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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BARROOM FRAGMENT, by SIMON J. ORTIZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He was talking, / 'I invited her to las vegas
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


A BUFFALO DANCE AT SANTO DOMINGO, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn came
Last Line: Our breast and forehead with the turquoise sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Native Americans; New Mexico; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


A CHIPPEWA LEGEND, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The old chief, feeling now well-nigh his end
Last Line: Ugly and fierce, to hide among the woods.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


A CRY FROM AN INDIAN WIFE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: My forest brave, my red-skin love, farewell
Last Line: Perhaps the white man's god has willed it so.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Marriage; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; War; Worry; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


A CRY TO ARMS, by HENRY TIMROD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho! Woodsmen of the mountain side!
Last Line: And for the lily's sake!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Patriotism; United States - History; Confederacy


A CURSE FOR A NATION: PROLOGUE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard an angel speak last night
Last Line: I send it over the western sea.
Subject(s): Curses; Slavery; United States; Serfs; America


A DANCE FOR RAIN (AT COCHITI, NEW MEXICO), by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You may never see rain, unless you see
Last Line: Rain, rain in cochiti!
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Cochiti, New Mexico; Dancing & Dancers; Hopi Indians; Native Americans; Rain; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States


A DEAL IN REAL ESTATE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Barendt cuyler, indian trader
Last Line: "brother -- let us dream no more!"
Subject(s): Dreams; Native Americans; New York City - Dutch Period; Smoking; Nightmares; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


A FAREWELL TO AMERICA, by RICHARD HENRY WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell, my more than fatherland!
Last Line: To leave with them and thee behind!
Subject(s): United States; America


A FAREWELL TO AMERICA, TO MRS. S. W., by PHILLIS WHEATLEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Adieu, new-england's smiling meads
Last Line: Of all its pow'r disarms!
Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis
Subject(s): Great Britain; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Sea Voyages; United States; America


A LEGEND OF THE DELAWARES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The air is dark with cloud on cloud
Last Line: "should wield the weapons of the sky."
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


A MEMORIAL DAY POEM FOR THE CONFEDERACY, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wearing the gray, wearing the gray
Last Line: The old rebel jacket our dead boy had on!
Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Confederacy; Declaration Day


A MESSAGE TO AMERICA, by ALAN SEEGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You have the grit and the guts, I know
Last Line: Oh, look over here and learn from france!
Subject(s): France; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919); Soldiers' Writings; Tolerance; United States; World War I; America; First World War


A MINOR PROPHET, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a friend, a vegetarian seer
Last Line: Throbbing respondent to the far-off orbs.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Faith; Friendship; Prophecy & Prophets; Religion; Salvation; United States; Belief; Creed; Theology; America


A PATRIOT I, by JEAN LEWIS MORRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A patriot I! This is my cry
Last Line: I'm a munition maker.
Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Patriotism; Selfishness; Social Protest; United States; War; America


A PLEA FOR THE GRAY, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the land's a martyr, mid her tears
Last Line: Scorn traitors to the gray!
Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Confederacy


A POEM FROM BOULDER RIDGE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The skeleton of a teepee stood on boulder ridge
Subject(s): Houses; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


A POET'S PROPHECY, by LUIGI PULCI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Know that this theory is false; his bark
Last Line: To glad the nations with expected light.
Subject(s): Explorers; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; America


A POLITICAL LITANY, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From a junta that labor for absolute power
Last Line: And britain go on -- to be damned, if she will.
Variant Title(s): Libera Nos, Domine - Deliver Us, O Lord
Subject(s): Great Britain - Rulers; Politics & Government; United States; America


A PROPHECY, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: O future bards / chant from skull to heart to ass
Subject(s): United States; America


A PROPHECY (1764), by ARTHUR LEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ere five score years have run their tedious rounds
Last Line: T is all they ask -- or all a crown can give.
Subject(s): Carlisle, Pennsylvania; French & Indian Wars; Native Americans; Prophecy & Prophets; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


A PSALM OF FOOLISH WISDOM, by LOUISE LEIGHTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lo, we are a nation of wise fools!
Last Line: Before our foolishness destroys the universe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Purdy, Susan Louise
Subject(s): Fools; United States; Idiots; America


A REPUBLIC!, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her faith abandoned and her place despised
Last Line: Her gland pituitary being lost.
Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; United States; America


A SAVAGE, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dixon, a choctaw, twenty years of age
Last Line: And drops without a moan: dixon is dead.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


A SEA-BIRD; OFF PERU, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O to be a sea-bird one celestial day
Last Line: In god's azure only sun and sea and I!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Birds; Gulls; Nature - Religious Aspects; South America; Seagulls


A SEMINOLE, by FRANCES BALLMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A seminole died with the sun in the west
Last Line: A seminole died.
Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; Seminole Indians; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


A SONG FOR AMERICA, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How comely is our motherland
Last Line: And guard her as of yore.
Subject(s): United States; World War I; America; First World War


A SONG OF OUR NATION, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Crowding the eastern gates
Last Line: Ever increase.
Subject(s): United States; America


A SPOOL OF THREAD, by SOPHIE E. EASTMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Well, yes, I've lived in texas, since the spring of '61
Last Line: I was but a boy in war time, and I carried him the thread.
Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Patriotism; Texas; Confederacy


A TOAST TO OUR NATIVE LAND, by ROBERT BRIDGES (1858-1941)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Huge and alert, irascible yet strong
Last Line: Drink to our native land! God bless the state!
Alternate Author Name(s): Droch
Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America


A VERY EXCEPTIONAL ESKIMO, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall I tell you a few of the things I know
Last Line: If he didn't, the cold might freeze his dreams!
Subject(s): Arctic; Eskimos; Native Americans; Snow; Winter; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


A VOW, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will haunt these states
Subject(s): United States; War; America


A WARRANT FOR PABLO NERUDA, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: With the fury of cinders, with the despair of dusty
Last Line: An alchemy of resistance transmutes your flowering name
Subject(s): Chile; Government; Nobel Prizes; Poetry & Poets; Socialism; South America


A WHIMSY, by EDNA W. PIKERINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the fall when woods resound
Last Line: And hear its new-born cry.
Subject(s): Autumn; Native Americans; Seasons; Spring; Fall; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


A YOUNG CHIEF RETURNS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have returned unto my ancient mesa
Last Line: "I am home!"
Subject(s): Homecoming; Native Americans; Travel; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips


ADONIS THEATER, by MARK DOTY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It must have seemed the apex of dreams
Subject(s): Americans; United States; America


ADRIAN BLOCK'S SONG, by EDWARD EVERETT HALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hard aport! Now close to shore sail!
Last Line: And I name it roses island.
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Block, Adrian; Netherlands; Holland; Dutch People


ADRIFT, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Abandoned by wind, the squadron drifts, bereft
Last Line: Until he becomes the blue eye of god
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


ADVICE TO TRAVELERS, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: All this life you were cold
Last Line: You will grow light enough %to vanish
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


ADVICE TO TRAVELERS II, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When you wake, leave furtively
Last Line: Be suspicious of the songs of sparrows %for there are no sparrows
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


AFTER APPLE PICKING, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree
Last Line: Or just some human sleep.
Subject(s): Americans; Apple Trees; Apples; Fruit; Trees; United States; America


AFTER IKKYU: 25, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Talked to the god of hosts about the native american
Last Line: Half-human bears still dance in imperfect circles.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Environment; Native Americans; Prayer; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


AFTER SUNRISE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Whitecaps rise like blossoms on the waves
Last Line: Trembling like the flame inside the sun
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


AFTER TENNYSON, by AMBROSE BIERCE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: You ask me why, though ill at ease
Subject(s): Modern Life; Freedom; Politics & Government; United States; Liberty; America


AFTER THE CAMANCHES, by ROSE TERRY COOKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Saddle, saddle, saddle! / mount and gallop away!
Last Line: A scalp on either side!
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Native Americans; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


AFTER THE COMANCHES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Saddle! Saddle! Saddle!
Last Line: "bring her home on the crupper, / a scalp on either side"
Subject(s): Gold;native Americans; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


AFTER THE WAR: 1. DROWNING, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I loved you in ways you
Last Line: I wish I had let you kill me
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


AFTER THE WAR: 2. THE LATE SHOW, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Memory crawls from every muscle in my body
Last Line: On the plane coming home
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


AFTER THE WAR: 3. THE POLITICS OF COMPASSION, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My youth and your hard destiny
Last Line: Medicine taken again and again
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


AFTER THE WAR: 4. FUNERAL RITES, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My fingers are like sticks and I don't mind
Last Line: That year I was with you, that year I burned
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


AFTER THOUGHTS, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When he kissed my nipple
Subject(s): United States; America


ALICE CORBIN IS GONE, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Henderson, Alice Corbin (1881-1949); Native Americans; Translating & Interpreting; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


ALIEN IN AMERICA, by FRANCIS GARDNER CLOUGH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have no ear to hear your alien word
Last Line: And faith! -- the heart's last-labored codicil.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clough, F. Gardner
Subject(s): Aliens; Immigrants; United States; Extraterrestrials; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; America


ALIVE, by JOY HARJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hum of the car
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


ALL NIGHT, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Slaves to the vagaries of weather, displaced
Last Line: Is the axis. Their beaks align with light
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


ALL OVER THE DRY GRASSES, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Motorburn, oil sump dirt smell
Subject(s): Americans; United States; America


ALL WINTER, by LINDA HOGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In winter I remember
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


AMBITION, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They brought the mighty chief to town
Last Line: "me heap big chief, me look like hell."
Subject(s): Comedy; Native Americans; Racism; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


AMERICA, by RICHARD BLANCO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Although tía miriam boasted she discovered
Last Line: Tío berto was the last to leave
Subject(s): United States; America


AMERICA, by ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, who has not heard of the northmen of yore
Last Line: He gave them the spirit his own to defy.
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Rollo The Viking (855-931); Vikings


AMERICA, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: And this was once the realm of nature, where
Last Line: And charm the ear with numbers half divine.
Subject(s): Change; Freedom; Nature; United States; Liberty; America


AMERICA, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: America I've given you all and now I'm nothing
Subject(s): Americans; Imagination; United States; Vision; Fancy; America


AMERICA, by TONY HOAGLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Then one of the students with blue hair and a tongue stud
Last Line: Which turns the volume higher?
Subject(s): United States; Materialism; America


AMERICA, by HERBERT KAUFMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A hundred tsars shall rot to bone
Last Line: And, fruitful, you shall feed them all.
Subject(s): Peace; United States; America


AMERICA, by MURRAY KETCHAM KIRK    Poem Text                    
Last Line: And usher in sweet brotherhood.
Subject(s): Flags; Freedom; National Song - United States; Patriotism; Statue Of Liberty; United States; Liberty; American National Anthem; America


AMERICA, by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Although she feeds me bread of bitterness
Last Line: Like priceless treasures sinking in the sand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): African Americans; Freedom; United States; Negroes; American Blacks; Liberty; America


AMERICA, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the wings of a sunny dome expand
Last Line: And left her on the crag.
Subject(s): United States; America


AMERICA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the need that bows us thus
Last Line: America! America!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Nations; Patriotism; United States; America


AMERICA, by SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My country, 'tis of thee
Last Line: Great god our king.
Variant Title(s): National Hymn
Subject(s): Americans; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Patriotism; United States; Independence Day; Liberty; America


AMERICA, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love thine inland seas
Last Line: Thee I love best!
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America


AMERICA, by JAMES MONROE WHITFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: America, it is to thee
Last Line: The wrongs we bear shall be redressed.
Subject(s): Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; United States; Antislavery Movement - United States; America


AMERICA, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Centre of equal daughters, equal sons
Last Line: Chair'd in the adamant of time.
Subject(s): United States; America


AMERICA (1), by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O mother of a mighty race
Last Line: Upon their lips the taunt shall die.
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Patriotism; United States; Independence Day; Liberty; America


AMERICA (2), by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look now abroad - another race has filled
Last Line: How happy, in thy lap, the sons of men shall dwell?
Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America


AMERICA AND ENGLAND, by GEORGE HUNTINGTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two empires by the sea
Last Line: Blessing and blest.
Variant Title(s): Hymn Of World Peace;international Hymn;peace Hymn For England And America
Subject(s): England; Patriotism; United States; English; America


AMERICA SPEAKING, by DAVID RIVARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Speech; Immigrants; United States; Oratory; Orators; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; America


AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O beautiful for spacious skies
Last Line: From sea to shining sea!
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Patriotism; Prairies; United States; Independence Day; Plains; America


AMERICA TO GREAT BRITAIN, by WASHINGTON ALLSTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All hail! Thou noble land
Last Line: "we are one."
Subject(s): Great Britain; Patriotism; United States; America


AMERICA TRIUMPHANT, by ELVIRA BUSH SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: America, thou peerless one
Last Line: Bring forth a happier time!
Subject(s): Patriotism; Peace; United States; America


AMERICA'S EARLY SETTLERS, by MARTIN LUTHER PETER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Today we meet from far and near
Last Line: And follow the light of their noble flame!
Subject(s): History; United States; Historians; America


AMERICA'S THANKSGIVING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Father all bountiful, in mercy
Last Line: Into a pastoral song of peace and rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): God; Holidays; Thanksgiving; United States; America


AMERICA: SONNET 2, by SYDNEY THOMPSON DOBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nor force nor fraud shall sunder us! Oh ye
Last Line: Ser's dream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yendys, Sidney
Variant Title(s): England To America
Subject(s): England; Patriotism; United States; English; America


AMERICAN INDIAN ART: FORM AND TRADITION, by DIANE DI PRIMA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Were we not fine
Last Line: Bright glance, where is our song now / our sorrow
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


AMERICAN LIGHTS, SEEN FROM OFF ABROAD, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blue go up & blue go down
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): Americans; United States; America


AMERICAN NAMES, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have fallen in love with american names
Last Line: Bury my heart at wounded knee.
Subject(s): Names; United States; America


AMERICAN POETRY; A FRAGMENT, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Must every shore ring boldly to the voice
Last Line: And canst thou then --
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; United States; America


AMERICAN VARIATION ON HOW RILKE LOVED A PRINCESS AND GO TO STAY IN ..., by ALAN DUGAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She said that underneath the surface
Last Line: Cling to your knife
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; United States; America


AMERICANA, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gray within and gray without: the dusk
Subject(s): United States; America


AN AMERICAN LOVE-ODE; TAKEN FROM SECOND VOLUME OF MONTAGNE'S ESSAYS, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stay, stay, thou lovely, fearful snake
Last Line: Stay, lovely, fearful adder stay.
Subject(s): Animals; Love; Montaigne, Michel De (1533-1592); Snakes; United States; Serpents; Vipers; America


AN APPEAL, by F. ISABELL GOODWIN REID    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh women of america. Arise!
Last Line: Build again a mighty nation!
Alternate Author Name(s): Reid, F. Isabelle Goodwin
Subject(s): Clubs (associations); United States; Women; America


AN APPEAL TO AMERICA ON BEHALF OF THE BELGIAN DESTITUTE, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Seven millions stand
Last Line: No man can say?
Subject(s): Belgium; United States; World War I; America; First World War


AN ESKIMELODRAMA; [OR THE ESKAPADE OF AN ESKAMAID], by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mid greenland's polar ice and snow
Last Line: Is thus kept green in verse by me
Subject(s): Eskimos;greenland;ice;native Americans; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


AN EXPLANATION OF AMERICA, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As though explaining the idea of dancing
Subject(s): Politics & Government; Social Problems; United States; America


AN INDIAN AT THE BURIAL PLACE OF HIS FATHERS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the spot I came to seek
Last Line: May be a barren desert yet.
Variant Title(s): An Indian At The Burying-place Of His Fathers
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


AN INDIAN LULLABY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "rock-a-by, rock-a-by, little brown baby"
Last Line: "hush-a-by, rock-a-by, hush-a-by-by"
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


AN ODE IN TIME OF HESITATION, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the living bronze saint gaudens made
Last Line: Blindness we may forgive, but baseness we will smite.
Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Holidays; Memorial Day; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898); United States; War; Declaration Day; America


AN OPEN WINDOW ON CHICAGO, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Midwinter night, / clark & halstead brushed with this week's snow
Subject(s): United States; America


ANCESTORS, by RICARDO JAIMES FREYRE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lake of the sun, that near the clouds dost slumber
Last Line: To make the new world's race which lives today!
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Ancestors And Ancestry; Civilization; Incas; South America


ANCHORAGE, by JOY HARJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This city is made of stone, of blood, and fish
Last Line: To survive?
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Dissenters; Ethnic Groups - United States; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; Survival; United States - Race Relations; Estrangement; Outcasts; Indians Of America; American Indians;


AND INDIANS, by GLYN MAXWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: They made a word for light when it went out,
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


AND ONE FOR MY DAME, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: A born salesman, / my father made all his dough
Subject(s): Americans; Fathers; United States; America


AND THE RIVERS RUN SOUTH, by FREDERICK R. MCCREARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rivers run south in america
Last Line: My country, and her rivers running south.
Subject(s): Rivers; United States; America


ANECDOTE OF THE JAR, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I placed a jar in tennessee
Last Line: Like nothing else in tennessee.
Subject(s): Americans; Art & Artists; Bottles; Civilization; United States; America


ANGLE OF GEESE, by NAVARRE SCOTT MOMADAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How shall we adorn / recognition with our speech?
Alternate Author Name(s): Momaday, N. Scott
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


ANTI VIETNAM-WAR PEACE MOBILIZATION, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: White sunshine on sweating skulls
Subject(s): United States; America


ANY NEWS FROM ALPHA CENTAURI, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dog suddenly punched the back of his knee with its snout
Last Line: All its doors
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bars & Bartenders; Native Americans; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


APAUKEE, THE HALF BREED, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Apaukee, the half-breed, rode on the edge of the canyon
Last Line: And claws of the coyote could not defile it.
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Fate; Love; Native Americans; Tears; Destiny; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


APRIL IN ANDALUSIA, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: God lacks for nothing in andalusia -- rivers
Last Line: The decoration, something that god will forgive
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


ARIZONA POEMS: 6. RAIN IN THE DESERT, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The huge red-buttressed mesa over yonder
Last Line: Whirling, extinguishing the last red wisp of light.
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Native Americans; Rain; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


ARMISTICE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: And this was germany--this puff of dust
Last Line: This worn gray shoddy, and this iron rust!
Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; United States; World War I; Liberty; Germans; America; First World War


ARROW MAKER, by CHAPMAN JAMES MILLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Discarded flakes of gleaming amber flint
Last Line: The arrow-man each day, for I am he!
Subject(s): Arrows; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


AS RED MEN DIE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Captive! Is there a hell to him like this?
Last Line: He bends to death—but never to disgrace.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Courage; Hostages; Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; Pride; Valor; Bravery; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Self-esteem; Self-respect


AT ANCHOR, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: And still the hills of hierro, and still the moon
Last Line: Painted into angels burns behind their eyes
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


AT GRAN CANARIA, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: He believes in the burden of his name
Last Line: Lifting a skirt to let the light seep through
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


AT GULL LAKE: AUGUST, 1810, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gull lake set in the rolling prairie
Last Line: Knew where she lay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C.
Subject(s): Lakes; Native Americans; Nature; Pools; Ponds; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


AT HOME FROM CHURCH, by SARAH ORNE JEWETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lilacs lift in generous bloom
Last Line: But only of a voice that sings.
Subject(s): Americans; United States; America


AT MAGNOLIA CEMETERY, by HENRY TIMROD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep sweetly in your humble graves
Last Line: By mourning beauty crowned!
Variant Title(s): Ode Sung On The Occasion Of Decorating The Graves - Charleston;decoration Day At Charleston;magnolia Cemetery Ode;ode For Decoration Day;hymn For Memorial Day;ode On Decorating The Graves;magnolia Cemetery;lines;ode At Magnolia Cemetery;ode Sung At Magnolia Cemetery
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cemeteries; Charleston, South Carolina; Confederate States Of America; Patriotism; United States - History; Graveyards; Confederacy


AT NAVAJO MONUMENT VALLEY TRIBAL SCHOOL, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The football field rises
Last Line: Wild horses, wild horses, wild horses
Subject(s): Americans; Education; Schools; United States; Students; America


AT NIGHT THE STATES, by ALICE NOTLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): United States; Love; America


AT THE CEMETERY, WALNUT GROVE PLANTATION, SOUTH CAROLINA, 1989, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among the rocks / at walnut grove
Last Line: Here lies / hear
Subject(s): Americans; United States; African Americans; Slavery; Cemeteries; America


AT THE PUBLIC MARKET MUSEUM: CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, by JANE KENYON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A volunteer, a daughter of the confederacy
Subject(s): Americans; United States; America


AT THIS POINT, THE MOON STARTS TO TAKE ON A LITTLE BROWN AND GRAY..., by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up in the andes / an old peruvian
Last Line: The old peruvian
Subject(s): Mountains; Peru; South America; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


AUTO POESY: ON THE LAM FROM BLOOMINGTON, by ALLEN GINSBERG            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Setting out east on rain bright highways
Subject(s): United States; America


AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 2, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sad indian's having the time of his life
Last Line: The farmers in the sky and in the nebulae
Subject(s): Farm Life; Native Americans; Peasantry; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Agriculture; Farmers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 3, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Daybreak. The chicha finally explodes
Last Line: Tucks up her saffron-colored thighs
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Native Americans; Wine; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


AUTUMN GOLD: NEW ENGLAND FALL, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Coughing in the morning / waking with a steam beast, city destroyed
Subject(s): United States; America


BACK TO ALBANY, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A bird turned loose among the flowers
Last Line: Sent back to boost for albany.
Subject(s): Albany, New York; Native Americans; Travel; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips


BAGEL SHOP JAZZ, by BOB KAUFMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shadow people, projected on coffee-shop walls
Last Line: Brief, beautiful shadows, burned on walls of night
Subject(s): Americans; Jazz; Music & Musicians; United States; America


BALBOA, by NORA PERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With restless step of discontent
Last Line: Divinely guided, reached the goal.
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Balboa, Vasco Nunez De (1475-1519); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


BALL'S BLUFF; A REVERIE, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One noonday, at my window in the town
Last Line: Far footfalls died away till none were left.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Ball's Bluff, Battle Of; United States - History; United States; War; America


BALLADE OF EXPANSION, by HILDA JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Time was he sang the british brute
Last Line: The ethical expansionist!
Subject(s): Imperialism; Philippines; United States; America


