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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: RECONSTRUCTION (1865-1876) Matches Found: 19 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CHRISTMAS EVE, SOUTH, 1865, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poverty, remorseless spectre Last Line: For heaven is real, and earth deceiving. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): American Civil War; Christmas; Reconstruction (1865-1876); Southern States; United States - History; Nativity, The; South (u.s.) GIVE HIM HIS DUE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These sentimental lines we write Last Line: To swell the shout of victory. Subject(s): Blacks; Nations; Reconstruction (1865-1876) INTERMEZZO, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pomp, at the foot of her lacy bed Last Line: To give pomp a marble Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Slavery; Reconstruction (1865-1876); Freedom LEE IN THE CAPITOL (APRIL, 1866), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard pressed by numbers in his strait Last Line: We march with providence cheery still. Subject(s): Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); Reconstruction (1865-1876) OLD THAD STEVENS, by KENNETH WIGGINS PORTER Poem Source First Line: Thaddeus stevens was a burning scandal Subject(s): Reconstruction (1865-1876); Stevens, Thaddeus (1792-1868) RECONCILIATION (FROM THE SOUTH TO THE NORTH; IN VIEW OF THE NEW YEAR), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Land of the north! I waft to thee Last Line: O faction, fly our morning light! Subject(s): Reconstruction (1865-1876) REUNITED, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Purer than thy own white snow Last Line: "o northland, in thy generous deed and grand." Subject(s): Reconstruction (1865-1876); Southern States; Yellow Fever; South (u.s.) SOUTH CAROLINA TO THE STATES OF THE NORTH, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lift these hands with iron fetters banded Last Line: May mock your ruin, as ye mocked at mine! Subject(s): Reconstruction (1865-1876); South Carolina THADDEUS STEVENS, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An eye with the piercing eagle's fire Last Line: To-day with his lord in paradise. Subject(s): Reconstruction (1865-1876); Stevens, Thaddeus (1792-1868) THE KING OF THE PLOW, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sword is re-sheathed in its scabbard Last Line: Was once the swart king of the plow! Subject(s): Reconstruction (1865-1876) THE MISSES POAR DRIVE TO CHURCH, by JOSEPHINE PINCKNEY Poem Text First Line: Out from the tall plantation gate Last Line: Than the overseer of a patch-work nation! Subject(s): Public Worship; Reconstruction (1865-1876); Church Attendance THE REAR GUARD, by IRENE FOWLER BROWN Poem Text First Line: The guns are hushed. On every field once flowing Last Line: Who wore the gray. Subject(s): Reconstruction (1865-1876) THE RETURN OF PEACE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a vision at that mystic hour Last Line: The love-commissioned almoner of god. Subject(s): Peace; Reconstruction (1865-1876) THE RETURN OF THE HEROES, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the lands and for these passionate days and for myself Last Line: Under the beaming sun and under thee. Variant Title(s): Where None Intrudes Subject(s): Americans; Reconstruction (1865-1876) THE STRICKEN SOUTH TO THE NORTH, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When ruthful time the south's memorial places Last Line: Subdues the souls which hate could only wound! Subject(s): Reconstruction (1865-1876); Southern States; Yellow Fever; South (u.s.) THE UNION OF BLUE AND GRAY, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blue is marching south once more Last Line: Above the blue, across the gray. Subject(s): Patriotism; Reconstruction (1865-1876) TO THE LEAVEN'D SOIL THEY TROD, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the leaven'd soul they trod calling I sing for the last Last Line: But the hot sun of the south is to fully ripen my songs. Subject(s): Reconstruction (1865-1876) TO THE THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O people-chosen! Are ye not Last Line: Stretch hands, and bid ye welcome home! Subject(s): Reconstruction (1865-1876); U.s. - Congress WHILE NOT THE PAST FORGETTING, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Wreaths of roses and branches of palm Subject(s): Reconstruction (1865-1876); Past; Brotherhood |
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