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Subject: WEBSTER, DANIEL (1782-1852)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BIRTHDAY OF DANIEL WEBSTER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When life hath run its largest round
Last Line: On the blue tablet of the deep!
Subject(s): Webster, Daniel (1782-1852)


DANIEL WEBSTER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When, stricken by the freezing blast
Last Line: On the blue tablet of the deep!
Subject(s): Politics & Government; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852)


DANIEL WEBSTER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Honor the home that reared him! - the hills, the wood, the stream
Last Line: Union, now and forever!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Freedom; New Hampshire; Praise; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852); Liberty


DANIEL WEBSTER'S HORSES, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If when the wind blows
Last Line: "see their shoes fit."
Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs.
Subject(s): Animals; Fantasy; Horses; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852)


ICHABOD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So fallen! So lost! The light withdrawn / which one he wore!
Last Line: And hide the shame!
Subject(s): Slavery; Social Protest; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852); Serfs


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


THE LOST OCCASION, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some die too late and some too soon
Last Line: Thy nobler self, thy life at best!
Subject(s): Slavery; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852); Serfs


THE VOICE OF WEBSTER, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Silence was envious of the only voice
Last Line: Long shall its echoes rouse the patriot's heart.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Democracy; United States - Congress - Senate; United States - History; United States - Reconstruction (1865-1877); Webster, Daniel (1782-1852)


TO WEBSTER, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've never drunk wine before, sir, but I tell you what
Last Line: With lips still wet I place the bet you are dartmouth's biggest man.
Subject(s): Dartmouth College; Honor; Memory; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852)


WEBSTER, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why did all manly gifts in webster fail?
Last Line: He wrote on nature's grandest brow, for sale.
Subject(s): Nature; Social Protest; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852)


WEBSTER, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ill fits the abstemious muse a crown to weave
Last Line: And burned in noble hearts proverb and profecy
Subject(s): Webster, Daniel (1782-1852)


WEBSTER, by WILLIAM HENRY CUYLER HOSMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A cloud is over marshfield, and the wail
Last Line: Are closely with thy heart-strings intertwined.
Subject(s): Marshfield, Massachusetts; Webster, Daniel (1782-1852)