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Subject: FLAGS - CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA
Matches Found: 4

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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


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 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


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