness of the rebel rose. Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland; Politics & Government EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY OF A POLITICIAN, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through m-nch-st-r square took a canter just now Last Line: "for ""young I am and sore afraid." Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Diaries; Politics & Government FABLE, by DAVID MATTHEWS Poem Source First Line: Rejoice, americans, rejoice! Last Line: Frenchmen, like storks, love frogs--to eat 'em Subject(s): American Revolution - French Involvement; Independence; U.s. - Congress; U.s. - Politics And Government FABLES ANCIENT AND MODERN: TO MY HONOURED KINSMAN, JOHN DRIDEN, OF, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How blest is he who leads a country life Last Line: Earth keeps the body, verse preserves the fame Variant Title(s): To My Honoured Kinsman John Dryden, Of Chesterton; To My Honoured Kinsman, John Dride Subject(s): Country Life; Garth, Sir Samuel (1661-1719); Poetry And Poets; Politics FABLES: 2ND SER. 10. THE DEGENERATE BEES, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though courts the practice disallow Last Line: We're honour'd by the virtuous few. Subject(s): Bees; Corruption In Politics; Insects; Beekeeping; Bugs FABLES: 2ND SER. 4. THE ANT IN OFFICE, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You tell me that you apprehend Last Line: As due, to publick use restor'd. Subject(s): Ants; Corruption In Politics; Insects; Bugs FABLES: 2ND SER. 9. THE JACKAL, LEOPARD, AND OTHER BEASTS, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I grant corruption sways mankind Last Line: Time-serving tools, not friends, are bought. Subject(s): Corruption In Politics FATHER TO SON, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Crooked? He was so crooked, son Last Line: He'd shit a corkscrew Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Fathers And Sons; Ireland FATUITY OF THE FAMILY-VALUE BANDWAGON, by G. TOD STONE Poem Source First Line: It is not the hypocrisy, deciet and lies that bother them Last Line: System, government and pillars of their communities... Subject(s): Government; Politics FAUST BOOK: FAUST APPEARS BEFORE THE SENATE, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Addressing the senate of erfurt Last Line: Hear, hear, mumble the senators Subject(s): Faust; Politics FAUST BOOK: THE POLITICAL ACHIEVEMENTS OF FAUST, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: A waste of time it would be, dear reader Last Line: His faithful helper throughout, merely smiled Subject(s): Faust; Politics FEBRUARY 2003 - A SONNET, by JAMES RIOUX Poem Source First Line: Old scripts and the dull eyes of cowboy scribes Last Line: Our dumbstruck pasts hung broadcast and shining? Subject(s): Politics; War FEBRUARY 30TH, by FREDERICK SEIDEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The speckled pigeon standing on the ledge Subject(s): Pigeons; War; Modern Life; Politics & Government FEDERICO'S GHOST, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The story is / that whole families of fruitpickers Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Politics & Government; Latinos FEDERICO'S GHOST, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The story is %that whole families of fruitpickers Last Line: At the cropduster %that hummed like a mosquito %lost in his ear, %and kept his soul awake Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Politics FIFTY APRIL YEARS, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A soldier waved our bus Subject(s): Time; Politics & Government FIGHT SCENE BEGINNING, by TINO VILLANUEVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bick benedict, that is, rock hudson in the Last Line: Of memory, ablaze in warner-color light Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Politics FIGHT SCENE, PART 2, by TINO VILLANUEVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mad-eyed sarge recovers with a vengeance Last Line: That raging song that seems to keep the fight alive Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Politics FIGHT SCENE: FINAL FRAMES, by TINO VILLANUEVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And now it must end. Sarge with too much muscle Last Line: Again, timing is everything. Dissolve and the music ends Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Politics FILLMO'E STREET WOMAN, by DEVORAH MAJOR Poem Source First Line: She is a dark woman Last Line: Was black and fierce %like her Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Politics FIN-DE-SIECLE BLUES, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At seventeen I'm told to write a paper Last Line: Seize the day. Subject(s): Morality; Philosophy & Philosophers; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Tyranny & Tyrants; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Ethics; Dictators; Feminism FIRST AND LAST POEMS, by SUSAN SHERMAN Poem Source First Line: There is nothing romantic %about death about pain Last Line: No name can contain it %even time trembles at its touch Subject(s): Politics FLAGS, by PETER COYOTE Poem Source First Line: Flags are everywhere. %tied to cars, strapped Last Line: Woven to the glory %for allah Subject(s): Politics; War FOR PABLO NERUDA, by MAKETA GROVES Poem Source First Line: This day %like no other Last Line: This day when we are alive Subject(s): Politics FOUND IN THE FREE LIBRARY, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And we were made afraid, and being afraid Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Politics & Government; War FOUND IN THE FREE LIBRARY, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And we were made afraid, and being afraid Last Line: (but here the document is torn) Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Politics; War FOUR POEMS ABOUT JAMAICA: 3. A HAIRPIN TURN ABOVE READING, JAMAICA, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's where the fire truck fell Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Jamaica, West Indies; Wealth; Politics & Government; Riches; Fortunes FREEDOM FROM SPEECH, by TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: The erosion of voice is the build up of war Last Line: But lives inside the open mouths of the dead Subject(s): Politics; War FROM MADDIE (AGE 9), by MADELEINE-THERESE HALPERT Poem Source First Line: Terror in their eyes Last Line: Innocent, like me Subject(s): Politics; War FROM THE BRIDGE, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have freed myself at last Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Politics & Government; Self FROM THE BRIDGE, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have freed myself at last Last Line: There's a stench of carrion %surrounding me Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Politics; Self FUNNY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Corruption rhymes with dublin Last Line: Relax. Enjoy the funny, stinking play. Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Dublin, Ireland G. W. L. T., by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When the unionist party was pining Last Line: Will do just as well Subject(s): Oxford University;politics; Politicians;political Poetry GATHA, by ROBERT AITKEN Poem Source First Line: When people talk about war Last Line: And speak of original peace Subject(s): Politics; War GEESES, OCTOBER 2002, by LUCY ADKINS Poem Source First Line: Night, %walking in and out of streetlight shadows Last Line: They call through the clattering leaves, the fog. %listen, %yes, listen! Subject(s): Politics; War GELATIN FACTORY, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No need to look for the place Last Line: Late on sundays, children %circled and ate Subject(s): Politics; Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 GENERAL DUDAYEV ENTERS THE NEW WORLD, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In nature nothing disappears, or appears Last Line: To live creatively in a changing world Subject(s): Chechen, Socialist Republic; Corruption In Politics GEORGE WASHINGTON, by LAURA REW BIXBY Poem Text First Line: A nation was born in a vast new domain Last Line: Of a self-governed people. May they honor his name! Subject(s): Presidents, United States; United States - History; United States - Politics & Government; Washington, George (1732-1799) GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 20, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In an hour from harburg to hamburg I went Last Line: "but I leave the peel uneaten." Subject(s): Germany; Politics & Government; Germans GLOBAL POSITIONING, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That the shoe fits for the inaugural demonstration should Subject(s): Politics & Government; War GLOBAL POSITIONING, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That the shoe fits for the inaugural demonstration should Last Line: Glass and its antecedents Subject(s): Politics; War GLOVES, by MARGARET RANDALL Poem Source First Line: Yes we did march around somewhere and yes it was cold Last Line: The gloves are still there, in the cold, %passing from hand to hand Subject(s): Gloves; New York City; Politics; Social Protest GO DOWN FOR THE PRESIDENT, by FREDERICK TURNER Poem Source First Line: Go down, go down, all you little men Last Line: Should not the men go down, go down? Subject(s): Army Life; Politics GOOD MANNERS, by WASHINGTON DELGADO Poem Source First Line: It's dangerous to walk Last Line: With a name in your lips Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Politics; Social Protest GOVERNMENT WORK, by STUART REDPATH Poem Source First Line: Later this afternoon, a small man will float face down Last Line: Falls in a forest, and what is the sound of one man dying Subject(s): Government; Politics GRACE OF ANGELS, by MICHELLE NOULLET Poem Source First Line: Who combs her long black hair Last Line: Stumpy wings fluttering from her side Subject(s): Politics; War GRAND GUIGNOL OF COUNTRIES ..., by PAUL LARAQUE Poem Source First Line: The circus and its clowns Last Line: And of the son %and of the zombi Subject(s): Politics GRAND GUIGNOL OF COUNTRIES OR COUNTRY OF THE GRAND GUIGNOL, by PAUL LARAQUE Poem Source First Line: The circus and its clowns %the theatre and its marionettes Last Line: And of the son %and of the zombi Subject(s): Politics GRANDFATHER BUFFALO, by EDGAR SILEX Poem Source First Line: I saw them staring at him Last Line: In our stampeding walk %through the mall Subject(s): Politics GREEN PANTS AND A BAMBOO FLUTE, by BRENDA LYNN HILLMAN Poem Source First Line: Oaks tear up the storm floor Last Line: Solomon's sleep in the clock's %ring moist with air Subject(s): Politics; War GROUND ZERO, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What's after or before Last Line: All turned to dust Subject(s): Politics & Government; War; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001); New York City - Terrorist Attack, 9/11 GROUND ZERO, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's after or before Last Line: All the sad battles lost or won, %all turned to dust Subject(s): Politics; War; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) GUARD DUTY, by VINCE GOTERA Poem Source First Line: A young soldier squints into thick black night Last Line: Of breezes in trees, soft rain, sunshine. Never again Subject(s): Politics; War GUERNICA PANTOUM, by PAULA TATARUNIS Poem Source First Line: Of the eighteen eyes in guernica, sixteen are open Subject(s): Politics; War HAITI, by JACK HIRSCHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day in the future these sounds are seeds of Subject(s): Haiti; Politics & Government HAITI, by JACK HIRSCHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day in the future these sounds are seeds of Last Line: The boundless, and the maize amaze the sky upon waking %for as long as humanity is Subject(s): Haiti; Politics HAMMER, by J. MACEKURA Poem Source First Line: The hammer called the conference today Last Line: A prophet's new disciple will rise with the dawn Subject(s): Politics; Tools HANGING CLOTHES IN THE SUN, by CHERYL SAVAGEAU Poem Source First Line: His youngest daughter helps him Last Line: Hanging clothes in the sun Subject(s): Politics HARTFORD DAYLIGHT, by JOHN CAREY Poem Source First Line: On the bus ride home Last Line: Are walking free %among the people in the street Subject(s): Hartford, Connecticut; Politics HE TAUGHT US HOW TO LIVE; AND OH! TOO HIGH, by THOMAS TICKELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The price of knowledge, taught us how to die Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Poetry And Poets; Politics HENRY WARD BEECHER, by CHARLES HENRY PHELPS Poem Text First Line: His tongue was touched with sacred fire Last Line: Wherever men lay bound he clave. Subject(s): Beecher, Henry Ward (1813-1887); Clergy; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Politics & Government; Writing & Writers; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Antislavery Movement - United States HEROIC STANZAS, CONSECRATED TO MEMORY OF OLIVER [CROMWELL], by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now 'tis time; for their officious haste Last Line: Where piety and valour jointly go. Variant Title(s): Heroic Stanzas Consecrated To The Glorious Memory Of His Most Serene Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Death; England; Freedom; Politics & Government; Praise; Dead, The; English; Liberty HIGHER EDUCATION, by KRISTINE A. SOMERVILLE Poem Source First Line: A man on whom I have a crush said that tomcats lead a Last Line: Frizzy haired. And still I thought myself pretty Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Politics; Schools HINT FROM THE MOUNTAINS FOR CERTAIN POLITICAL PRETENDERS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who but hails the sight with pleasure' Last Line: "its endeavouring!" Subject(s): Politics & Government HISTORIES: PART 1. EUROPE AND AMERICA, by SARA MILES Poem Source First Line: This is another landscape to be native to Last Line: My card is the train, danger: %on the edge of the horizon, the rails, beginning to burn Subject(s): Politics HISTORIES: PART 2: THE NEW WORLD, by SARA MILES Poem Source First Line: Cane grows there. The tired rocks. In the church Last Line: The horses running west till dawn Subject(s): Politics HISTORY, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred flint arrowheads, chipped, rain Subject(s): Politics & Government; War HISTORY, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hundred flint arrowheads, chipped, rain Last Line: Of fearlessness, the gift-bestowing gesture %of compassion Subject(s): Politics; War HOMER IN A NUTSHELL, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I sing the rancour of a knight Last Line: The good old man chryses, his curate Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry And Poets; Politics; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Translating And Interpreting HOMO LUDENS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When arse-licking assassins play Last Line: Sympathy and admiration flow %from pole to pole. Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Politics; Sympathy HOUR OF THREE BLACK SUNS, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Pre-election weeks... %days, maybe. You can feel the heat of its near Last Line: This photo is over-exposed Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Politics; U.s. - Congress HOUSE OF BUSH, by CAROL ANNE MUSKE Poem Source First Line: This is the house of madness Last Line: Sits alone in the all-white house of madness Subject(s): Politics; War HUMAN INTERLUDE, by JACK HIRSCHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was standing against %the wall near Last Line: On the orange lake %above the drowning money Subject(s): Politics I AM THE DAUGHTER OF LOT, by BRACHA SERRI Poem Source Last Line: I am the daughter of lot %and you are smitten with blindness Variant Title(s): I Am The Daughter Of Lo Subject(s): Politics; Women's Rights I APPLIED FOR THE BOARD, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A flight of fancy and breath of fresh air Last Line: And partly fvom the joy that it was over Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government I APPLIED FOR THE BOARD, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A flight of fancy and breath of fresh air Last Line: Gush forth in my breast, partly from the wound, %and partly from the joy that it was over Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Politics I DO NOT WANT YOU, PETROLEUM, by MAJID NAFICY Poem Source Last Line: Now I see, you made me bleed Subject(s): Politics; War I HAVE NEVER WANTED TO MARCH, by TESS GALLAGHER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or to wear an epaulet. Once I did Subject(s): Politics & Government; War I HAVE NEVER WANTED TO MARCH, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or to wear an epaulet. Once I did Last Line: To save its children from the burning house Subject(s): Politics; War I WRITE THIS TO REPORT..., by LEONARD NOLT Poem Source First Line: I a now standing, with others, in Last Line: As the flame begins to rise Subject(s): Politics; War I. 32, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I do not like you, jesse helms Last Line: Jesse helms, I don't like you Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Helms, Jesse (b. 1921); Politics IGNEOUS, by DANIELLE HANSON Poem Source First Line: Tonight the goddess of love and war Last Line: That it's the sharpest razor you cannot feel Subject(s): Politics; War IMAGINE, by JR. SIDNEY HALL Poem Source First Line: A word from a song Last Line: Crying as secretly as he can Subject(s): Politics; War IMMIGRATION LAW, by MARGARET RANDALL Poem Source First Line: When I ask the experts Last Line: Give me a handful of future %to rub against my lips Subject(s): Politics IMPRESSIONS OF THE NEW MEXICO LEGISLATURE, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lieutenant governor sits in the center Last Line: "may say 'ay', those opposed may raise their feet." Subject(s): Legislation; New Mexico; Politics & Government IMPROVE YOUR FATHERLAND, THEN, by ODEH IGBANG Poem Source First Line: Iruh: when the grass burns, we hunt its field Last Line: You do not send an impatient one Subject(s): Igede (african People); Igedeland, Africa; Nigeria; Politics IN GEORGETOWN; HOLIDAY INN, WASHINGTON, D.C., by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is not where the rich and famous pursue their lifestyles Last Line: "melodiously at the door: ""are you all right, sir? Are you all right in there?" Subject(s): Americans; Corruption In Politics & Government; Hotels; Politics; Social Protest; United States; Washington, D.c.; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Politicians; Political Poetry; America IN MEMORIAM, by GIACONDA BELLI Poem Source First Line: Like an immense cathedral Last Line: And I was once more than a woman %calling your name in vain Subject(s): Politics IN MEMORIAM, RAY THOMPSON (1943-1990), by JACK HIRSCHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the streets, %of begging hands and windblown cardboard Last Line: Never-ending memory of his ascendings Subject(s): Politics IN ORDER TO, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Apply for the position (I've forgotten now for what) I had Subject(s): Politics & Government; Social Commentaries IN THE VILLAGE OF YEN SO, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the dust of the village brick factory Last Line: As she does, staring in at the door Subject(s): Politics; Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 INCOMING, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Don't let them kid you Subject(s): Politics & Government; Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 INCOMING, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Don't let them kid you Last Line: The ways they stare through [the] windows in silence Subject(s): Politics; Soldiers' Writings; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 INSIDE THE GREAT MYSTERY THAT IS, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: One at a time, through he same gate? %sincerely, %patricia hampl Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Politics; War IPSE DIXIT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said the governor of louisiana Last Line: Political career in this state Subject(s): Louisiana; Politics ISSUES, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just don't tell me about the issues Last Line: Don't speak to me about %politics. I've got eyes, man Subject(s): Politics IT WAS A RAGGED SQUADRON, by DAISY ZAMORA Poem Source First Line: No one wanted to cross that burnt field Last Line: Our hearts beating uselessly %beneath the full moon Subject(s): Nicaragua; Politics JACOBITE'S TOAST (TO AN OFFICER IN THE ARMY), by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God bless the king, I mean the faith's defender Last Line: God bless us all!--that's quite another thing. Variant Title(s): Extempore Verses;to An Officer In The Army;extempore Intended To Allay The Violence Of Party Spirit;which Is Which;an Admonition Against Swearing: To The Same Subject(s): Politics & Government JAMES MAXTON, by THOMAS SCOTT Poem Source First Line: Made by the clyde and unmade by the thames Last Line: The lineaments o new jerusalem Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, Tom Subject(s): Glasgow, Scotland; Politics JANUARY 2003; VERMONT, by JOAN ALESHIRE Poem Source First Line: Two to three feet%west of the greens Last Line: Weren't cracking. Breaking in two Subject(s): Politics; War JERUSALEM AND SAN'A, by BRACHA SERRI Poem Source First Line: Jerusalem on high Last Line: From the temple Subject(s): Politics; Women's Rights JOHN KENDRICK BANGS, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY Poem Text First Line: Who had more literary pseudonyms Last Line: Famed lecturer in the united states. Subject(s): Bangs, John Kendrick (1862-1922); Literature; Politics & Government; Writing & Writers JORGE THE CHURCH JANITOR FINALLY QUITS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: No one asks / where I am from Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Janitors; Politics & Government; Latinos JORGE THE CHURCH JANITOR FINALLY QUITS, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No one asks %where I am from Last Line: Like a crazy squid %with stringy gray tentacles. %they will call it jorge Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Janitors; Politics JOURNEY HOME, by GRACE SCHULMAN Poem Source First Line: It never change: when bright arrows sang Last Line: More day to praise brick buildings and white %pines Subject(s): Politics; War JULY IN WASHINGTON, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Washington, D.c.; Politics & Government; Summer KILLERS THAT RUN, by LEONARD COHEN Poem Source Last Line: Quite unchecked %until everyone is dead Subject(s): Politics KIND OF SHADOW THAT CALLS OUT FATE, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early in day reports said our planes Last Line: And thoughtfully, the queen watches Subject(s): Politics; War KING CRACK AND HIS IDOLS, WRITTEN LATE NEGOCIATION FOR A NEW MINISTRY, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King crack was the best of all possible kings Last Line: Set the monsters up grinning once more in their places! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Politics & Government KUNISHI RIDGE 2ND BN. FIRST MARINES, by JAMES LARKIN PEARSON Poem Source First Line: Hair in the trees %the voice of women Last Line: Praying for the children Subject(s): Politics; War LA TUMBA DE BUENAVENTURA ROIG, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Buenaventurea roig, / once peasants in the thousands Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Politics & Government; Latinos LA TUMBA DE BUENAVENTURA ROIG, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Buenaventurea roig, %once peasants in the thousands Last Line: Where the statue of san miguel %still chokes the devil with a chain Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Politics LADY SENATOR, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The men about her are barking and biting Last Line: She goes down shouting Subject(s): Politics; Women - Employment LAMENT FOR PABLO NERUDA, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We may well ask now: 'where are the lilacs?' yes Last Line: For the guerilla entering the plaza where defeated generals wait Subject(s): Activity; Chile; Guerrillas; Politics & Government; Socialism; Spain; Exercise LAST THRESHOLD, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I want to believe we still talk about Last Line: That shriek in the streets of jerusalem Subject(s): Politics; War LATE SPRING, AFTER THE GULF WAR, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Cesium drips from the horse chestnut trees Last Line: Is infected with republican lies Subject(s): Death; Graves; Gulf War (1991); Politics LAWNS, by NAOMI AYALA Poem Source First Line: The magnolia tree I've claimed in full Last Line: In the middle of the dark %that only blades can trim %their constant disobedience Subject(s): Politics LEARNING TO SERVE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The minister for hellth is arguing his case Last Line: Where they will learn to serve the deep needs of mankind Subject(s): Government; Politics; Service LEDGER, by MELINDA MUELLER Poem Source First Line: Suppose each star were named Last Line: With their no hands Subject(s): Politics; War LESSON FROM THE CORPS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you find the body, it has cauliflower ears Last Line: Only the dead can tell you the distance from here to there Subject(s): Politics; War LET'S ASSUME IT HAPPENED, by SIGMAN BYRD Poem Source First Line: That green, smoldering afternoon Last Line: Blind, unprecedented, %like all exceptions to the rule Subject(s): Arizona; Friendship; Poetry And Poets; Politics LET'S GO, COUNTRY, by OTTO-RENE CASTILLO Poem Source First Line: So that the path doesn't cry for me Last Line: Like a tiny future heart, %whose wings begin to open tomorrow Subject(s): Politics LETTER TO HAYDEN, by BRIDGET MEEDS Poem Source First Line: Hayden, the artificial turf at this new stadium Last Line: But from where I sit right now, %it stinks Subject(s): Politics; War LETTER TO SAM HAMILL, by ALFRED DEWITT CORN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sam, I keep thinking it's not really fitting Last Line: Pfc corn here, reporting for peace watch Subject(s): Politics; War LETTER TO THE FRONT: 9, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among all the waste there are the intense stories Subject(s): United States - Politics & Government; Women & War LEWINSKI STEW, by PAT D'AMICO Poem Source First Line: Monica squealed while linda was taping Last Line: Though I fear she will soon have him fixed Subject(s): Clinton, William Jefferson (b. 1946); Lewinski, Monica; Politics; Presidents, United States; Sex LIKE YOU, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Politics & Government LIKE YOU, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like you I / love love, life, the sweet smell Subject(s): Politics & Government LIKE YOU, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like you I %love love, life, the sweet smell Last Line: The poetry of everyone Subject(s): Politics LINES ADDRESSED TO MR. HOBHOUSE ON HIS ELECTION FOR WESTMINSTER, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Would you go to the house by the true gate Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Politics & Government LINES ON MINISTERS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But ministers like gladiators live Last Line: Dies between exigents, and self defence. Subject(s): Politics & Government LINES ON THE MONUMENT OF GIUSEPPE MAZZINI, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Italia, mother of the souls of men, mother divine Last Line: Mazzini's name. Subject(s): Mazzini, Giuseppe (1805-1872); Politics & Government LONDON SAD LONDON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What wants thee, that thou art in this sad Subject(s): Politics LONDON, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wander thro' each charter'd street Last Line: And blights with plagues the marriage-hearse. Variant Title(s): London Subject(s): Bible; Corruption In Politics; London; Mythology; Poverty; Voices LOOKING FOR INDIANS, by CHERYL SAVAGEAU Poem Source First Line: My head filled with tv images Last Line: With me, walking behind him, %looking for indians Subject(s): Politics LORD LUNDY, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord lundy from his earliest years Last Line: How gracious! How lord lundy cried! Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Crying; Politics & Government LOVE UNDER THE REPUBLICANS (OR DEMOCRACTS) (1), by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come live with me and be my love Last Line: And one of these days not too remote %you'll probably up and cut my throat Subject(s): Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Politics LOVE UNDER THE REPUBLICANS (OR DEMOCRATS) (2), by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come live with me and be my love Last Line: I'll probably up and cut your throat Subject(s): Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Politics LOYALTY, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the hardest part Subject(s): Reincarnation; Dogs; Politics & Government; Wit & Humor; Transmigration; Pretas MACHIAVELLI FINDS A HOME IN WASHINGTON, D. C., by WILLIAM SCOTT GALASSO Poem Source First Line: Who are these people? Last Line: Who are these people, %who are the fools that elect them? Subject(s): Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527); U.s. - Politics And Government MAD MULLINIX AND TIMOTHY, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I own 'tis not my bread and butter Last Line: God damn the whigs and the tories too Subject(s): Politics MAN WHO LOVED MUSIC (IN MEMORY OF JUNIUS SCALES, 1920-2002), by F. D. REEVE Poem Source First Line: The moon is down; dark clouds compound the sky Last Line: His ghost flares up as dawn comes on Subject(s): Politics; War MARGARET TRUDEAU'S 'PIED BEAUTY': CANADIAN POLITICS, by RICHARD LAMB Poem Source First Line: There is finitude in ice and icy finitude Last Line: Governance was not for me: I loved rage. %-- its edges caught the light Subject(s): Politics MARKERS, by JUDITH RACHEL PLATZ Poem Source First Line: The mystery is %that we are still here at all Last Line: Toward the light, always toward the light Subject(s): Politics; War MARVELOUS FATHER, by DANA LEVIN Poem Source First Line: Slobodan milosovic is a marvelous father Last Line: We know they are such marvelous men Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Parents; Politics; Terror MASTECTOMY, by EILEEN KOSTINER Poem Source First Line: Look at me' Last Line: Carve %a sunken chest Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Politics MAYBE BECAUSE I STAND BEHIND, by SARAH MENEFEE Poem Source Last Line: Clutching their heavy burdens of shopping bags Subject(s): Money; Politics MAYBE HE'LL NEVER SEE AGAIN, by FERRUCCIO BRUGNARO Poem Source First Line: A buddy of mine in the factory today Last Line: Inside a soaking rag black with oil Subject(s): Politics MAYOR HAROLD WASHINGTON, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mayor. Worldman. Historyman Subject(s): Politics And Politicians; Washington, Harold (1922-1987) MEADOW, by MARIANNE LARSEN Poem Source First Line: This evening the meadow seems the essential thing Last Line: It is a meadow %true, but there's a city on top of it Subject(s): Cities; Politics MEADOW, by MARIANNE LARSEN Poem Source First Line: This evening the meadow seems the essential thing Last Line: True, there's a city on top of it Subject(s): Politics MEDICINE WOMAN, by CHERYL SAVAGEAU Poem Source First Line: Medicine woman they call me Last Line: We come from the stars Subject(s): Politics; Women MEMORIAL DAY, by WILLIAM MARR Poem Source First Line: At arlington, someone Last Line: How do we bury %the thousands Subject(s): Politics; War MEMORIES NUMBERS 1 - 2, by ROBERTO SOSA Poem Source First Line: My earliest memory Last Line: My second memory trickles from a corpse %a procession of corpses violently dead Variant Title(s): Memories Numbers 1- Subject(s): Politics MOB CONTRA MOB, OR, THE RABBLERS RABBLED, SELS., by WILLIAM MESTON Poem Source First Line: Now of all wars the ecclesiastick Last Line: Backward in haste unto their lodging Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Great Britain - Politics & Government; Great Britain - Religion MONDRIAN'S FOREST, by WENDY BATTIN Poem Source First Line: Every car drones a radio Last Line: When she hears a man burn Subject(s): Politics; War MONOTONES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because there is but one truth Last Line: For a single, a sevenfold song. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Politics & Government MONUMENT, by FRANK JUDGE Poem Source First Line: This will be the final Last Line: To pilgrimages of ghosts Subject(s): Politics; War MORNING AFTER THE WAR WAS OVER, by NGUYEN BA CHUNG Poem Source First Line: So smooth, fragile, so fresh and sweet Last Line: Easily, as if it were nothing at all Subject(s): Politics MORNING NEWS, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Spring wafts up the smell of bus exhaust, of bread Subject(s): Politics & Government; War MORNING NEWS, by MARILYN HACKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring wafts up the smell of bus exhaust, of bread Last Line: Time lessons with the signs for house, book, bread? Subject(s): Politics; War MOUTH-ORGANS AND DRUMS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fighting god it shattered belts Last Line: All flags no one kingdom select Subject(s): Politics & Government; War MOUTH-ORGANS AND DRUMS, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fighting god it shattered belts Last Line: All flags no one kingdom select Subject(s): Politics; War MY DADDY'S TATTOO, by RICHARD SCHAAF Poem Source First Line: Goose-stepping over the pacific Last Line: And I spy you, huge and global %flying at half-mast Subject(s): Navy - United States; Politics MY POLITICAL FAITH, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am not of those fierce, wild wills Last Line: And freedom to each lovely land. Subject(s): Freedom; Politics & Government; Liberty MY RUTHERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tell you what I'd ruther do Last Line: Ef I only had my ruthers. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Graves; Politics & Government; Tombs; Tombstones NASLA RISK, by ALMA DENNY Poem Source First Line: Congressmen should get plenty of rest Last Line: By men with a cold in their nose! Subject(s): Politics; Sickness NATIONAL INSECURITY, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The under secretary leans forward and draws an x Subject(s): Politics & Government NATURAL HISTORY, by DOREN RICHARD ROBBINS Poem Source First Line: Tried to lift a swallowtail butterfly out Last Line: I held out my thumb knuckle Subject(s): Politics; War NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH, by DON GORDON Poem Source First Line: They are waiting for the night visitor Last Line: With glassy eyes %into the lean and ghostly past Subject(s): Politics NEW CITIZENS, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: Today %the housewife Last Line: And finally %they raised their hands %like those who hold up with their fingers %the weight of a new Subject(s): Politics; Social Protest NEW HAMPSHIRE, FEBRUARY 7, 2003, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's snowing again %all day, reruns Last Line: Collateral damage %and will again Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Politics; War NEW RAPTURE, by JAMES BERTOLINO Poem Source First Line: The saved will be those Last Line: The damned will be those %who survive Subject(s): Politics; War NEWSPAPER FINDINGS: 1867, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quiet an' cozie, but an' ben Last Line: At the paris exhibition. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): England; Newspapers; Politics & Government; Rome, Italy; Social Problems; English; Journalism; Journalists NICARAGUA, by TOMAS BORGE Poem Source First Line: I love you from here, volcano Last Line: Your joyful dead %who refuse to die Subject(s): Nicaragua; Politics NIGHT I WALK INTO TOWN, by NAOMI AYALA Poem Source Last Line: Twenty-five, I say %twenty-five thousand Subject(s): Politics NO, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, that was me you saw shaking with bravery, with a government Subject(s): Politics & Government; War NO, by JOY HARJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, that was me you saw shaking with bravery, with a government Last Line: No. We had no quarrel with each other Subject(s): Politics; War NO CHOICE, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no choice Subject(s): Politics & Government; War NO CHOICE, by SIMON J. ORTIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no choice Last Line: We must live %we must live Subject(s): Politics; War NO MORE, by TOMAS BORGE Poem Source First Line: Have you seen a red curtain Last Line: But never again so alone Subject(s): Politics; Solitude NOCTURNAL VISITS, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of our anonymous boys Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Politics & Government NOCTURNAL VISITS, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of our anonymous boys Last Line: To shake off once and for all %this lassitude Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Politics NOMAD IN ME, by BRACHA SERRI Poem Source First Line: The nomad in me Last Line: Reap boys from the grave Subject(s): Politics; Women's Rights NONE, A TANKA, by KARMA TENZING WANGCHUK Poem Source First Line: After the rain, %she finds puddles Last Line: Of the storms to come Subject(s): Politics; War NOT A WAR SONG, by REBECCA ANN SEIFERLE Poem Source First Line: Why should I, searching the thesaurus Last Line: The commonality of war Subject(s): Politics; War NOW SING, by JAMES SCULLY Poem Source First Line: Now sing: the guards howling Last Line: Who'd held out with bloody stumps %and sung Subject(s): Politics; Prisons And Prisoners O ALIVE WHO ARE DEAD, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: They're fighting in deserts and caves Last Line: As inwardly doing nothing Subject(s): Politics; War ODE ON THE DEPARTED REGENCY BILL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of chaos' doting years Last Line: Your brightest hopes may fail. Subject(s): Government; Politics & Government; Scotland ODE TO RICHARD MARTIN, ESQ., M.P. FOR GALWAY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many sing of wars Last Line: As if their griefs met in a common centaur! Subject(s): Politics & Government ODE TO SIR ANDREW AGNEW, BART., by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh andrew fairservice - but I beg pardon Last Line: To make a sunday workhouse of the church. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Politics & Government; Sabbath; Work; Workers; Sunday ODE TO THE LATE LORD MAYOR, ON PUBLICATION OF HIS 'VISIT TO OXFORD', by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O worthy mayor! - I mean to say ex-mayor Last Line: And every lord mayor his own recorder! Subject(s): Oxford, England; Politics & Government ODE TO THE LEGISLATURE, ON EXPIRATION OF THE 'HUNDRED DAYS', by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O wise assembly! And o wiser senate! Last Line: It is n't best to see them made! Subject(s): Politics & Government ODES IV, 9. TO LOLLIUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These verses cannot die; believe me, lollius! Last Line: Unafraid to die for beloved friends or fatherland Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Politics OF A FORGETFUL SEA, by KELLI RUSSELL AGODON Poem Source First Line: Sometimes, I forget the sun Last Line: Waves appearing endless Subject(s): Politics; War OF POLITICS, & ART, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, on the farthest point of the peninsula Last Line: God-rendering voice of a storm. Subject(s): Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Nostalgia; Politics & Government; Storms; Teaching & Teachers; Tuberculosis; Women; Educators; Professors; Consumption (pathology) OGRES, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night waking to the sound Last Line: The bitter depths of my shame Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Politics; War OHIO ELEGY, by CHRISTOPHER BAKKEN Poem Source First Line: I drive too fast with cleveland Last Line: Exhausted from waiting so long to wail Subject(s): Politics; War OLIVE WOOD FIRE, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When fergus woke crying at night Last Line: Had burned low. In my arms lay fergus %fast asleep, left cheek glowing, god Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Politics; War ON A CANDIDATE ACCCUSED OF YOUTH, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Too young' do they call him? Who say it? Not they Last Line: Ask the foe by which weapon he fears most to fall! Subject(s): Elections; Politics & Government; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919); Voting; Voters; Suffrage ON A GREAT ELECTION; EPIGRAM, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The accursed power which stands on privilege Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Variant Title(s): On A General Election Subject(s): Elections; Politics & Government; Voting; Voters; Suffrage ON A GREAT ELECTION; EPIGRAM, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The accursed power which stands on privilege Last Line: Which goes with bridge, and women and champagne Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Variant Title(s): On A General Electio Subject(s): Elections; Politics ON A PHOTOGRAPH OF A SEVERED HAND, by JAMES LEONARD SHUGRUE Poem Source First Line: What is the sound of one hand Last Line: And give me yours, while we %are still attached Subject(s): Politics; War ON A POLITICIAN, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, richly, with ridiculous display Last Line: I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Variant Title(s): Epitaph On The Poilitician Subject(s): Hate; Politics & Government ON A POLITICIAN, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, richly, with ridiculous display Last Line: I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Variant Title(s): Epitaph On The Poiliticia Subject(s): Hate; Politics ON ALDERMAN W ---: THE HISTORY OF HIS LIFE, by JOHN CUNNINGHAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That he was born it cannot be denied Last Line: He ate, drank, slept, talk'd politics, and died Subject(s): Politics ON BEING CENSURED BY A DEPUTATION OF FACULTY COLLEAGUES FOR DARING, by FREDERICK TURNER Poem Source First Line: In awful majesty the judges rise Last Line: And politics shall trouble us no more Subject(s): Politics ON BIBLICAL BUSINESS, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bible says Last Line: Who’ve been throughly trained by their generals Subject(s): Politics & Government ON BIBLICAL BUSINESS, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bible says Last Line: Who've been thoroughly trained by their generals Subject(s): Politics ON COMMISSARY GOLDIE'S BRAINS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, to account who dares thee call Last Line: Enclose so poor a treasure? Subject(s): Politics & Government; Wit & Humor ON HEARING THAT THE STUDENTS HAVE BEEN REASSURED BY THE ADMINISTRATION, by BRUCE BENNETT Poem Source First Line: Where, where but here could sloth and guile Last Line: Secure that no one cares to know? Subject(s): Politics; Schools ON HIS OWN CAREER, by CLEMENT RICHARD ATTLEE Poem Source First Line: Few thought he was even a starter Last Line: An earl and a knight of the garter Subject(s): Politics; Success ON HIS WAY TO KUWAIT, by ANNETTE ALLEN Poem Source First Line: One evening after work, standing around his desk Last Line: Breath it is never answered Subject(s): Politics; War ON LOOKING THROUGH A PHOTO ALBUM (OF VIET CONG PRISONERS), by REED WHITTEMORE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These pictures show us a ragged, un-uniformed enemy Last Line: Swamp me with traitorous feeling. %don't I know that this is a war? That this is the enemy? Subject(s): Politics; War ON OUR SYMPATHY WITH THE UNDER DOG, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First under up and then again down under Last Line: Lest both should bite him in the toga-togs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Politics & Government ON OUR SYMPATHY WITH THE UNDER DOG, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First under up and then again down under Last Line: Lest both should bite him in the toga-togs Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Politics ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE BOER REPUBLICS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Whilst we debate upon their overthrow Last Line: But do thou justice first and last of all! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Boer War; Great Britain - Politics & Government; Patriotism; South African War ON WATCHING POLITICIANS PERFORM, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hypocrites shed tears Last Line: With the ante raised Subject(s): Politics & Government; Funerals; King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968) ON WATCHING POLITICIANS PERFORM, by ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hypocrites shed tears Subject(s): Politics ONE THING ONLY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The politicians shout bellow roar Last Line: Not me! Not me! Not me! Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Guilt; Politics ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED FORTY; A POEM, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wretched b--, jealous now of all Last Line: And one man's honesty redeem the land. Subject(s): Great Britain; Politics & Government ORATION: HALF-MOON IN VERMONT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A horse is shivering flies off its ribs, grazing Last Line: Doesn't poverty just fucking break your heart? Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Girls; Politics & Government; Horses; Owls; Poverty; Vermont ORDINARY HUMAN ARMS, by MARIANNE LARSEN Poem Source First Line: We put our arms around each other Last Line: As if to show that their powerlessness doesn't exist Subject(s): Politics ORDINARY HUMAN ARMS, by MARIANNE LARSEN Poem Source First Line: We put our arms around each other Last Line: As if to show that their powerlessness %doesn't exist Subject(s): Politics ORTHODOXIES 11, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: She used to flog her girls, a madam, in a half-assed way. It Last Line: Out of the embrace of a girl and a customer bear Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Turkish Literature; Women OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It has always been our intention Last Line: And remember, due to the flood, %the tornado drill has been postponed Subject(s): Government; Politics PALACE OF LISTS, by GARY FRANCIS MARGOLIS Poem Source First Line: Where are we %hiding our Last Line: Between us except %the unafraid air Subject(s): Politics; War PALACE OF PEARLS, SELS., by JANE MILLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do you know how long it has been since a moral choice Last Line: Please call for several hundred thousand %physicians quickly Subject(s): Politics; War PARROTS, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: My friend michel is the military leader in somoto Last Line: But there were 47 who died Subject(s): Politics PATHETIC LINES/POBRES VERSOS, by FRANCISCO X. ALARCON Poem Source First Line: What do we gain %writing Last Line: Their arms %covered with blood Subject(s): Politics; War PEACE BELL, by R. J. MCCAFFERY Poem Source First Line: I stand bare-handed at the door of the bell Last Line: A scrabble of nails for the dead Subject(s): Politics; War PEACE ON THE LAND WE LIVE ON, by WILDEN MCINTOSH-ROUND Poem Source First Line: Our earth was created for us to live in peace on Last Line: This is our planet %our earth Subject(s): Politics; War PEASANT WOMEN FROM CUA, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: Now I'll tell you about the cries from cua Last Line: So often at night in dreams %they see boys Subject(s): Politics PEASANT WOMEN FROM CUA, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: Now I'll tell you about the cries from cua Last Line: So often at night in dreams %they see the boys Subject(s): Politics PERMANENT FRAGILITY OF MEANING, by ELIZABETH AUSTEN Poem Source First Line: Why persist, scratching across the white field Last Line: I rise up and begin again Subject(s): Politics; War PLANET OF SMOKE AND CLOUD, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth could not keep Subject(s): Politics & Government; War PLANET OF SMOKE AND CLOUD, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth could not keep Last Line: Locked in a radiant cinder Subject(s): Politics; War PLAYING BASKETBALL WITH THE VIET CONG, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: You never thought it would come to this Subject(s): Politics & Government; Soldiers' Writings; Sports; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PLAYING BASKETBALL WITH THE VIET CONG, by KEVIN BOWEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You never thought it would come to this Last Line: There may be other scores to settle Subject(s): Politics; Soldiers' Writings; Sports; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PLEA, by JESSICA ROEDER Poem Source First Line: We ask of the birds only that they should bear us up Last Line: All we ask is that now, and again now, it should so begin Subject(s): Politics; War POEM FOR AN IRAQI CHILD IN A FORGOTTEN NEWS CLIP, by PAMELA HALE Poem Source First Line: I'm sorry that your mom was killed Last Line: For the planes that circle still. %in my name Subject(s): Politics; War POEM FOR U-HAUL, by LEROY V. QUINTANA Poem Source First Line: The highway was made for a morning like this Last Line: Was the last time, the last time, the last Subject(s): Politics POEM IN TIME OF WAR, by SHERMAN PEARL Poem Source First Line: Should wake the city shouting extra! Extra! Last Line: Our shoulders; might warm us on nights like this Subject(s): Politics; War POEM OF WAR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old rancher of seventy-nine years Last Line: Choked on their won blood.' god says nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Politics; War POETICAL INSCRIPTION FOR AN ALTAR OF INDEPENDENCE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou of an independent mind Last Line: Approach this shrine, and worship here. Variant Title(s): For An Altar To Independence;inscription For An Altar To Independence Subject(s): Freedom; Independence; Politics & Government; Liberty POETRY & THE AMERICAN VOICE, by GEOFFREY BROCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My day was spent struggling to write Last Line: Reign there - and here - in lieu of law Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff Subject(s): Politics; War POETRY OF BODIES, by MICHAEL GOULD-WARTOFSKY Poem Source First Line: I see a poetry of bodies Last Line: And in the middle of winter, we've found the heat to %surround Subject(s): Politics; War POLITICAL DINNER, by ROBERT MICHAEL O'HEARN Poem Source First Line: At a beggar's banquet Last Line: Still promising to ingest %their manufactured fleas Subject(s): Politics POLITICAL GREATNESS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nor happiness, nor majesty, nor fame Last Line: Of hopes and fears, being himself alone. Subject(s): Politics & Government POLITICAL MEETING, by ABRAHAM MOSES KLEIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the school platform, draping the folding seats Last Line: And in the darkness rises %the body-odour of race Alternate Author Name(s): Klein, A. M. Subject(s): Politics POLITICAL REFLECTION, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Discretion is the better part of valor Last Line: Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you Subject(s): Discretion; Politics POLITICAL SONG FOR THE YEAR'S END, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The darkness of the year begins Last Line: Sing to the moon, for every change is known Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Politics & Government; Socialism POLITICAL VISION, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cellist in every lobby by love and law Last Line: And that what we feel comes from a hollow %that would moan if bowed Subject(s): Political Conventions; Politics POLITICAL WEATHERCOCK, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis strange that things upon the ground Last Line: Sit humble in the shade Subject(s): U.s. - Politics And Government POLITICS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You say a thousand things Last Line: I cannot hear your argument to-day. Subject(s): Politics & Government POLITICS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gold and iron are good Last Line: The republican at home. Subject(s): Politics & Government POLITICS, by MICHAEL ALAN MCFEE Poem Source First Line: The chairman is washing his hands again Last Line: I finger the whitewashed words and clear my throat. %the chairman is washing his hands again Subject(s): Politics POLITICS, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Politics & Government; Marriage; Lust; Family Life; Mcgovern, George (1922-2012); Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Relatives POLITICS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We move, the wheel must always move Last Line: Down hill 'too-quick' the chain. