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Subject: RECONSTRUCTION (1865-1876)
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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