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Subject: ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
Matches Found: 9

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ARLINGTON, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No tap of drum nor sound of any horn
Last Line: Like the surrendered sword of memory.
Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery


ARLINGTON CHRONICLES, by EDMONDE HADDAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Time draws nigh for the downbeat within
Last Line: Lacing the arlington and its uncaring throng
Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery


AT ARLINGTON, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The broken column, reared in air
Last Line: And sleeps to wake at arlington.
Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Soldiers


IN ARLINGTON, by EDNA MEAD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Does he lie gladly in the earth of home
Last Line: Of honor and its wearer yesterday.
Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Death; Military; Soldiers; War; Dead, The


ON A MILITARY GRAVEYARD, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stranger, when you come to washington
Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Death; Graves; Military; Soldiers; Washington, D.c.; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


ON A MILITARY GRAVEYARD, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stranger, when you come to washington
Last Line: Obedient to their orders
Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Death; Graves; Military; Soldiers; Washington, D.c.


THE LITTLE STONES; REMEMBERING A SIGHT OF ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETARY, by BARBARA YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw them shining in the sun
Last Line: And no more stones in arlington.
Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Death; Social Protest; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Dead, The


TOMB OF THE KENNEDYS, by SANDOR WEORES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We went to arlington cemetery
Last Line: Droned by a lunatic in the marketplace
Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Graves; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963)


UNKNOWN SOLDIER ARMISTICE DAY AT ARLINGTON, by GRANTLAND RICE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wind today is full of ghosts ...
Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Unknown Soldier; World War I