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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: AIR RAIDS Matches Found: 30 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GAME OF BOWLS (WRITTEN DURING AN AIR RAID), by CAMILLA DOYLE Poem Text First Line: My body's crouched beneath a table shelter Last Line: Reaches me still and keeps me unafraid. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Games; Soldiers; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements AIR RAID, by HEATHER ROSS MILLER Poem Source First Line: I am the air raid of the lord Last Line: The wonderful %turning %of the year! Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; God BLESSED EVENT (THERE WERE ALSO SOME CASUALTIES), by ADA JACKSON Poem Text First Line: In labour when / the raid began Last Line: Her soul instead. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Birth; Death; War; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The CEREMONY AFTER A FIRE RAID, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Myselves / the grievers Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Funerals; Mourning; World War Ii; Burials; Bereavement; Second World War CEREMONY AFTER A FIRE RAID, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Myselves %the grievers Last Line: The sundering ultimate kingdom of genesis' thunder Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Funerals; Mourning; World War Ii DANCE OF DEATH (AIR RAID AT NORWICH), by CAMILLA DOYLE Poem Text First Line: The electric lights begin Last Line: And now begin the drums. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Dancing & Dancers; Death; Dead, The DRESDEN, by CIARAN CARSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Horse boyle was called horse boyle because of his brother mule Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Dresden, Germany; Soldiers; World War Ii; Second World War DRESDEN, by CIARAN CARSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Horse boyle was called horse boyle because of his brother mule Last Line: I wandered out through the steeples of rust, the gate that was a broken bed Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Dresden, Germany; Soldiers; World War Ii EPILOGUE TO A HUMAN DRAMA, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When pavements were blown up, exposing wires Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War EPILOGUE TO A HUMAN DRAMA, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When pavements were blown up, exposing wires Last Line: Praising the heroes, discussing the habits of the wicked, %underlining the moral, explaining doom an Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii LIGHTS, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: That top-secret flight at night Last Line: Of all that was about to come Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Central America; Fights; Nicaragua; Revolutions MASSIVE RETALIATION; SAIPAN 1944-1945; AERIAL OFFENSIVE AGAINST JAPAN, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gaped, admitted, at some what we did Last Line: So far from home, almost beyond return Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Saipan (island); World War Ii NEVER AGAIN, by JAROSLAV SEIFERT Poem Source First Line: A hunmdred houses were in ruins Last Line: The bastards! Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare PLYMOUTH, by WILLIAM ASHTON Poem Full Text First Line: I've just been down to plymouth. Did you know Last Line: Were dancing on the hoe. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Plymouth, England; War - Home Front; World War Ii; Second World War REJOICE IN THE ABYSS (1), by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the foundations quaked and the pillars shook Last Line: Of every man prays that he may be spared %calamity that strikes each neighbouring face Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii REJOICE IN THE ABYSS (2), by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great pulsation passed. Glass lay around me Last Line: Of every house will be that it is spared %calamity that strikes its neighbour Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii SOLILOQUY IN AN AIR-RAID, by ROY FULLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The will dissolves, the heart becomes excited Last Line: Unfolds spantaneous as the human wish, %as autumn dancing, vermilion on rocks Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii SONG OF A SEABOOT STOCKING, by O. I. WARD Poem Text First Line: Knit, knit, knit, in the watches of the night Last Line: While overhead the fire guard keep their watch o'er london town. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Knitting; London; World War Ii; Second World War STILL FALLS THE RAIN; THE RAIDS, 1940. NIGHT AND DAWN, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Still falls the rain - / dark as the world of man, black as our loss Last Line: "still do I love, still shed my innocent light, my blood, for thee." Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Crucifixion; Religion; World War Ii; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Theology; Second World War THE BOMBING OF BAGDAD, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Began and did not terminate for 42 days Last Line: With the dead Subject(s): Gulf War (1991); Bagdad, Iraq; Air Raids; Custer, George Armstrong (1839-1876); Operation Desert Storm (1991) THE FIRST AIR-RAID WARNING, by EVELYN D. BANGAY Poem Text First Line: When the quiet acres I look upon were shaken Last Line: Not seed-time and harvest, but wars, shall pass away. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii; Second World War THE PEACE OF CITIES, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Terrible streets, the manichee hell of twilight Last Line: An blew the bolt from everybody's door Subject(s): Cities; Air Raids THE SECOND DREAM, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We all heard the alarm. The planes were out Subject(s): Air Raids THE WHITE-THROATED SPARROW CAN'T COMPARE, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had made it through so many winters Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Sparrows; Air Raids THOUGHTS DURING AN AIR RAID, by STEPHEN SPENDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of course, the entire effort is to put myself Last Line: Which is all mystery or nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Spender, Stephen (harold), Sir Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare TONALA BESIEGED, by IDELLA PURNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O my son, there is no water now at all Last Line: Thy sister was too beautiful, my son. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare TROLL'S COURTSHIP (WRITTEN AFTER AN AIR RAID, APRIL 1941), by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the misty night humming to themselves like morons Last Line: To be - for all their kudos - %wrong, wrong in the end Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; World War Ii UNDER THE HAZY, BLOSSOM-LADEN SKY, by OKAMOTO JUN Poem Source Last Line: That the fire-rain never again fall on the world Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare WORDS SPOKEN BY PASTERNAK DURING THE BOMBING, by BELLA AKHMADULINA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In that ancient time - in eternity Last Line: I wanted to be a cloud, a star, %a mountain stone - clear, like water Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Pasternak, Boris (1890-1960) WORLD WAR II, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was over target berlin the flak shot up our plane Last Line: Destroying the germans and their cities Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): World War Ii; Air Raids; Aviation & Aviators; Rescues |
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