BARBARA FRIETCHIE [SEPTEMBER 13, 1862], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the meadows rich with corn
Last Line: On thy stars below in frederick town!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Courage; Flags - United States; Frietschie, Barbara (1766-1862); Maryland; Patriotism; United States - History; United States; Valor; Bravery; American Flag; Fritchie, Barbara (1766-1862); America


BASILICA OF OUR LADY OF GOOD HEALTH, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They shaped you from tzintzingue paste, rich yellow corn
Last Line: The one shaped like a heart %I want a miracle for every part of my body
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC, by JULIA WARD HOWE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord
Last Line: While god is marching on.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Freedom; Patriotism; Religion; United States - History; United States; War; Liberty; Theology; America


BAY POEM, by LANCE HENSON                       
First Line: Where from the watch towers
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


BAYONNE ENTERING NYC, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Smog trucks mile after mile high wire
Subject(s): United States; America


BAYONNE TURNPIKE TO TUSCARORA, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grey water tanks in grey mist, / grey robot
Subject(s): United States; America


BEAUREGARD, by CATHERINE ANNE WARFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our trust is now in thee
Last Line: Beauregard!
Alternate Author Name(s): Warfield, Catherine M.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauregard, Pierre Gustave T. (1818-93); Confederate States Of America; Patriotism; Shiloh, Battle Of (1862); United States - History; Confederacy


BEAUREGARD'S APPEAL, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yea! Since the need is bitter
Last Line: The eucharist of prayer.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauregard, Pierre Gustave T. (1818-93); Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Confederacy


BECALMED, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: He scans the rich green valley, hills rounded
Last Line: Riding the perfect breath that pumps the sea
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


BEFORE SUNRISE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Iam lucis orto sidere
Last Line: The trinity his ships cut on the waves
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


BEGINNING OF A POEM OF THESE STATES, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the bluffs of oroville, blue cloud september
Subject(s): United States; America


BELLE ISLE, 1949, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We stripped in the first warm spring night
Subject(s): Americans; United States; America


BENEATH RED CLAY, by DORA SANDERS THOMPSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The death-moth hovered over kan-neh-tee
Last Line: And god -- in her heart.
Subject(s): Funerals; Native Americans; Burials; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


BETTY ZANE, by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Women are timid, cower and shrink
Last Line: Mingles the blood of betty zane.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Fort Henry, Battle Of (1777); Native Americans; Zane, Elizabeth; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


BIRTHDAY, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The jobs you cannot or will not keep
Last Line: That I will always be younger than you
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


BITTER SWEET, by MARIE TODD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Braided locks,' gaunt old cheyenne indian
Last Line: "into the skull and gloated, ""much good honey."
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


BIXBY CANYON, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Path crowded with thistle fern blue daisy
Subject(s): United States; America


BIXBY CANYON OCEAN PATH WORD BREEZE, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tiny orange-wing tipped butterfly
Last Line: So pipes pray to the avalanche
Subject(s): United States; America


BLACK EAGLE RETURNS TO ST. JOE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This way and that way measuring
Last Line: I was a swift runner whom they tripped.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


BOGOTA, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three at night %I drag this naked life along
Last Line: Stride toward yet another passage, step into the water and live
Subject(s): Boats; Fishing And Fishermen; Latin America - History; South America; Tourists; Travel


BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: A LITTLE FIRE, A WILD FIELD, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was a child, we could often see
Last Line: Like light diffused through air %as thick as water
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: FIRST NIGHT, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The world beyond the page is yellow, the day is blue
Last Line: Who will soon walk away from myself
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: FRIDAY: POOR TOM THAT EATS THE SWIMMING.., by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Boy children are all around you
Last Line: He is younger than the youngest child you know
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: MONDAY: FALSE OF HEART, LIGHT OF EAR, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lines we cast, dust that stings our eyes, hooks in
Last Line: Stop right where you are
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: NEXT DAY, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stale, the hard loaf of our day
Last Line: The days when stone could talk?
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: OCEAN, AFTERNOON, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sleep now in the parched sea of childhood
Last Line: But skin with no love of breaking
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: SATURDAY, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My heart grows scales
Last Line: I am dreaming %someone else's dream
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


BOOK OF DAYS AND NIGHTS: SECOND DAY, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A bird whistles. You could not call that singing
Last Line: And yellow green, in the dirty marketplace
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


BORN IN THE U.S.A., by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Born in 1937 in the usa
Subject(s): United States; Self; Patriotism; America


BOSTON HYMN; READ IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY 1, 1863, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The word of the lord by night
Last Line: His way home to the mark.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Freedom; Patriotism; Pilgrim Fathers; United States - History; United States; Antislavery Movement - United States; Liberty; America


BOSTON YEAR, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: My first week in cambridge a car full of white boys
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Alienation (social Psychology); Americans; Boston; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; United States; Estrangement; Outcasts; America


BOULEVARD OF HEROES, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The day you took me up there, they marched
Last Line: Fooling yourself. This is the safest life I know
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


BOUND CHILDREN, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You, little blank slate
Last Line: At play with forlorn pleasure
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


BRANCH OF FIRE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is the anarchy of stars, prophesied
Last Line: And make of this a miracle, a sign
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


BREAKING DOWN, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Monday is all perturbation. The pinta's
Last Line: They turn like gulls into the blackening sky
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


BREEZES, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: He breathes the elegant air, studies the clouds
Last Line: But the body of the air is beatriz
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


BRITANNIA TO COLUMBIA, by ALFRED AUSTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the voice I hear
Last Line: "stronger than death is strong."
Variant Title(s): England To America;a Voice From The West;to America
Subject(s): England; Friendship; United States; English; America


BRONCO BUSTING, EVENT #1, by MAY SWENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stall so tight he can't raise heels or knees
Subject(s): Americans; Sports; United States; America


BY AN INDIAN GRAVE, by MILDRED PLEW MEIGS MERRYMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sleep on, dead seminole - your bones are chalk
Last Line: And we two dream together, seminole.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meigs, Mildred Plew
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Native Americans; Dead, The; Nightmares; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


BY BLUE ONTARIO'S SHORE, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By blue ontario's shore, / as I mused of these warlike days & of peace return'd
Last Line: You by my charm I invoke.
Variant Title(s): As I Sat Alone By Blue Ontario's Shore
Subject(s): Democracy; Poetry & Poets; United States; America


BY THE RIVERSIDE, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I lived at a riverside
Last Line: Only to me. The numbers have not changed.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Telephone Directories; Women; Women's Rights; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Feminism


C.S.A., by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do we weep for the heroes who died for us
Last Line: Shall forever live over again for us.
Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Confederacy


CALIFORNIA, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The headland towers over ocean
Subject(s): Americans; United States; America


CALL ALL', by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whoop! The doodles have broken loose
Last Line: "mother and maiden, and child and slave, / a common triumph or a single grave"
Subject(s): American Civil War;confederate States Of America;u.s. - History; Confederacy


CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let politicians talk their fill
Last Line: That nations can as brothers love.
Subject(s): Canada; United States; Canadians; America


CANADIANS AND POTTAWATOMIES, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have seen a loneliness sit
Subject(s): Loneliness; Canada; Native Americans; Canadians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


CANOE SONG, by IDA STERNFELS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Straight as an arrow
Last Line: Weaving my burial blanket.
Subject(s): Canoes And Canoeing; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


CANTO 25; THE WAR CLOUD, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Five happy years have told their flight
Last Line: And all the coming storm await.
Subject(s): Heroism; Nations; Native Americans; Prophecy & Prophets; War; Heroes; Heroines; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


CANTO 27; WA-BE-NO-KA, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A night upon the battle field
Last Line: And freely sheds her grateful tears.
Subject(s): Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; Night; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Bedtime


CANTO 9; THE GREAT TURTLE, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When fierce beset with dire alarms
Last Line: A charnel house of human bones.
Subject(s): Hate; Islands; Mythology; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


CAPTIVITY, by LOUISE ERDRICH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stream was swift, and so cold
Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


CAR CRASH, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Snow-blizzard sowing
Subject(s): United States; America


CARTAGENA, by GARY SNYDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rain and thunder beat down and flooded the streets
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


CAT-TAILS, by KATHERINE TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Then thousand regal cat-tails stand
Last Line: Once held the drifting, desert sands at bay.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Prairies; South Dakota; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Plains


CELEBRATION: BIRTH OF A COLT, by LINDA HOGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When we reach the field
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Native Americans; Ranch Life; Women Writers; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


CEMETERY AUTUMN: 1, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: This september, lovebugs over east texas
Last Line: And another's reddish hair
Variant Title(s): Oak Grove Cemetery:
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


CEMETERY AUTUMN: 2, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even this late in the evening, nettie's crypt
Last Line: No small stone here to mark the story
Variant Title(s): Oak Grove Cemetery:
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


CEMETERY AUTUMN: 3, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: That autumn, twilight at the blake graves
Last Line: The one white angel looked away
Variant Title(s): Oak Grove Cemetery:
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


CEMETERY AUTUMN: 4, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A century-old tree dwarfs %mausoleum, angel, crypt
Last Line: It is not love, %but heat only heat
Variant Title(s): Oak Grove Cemetery:
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


CEMETERY AUTUMN: PRELUDE: THREE WIVES' SONNET, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wives did not survive. Over their graves
Last Line: But the wives did not survive
Variant Title(s): Oak Grove Cemetery: Prelude: Three Wives Sonne
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


CHAHINKAPA, by F. H. MCMAHON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Men of the sioux whose bodies are peacefully resting
Last Line: After the builder a home where his children abide.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


CHANT TO A WERE-BEAR, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "were-bear, why are you not in hell?"
Subject(s): Animals;bears;mythology - Native American;native Americans;superstition; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


CHARLES GRANER IS NOT AMERICA, by GEOFFREY BROCK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff
Subject(s): Graner, Charles A., Jr.; Torture; United States; America


CHICAGO TO SALT LAKE BY AIR, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If hanson baldwin got a bullet in his brain, outrage?
Subject(s): United States; America


CHIEF LESCHI OF THE NISQUALLY, by DUANE NIATUM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He awoke this morning fram a strange dream [or, uneasily from a dream]
Last Line: Little and speak less before he hangs.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


CHILD'S GEOGRAPHY, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: After we had language you
Last Line: Of memory where we float and cannot find %a place to land
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


CHILDREN'S CORNER, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The game is pretend. The dark cape of superman
Last Line: Starved by a happy childhood, our sad legacy
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


CHILDREN'S CRUSADE, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The parade begins its black paper circuit
Last Line: Taste of salt and sting your soft mouth
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


CHINOOK, by THELMA HILL WARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Moonlight shaking, low waves breaking
Last Line: Die a little death.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


CHRONICLE OF LIMA, by MAUREEN AHERN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here're recorded my birth and marriage
Last Line: Remember, hermelinda, remember me
Subject(s): Latin America - History; Peru


CIPANGO, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The horizon cuts its oar into the sky
Last Line: The moon is his mistress. He watches her rise
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


CIRCLES, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The white man drew a small circle in the sand
Subject(s): United States; America


CITIES: 7. NEW YORK, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A young amazon
Last Line: Or proud mother of new and mighty tomorrows.
Subject(s): New York City; Sea; United States; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Ocean; America


CITIZENSHIP FOR THE RED MAN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A mighty nation we have built
Last Line: Merge proudly in american!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Native Americans - History; United States; America


CITY OF ORGIES, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: City of orgies, walks and joys
Last Line: Lovers, continual lovers, only repay me.
Subject(s): Americans; United States; America


CLEVELAND, THE FLATS, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the flats, thru cleveland's
Subject(s): United States; America


COLOPHON, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The occident and the orient
Last Line: Dares climb the other?
Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Long Island (n.y.); United States; America


COLUMBIA'S BANNER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God helping me,' cried columbus, 'though fair or foul the breeze
Last Line: God bless you, youths and maidens, as you guard the stripes and stars!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Holidays; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; America


COLUMBIAN ODE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Four hundred years ago a tangled waste
Last Line: Now flutters in the breeze the stars and stripes!
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; America


COLUMBUS, by JOAQUIN CASTELLANOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: He strove against the winds and waves of fate
Last Line: The mystical america of heaven!
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailors And Sailing; Travel


COLUMBUS; 1492-1892, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Westward columbus steered, while, day by day
Last Line: His first te deum at san salvador.
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; America


COME UP FROM THE FIELDS FATHER, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come up from the fields father, here's a letter from our pete
Last Line: To follow, to seek, to be with her dear dead son.
Variant Title(s): A Letter From Camp
Subject(s): American Civil War; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; United States; War; Declaration Day; America


COMES THE INDIAN, by ETHEL ESTES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Comes the indian to his dancing
Last Line: Comes the indian to his dancing.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


COMMUTER, by ELWYN BROOKS WHITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Commuter - one who spends his life
Alternate Author Name(s): White, E. B.
Subject(s): Commuters; Railroads; United States; Railways; Trains; America


COMPASS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tonight the compass turns, all lozenges
Last Line: To music -- outside thought, outside time
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


COMPROMISE; INSCRIBED TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1861, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Compromise! Who dares to speak it
Last Line: We will never, never yield!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Government; U.s. - History; United States; Liberty; America


CONCORD HYMN; SUNG AT COMPLETION OF CONCORD MONUMENT, 1836, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By the rude bridge that arched the flood
Last Line: The shaft we raise to them and thee.
Variant Title(s): The Concord Fight;hymn: Sung At The Completion Of The Concord Mounument
Subject(s): American Revolution; Americans; Concord, Massachusetts; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Massachusetts; Monuments; Mourning; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Patriotism; Soldiers; United States; War; Independence Day; Liberty; Bereavement; America


CONDOR'S NEST, by OLEGARIO VICTOR ANDRADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the black shadow of the mountain-side
Last Line: As once from his lone peak amid the sky!
Subject(s): Argentina; Fights; South America; Victory


CONDORS' EYES, by ROBERTO BRENES MESEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A dream is into lily-water pouring
Last Line: For some new caesar bold, lord of our western world!
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Birds; Latin America - History; Wings


CONFEDERACY, by JANE T. H. CROSS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Born in a day, full-grown our nation stood
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History


CONFEDERATE GRAVES IN LITTLE ROCK, by RICHARD HUGO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far from these stones, in my country wind shouts
Last Line: Your car, whatever speed you drive
Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Little Rock, Arkansas


CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL, by MARGARET RABB    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flag-high over the stop light, brakes and exhaust
Last Line: Whose spirits and %whose souls are free
Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Memory


CONTINUATION OF A LONG POEM OF THESE STATES, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stage-lit streets / downtown frisco whizzing past, buildings
Subject(s): United States; America


CONTRARY WIND, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: They've had too much of ease, too much os scudding
Last Line: Of noblemen. He covets the trophy of stars
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


COUNTRY -- AND COUNTRY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O country, my country, whose pride is on high
Last Line: The child of dame nature, the daughter of god!
Subject(s): United States; America


CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face
Last Line: Great or small, you furnish your parts toward the soul.
Subject(s): Americans; Brooklyn, New York; Ferry Boats; United States; America


CROSSING NATION, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under silver wing
Last Line: My body? My neck? My personality?
Subject(s): United States; America


CULTURE AND THE UNIVERSE, by SIMON J. ORTIZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two nights ago
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


CUZCO, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wily monarch
Last Line: And the rest with her husband pluto
Subject(s): South America


CUZCO: 1. PARTHENOGENSIS BABY IN STONE, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the first hours of cuzco
Last Line: Of the hard world %in high altitude
Subject(s): South America


CUZCO: 2. ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A LOST LITTLE GIRL, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I climbed down the ladder to you on the beach
Last Line: The fog moving in with the setting sun
Subject(s): South America


CUZCO: 3. THE SOUL OF CUZCO IS A STONE, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out the window cuzco! Eleven thousand feet
Last Line: Mamakilla %wife of the sun and queen of the night
Subject(s): South America


CUZCO: 4. EL MACHISMO, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Descend the pink cobblestone street
Last Line: You %my green eyed girl
Subject(s): South America


CUZCO: 5. SAQSAYWAMAN, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Or perhaps it was %that the stone itself
Last Line: Satisfy the fool!
Subject(s): South America


CUZCO: 6. JESUS VIRAQOCHA TEMBLORESMAN MI JESUS PRESENTE, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Viraqocha, lord of the universe %whether male or female
Last Line: And that the rain of stones %is but a handful of sweets
Subject(s): South America


CUZCO: 7. PARHENON IN STONE, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Queen of the cuzco virgins %is the virgin of bethlehem
Last Line: Are there any good men, mom?
Subject(s): South America


CUZCO: 8. SOUTH AMERICAN MI HIJA, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walls within walls friday night when I walk
Last Line: Nature outside him %his mother %inside him
Subject(s): South America


CUZCO: 9. MAMAPACHA THE LOVING MOTHER OF MEN, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Inside the crooked window, the thick adobe walls
Last Line: Eros can't move %between them
Subject(s): South America


D.C., by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bad breed of the natives with their hates
Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Georgia (state); Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); Confederacy


D.C., by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The bad breed of the natives with their hates
Last Line: The ways of lee, who, having lost the slaves, died farther south, a general in the wrong
Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Georgia (state); Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870)


DAWN IN NEW YORK, by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dawn! The dawn! The crimson-tinted, comes
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): Americans; United States; America


DEAD CONQUERORS, by ANTONIO CISNEROS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They came by water
Last Line: Few survived their horses
Subject(s): Death; Latin America - History; Peru


DEATH OF LINCOLN DESPOTISM, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas out upon mid-ocean that the san jacinto
Last Line: And hold them till abe lincoln and all his northern scum / shall own our independence of 'yankee-doo
Subject(s): "american Civil War;confederate States Of America;mason, James Murry (1798-1871);slidell, John (1793-1871);u.s. - History;" Confederacy


DEATH ON ALL FRONTS, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A new moon looks down on our sick sweet planet
Subject(s): United States; America


DEDICATED TO A YOUNG LADY REPRESENTING THE INDIAN RACE AT HOWARD UNIV, by ALFRED ISLAY WALDEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While sitting in my room kind miss
Last Line: As here have ever been.
Subject(s): Howard University; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


DEERFIELD: 1703, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the break of day the minister was awakened
Subject(s): Deerfield, Massachusetts; Native Americans; Massacres; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


DESPISALS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the human cities, never again to
Subject(s): Americans; United States; America


DINOSAURIA, WE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Born like this
Subject(s): United States; America


DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST OF AMERICA, by JAMES MONTGOMERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Then first columbus, with the mighty hand
Last Line: His gold and he were every nation's prey.
Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Gold; Greed; Avarice; Cupidity


DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 1. THE PATH TO THE MEADOW, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We walk through the shadow
Last Line: We will not come here again
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 10. THE UNDATED DREAM, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am drifting down from a blue, blue sky
Last Line: And nothing will rouse me %from such calm water
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 2. CONFESSION, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Listen, doctor, I tell you
Last Line: Foreign eyes that might have %held him here
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 3. THE CHILD'S BODY DREAM, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You said look, but I would not look
Last Line: And it is flesh %you no longer have to own
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 4. AIR, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There were the heirlooms %to consider
Last Line: A faint whisper when I stepped %from the train in vienna
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 5. THREE DRESSES DREAM, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the closet, there are three
Last Line: Rustles in its muslin bag
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 6. DANCES DREAM, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: She ties the corsage to her wrist
Last Line: Of the vague colors of august
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 7. THE STORY OF MARRIAGE, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: If you marry me, though it's you
Last Line: It is not a matter of choice
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 8. MERMAID DREAM, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We followed her %her white lace dress
Last Line: Her fins a scratch %across my forehead
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


DISTURBANCE IN MEMORY: 9. MEMORY, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: If he had been good to me
Last Line: And then I would be free, %free and light as air
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


DIXIE, by ALBERT PIKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Southrons, hear your country call you!
Last Line: And conquer peace for dixie!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; United States - History; Confederacy


DO NOT SPEAK KERESAN TO A MESCALERO APACHE, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not speak
Last Line: Is unmarked.
Subject(s): Apache Indians; Conversation; Native Americans; Poetry & Poets; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


DOLLARES; OUR LADY OF THE WHEAT-CORNER (AFTER A.C.S.), by PHILIP GUEDALLA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The heavy white shafts and the golden
Last Line: Our lady of gain.
Subject(s): Materialism; Oxford University; Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909); United States; America


DOMESDAY BOOK: THE JURY DELIBERATES, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The jurymen are seated here and there
Last Line: Your names, and I'll return it to the clerk.
Subject(s): Death; Justice; Life; United States; Dead, The; America


DONA BEATRIZ, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hand that greets his is gloved in fawn
Last Line: He has left in her pillow will smell of waves
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


DONE, FINISHED WITH THE BIGGEST COCK, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Done, finished, with the biggest cock you ever saw
Subject(s): United States; America


DOOR OF THE DEVIL, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: At puerto del diablo, the boys
Last Line: The white streets of the city
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


DOUBLE RECKONING, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Truth is a wall. He builds in it a window
Last Line: They could remember the light of the farthest stars
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


DOUBTFUL STRAIT, by ERNESTO CARDENAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The country is beautiful
Last Line: Into the water
Subject(s): Latin America - History


DREAM OF AMERICA, by TROY GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here where the squalling cornets
Last Line: That you might have filled.
Subject(s): United States; America


DRIFTED OUT TO SEA, by ROSE HARTWICK THORPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two little ones, grown tired of play
Last Line: "my god is good, they are my own!"
Subject(s): United States; America


DRIVING IN OKLAHOMA, by CARTER REVARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On humming rubber along this white concrete
Alternate Author Name(s): Nompewathe
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Depressions, Economic; Native Americans; Oklahoma; Osage Indians; Recessions; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


DUST-BOWL, by RUTH E. ROBINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Indian / watch white-man chop trees
Last Line: Now earth go like smoke.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


EARLY AMERICAN, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From brazil to miami to a roadside motel to a super billboard
Last Line: The pale hands of our brothers upon us
Subject(s): Billboards; Native Americans; Popular Culture - United States; United States; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; America


EAST TO WEST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunset smiles on sunrise: east and west are one
Last Line: Die.
Subject(s): England; Evening; Praise; Sea; United States; English; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean; America


EASTER SUNDAY, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Slope woods' snows melt
Subject(s): United States; America


ECOLOGUE, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a thousand years, if there's history
Subject(s): United States; America


