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Pomp and Circumstance
Slublog — ... Today's ceremony, like all, had high and low points. High - This. The violin and clarinet beginning is beautiful, but my favorite part was when the clarinet first starts playing the melody from Appalachian Spring. It was a palate cleanser after the horror that was Aretha Franklin's "America the Beautiful." Low - The poem. I like poetry, but that nearly random string of words and thoughts was just terrible. Robert Frost, she was not. High - Rick Warren's invocation. ...

Inaugural verse: poetry and power all the way
neo-neocon — ... But that was an older poem, not the one composed for the occasion, the draft of which he was unable to see clearly enough to read it. Here is the text of the new poem, called “Dedication,” that he had composed in honor of the day. ...

Ben Rosen: Reflections on "The Poem"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Let's compare this with a poem written for an earlier president. I dug up the 77-line poem, Dedication, that Robert Frost wrote for John Kennedy's 1961 inauguration. (Frost, when he got to the podium, was unable to read it because the sun reflected too brightly on his paper; instead, he delivered a different poem from memory. Try that one, Mr. Chief Justice.) The last eight lines of Dedication are: ...