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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: AFRICAN AMERICANS - MILITARY Matches Found: 71 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A HERO OF SAN JUAN HILL, by OLIVA WARD BUSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Among the sick and wounded ones Last Line: Equality shall sit enthroned. Alternate Author Name(s): Bush-banks, Oliva Ward Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Spanish-american War (1898) AN ODE IN TIME OF HESITATION, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the living bronze saint gaudens made Last Line: Blindness we may forgive, but baseness we will smite. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Holidays; Memorial Day; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898); United States; War; Declaration Day; America AN ODE ON THE UNVEILING OF THE SHAW MEMORIA BOSTON COMMON, MAY 31, 1897, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not with slow, funereal sound Last Line: To him, to him, the dead that shall not die! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Holidays; Memorial Day; Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; Declaration Day BURY THEM, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bury the dragon's teeth! Last Line: Fighting against great god. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Fort Wagner, Battle Of (1863); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; United States - History CONFESSION TO J. EDGAR HOOVER, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hiding in the church of an abandoned stone Last Line: I did not know what I was doing Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): African Americans - Military CONFESSION TO J. EDGAR HOOVER, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hiding in the church of an abandoned stone Last Line: I did not know what I was doing Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): African Americans - Military DEBRIDEMENT, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black men are oaks cut down. Last Line: Carried out our assignment / with procision Subject(s): African Americans - Military FIRSTLY INCLINED TO TAKE WHAT IT IS TOLD, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thee sacrosanct, - thee sweet, thee crystalline Last Line: I had been brightly ready to believe Subject(s): African Americans - Military FOR FREEDOM, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god! 'tis the war-cry! They call us; we come; Last Line: O comrades, strike boldly! Our triumph is nigh! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Slavery; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Serfs FOR THE UNION DEAD, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The old south boston aquarium stands Variant Title(s): Colonel Shaw And The Massachusetts 54 Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Boston; Duty; Heroism; Massachusetts; Monuments; Racism; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; United States - History; Heroes; Heroines; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry FOR THE UNION DEAD, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old south boston aquarium stands Last Line: A savage servility %slides by on grease Variant Title(s): Colonel Shaw And The Massachusetts 5 Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Boston; Duty; Heroism; Massachusetts; Monuments; Racism; Saint-gaudens, Augustus (1848-1907); Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers; U.s. - History FREEMAN FIELD, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a cool evening Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life; Relatives FREEMAN FIELD, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a cool evening Last Line: To smoke, watching %the german pow's pump gas, %wash windshields %and laugh %at the motorpool %acros Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We knew how to order. Just the dash Last Line: To holler down the lions in this air Subject(s): African Americans - Military GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We knew how to order. Just the dash Last Line: To holler down the lions in this air Subject(s): African Americans - Military GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: 'GOD WORKS IN A MYSTERIOUS WAY', by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But often now the youthful eye cuts down its Last Line: Or we assume a sovereignty ourselves Subject(s): African Americans - Military GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: FIRSTLY INCLINED TO TAKE WHAT IT IS TOLD, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thee sacrosanct, - thee sweet, thee crystalline Last Line: With billowing heartiness no whit withheld Subject(s): African Americans - Military GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: LOOKING, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have no word for soldiers to enjoy Last Line: Nor the heaviest haul your little boy from harm Subject(s): African Americans - Military GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: LOVE NOTE: 1. SURELY, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surely you stay my certain own, you say Last Line: And I doubt all. You. Or a violet Subject(s): African Americans - Military GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: LOVE NOTE: 2. FLAGS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still, it is dear defiance now to carry Last Line: Or like the tender struggle of a fan Subject(s): African Americans - Military GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: MENTORS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For I am rightful fellow of their band Last Line: Light for the midnight that is mine and theirs Subject(s): African Americans - Military GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: PIANO AFTER WAR, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a snug evening I shall watch her fingers Variant