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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PLANTATION DITTY, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: De gray owl sings fum de chimbly top
Last Line: "oh, wait, good lawd, 'twell ter-morror!"
Subject(s): Southern States; South (u.s.)


A PLANTATION PORTRAIT, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hain't you see my mandy lou
Last Line: Den pass on!
Subject(s): Southern States; South (u.s.)


A SEPTEMBER NIGHT, by GEORGE MARION MCCLELLAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The full september moon sheds floods of light
Last Line: I cannot sing, with loves I cannot speak.
Subject(s): African Americans; Night; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; Bedtime; South (u.s.)


A SONG TO THE SOUTH, by BEATRICE PAYNE MORGAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Why make a song to some exotic isle?
Last Line: And sing for you a heart's sincere love-song.
Subject(s): Southern States; South (u.s.)


A SOUTHERN SCENE, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far in the land of sunny south
Last Line: On those who doth on thee believe?
Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; South (u.s.)


A SOUTHERN SINGER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Herein are blown from out the
Last Line: The night-breath of magnolia-bloom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Southern States; South (u.s.)


A TRUCKER BREAKS DOWN, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Remembering himself pulling onto a highway
Last Line: Flowing down through absolute darkness into a pool of rising vapor.
Subject(s): Georgia (state); Solitude; Southern States; Trucks & Trucking; Loneliness; South (u.s.); Teamsters; Truckers; Freight


A TRUCKER DRIVES THROUGH HIS LOST YOUTH, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Years ago he drove a different route
Last Line: Him backwards as far as his mind will haul.
Subject(s): Ford Motor Company; Southern States; Temperance; Trucks & Trucking; South (u.s.); Prohibition; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight


AN APPEAL TO MY COUNTRYWOMEN, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You can sigh o'er the sad-eyed armenian
Last Line: And sin is the consort of woe.
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Southern States; South (u.s.)


AN INVITATION TO MADISON COUNTY, by JAY WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I ride through queens
Last Line: "when people who have only themselves to give
Subject(s): Southern States; South (u.s.)


AN OLD HYMN FOR IAN JENKINS, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All things we value in terms of contrast
Last Line: Of the dream is place.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Dreams; New York City; Southern States; Estrangement; Outcasts; Urban Life; Nightmares; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; South (u.s.)


ASHES, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The spring will come with its ebullient blood
Last Line: The hand will raise thee up that smites thee now!
Subject(s): Ash Wednesday; Southern States; South (u.s.)


AT BESSEMER, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: 19 years old and going nowhere
Subject(s): Southern States; South (u.s.)


AT FORT PILLOW, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You shudder as you think upon
Last Line: And one lone sister's desperate cry!
Subject(s): Graves; Southern States; War; Tombs; Tombstones; South (u.s.)


AT THE MOVIE: VIRGINIA, 1956, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is how it was:
Subject(s): Racism; Southern States; Motion Pictures; Youth; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; South (u.s.); Movies; Cinema


BRIGHT LEAF, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like words put to a song, the bunched tobacco leaves
Subject(s): Tobbaco Farms; Women - Employment; Children; Farm Life; Southern States; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; South (u.s.)


CHARLESTOWN, by BESSIE CURTIS MARCIL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Low foam-washed marshes edge the distant shore
Last Line: Help us to guard these sacred relics here, and keep them safe forevermore.
Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina; Southern States; South (u.s.)


CHILDHOOD, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was a child I knew red miners
Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1)
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Mines & Miners; Southern States; South (u.s.)


CHRISMUS ON THE PLANTATION, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: It was chrismus eve, I mind hit fu' a mighty gloomy day
Last Line: So evahone was gay dat night, an' watched de chrismus in.
Subject(s): Christmas; Slavery; Southern States; Nativity, The; Serfs; South (u.s.)


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.)


CHRISTMAS, SOUTH, 1866, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Laughing, merry, childish voices, woke us in their eager glee
Last Line: And we grasp the sunbeam gladly, for it cheers our aching hearts.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): Christmas; Southern States; Nativity, The; South (u.s.)


CLAY PIPE, by J. O. GARRETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The old log house, built by his own hands
Last Line: "I shall sleep."" and a door closed silently."
Subject(s): American Civil War; Grandparents; Pioneers; Southern States; United States - History; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; South (u.s.)


COASTING TOWARD MIDNIGHT AT THE SOUTHEASTERN FAIR, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stomach in my throat
Last Line: And hurl them out among the stars.
Subject(s): Atlanta, Georgia; Festivals; Self-control; Southern States; Fairs; Pageants; South (u.s.)


DIXIE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dis world was made in jis' six days
Last Line: "look away, look away, look away, dixie land"
Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs;southern States; Negro Spirituals;south (u.s.)


