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Subject: UNITED STATES - CONGRESS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` NABBY, THE NEW YORK HOUSEKEEPER, by PHILIP FRENEAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well, nanny, I am sorry to find, since you write us
Last Line: The beefe is half raw—and the bell rings for dinner!
Subject(s): Friendship; Housekeeping; New York City - Revolutionary Period; United States - Congress


POWERS OF CONGRESS, by ALICE FULTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How the lightstruck trees change sun
Subject(s): Modern Life; United States - Congress


ROBBED (LEAGUE OF NATIONS REPUDIATED BY U.S. SENATE), by ETHELEAN TYSON GAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: I rode at dawn a chevalier of god
Last Line: But—so much cannon fodder left to rot.
Subject(s): League Of Nations; United States - Congress - Senate; War


THE BIGLOW PAPERS: 5. THE DEBATE IN THE SENNIT, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here we stan' on the constitution, by thunder!
Last Line: Thet slavery's airth s grettest boon,' sez he.
Subject(s): Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; United States - Congress - Senate; Antislavery Movement - United States


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE BILL, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The subcommittee submits:
Subject(s): United States - Congress; Minerals; Disease; Labor & Laborers; Legislation; Work; Workers


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DISEASE: THE AFTER-EFFECTS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the life of a congressman.
Subject(s): United States - Congress; Minerals; Disease; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers


THE CORRIDORS OF CONGRESS (REVISITED IN VACATION), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tread soft, intruding step, this empty haunt
Last Line: The walls that guard the freedom of the land.
Subject(s): United States - Congress


THE FIRST AMERICAN CONGRESS, by JOEL BARLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Columbus looked; and still around them spread
Last Line: And independence thunder'd from his tongue.
Subject(s): United States - Congress


THE VOICE OF WEBSTER, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Silence was envious of the only voice
Last Line: Long shall its echoes rouse the patriot's heart.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Democracy; United States - Congress - Senate; United States - History; United States - Reconstruction (1865-1877); Webster, Daniel (1782-1852)


TO ONE 'INVESTIGATED' BY THE LAST SENATE COMMITTEE, OR THE NEXT, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And though the walls have ears
Last Line: To make a craven safety / count for honor's part
Subject(s): Mccarthyism; United States - Congress - Senate


TO THE UNITED STATES SENATE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And must the senator from illinois
Last Line: Of the popular term armageddon in present day politics.]
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): United States - Congress - Senate