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Subject: WASHINGTON MONUMENT
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` NOCTURNO DE WASHINGTON: 1, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: They called forth the train whistle at midnight
Last Line: Blinking and defecating
Variant Title(s): Nocturno De Washingto
Subject(s): Grief; Railroads; Tourists; Travel; U.s. - History; United States; Washington Monument


NOCTURNO DE WASHINGTON: 2, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: At midnight the washington monument rises
Last Line: The sound of a pebble swept against a bamboo stalk
Subject(s): Tourists; Washington Monument


PIONEERS OF INDUSTRY, by CLARENCE ALVA POWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Steve is dead. He is through with sweating now
Last Line: Unsung, for they were never conquerors!
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Washington Monument; Work; Workers


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


WASHINGTON MONUMENT BY NIGHT, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stone goes straight
Last Line: ... ... ...
Subject(s): Washington Monument


WASHINGTON'S MONUMENT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: For him who sought his country's good
Last Line: "and may she ever rise in fame, / to honor thy immortal name!"
Subject(s): Death;washington Monument; "dead, The;


WASHINGTON'S MONUMENT, FEBRUARY, 1885, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, not this marble, dead and cold
Last Line: Stands or is rising thy true monument.
Subject(s): Washington Monument