EL SALVADOR DEL MUNDO, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's full moon here. Saturn and jupiter
Last Line: Easing its way into the stone hand of god
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


EL VAQUERO, by LUCIUS HARWOOD FOOTE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tinged with the blood of aztec lands
Last Line: Greek of the greeks he must remain.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


ELEGIAC SONNET: 56. CAPTIVE ESCAPED IN WILDS OF AMERICA, by CHARLOTTE SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If, by his torturing, savage foes untraced
Last Line: As I, my harriet, bless thy friendship's cheering light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): O'neill, Henrietta (1758-1793); United States; America


ELEGY CHE GUEVARA, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: European trib, boy's face photo'd eyes opened
Subject(s): United States; America


ELEGY FOR NEAL CASSADY, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ok neal / aethereal spirit
Subject(s): Cassady, Neal (1926-1968); United States; America


ELEGY ON JEFFERSON DAVIS, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No more the white refulgent streets
Last Line: Orestes fled in night and day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Consolation; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); U.s. - History; Confederacy


ELEGY TO THE SIOUX, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The vase was made of clay
Last Line: Out of the sky into montana...
Subject(s): Birth; Genocide; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Native Americans; Small Pox; Child Birth; Midwifery; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


ELEPHANT ROCK, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We take place in what we believe
Last Line: Jesus saves
Subject(s): Slavery; Social Problems; United States; Serfs; America


EMPTY WORDS, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He describes eagle feathers with his hands
Last Line: Empty hands, and words, empty words.
Subject(s): Conversation; Deafness; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


ENGLAND AND AMERICA, 1863, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We only know that in the sultry weather
Last Line: Of wildering passions and the crash of foes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): England; United States; English; America


ENGLAND TO AMERICA, by WILLIAM JAMES LINTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A hundred years! / too long for memory of the justest feud!
Last Line: And all we have done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Spartacus
Subject(s): England; United States; English; America


EPILOGUE: THE DAWN, AMOR AMERRIQUE: 1. PSYCHE, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Psyche at earth's core
Last Line: On her butterfly wings
Subject(s): South America


EPILOGUE: THE DAWN, AMOR AMERRIQUE: 2. THE DEATH WISH, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I touch the stone and see %every human being
Last Line: Our sickness
Subject(s): South America


EPILOGUE: THE DAWN, AMOR AMERRIQUE: 3. MOTHER, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I touch the stone, the powerful proportion
Last Line: They will turn %the sun from earth
Subject(s): South America


EPILOGUE: THE DAWN, AMOR AMERRIQUE: 4. GENDER: A. MALE, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who comes to recognize himself as 'other'
Last Line: When he destroys the earth
Subject(s): South America


EPILOGUE: THE DAWN, AMOR AMERRIQUE: 4. GENDER: B. FEMALE, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: You will know yourself female
Last Line: Your daughter spoils
Subject(s): South America


EPILOGUE: THE DAWN, AMOR AMERRIQUE: 5. FATHER, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I touch the stone and know %myself
Last Line: His oldest %adversary
Subject(s): South America


EPILOGUE: THE DAWN, AMOR AMERRIQUE: 6. THE RETURN OF GODDESS, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I touch the stone and see %the son
Last Line: That love may rise
Subject(s): South America


EPILOGUE: THE DAWN, AMOR AMERRIQUE: 7. HIJA, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I touch the stone %the world breaks open
Last Line: Chaimita tapukui
Subject(s): South America


EPILOGUE: THE DAWN, AMOR AMERRIQUE: 7. HIJO, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I touch the stone and know %the laws work only
Last Line: The world break open
Subject(s): South America


ETHNOGENESIS, by HENRY TIMROD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hath not the morning dawned with added light?
Last Line: Strange tropic warmth and hints of summer seas.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Southern States; United States - History; Confederacy; South (u.s.)


EVEN FORSAKEN THEY'D FLOWER, by RAUL ZURITA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Forsaken they would not see the prairies but only a cry
Last Line: Themselves with joy singing even forsaken they'd flower
Subject(s): Abandonment; Chile; Fields; South America


EVENING ON A VILLAGE STREET, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun flings lengthening shadows through the trees
Last Line: The sum of streets like this—america!
Subject(s): United States; Villages; America


EVERY TRAVELER HAS ONE VERMONT POEM, by AUDRE LORDE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Spikes of lavender aster under route 91
Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba
Subject(s): Americans; United States; America


EXILE! EXILE!, by EAVAN BOLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All night the room breathes out its grief
Subject(s): Ireland; United States; Irish; America


EXTRACTS FROM NEW-YEAR'S VERSES FOR 1825, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love the 'universal yankee nation'
Last Line: And boast of such a sight in after years.
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; United States; America


FABLIAU OF FLORIDA, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Barque of phosphor
Subject(s): Americans; Florida; United States; America


FACING IT, by YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA    Poem Text     Poem Explanation             Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: My black face fades
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, James Willie, Jr.
Subject(s): African Americans; Americans; Kent State University - Riot, 1970; United States; War; Negroes; American Blacks; America


FALLING ASLEEP IN AMERICA, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: We're in the great place, fable place, beulah, man wedded
Subject(s): United States; America


FALSE LANDFALL, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rigging is full of sailors, ladders lost
Last Line: Dark and rugged and windswept, holding on
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


FAMILY REUNION, by LOUISE ERDRICH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ray's third new car in half as many years
Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


FAREWELL TO THE OLD YEAR, 1863, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell, old year 'the bourne' is near
Last Line: To give new year good morrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Civil War; Grief; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Time; United States; War; Sorrow; Sadness; America


FARTHER VIEW, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA    Poem Text                    
First Line: The united states of the world-our goal!
Last Line: Good-will-land lies, I know
Subject(s): Nations; Pacifism; Peace; United States; Peace Movements; America


FATHER MERCY, MOTHER TONGUE, by LINDA GREGERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If the english language was good enough for jesus
Subject(s): Language; United States; Words; Vocabulary; America


FISH PEDDLER AND COBBLER, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Always for thirty years now
Last Line: Savage eyed whores paraded the streets
Subject(s): Change; Past; Progress; Social Protest; United States; America


FIXING THE RUDDER, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fresh-hewn timber, how these boards arch
Last Line: Nothing. And when it falls, it turns the world
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


FLASH BACK, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a car grey smoke over elmira
Subject(s): United States; America


FLIGHT OF BIRDS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: In nature there is always the exception
Last Line: Destiny, the roseate stain of wings
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


FLOOD, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: We drive the car into the next morning
Last Line: On its line, a place of motion, nothing more
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


FLORIDA, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The state with the prettiest name
Subject(s): Americans; United States; America


FLYING FISH, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gunshot, a flock of fish spills up from the sea
Last Line: Than any ship, more plentiful and higher
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


FOG ON KENNESAW, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We pitch our tent on kennesaw mountain
Last Line: Maneuvering on kennesaw.
Subject(s): Camping; Confederate States Of America; Fog; Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia; Camps; Summer Camps; Confederacy; Haze


FOOT-PRINTS, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shadows of lilac echo the form
Last Line: Unchanging, changing—you remain.
Subject(s): Footprints; Native Americans; Shadows; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


FOR ANY UNBORN NEGRO, by FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brush / his lips lightly, life!
Last Line: But death
Subject(s): Africna Americans; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; America


FOUR MATRICES: 2. COUNTING ARIZONA, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Amphora in rocks. Kachina of fur and rust. The land
Last Line: Mexico and peopless. And too much sun. I want to go home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Native Americans; Nature; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY: 5. EMPIRE BUILDERS, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the making of america in five panels
Last Line: When the land lay waiting for her westward people
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Variant Title(s): Empire Builders
Subject(s): Capitalism; United States; America


FRESH AIR, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the poem society a black-haired man stands up to say
Subject(s): Air; Dadaism; Poetry & Poets; Poetry Readings; Poetry Society Of America


FRESH AIR, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the poem society a black-haired man stands up to say
Last Line: O green, beneath which all of them shall drown!
Subject(s): Air; Dadaism; Poetry And Poets; Poetry Readings; Poetry Society Of America


FRIGATE BIRD, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: How does a bird explain the sorrow of
Last Line: As blameless as a sould without belief
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


FROM A TRAIN WINDOW, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Precious in the light of the early sun the housatonic
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Americans; Railroads; United States; Railways; Trains; America


FUNERAL OF MAZEEN; THE LAST OF THE ... MOHEGAN NATION, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mid the trodden turf is an open grave
Last Line: And plead for your pale-brow'd brother's guilt.
Subject(s): Funerals; Hope; Native Americans; Sin; Soul; Burials; Optimism; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


FUSION, by SUSAN HELENE CASE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ulam in america
Last Line: The chestnut trees of lvov
Subject(s): Homesickness; Lvov, Poland; Mathematics; Poles In America; Teaching And Teachers


G.S. READING POESY AT PRINCETON, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gold beard combd down like chinese fire - gold hair braid
Subject(s): Princeton University; Snyder, Gary (b. 1930); United States; America


GATE A-4, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wandering around the albuquerque airport terminal, after learning
Subject(s): Air Travel; Arabic Language; United States; America


GHOSTS AT KE SON, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the bullets
Last Line: The faces, the faces of the strangers are the same
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


GIRL, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A girl is watching. The men in boots come
Last Line: Becomes less salty. All of her tears are returned
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


GLYPHS, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: & the code / public record stopped midsentence
Subject(s): Language; Native Americans; Poetry & Poets; Tongues; Words; Vocabulary; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


GOD SAVE OUR PRESIDENT, by FRANCIS DE HAES JANVIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All hail! Unfurl the stripes and stars!
Last Line: God save our president!
Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Patriotism; Presidents, United States; United States; America


GOING TO CHICAGO, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: 22,000 feet over hazed square vegetable planet floor
Last Line: By man poet's eyes astounded in the fire haze, / carbon gas aghast
Subject(s): United States; Air Travel; America


GOMERA, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: In caves, deep in the breathing mountain's side
Last Line: In birdsong -- come home! Come home
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


GOMEZ TO BLANCO, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Can honor for gold be bartered? Are treason and truth at one?
Last Line: God bless her dauntless heroes! That day we soon shall see.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Cuba - Rebellions Against Spanish Rule; Freedom; South America; Wealth; Liberty; Riches; Fortunes


GOOD MORNING AMERICA: 15, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In god we trust; it so written
Subject(s): United States; God; America


GOOD MORNING AMERICA: 16, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The silent litany of the workmen go on -
Subject(s): United States; Labor & Laborers; America; Work; Workers


GOOD TIMES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My daddy has paid the rent
Subject(s): Family Life; African Americans; Family Life; United States; Relatives; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives; America


GOOD TIMES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My daddy has paid the rent
Subject(s): African Americans; Family Life; United States; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives; America


GRACE, by JOY HARJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think of wind and her wild ways the year we had nothing to lose and lost it anyway
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


GRAFFITI 12TH CUBICLE MEN'S ROOM SYRACUSE AIRPORT, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am married and would like to fuck someone else
Subject(s): United States; America


GRAND HOTEL, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In those days everything was forbidden
Last Line: Fearful only of the wild cries of ravens?
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


GRAND RAPIDS, by JULIA A. MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wild roved the indians once
Last Line: Is the city of grand rapids.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


GRANT PARK: AUGUST 28, 1968, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Green air, children sat under trees with the old
Subject(s): United States; America


GREAT IS DIANA OF THE MANNAHATTOES!, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Northward! Northward! Goddess of the tower
Last Line: The smoke of sacrifice!
Subject(s): Hudson River; Native Americans; New York City; Ships & Shipping; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


GREAT, STRONG, FREE, AND TRUE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great, my country, great in gold
Last Line: Ever true to god and man.
Subject(s): United States; World War I; America; First World War


GUANAHANI, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: White laurel. White parrots. The lanterns
Last Line: They paint their faces red. They will bathe in dust
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


GURU OM, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: October 4, 1970 / car wheels roar over freeway concrete
Last Line: I am leaving the world, I will close my eyes and rest my tongue & hand
Subject(s): United States; America


HAIL COLUMBIA, by JOSEPH HOPKINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail, columbia! Happy land!
Last Line: Peace and safety we shall find.
Subject(s): Navy - United States; Patriotism; United States; American Navy; America


HAIL YE AMERICA, by ELSIE TAYLOR DUTRIEUILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Found ye a nation to stand without halter
Last Line: Hail ye america, this be your home!
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Trieuille, Elsie Taylor
Subject(s): United States; America


HANDS OF TAINO: 1. ADMIRAL, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Laid out on vellum, the past
Last Line: God and the crown. Both want too much
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


HANDS OF THE TAINO: 2. GOVERNOR, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: At guanahani, they swam to the caravel
Last Line: They have the faces of christian angels
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


HARLEM, MONTANA: JUST OFF THE RESERVATION, by JAMES WELCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We need no runners here. Booze is law
Last Line: Help us, oh god, we're rich.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MOVIE?', by ALLEN GINSBERG            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old maple hairytrunks root asphalt grass marge, november
Subject(s): United States; America


HEART, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I found your letter after a long month
Last Line: Runs on hunger, a solid muscle %over its four empty, fragile chambers
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


HEIGHTS OF MACCHI PICCHU: 1. ALTURAS DE MACCHU PICCHU, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Then up the ladder of earth I climbed
Last Line: Rise up %to birth with me %my daughter
Subject(s): South America


HEIGHTS OF MACCHI PICCHU: 1. VALLE SAGRADO DE LA INKAS, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ahead out the window the local train
Last Line: We leave our ghost in a long snake of train smoke
Subject(s): South America


HEIGHTS OF MACCHI PICCHU: 10. 72 DEGREES WEST 13 SOUTH, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Awake. Far cry of the quena. Yaravi
Last Line: Kingdom with love %thrown in, for her
Subject(s): South America


HEIGHTS OF MACCHI PICCHU: 11. WHY DID THEU LEAVE?, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm rising %from the basin of the sea
Last Line: My pack on my back, and flee %into the unknown
Subject(s): South America


HEIGHTS OF MACCHI PICCHU: 3. THE VIRGIN, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Inside a high round room
Last Line: Life of death %on this planet
Subject(s): South America


HEIGHTS OF MACCHI PICCHU: 4. CERES AND KORE, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ten minutes to noon
Last Line: Hide in her feathers
Subject(s): South America


HEIGHTS OF MACCHI PICCHU: 5. PHOTOGRAPH OF THE VIRGINS, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: As the present is a woman in orgasm
Last Line: Isthmus of darien %central to america
Subject(s): South America


HEIGHTS OF MACCHI PICCHU: 6. LYSISTRATA AMERRIQUE, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now to tread the dance
Last Line: How the world ends %in the coffin %of gender
Subject(s): South America


HEIGHTS OF MACCHI PICCHU: 7. WOMEN RAISED CHILDREN, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is it only at the end of the world
Last Line: In search of its father
Subject(s): South America


HEIGHTS OF MACCHI PICCHU: 8. ELECTRA AMERRIQUE, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Up here men's feet found rest at night
Last Line: To make the world a blank
Subject(s): South America


HEIGHTS OF MACCHI PICCHU: 9. IPHIGENIA AMERRIQUE, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: He is so close, the smell of granite
Last Line: My question %his answer
Subject(s): South America


HEIGHTS OF MACCHU PICCHU, by ALFONSINA BARRIONUEVO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The conqueror's eyes lit on the lovely girl
Last Line: In machupiqchu, %the secret city %concealed for centuries
Subject(s): South America


HEIGHTS OF MACCHU PICCHU: 10, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stone upon stone, and man, where was he?
Last Line: Of your bitter gut, like an eagle, hunger?
Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo
Subject(s): History; Hunger; Mountain Climbing; South America; Stones


HENRY HUDSON'S QUEST [1609], by BURTON EGBERT STEVENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out from the harbour of amsterdam
Last Line: "good time,"" quoth he."
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Hudson, Henry (1550-1611)


HERITAGE, by LINDA HOGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From my mother, the antique mirror
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indian


HEROES OF THE SOUTH, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Four deadly years we fought
Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Holidays; Memorial Day


HEROIC MAMBISA, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Are you real?
Last Line: I'll be more you. %I'll be more me. %I'll be more cuba. %in silence, %so you can understand me
Subject(s): Cuba; Fate; Heroism; Latin America - History


HIGH SEAS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: And the sea rose and the sky became a wall
Last Line: Stands firm, his legs apart. He is the wave
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


HISTORY OF PERU, by WASHINGTON DELGADO    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's no past
Last Line: That say nothing
Subject(s): Latin America - History; Peru


HIWAY POESY L.A. TO WICHITA, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up up and away! / we're off, thru america
Subject(s): Baltimore, Maryland; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); America


HOME THOUGHTS FROM EUROPE, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis fine to see the old world, and travel up and down
Last Line: Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Variant Title(s): America For Me'
Subject(s): Patriotism; Religion; United States; Theology; America


HORN OF PLENTY, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bright in america's deep chests there lies
Last Line: Through her own emeralds she gazed on them
Subject(s): Peru; South America; Wealth


HOSPITALITY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lay low yon impious trappings on the ground
Last Line: And deems of other bosoms by her own.
Subject(s): Hospitality; Native Americans; Nature - Religious Aspects; Pioneers; U.s. - Colonial Period; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


HOT AFTERNOONS HAVE BEEN IN MONTANA, by ELI SIEGEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Quiet and green was the grass of the field
Last Line: Giving world.
Subject(s): Montana; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


HOW LONG!, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How long, and yet how long
Last Line: Resound unto a yet unheard-of strain.
Subject(s): United States; America


HOW TO WRITE THE GREAT AMERICAN INDIAN NOVEL, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All of the indians must have tragic features: tragic noses, eyes, and arms.
Last Line: All of the white people will be indians and all of the indians will be ghosts
Subject(s): Native Americans; Novels & Novelists; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


HUM BOM!, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whom bomb? / we bomb them!
Subject(s): Nuclear War; United States; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; America


HUNGER, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: What could I say to you that day
Last Line: As the plane banks the white-clouds over lake michigan
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


HYMN FOR AMERICA, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where's the man, in all the earth
Last Line: Till each foe be friend.
Subject(s): United States; America


I GIVE MY SOLDIER BOY A BLADE!, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: "remember by these heartfelt strains, / I give my soldier boy the blade!"
Subject(s): American Civil War;confederate States Of America;patriotism;u.s. - History;women; Confederacy


I HEAR AMERICA SINGING, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear america singing, the varied carols I hear
Last Line: Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.
Subject(s): Americans; Labor & Laborers; Patriotism; Singing & Singers; United States; Work; Workers; Songs; America


I SIT AND SEW, by ALICE RUTH MOORE DUNBAR-NELSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sit and sew - a useless task it seems
Last Line: It stifles me -- god, must I sit and sew?
Alternate Author Name(s): Nelson, Alice Dunbar (moore)
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Americans; Sewing; United States; War; America


I THINK OVER AGAIN MY SMALL ADVENTURES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: And the light that fills the world
Subject(s): Eskimos;native Americans; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


I, TOO, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I, too, sing america. / I am the darker brother
Last Line: I, too, am america.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Variant Title(s): Epilogue;i, Too, Sing America
Subject(s): African Americans; United States; Negroes; American Blacks; America


ILLINOIS FARMER, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bury this old illinois farmer with respect
Last Line: Dream of illinois corn.
Subject(s): Farm Life; United States; Agriculture; Farmers; America


IMAGINARY UNIVERSES, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under orders to shoot the spy, I discharged
Subject(s): United States; America


IMAGINING THE INDIES, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: All things in the indies overflow
Last Line: And all the dust that sifts through stones is gold
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


IMPERFECT TIMES, by WASHINGTON DELGADO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Peru was a chimera
Last Line: What will it be?
Subject(s): Latin America - History; Peru; South America


IN A STRANGE LAND, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far hence a lonely exile strayed
Last Line: He'd no nostalgia now.
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Magazines; Nostalgia; Travel; United States; Journeys; Trips; America


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 HONOUR OF AMERICA, 1917; ANTITHESIS TO ROSSETTI'S 'REFUSAL OF AID', by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not that the earth is changing, o my god! / not that her brave demoracies
Last Line: Our earth holds confident, steadfast, being young.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): United States; America


IN PRAISE OF NECESSITY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nostalgia of old men
Last Line: That makes dead meat of the years
Subject(s): Genocide; Native Americans; Progress; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


IN THE LONGHOUSE, ONEIDA MUSEUM, by ROBERTA HILL WHITEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Houses of five fires, you never raised me
Last Line: Without oil, hasp or uranium.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hill, Roberta
Subject(s): Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; Native Americans - History; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIAN GIRL'S BURIAL, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A voice upon the prairies
Last Line: As here they mourn for thee.
Subject(s): Funerals; Native Americans; Tuberculosis; Burials; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Consumption (pathology)


INDIAN GIVER, by JOSEPHINE WINSLOW JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Life, you have taken all you ever gave me
Last Line: You cannot take away your gift of death!
Subject(s): Death; Life; Native Americans; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIAN LOVE SONG, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Speak low to me, my love, speak low
Last Line: Let them not hear! Speak low, my sweet!
Subject(s): Love; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIAN LULLABY, by CLAUDE BRYAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sleep, my little papoose, sleep on
Last Line: Should be thy lullaby.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIAN LULLABY, by CHARLES MYALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rock-a-by, hush-a-by, little papoose
Last Line: Till time when the morning light gleams.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIAN MOUND, by IDA LITTLE HALE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beside the road a crumbling old shell mound
Last Line: The mound serenely dreams while years go by.
Subject(s): Graves; Native Americans; Tombs; Tombstones; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIAN NAMES, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye say they all have passed away - that noble race
Last Line: Though ye destroy their dust.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIAN REQUIEM, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A song of their own they were singing
Last Line: Alas, that their wild song is done.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIAN RUG WEAVER, by HORTENSE SMITH MACDOUGALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Weaving, weaving the long hours away
Last Line: Weaving, weaving!
Subject(s): Native Americans; Weavers And Weaving; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIAN SLEEP-SONG, by LEW SARETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Zhoo ... Zhoo, zhoo
Last Line: Sleep softly till dawn.
Subject(s): Animals; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIAN SONG, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shadowy-petalled, like the lotus, loom the
Last Line: Where in worlds of lovely silence fade in one the starry race.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Brahma; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIAN SUMMER, by ROLLIN L. SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Great white father! Won't you listen?
Last Line: Save us from the setting sun?
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIAN WOMAN'S DEATH-SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Down a broad river of the western wilds
Last Line: "one moment, and that realm is ours. On, on, dark rolling stream!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Drowning; Native Americans; Women; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIANS, by NANETTE NICHOLS COBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hear the beating of the tom - tom
Last Line: Death does not restrict their bounds.
Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIANS, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They wear the squash-flower cut in silver
Last Line: The rainbow to the soul.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIANS (DEERFIELD MEMORIAL HALL), by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Dulcimer, play me a little tune
Last Line: Praise be for the story's end!
Subject(s): Deerfield, Massachusetts; Massacres; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INDIANS SELL THINGS ALONG OUR STREETS, by EVELYN MABEL WATSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Watercress from a wind-blown mountain fall
Last Line: With wind-flowers in my exquisite bouquet. . . .
Subject(s): Flowers; Mountains; Native Americans; Salespersons; Streets; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Selling; Avenues