Title(s): Piano After War Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Musical Instruments; Pianos GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: PIANO AFTER WAR, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a snug evening I shall watch her fingers Last Line: And stone will shove the softness from my face Variant Title(s): Piano After Wa Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Musical Instruments; Pianos GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: STILL DO I KEEP MY LOOK, MY IDENTITY, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each body has its art, its precious prescribed Last Line: It showed at baseball. What it showed in school Variant Title(s): Still Do I Keep My Look, My Identit Subject(s): African Americans - Military GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: THE PROGRESS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And still we wear our uniforms, follow Last Line: Of iron feet again. And again wild Variant Title(s): Gay Chaps At The Bar; The Progres Subject(s): African Americans - Military GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: THE WHITE TROOPS HAD THEIR ORDERS ..., by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They had supposed their formula was fixed Subject(s): African Americans - Military GAY CHAPS AT THE BAR: THE WHITE TROOPS HAD THEIR ORDERS ..., by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They had supposed their formula was fixed Last Line: And there was nothing startling in the weather Subject(s): African Americans - Military GOD WORKS IN A MYSTERIOUS WAY', by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But often now the youthful eye cuts down its Last Line: Or we assume a sovereignty ourselves Subject(s): African Americans - Military LINES, by SAMUEL ALFRED BEADLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How I love my country you have heard Last Line: And blind to your faults as to mine. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Racism; Spanish-american War (1898); Racial Prejudice; Bigotry LONELY EAGLES, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being black in america Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Aviation & Aviators; Air Warfare; World War Ii; African Americans - Military; Family Life; James, General Daniel 'chappie' (1920-78); Airplanes; Air Pilots; Second World War; Relatives LONELY EAGLES, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being black in america Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life; James, General Daniel 'chappie' (1920-78; Relatives LONELY EAGLES, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being black in america Last Line: I used his mattress %for the rest of the tour. %it still bothers me, sometimes: %I was sleeping %on Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life; James, General Daniel "chappie" (1920-78 LOOKING, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have no word for soldiers to enjoy Last Line: Nor the heaviest haul your little boy from harm Subject(s): African Americans - Military LOVE NOTE: 1. SURELY, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surely you stay my certain own, you say Last Line: And I doubt all. You. Or a violet Subject(s): African Americans - Military MENTORS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For I am rightful fellow of their band Last Line: Light is the midnight for mine and theirs Subject(s): African Americans - Military MY DREAMS, MY WORKS, MUST WAIT TILL AFTER HELL, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hold my honey and I store my bread Subject(s): African Americans - Military MY DREAMS, MY WORKS, MUST WAIT TILL AFTER HELL, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hold my honey and I store my bread Last Line: To honey and bread old purity could love Subject(s): African Americans - Military MY HERO; TO ROBERT GOULD SHAW, by BENJAMIN GRIFFITH BRAWLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flushed with the hope of high desire Last Line: And galahad to me. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers NEGRO SOLDIERS, by ROSCOE C. JAMISON Poem Text First Line: These truly are the brave Last Line: That those who mock might find a better way! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Soldiers NEGRO SOLDIERS OF AMERICA: WHAT WE ARE FIGHTING FOR, by LUCIAN B. WATKINS Poem Source First Line: We fight-and for democracy Last Line: Peace and its happiness at home! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; World War I PASSAGE, by RITA DOVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Got up %this morning at 2:45, breakfast at 3:30 Last Line: It must have been a whale! Subject(s): African Americans - Military PORTER, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly / when I hear airplanes overhead Last Line: He looks down. Then he looks at me and grins. / I took it, too! Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life; Aviation & Aviators; Relatives PORTER, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly %when I hear airplanes overhead Last Line: When I put it down %she handed me a dime %as a tip. %he looks down. %then he looks at me and grins. Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life READY, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loaded with gallant soldiers Last Line: Who was fitter to die than he! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Sailing & Sailors; United States - History; Seamen; Sails ROBERT G. SHAW, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When war's red banners trailed along the sky Last Line: In rev'rent love we guard thy memory. Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia Subject(s): African Americans - Military; African Americans - Women; Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers ROBERT GOULD SHAW, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why was it that the thunder voice of fate Last Line: Have died, the present teaches, but in vain! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Shaw, Robert Gould (1847-1863); Soldiers SHE SAID ..., by JONATHAN HENDERSON BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She said, 'not only music; brave men marching' Last Line: "mary, it is the same with me,"" she said." Subject(s): African Americans - Military; World War Ii; Second World War SILHOUETTES, by EDNA BINTLIFF Poem Text First Line: Stiff cat-tails mirrored in a pool Last Line: Is never known to me. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Brothers; Soldiers; Half-brothers SONNET TO NEGRO SOLDIERS, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: They shall go down unto life's borderland Last Line: There breaks this day their dawn of liberty. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Soldiers' Writings STAR-FIX, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At his cramped desk Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life; Relatives STAR-FIX, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At his cramped desk Last Line: Going hungry for five or six hours %to give his flight-lunch%to his two little girls Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life THE BLACK REGIMENT, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Dark as the clouds of even Last Line: Scorn the black regiment! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Patriotism; United States - History; War THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIERS, by CALVIN FORBES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where's the winning without chocolate Subject(s): African Americans - Military THE COLOR SERGEANT, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under a burning tropic sun Last Line: Yet true, in death, to his duty. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Fights; Prejudice; San Juan Hill, Battle Of (1898); Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898); Bias; Intolerance THE COLORED SOLDIERS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: If the muse were mine to tempt it Last Line: Who fought for uncle sam! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; United States - History THE COLORED SOLDIERS OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All honor to the colored soldiers Last Line: "they're made of the ""proper stuff." Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Spanish-american War (1898) THE CONQUERORS; THE BLACK TROOPS IN CUBA, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Round the wide earth, from the red field your valour has won Last Line: Not to ply! Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Cuba THE PASSAGE, by RITA DOVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Got up / this morning at 2:45, breakfast at 3:30 Subject(s): African Americans - Military THE PROGRESS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And still we wear our uniforms, follow Last Line: Of iron feet again. And again wild Variant Title(s): Gay Chaps At The Bar;the Progress Subject(s): African Americans - Military THE REASON WHY, by GEORGE CLINTON ROWE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the eve of battle Last Line: To god the reason why. Subject(s): African Americans - Military THE SOLDIERS OF THE DUSK, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black men holding up the earth Last Line: Victims of the war god's lust. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; World War I; First World War THE YEAR OF JUBILEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "say, darkeys, hab you seen de massa" Last Line: "it mus' be now de kingdum cumin', / an' de yar ob jubilo" Subject(s): African Americans - Military;american Civil War;u.s. - History;war THE YEAR OF JUBILEE, by HENRY CLAY WORK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, darkeys, hab you seen de massa Last Line: An' de yar ob jubilo. Variant Title(s): Year Of Jubilo;kingdom Coming Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Richmond Campaign (1864); United States - History THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The regiment has waited long Last Line: Who would hold the colonel? Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (1823-1911); U.s. - History THREE MEN IN A TENT, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My one blood-uncle laughs Last Line: One of us %to four %of them. %I sure missed %my old buddies.%I even missed %ol'corbon Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life TO HORACE BUMSTEAD, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you been sore discouraged in the fight Last Line: You shall not, no, you shall not, fight alone. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Bumstead, Horace (1841-1919); Human Rights; Justice TO THE BLACK AMERICAN TROOPS, by LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I did not recognize you in your prison of sad-colored uniforms Last Line: Oh, the delight of life after winter. I hail you %as messengers of peace Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Negritude (literary Movement) TUSKEGEE AIRFIELD, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These men Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life; Relatives TUSKEGEE AIRFIELD, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These men Last Line: The instructor grinned. %boy, if your ass %is as hard as your head, %you'll go far in this world Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Family Life VIETNAM #4, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cat said / on the corner Subject(s): African Americans - Military; Vietnamese Conflict. 1961-1975; Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry WHEN DEY 'LISTED COLORED SOLDIERS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dey was talkin' in de cabin, dey was talkin' in de hall Last Line: W'en dey 'listed colo'ed sojers an' my 'lias went to wah. Subject(s): African Americans - Military; American Civil War; United States - History |
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