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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WASHINGTON, D.C. Matches Found: 74 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. |
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