INITIAL CONDITIONS, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The way the sun will slant
Last Line: As you breathe, let your chest sag to feel bone
Subject(s): Books; History; Restaurants; United States; Washington (state); Reading; Historians; Cafes; Diners; America


INNER HISTORY (APRIL 19, 1775), by LENA HALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know a mother wise as solomon
Last Line: And wise heart linked to heart, we understand.
Subject(s): Colonialism; Great Britain; Revolutions; United States; America


INSCRIPTION, FOR BAS-RELIEF BY PRESTON POWERS, DENVER PARK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The eagle, stooping from yon snow-blown peaks
Last Line: Their graven semblance in the eternal stone.
Subject(s): Bison; Native Americans; Statues; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


INSPIRATION, by MARIO RAUL DE MORAIS DE ANDRADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where even at the height of summer
Last Line: Gallicism crying in the wilderness of america!
Subject(s): Sao Paulo, Brazil; South America; Travel


INVITATION TO MISS MARIANNE MOORE, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From brooklyn, over the brooklyn bridge, on this fine morning
Subject(s): Americans; Moore, Marianne (1887-1972); United States; America


INVOCATION, by WENDELL PHILLIPS STAFFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou whose equal purpose runs
Last Line: Be lightning for the land we love!
Variant Title(s): The Land We Love
Subject(s): United States; America


INVOCATION TO THE SOCIAL MUSE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Se??Ora, it is true the greeks are dead
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): United States; Social Classes; Poetry & Poets; America; Caste


IOWAY TO IOWA, by MAY M. HUNT    Poem Text                    
First Line: From his primal home in the woodland
Last Line: For their chief so brave and true.
Subject(s): Iowa; Names; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


ISABELA, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dusk balances upon the mountain
Last Line: The fruit. %their kisses withered in the sun
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


ISLAND OF LOST LUGGAGE, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: What breeze whispers when you step onto
Last Line: Pick up your suitcase and go
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


JASON LEE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A cry from the gloom of the western wilds!
Last Line: The stalwart jason lee.
Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; Pioneers; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); West (u.s.); Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Native Americans - Removal; Southwest; Pacific States


JEFFERSON D., by HENRY SYLVESTER CORNWELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: You're a traitor convicted, you know very well
Last Line: Jefferson d.!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); United States - History; Confederacy


JEFFERSON DAVIS, by WALKER MERIWETHER BELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Calm martyr of a noble cause
Last Line: A relic and a shrine!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); United States - History; Confederacy


JEFFERSON DAVIS, by HARRY THURSTON PECK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And now he slinks through dark oblivion's gate
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); U.s. - History


JOHN SMITH'S APPROACH TO JAMESTOWN [MAY 13, 1607], by JAMES BARRON HOPE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I pause not to speak of raleigh's dreams
Last Line: And breathed her fragrance on the lofty pines.
Subject(s): America - Exploration; George, Saint (3rd Century); Jamestown, Virginia; Smith, John (1580-1631)


JOHNNY APPLESEED; A BALLAD OF THE OLD NORTHWEST, by WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A midnight cry appalls the gloom
Last Line: In god's grand greenwood chapel.
Subject(s): Appleseed, Johnny; Chapman, John (1774-1845); Middle West; Native Americans; Patriotism; Pioneers; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


JULOT THE APACHE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You've heard of julot the apache, and gigolette, him mome
Last Line: "say! -- it's the first communion of that little girl of mine."
Subject(s): Apache Indians; Native Americans; Paris, France; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The continent's a tamed ox, with all its mountains,
Last Line: How it would have feared us
Subject(s): Sea; United States; Ocean; America


KANSAS CITY TO SAINT LOUIS, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Leaving k.C. Mo. Past independence past liberty
Subject(s): United States; America


KILL, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: He thinks that he despises violence: war
Last Line: The sea is a fresh grave covered with bouquets
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


KISS ASS, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kissass is the part of peace
Subject(s): United States; America


KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I always like summer / best
Last Line: And sleep
Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki
Subject(s): African Americans; Americans; Appalachia; Family Life; Knoxville, Tennessee; Summer; United States; Women; Negroes; American Blacks; Relatives; America


LAKE SARATOGA; AN INDIAN LEGEND, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A lady stands beside the silver lake
Last Line: "the pale-faced woman cannot hold her tongue!"
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


LAMENT FOR THE DORSETS, by ALFRED WELLINGTON PURDY    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Animal bones and some mossy tent rings
Alternate Author Name(s): Purdy, Al
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


LANDFALL, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flotsam of branches; flotsam of wildest rose
Last Line: The sands are rolling; the waves raping the land
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Landfall


LANDSCAPE WITH BARNS, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The barns like scarlet lungs are breathing in
Subject(s): United States; America


LANGUAGE LESSON 1976, by HEATHER MCHUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When americans say a man
Subject(s): Americans; Language; Play; United States; Words; Vocabulary; America


LARANOWA, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Laranowa of the mohawks, lovely iroquois
Last Line: Laranowa of the mohawks, lovely iroquois!
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


LEAN YEAR, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the west room of an old house
Last Line: I think your life will always matter
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


LEARNING TO READ, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Very soon the yankee teachers / came down and set up school
Last Line: As the queen upon her throne.
Subject(s): African Americans - Children; Americans; Bible; Schools; Slavery; Southern States; United States; Students; Serfs; South (u.s.); America


LEAVE, O LEAVE THEM WHERE THEY FELL, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From their far hesperides
Last Line: Leave, o leave them where they fell!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): France; Soldiers; United States; War; America


LEAVING THE OLD GODS, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The people who watch me hang my coat
Last Line: I can't understand your words
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Central America; Dissenters; Exiles; Marginality, Social; Nature


LED AND RULED?, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: English led and english ruled'!
Last Line: That herald peace, outshining mars!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): England; Leadership; United States; English; America


LEIT-MOTIF: OH GREAT CITY OF LIMA, by MIRKO LAUER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everything's interrelated: the weak
Last Line: There lie the true predictions
Subject(s): Bourgeoisie; Latin America - History; Peru; War


LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 1. THE MAGIC GLASS, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas fair and bright the first of may
Last Line: When fate shall weave thy destiny.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The


LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 10. NORTHERN CHIEF, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Cold winter laid him down to rest
Last Line: "I'll even say farewell to-night."
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The


LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 16. THE MAIDEN'S PRAYER, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was a beauteous, heavenly night
Last Line: When walter draws to win lenare.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The


LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 17. THE RESCUE, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: At midnight's holy hour - a time
Last Line: They thought on their unburied dead.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The


LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 18. THE NUPTIALS, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twelve hours passed -- the grave had closed
Last Line: But wind as one through time forever.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The


LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 2. THE PICKET, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas night; on old potomac's shore
Last Line: And then resumed his weary pace.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The


LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 3. THE BATTLE, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: The cannon's roar booms on the air
Last Line: But deeper still in darkness go.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The


LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 5. RECOGNITION - APPEAL, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whiling the summer hours away
Last Line: But strength is given as we need.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The


LEON, by ERNESTO CARDENAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I used to live in a big house by the church of st. Francis
Last Line: And crying %bread
Subject(s): Central America; Churchyards; Hunger


LETTER TO MOTHER, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was good. You found your america. It was worth all
Last Line: But there will be no america discovered by analogy
Subject(s): Letters; Mothers; United States; America


LETTER TO THE FRONT: 8, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Evening bringing me out of the government building,
Subject(s): War; Freedom; United States; Liberty; America


LIGHT, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: He cannot trust his senses: light is uncertain
Last Line: Round as the back of a turtle and as strong
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


LIGHTS, by ERNESTO CARDENAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: That top-secret flight at night
Last Line: Of all that was about to come
Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Central America; Fights; Nicaragua; Revolutions


LIKE MEN OF OLD, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was three of them trapped in an old chateau
Last Line: Of the dead men three who had held them hard till the flag came over the hill!
Subject(s): Native Americans; World War I; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; First World War


LIMA, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: At length in wrath and in grief
Last Line: Of the monarch, of the realms of the dead
Subject(s): South America


LIMA: 1. PLUTO AND DEMETER, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Descend from the inside, descend
Last Line: In the pornographic fantasy %of no attachments
Subject(s): South America


LIMA: 2. NIGHT: BURIED AMERICA, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Outside the lust to annihilate
Last Line: Is killing the state %is freedom
Subject(s): South America


LIMA: 3. PATRIARCHY THE PREVAILING RELIGION OF THE WORLD, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Being like maize grains fell
Last Line: Though she gave only her body
Subject(s): South America


LIMA: 4. COJO, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the middle of the five-way intersection
Last Line: Up his ancestral land
Subject(s): South America


LIMA: 5. MIRROR, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: For days I've glimpsed her as as I've moved down the hall
Last Line: Divine of my body %amerrique
Subject(s): South America


LIMA: 6. MAMACOCHA, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: From lima we enter the sea
Last Line: Past all argument %of the earth
Subject(s): South America


LINES ON THE BACK OF A CONFEDERATE NOTE, by SAMUEL ALROY JONAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Representing nothing on god's earth now
Last Line: Like our hope of success it has passed.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Patriotism; United States - History; Confederacy


LINES TO A FRIEND VISITING AMERICA, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now farewell to you! You are
Last Line: To england, and to me my friend.
Subject(s): England; United States; War; English; America


LINES WRITTEN IN DEJECTION, OKLAHOMA, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have never lived on the reservation
Last Line: Lifts his pony, flings it at the moon.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Oklahoma; Solitude; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Loneliness


LINES WRITTEN NEAR SAN FRANCISCO, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wake and feel the city trembling.
Subject(s): Caruso, Enrico (1873-1921); United States; Social Commentaries; America


LITTLE ESKIMO, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little eskimo, are you
Last Line: Like to live in our land, too?
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Summer; Travel; Vacation; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips


LITTLE MOCCASINS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come out, o little moccasins, and frolic on the snow!
Last Line: (o fiddle mine! The tears to-night are drumming on your breast.)
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


LIVING IN AMERICA, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Living in america,' / the intelligent people at harvard say,
Subject(s): United States; America


LOCAL COLOR, by LOIS RANDOLPH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The navajo shepherd tends his sheep
Last Line: She-tha-sie.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Navajo Indians; Tourists; Writing & Writers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


LONG ISLAND SOUND, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see it as it looked one afternoon
Last Line: All these fair sounds and sights I made my own.
Subject(s): Americans; Long Island Sound; United States; America


LOOK TO THE END, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The german empire is no more
Last Line: O, god!—and we've been proud!
Subject(s): Disasters; Germany; Lusitania (ship); Shipwrecks; United States; War; Germans; America


LOOK WITHIN, by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, let me not be silent while we fight
Last Line: While worm-infested, rotten through within!
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): Fascism & Fascists; Racism; United States; World War Ii; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; America; Second World War


LOST HERITAGE, by JENNIE HARRIS OLIVER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where once my prairies were, waist-high, in blue stem
Last Line: O, white man, listen! The red earth is mine!
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


LOVE IN AMERICA, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whatever it is, it's a passion
Subject(s): Americans; Modern Life; United States; America


LOVE POEM, by ROQUE DALTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those who widened the panama canal
Last Line: My compariots, / my brothers
Subject(s): Central America


LOVE POEM, by ROQUE DALTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Those who widened the panama canal
Last Line: My compatriots %my brothers
Subject(s): Central America


LOVE SONG OF THE OMAHAS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fades the star of morning
Last Line: Hear thy lover's cry!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Longing; Love; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


LOVE, ATTRIBUTED CITY, by NANCY MOREJON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here I say again: the heart of the city has not yet died
Last Line: Here I say again: love, attributed city
Subject(s): Hearts; Latin America - History; Love; Patriotism; Poetry And Poets


LULLABY OF THE IROQUOIS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Little brown baby-bird, lapped in your nest
Last Line: Little brown baby of mine, go to sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Babies; Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Infants; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Songs


MADAM'S PAST HISTORY, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My name is johnson
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Subject(s): African Americans; United States; Negroes; American Blacks; America


MADAME LA GRIPPE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the seas meet the land, and the land quits the seas
Last Line: So providence shield us from madame la grippe!
Subject(s): Cities; Sickness; United States; Urban Life; Illness; America


MAGIC FOX, by JAMES WELCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They shook the green leaves down
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


MAGIC WORDS (1), by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the very earliest time
Last Line: Nobody could explain this: / that's the way it was
Subject(s): Cosmology;creation;eskimos;mythology - Native American;native Americans;religion; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America;theology


MANHATTAN THIRTIES FLASH, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long stone streets inanimate, repetitive machine crash cookie-cutting
Subject(s): New York City; United States; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; America


MAP OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 1. FATHER, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tommorrow's the twentieth century. Your brothers
Last Line: What tom martin, with his forceful x, %never learned
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


MAP OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 2. GRANDFATHER, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your sister leaves the room whispering not true
Last Line: The laws by which they could not live
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


MAP OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 3. NURSE, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: This room is cold as death. This room is death
Last Line: For the chance to live again
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


MAP OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 4. BATTLEFIELD, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: No, it's impossible to imagine, the distance between france and cleburne
Last Line: Everyone is dead, maybe everyone is dead
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


MAP OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 5. DESCENDENTS, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The last time we checked, one thanksgiving
Last Line: The past we own exists on stone and white paper
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


MARCH OF THE DEATHLESS DEAD, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gather the sacred dust
Last Line: Together still shall sleep.
Variant Title(s): Lines Respectfully Inscribed To The Ladies Memorial As'n
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History; Confederacy


MARCH-PATROL OF THE NAKED HEROES, by HERBERT S. GORMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hoofs of thunder, fetlocks splashed with sunrise
Last Line: In the morning.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


MEETING YOU AT THE PIERS, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I should like to describe amerika to you
Subject(s): United States; New York City; Immigrants; Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration


MEMORY GARDENS, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Covered with yellow leaves / in morning rain
Subject(s): United States; America


MIANTOWONA, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long ere the pale face
Last Line: "miantowona!"
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


MILAREPA TASTE, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who am I? Saliva
Subject(s): United States; America


MINORITY REPORT, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My beloved land
Last Line: You are the only land
Subject(s): United States; America


MONSTER OF CHILDHOOD, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the house of your childhood, the blue monster
Last Line: In it, the trees of childhood make a terrible sound
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


MONUMENT MOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild
Last Line: Is call the mountain of the monument.
Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Great Barrington, Massachusetts; Grief; Incest; Legends; Native Americans; Suicide; Sorrow; Sadness; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


MOODS, by DAVID O'NEIL    Poem Text                    
First Line: On a lone hillside
Last Line: To your madness.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


MORNING, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: All things are opening to him, and none
Last Line: Rainspout, whirlpool, total eclipse of sun
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


MORTIFICATION, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone dies & / then a cat dies
Subject(s): Native Americans; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


MOSQUITO KINGDOM, by ERNESTO CARDENAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The coronation ceremony was held in belize this time
Last Line: The librarians say, and it can't be xeroxed; you touch it and it turns to ashes
Subject(s): Central America; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Imperialism; Nicaragua; Vanderbilt, Cornelius (1843-1899)


MOUNTAINS KNOW, by CONCHA MELENDEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love my country's lofty mountains!
Last Line: The mountains lofty and unmoved!
Subject(s): Latin America - History; Mountains; Travel


MUSIC, by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I rest for a moment near the equestrian
Subject(s): Americans; New York City; United States; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; America


MUSKOKA, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chide not the leisure of this drifting moon
Last Line: Her rugged grass and slow and hardy flowers.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


MUTINY, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Exhausted from the constant flex of courage
Last Line: And ungrateful, into the promised land
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


MY AMERICA, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: More famed than rome, as splendid as old greece
Last Line: For all the earth, till every man and child be free!
Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America


MY COUNTRY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mysterious, my country! -- she abides
Last Line: With their dull shadows lying on the hills.
Subject(s): United States; America


MY MOTHER-LAND, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mother-land! Thou wert the first to fling
Last Line: A prelude and a prophecy combined!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; United States - History; Confederacy


MY NATIVE LAND, by CARLOS STUART    Poem Text                    
First Line: Though brighter beams may gild the shore
Last Line: Profane my own, my native land!
Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America


MY POEM, by YOLANDE CORNELIA GIOVANNI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am 25 years old
Alternate Author Name(s): Giovanni, Nikki
Subject(s): Americans; United States; America


MY STATE-SOUTH DAKOTA, by ROBERTA ROBERTSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mine is a state of prairie loveliness
Last Line: —the argus leader
Subject(s): South Dakota; United States; America


MYTHICAL FOUNDING OF BUENOS AIRES, by JORGE LUIS BORGES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And was it along this torpid muddy river
Last Line: Hard to believe buenos aires had any beginning. %I feel it to be as eternal as air and water
Subject(s): Argentina; Cities; History; South America


NARRATIVE OF THE VISION OF OUR LADY OF ARMEIRO, by NATHANIEL TARN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The photograph of our lady of armeiro has been placed
Last Line: Have we ever known of any death so measured and so rigorous?
Subject(s): Death; Memory; Old Age; Photography & Photographers; United States; Dead, The; America


NATION AND WORLD, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Glory of our country
Last Line: Nation of mankind!
Subject(s): United States; America


NAVAJO LEGEND, by WILLARD JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is it true, mother, that the mountain sun
Last Line: By god-like boys.
Subject(s): Animals; Children; Deserts; Food & Eating; Horses; Mothers; Mountains; Native Americans; Navajo Indians; Childhood; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


NAVAJO LOVE SONG, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: We are riding out in the morning
Last Line: Na-na-litch, na-litch, nandeen!
Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Love; Native Americans; Navajo Indians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


NEITHER SPIRIT NOR BIRD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Leaping under the willows
Subject(s): Desire;flutes;hearts;love;native Americans;relationships; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


NEW GOSPEL, by RUTH WILLS    Poem Source                    
First Line: So the south has been blest with a new revelation
Last Line: And own the worst faith of the pagan as mine
Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Slavery


NEW HAIL COLUMBIA, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look our ransomed shores around
Last Line: Find the many still are one!
Variant Title(s): Additional Verses To Hail Columbia
Subject(s): United States; America


NEW MEXICAN MOUNTAIN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I watch the indians dancing to help the young corn at taos pueblo
Subject(s): Mountains; Native Americans; New Mexico; Tourists; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


NEW NATION, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A mountain of white ice
Subject(s): United States - History; Native Americans; Massacres; Slavery; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Serfs


NEWS FROM THE IMAGINARY FRONT, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nothing is the latest news of your death
Last Line: The sweet milk of death, the salt blood %of someone else's war
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


NICARAGUAN TRIPTYCH, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember two dwarfs, back there in our country home
Last Line: Under the impassivity of the firmament
Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben
Subject(s): Central America; Clowns; Laughter; Memory; Nicaragua; Youth


NIGHT OUT, by JOY HARJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have seen you in the palms of my hands
Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Native Americans; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


NOREMBEGA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The winding way the serpent takes
Last Line: Who hath the heavenly found.
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Champlain, Samuel De (1567-1635); Penobscot (river), Maine


NORTH AMERICAN DEATH SONG, by ANNE (HOME) HUNTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun sets in night, and the stars shun the day
Last Line: And thy son, o alknomook, has scorned to complain.
Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


ODE (IN HONOR OF THE BRAVERY AND SACRIFICES OF SOLDIERS OF THE SOUTH), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With bayonets slanted in the glittering sun
Last Line: Across those lonely desolated graves!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Courage; Soldiers; United States - History; Confederacy; Valor; Bravery


ODE ON THE FACELIFTING OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY, by EDWARD DORN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: America is inconceivable without drugs
Subject(s): United States; Narcotics; America


ODE TO AMERICA, by MARY P. DENNY    Poem Text                    
First Line: America, america! / we chant thy note of praise
Last Line: Unto the perfect day!
Subject(s): Praise; United States; Wealth; America; Riches; Fortunes


ODE TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Row after row with strict impunity
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cemeteries; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Graveyards; Confederacy


ODE TO THE CONFEDERATE DEAD, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Row after row with strict impunity
Last Line: Riots with his tongue through the hush- %sentinel of the grave who counts us all!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): American Civil War; Cemeteries; Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History


OF BEING NUMEROUS, 24, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In this nation
Subject(s): United States; America


OKLAHOMA, by DAISY LEMON COLDIRON    Poem Text                    
First Line: A hungry kiowa
Last Line: It is -- oklahoma!
Subject(s): Native Americans; Oklahoma; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


OLD AMUSEMENT PARK (BEFORE IT BECAME LA GUARDIA AIRPORT), by MARIANNE MOORE            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hurry, worry, unwary / visitor, never vary
Subject(s): Americans; Amusement Parks; United States; America


OLD CHARLEY, by KATHE HEIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Old charley is dead now
Last Line: Even his soul.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


OLD IRONSIDES, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ay, tear her tattered ensign down
Last Line: The lightning and the gale!
Subject(s): Americans; Boats; Constitution (ship); Navy - United States; Patriotism; Sea; United States; American Navy; Ocean; America


OLD SQUAW HILL, by LUCY JONES TYSELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Before the feet of white men trod
Last Line: A sentinel to guard the plain.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Native Americans - Wars; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


OMBU, by LUIS L. DOMINGUEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Every territory on earth has a conspicuous feature
Last Line: Beautiful growth, that rises to the clouds, like the lighthouse of %that sea
Subject(s): Argentina; Memory; South America; Travel


ON AN INVITATION TO THE UNITED STATES, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My ardours for emprize nigh lost
Last Line: And their experience count as mine.
Subject(s): United States; America


