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Subject: UNITED STATES - POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
Matches Found: 6

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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


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


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)


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


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


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