Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INSCRIPTION PROPOSED FOR A SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT IN BOSTON, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To those who died for her on land and sea Last Line: In lives like theirs, at duty's summons spent. Subject(s): Boston; Monuments | ||||||||
TO those who died for her on land and sea, That she might have a country great and free, Boston builds this: build ye her monument In lives like theirs, at duty's summons spent. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PRO PATRIA by CONSTANCE VIRGINIA CARRIER CONCORD HYMN; SUNG AT COMPLETION OF CONCORD MONUMENT, 1836 by RALPH WALDO EMERSON CHURCH MONUMENTS by GEORGE HERBERT LINES WRITTEN ON A SEAT ON THE GRAND CANAL, DUBLIN by PATRICK KAVANAGH FOR THE UNION DEAD by ROBERT LOWELL ODE; SUNG BY THE CHILDREN OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS by W. T. ADAMS INSCRIPTIONS: 4 by MARK AKENSIDE EUMARES by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS THE MAUSOLEUM by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN AFTER THE BURIAL by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL |
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