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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1892-1941, by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To be moved comes of want, though want be complete
Subject(s): Capitol, Washington, D.c.; Statues


1962: VETERANS' DAY: UCLA STUDY REGIMEN: SOME INDIANA (HOOSIER KLAN REFLECTIONS), by MICHAEL S. HARPER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They are counting the names of the vietnam veterans names on the mall
Subject(s): Lin, Maya (b. 1959); Vietnam Veterans Memorial (washington, D.c.); African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks


ADVANCE OF THE DWEEBS, by EDMONDE HADDAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beath high washington domes amid rich paneling
Last Line: No place fo ryou in the new usa
Subject(s): United States; Washington, D.c.


AENEAS AT WASHINGTON, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I myself saw furious with blood
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): Aeneas; Mythology - Classical; Washington, D.c.


AENEAS AT WASHINGTON, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I myself saw furious with blood
Last Line: I thought of troy, what we had built her for
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): Aeneas; Mythology - Classical; Washington, D.c.


AFTER DINNER AT THE WHITE HOUSE: A PHOTOGRAPH, by MARY BELLE CAMPBELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mr. Nixon is playing his spinet
Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); White House (washington, D.c.)


ALL QUIET ALONG THE POTOMAC, EXCEPT THE LETTER G, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The table talk in washington
Last Line: Let's have a foursome at burning tree, %your arthur and you against mine and me
Subject(s): Diplomacy And Diplomats; Kissinger, Henry (b. 1923); Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. (b. 1917); Washington, D.c.


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.)


AND SO TODAY, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And so to-day-they lay him away
Last Line: Under a sky of promises.
Subject(s): Death; Patriotism; Soldiers; Washington, D.c.; Dead, The


ASTRAEA AT THE CAPITOL; ABOLITION SLAVERY, DISTRICT COLUMBIA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When first I saw our banner wave
Last Line: Of judgment fringed with mercy's light!
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Washington, D.c.; Antislavery Movement - United States


AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL, by WILLIAM E. BROOKS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I think he would have hated this white shrine
Last Line: I think he would have hated this white shrine!
Subject(s): Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.c.


AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Slow potomac, tarnished water
Last Line: To scour the hate clean and the rusted blood
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.c.


AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Slow potomac, tarnished water
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.c.


AT THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL, by BARON WORMSER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Young couples with sticky, squalling children
Last Line: Root like the weeds between the cracks
Subject(s): Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.c.


AT THE LINCOLN MONUMENT IN WASHINGTON, AUGUST 28, 1963, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There they stand together, like moses standing with aaron
Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1)
Subject(s): Civil Rights Movement; Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.c.


AT WASHINGTON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With a cold and wintry noon-light
Last Line: Ere the long night-silence cometh, and with us it is not day!
Subject(s): Slavery; Washington, D.c.; Serfs


BRUTUS LIVES AGAIN IN BOOTH, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What time is it?
Last Line: (he rushes off. Great confusion.)
Subject(s): Assassination; Booth, John Wilkes (1838-1865); Ford's Theater, Washington, D.c.; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States


CALVIN COOLIDGE, 1872-1933: 1. THE MAN, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: When cares of state bore down too heavily
Last Line: Weary of being all things to all men.
Subject(s): Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933); White House (washington, D.c.)


CAPITOL HILL: OMAHA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, by VICTOR CONTOSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: High on capitol hill
Last Line: And lost him
Subject(s): Capitol, Washington, D.c.; High School Students; Nebraska


COLOMBIAN JOKE, by EDWARD FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the day god
Last Line: Watching what happens
Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce
Subject(s): Creation; Washington, D.c.; Wit & Humor


CONGRESS HALL, N.Y, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With eager step and wrinkled brow
Last Line: And trots to congress hall
Subject(s): U.s. - Congress; Washington, D.c.


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.


EMANCIPATION IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, APRIL 16, 1862, by JAMES MADISON BELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Unfurl your banners to the breeze!
Last Line: Hath lighter grown by marching on.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Washington, D.c.; Antislavery Movement - United States


GEORGE WASHINGTON, LOVER, by GREG HEWETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I always preferred the quiet life
Last Line: I am the good wife
Subject(s): Masculinity (psychology); Men; Presidents, United States; Washington, D.c.; Washington, George (1732-1799)


GEORGETOWN, D.C.: THE AQUEDUCT BRIDGE, by MICHAEL A. SCHAFFNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bridge was stone and carried a canal
Last Line: A thin grim column more than four years long
Subject(s): Washington, D.c.