ON FORT SUMTER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was a noble roman
Last Line: "who says with 'southern daring,' / 'I'll find a way, or make it!'"
Subject(s): "american Civil War;confederate States Of America;fort Sumter, South Carolina;u.s. - History;" Confederacy


ON LIBERTY AND SLAVERY, by GEORGE MOSES HORTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas! And am I born for this
Last Line: With songs of liberty!
Variant Title(s): Liberty And Slavery
Subject(s): Americans; Freedom; Slavery; United States; Liberty; Serfs; America


ON NEAL'S ASHES, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Delicate eyes that blinked blue rockies all ash
Subject(s): Cassady, Neal (1926-1968); United States; America


ON THE ADMISSION OF MICHIGAN INTO THE UNION, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come in, little sister, so healthful and fair
Last Line: "so, hold up your head with the ""old thirteen."
Subject(s): Michigan; United States; America


ON THE BIG HORN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The years are but half a score
Last Line: Break forth into praise of god!
Subject(s): Little Bighorn, Battle Of; Native Americans; Rain-in-the-face (indian Chief); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


ON THE CIRCUIT, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among pelagian travelers
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Tourists; United States; America


ON THE EMIGRATION TO AMERICA AND PEOPLING WESTERN COUNTRY, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To western woods and lonely plains
Last Line: Than all the eastern sages knew.
Subject(s): Middle West; Pioneers; United States; West (u.s.); Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; America; Southwest; Pacific States


ON THE PROSPECT OF PLANTING ARTS AND LEARNING IN AMERICA, by GEORGE BERKELEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The muse, disgusted at an age and clime
Last Line: Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Variant Title(s): America, 1750;old World And The New;verses On The Prospect Of Planting Arts And Learning In America
Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America


ON TO RICHMOND, by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Major general scott / an order had got
Last Line: Was that pleasant excursion to richmond.
Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, John Randolph
Subject(s): American Civil War; Bull Run, Battles Of; Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History; Manassas, Batlle Of; Confederacy


ONE COUNTRY, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One country! Treason's writhing asp
Last Line: One country now and evermore!
Subject(s): United States; America


ONE LAST DRAW OF THE PIPE, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even though it happened as long ago as the late fifties, I could still draw
Subject(s): Native Americans; Graves; Smoking; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Tombs; Tombstones; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


ONE TODAY, by RICHARD BLANCO    Poem Text                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: One sun rose on us today, kindled over our shores
Last Line: Waiting for us to name it – together
Subject(s): Inaugural Poem; United States; America


ONE WORD, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The arizona sky is a bowl of one word blue
Last Line: America?
Subject(s): Apache Indians; Arizona; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


ORIGINS, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The flowering breaker detonates its surf]
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); America - Exploration


ORTIZ (1528), by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go bring the captive, he shall die
Last Line: "away with the warrior's plume!"
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Cuba; Ortiz, Juan (16th Century); Slavery; Serfs


OSAWATOMIE, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I don't know how he came
Last Line: And the fool killers had a laugh
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Native Americans; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


OSCEOLA, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When his hour for death had come
Last Line: (and here a line in memory of his name and death.)
Subject(s): Native Americans; Osceola, Leader Of Seminoles (1804-1838); Social Protest; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


OUR ABORIGINES, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard the forests as they cried
Last Line: Fled mournfully away.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


OUR AMERICA, by NELLIE H. EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Today our peaceful land views with dismay
Last Line: To life and liberty of all mankind.
Subject(s): United States; America


OUR CONFEDERATE DEAD, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Unknown to me, brave boy, but still I wreathe
Last Line: As the libretto of a maiden's heart.
Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Death; Graves; Patriotism; Soldiers; Confederacy; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


OUR COUNTRY, by JOHN TURVILL ADAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweetly the voice of long departed time
Last Line: Of lasting happiness, in calm and holy rest
Subject(s): America, Settlement; Progress, Civilization


OUR COUNTRY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God grant that we shall never see
Last Line: God grant that we may keep it so.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): United States; America


OUR COUNTRY, by FREDERICK LUCIAN HOSMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O beautiful, my country!'
Last Line: Be peace the crowning gem.
Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America


OUR COUNTRY, by GEORGE LUNT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our country! Right or wrong,'
Last Line: Our country,—right or wrong!
Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America


OUR COUNTRY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our country! Whose eagle exults as he flies
Last Line: As free as thy winds and as firm as thy hills!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Freedom; Patriotism; United States; Liberty; America


OUR COUNTRY, by ANNA LOUISE STRONG    Poem Text                    
First Line: To all who hope for freedom's gleam
Last Line: The gray world's golden dawn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Anise
Subject(s): Religion; United States; Theology; America


OUR COUNTRY, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a noble country where we dwell
Last Line: A pause in the long westering caravan.
Subject(s): Americans; Patriotism; United States; America


OUR COUNTRY'S DESTINY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My country! Dare we do it? Dare we be
Last Line: And boldly equal to our destiny!
Subject(s): United States; World War I; America; First World War


OUR COUNTRY'S FLAG, by MARY SITZ PARKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Our country's flag; emblem we love
Last Line: True to our flag of liberty.
Subject(s): Flags; United States; America


OUR DEAD HEROES, by MORTON BRYAN WHARTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The angels above us hover
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870); U.s. - History


OUR FALLEN BRAVE, by CORNELIA J. M. JORDAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: They fell! In freedom's cause they fell
Last Line: Our fallen and our free.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Freedom; Love; United States - History; Confederacy; Dead, The; Liberty


OUR MARTYRS, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am sitting alone and weary
Last Line: May rise to the calm of thine.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Confederacy


OUR MOTHER POCAHONTAS, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Powhatan was conqueror
Last Line: Our mother, pocahontas.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); World War I; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; First World War


OUR OLD FEUILLAGE, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Always our old feuillage!
Last Line: Collect bouquets of the incomparable feuillage of these states?
Subject(s): United States; America


OVER LARAMIE, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Western air boat bouncing
Subject(s): United States; America


OXAITOQ'S SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "inland, inland, inland, inland"
Last Line: They love me only on account of the food I obtain for them
Subject(s): Eskimos;native Americans; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


PALM BEACH, by MARY LEIGHTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: As, seeking broader lands to gain
Last Line: From coral reef to blossom grown.
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; America


PAN-AMERICA, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pan-america, glorious name!
Last Line: But -- who holds the handle and what's in the pan?
Subject(s): Language; South America; Words; Vocabulary


PARADISE, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Everything is ours. Everything
Last Line: Stretches, flat and without motion
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


PARAGRAPHS: 9, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the custom of my tribe to be silent
Last Line: Indivisible, unvoiced
Subject(s): Native Americans; Snow; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


PARALLAX, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Kwakwha / askwali
Last Line: Whenever, wherever.
Subject(s): Hopi Indians; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


PASSAGES 32, by ROBERT DUNCAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: John adams, marginalia to court de gebelin's monde primitif
Subject(s): United States; America


PAST SILVER DURANGO OVER MEXIC SIERRA WRINKLES, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Westward mother-mountains drift pacific, green sloped
Subject(s): United States; America


PATRIA, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I would not even ask my heart to say
Last Line: Nor should I be at all, were I not thine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America


PATRIOTICS, by DAVID BAKER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yesterday a little girl got slapped to death by her daddy
Subject(s): United States; Patriotism; Death; America; Dead, The


PATRIOTISM, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think my country needs my vote
Last Line: And liberty will never die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America


PEOPLE OF AMERICA, by DOROTHY QUICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: This age is epochal
Last Line: Half of your seeds.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mayer, John Adams, Mrs.
Subject(s): Future; Hands; Nations; Seeds; United States; America


PERTUSSIN, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Always ether comes
Subject(s): United States; America


PIONEERING AMERICA, by MYRA C. JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where is the pioneer?
Last Line: The pioneer at his resurrection.
Subject(s): Pioneers; United States; America


PLAINT OF THE DISGUSTED BRITON IN THE STATES, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Don't try america; I've tried it
Last Line: To england I return to live.
Subject(s): Homesickness; United States; America


PLEASE MASTER, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Please master can I touch your cheek
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; United States; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; America


PLOWMAN ON HORSEBACK, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sun has sucked all fire from the blood
Last Line: The swirled dust does not say.
Subject(s): Animals; Horseback Riding; Horses; United States; America


PLURALITY OF WORLDS, by WASHINGTON DELGADO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Fifty worlds lie on my table
Last Line: I light a cigarette and divide it among fifty %meaningless worlds
Subject(s): Latin America - History; Peru


POCAHONTAS, by GEORGE POPE MORRIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon the barren sand
Last Line: And breathes a prayer for him.
Alternate Author Name(s): Morris, George Perkins
Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


POCAHONTAS [JANUARY 5, 1608], by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wearied arm and broken sword
Last Line: Saved a captive englishman.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


POEM COMPOSED FOR .. THE VIGILANT COMMITTEE OF PHILADELPHIA, by DANIEL ALEXANDER PAYNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rise, god of freedom! From thy throne of light
Last Line: "be free! Be free! Ye ransomed lands, be free!"
Subject(s): African Americans; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; United States; Negroes; American Blacks; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs; America


POEM, SPOKEN BEFORE THE PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY, AUGUST, 1934, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is not this house a harp whose living chords
Last Line: Shall greet with joy sublime the angel death.
Subject(s): United States; America


PONCE DE LEON, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You that crossed the ocean old
Last Line: Where old souls their age renew?
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Ponce De Leon, Juan (1460-1521)


PORTO RICO, by JOSE GAUTIER BENITEZ    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: Borinquen! Name as sweet to the thought
Last Line: To the sweet influence of the world without!
Subject(s): Islands; Latin America - History; Puerto Rico; West Indies


POWWOW, by R. ALICE FIKSDAL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tum, tum, tum, tum! Tum, tum, tum!
Last Line: Four ragged chieftains beating on a drum!
Subject(s): Bells; Musical Instruments; Native Americans; Singing & Singers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Songs


PRAYER FOR AMERICA, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O lord of justice and of right
Last Line: Oh, make us great!
Subject(s): Patriotism; Prayer; United States; America


PRESENTATION TO AUTHORITIES BY PRIVATES, OF COLORS CAPTURED, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These flags of armies overthrown
Last Line: To waiting homes with vindicated laws.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Flags - Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History


PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S BURIAL HYMN, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd
Last Line: There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim.
Variant Title(s): When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloomed
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Flowers; Grief; Lilacs; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Loss; Mourning; Patriotism; Presidents, United States; United States - History; United States; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; America


PRODUCT, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no beauty in new england like the boats
Subject(s): Americans; United States; America


PROEM: TO WATER, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: All things in the end return to water
Last Line: Will be released. Whatever is done, undone
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


PROMISES: 2. COURT-MARTIAL, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the cedar tree
Subject(s): American Civil War; Lynching; Confederate States Of America; Soldiers; Veterans; Ancestors & Ancestry; Confederacy; Heritage; Heredity


PROSPECTIVE IMMIGRANTS PLEASE NOTE, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Either you will
Subject(s): Americans; Immigrants; United States; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; America


PROUD RIDERS, by HAROLD LENOIR DAVIS            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We rode hard, and brought the cattle from brushy springs
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, H. L.
Subject(s): Americans; United States; America


PSALM 5, by ERNESTO CARDENAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Give ear to my words, o lord
Last Line: As with armor-plated tanks
Subject(s): Central America; Peace; Political Campaigns; Social Protest; War


PUEBLO LEGEND, by LILIAN WHITE SPENCER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The ancient tribes, when they and earth were new
Last Line: Carved round a font the image of a snake?
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


PYROGRAPHY, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out here on cottage grove it matters. The galloping
Subject(s): United States; America


QUESTION OF TIME, by ANTONIO CISNEROS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In 1964, %where your bearded eyes
Last Line: Would have shipwrecked beneath the sun
Subject(s): Death; Fights; Latin America - History; Soldiers; Spanish Armada


QUITO, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Persephone screamed for her mother
Last Line: Persephone was made his queen
Subject(s): South America


QUITO: 1. THE WANDERING VIRGIN OF QUITO, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out the window
Last Line: She wants %me
Subject(s): South America


QUITO: 2. I AM THE ROSE OF SHARON, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: By night on my bed I seek him
Last Line: The earth quakes and my love loses %my grandmother's quilt
Subject(s): South America


QUITO: 3. DEMETER, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dark people are floating on the rivers of urine
Last Line: Will the stones speak?
Subject(s): South America


QUITO: 4. DAWN, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I will always be on the equator
Last Line: This hell %the seasons
Subject(s): South America


QUIVIRA, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Francisco coronado rode forth with all his train
Last Line: The city of quivira whose streets are paved with gold.
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Coronado, Francisco Vasquez De (1510-54); Explorers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


RAIN, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Most of his life is gone, spent far from land
Last Line: Emerged: head first and dreaming, like a seed
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


RAIN-WET ASPHALT HEAT, GARBAGE CURBED CANS OVERFLOWING, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hauled down lifeless mattresses to sidewalk refuse-piles
Subject(s): United States; America


RAMON, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Drunk and senseless in his place
Last Line: Dead as stone!
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): Mexico; Mines & Miners; Tragedy; United States; America


RANCHO ARRIBA, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rancho arriba is far from the crowds
Last Line: Rancho arriba is a thorn that reminds me, %that reminds them of who I am, %of who we are
Subject(s): Latin America - History; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


RECORDING THE SPIRIT VOICES, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the hollow below the hill vaults
Last Line: Bury the truth these angels stand on: born and died.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Confederate States Of America; Death; Poetry & Poets; Southern States; Spiritual Life; Graveyards; Confederacy; Dead, The; South (u.s.)


RED BUCK BILL, by HENRY T. CHAMBERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Red buck bill was a tonkawa
Last Line: You can see his grave.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


RED INDIAN, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Purest of breed of all the tribes
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


RED JACKET, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cooper, whose name is with his country's woven
Last Line: Thy name, thy fame, thy passions, and thy throne!
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Variant Title(s): On A Portrait Of A Red Jacket;to A Portrait Of A Red Jacket
Subject(s): Native Americans; Red Jacket. Seneca Chief (1756-1830); Weir, Robert Walter (1803-1889); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


REDWING, by TESS GALLAGHER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The readers of poetry, the writers of
Last Line: Of the monster
Subject(s): Native Americans; Birds; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


RERIGGING THE NINA, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like the gulls that play the wind at sagres
Last Line: Of a world, half hidden, half revealed
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


RESURGAM, by MARY BAYARD CLARKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rise, crowned with hope, o! Prostrate south, arise
Subject(s): Confederate States Of America


RETRIBUTION, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know where the timid fawn abides'
Last Line: "from maquon, the fond and the brave."
Variant Title(s): An Indian Story
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


RETURNING TO EARTH, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She / pulls the sheet of this dance
Last Line: Let the predator love his prey.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Aging; Despair; Introspection; Magic; United States; America


RIGHT ON: WHITE AMERICA, by SONIA SANCHEZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This country might have
Last Line: Gun/shells on our blk/tomorrows.
Subject(s): Racism; United States; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; America


RIVER, by JANET LEWIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Remember for me the river
Last Line: Who will not be able to remember. %remember the river
Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs.
Subject(s): St. Mary's River (north America)


ROAD TO CUZCO, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: She stood before arethusa like one stupefied
Last Line: To demand of pluto %the release of persephone
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO CUZCO: 1. ECSTASY IS IDENTITY WITH ALL EXISTENCE, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: A year ago today I found jonathan dead
Last Line: By men %their wounded inexistence
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO CUZCO: 2. QUEDA EL ALMA, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mama probably cried, mother hardly moaning. Now no one wanted
Last Line: Conception %a man, enemy
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO CUZCO: 3. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out of the window huancayo, city of indians
Last Line: Beneath your window %holding your gun
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO CUZCO: 4. EDITH LAGOS PRESENT, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Inside the bus a baby cries
Last Line: Against every society's %betrayal of the child
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO CUZCO: 5. FATHER, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I think of your father now I think of the poet
Last Line: You %our karma
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO CUZCO: 6. NUESTRO CHE: THE MONROE DOCTRINE, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: All night armies of people and your guerrillas
Last Line: You murdered me %los hijos, los hijos amerrique
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO LIMA, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Persephone's screams were heard only by her mother
Last Line: Which was unavailing
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO LIMA: 1. PAN AMERICAN, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The earth spins
Last Line: Graffiti %on the plaza wall
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO LIMA: 2. MY LITTLE MONEY CHANGER, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the morning at the border
Last Line: Both countries, su madre %following
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO LIMA: 3. PERU, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out the window the pacific ocean
Last Line: You are the world
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO QUITO, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the earliest story %persephone was playing with her companions and her mothe
Last Line: He raped her. Then carried her down %into his abyss
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO QUITO: 1. DESCENT: LA VIOLENCIA, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out the window, columbia, out the window
Last Line: My orpheus, you follow us down %the andean night
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO QUITO: 2. SOMEONE WAITING FOR ME AMONG VIOLINS, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am with you in the small house of our life
Last Line: The bottom darkens, erupts %into flames
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO QUITO: 3. DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the morning waterfalls and her giggles
Last Line: But we do not have prejudice %as you have it %against colors
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO QUITO: 4. LOVE, LOVE, DO NOT COME NEAR BORDER, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are the only ones to cross equador
Last Line: Let us leave
Subject(s): South America


ROAD TO QUITO: 5. EQUAL, by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Outside the borders guarded by pornography
Last Line: To cayambe, right over %the equador, hump %of the earth
Subject(s): South America


ROLL-CALL, by MARION VAN LANINGHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have seen you, kansas, shifting out
Last Line: When the sagebush spreads the gaunt little seeds of tomorrow?
Subject(s): United States; America


ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE PRELUDE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This, then, is america!
Last Line: Of the flag of barbarossa.
Subject(s): United States; America


S & M, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The masochist confesses that his pain
Last Line: Even if I have to be ... %what is that word they used? %even if I have to be ... A sadist.'
Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Ethnic Groups - United States; Latin America - History; Protest, Social; Puerto Ricans - New York City; Tyranny And Tyrants


SA-CA-GA-WE-A; THE INDIAN GIRL WHO GUIDED LEWIS AND CLARK, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sho-sho-ne sa-ca-ga-we-a - captive and wife was she
Last Line: "sho-sho-ne sa-ca-ga-we-a, who led the way to the west!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Clark, William (1770-1838); Explorers; History; Lewis, Meriwether (1774-1809); Native Americans; West (u.s.) - Exploration; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Historians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SAINCLAIRE'S DEFEAT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "'twas november the fourth, in the year of 'ninety-one"
Last Line: "he fell that day amongst the slain, a valiant man was he"
Subject(s): "native Americans;ohio;st. Clair, Arthur (1736-1818);" Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


SANTOS VEGA: THE SOUL OF THE SINGER, by RAFAEL OBLIGADO    Poem Source                    
First Line: When evening bends sighing towards the west, a
Last Line: The country of echeverria, the land of santos vega!
Subject(s): Argentina; Death; Soul; South America; Worship


SARGASSO SEA, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: They sail upon the copse of weed, a shallow
Last Line: Even the longest voyage ends too soon
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


SATURNALIA, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sweetest calm man e'er beheld
Last Line: The union ever one!
Subject(s): Peace; Planets; United States; War; America


SAVAGES, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The heathen hailed us from the beach
Last Line: Who set thy temple on the hill.
Subject(s): Murder; Native Americans; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; War; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SAVAGES (TO KHAMA, SEBELE AND BATHOEN), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As stags that o'er some moonlit pasture range
Last Line: Mortality shall die?
Subject(s): Native Americans; Trade; Wandering & Wanderers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SCHOLARLY PROCEDURE, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Moves like an indian in the underbrush
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SEA-LOVE (PUGET SOUND INDIAN), by ANNICE CALLAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Harken! The drum-beat of the sea
Last Line: O drum-beat of the sea!
Subject(s): Native Americans; Puget Sound; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SECESSION, by T. A. R. NELSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: What pen can trace, with just impression
Last Line: "be ""damned to everlasting fame!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Nelson, Thomas A. R.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Fame; State Rights; U.s. - History; Confederacy; Reputation; Secession


SEMINOLE LULLABY, by EMMA ROBERTS WILSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sleep, little wood-pigeon
Last Line: Est-to-chee, slumber and sleep.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Seminole Indians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SEMINOLE SONG CYCLE: INVOCATION TO THE DAWN, by HARRIET LYON LEONARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sun god, smile the night's shadow away
Last Line: Grant us to see thy face.
Subject(s): Dawn; Native Americans; Seminole Indians; Sunrise; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SEMINOLE SONG CYCLE: LULLABY, by HARRIET LYON LEONARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: See that baby star on high
Last Line: On my little brown papoose.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Seminole Indians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SEMINOLE SONG CYCLE: NOONDAY SONG, by HARRIET LYON LEONARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The noon is hot. Come, let us seek
Last Line: In my own staunch canoe.
Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Native Americans; Seminole Indians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SEPTEMBER ON JESSORE ROAD, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Millions of babies watching the skies
Subject(s): United States; America


SESQUICENTENNIAL ODE; FOR JULY 24, 1926, by CHARLES WHARTON STORK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where is your promise
Last Line: In glory above!
Subject(s): Flags; Growth; United States; America


SEVEN: 1. COMMUNION, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Take this bowl of memory between your hands
Last Line: Keeps death away, %outside the circle of our circle
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


SEVEN: 2. PLAGUE, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Death sweeps the country clean of untainted life
Last Line: They marry false angels
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


SEVEN: 3. CRUSADE, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: She writes: come home to the dying. Come home
Last Line: A world made sick with evil
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


SEVEN: 4. FEAST, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: How cold it is in the world beyond memory
Last Line: Lick our fingers over the greasy carcass
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


SEVEN: 5. A GAME OF CHESS, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Death will not answer your questions, sweet traveler
Last Line: The board will buckle, the pieces scatter %black and white
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


SEVEN: 6. WITCH-BURNING, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Advice to travelers: %avoid the south for there is pestilence
Last Line: But if they are innocent, god is guilty
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


SEVEN: 7. SEVEN, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: An hourglass, a sundial, a scythe, a silver bracelet. Milk, strawberries
Last Line: Where there is no sky, only horizon
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


SHE HAD SOME HORSES, by JOY HARJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Native Americans; Horses; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While this america settles in the mould of its vulgarity
Last Line: God, when he walked on earth
Subject(s): United States; Social Commentary; Religion; United States; America; Theology; America