ENTERING THE SOUTH, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have put on my mother's coat
Last Line: Heavy and dark and alive
Subject(s): African Americans; Animal Rights; Fur Trade; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Furs; South (u.s.)


ETHNOGENESIS, by HENRY TIMROD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hath not the morning dawned with added light?
Last Line: Strange tropic warmth and hints of summer seas.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Southern States; United States - History; Confederacy; South (u.s.)


FAIR TIMES IN OLD TENNESSEE, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Lord, when I die, jes' take me whar a fair is allers gwine!
Subject(s): African Americans; Southern States; Tennessee; Negroes; American Blacks; South (u.s.)


FAT SOUTHERN MEN IN SUMMER SUITS, by LIAM RECTOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fat southern men in their summer suit
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Summer; Southern States; South (u.s.)


FICTION, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Going south, we watched spring
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Southern States; Colors; Nature, Travel; South (u.s.)


FLIES ON SHIT, by FRANK STANFORD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To the gentlemen from the south
Subject(s): Southern States; Flies; South (u.s.)


GAR, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All night the river house swayed
Last Line: Like a memory at the light.
Subject(s): Country Life; Fish & Fishing; Southern States; Anglers; South (u.s.)


GHAZALS: 17, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O atlanta, roseate dawn, the clodhoppers, hillbillies rednecks
Last Line: 150 lbs. I weigh 200 and was not allowed into her blue fuck room.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dreams; Hunting; Southern States; Nightmares; Hunters; South (u.s.)


GRATITUDE DOWN SOUTH, by EDWINA WOOD WHITESIDE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'se des a little cullud boy
Last Line: "let yo' co'science be yo' guide."
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Southern States; South (u.s.)


HYMN OF THE MORAVIAN NUNS OF BETHLEHEM; ... PULASKI'S BANNER, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the dying flame of day
Last Line: And it was his martial cloak and shroud!
Subject(s): American Revolution; Pulaski, Casimir (1747-1779); Southern States; South (u.s.)


IN THE SOUTH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a princess in the south
Last Line: Would blossom as a lily might.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Beauty; Faces; Music & Musicians; Night; Southern States; Bedtime; South (u.s.)


JOHN W. MORTON, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tinged with flame and sore beset
Last Line: Morton and forrest were as one.
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Southern States; War; South (u.s.)


JULY IN GEORGY, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm back down in ole georgy w'ere de sun is / shinin' hot
Last Line: Shade.
Subject(s): Georgia (state); Nature; Southern States; South (u.s.)


LEARNING TO READ, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Very soon the yankee teachers / came down and set up school
Last Line: As the queen upon her throne.
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Americans; Bible; Schools; Slavery; Southern States; United States; Students; Serfs; South (u.s.); America


LEE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother's people
Subject(s): African Americans; Fathers; Generals; Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); Slavery; Southern States; Virginia (state); Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs; South (u.s.)


LEGACY: MY SOUTH, by DUDLEY RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What desperate nightmare rapts me to this land
Subject(s): African Americans; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; South (u.s.)


LIKE DECORATIONS IN A NIGGER CEMETERY, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the far south the sun of autum is passing
Subject(s): African Americans; Cemeteries; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; Graveyards; South (u.s.)


LOVE'S LAND, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the south is love's land
Last Line: "kisses it, and kills."
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Southern States; South (u.s.)


MAGNOLIA GRANDIFLORA, by CORA CASE PORTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down south / the wind croons low
Last Line: Magnolia grandiflora.
Subject(s): Magnolias; Southern States; South (u.s.)


MASSA'S IN DE COLD, [COLD] GROUND, by STEPHEN COLLINS FOSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Round de meadows am a-ringing
Last Line: Massa's in de cold, cold ground.
Subject(s): Southern States; South (u.s.)


MY SOUTH: 1. ON THE PORCH, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There used to be a way the sunlight caught
Subject(s): Southern States; South (u.s.)


MY SOUTH: 3. ON THE FARM, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And I, missing the city intensely at that moment
Subject(s): Farm Life; Southern States; Agriculture; Farmers; South (u.s.)


MY SOUTH: 4. ON THE TRAIN, HEADING NORTH THROUGH FLORIDA ..., by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Midnight or after, and the little lights
Subject(s): Railroads; Southern States; Railways; Trains; South (u.s.)


NIGHT, DEATH, MISSISSIPPI, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A quavering cry. Screech-owl?
Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; South (u.s.)


NORTH AND SOUTH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of the north I wove a dream
Last Line: In the silence of the dream I found fulfilled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Grapes; North, The; Southern States; Nightmares; South (u.s.)


NOVEMBER COTTON FLOWER, by JEAN TOOMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Cotton; Autumn; Southern States; Fall; South (u.s.)