GHAZALS: 39, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you laid out all the limbs from the civil war hospital
Last Line: Of components beneath the senators' heads.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Death; Washington, D.c.; Dead, The


IN GEORGETOWN; HOLIDAY INN, WASHINGTON, D.C., by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem 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 THE LOBBY OF THE WARNER THEATRE, WASHINGTON, DC, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: They'd positioned her - two attendants flanking the wheelchair
Last Line: Waiting for the moment to take her
Subject(s): Parks, Rosa (1913-2005); Washington, D.c.


IN THE LOBBY OF THE WARNER THEATRE, WASHINGTON, DC, by RITA DOVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They'd positioned her - two attendants flanking the wheelchair
Last Line: Like the history she made for us sitting there, %waiting for the moment to take her
Subject(s): Parks, Rosa (b. 1913); Washington, D.c.


IN THE MASTER BEDROOM OF THE WHITE HOUSE, by RICHARD LOURIE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Mr. President - fellow citizens %look in this mirror - love your body - kiss it
Subject(s): White House (washington, D.c.)


JULY IN WASHINGTON, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Washington, D.c.; Politics & Government; Summer


JUNE NIGHT IN WASHINGTON, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The scent of honeysuckle
Last Line: So death might come to one who knew him love
Subject(s): Washington, D.c.


LAST OF BEBE, by RACHEL LODEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who traded recipes with haldeman?
Last Line: With memories, singing like an offshore %banker sleep, mi camarada
Subject(s): Friendship; Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Rebozo, Charles Gregory (bebe) (1912-98); White House (washington, D.c.)


LINCOLN MEMORIAL, by THOMAS HORNSBY FERRIL    Poem Source                    
First Line: When you look at abraham lincoln sitting
Subject(s): Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.c.


LINCOLN MEMORIAL, by JAYE GIAMMARINO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sun casts patches of light
Last Line: Who now sits in the lap of time %caressed by gentle winds %of history
Subject(s): Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.c.


LINCOLN MONUMENT: WASHINGTON, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let's go see old abe
Last Line: Of time -- %old abe
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; Holidays; Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.c.


MOTHER AND CHILD AT THE CAPITOL; JUNE, 1921, by GRACE GUILLE PURSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where is the soldier? The unknown
Last Line: Brings not its gift in vain!
Subject(s): Capitol, Washington, D.c.; Death; Graves; Mothers; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Washington, D.c.; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


OF BEING NUMEROUS, 40, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The capitol grows upon one in time, especially as they have got
Subject(s): Capitol, Washington, D.c.


ON A MILITARY GRAVEYARD, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stranger, when you come to washington
Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Death; Graves; Military; Soldiers; Washington, D.c.; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


ON A MILITARY GRAVEYARD, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stranger, when you come to washington
Last Line: Obedient to their orders
Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Death; Graves; Military; Soldiers; Washington, D.c.


OUR PRESIDENT READS A BOOK -- NOT LOUIS L'AMOUR, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before all the world
Last Line: We have sought his love for a thousand days
Subject(s): Books; Poetry Readings; Presidents, United States; Reagan, Ronald Wilson (b. 1911); White House (washington, D.c.)


PATRIOTIC TOUR AND POSTULATE OF JOY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, once, in washington
Last Line: To live by, in sunlight and moonlight, until they died
Subject(s): Mockingbirds; Patriotism; Washington, D.c.


PATRIOTIC TOUR AND POSTULATE OF JOY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, once, in washington
Last Line: To know what postulate of joy men have tried %to live by, in sunlight and moonlight, until they die
Subject(s): Mockingbirds; Patriotism; Washington, D.c.


PLACE, by SUSAN RICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: How did we get here? My ankle in your hand
Last Line: As in the equation for the rest of our lives
Subject(s): Cities; Driving And Drivers; Streets; Travel; Washington, D.c.


POTOMAC, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thin potomac scarcely moves
Last Line: The money fade like leaves from green to brown, %and embassies dissolve to molecules
Subject(s): Potomac River; Rivers; Washington, D.c.


SELF DEFENSE, by FLORENCE ANTHONY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Y'all listen to me
Last Line: That is how you hold the nigger down %and beat him to death with his own freedom
Alternate Author Name(s): Ai
Subject(s): African Americans; Barry, Marion (b. 1936); Washington, D.c.


SIN CITY, D.C., by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hays says ray lies
Last Line: Into paperback runaway
Subject(s): Washington, D.c.


SIN CITY, D.C., by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hays says ray lies
Last Line: Into paperback runaway
Subject(s): Washington, D.c.


SMOKE ROSE GOLD, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dome of the capitol ooks to the potomac river
Subject(s): Capitol, Washington, D.c.


SMOKE ROSE GOLD, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dome of the capitol ooks to the potomac river
Subject(s): Capitol, Washington, D.c.