SHOES, by CORINNE HUNTINGTON JACKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here I sit with hard eyes looking at my child
Last Line: To suffer torture indian-gauntlet-runner never knew.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Pain; Poverty; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Suffering; Misery


SHOOTING FOR LINE, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: To break the silence or your newly acquired ming vase
Last Line: Sweep the minefield clear and all the accumulated dust into the corner
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Poetry Society Of America


SIGNS OF LEAVING: 1. COUNTING ARMADILLOS, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Beside the highway, vultures pick them down
Last Line: As the semis fly by
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


SIGNS OF LEAVING: 2. MOVES, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mover wants to sleep with me
Last Line: Past medians choked with oxalis
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


SIGNS OF LEAVING: 3. THE CHANGE STONE, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Weren't there two cities?
Last Line: And sold stale chocolate door to door
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


SIGNS OF LEAVING: 4. THE BLACK SILK JACKET, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the stiff photograph, six bone buttons
Last Line: And take it all : there is nothing for us here
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


SIGNS OF LEAVING: 5. LEAVING, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I leave the photograph in the left-hand pocket
Last Line: I let them go. I let them all go
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


SILA, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upgrade, past snow-tangled bramble, past
Last Line: The dog exploded
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Deer; Dogs; Eskimos; Native Americans; Dead, The; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SILHOUETTE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sky-line melts from the russet into blue
Last Line: Out mutely that naught else to him remains.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Change; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SILOS, by RITA DOVE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like martial swans in spring paraded against the city sky's
Last Line: Dreading math work
Subject(s): Americans; United States; America


SIOUX SONGS: A FLYING HORSE (THE SPOTTED HORSE), by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Friend like a flying bird is my horse
Last Line: Like a thunderbird streaked with the lightning he flies!
Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SIOUX SONGS: LAMENT FOR KIMIMLIA-SKA, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: White butterfly, my warrior son is dead
Last Line: Mourn with me, o my tribe, for he is dead!
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SIOUX SONGS: SIYAKA TO HIS HORSE, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: We are in danger, the crows are surrounding us!
Last Line: Here is a horse that has aided a man!
Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT [1583], by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Southward with fleet of ice
Last Line: Sinking, vanish all away.
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Gilbert, Sir Humphrey (1539-1583); Sea; Ocean


SKYSCRAPER, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: By day the skyscraper looms in the smoke and sun and
Last Line: By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.
Subject(s): Skyscrapers; United States; America


SLEET STORM ON THE MERRITT PARKWAY, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I look out at the white sleet covering the still streets
Subject(s): Americans; United States; America


SMOKEY THE BEAR SUTRA, by GARY SYNDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once in the jurassic about 150 million years ago
Subject(s): Buddhism; Pollution; Environment; Bears; United States; Buddha; Buddhists; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; America


SOME VERSES UPON THE BURNING OF OUR HOUSE JULY 10, 1666, by ANNE BRADSTREET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In silent night when rest I took
Last Line: My hope and treasure lies above.
Variant Title(s): Upon The Burning Of Our House July 10th 1666;here Follows Some Verses Upon The Burning Of Our House July
Subject(s): Americans; Children; Fire; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; United States; Childhood; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness; America


SONG OF THE CHICKASAH WIDOW, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas the voice of my husband that came on the gale
Last Line: And I shall have joy in revenge.
Subject(s): Marriage; Native Americans; Revenge; Vengeance; Widows & Widowers; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SONG OF THE EVIL SPIRIT OF THE WOODS, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the vapour hot and damp
Last Line: Rankling all, the wretch expires!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Forests; Native Americans; New York State; Travel; Woods; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips


SONG OF THE EXPOSITION, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah little recks the laborer
Last Line: Our freedom all in thee! Our very lives in thee!
Subject(s): Freedom; United States; Liberty; America


SONG OF THE FULL CATCH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "here's good wind, here's sweet wind"
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing;love;native Americans; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


SONG OF THE HORSE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: How joyous his neigh!
Last Line: How joyous his neigh!
Subject(s): Animals;horses;native Americans; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


SONG OF THE INDIAN MOTHER, by JAMES GOWDY CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gently dream, my darling child
Last Line: Lullaby, my gentle boy, etc.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SONG OF WELCOME, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "ai, ai, my small red man"
Subject(s): Babies;creation;mothers;mythology - Native American;native Americans; Infants;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


SONG TO FIDEL, by ERNESTO GUEVARA    Poem Source                    
First Line: You said the sun would rise
Last Line: Nothing more
Subject(s): Castro, Fidel (b. 1926); Communism; Cubism; Guerrillas; Latin America - History; Militarism


SONG TO THE WANDERER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "I cannot stay, I cannot stay"
Subject(s): Mythology;mythology - Native American;native Americans;wandering & Wanderers;; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


SONGS OF NEW SWEDEN: 11. INDIAN ROCK: WISSAHICKON, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far from the troubled city's sights and sounds
Last Line: Of these fair hills and vales and streams, so long their right.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


SONNET TO A NEGRO IN HARLEM, by HELENE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You are disdainful and magnificent
Last Line: You are too splendid for this city street.
Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Americans; Harlem (new York City); United States; Negroes; American Blacks; America


SONNET: ON THE CHIVALRY OF THE PRESENT TIME, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! Foolish souls and false! Who loudly cried
Last Line: Who had not shunned earth's haughtiest chivalry.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Chivalry; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Confederacy


SOUP, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a famous man eating soup
Subject(s): United States; America


SOUTH AMERICA MI HIJA (COMPLETE), by SHARON LURA EDENS DOUBIAGO    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): South America


SOUTHERN OATH, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: By the cross upon our banner
Subject(s): Confederate States Of America


SOUTHERN REPUBLIC, by OLIVIA THOMAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the galaxy of nations
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History


SPIT, by PHILIP BOOTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The chipewyans play it
Subject(s): Native Americans; Games; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements


ST. MIHIEL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: They said the yankees wouldn't fight--that there was no living chance
Last Line: That the yankees did come over—that the yanks are really there!
Subject(s): Germany; United States; War; World War I; Germans; America; First World War


STARTING FROM SAN FRANCISCO, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here I go again
Last Line: Myself I saw in the window reflected
Subject(s): Railroads; Travel; United States; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips; America


STATE FOR STATE, WITH ALL ATTENDANTS, WHO WOULD CHANGE? NOT, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some in the godspeed, the susan c.
Variant Title(s): Enough
Subject(s): Jamestown, Virginia; Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


STATES!, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: States! / were you looking to be held together by lawyers?
Last Line: Of lovers tie you.
Subject(s): United States; America


STAVE CHURCHES, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I believe in the darkened churches
Last Line: All the days are evil, there's no hope anymore, but we %sail on, sail on. %laudate pueri dominum, la
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Andalusia, Spain; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailors And Sailing; Ships And Shipping


STONE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Idleness has made a boy a killer
Last Line: Fish feed on bread and the ashes of the heart
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


STONE AND FLOWER, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here in america, / by the other ocean
Subject(s): England; Poetry & Poets; United States; War; English; America


SUMMER SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "aya!/ ayaya, it is beautiful, beautiful it is out-doors when the summer comes"
Last Line: "ayaya, ayaya, aya!"
Subject(s): Eskimos;native Americans; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


SUMTER - A BALLAD OF 1861, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas on the twelfth of april
Last Line: "our soil's redeemed from hateful yoke, / we'll keep it pure or die"
Subject(s): "american Civil War;confederate States Of America;fort Sumter, South Carolina;u.s. - History;" Confederacy


SUNRISE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Another sunrise, a month and a week of fading
Last Line: Is not a point to be imagined, but found
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


SWIRLS OF BLACK DUST ON AVENUE D, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: White haze over manhattan's towers
Subject(s): United States; America


TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE FIRST DAY: PAUL REVERE'S RIDE [APRIL 1775], by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Last Line: And the midnight message of paul revere.
Variant Title(s): The Landlord's Tale
Subject(s): American Revolution; Americans; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Massachusetts; Revere, Paul (1735-1818); United States; Independence Day; Liberty; America


TENNESSEE; A CENTENNIAL POEM, 1897, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sun-shimmer'd fields of dreaming green
Last Line: Love of thee.
Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Freedom; Military; Soldiers; Tennessee; Confederacy; Liberty


TERN, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: His ship is a dark city. No bird wavers
Last Line: Landlessness, the same elusive bird
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


TESTAMENT, by SEBASTIAN SALAZAR BONDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'll leave my shadow
Last Line: And feed oblivion with such delicacies
Subject(s): Peru; South America; Writing And Writers


THANKSGIVING, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The men have grown impatient, unhappy
Last Line: The deep and teeming stillness they obey
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


THANKSGIVING, by KENNETH KOCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What's sweeter than at the end of a summer's day
Subject(s): Native Americans; Thanksgiving Day; New York City; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THANKSGIVING, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yes--we give thanks. Thanks that the fight is won
Last Line: Waves in the forefront of a better world!
Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving; United States; World War I; America; First World War


THANKSGIVING DAY, by LYDIA MARIA CHILD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the river, and through the wood
Last Line: Hurrah for the pumpkin pie!
Variant Title(s): A Boy's Thanksgiving;the New-england Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day
Subject(s): Americans; Holidays; Thanksgiving; Thanksgiving Day; United States; America


THE ADDED STARTER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: They're lining up at the starting point, they're
Last Line: The yankee horse looks 'round and sees—the kaiser's mount fall dead.
Subject(s): Germany; United States; War; World War I; Germans; America; First World War


THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 1, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You live in a sinking nation, stephen, in a stinking
Last Line: Of all the beauty and comradeship I've lost.
Subject(s): Corruption In Politics; Dobyns, Stephen; Future Life; Letters; Social Protest; United States; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; America


THE AMERICAN CENTURY, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blackbirds whistle over the young
Subject(s): Children; Daughters; Love; Parents; United States; Childhood; Parenthood; America


THE AMERICAN DREAM, by WANDA COLEMAN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda
Subject(s): United States; Money; America


THE AMERICAN DREAM, by JOHN HAINES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It would have to be something dark,
Subject(s): Heroism; United States; Heroes; Heroines; America


THE AMERICAN ENSIGN, by GEORGE LUNT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One morn, when orient beams were bright
Last Line: And only sink in freedom's grave!
Subject(s): Flags - United States; Freedom; United States; American Flag; Liberty; America


THE AMERICAN INDIAN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There once were some people called sioux
Last Line: "don't think that they made them to ioux / oh! No, they just sold them for bioux"
Variant Title(s): The Indian
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


THE AMERICAN JEWESS, by ALBERT ULMANN    Poem Text                    
First Line: O youngest daughter of thy ancient race
Last Line: And make of each a better man, a worthier jew.
Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Women; Jews In America; Judaism


THE AMERICAN SWORD, by AMELIA B. WELBY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sword of our gallant fathers, defender of the brave
Last Line: And may god desert her standard when she surrenders thee
Alternate Author Name(s): Coppuck, Amelia B.
Subject(s): Patriotism; Swords; United States; America


THE AMERICAN TRAVELLER, by ROBERT HENRY NEWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To lake aghmoogenegamook
Last Line: Moosehicmagunticook.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kerr, Orpheus
Subject(s): Travel; United States; Journeys; Trips; America


THE ANCESTRAL DWELLINGS, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear to my heart are the ancestral dwellings of america
Last Line: The glory and strength of america come from her ancestral dwellings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Houses; United States; America


THE ANTI-SUFFRAGISTS, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fashionable women in luxurious homes
Last Line: To great democracy and womanhood!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins
Subject(s): Americans; Elections; United States; Women; Women's Rights; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; America; Feminism


THE ARCHERS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stripped to the waist his copper-coloured skin
Last Line: Transporting into heaven both maid and man.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Enemies; Hunting; Murder; Native Americans; Hunters; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE ARMY OF REFORM, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, ye are few, - and they were few
Last Line: The free tide of the mind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace
Subject(s): Freedom; Reform & Reformers; United States; Liberty; America


THE BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Awake! Awake! My gallant friends
Last Line: Come gaul or briton; if arrayed / for fight - he'll feel a freeman's blade
Subject(s): "harrison, William Henry (1773-1841);middle West;native Americans;tippecanoe, Battle Of (1811);" Midwest;old Northwest;central States;north Central States;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


THE BEAN EATERS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair
Last Line: Tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes.
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Farm Life; Old Age; United States; Women; Agriculture; Farmers; America


THE BEAR'S SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have taken the woman of beauty
Last Line: For her I made this song and for her I sing it
Subject(s): Beauty;haida Indians;love;native Americans;women; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


THE BIGLOW PAPERS. 2D SERIES: 4. A MESSAGE OF JEFF DAVIS ..., by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sent you a messige, my friens, t' other day
Last Line: Consists in triumphantly gittin' away.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); United States - History; Confederacy


THE BIGLOW PAPERS: 3. WHAT MR. ROBINSON THINKS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Guvener b. Is a sensible man
Last Line: Gee!
Subject(s): Elections; Politics & Government; United States; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; America


THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG, by ANNIE CHAMBERS KETCHUM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come, brothers! Rally for the right!
Last Line: That bears the cross and star!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Flags - United States; Patriotism; United States - History; Confederacy; American Flag


THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG, by HARRY MACARTHY    Poem Text                    
First Line: We are a band of brothers
Last Line: Hurrah! For the bonnie blue flag has gain'd th' eleventh star!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; U.s. - History; Confederacy


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE BOOK OF THE DEAD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These roads will take you into your own country.
Subject(s): Home; Progress; United States; Death; America; Dead, The


THE BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The readers of the boston evening transcript
Last Line: "and I say, ""cousin harriet, here is the boston evening transcript."
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Americans; United States; America


THE BRIDAL OF PENNACOOK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We had been wandering for many days
Last Line: Mingled and murmured in that farewell song.
Variant Title(s): The White Mountains
Subject(s): Brides; Concord, New Hampshire; Native Americans; Rivers; White Mountains, New Hampshire; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE BRIDGE: PROEM. TO BROOKLYN BRIDGE, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest
Last Line: And of the curveship lend a myth to god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Americans; Bible; Bridges; Brooklyn Bridge; Freedom; Imagination; Religion; United States; Vision; Liberty; Fancy; Theology; America


THE BUFFALO COAT, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see him moving, in his legendary fleece
Last Line: Is old and cold in a world his death began
Subject(s): Buffaloes; History; Native Americans; Historians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Build me straight, o worthy master!
Last Line: Are all with thee,--are all with thee!
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; Freedom; Sea; United States; Independence Day; Liberty; Ocean; America


THE C.S.A. COMMISSIONERS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "ye jolly yankee gentlemen, who live at home"
Last Line: That brains are sometimes northward found as well's in c.S.A
Subject(s): "confederate States Of America;great Britain - Foreign Relations;mason, James Murry (1798-1871);slidell, John (1793-1871);" Confederacy


THE CAMPAIGN, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My packard bell was set up in the vacant lot near the stump
Subject(s): Americans; Politics & Government; United States; America


THE CAPTIVE'S HYMN (1764), by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The indian war was over
Last Line: That morning in carlisle.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Carlisle, Pennsylvania; French And Indian Wars; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE CHANGING LIGHT, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The changing light at san francisco
Last Line: Anchorless upon the ocean
Subject(s): Americans; United States; America


THE CHIEF'S PRAYER AFTER THE SALMON CATCH, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "o kia-kunae, praise!"
Last Line: Priae! Praise! Praise!
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing;native Americans;salmon; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


THE CHILD OF THE FORESTS; WRITTEN AFTER READING JOHN HUNTER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is not thy heart far off amidst the wood
Last Line: Seek not the deserts and the woods again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Forests; Native Americans; Woods; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE CHURCHES' CUBA, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When north and south, with purpose strong
Last Line: Thus, and thus only, we'll unite.
Subject(s): Cuba; United States; America


THE CITIZEN DREAMING, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the blue hour
Last Line: And the lucky dead on all the roads that led from home to here!
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Fascism & Fascists; Politics & Government; United States; America


THE CLIFF OF THE CEDAR TREE, by RICHARD FORSTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oowan-nanawam-anoon-atroc
Last Line: "on the cliff of the cedar tree."
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE CONFLICT: 2. AMERICAN NEUTRALITY, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How shall we keep an armed neutrality
Last Line: Our souls cannot keep neutral and keep true.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Duty; England; Peace; United States; World War I; English; America; First World War


THE CONFLICT: 3. PEACE, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Peace! - but there is no peace. To hug the thought
Last Line: Or would we crown with peace — caligula?
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Caligula (12 A.d.- 41 A.d.); England; Peace; United States; World War I; English; America; First World War


THE CONFLICT: 4. WILSON, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Patience - but peace of heart we cannot choose
Last Line: The wolf of europe has not triumphed yet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Duty; Patience; United States; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); World War I; America; First World War


THE CONFUSION OF AMERICA, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lace that lay about the bones of danish kings
Subject(s): United States; America


THE CONQUERED BANNER, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Furl that banner, for 'tis weary
Last Line: For its people's hoped are fled!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Flags - United States; Patriotism; Peace; United States - History; Confederacy; American Flag


THE CORN HUSKER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Hard by the indian lodges, where the bush
Last Line: Like the dead husks that rustle through her hands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Corn; Injustice; Labor & Laborers; Metaphor; Native Americans; Weariness; Work; Workers; Similes; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Fatigue


THE CRAFTSMEN, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Confederate hand and eye
Last Line: What builds behind this dream.
Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Confederacy


THE CROSS IN THE WILDERNESS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silent and mournful sat an indian chief
Last Line: Deep thoughts and sad, yet full of holiness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Graves; Native Americans; Tombs; Tombstones; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 2, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They buried gray; his gear was sold; his farm
Last Line: She flung her down and cried I' the withered daffodils
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Love; Oaths; South America; Travel; Journeys; Trips


THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 3, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The steaming river loitered like old blood
Last Line: And lion watched her pass among the daffodils.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Abandonment; Cruelty; Love; Pleasure; South America; Travel; Unfaithfulness; Desertion; Journeys; Trips; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 4, by JOHN MASEFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time passed, but still no letter came; she ceased
Last Line: As colts in april feel there in the daffodils.
Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward
Subject(s): Abandonment; Longing; Love - Unrequited; Oaths; South America; Waiting; Desertion


THE DEATH OF COLMAN, by THOMAS FROST    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas juet spoke - the half moon's mate
Last Line: One choking thought -- the loneliness!
Subject(s): Hudson, Henry (1550-1611); Native Americans; Sailing & Sailors; Solitude; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Seamen; Sails; Loneliness


THE DEATH OF CRAZY HORSE, by JOHN GNEISENAU NEIHARDT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And now 'twas done
Last Line: These many grasses and these many snows.
Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief); Native Americans; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States


THE DREAM LIFE OF A COFFIN FACTORY IN LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, by JOHN YAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Earlier in the century it was not unusual to spend an evening
Subject(s): Americans; United States; America


THE DRUMMER-BOY'S BURIAL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: All day long the storm of battle through the startled valley swept
Last Line: Laid the body of our drummer-boy to undisturbed repose
Subject(s): Tragedy;united States; America


THE ENDANGERED ROOTS OF A PERSON, by WENDY ROSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember lying awake
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE EXCAVATION, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In this dry, stubble field
Last Line: In this dry, stubble field.
Subject(s): Archeology; Artifacts; Curiosities & Wonders; Fathers; Native Americans; Old Age; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE FADING OF THE MAYFLOWER, by THEODORE TILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But is it fading? Is it doomed to die?
Last Line: ^18^ so named from the town of worstead in england.
Subject(s): Mayflower (ship); Pilgrim Fathers; United States; America


THE FALL OF MAUBILA (1540), by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hearken the stirring story
Last Line: I wait my latter day.
Subject(s): America - Exploration; De Soto, Hernando (1500-1542)


THE FEAST OF PADRE CHALA, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are solemn figures walking up the roadway to
Last Line: "praise saint thomas, of tocaima -- none can question now or doubt him!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Saints; South America


THE FIGHT OF THE ARMSTRONG PRIVATEER, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell the story to your sons
Last Line: In the harbor of fayal the azore!
Subject(s): Azores; Courage; General Armstrong (ship); Mountains; Navy - United States; United States; War Of 1812; Valor; Bravery; Hills; Downs (great Britain); American Navy; America


THE FIRE-MAIDEN AND THE SNOW-PEAKS; AN INDIAN LEGEND OF THE COLUMBIA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Loowit, the beautiful maiden
Last Line: Rolls proudly at their side.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Columbia River (north America); Fire; Legends, Native American; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE FIRST AMERICAN SAILORS, by WALLACE RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Five fearless knights of the first renown
Last Line: Upon american sailors.
Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596); Gilbert, Sir Humphrey (1539-1583); Grenville, Sir Richard (1542-1591); Hawkins, Sir John (1532-1595); Sailing & Sailors


THE FIRST VOYAGE OF JOHN CABOT [1497], by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He chases shadows,' sneered the british tars
Last Line: "fair fall the shadow-seekers!"" quoth the king."
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Cabot, John (1450-1499)


THE FORGOTTEN CITY, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When with my mother I was coming down
Subject(s): Americans; United States; America


THE FOUNTAIN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Traveller! On thy journey toiling
Last Line: Of the indian and his well.
Subject(s): Fountains; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH: A DREAM OF PONCE DE LEON, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A story of ponce de leon
Last Line: The beautiful fountain of youth.
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Florida; Fountain Of Youth; Ponce De Leon, Juan (1460-1521)


THE FOUR WINDS (A SENECA LULLABY), by LUDWIG VON STOLZ MAYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little gahana, hush!
Last Line: Neoga, the fawn, is near.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Seneca Indians; Wind; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE FREEDMAN, by MURRAY KETCHAM KIRK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon his brow god burned his mark, and seared
Last Line: The torch of freedom in his dusky hands?
Subject(s): Freedom; Poetry Society Of America; Liberty


THE FUNERAL TREE OF THE SOKOKIS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Around sebago's lonely lake
Last Line: The indian's fitting monument!
Subject(s): Funerals; Native Americans; Sebago (lake), Maine; Trees; Burials; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS, by ABRAHAM LINCOLN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fourscore and seven years ago
Last Line: Shall not perish from the earth.
Variant Title(s): At Gettysburg
Subject(s): American Civil War; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Religion; United States - History; United States; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Theology; America


