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Subject: CAPITOL, WASHINGTON, D.C.
Matches Found: 7

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1892-1941, by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To be moved comes of want, though want be complete
Subject(s): Capitol, Washington, D.c.; Statues


CAPITOL HILL: OMAHA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, by VICTOR CONTOSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: High on capitol hill
Last Line: And lost him
Subject(s): Capitol, Washington, D.c.; High School Students; Nebraska


MOTHER AND CHILD AT THE CAPITOL; JUNE, 1921, by GRACE GUILLE PURSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Where is the soldier? The unknown
Last Line: Brings not its gift in vain!
Subject(s): Capitol, Washington, D.c.; Death; Graves; Mothers; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Washington, D.c.; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


OF BEING NUMEROUS, 40, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The capitol grows upon one in time, especially as they have got
Subject(s): Capitol, Washington, D.c.


SMOKE ROSE GOLD, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dome of the capitol ooks to the potomac river
Subject(s): Capitol, Washington, D.c.


SMOKE ROSE GOLD, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dome of the capitol ooks to the potomac river
Subject(s): Capitol, Washington, D.c.


TO THE STATUE ON THE CAPITOL; LOOKING EASTWARD AT DAWN, by JOHN JAMES PIATT    Poem Source                    
First Line: What sunken splendor in the eastern skies
Last Line: Whose savage garments from thy shoulders fly, %whose eagle clings in sunrise to thy crest!
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Capitol, Washington, D.c.; Crawford, Thomas (1814-1857); Sculpture And Sculptors; Statues