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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: AMERICA Matches Found: 1059 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 deathbut 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 thisamerica! 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, changingyou 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 overthat 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 seesthe 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 facemy 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 |
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