THE GHOSTS OF THE BUFFALOES, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night at black midnight I woke
Last Line: Good-night, good-night...Good-night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Buffaloes; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE GIFT OUTRIGHT, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The land was ours before we were the land's
Last Line: Such as she was, such as she would become
Subject(s): Inaugural Poem; United States; War; America


THE GRASS ON THE MOUNTAIN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "oh, long long"
Last Line: And the grass on the mountain
Subject(s): Grass;mountains;native Americans; Hills;downs (great Britain);indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


THE GUIDE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We rode across the level plain
Last Line: "will I be drunken!' is it so?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Leadership; Memory; Native Americans; Nature; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE GULF, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The airport coffee tastes less of america
Subject(s): Air Travel; Texas; United States; America


THE HALF-BREED (ON A JOURNEY WITH HIS WHITE RELATIVES), by AGNES MARIE SERUM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let them push on and with them that spirit
Last Line: Our sires were buried in this prairie sod.
Subject(s): Native Americans; South Dakota; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE HAPPY HUNTING GROUNDS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the rose gold westland, its yellow prairies roll
Last Line: Would fain sail westward unto you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Hunting; Native Americans; Nature; Hunters; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE HISTORY OF AMERICA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A linear projection: a route. It crosses
Last Line: Wonder you fear this bleeding pulse, no wonder
Subject(s): History; United States; Historians; America


THE HOME COMING (AFTER THE DEATH OF BUFFALO BILL), by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: They have waited over yonder through the long
Last Line: Friends!
Subject(s): "cody, William ""buffalo Bill"" (1846-1917); Death; Native Americans;" Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE HURON'S ADDRESS TO THE DEAD, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brother, thou wert strong in youth
Last Line: Rest in the bower of delight!
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Funerals; Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; U.s. - History; War; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Burials; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE INDIAN, by ARTHUR STANLEY BOURINOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Standing by the shore of the great bitter water
Last Line: Are empty.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE INDIAN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still westward with the lessening light ye go
Last Line: "each buried seed is hastening to rise!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE INDIAN BURYING GROUND, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In spite of all the learned have said
Last Line: To shadows and delusions here.
Subject(s): Americans; Cemeteries; Native Americans; United States; Graveyards; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; America


THE INDIAN CHIEF AND CONCONAY, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The indian chieftain is far away
Last Line: With its dark and jealous shade.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE INDIAN CORN PLANTER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He needs must leave the trapping and the chase
Last Line: With fostering richness, mothers every grain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Hunting; Labor & Laborers; Native Americans; Plants; Hunters; Work; Workers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Planting; Planters


THE INDIAN DANCER, by ANNA TILLMAN BOYD    Poem Text                    
First Line: O I'm an indian dancing man
Last Line: And dance as only indians can!
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE INDIAN GONE!, by JOSIAH D. CANNING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By night I saw the hunter's moon
Last Line: It answered me!
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE INDIAN HUNTER, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, why does the white-man follow my path
Last Line: Who never did harm to him.
Variant Title(s): Song Of The Red Indian
Subject(s): Native Americans; Racism; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THE INDIAN MASSACRE, FR. ACADIA, by JOSEPH HOWE (1804-1873)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For them no stately canopy is spread
Last Line: To charm the list'ning ear, or touch the heart.
Subject(s): Acadia; Massacres; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE INDIAN OF SAN SALVADOR, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What time the countless arrow-heads of light
Last Line: "shall pass in silence to a deeper shade."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Native Americans; San Salvador, El Salvador; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE INDIAN WITH HIS DEAD CHILD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the silence of the midnight
Last Line: My father's path I tread.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Death - Children; Native Americans; Death - Babies; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE INDIAN'S GRAVE, by GEORGE J. MOUNTAIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bright are the heavens, the narrow bay serene
Last Line: By whom the heathen unregarded dies?
Subject(s): Graves; Native Americans; Tombs; Tombstones; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE INDIAN'S REVENGE; SCENE IN THE LIFE OF A MORAVIAN MISSIONARY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Was that the light from some lone,swift canoe
Last Line: Burning on high in thy majestic heaven!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Missionaries & Missions; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE INDIAN'S WELCOME TO THE PILGRIM FATHERS, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Above them spread a strange sky
Last Line: Say, who shall welcome thee?
Subject(s): Americans; Native Americans; Pilgrim Fathers; United States; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; America


THE INDIANS, by CHARLES SPRAGUE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We call them savage. Oh, be just!
Last Line: Their children go -- to die!
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE INDIANS ON ALCATRAZ, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through time their sharp features have softened and blurred
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE ISLE OF FOUNTS; AN INDIAN TRADITION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Son of the stranger! Wouldst thou take
Last Line: Oh! Seek thou not the fountain isle!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE JACKET OF GREY, by CAROLINE AUGUSTA BALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fold it up carefully, lay it aside
Last Line: The jacket of grey our loved soldier boy wore!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Confederacy


THE LAMENT OF THE OUTALISSI, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And I could weep! - the oneyda chief
Last Line: The death-song of an indian chief!
Variant Title(s): Dirge Of Outalissi
Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE LAND WE LOVE, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Land of the gentle and brave!
Last Line: Thy loss by the graves of our dead!
Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Confederacy


THE LANDING OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS IN NEW ENGLAND [NOVEMBER 19, 1620], by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The breaking waves dashed high / on a stern and rock-bound coast
Last Line: Freedom to worship god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Variant Title(s): The Landing Of The Pilgrim Fathers;the Pilgrim Fathers
Subject(s): Freedom; Holidays; Patriotism; Pilgrim Fathers; Plymouth, Massachusetts; Thanksgiving Day; United States; Women; Liberty; America


THE LAST APPENDIX TO YANKEE DOODLE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yankee doodle sent to town
Last Line: As having been completely licked / by glorious yankee doodle
Subject(s): United States; America


THE LAST CHIEF, by DEAN IRE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nani-bo-jou! Nani-bo-joi!
Last Line: Where is your secret place?
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE LAST INCA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In lone caxamalca pizarro awaits
Last Line: Went up to the lord when the carnage was done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Incas; Pizarro, Francisco (1475-1521); South America


THE LAST MEETING OF POCAHONTAS AND THE GREAT CAPTAIN [JUNE, 1616], by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a stately hall at brentford
Last Line: "take my hand, and let us follow the great captain to his queen."
Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); Smith, John (1580-1631); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE LEGEND OF BOASTFUL BILL, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At a roundup on the gily
Last Line: "huh! Are you the great grandchildren of the west!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger
Subject(s): Americans; Cowboys; Ranch Life; United States; West (u.s.); America; Southwest; Pacific States


THE LEGEND OF WAUKULLA (1513), by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through darkening pines the cavaliers marched
Last Line: Waukulla.
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Bimini (island); Fountain Of Youth


THE LONE GRAVE ON THE MOUNTAIN, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon a dreary mountain top
Last Line: These tokens of our love!
Subject(s): Bull Mountain, Kentucky; Confederate States Of America; Graves; Confederacy; Tombs; Tombstones


THE LONESOME DREAM, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the america of the dream
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Dreams; United States; Race Awareness; Nightmares; America


THE LUST OF GOLD, by JAMES MONTGOMERY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rapacious spain
Last Line: And left a blank among the works of god.
Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Gold; Spain


THE MAN FROM WASHINGTON, by JAMES WELCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The end came easy for most of us
Subject(s): Men; Native Americans; War; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE MAN IN CHRYSANTHEMUM LAND, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a brave little berry-brown man
Last Line: Who fight for chrysanthemum land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Courage; Fights; Japan; United States; Valor; Bravery; Japanese; America


THE MARRIAGE OF POCAHONTAS, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These episodes are taken
Last Line: Uttering cries that are almost human
Subject(s): Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE MARRIAGE OF POCAHONTAS [APRIL 5, 1614], by MRS. M. M. WEBSTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: That balmy eve, within a trellised bower
Last Line: Shall raise the choral hymn from eve till morn.
Subject(s): Jamestown, Virginia; Native Americans; Pocahontas (1595-1617); Rolfe, John (1585-1622); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE MARSHES, by MABEL WARD RUDD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where, through rank thatch, the grasping sea has put
Last Line: To see the last trace of the marshes pass?
Subject(s): Birds; Cities; Native Americans; Swamps; Urban Life; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


THE MISSION, by JUNE POWER REILLY    Poem Text                    
First Line: A monk in brown cloth
Last Line: A new home for the indians, a new god.
Subject(s): Missions & Missionaries; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE MOOSE CALL, by VAUGHN H. KNIGHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The full moon rays streak 'cross the lake
Last Line: "then tomah whispers -- ""shoot, much shoot!"
Subject(s): Hunting; Moon; Native Americans; Hunters; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE MOTHERS OF THE WEST, by WILLIAM DAVIS GALLAGHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The mothers of our forest-land!
Last Line: "the dark and bloody ground."
Subject(s): Middle West; Pioneers; United States; Women; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; America


THE MOTHS: 1. CIRCA 1952, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Indians stood on a hill in bath and watched
Last Line: Into tomorrow.
Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Knowledge; Moths; Native Americans; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Women; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE MOUTH OF THE HUDSON, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: A single man stands like a bird-watcher
Subject(s): Americans; United States; America


THE MYSTERY OF CRO-A-TAN, by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The home-bound ship stood out to sea
Last Line: The tale of cro-a-tan!
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Dare, Virginia (1587-?); Virginia (state)


THE NATION'S COURAGE (WRITTEN IN THE WORLD WAR), by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As thou hast kept our nation, lord
Last Line: Lead thou the armies of the right!
Subject(s): Prayer; United States; World War I; America; First World War


THE NEW ANTHEM, by NORMAN BOLKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hammered steel strips laid out
Last Line: With joy and peace on every face.
Subject(s): Poverty; Racism; Religious Discrimination; Social Protest; United States; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Religious Conflict; America


THE NEW APARTMENT: MINNEAPOLIS, by LINDA HOGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The floorboards creak
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Memory; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians


THE NEW COLOSSUS, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not like the brazen giant of greek fame
Last Line: "I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Subject(s): Americans; Art & Artists; Freedom; Immigrants; Religion; Statue Of Liberty; United States; Liberty; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Theology; America


THE NIGHT ORCHARD, by DONALD REVELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They have given me a room near the power station
Subject(s): United States; America


THE NORSEMEN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gift from the cold and silent past!
Last Line: Of an immortal origin!
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Vikings


THE OLD BUFFALO TRAIL, by ISABEL ANDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: On the old buffalo trail, I'm glad this autumn day
Last Line: O, buffalo trail, what legends and what marvels you could tell!
Subject(s): Autumn; Native Americans; Roads; Seasons; Fall; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Paths; Trails


THE OLD CHICKASAH TO HIS GRANDSON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now go to the battle, my boy
Last Line: Till the steps of thy coming I see.
Subject(s): Duty; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Native Americans; War; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE OLD COVE, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As vonce I valked by a dismal swamp
Last Line: "all that I axed vos, let me alone."
Variant Title(s): Let Us Alone;all We Ask Is To Be Let Alone
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); State Rights; United States - History; Confederacy; Secession


THE OLD INDIAN, by ARTHUR STANLEY BOURINOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We walked one morning in the long ago
Subject(s): Old Age; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE PALISADES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hear an ancient indian legend told in many a
Last Line: "tempest-quelling, stand forever; matchless, changeless, unafraid!"
Subject(s): Evil; Legends; Native Americans; New York City; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE PASSING INDIAN, by FENTON JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By the shore of lonely long ago
Last Line: Ere the purple sunset calls thee home.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE PATRIOT'S LAMENT, by JOSEPH CEPHAS HOLLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, weep for columbia! Oh, weep for the time!
Last Line: And forever the glorious, and happy to reign.
Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America


THE PEACE MESSAGE, by BURTON EGBERT STEVENSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the door of his hut sat massasoit
Last Line: His messenger of peace.
Subject(s): Massasoit (d. 1661); Native Americans; Peace; Pilgrim Fathers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE PEOPLE'S PRAYER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God bless our dear united states
Last Line: And ever guard her liberty.
Subject(s): Prayer; United States; America


THE PILOT OF THE PLAINS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: False,' they said, thy pale-face lover, from the land of waking morn
Last Line: Hunters lost upon the plains.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Death; Legends; Love - Cultural Differences; Native Americans; Waiting; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE POET, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You would procure the oil of forgiveness from the angel
Last Line: With great humility, bathed in tears and barefoot.
Subject(s): Americanization; Cities; Decay; Modern Man; United States; Urban Life; Rot; Decadence; America


THE POLITICAL BALANCE; OR THE FATES OF BRITAIN & AMERICA ..., by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Deciding fates, in homer's stile, I shew
Last Line: "a curse to mankind -- and a blot on the ball."
Subject(s): Great Britain; United States; America


THE POWWOW AT THE END OF THE WORLD, by SHERMAN ALEXIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am told by many of you that I must forgive and so I shall
Last Line: With my tribe during the powwow at the end of the world
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE PRAIRIE-GRASS DIVIDING, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The prairie-grass dividing, its special odor breathing
Last Line: Those of inland america.
Subject(s): Prairies; United States; Plains; America


THE PRESENT CRISIS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When a deed is done for freedom, through the broad earth's aching breast
Last Line: Blood-rusted key.
Subject(s): Freedom; Justice; Religion; United States; Liberty; Theology; America


THE PURE PRODUCTS OF AMERICA, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the middle of the southeast asian war
Last Line: But I wish he'd quit
Subject(s): Children; United States; War; Childhood; America


THE QUIET WAYS, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The great god made me a man
Last Line: And the great hills that pierce the days.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Life; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE QUILL WORKER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Plains, plains, and the prairie land which the sunlight floods and fills
Last Line: Will broider his buckskin mantle with the quills of the porcupine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Beauty; Native Americans; Prairies; Trade; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Plains


THE RED MAN SPEAKS, by OLGA HILSEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: In that dim and distant past
Last Line: "vanquished by the white man's god?"
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE RED-MAN'S ALTAR, by INA SIZER CASSIDY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Son of nature, copper-skinned and stalwart
Last Line: Distill incense for your devotions.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Nature; Spiritual Life; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE REED, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As when the poet, muttering low
Last Line: "come,"" said she, ""sing thy reed-song through the world."
Subject(s): Civilization; Criticism & Critics; Justice; Music & Musicians; Nations; Poetry & Poets; United States; America


THE REST, by EZRA POUND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O helpless few in my country
Last Line: I have beaten out my exile.
Subject(s): Exiles; United States; America


THE RISING GLORY OF AMERICA, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now shall the adventurous muse attempt a theme
Last Line: And future years of bliss alone remain.
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Native Americans; Science; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Scientists; America


THE ROUSING CANOE SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "hide not, hide not"
Last Line: "only hide thee, lost enchantress"
Subject(s): Canoes And Canoeing;hunting;native Americans; Hunters;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


THE SALMON GILLERS, by DOROTHY MARIE DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now the full tide swallows the sandspits
Last Line: Starring the river.
Subject(s): Columbia River (north America); Fish & Fishing; Salmon; Anglers


THE SEA-EAGLES OF COLUMBIA, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Columbia's eagles of the sea
Last Line: "have borne thy slogan: ""sail! Sail on!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Birds; Columbia River (north America); Eagles; Sea; Ocean


THE SECOND DEPARTURE OF CUSTER, by MARY BOYNTON COWDREY    Poem Text                    
First Line: In phantom form and grand array
Last Line: To show a nation how they died.
Subject(s): Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE SELF-BETRAYAL WHICH IS NOTHING NEW, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look now, miraculous, mirabillis, and true!
Subject(s): Fame; United States; Reputation; America


THE SETTLER: AMERICA IN THE MAKING, by ALFRED BILLINGS STREET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His echoing ax the settler swung
Last Line: A nation's freedom won.
Subject(s): Pioneers; United States; America


THE SEVENTH VIAL, by WILLARD WATTLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These are the days when men draw pens for swords
Last Line: Tho this is war, there is another war!
Subject(s): Democracy; United States; War; America


THE SIGNIFICANCE OF A VETERAN'S DAY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I happen to be a veteran
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE SKELETON IN ARMOR, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Speak! Speak! Thou fearful guest!
Last Line: Thus the tale ended.
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Newport, Rhode Island; Scandinavia & Scandinavians; Vikings; Vinland


THE SLAVE MOTHER, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heard you that shriek? It rose
Last Line: Oh, father! Must they part?
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Americans; Slavery; United States; Serfs; America


THE SONG OF THE ANCIENT PEOPLE; THE PUEBLO INDIANS OF THE SOUTHWEST, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are the ancient people
Last Line: Born with the wind and rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Native Americans; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States


THE SONG OF THE FLAGS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We loved the wild clamor of battle
Last Line: "forgive, but ah, never forget."
Variant Title(s): On The Return Of The Confederate Flags By Congress
Subject(s): Flags - Confederate States Of America; Forgiveness; Southern States; Clemency; South (u.s.)


THE SOUTH CAROLINA HYMN OF INDEPENDENCE, by CLAUDIAN BIRD NORTHROP    Poem Text                    
First Line: South carolinians! Proudly see
Last Line: The drum has beat th' alarm.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; South Carolina; U.s. - History; Confederacy


THE SQUAW MAN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cow-moose comes to water, and the beaver's overbold
Last Line: God bless you, little laughing eyes! I'm glad.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE STAR OF LIBERTY, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: There shone a gem on england's crown
Last Line: On thy calm breast, america!
Subject(s): Freedom; United States; Liberty; America


THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER, by FRANCIS SCOTT KEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light
Last Line: Brave.
Variant Title(s): Final Curtain;defence Of Fort Mchenry
Subject(s): Flags - United States; Fort Mchenry, Battle Of (1814); Fourth Of July; Freedom; Napoleon I (1769-1821); National Song - United States; Patriotism; United States; War Of 1812; American Flag; Independence Day; Liberty; American National Anthem; America


THE STRANGE PEOPLE, by LOUISE ERDRICH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All night I am the doe, breathing
Alternate Author Name(s): Erdrich, Lise
Subject(s): Native Americans; Sports; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE STUDENT, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In america everybody must have a degree,' the french man
Subject(s): Schools; Education; France; United States; Students; America


THE SUBSTITUTE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How say'st thou? Die to-morrow?
Last Line: Knelt by the corse -- alone.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Capital Punishment; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Confederacy


THE SUCCESSION, by FRANCES LAUGHTON MACE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As one by one the singers of our land
Last Line: For his soul's peace his life to song has given.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; United States; America


THE TEARS OF A MUSE IN AMERICA, by FRANK TEMPLETON PRINCE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Call out, celebrate the beam
Last Line: Stand silent as a tree, this verse no longer weeps.
Alternate Author Name(s): Prince, F. T.
Subject(s): United States; America


THE TENNESSEEAN TO THE FLAG, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We followed you first in the days of old
Last Line: Than the love of our people for thee.
Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Flags; Patriotism; Soldiers; Tennessee; Confederacy


THE THREE GIVERS, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: England gave me sun and storm
Last Line: That gave the richest gift to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; England; Ireland; United States; English; Irish; America


THE TOMB OF THE BRAVE; IN COMMEMORATION OF BATTLE ON WABASH, by JOSEPH HUTTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: When darkness prevail'd and aloud on the air
Last Line: And glory thus bloom o'er the tomb of the brave.
Subject(s): Middle West; Native Americans; Tippecanoe, Battle Of (1811); Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE TOPOGRAPHY OF HISTORY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All cities are open in the hot season
Last Line: "calling out ""o love, love,"" but finding none"
Subject(s): Death; Hate; History; Maps; United States; Dead, The; Historians; America


THE TORTURE OF CUAUHTEMOC, by ALAN SEEGER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Their strength had fed on this when death's white arms
Last Line: And turned his face against the wall -- and died.
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Mexico


THE TRAIN DOGS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the night and the north
Last Line: The wolfish blood in their veins.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hunting; Native Americans; Roads; Hunters; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Paths; Trails


THE TRUTH IS, by LINDA HOGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In my left pocket a chickasaw hand
Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Environment; Ethnic Groups - United States; Minorities - United States; Native Americans; United States - Race Relations; Women; Nuclear Freeze; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Indians Of America; American Indians;


THE UNBOUGHT SEMINOLE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An old, old man, in thicker shades
Last Line: "live on! Live on! Live on!"
Subject(s): Leadership; Native Americans; Seminole Indians; Wisdom; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE UNCONQUERED BANNER, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sad priest-singer, in his dread despair
Last Line: And wed to deathless liberty again.
Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Flags - Confederate States Of America; War; Confederacy


THE UNITED STATES, by JOHN KEBLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tyre of the farther west! Be thou too warned
Last Line: Her towers, and lone sands heap her crowned merchants' graves.
Subject(s): United States; America


THE UNITED STATES, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Seven years long was the bow / of battle bent, and the heightening
Last Line: Shout for the joy of her face.
Subject(s): United States; America


THE UNITED STATES TO OLD WORLD CRITICS, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here first the duties of to-day, the lessons of the concrete
Last Line: The solid-planted spires tall shooting to the stars.
Subject(s): United States; America


THE UTE LOVER, by HAMLIN GARLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the burning brazen sky
Last Line: Lit by the moon.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE VANISHING RED, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He is said to have been the last red man
Last Line: Oh, yes, he showed john the wheel pit all right
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE VAUDOIS TEACHER [MISSIONARY], by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O lady fair, these silks of mine are beautiful and rare
Last Line: Where the poor and needy of earth are rich in the perfect love of god!
Subject(s): Missions & Missionaries; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE VICTORIES OF PEACE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Gone is the tempest that clouded
Last Line: Hope for the days that have brightened.
Subject(s): Peace; United States; America


THE VOYAGE TO VINLAND: 1. BIORN'S BECKONERS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now biorn, the sun of heriulf, had ill days
Last Line: "ourselves a dream, and dreamlike all we did."
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Vinland


THE VOYAGE TO VINLAND: 2. THORWALD'S LAY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So biorn went comfortless but for his thought
Last Line: The first rune in the saga of the west.
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Vinland


THE VOYAGE TO VINLAND: 3. GUDRIDA'S PROPHECY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Four weeks they sailed, a speck in sky-shut seas
Last Line: Mighty of bone.
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Vinland


THE WARRIOR CHIEF, by PHEBE JEWELL NICHOLS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Straight, rigid, bronze, he sat his horse
Last Line: And moving the feather in his hair.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE WAY THINGS ARE IN FRANKLIN, by JANE KENYON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even the undertaker is going out
Subject(s): Americans; United States; America


