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Subject: CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A NEW WAR SONG BY SIR PETER PARKER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "my lords, with your leave"
Last Line: "the continent, whole, / we will take, be my soul, / if the cowardly yankees will let us"
Subject(s): "american Revolution;charleston, South Carolina;parker, Sir Peter (1721-1811);


A SONG ABOUT CHARLESTON, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: King hancock sat in regal state
Last Line: "hearts which with native valor glowed, / hearts of true british mould"
Subject(s): "american Revolution;charleston, South Carolina;lincoln, Benjamin (1733-1810);


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


CHARLESTON, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is this the price of beauty! Fairest, thou
Last Line: For thou, destroyer, art man's only hope!
Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina; Disasters; Earthquakes


CHARLESTON, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Calmly beside her tropic strand
Last Line: Pass from the world to glory.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; United States - History


CHARLESTON, by HENRY TIMROD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Calm as that second summer which precedes / the first fall of snow
Last Line: April, 1'63.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; United States - History


CHARLESTON, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A kind of wooden boston, crowding toward
Last Line: The horizontal smudge, fort sumter, where %six hundred thousand men began to die
Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina; Fort Sumter, South Carolina


CHARLESTON AT THE CLOSE OF 1863, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What! Still does the mother of treason uprear
Last Line: Where her dead martyrs rest!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; United States - History


CHARLESTON GARDEN, by HENRY BELLAMANN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love old gardens best
Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina


CHARLESTON IN THE 1860S, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He seized me round the waist and kissed my throat
Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina; Chestnut, Mary Boykin


CHARLESTON IN THE 1860S, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He seized me round the waist and kissed my throat
Last Line: No imagination [is] to forestall woe
Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina; Chestnut, Mary Boykin


CHARLESTON PLANTATIONS, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: You cannot see them from the road: go far and deep
Last Line: Deep in a deathly stillness stand the planters' houses
Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina; Plantation Life


CHARLESTON RETAKEN; DEC. 14, 1782, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As some half-vanquished lion
Last Line: Did slowly disappear.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Charleston, South Carolina


CHARLESTOWN, by BESSIE CURTIS MARCIL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Low foam-washed marshes edge the distant shore
Last Line: Help us to guard these sacred relics here, and keep them safe forevermore.
Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina; Southern States; South (u.s.)


IN HOSPITAL: 21. ROMANCE, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Talk of pluck!' pursued the sailor
Last Line: "and they meant it too, by thunder!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; Hospitals; United States - History


MAGNOLIA GARDENS, by HENRY BELLAMANN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The country's death %lies stretched in soft decay
Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina; Gardens And Gardening; Magnolias


MAGNOLIA GARDENS, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a disappointment
Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina; Gardens & Gardening


ON THE DEPARTURE OF THE BRITISH FROM CHARLESTON, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His triumphs of a moment done
Last Line: "these for their country fought and bled."
Subject(s): American Revolution; Charleston, South Carolina


RUBBING THE FACES OF ANGELS, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the balcony of the golden eagle motor inn
Last Line: Me the reclining skeleton of thomas pool.
Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina; Death; Hotels; Southern States; Dead, The; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; South (u.s.)


SEVEN CITIES OF AMERICA, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How they walled the sea, and felled the woods
Subject(s): Boston; Charleston, South Carolina; Chicago


SOUTHERN ADOLESCENCE RECOGNIZED, by GEORDIE BUXTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this pale crescent moon, I see the angels cross over
Last Line: Momentarily over an incoming flood tide
Subject(s): Adolescence; Charleston, South Carolina; Home


THE BATTLE OF CHARLESTON HARBOR, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two hours, or more, beyond the prime of a blithe april day
Last Line: And thou in clear-eyed faith hast seen god's angels near the guns!
Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; Holidays; Memorial Day; United States - History; Declaration Day


THE BOASTING OF SIR PETER PARKER, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas the proud sir peter parker came sailing in from the sea
Last Line: The stars of victory burning bright over sullivan's sandy isle.
Subject(s): American Revolution; Charleston, South Carolina; Parker, Sir Peter (1721-1811)


THE FOE AT THE GATES, by JOHN DICKSON BRUNS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ring round her! Children of her glorious skies
Last Line: The last grand holocaust of liberty.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; United States - History


THE GULLAH CRY, by ELEANOR FOX PONDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Centuries old is the gullah's cry
Last Line: As the gullah's cry in charleston.
Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina


THE MIDDLETON PLACE, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What would francis jammes, lover of dear dead
Last Line: Telling one another contentedly of the deaths they have lived to see.
Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina


THE SEVEN CITIES OF AMERICA, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How they walled the sea, and felled the woods
Subject(s): Boston; Charleston, South Carolina; Chicago


THE SWAMP ANGEL, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a coal-black angel
Last Line: Christ, the forgiver, convert his mind.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Charleston, South Carolina; Guns; United States - History


THE VOW, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tread softly, softly
Last Line: Since lives are lived with living men.
Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina; War