SPECIMEN DAYS: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: August 12th. - I see the president almost every day, as I happen to live
Last Line: Of two or three centuries ago is needed
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Paintings And Painters; Portraits; Presidents, United States; White House (washington, D.c.)


STUDY FOR A GEOGRAPHICAL TRAIL; 3. WASHINGTON, D.C., by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't lose any important papers
Subject(s): Tokyo; Washington, D.c.


TAHIRASSAWICHI IN WASHINGTON, by ERNESTO CARDENAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: In 1898 tahirassawichi went to washington
Last Line: Tahirassawchi's words, I suppose, did not mean anything to the state department
Subject(s): Religion; Washington, D.c.


TAHIRASSAWICHI IN WASHINGTON, by ERNESTO CARDENAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: In 1898 tahirassawichi went to washington
Last Line: Tahirassawachi, I suppose, has said nothing to the department of %state
Subject(s): Religion; Washington, D.c.


TANGIBLES, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have seen this city in the day and the sun
Last Line: There is ... Something ... Here ... Men die for.
Subject(s): Patriotism; Washington, D.c.


THE CROWS AT WASHINGTON, by JOHN MILTON HAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Slow flapping to the setting sun
Last Line: Above the roofs of washington.
Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Washington, D.c.


THE LADY OF THE WHITE HOUSE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She bears no crown upon her brow
Last Line: Nature and freedom taught her.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Marriage; Presidents, United States; White House (washington, D.c.); Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE LEAP FROM THE LONG BRIDGE; AN INCIDENT AT WASHINGTON, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now rest the wretched. The long day is past
Last Line: And her sorrow and bondage are o'er.
Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Escapes; Slavery; Washington, D.c.; Fugitives; Serfs


THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL, by ALMA ADAMS WILEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Man of the rugged frame and calm, worn face
Last Line: How pure the soul that healed a nation's woe.
Subject(s): Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.c.; Presidents, United States


THE POTOMAC, by KARL SHAPIRO            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thin potomac scarcely moves
Subject(s): Potomac River; Rivers; Washington, D.c.


THE WASHINGTON BICENTENNIAL, by CLARA BECK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dreams are visions of the night
Last Line: And nations join to hail him chief.
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, D.c.; Washington, George (1732-1799)


THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you seen, by potomac, that shaft in the skies
Last Line: The noble, the peerless, the many in one!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Freedom; Potomac River; Rivers; Washington Monument; Washington, D.c.; Liberty


THE WHITE HOUSE, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Marines mount guard at the white house palace
Last Line: Says alice.
Subject(s): Marines - United States; White House (washington, D.c.)


THE WHITE HOUSE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why white, o white house?
Last Line: Because so mighty for a fight!
Subject(s): White House (washington, D.c.)


TO LORD VISCOUNT FORBES; FROM THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If former times had never left a trace
Last Line: And feel that man may reach perfection yet!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Washington, D.c.


TO THE STATUE ON THE CAPITOL; LOOKING EASTWARD AT DAWN, by JOHN JAMES PIATT    Poem Source                    
First Line: What sunken splendor in the eastern skies
Last Line: Whose savage garments from thy shoulders fly, %whose eagle clings in sunrise to thy crest!
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Capitol, Washington, D.c.; Crawford, Thomas (1814-1857); Sculpture And Sculptors; Statues


TO THOMAS HUME, ESQ., M.D.; FROM THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis evening now; the heats and cares of day
Last Line: The throne and laws more sovereign still than he!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Washington, D.c.


VISITING THE WALL, by BOB HICOK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sweet gum %hover in the granite
Last Line: A child so hopefully, %so violently born
Subject(s): Landmarks; Memory; War; Washington, D.c.


WASHINGTON, by ALOYSIUS COLL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The white-walled rome of an unwritten epic
Last Line: Steering for the sun at the mouth of the stream!
Subject(s): Washington, D.c.


WASHINGTON, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Diagonal white city dreamed by a frenchman
Last Line: And of sleep
Subject(s): Washington, D.c.


WASHINGTON, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Diagonal white city dreamed by a frenchman
Last Line: With love of my country, of cunt, and of sleep
Subject(s): Washington, D.c.


WASHINGTON CATHEDRAL, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From summer and the wheel-shaped city
Last Line: He's only a good alien, nominally happy
Subject(s): Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.c


WASHINGTON, D.C., by REBECCA KAI DOTLICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the east bank of the potomac
Last Line: Which stands for liberty
Subject(s): Washington, D.c.


WASHINGTON: TOURIST VIEW, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The protesters in their houses built of placards
Subject(s): Washington, D.c.