THE WAY TO WAKONDA; THE GREAT SPIRIT OF THE OMAHA INDIANS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wakonda's way is the way of the wind
Last Line: And the land where the loved ones are.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Native Americans; Wind; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE WEAVER, by EFFIE BRUCE HARDY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tired heart, now I shall weave all thy longings
Last Line: Blanket of grief, I create thee, alone.
Subject(s): Blankets; Death; Grief; Native Americans; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE WILD-BEES, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All along the brazos river
Last Line: Was the fertile land of texas.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Native Americans; Pioneers; Texas; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE WOMAN FROM SPIRITWOOD, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleeping from mandan to jamestown
Last Line: Before there can be freedom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Beauty; Native Americans; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States


THE WYOMING MASSACRE, by URIAH TERRY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Kind heaven, assist the trembling muse
Last Line: Of cruel tyranny.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Massacres; Native Americans; Wyoming, Pennyslvania; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE YANKEE VOLUNTEERS, by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye yankee volunteers!
Last Line: Poor yankee doodle!
Subject(s): United States; America


THE ZEBRA GOES WILD WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS, by HENRY DUMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Neon stripes tighten my wal
Subject(s): United States; Racism; Fathers; America; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


THESE STATES, INTO L.A., by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Organs and war news / radio static from saigon
Subject(s): United States; America


THESE UNITED STATES, by BENJAMIN ROBBINS CURTIS LOW    Poem Text                    
First Line: New, for the most part: very, very new
Last Line: But make her worthy, for we love her, lord!
Subject(s): United States; America


THESE YET TO BE UNITED STATES, by MAYA ANGELOU    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tremors of your network
Last Line: Which fill your children's throats
Subject(s): United States; America


THEY ACCUSE ME OF NOT TALKING, by HAYDEN CARRUTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: North people known for silence. Long
Last Line: And the relentless futility of the real?
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THIS IS A FATHERLAND TO ME, by JOSEPH CEPHAS HOLLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Tell me not of fatherland
Last Line: We may abide if anywhere.
Subject(s): African Americans; United States; Negroes; American Blacks; America


THOMPSON'S LUNCH ROOM: GRAND CENTRAL STATION: STUDY IN WHITES, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wax white - / floor, ceiling, walls
Subject(s): Americans; United States; America


THOMPSON'S VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The book, by george! I'd rather own
Last Line: "in zadock thompson's book ""vermont."
Subject(s): Authors & Authorship; Books; History; Native Americans; Travel; Vermont; Reading; Historians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Journeys; Trips


THOSE REBEL FLAGS, by JOHN H. JEWETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shall we send back the johnnies their bunting
Last Line: Is america's watchword to-day.
Subject(s): Flags - Confederate States Of America; Flags - United States; United States; American Flag; America


THOUGHT (2), by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness
Last Line: The lead of those who do not believe in men.
Subject(s): United States; America


THOUSAND-YEAR WAR, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Imagine, if you will, a people sleeping
Last Line: Will we ever speak of it?
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


TIGER, by CLAUDE MCKAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The white man is a tiger at my throat
Last Line: The tiger in his strength his thirst must slake!
Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli
Subject(s): Racism; United States; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; America


TIME AS MEMORY AS STORY, by SIMON J. ORTIZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Time; Native Americans; Family Life; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Relatives


TO & FRO, by SIMON J. ORTIZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the train to california
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


TO A DEAD PEMBINA WARRIOR, by LEW SARETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Slumbering warrior-souls, afloat
Last Line: To a land of peaceful slumbers and friendly council fires.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


TO A FRENCH GIRL IN AMERICA, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I cannot tell just where the difference lies
Last Line: —mabel kingsley richardson
Subject(s): Freedom; History; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; United States; Liberty; Historians; America


TO A LADY ON HER REMARKABLE PRESERVATION IN AN HURRICANE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though thou did'st hear the tempest from afar
Last Line: And what the blessings of maternal care!
Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis
Subject(s): Americans; Hurricanes; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; United States; America


TO A MATTABASSETT (A CONNECTICUT INDIAN), by WALTER BARDECK    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw him just before midnight
Last Line: So proud and cold, but weeping.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


TO A PRESIDENT, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All you are doing and saying is to america dangled mirages
Last Line: Off from these states.
Subject(s): Buchanan, James. President (1791-1868); Presidents, United States; United States; America


TO AMERICA, by LUCILE CHANDLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: For centuries, america, you lay
Last Line: And find a friend, america, in you.
Subject(s): United States; America


TO AMERICA AFTER READING SOME UNGENEROUS CRITICISMS, by RICHARD GARNETT (1835-1906)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What though thy muse the singer's art
Last Line: A homer or a shakespeare worthy thee.
Subject(s): United States; America


TO AMERICA'S UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by KARL E. MUNDT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When from your silent sleep in france you came
Last Line: —the classmate
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Soldiers; United States; Unknown Soldier; War; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; America


TO AMERICA, CONCERNING ENGLAND, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Art thou her child, born in the proud midday
Last Line: Without the crown divine thou might'st have worn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): England; United States; English; America


TO BE SUNG ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, by WYATT PRUNTY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We come to this country
Subject(s): Fourth Of July; United States; Songs; Independence Day; America


TO BOLIVAR, by RAFAEL POMBO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thou fillest all of south america
Last Line: Make the stand out still greater every day
Subject(s): Bolivar, Simon (1783-1830); Heroism; South America


TO CHIEF KAMIAKIN, HAPPILY DEAD, by CLARK EMERY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Squaws on the kerosene-sprinkled floor
Last Line: Sick and drunk in the county jail.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


TO ELSIE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pure products of america
Subject(s): United States; Social Commentaries; America


TO FOREIGN LANDS, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle the new world
Last Line: Therefore I send you my poems that you behold in them what you wanted.
Subject(s): United States; America


TO KAIRI, by VICTOR HERNANDEZ CRUZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Are you speaking spanish
Last Line: The voice is yourself
Subject(s): Hispanic Americans; Puerto Rico; South America


TO PERSCEUTED FOREIGNERS, by PENINA MOISE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fly from the soil whose desolating creed
Last Line: Come to the homes and bosoms of the free.
Subject(s): Anti-semitism; Freedom; Immigrants; United States; Liberty; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; America


TO ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Robert louis stevenson! / blue the lift and braw the dawn
Last Line: Robert louis stevenson.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894); Strangers; United States; Writing & Writers; America


TO ROOSEVELT, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The voice that would reach you, hunter, must speak
Last Line: And though you have everything, you are lacking one thing: god!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Imperialism; United States


TO SITTING BULL, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is no prophet without honor, save
Last Line: Our prairie when injustice is abroad.
Subject(s): Messiah; Native Americans; Prisons & Prisoners; Prophecy & Prophets; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Convicts


TO THE ANDES, by GUILLERMO VALENCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, how I miss you, mountains of my home
Last Line: The summits of your rough and craggy heights!
Subject(s): Forests; Home; Memory; South America


TO THE CANARIES, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is always spring in the canaries
Last Line: Seem to become, at dusk, the hilt of a sword
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


TO THE DRIVING CLOUD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gloomy and dark art thou, o chief of the mighty omahas
Last Line: Drifts evermore to the west the scanty smokes of thy wigwams!
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


TO THE INVINCIBLE REPUBLIC, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: America! I have never breathed thy air
Last Line: Of some vast advent that makes all things new.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): England; Kisses; Life; Soul; United States; English; America


TO THE PANAMA CANAL, by BENIGNO PALMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hail, prodigy of human effort, emblem of freedom
Last Line: Nobly to the sacrifice, to exclaim: 'for the good of the %world!'
Subject(s): Freedom; Latin America - History; Panama Canal


TO THE RIGHT HON! WILLIAM EARL OF DARTMOUTH, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail! Happy day! When smiling like the morn
Last Line: Where, like the prophet, thou shalt find thy god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis
Subject(s): Americans; Freedom; Legge, William. 2d Earl Of Dartmouth; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; United States; Liberty; America


TO THE STATES. TO IDENTIFY THE 16TH, 17TH, OR 18TH PRESIDENTIAD, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why reclining, interrogating? Why myself and all drowsing
Last Line: South, north, east, west, inland and seaboard, we will surely awake.)
Subject(s): Men; Politics & Government; Presidents, United States; United States; America


TO THE WESTERN WORLD, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: A siren sang, and europe turned away
Subject(s): United States; America


TO THE WHITE PEOPLE OF AMERICA, by JOSHUA MCCARTER SIMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er this wide, extended country
Last Line: The judgment day will come by and by.
Subject(s): Slavery; United States; Serfs; America


TO THEE, MY COUNTRY, by LOUISE BURTON LAIDLAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: America, unbend that troubled brow!
Last Line: Shall false and foolish fears hold thee in thrall?
Alternate Author Name(s): Backus, L., Mrs.
Subject(s): League Of Nations; Nations; Peace; United States; War; America


TODAY I AM A HOMICIDE IN THE NORTH OF THE CITY, by WANDA COLEMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On this bus to oblivion I bleed in the seat
Last Line: I know my killer is out there
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda
Subject(s): Americans; United States; America


TOKEN, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Breakfast is a salty biscuit, a piece
Last Line: In harmony, breathing the same stale air
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


TOKINISH, by JAMES THOMAS STEVENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Truth is a native
Last Line: Drunke, and they shall sleep a perpetuall sleepe, and not wake
Subject(s): America - Exploration; History; Islands; Native Americans; Navigation; Sea Voyages; Trail Of Tears (1838-39)


TOMORROW, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Although the car radio warned that / 'war threatened' as 'europe mobilized'
Subject(s): Americans; Kent State University - Riot, 1970; United States; America


TOPOGRAPHY, by SHARON OLDS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After we flew across the country we
Subject(s): United States; Togetherness; America


TOWARD THE GULF; DEDICATED TO THEODORE ROOSEVELT, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the cordilleran highlands
Last Line: Till east and west shall be one in the west of heaven and earth!
Subject(s): United States; America


TOWARD THE JURASSIC AGE, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone brought them to palma
Last Line: Impossible to bury them
Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs.
Subject(s): Central America; Social Protest; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Dictators


TOWARD THE JURASSIC AGE, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Someone brought them to palma
Last Line: Impossible to bury them
Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs.
Subject(s): Central America; Social Protest; Tyranny And Tyrants; War


TRACT, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old tract, the houses of wood siding
Last Line: More callas, more houses
Subject(s): Americans; United States; America


TRANSCONTINENT, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the cities end, the
Last Line: They’re nearly there
Subject(s): Americans; United States; America


TRANSITION, by VIOLA K. SHAPIRO    Poem Text                    
First Line: At a fourth of july 'pow-wow' celebration
Last Line: From savagery to civilization.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


TRAVELERS: 1, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: How did we come here?
Last Line: Finally: shoes, jewelry, photographs
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


TRAVELERS: 2, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flimsy as the reeds that scratch her bony cheekbone, the world is a
Last Line: Essential landscape. Our hearts grew light when the burden of trying %to save ourselves lifted
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


TRAVELERS: 3, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A man and a woman enter the landscape, moving clumsily
Last Line: Whispers: brother, we will find it
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


TREE, by JOSE JOAQUIN OLMEDO    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the calm, wide-spreading shadow
Last Line: Underneath the desert's tree
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Nature; Sea Voyages; Travel; Trees


TRIBUTE TO AMERICA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a people mighty in its youth
Last Line: Nay, start not at the name -- america!
Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America


TRINC: PRAISES II, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, when the grand nudes, golden as fields of grain
Last Line: Hallelujah! For the people's beer! And for all his comrades: praise!
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Native Americans; Ale; Wine; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


TROPICA; A FRAGMENT, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis night in a far-off clime
Last Line: Rouse her from her dreamy rest!
Subject(s): Animals; Hunger; Hunting; Jungles; Native Americans; Hunters; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


TRUE PATRIOTISM, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not in the belching cannon's roar
Last Line: Confound the misanthrope.
Subject(s): Patriotism; United States; America


TSANKAWI, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The men hiked on a loop trail
Last Line: "you live, I live, we live."
Subject(s): Marriage; Native Americans; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


TWO AMERICAS, by RAFAEL POMBO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twins in destiny and in name, two brothers in christ
Last Line: Blessing two worlds at peace
Subject(s): Bolivar, Simon (1783-1830); Peace; South America


TWO MOON TO A JOURNALIST AFTER REHEARSAL: 1898, by GEOFFREY BROCK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I thought then that the great spirits
Alternate Author Name(s): Brock, Geoff
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


TWO: 3, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Next to of course god america I
Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E.
Subject(s): Americans; Freedom; Hypocrisy; Patriotism; Politics & Government; United States; World War I; Liberty; America; First World War


UNDER THE PALISADES, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Light as a leaf on the lifting swell
Last Line: I shall be deathless when ye are naught!
Subject(s): Mountains; Native Americans; Nature; New York City; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


UNITED STATES, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He shall be great who serves his country well
Last Line: Who loves his land too much to stoop to shame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): United States; America


UNITED STATES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: United -- for what? To extort and oppress?
Last Line: Our brotherly united states.
Subject(s): United States; America


UTITIA'Q'S SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "aja, I am joyful; this is good!"
Last Line: "I am tired to watching and waking, this is good!"
Subject(s): Eskimos;native Americans; Inuit;indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


VEGAS, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a frozen tree that I wanted to paint
Last Line: I kept my mouth / shut
Subject(s): Americans; Doolittle, Hilda (1886-1961); Las Vegas, Nevada; United States; America


VENUS THREAD, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here is the gold coin spinning
Last Line: Who we are, what we will become?
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


VERAZZANO AT RHODES AND RHODE ISLAND, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the tides of the warm south wind it lay
Last Line: Bears the fairest isle of the western coast.
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Rhode Island; Verazzano, Giovanni Da (1485-1528)


VERMONT CHEESEMAKING, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When white grass makes the pasture white
Last Line: Your man is 'mazing fond of cheese.
Subject(s): Cheese; Milk; United States; Vermont; Milkmen; Milkmaids; America


VIETNAM, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He was just back
Subject(s): United States; War; America


VIEW ON THE HUDSON, by BARTHOLOMEW SIMMONS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sound to the sun thy solemn joy for ever
Last Line: To spread her worship o'er a second world.
Subject(s): Hudson River; United States; America


VIRGINIA - THE WEST, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The noble sire fallen on evil days
Last Line: For you provided me washington -- and now these also.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Virginia (state); Confederacy


VIRGINIA'S DEAD, by CORNELIA J. M. JORDAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Proud mother of a race that reared
Last Line: There sleep virginia's dead.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; United States - History; Virginia (state); Confederacy


VISIT OF DIPLOMACY: CENTRAL AMERICA, by SISTER MAURA EICHNER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wife of a visiting politician
Variant Title(s): Gautemal
Subject(s): Central America; Social Problems


VOLCANO, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: O fountain! O black smoke and loud report
Last Line: Decks. Like skaters they glide in the pantomine
Variant Title(s): In Praise Of Music And Poetr
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


WALT WHITMAN AND THE BIRDS, by JOSE FONTINHAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: On waking up, I remembered peter doyle. It must have been
Last Line: To the waters of being, like one who prepares himself for flight
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Poetry Society Of America; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891)


WALT WHITMAN'S CAUTION, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To the states, or any one of them, or any city of the states
Last Line: Ever afterward resumes its liberty.
Subject(s): Slavery; United States; Serfs; America


WAR IS KIND: 1, by STEPHEN CRANE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind
Last Line: War is kind.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Americans; Men; Social Protest; United States - History; United States; America


WAR PROFIT LITANY, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These are the names of the companies that have made money from this war
Last Line: 1967 furthers this poem of these states
Subject(s): United States; America


WAR SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here on my breast have I bled!
Last Line: I strike for life
Subject(s): Native Americans;native Americans - Wars;ojibwa Indians; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


WAR SONG: 1, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "hear my voice, birds of war!"
Last Line: Bear your angers to the place of fighting
Subject(s): Fights;native Americans;native Americans - Wars;ojibwa Indians;survival; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


WAR SONG: 2, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "from the south they came, birds of war"
Last Line: Beyond the enemy's line
Subject(s): Native Americans;native Americans - Wars;ojibwa Indians; Indians Of America;american Indians;indians Of South America


WAR WITH CHILE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: War with chile? Just as soon
Last Line: Let the godlike way be hers!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Chile; South America; War


WASHYUMA MOTOR HOTEL, by SIMON J. ORTIZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the cement foundations
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


WATCH THE LIGHTS FADE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gray steel, cloud-shadow-stained
Last Line: Sea-wind salts your head white
Subject(s): Future; United States; America


WE, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We ought to drop the bomb at once before
Subject(s): Cold War; United States; Social Classes; Social Commentaries; America; Caste


WE REAL COOL; THE POOL PLAYERS. SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: We real cool. We / left school. We
Last Line: Die soon.
Variant Title(s): We Real Cool
Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Children; Americans; Death; Labor & Laborers; Men; United States; Youth; Negroes; American Blacks; Dead, The; Work; Workers; America


WEEDS, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: He would like to be odysseus, tied to
Last Line: Of eternity: the perfumed shroud of kings
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


WELCOME; DEDICATED TO THE SAENGERBUND OF THE NORTHWEST, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome, o brothers, joy and cheer!
Last Line: Forward, with god, for fatherland!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Northwest, Pacific; Patriotism; United States; America


WELLFLEET: THE HOUSE, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Roof overwoven by a soft tussle of leaves
Last Line: Can time have any foreignness or fears
Subject(s): Americans; United States; America


WESTERN WAGONS, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They went with axe and rifle, when the trail was still to blaze
Last Line: But we're going west, tomorrow, with our fortune in our hands
Subject(s): Pioneers; United States; West (u.s.); America; Southwest; Pacific States


WHALE, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: What rich milk has fed the beast to size
Last Line: The handiwork of god, pities the whale
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE AMERICAN?, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What does it mean? I look across the years
Last Line: A worthy daughter, or a noble son. ...
Subject(s): United States; America


WHAT I SHOULD HAVE SAID, by JOY HARJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There's nothing that says you can't
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME, by PATRICK SARSFIELD GILMORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When johnny comes marching home again hurrah!
Last Line: When johnny comes marching home.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lambert, Louis
Subject(s): American Civil War; Patriotism; Peace; United States - History; United States; America


WHERE DID LOVE GO?, by STEPHEN SARTARELLI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One notable casualty of the
Subject(s): Diplomacy & Diplomats: Iraq War (2003); United States; France; America


WHERE THE GRIZZLY DWELLS, by JAMES FOX (20TH CENTURY)    Poem Text                    
First Line: I admire the artificial art of the east
Last Line: The indian land,— land of the golden west.
Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Cowboys; Native Americans; Ranch Life; Rocky Mountain Range; West (u.s.); Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States


WHERE TYRANTS PERISH, by JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sail on, columbus! Sail right onward still
Last Line: Where tyrants perish and all men are free.
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Sailing & Sailors; Tyranny & Tyrants; United States; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; America


WHITMAN, by LARRY LEVIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On long island, they moved my clapboard house
Subject(s): Jazz; Music & Musicians; Parker, Charlie ('bird') (1920-1955); Poetry & Poets; Popular Culture - United States; United States; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); America


WHO BLEW UP AMERICA, by AMIRI BARAKA            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi
Subject(s): United States; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001; America


WHO RUNS AMERICA?, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oil brown smog over denver
Subject(s): United States; America


WIDOW, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Heraldic like a banner on the bow
Last Line: Prepared again to winnow, prepared to thrive
Subject(s): America - Exploration; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers


WIND SONG; OKLAHOMA ANNIVERSARY, APRIL 22, by ZOE AGNES STRATTON TILGHMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wind of the prairie, sweeping adown from the hills
Last Line: "but these are they who have conquer'd and kept, the people of eighty-nine."
Subject(s): Native Americans; Oklahoma; Pioneers; West (u.s.); Wind; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Southwest; Pacific States


WINGS LIFTED OVER THE BLACK PIT, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: City flats, coal yards and brown rivers
Last Line: "watercourses running with oil
Subject(s): United States; America


WOLVERINE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes sir, it's quite a story though you won'r bwlieve it's true
Last Line: "I peered into the face—my god! 'twas poor old wolverine."
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Murder; Native Americans; Prejudice; Salvation; Trapping & Trappers; Wolves; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Bias; Intolerance; Traps; Snares; Trappers


WOMAN SPEAKS TO HER PAST, by JANET MCADAMS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lies make us up like a bed no one's slept in
Last Line: But it is you who must speak
Subject(s): Central America; Nature


WORDS OF THE LAST INCA, by JOSE EUSEBIA CARO    Poem Source                    
First Line: I come today to high pichincha's brow
Last Line: There will it lay its eggs and build its nest, %unknown and free!
Subject(s): Freedom; Incas; South America


WORK GANGS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Box cars run a mile long
Subject(s): Americans; Justice; Labor & Laborers; United States; Work; Workers; America


YELLOW, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He wants to be an indian
Subject(s): Yellow (color); Native Americans; Race Awareness; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


YONNONIDO, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A song, a poem of itself - the word itself a dirge
Last Line: Then blank and gone and still, and utterly lost.
Subject(s): Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


YOU CAN START THE POETRY NOW, OR: NEWS FROM CRAZY, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I guess all I'm trying to say is I saw crazy horse die for
Last Line: Start the poetry!! Start the poetry now!!
Subject(s): Crazy Horse (oglala Sioux Chief); Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Irony; Native Americans; Poetry & Poets; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


YOUNG AMERICA - OLD ENGLAND, by WILLIAM CHARLES MARK KENT    Poem Text                    
First Line: What! Shall saxon bonds be sundered
Last Line: Hand-in-hand, not sword to sword!
Alternate Author Name(s): Kent, Charles
Subject(s): England; United States; English; America


YOUNG SAMMY'S FIRST WILD OATS, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mid uncle sam's expanded acres
Last Line: "on ""young sammy's first wild oats."
Subject(s): Elections; Spanish-american War (1898); United States; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; America


YOUNG WOMAN AT A WINDOW, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She sits with / tears on
Last Line: To the glasss
Subject(s): United States; America


YOUR HONOR, by PARTHENIA GADDY WILSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: When walking down the street
Last Line: We lift old glory the u. S. Around.
Subject(s): Pride; United States; Self-esteem; Self-respect; America