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Politics & Government POLITICS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: How can I, that girl standing there Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Love; Politics & Government POLITICS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can I, that girl standing there Last Line: But o that I were young again %and held her in my arms Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Love; Politics POLITICS AS USUAL, by MORRIS WEISSMAN Poem Source First Line: Advances, technological, %alter everything Last Line: Beyond our dreams. Except in politics. %except in compassion Subject(s): Politics; Science POLITICS AND THE DEAD, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who calls from the paper columns? Subject(s): Politics & Government POOR US, by ALFONSO QUIJADA URIAS Poem Source First Line: We'll die along with capitalism Last Line: And without ever having enjoyed it Subject(s): Capitalism; Politics POSTCARD, by EDGAR SILEX Poem Source First Line: I took my son to the museum of natural history Last Line: Looking like spider woman cocooned %in her own web Subject(s): Politics POVERTY, by NAOMI AYALA Poem Source First Line: It gives you pigeon eyes Last Line: Through a thousand leagues of wild wind Subject(s): Politics POVERTY AND POLITICS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In politics if thou would'st mix Last Line: Let great folk hear and see. Subject(s): Politics & Government PRAISES IV: ON THE BEAUTY AND THE WONDERS OF WOMEN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wake in the early dawn and my hand has fallen asleep Last Line: "more of these shennhandigans could change the world without Subject(s): Beauty; Economics; Politics & Government; Sex; Women PRECISELY, by DAISY ZAMORA Poem Source First Line: Precisely because I do not have Last Line: To speak to you Subject(s): Politics PRESENCE OF JUSTICE, by PEGGY SAPPHIRE Poem Source First Line: The simplicity is this Last Line: Where peace is found Subject(s): Politics; War PRESENTED TO THE KING, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye careful angels, whom eternal fate Last Line: Averted darts of rage, and pointless arms of death. Subject(s): Angels; Courts & Courtiers; Fate; Night; Politics & Government; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Destiny; Bedtime PRINCESS VICTORIA, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And art thou a princess? -- in sooth, we may well Last Line: Is -- god keep the crown long from that innocent brow! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Great Britain - Rulers; Politics PRISONERS, by RICHARD SCHAAF Poem Source First Line: The guards %take their orders Last Line: Singing it by heart Subject(s): Politics; Prisons And Prisoners PRISONERS, by RICHARD SCHAAF Poem Source First Line: The guards %take their orders %from pinochet, marcos, thieu Last Line: So high spirited and true %even the children go around Subject(s): Politics PROBABLE PERMANENCE OF TOYS, by GARY FINCKE Poem Source First Line: The government is looking for landfills Last Line: Until it tumbles my house to fill it Subject(s): Life; Politics; Toys PROGRESS, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a leader riding. O how white! Last Line: Unless disgrace and death pay god a toll. Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Leadership PROLOGUE TO MR. ADDISON'S TRAGEDY OF CATO, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To wake the soul by tender strokes of art Last Line: As cato's self had not disdain'd to hear. Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Cato The Younger (95-46 B.c.); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government PROLOGUE TO THE PROPHETESS, BY BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What nostradame, with all his art, can guess Last Line: Under a female regency may rise. Subject(s): Fortune; Nostradamus, Michel De (1503-1566); Politics & Government; Prophecy & Prophets; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes PROMISED LAND, SELS., by KLEMENTE SOTO VELEZ Subject(s): Politics PROVERBS, by UNKNOWN+152 Poem Source First Line: It's altogether something else with shrapnel Last Line: Don't look a gift mercedes in the teeth Subject(s): Chile; Politics PROVERBS, by UNKNOWN+152 Poem Source First Line: 1. It's altogether something else with shrapnel Last Line: 14. Don't look a gift mercedes in the teeth Subject(s): Politics RED, by SUSAN SHERMAN Poem Source First Line: Red means stop! Last Line: As one is pulled by the future %to be acknowledged & met Subject(s): Politics; Red (color) RED EARTH-BLUE WATER, by NGUYEN BA CHUNG Poem Source First Line: Bombs plowed into the red earth, berry red Last Line: The maddening agony, the honey comes from within Subject(s): Politics REFUSING, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Refusing the invitation Subject(s): Politics & Government; War REFUSING, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Refusing the invitation Last Line: For fear of war's imminence Subject(s): Politics; War REMEMBER WARING! (THE CITY AGAINST TAMMANY), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again the bugle-blow Last Line: Remember waring. Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Tammany Hall, New York City REPUBLICANS THINK THAT ALL OVER THE WORLD, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Than they are. It's largely true Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Ethnic Identity; Nature; Politics RHETORIC, by HENRY F. HILL Poem Source First Line: Political speeches %are boring, of course Last Line: But isn't that always %par for discourse? Subject(s): Politics RHYME-PROSE ON THE IDLE LIFE, by P'AN YUEH Poem Source First Line: I have strolled the long groves of the classics and canons Last Line: Cherishing my ineptness, I will live carefree to the end Subject(s): Politics RIVERS, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The terrain in my country Last Line: And the sea receives them %and they revive Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Politics RIVERSIDE GHAZAL, by PATRICIA CLARK Poem Source First Line: Most watery of all the trees, these willows Last Line: By the rivers of america, we wept these willows Subject(s): Politics; War ROAD FROM ELECTION TO CHRISTMAS, by OSCAR WILLIAMS Poem Source First Line: The hurdy-gurdy, public piano of the past Last Line: The road to christmas is clear Subject(s): Politics RURAL ELECTRIC, by THEODORE H. GENOWAYS Poem Source First Line: The workcrew worked closer, standing poles into postholes Last Line: Waiting for the second the blast and flash would fill the %room Subject(s): Politics; War SANCTUARY UNDER A PALM FROND, by WINNIE WONG Poem Source First Line: Vincent graduated from high school at age 13 Last Line: The way her youngest brother lay dying in her arms Subject(s): Politics; War SANDHILL CRANES CIRCLING THEIR TARGETS, by DAVID RAY Poem Source First Line: Wang wei claimed they were far more impressive Last Line: Trade fighters and stealth bombers for cranes Subject(s): Politics; War SATISFIED ELECTORATE, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION Poem Source First Line: One president found lust lodged in his heart Last Line: Just bask in postelection afterglow Subject(s): Politics SCENE FROM THE MOVIE GIANT, by TINO VILLANUEVA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What I have from 1956 is one instant at the holiday Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Politics & Government; Popular Culture - United States; Movies; Cinema SCENE FROM THE MOVIE GIANT, by TINO VILLANUEVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What I have from 1956 is one instant at the holiday Last Line: Helpless light, local-looking, unthought of at fourteen Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Politics; Popular Culture - United States SCHOOL AMONG THE RUINS, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Teaching the first lesson and the last Last Line: Some had forgotten how' Subject(s): Politics; War SCIENTIST, by DON GORDON Poem Source First Line: He was a refugee from a continent Last Line: Or last %to let angels die Subject(s): Politics; Refugees; Science SEA OF TRANQUILITY, by DON GORDON Poem Source First Line: Is on the moon where no one needs it Last Line: We await the second coming: the birth %of the great sea Subject(s): Politics SEARCH AND DESTROY, by HELEN F. BLACKSHEAR Poem Source First Line: I thought how it must have been for you Last Line: Now he is just a name on a long black wall Subject(s): Politics; War SEARCH AND RESCUE, by JOSEPH ZACCARDI Poem Source First Line: In my journal I write: rescue Last Line: Everything until now is a lie Subject(s): Politics; War SEAT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The politician sat on the most Last Line: He'll be up in time for the next election Subject(s): Elections; Lavatories; Politics SEEDS OF THE PEACE MARTYRS HAVE BORNE FRUIT, by SUSAN MCKEON-STEINMANN Poem Source First Line: We stand in the early nipping chill handling flyers to Last Line: The captain has gone mad Subject(s): Politics; War SENATE COURTESY, by ROBERT MICHAEL O'HEARN Poem Source First Line: Friends, %until Last Line: Committee %reconvenes Subject(s): Politics SENATE HEARINGS, by MICHAEL THOMAS MCCLURE Poem Source First Line: It is almost beautiful when fraud and hypocrisy Last Line: And the nightmares of goya Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Politics; U.s. - Congress - Senate SHARKS, by LEROY V. QUINTANA Poem Source First Line: When men purchase suits made from our skin Last Line: Are born knowing how to use them Subject(s): Politics SHEEPHERDER COFFEE, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: I used to like sheepherder coffee Last Line: Thinking, waiting for whatever comes Subject(s): Politics; War SHOPPING LIST, by NINA ISRAEL ZUCKER Poem Source First Line: Ayat al-akhras, 18, walked up to this supermarket last Last Line: There there. Maybe in a season like this I would show her %what can be good Subject(s): Politics; War SHORE, by HELEN+(2) FROST Poem Source First Line: It has not happened yet. We Last Line: Together back to land Subject(s): Politics; War SHOULD, SHOULD NOT, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I should have pocketed the key left in the front door of the embassy and used Last Line: I should have asked charon for permission to troll. %I should have thrown back what I caught. Subject(s): Inaugural Poem; Politics; Presidents, United States; Waterloo SILENCE, TYRANY'S POWER, by DORY LEVISS Poem Source First Line: In the screaming sience of her world Last Line: Remain mute with the silence that gives to %tyrants power Subject(s): Politics; Silence SNOW JOBS, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: X had the funds, the friends, the plan Last Line: But where's the slush of yesteryear? Subject(s): Politics; Snow SNOW WOMEN, by JANET MCCANN Poem Source First Line: The voice is cold %reading your poem Last Line: Flare an ashy arc, %a comet for old women Subject(s): Politics; War SOFT SPOT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When they pat you on the back, darling Last Line: To stick in the knife Subject(s): Marriage; Politics SOME FOLKLORE OF THE 1990'S, by MIRIAM A. COHEN Poem Source First Line: Politicians have been %saving half-cents Last Line: At the dinning room table %taking a seat %it's true Subject(s): Holidays; Politics; Veterans Day SOMETIMES THE WIDER WORLD CAN ONLY BE APPREHENDED OBLIQUELY, by MARIE HARRIS Poem Source First Line: Snakes are always all of a sudden, no matter where I Last Line: Instance, the thousands of reactions to my shadow Subject(s): Politics; War SONNET: 3. TO COUNCILLOR GEORGE S--, OF GOTTINGEN, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though the demeanour be imperious, proud Last Line: Deep in my heart I still bear faithfully. Subject(s): Politics & Government SONNETS FOR NEW YORK CITY: 2. A POLITICAL 'BOSS', by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Has he no country? Is he of alien breed? Last Line: I felt the burning garments of thy shame. Subject(s): New York City; Politics & Government; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SPEAK OUT, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And a vast paranoia sweeps across the land Last Line: Before they come for you! Subject(s): Politics & Government; War SPEAK OUT, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And a vast paranoia sweeps across the land Last Line: Before they come for you! Subject(s): Politics; War SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ADAM WEIRAUCH, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was crushed between altgeld and armour Last Line: That ruined me? Subject(s): Corruption In Politics SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HILDRUP TUBBS, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I made two fights for the people Last Line: As he does a hog. Subject(s): Politics & Government SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JOHN CABANIS, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neither spite, fellow citizens Last Line: In a world republic girdled! Subject(s): Politics & Government STANZA, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not he that breaks the dams, but he Last Line: His name is pure, his fame is free. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Politics & Government STATE OF THE UNION: 19. EPITAPH FOR BORO, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Boom of oil %has replaced Last Line: And the guns boom again Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Politics; Quarrels STATEMENT, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. Resident, %in the name of humanity and common decency, the poets Last Line: Yesterday we had a world to lose Subject(s): Politics; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by GEORGE BOWERING Poem Source First Line: Someone, please introduce the idea of god, if not christianity Last Line: Weapons of mass destruction on my world, americans! Subject(s): Politics; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by MARK DOTY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry has always been a voice fro those without voices, a Subject(s): Politics & Government; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by MARK DOTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry has always been a voice fro those without voices, a Last Line: Profiteering, to the careless destruction of life Subject(s): Politics; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by THEODORE H. GENOWAYS Poem Source First Line: In july 1917, siegfried sassoon composed his famous Last Line: Came before us by falling silent now Subject(s): Politics; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by PATRICIA HAMPL Poem Source First Line: Dear president bush: as a student during the vietnam war, I read walt Last Line: I offer them to you in the spirit of peace - may it prevail Subject(s): Politics; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by PETER LEVITT Poem Source First Line: Thank you so much for organizing this. In support of all Last Line: And there, we have not ben proven wrong Subject(s): Politics; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by MORTON JAY MARCUS Poem Source First Line: In recent years I've known that I was getting old because Last Line: Especially the administration's war-mongering, have sucked %the poetry out of me Subject(s): Politics; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It would not have been possible for me ever to trust Last Line: A greater danger to the united states than saddam %hussein Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Politics; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear mrs. Bush, / thank you for your invitation to the white house event Subject(s): Politics & Government; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear mr. Bush, %thank you for your invitation to the white house event Last Line: Wholeheartedly, together, at the white house. %sincerely, %robert pinsky Subject(s): Politics; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In recent days, as part of the attempt to sanitize and justify Subject(s): Politics & Government; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In recent days, as part of the attempt to sanitize and justify Last Line: There is still a sense of resistance and hope Subject(s): Politics; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by GRACE SCHULMAN Poem Source First Line: Who harms his brother harms himself. Who sets his family's Last Line: Innocent iraqi civilians. Honor their houses. Save them, our %spirit, our kin Subject(s): Politics; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by GARY SHORT Poem Source First Line: I've been living in guatemala for most of the past year Last Line: Political leaders to take care and urge restraint with our %use of american force Subject(s): Politics; War STATEMENT OF CONSCIENCE, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am in mexico and only now learned of the anti-war Last Line: Throw iraq's oil onto those brush fires? %every success to you, %w.D. Snodgrass Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Politics; War STEEL DOORS OF PRISON, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The big compound gates close the world off Last Line: Slowly swallowing you Subject(s): Politics & Government; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts STEEL DOORS OF PRISON, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The big compound gates close the world off Last Line: You hear nothing but the steel jaws close, %slowly swallowing you Subject(s): Politics; Prisons And Prisoners STONES AND BONES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a country where old men Last Line: "their tongue is somebody else's child Subject(s): Politics & Government; War STONES AND BONES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a country where old men Last Line: Red and white and blue Subject(s): Politics; War STUDY IN WATER-COLOR, by CARRIE TATE LIFFRING Poem Text First Line: Political actors! Aren't they quaint Last Line: But . . . All afraid of a leaky roof! Subject(s): Politics & Government SUICIDE NOTE, by MARIO MILOSEVIC Poem Source First Line: The plaque on the pioneer spacecraft Last Line: Which just wanted everything to die Subject(s): Politics; War SWARMING, by A. A. HEDGE COKE Poem Source First Line: Swarming upward %hosts thicken air as hornets Last Line: In just one thoughtful breath %breathe, breathe deep Subject(s): Politics; War SWEEPING, by NAOMI AYALA Poem Source First Line: This morning, in fundeci Last Line: To come up for air Subject(s): Politics SYNOPSIS, by MARGARET MELLISH Poem Text First Line: A planet revolving around the sun Last Line: Tomorrow is eternity. Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; Mankind; Politics & Government; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Human Race SYRIA, 1997, by SARAH BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: At dawn the salt flats Last Line: Turning, going home Subject(s): Politics; War TALE OF A DOORKNOB, by MORTON JAY MARCUS Poem Source First Line: A lieutenant salutes his major, nods to an enlisted man Last Line: For merciless vengeance in his own land Subject(s): Politics; War TEN MILLS: PRECAUTION, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never dared be radical when young Last Line: For fear it would make me conservative when old Subject(s): Politics THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 1, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You live in a sinking nation, stephen, in a stinking Last Line: Of all the beauty and comradeship I've lost. Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Dobyns, Stephen; Future Life; Letters; Social Protest; United States; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; America THE APHRODISIAC, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Power is my aphrodisiac Last Line: Before a grenade explodes. Subject(s): Conspiracy; Politics; Violence; War; Politicians; Political Poetry THE BIGLOW PAPERS: 3. WHAT MR. ROBINSON THINKS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Guvener b. Is a sensible man Last Line: Gee! Subject(s): Elections; Politics & Government; United States; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; America THE BURNING OF MALMAISON, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a brisk cool evening when the wind Subject(s): Cherokee Indians; Politics & Government; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); Native Americans - Removal THE CAMPAIGN, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My packard bell was set up in the vacant lot near the stump Subject(s): Americans; Politics & Government; United States; America THE CANDIDATE, by PAUL BLACKBURN Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Politics And Politicians THE CANON OF AUGHRIM, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You ask me of english honour, whether your nation is just! Last Line: Ridge and furrow of grass, the graves of our women and men. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Great Britain - Politics & Government; Justice; Law & Lawyers; Nations; War; Attorneys THE CAPTIVE LINNET, by ANN YEARSLEY Poem Text First Line: Mycias, behold this bird! See how she tires Last Line: Death is the field of victory for the soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Cromartie, Ann Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Linnets; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government THE CERTAINTY, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After four hours of torture, the apache and the two other cops Last Line: His right eye is glass Subject(s): Politics & Government THE CITIZEN DREAMING, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the blue hour Last Line: And the lucky dead on all the roads that led from home to here! Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Fascism & Fascists; Politics & Government; United States; America THE CONFERENCE, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Grace said in form, which sceptics must agree Last Line: Who lives to reason, and who dies a man. Subject(s): Conscience; England; Justice; Politics & Government; Reason; Virtue; English; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE DEAD ONES, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have grown up in the belief that all the Last Line: Five cents a yard. Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Authors And Authorship; Books; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Writing & Writers; Reading THE DOG, by VICTOR MONTEJO Poem Full Text First Line: Near the military barracks Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Politics & Government THE DREAM & LIE OF GEORGE W. BUSH (AFTER PICASSO'S DREAM & LIE OF..., by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Owl fandango escabeche swords of octopus of evil omen Subject(s): Politics & Government; War THE DUKE OF GUISE: EPILOGUE: 1, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Much time and trouble this poor play has cost Last Line: With tory wings, but whiggish teeth and claws. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Politics & Government; Dramatists THE DUKE OF GUISE: EPILOGUE: 2, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two houses joined, two poets to a play? Last Line: But grunts, and groans, and ends at last in fumbling. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Politics & Government; Dramatists THE DUKE OF GUISE: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our play's a parallel; the holy league Last Line: Pull down the master, and set up the man. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; England; Nations; Plays & Playwrights ; Politics & Government; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; English; Dramatists THE FETE CHAMPETRE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wha will to saint stephen's house Last Line: This festive fete champetre. Subject(s): Politics & Government; Supernatural; Love THE FIGHT WITH THE SNAPPING TURTLE; OR, THE AMERICAN ST. GEORGE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you heard of philip slingsby Last Line: All in pennsylvanian bonds!' Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Clay, Henry (1777-1852); Fights; Turtles; Tyler, John (1790-1862); United States - Politics & Government; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852); Tortoises THE FOUR DEARS, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear sugar, dear tea, and dear corn Last Line: Shall still rob the dear british nation. Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Free Trade; Labor & Laborers; Politics & Government; Trade; Work; Workers THE FRIARY AT BLOSSOM, PROLOGUE & INSTRUCTIONS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The pond lilies are like little executions Last Line: — 1967 Subject(s): Animals; Politics & Government; Horses; Lakes; Prisons & Prisoners; Survival; Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503-1542); Pools; Ponds; Convicts THE ISSUES, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just don't tell me about the issues Subject(s): Politics & Government THE KIND OF SHADOW THAT CALLS OUT FATE, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Early in day reports said our planes Subject(s): Politics & Government; War THE LETTER ON THE BRINK OF WAR, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dears, / you're already painting the porch? You ladies are up early Last Line: And dare we talk about the future? / love, eddie Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Letters; Social Commentaries; Politics & Government; United States THE LIBERATOR; A POLITICAL ALLEGORY, by WU-TI (464-549) Poem Text First Line: In the high trees - many doleful winds Last Line: And down again to thank the young man. Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Politics & Government THE MAYOR OF MIROBLAIS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While he was laying plans for getting Last Line: And mouthed it regularly through. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Politics & Government; Popes; Papacy THE MAYOR OF QUEENBOROUGH [QUINBOROUGH], by THOMAS MIDDLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What raynulph, monk of chester can Last Line: From the convulsions it hath long endured. [exeunt. Subject(s): Great Britain - Politics & Government; Tanners And Tanning THE MAYOR OF SCUTTLETON, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mayor of scuttleton burned his nose Last Line: What the mayor of scuttleton next would do. Subject(s): Politics & Government THE MIXED ASSEMBLY, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flea-bitten synod, an assembly brewed Last Line: Is clergy-lay, party-per-pale compounded. Subject(s): Burges, Cornelius (1589-1665); Conventions; Kimbolton, Edward, Lord (1602-1671); Politics & Government; Religion; Twisse, William (1578-1646); Wharton, Philip, 4th Lord (1613-1696); Assemblies; Meetings; Theology THE NEW COSTUME OF THE MINISTERS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Having sent off the troops of brave major camac Last Line: And first puts in hand my lord chancellor eld -- n. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Politics & Government THE OLD HOKUM BUNCOMBE, by ROBERT EMMET SHERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How dear to my heart are the grand politicians Last Line: The moss-covered buncombe we all love so well. Subject(s): Politics & Government THE OLIVE WOOD FIRE, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When fergus woke crying at night Subject(s): Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Politics & Government; War THE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It has always been our intention Subject(s): Politics & Government THE PLEASURES OF HOPE: 1, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At summer eve, when heaven's ethereal bow Last Line: "love! -- mercy -- wisdom! -- rule for evermore!" Variant Title(s): Hope;the Distant In Experience Subject(s): Beauty; Freedom; Hope; Landscape; Nature; Politics & Government; Liberty; Optimism THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 13, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brothers share five districts Last Line: Swim with fish in a stream Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Government; Nature; Politics & Government THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 98, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They scrutinize worldly affairs Last Line: Why should I trust the lips of slaves Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Deception; Politics & Government; Slavery; Serfs THE POLITICIAN, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was going to the city to sell the herbs I had plucked Last Line: "at last he has made a ""coup"" that cannot fail!" Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Politics & Government THE REAL REFORMER, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not he, the statesman, whatsoe'er his name Last Line: Not of his country alone, but of his kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Politics & Government THE REJECTED MEMBER'S WIFE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We shall see her no more Last Line: And that chestnut hair. Subject(s): Politics & Government THE SECOND BROTHER; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair shine this evening's stars upon your pleasure Last Line: . . . . . . . Subject(s): Brothers; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Deception; Fathers; Love; Magic; Marriage; Nile (river); Pleasure; Politics & Government; Travel; Wealth; Half-brothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THE SPLEEN; AN EPISTLE TO MR. CUTHBERT JACKSON, by MATTHEW GREEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This motley piece to you I send Last Line: Life's voyage to the world unknown. Subject(s): Politics & Government; Religion; Social Problems; Spleen (organ); Theology THE STATESMEN, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How blest the land that counts among Last Line: You vermifuge. Subject(s): Politics & Government THE SUN AND THE BATS, &C.; A FABLE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis aesop tells how certain bats Last Line: I'll smile, and more refulgent smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): French Revolution (1789); Politics & Government THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 11. ABRAHAM DAVENPORT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old days (a custom laid aside / with breeches and cocked hats) Last Line: That simple duty hath no place for fear. Subject(s): Hartford, Connecticut; Law & Lawyers; Politics & Government; Attorneys THE THIRD ADVICE TO A PAINTER, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sandwich in spain now, and the duke in love Last Line: To woods and groves what once she painted sings. Subject(s): Great Britain - Dutch War (1664-1667); Paintings And Painters; Politics & Government; Sea Battles; Naval Warfare THE WIND AND THE WHIRLWIND, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a thing to say. But how to say it? Last Line: I had a thing to say. And it is said. Subject(s): Egypt; Freedom; Nations; Patriotism; Peace; Politics & Government; War; Liberty THEN COMES A DAY, by LUIS J. RODRIGUEZ Poem Source First Line: The resurrection cemetery is an oasis of green Last Line: And I remember: twenty years come %that don't make a day, %then comes a day %that makes up %for twen Subject(s): Politics THERE WILL BE A TIME, by SARAH MENEFEE Poem Source Last Line: If all men were one man he would be you %dragging yourself along you pull us all forward Subject(s): Politics THIS DAY, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shrill of doorbell still returning to my ears Subject(s): News; Politics & Government THIS NERUDA EARTH, by JACK HIRSCHMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting against a treetrunk in dolores park Subject(s): Neruda, Pablo (1904-1973); Politics & Government THIS NERUDA EARTH, by JACK HIRSCHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting against a treetrunk in dolores park Last Line: Movement, so much space in an inch. This %neruda earth Subject(s): Neruda, Pablo (1904-1973); Politics THISTLE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thistle at meadow's edge Last Line: The snow grows heavier, falls on their stooping shoulders Subject(s): Politics & Government; War THISTLE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thistle at meadow's edge Last Line: We stay away from them Subject(s): Politics; War THUMPING DOMINOES THEORY, by FRANCIS W. ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: What,' somewhat said jesse helms Subject(s): Politics TIME'S CHANGES, FR. THE ART OF POLITICS, by JAMES BRAMSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like south-sea stock, expressions rise and fall Last Line: Can there be any trusting to our words? Subject(s): Comedy; Courts & Courtiers; London; Politics & Government; Towns; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TO A BULL MOOSE, by EUGENE GLADSTONE O'NEILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Braw, snortin', roarin', fearsome beastie Last Line: The self-same way. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Elections; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Voting; Voters; Suffrage TO A CANVASSER, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Begone! May ariel confound Last Line: And leave me to my purple crocus. Subject(s): Love; Politics & Government TO A CAUTIOUS POET, by JOHN CAREY Poem Source First Line: You can write poems Last Line: Hangs %behind the blinds Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Politics TO HOLD THE WORLD, by BRACHA SERRI Poem Source First Line: To hold the world tight Last Line: Lie down to sleep Subject(s): Politics; Women's Rights TO J. M., by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let fate or insufficiency provide Last Line: And bring the army of the faithful through Subject(s): Morley, John. Viscount (1838-1923); Politics TO JOSEPH MAZZINI, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take, since you bade it should bear Last Line: First name of the world's names, rome Subject(s): Italy; Love; Politics & Government; Italians TO JULIA DE BURGOS, by JULIA DE BURGOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Already the people murmur that I am your enemy Last Line: I will be in their midst with the torch in my hand Subject(s): Politics TO LADY ASTOR, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, beauteous lady, world renowned Last Line: "to ""pussyfoot"" his diet!" Subject(s): Animals; Astor, Nancy, Viscountess (1879-1964); Lions; Politics & Government; Women's Rights; Feminism TO LADY ASTOR (PICTURED WITH BRITISH LION AT HEEL), by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, beauteous lady, world reknown Last Line: "to ""pussyfoot"" his diet!" Subject(s): Astor, Nancy, Viscountess (1879-1964); Politics & Government; Women's Rights; Feminism TO MR. ADDISON, OCCASIONED BY RETURN FROM HANOVER WITH LORD HALIFAX, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O for a muse of fire and lofty style Last Line: But language fails to give th'ideas birth. Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Praise; War TO SIDMOUTH AND CASTLEREAGH, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As from an ancestral oak Last Line: Two vipers tangled into one. Variant Title(s): Similes For Two Political Characters Of 1819 Subject(s): Addington, Henry, Viscount Sidmouth; England; Politics & Government; Statesmen; Stewart, Robert. 2d Marquis Londonderry; Tyranny & Tyrants; Villains In Literature; English; Castlereagh, Viscount TO THE EARL OF WARWICK ON THE DEATH OF MR. ADDISON, by THOMAS TICKELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If, dumb too long, the drooping muse hath stayed Last Line: No chance could sever, nor the grave divide. Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government TO THE FORTY-THIRD PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, by WILLIAM O'DALY Poem Source First Line: Mr. President, our history speaks to us, the history of chile Last Line: Is the greased machinery of destruction Subject(s): Politics; War TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While flattering crowds officiously appear Last Line: Because the centre of it is above. Subject(s): Holidays; Hyde, Edward. 1st Earl Of Clarendon; Nations; Nature; New Year; Politics & Government; War TO THE STATES. TO IDENTIFY THE 16TH, 17TH, OR 18TH PRESIDENTIAD, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why reclining, interrogating? Why myself and all drowsing Last Line: South, north, east, west, inland and seaboard, we will surely awake.) Subject(s): Men; Politics & Government; Presidents, United States; United States; America TODAY, LIKE EVERY OTHER DAY, WE WAKE UP EMPTY, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Let the beauty we love be what we do. %there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Night; Politics; War TOMKO UEMURA IS BATHED BY HER MOTHER, by LEONORE WILSON Poem Source First Line: The small shoulders of tomoko sprout hands Last Line: That I still see in your blinded eyes Subject(s): Politics; War TOQUE DE QUEDA, by JAMES SCULLY Poem Source First Line: Already the greengrocer's on merced Last Line: As never could get enough out of life Subject(s): Politics TORRISMOND; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who has seen torrismond, my son, to-night? Last Line: Torris. Then here's an end of life. Subject(s): Abandonment; Betrayal; Courts & Courtiers; Fathers & Sons; Longing; Love; Loyalty; Pleasure; Politics & Government; Desertion; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens TORTURER'S APPRENTICE, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Almost a man now %he used to shudder Last Line: Where people do those things Subject(s): Aging; Politics; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TOWARD A BETTER LOVE, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one disputes that sex Subject(s): Sex; Politics & Government TOWARD A BETTER LOVE, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one discusses sex Subject(s): Politics & Government; Sex TOWARD A BETTER LOVE, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one discusses sex Last Line: When all those secrets that kept is %masked and alien are revealed Subject(s): Politics; Sex TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 1, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Freedom at last! Last Line: Written—and of this book. Subject(s): Democracy; Expressionism - Poets; Freedom; Life; Nations; Politics & Government; Self-consciousness; Liberty TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. EXCEPT THE LORD BUILD THE HOUSE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She lies, whom money has killed, and the greed of money Last Line: Shall be changed. Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Politics & Government; Poverty; Recessions TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. WHAT HAVE I TO DO WITH THEE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weary with the restless burden of this world last night I fell Last Line: "quickly—into space!" Subject(s): Conventions; Labor & Laborers; Politics & Government; Wealth; Assemblies; Meetings; Work; Workers; Riches; Fortunes TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE WORD DEMOCRACY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Underneath all now comes this word, turning Last Line: Himself over the earth and launch forth to sail through heaven. Subject(s): Democracy; Nations; Politics & Government TOWN MEETING, by DOUG ANDERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They were defecating in public, he said Last Line: You don't have to be homeless to do that Subject(s): Aging; Politics; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 TRUTH AS I SEE IT...CIRCA 2003, by KAYE MOON WINTERS Poem Source First Line: We're all too fat and we're all too rich Last Line: Under one god...And of all other Subject(s): Politics; War TRYING TO WRITE A POEM AGAINST THE WAR, by KATHA POLLITT Poem Source First Line: My daughter, who's as beautiful as the day Last Line: And does not care much for poetry, either Subject(s): Politics; War TULLOCHGORUM, by JOHN SKINNER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Come, gi'es a sang, montgomery cried Last Line: The reel o' tullochgorum! Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Politics & Government TWO CITIES, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Girt with the river's silver zone Last Line: Upon the old foundations, build! Subject(s): Chicago Fire (1871); Cities; Corruption In Politics; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple TWO: 3, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Next to of course god america I Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Americans; Freedom; Hypocrisy; Patriotism; Politics & Government; United States; World War I; Liberty; America; First World War TWO: 3, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Next to of course god america I Last Line: He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E. Subject(s): Americans; Freedom; Hypocrisy; Patriotism; Politics; United States; World War I UMOJA: EACH ONE OF US COUNTS, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One went the way of water Last Line: We walk on water, we write on air Subject(s): Politics & Government; War UMOJA: EACH ONE OF US COUNTS, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One went the way of water Last Line: Remember! %their whispers fill the arena Subject(s): Politics; War UNDONE DAY, by JACK HIRSCHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You think I like being a dime bag in a doorway? Last Line: Going from one key to another %in search of the outside of in Subject(s): Homeless; Politics UNFURLING OF AMAZEMENTS BEFORE GOD, by EFRAIN HUERTA Poem Source First Line: The first thing is the sky. After that comes Last Line: And who suffered the first horseshoe Subject(s): Politics UNNATURAL ACT, by MICHAEL CERAOLO Poem Source First Line: The axiom has always held that money is the mother's milk of politics Last Line: Resulting in the malnutrition of the body politic Subject(s): Politics; Social Protest UNRHYMED PEACE SONNET, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who are the good guys now? Who are the bad? Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Politics & Government; War UNRHYMED PEACE SONNET, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who are the good guys now? Who are the bad? Last Line: For pete's sake, send an angel! Burn a bush! Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Politics; War UNTITLED, by JESUS AGUADO Poem Source First Line: Like the one who kills then skins a child Last Line: Puzzle the child back together again. %vikram babu asks Subject(s): Politics; War UNTITLED, by PETER LEVITT Poem Source First Line: Fill the air with poems Last Line: Can't fall through Subject(s): Politics; War UNTITLED, by ALEXANDRA INDIRA SANYAL Poem Source First Line: Snow so fluffy and soft Last Line: So snow come today Subject(s): Politics; War UNTITLED, by DON STANLEY Poem Source First Line: Weep not, oh world, for these, your valiant slain Last Line: Weep, weep, oh world...Oh weep for these Subject(s): Politics; War UPON SIR THOMAS MARTIN, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hang out a flag and gather pence - a piece Last Line: May have a knight hanged, yet sir tom go free! Subject(s): Politics & Government; Property; Possessions VERBATIM FROM BOILEAU, by NICOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Once (says an author; where, I need not say) Last Line: Twas a fat oyster -- live in peace -- adieu. Alternate Author Name(s): Boileau, Nicolas Subject(s): Justice; Politics & Government VERSES ADDRESSED TO J. HORNE TOOKE ... WESTMINISTER ELECTION, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Britons! When last ye met, with distant streak Last Line: Not to the tyrants but the tyranny! Subject(s): Politics & Government; Tooke, John Horne (1736-1812) VERSES ON SEEING THE SPEAKER ASLEEP IN HIS CHAIR, by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, mr. Speaker! It's surely fair Last Line: Sleep, mr. Speaker; sleep, sleep while you may! Variant Title(s): Stanzas To The Speaker Asleep Subject(s): Great Britain - Parliament; Politics & Government VETERANS DAY, by TWYLA HANSEN Poem Source First Line: By the time I came along the war was legend Last Line: In the empty maneuvers of his unspoken grief Subject(s): Politics; War VICTORY GARDENS, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We planted our garden small Last Line: Those witnesses and quiet conquerors Subject(s): Politics; War VISION OF THREE ANGELS VIEWING THE PROGRESS OF SOCIALISM, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And the first with his hands folded and a money belt for a truss Last Line: So I'll stick around until judgment. Heaven is a sometime thing Subject(s): Angels; Economics; Labor & Laborers; Politics & Government; Socialism; Work; Workers VOICES, by ARUNA NAIR Poem Source First Line: The blank-solemn newsreader fades Last Line: That voice to paper that vote to blood Subject(s): Politics; War VOICES OF THE DEAD: IN CHINA, by JULIA DE BURGOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Chiang kai-shek! And my bones? And my face without eyes? Last Line: And I offer, certain, to raise the victory, %my voice of free dead, satisfied and avenged Subject(s): China; Politics VOICES OF THE DEAD: IN SPAIN, by JULIA DE BURGOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was in a dawn in madrid, where I started my passage Last Line: If necessary, in worms I will rise to smile at %the infernal malediction of your dead, oh franco! Subject(s): Politics; Spain VOICES OF THE DEAD: IN THE GERMAN RANKS, by JULIA DE BURGOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let me enter, brothers, through the great cemetery Last Line: Offer me a world among the dead Subject(s): Germany; Politics VOICES OF THE DEAD: IN THE GERMAN RANKS, by JULIA DE BURGOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let me enter, brothers, through the great cemetery! Last Line: Offer me a world among the dead! Subject(s): Politics VOICES OF THE DEAD: IN THE RUSSIAN WHEATFIELDS, by JULIA DE BURGOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was in the wheatfields, in the laughter of man Last Line: One day my sight was populated by tombs, %and I, tomb among them, am still planting Subject(s): Politics; Russia VOICES OF THE DEAD: ON THE BRITISH SEAS, by JULIA DE BURGOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My islands, at a distance, extinquishing in me Last Line: Can death there be more human and more brief %on my english islands, beneath that false sky? Subject(s): England; Politics VOICES OF THE DEAD: THE UNIVERSAL DEAD, by JULIA DE BURGOS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And who am I? What do I look for at the edge of man? Last Line: Close his eyes until I see you saved Subject(s): Politics VOTIVE TABLETS: THE SCIENCE OF POLITICS, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All that thou dost be right -- to that alone confine thy view Last Line: False zeal would sound and perfect make the something that's to be! Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Politics & Government W.L.M.K., by FRANCIS REGINALD SCOTT Poem Source First Line: How shall we speak of canada, %mackenzie king dead? Last Line: Do nothing by halves %which can be done by quarters Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. R. Subject(s): Canada; King, William Lyon Mackenzie (1874-1950); Politics WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS, by WILLIS BARNSTONE Poem Source First Line: The emperor has no brains. His ministers, mentors Last Line: There is a terrible melancholy in our land Subject(s): Politics; War WAR, by TOM CHANDLER Poem Source First Line: The sand and crumbled rock Last Line: Fingers at the whole idea Subject(s): Politics; War WAR, by REBA CRAWFORD-HAYES Poem Source First Line: Wet bodies of those who have fallen Last Line: The children, crying mommy, mommy! Subject(s): Politics; War WAR, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I keep rereading an article I found recently about how Last Line: These fearful burdens to be borne, complicity, contri %tion, grief Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Politics; War WAR BREAKS OUT AGAIN, by PENELOPE WILKINSON AUSTIN Poem Source First Line: All this way up the mountain and after all Last Line: The color of steel - I may as well believe Subject(s): Politics; War WAR HAIKU, by RANDOLPH NESBITT Poem Source First Line: Tanks charred, black, and silent Last Line: Lizard flicks its tongue Subject(s): Politics; War WARTIME RADIO, by STEPHEN KUUSISTO Poem Source First Line: Winter has my neighbors Last Line: The sky %leans %without mercy Subject(s): Politics; War WE ARE WAITING FOR PEACE TO BREAK OUT, by CARLOS REYES Poem Source Last Line: In spite of any of man's evil actions Subject(s): Politics; War WE GUIDE, WE FOLLOW, by ELIZABETH SCANLON Poem Source First Line: Like the blind for their seeing-eyes Last Line: If not for your own good %then for mine Subject(s): Politics; War WE HEARD HEALTH CARE, by CLAUDIA RANKINE Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We heard health care and we thought public option Subject(s): Health Care & Insurance; United States - Politics & Government; Social Classes; Racism; Caste; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry WEATHER IN HERAT, by LYNELL MAJOR EDWARD Poem Source First Line: Int he west again it will be sunny Last Line: Clattering like teeth, bared behind the veil Subject(s): Politics; War WHAT IS LOST, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: When she came across the border Last Line: Into a piece that will hold Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Politics; War WHAT IT WAS LIKE, by LEROY V. QUINTANA Poem Source First Line: If you want to know what Last Line: You're too good %it's too bad? Subject(s): Politics WHAT ROOSEVELT ONCE SAID AT HARVARD, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said mr. Roosevelt: 'those are sticks Last Line: But downright roosevelt common sense! Subject(s): Politics & Government; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) WHAT THE MOON SAW, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two statesmen met by moonlight Last Line: A satchel was passed from hand to hand. %next day, the deadlock broke Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Politics WHAT TO COUNT, by ALISE ALOUSI Poem Source First Line: What does it mean to hold your mouth to another's ear Last Line: You, bending at the knees Subject(s): Politics; War WHAT'S HAPPENING, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At this moment, fires of a riot are everywhere Last Line: Viva la huelga! Subject(s): Politics & Government; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts WHAT'S HAPPENING, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At this moment, fires of a riot are everywhere Last Line: And I weep! My eyes burn! My lungs are black with smoke! Subject(s): Politics; Prisons And Prisoners WHITE HOUSE HAS DISINVITED THE POETS, by JULIA ALVAREZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Not only peace but poetry on earth Subject(s): Politics; War WHO UNDERSTANDS ME BUT ME, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They turn the water off, so I live without water Last Line: Who understands me when I say this is beautiful? Subject(s): Politics & Government WHO UNDERSTANDS ME BUT ME, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They turn the water off, so I live without water Last Line: Who understands me when I say this is beautiful? Subject(s): Politics WHOSE WONDERLAND IS THIS?, by MICHELLE NOLDER Poem Source First Line: I want another cup of tea Last Line: Than they have any right to be Subject(s): Politics; War WHY THEY DO IT, by CHERYL SAVAGEAU Poem Source First Line: Uncle jack drinks because he's indian Last Line: Dick just drinks to empty the keg Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Politics; Racism WIFE AND CHILDREN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The man who called the stars his children Last Line: Is the happiness of his friends. Subject(s): Friendship; Politics WIFE OF LOT, by BRACHA SERRI Poem Source First Line: The wife of lot turned into a pillar of salt Last Line: And enslaved %and also, locked out Subject(s): Politics; Women's Rights WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a small chamber, friendless and unseen Last Line: Ye earn the crown, and wear it not in vain. Variant Title(s): To William Lloyd Garrison Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879); Politics & Government; Antislavery Movement - United States WILLIAM THE TESTY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Afar in the ages of quaint renown Last Line: That governs the town of new amsterdam! Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Kieft, Willem (1597-1647); New York City - Dutch Period; Politics; Quarrels; Politicians; Political Poetry; Arguments; Disagreements WITH A BURNING THIRST, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: In the back alley at daybreak Last Line: Long live democracy! Subject(s): Democracy; Freedom; Human Rights; Police; Politics; Prisons And Prisoners WOMAN OF BAGDAD, by PATRICIA MONAGHAN Poem Source First Line: She rises in the glow of a red sun Last Line: Are the last breaths she will take Subject(s): Politics; War WOODEN HORSE: #3, by KLEMENTE SOTO VELEZ Poem Source First Line: I came to know him, %living Last Line: Except whoever loves %the earth, with its sun and sky Subject(s): Politics WOODEN HORSE: #35, by KLEMENTE SOTO VELEZ Poem Source First Line: The promised land %becomes %one Last Line: Let the word %become %your servant Subject(s): Politics WOODEN HORSE: #4, by KLEMENTE SOTO VELEZ Poem Source First Line: I came to know him Last Line: To set the heavens upright Subject(s): Politics WRITING MY DIARY WITH WATER, by KAREN MARGALIT Poem Source Last Line: An epitaph for me alone Subject(s): Politics; War WRONG SONNET OF THE POLITICAL RIGHT AND LEFT, by NORMAN DUBIE Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Politics And Politicians; Nixon, Richard (1913-1996) YOU GO ON WITH YOUR DYING (AFTER MARK STRAND), by JANE TOBY Poem Source First Line: Nothing can stop you Last Line: You go on with your dying Subject(s): Politics; War YOU NORTHAMERICAN POETS, by SARAH MENEFEE Poem Source Last Line: Your government grant your shattered linguistics %in the glare of soweto and sharpeville Subject(s): Politics; South Africa YOU NORTHAMERICAN POETS, by SARAH MENEFEE Poem Source Last Line: In the glare of soweto and sharpeville Subject(s): Politics YOU SAY, by CONNIE WANEK Poem Source First Line: You say it's so women in iraq can vote Last Line: The prayer written in oil- %written, and set afire Subject(s): Politics; War ZENGER THE PRINTER, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Zenger the printer, through storm and stress Last Line: Bulwark of freedom, a fearless press! Subject(s): Law & Lawyers; New York City - Colonial Period; Politics & Government; Printing & Printers; Zenger, John Peter (1697-1746); Attorneys |
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