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Subject: STATUE OF LIBERTY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AMERICA, by MURRAY KETCHAM KIRK    Poem Text                    
Last Line: And usher in sweet brotherhood.
Subject(s): Flags; Freedom; National Song - United States; Patriotism; Statue Of Liberty; United States; Liberty; American National Anthem; America


F. HOPKINSON SMITH, by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hop' smith, who built the lighthouse on race rock
Last Line: And told a tale as only he could tell.
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Art & Artists; Buildings & Builders; Smith, Francis Hopkinson (1838-1915); Statue Of Liberty


FAIREST OF FREEDOM'S DAUGHTERS, by JEREMIAH EAMES RANKIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Night's diadem around thy head
Last Line: Flash it across the waters!
Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty


HANDS OF LIBERTY, by M. COLLEEN OWEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They came in a manner uniquely their own
Last Line: As her arms gave way in the darkness
Subject(s): Social Protest; Statue Of Liberty; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


IRON LANDSCAPES (AND THE STATUE OF LIBERTY), by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No trellisses, no vines a fire escape
Last Line: Lorn, bold, as if saluting with her fist
Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom
Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty; Travel


LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Warden at ocean's gate
Last Line: Let there be light!
Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty


LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD: THE STATUE HAS HER SAY, by SUSAN ELIZABETH HOWE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Men are always doing it -- conceiving
Last Line: Always going numb
Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty


ON A STATUE OF LIBERTY, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Proud thing of fame, how strange at last thy
Last Line: Liberty's image, left to guard her tomb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty


ST. FRANCIS EINSTEIN OF THE DAFFODILS (FIRST VERSION), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In march's black boat / einstein and april
Last Line: Shaking the flowers!
Subject(s): Mathematics; Statue Of Liberty


STATUE OF LIBERTY, by SHEILA JANE CROOKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: We steamed into new york harbor the other day
Subject(s): Patriotism; Statue Of Liberty


STATUE OF LIBERTY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This bronze to liberty is loftier
Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty


THE AGING COLOSSUS, by JULIAN MOSES DRACHMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Liberty, they are polishing your crown
Last Line: Shut not their gate of hope, o liberty!
Subject(s): Lazarus, Emma (1849-1887); Statue Of Liberty


THE BARTHOLDI STATUE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The land, that, from the rule of kings
Last Line: Who shields his license with thy name!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Freedom; Patriotism; Statue Of Liberty; Liberty


THE BRAND NEW STATUE OF LIBERTY; TO LEE IACOCCA (ANOTHER MICHIGAN BOY), by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was commissioned in a dream by imanja
Last Line: So that she'll drop the torch to fondle the jewels.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dreams; Statue Of Liberty; Nightmares


THE NEW COLOSSUS, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not like the brazen giant of greek fame
Last Line: "I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Subject(s): Americans; Art & Artists; Freedom; Immigrants; Religion; Statue Of Liberty; United States; Liberty; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Theology; America


THE STATUE OF LIBERTY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This bronze to liberty is loftier
Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty


THE STATUE OF LIBERTY (NEW YORK HARBOUR, A.D. 2900), by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here once, the records show, a land whose pride
Last Line: A shattered torch held in a mighty hand.
Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty


THE TRAGIC CONDITION OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY, by BERNADETTE MAYER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me your tired, your poor
Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty; Social Commentaries; Popular Culture - United States


TO THE BARTHOLDI STATUE, by AMBROSE BIERCE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O liberty, god-gifted
Last Line: And marry henry george.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Freedom; Statue Of Liberty; Liberty


TO THE GODDESS OF LIBERTY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: For many years I have had a dream
Last Line: Your mask will find profound inscription: %yours will be the very stuff of remembrance
Subject(s): Statue Of Liberty; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989


TO THE GODDESS OF LIBERTY (NEW YORK HARBOR), by GEORGE STERLING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Is it bale-fire in thy brazen hand
Last Line: The shadow of the sceptre and the sword
Subject(s): Freedom; Statue Of Liberty