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Subject: SOUTH CAROLINA Matches Found: 56 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "BOB ANDERSON, MY BEAU", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "bob anderson, my beau, bob, when we were first aquent" Last Line: "but I love a man that dares to act, bob anderson" Subject(s): "american Civil War;anderson, Robert (1805-1871);fort Sumter, South Carolina;soldiers;u.s. - History; 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); A SOUTH CAROLINA FOREST, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, hush, these woods are thick with shapes and voices Subject(s): Forests; South Carolina; Woods 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 BROTHER JONATHAN'S LAMENT FOR SISTER CAROLINE [DECEMBER 2O, 1860], by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She has gone, - she has left us in passion and pride Last Line: Remember the pathway that leads to our door! Subject(s): Patriotism; South Carolina; State Rights; War; Secession CAROLINA [JANUARY, 1865], by HENRY TIMROD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The despot treads thy sacred sands Last Line: Carolina! Subject(s): American Civil War; Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891); South Carolina; United States - History 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.) DESTRUCTION OF COLUMBIA, by ELIZABETH OTIS MARSHALL DANNELLY Poem Text First Line: Methinks there'll be emblazoned on the dismal walls of hell Last Line: "time cannot teach forgetfulness,"" the past can never die." Subject(s): American Civil War; Columbia, South Carolina; United States - History FIGHT AT FORT SUMTER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Twas a wonderful brave fight Last Line: And a stern retribution %to the south Subject(s): American Civil War; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; U.s. - History HYMN SUNG AT CHRISTMAS BY SCHOLARS OF ST. HELENA'S ISLAND, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, none in all the world before Last Line: That sets the island free! Subject(s): American Civil War; Christmas; Freedom; St. Helena's Island, South Carolina; U.s. - History; Nativity, The; Liberty 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 MACDONALD'S RAID - A.D. 1780, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember it well; 'twas a morn dull and gray Last Line: To those gallant old times when we fought 'gainst the king. Subject(s): American Revolution; Marion, Francis (1737-1795); South Carolina 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 MY MOTHER-LAND, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother-land! Thou wert the first to fling Last Line: A prelude and a prophecy combined! Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; United States - History; Confederacy ON FORT SUMTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It was a noble roman Last Line: "who says with 'southern daring,' / 'I'll find a way, or make it!'" Subject(s): "american Civil War;confederate States Of America;fort Sumter, South Carolina;u.s. - History;" Confederacy 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 Full 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 SONG OF MARION'S MEN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our band is few, but true and tried Last Line: Forever from our shore. Subject(s): American Revolution; Marion, Francis (1737-1795); South Carolina; War SONNET: CAROLINA, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That fair young land which gave me birth is dead! Last Line: Lost in dim shadows of the realm of ghosts! Subject(s): South Carolina SONNET: ELLIOTT IN FORT SUMTER, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And high amongst these chiefs of iron grain Last Line: Confer an antique immortality! Subject(s): American Civil War; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; United States - History SOUTH CAROLINA TO THE STATES OF THE NORTH, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lift these hands with iron fetters banded Last Line: May mock your ruin, as ye mocked at mine! Subject(s): Reconstruction (1865-1876); South Carolina 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 SPRING [IN WAR-TIME], by HENRY TIMROD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring, with that nameless pathos in the air Last Line: "behold me! I am may!" Subject(s): American Civil War; Nature; South Carolina; Spring; United States - History SUMTER, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So they will have it! Last Line: On with the cannon! Subject(s): American Civil War; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; Patriotism; United States - History SUMTER - A BALLAD OF 1861, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Twas on the twelfth of april Last Line: "our soil's redeemed from hateful yoke, / we'll keep it pure or die" Subject(s): "american Civil War;confederate States Of America;fort Sumter, South Carolina;u.s. - History;" Confederacy SUMTER [APRIL 12, 1861], by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Came the morning of that day / when the god to whom we pray Last Line: For the sin! Variant Title(s): The Twelfth Of April Subject(s): American Civil War; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; United States - History 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 BATTLE OF EUTAW [SPRINGS], by WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! 'tis the voice of the mountain Last Line: Bears fruit for the vultures of fate! Subject(s): American Revolution; Eutaw Springs, South Carolina THE BATTLE OF MORRIS' ISLAND; A CHEERFUL TRAGEDY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The morn was cloudy and dark and gray Last Line: Look our for the battle that's yet to come / down there on morris' island Subject(s): "american Civil War;anderson, Robert (1805-1871);fort Sumter, South Carolina;soldiers;u.s. - History; 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 FIGHT AT SUMTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Twas a wonderful brave fight! Last Line: And a stern retribution / to the south Subject(s): "american Civil War;fort Sumter, South Carolina;u.s. - History; 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 SOUTH CAROLINA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My dear brother ned Last Line: "she will us attend, / for the south carolina we've lost" Subject(s): American Revolution;navy - United States;sea Battles;south Carolina (ship); American Navy;naval Warfare THE SOUTH CAROLINA HYMN OF INDEPENDENCE, by CLAUDIAN BIRD NORTHROP Poem Text First Line: South carolinians! Proudly see Last Line: The drum has beat th' alarm. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; South Carolina; U.s. - History; Confederacy 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 SWAMP FOX, by WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We follow where the swamp fox guides Last Line: He fears, and flies from marion's men. Subject(s): American Revolution; Marion, Francis (1737-1795); Patriotism; South Carolina 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 TO THE MEMORY OF THE BRAVE AMERICANS UNDER GENERAL GREENE, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At eutaw springs the valiant died Last Line: A brighter phoebus of their own. Variant Title(s): Eutaw Springs Subject(s): American Revolution; Eutaw Springs, South Carolina; Greene, Nathaniel (1742-1786); Patriotism; Soldiers TWILIGHT ON SUMTER, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still and dark along the sea Last Line: Hell shall rise in grim derision and make room! Subject(s): American Civil War; Fort Sumter, South Carolina; U.s. - History WHAT STATE STREET SAID TO SOUTH CAROLINA ..., by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Muttering 'fine upland staple,' 'prime sea island finer,' Last Line: "blind in that pestilent anakim, sumner!" Subject(s): Abolitionists; Boston; Slavery; South Carolina; Sumner, Charles (1811-1874); Anti-slavery; Serfs |
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