O MAGNET-SOUTH, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O magnet-south! O glistening perfumed south! My south!
Last Line: Tennessee and never wander more.
Subject(s): Southern States; South (u.s.)


O SOUTHLAND!, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O southland! O southland!
Last Line: The faint one at his side.
Subject(s): African Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; South (u.s.)


ODE TO A MOCKINGBIRD, by ANNE ARRINGTON TYSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: All hail blithe songster of the south
Last Line: Bird of the south, bird of the spring!
Subject(s): Mockingbirds; Southern States; South (u.s.)


ON A PROPOSED TRIP SOUTH, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They tell me on the morrow I must leave
Last Line: Gay birds and hear the bees make heavy droon.
Subject(s): Southern States; South (u.s.)


ON THE RAMPART, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On sumter's rampart, that sweet eve
Last Line: In the long summer time of god!
Subject(s): Ramparts; Southern States; War; South (u.s.)


ONCE, by ALICE WALKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Green lawn / a picket fence
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Southern States; South (u.s.)


PLACIDE BOSSIER, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, friend! In the tender college time
Last Line: The cross on the saint-heart shining!
Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Southern States; War; Dead, The; South (u.s.)


PLANTATION DRINKING SONG, by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: De ladies in de parlour
Last Line: "a-drinkin' branbdy toddy, / good-mornin', ladies all"
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;southern States; South (u.s.)


POEM FOR A LITTLE GIRL, by HARRIET CHADWICK TURNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: She has a certain new england primness
Last Line: Witches were hanged on salem hill.
Subject(s): Daughters; Girls; Southern States; South (u.s.)


PRIMORDIA IN THE SOUTH, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unctuous furrows / the ploughman portrays in you
Subject(s): Southern States; South (u.s.)


PROGRESSION; OR, THE SOUTH DEFENDED: SLAVERY, by MARY SOPHIE SHAW HOMES    Poem Text                    
First Line: The book of books we confidently quote
Last Line: Gainst wild fanaticism's fickle laws.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mayfield, Millie
Subject(s): American Civil War; Bible; Cruelty; Slavery; Southern States; United States - History; Serfs; South (u.s.)


RECORDING THE SPIRIT VOICES, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the hollow below the hill vaults
Last Line: Bury the truth these angels stand on: born and died.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Confederate States Of America; Death; Poetry & Poets; Southern States; Spiritual Life; Graveyards; Confederacy; Dead, The; South (u.s.)


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.)


RUBBING THE FACES OF ANGELS, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the balcony of the golden eagle motor inn
Last Line: Me the reclining skeleton of thomas pool.
Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina; Death; Hotels; Southern States; Dead, The; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; South (u.s.)


SENTINEL SONGS: 2, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When falls the cause of right
Last Line: And throb through a thousand years!
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Southern States; South (u.s.)


SENTINEL SONGS: 3, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And the songs, with brave, sad face
Last Line: Watch the plain where sleep the slain.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Southern States; South (u.s.)


SENTINEL SONGS: 5. THE CAUSE OF THE SOUTH, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fallen cause still waits
Last Line: Will echo from heart to heart
Subject(s): Peace; Southern States; South (u.s.)


SIXTY YEARS AGO TO-DAY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dense clouds of dust on the virginia roads--
Last Line: Of appomattox—and the final scene!
Subject(s): Appomattox, Virginia; Soldiers; Southern States; War; South (u.s.)


SNAPSHOTS OF THE COTTON SOUTH, by FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen, you drawing men
Last Line: Portrait of the cotton south
Subject(s): Southern States; South (u.s.)


SONG FOR A DARK GIRL, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Way down south in dixie
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Love; Lynching; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; South (u.s.)


SONG OF THE SOUTH, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the garden flowers
Last Line: Than in all the world beside.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Homecoming; Love; Southern States; South (u.s.)


SOUTH, by NATASHA TRETHEWEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I returned to a stand of pines, / bone-thin phalanx
Subject(s): African Americans; Mississippi; Slavery; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs; South (u.s.)


SOUTH SONG, by ROY ADDISON HELTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm for the south, - for the black-eyed south
Last Line: From beauty's warm lips on the bride-bed of june.
Subject(s): African Americans - History; Southern States; Black Heritage; South (u.s.)


SOUTHERN MANSION, by ARNA BONTEMPS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poplars are standing there still as death
Subject(s): African Americans; Haunted Houses; Southern States; Supernatural; Negroes; American Blacks; South (u.s.)


SOUTHERN ROAD, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Swing dat hammer - hunh - / steady, bo'
Subject(s): African Americans; Roads; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; Paths; Trails; South (u.s.)


SPRING IN THE SOUTH, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now in the oak the sap of life is welling
Last Line: Love, love, love, and spring in the south!
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Southern States; Spring; South (u.s.)


