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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA Matches Found: 29 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 |
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