STUMPTOWN ATTENDS THE PICTURE SHOW, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Word has come and martha the ticket girl
Last Line: Moving in a cloud of dust toward the theater marquee.
Subject(s): Canton, Georgia; Motion Pictures; Police; Racism; Southern States; Movies; Cinema; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; South (u.s.)


THE BATTLE CRY OF THE SOUTH, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brothers! The thunder-cloud is black
Last Line: And the god of the maccabees!
Subject(s): Bible; Soldiers; Southern States; War; South (u.s.)


THE C. S. ARMY'S COMMISSARY, by EDWARD PORTER THOMPSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Well, this is bad!' we sighing said
Last Line: "but still press on, to do or die!"
Subject(s): American Civil War; Southern States; U.s. - History; War; South (u.s.)


THE DESERTED PLANTATION, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, de grubbin'-hoe's a-rustin' in de co'nah
Last Line: An' calls me to my qua'ters in de sky.
Subject(s): African Americans; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; South (u.s.)


THE EXILE, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My father had many oxen
Last Line: Of hirelings once queen's daughters and slaves the seed of kings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): African Americans; Slavery; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs; South (u.s.)


THE MYSTIC RIVER, by GALWAY KINNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I cross
Last Line: Bit of secret, lighted flesh, open up the earth?
Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Southern States; Racism; South (u.s.); Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE NIGHT THAT LORCA COMES, by BOB KAUFMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The white south shall gather / at preservation hall
Subject(s): African Americans; Southern States; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; South (u.s.); Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE PALMETTO AND THE PINE, by MANLEY H. PIKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There grows a fair palmetto in the sunny southern lands
Last Line: In one grand whole, as one soil bears the palmetto and the pine!
Subject(s): North, The; Palmetto Trees; Pine Trees; Reconciliation; Southern States; Trees; South (u.s.)


THE PRAYER OF THE SOUTH, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My brow is bent beneath a heavy rod!
Last Line: Pity and pardon. Father, hear my prayer!
Subject(s): Prayer; Southern States; South (u.s.)


THE SENTENCE OF JOHN L. BROWN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho! Thou who seekest late and long
Last Line: The smile of god is victory.
Subject(s): Justice; Love - Cultural Differences; Slavery; Southern States; Serfs; South (u.s.)


THE SINGING TOWER, by ELEANOR STIMMEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Majestic beauty! Pride of southern state!
Last Line: "to pause, and ""take thy shoes from off thy feet."
Subject(s): Southern States; Trees; South (u.s.)


THE SONG OF THE FLAGS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We loved the wild clamor of battle
Last Line: "forgive, but ah, never forget."
Variant Title(s): On The Return Of The Confederate Flags By Congress
Subject(s): Flags - Confederate States Of America; Forgiveness; Southern States; Clemency; South (u.s.)


THE SOUTH, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night, and beneath star-blazoned summer skies
Last Line: And leaps from dreams to hail the coming day.
Subject(s): Southern States; South (u.s.)


THE SOUTHERN REFUGEE, by GEORGE MOSES HORTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What sudden ill the world await
Last Line: The place of beauty -- my native home.
Subject(s): African Americans; Southern States; Negroes; American Blacks; South (u.s.)


THE SOUTHERN ROAD, by DUDLEY RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There the black river, boundary to hell
Subject(s): African Americans; Slavery; Southern States; Underground Railroad; Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs; South (u.s.)


THE SPIREA, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of all the subtle fires of earth
Last Line: Paled like a bridal rose.
Subject(s): Southern States; Spiraea (plant); South (u.s.)


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 SUNNY SOUTHLAND, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In our sunny southland / balmy breezes blow
Last Line: This garden spot of ours.
Subject(s): Southern States; Sun; South (u.s.)


TO THE NIGHTJAR, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the moon hangs high in the heavens
Last Line: Till thy song comes over the hill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Nature; Night; Nightjars; Southern States; Bedtime; South (u.s.)


TO THE SOUTH ON ITS NEW SLAVERY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Heart of the southland, heed me pleading now
Last Line: Till thou, oh, south, and thine, come to thine own.
Subject(s): Racism; Southern States; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; South (u.s.)


TUSKEGEE, by LESLIE PINCKNEY HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wherefore this busy labor without rest?
Last Line: The south will wear eternally a stain.
Subject(s): African Americans; Southern States; Tuskegee Institute; Negroes; American Blacks; South (u.s.)


WRITING ON NAPKINS AT THE SUNSHINE CLUB; MACON, GEORGIA 1970, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The rock-o-la plays country and western
Last Line: Even the low belch of the brunette behind the flippers.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Country Life; Country Music; Poetry & Poets; Southern States; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; South (u.s.)