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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ARMS & ARMOR Matches Found: 30 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PATRIOT I, by JEAN LEWIS MORRIS Poem Text First Line: A patriot I! This is my cry Last Line: I'm a munition maker. Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Patriotism; Selfishness; Social Protest; United States; War; America AN ARMOURY, by ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE Poem Text First Line: Splendid burns the huge house with bronze; rich is the ample roof Last Line: These are things we must remember now our duty shall begin. Alternate Author Name(s): Alkaios Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Weapons; Ammunition ARMOR, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just about at the tripled-barrelled pistol Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Mothers & Sons; Weapons; Ammunition ARMS OLD AND NEW, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How changed our warfare and the arms we yield Last Line: We arm the depths above us and beneath! Subject(s): Arms & Armor BITTER CHOICE, by ELLEN MAGRATH CARROLL Poem Text First Line: I have leant upon a sword Last Line: Blow wild! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Children; Swords; Wind; Weapons; Ammunition; Childhood COMING CHANGES, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night came down upon the landscape - night and darkness, fear and gloom Last Line: But a truthful revelation, and a prophecy of light! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Fights; Weapons; Ammunition DAWN, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: The hour of dawn is the hour of death Last Line: The hour of dawn is the hour of life! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Dawn; Death; War; World War I; Weapons; Ammunition; Sunrise; Dead, The; First World War DEDICATION FOR A SPEAR, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To pillar's height reach up, and rest thee now Last Line: A spear long shaken in the blaze of war. Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos Subject(s): Arms & Armor FEBRUARY 1944 [OR, THE GIANT WEAPON], by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today the giant weapon came Subject(s): Anniversaries; Arms & Armor; Books; Marriage; Winters, Yvor (1900-1968); Reading; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GREATEST OF WEAPONS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The jawbone samson swung was great--it served its purpose well Last Line: As that large bat, the monster bat, the warclub of babe ruth! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Baseball; Sports GUARD OF THE EASTERN GATE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Halifax sits on her hills by the sea Last Line: And her thunder but sleeps. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Halifax, Canada; Weapons; Ammunition IF!, by BARTHOLOMEW GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose 'twere done! Last Line: Of lingering smile on satan's face! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Death; Devil; Satire (as Poetic Genre); War; Weapons; Ammunition; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub JOHN W. MORTON, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tinged with flame and sore beset Last Line: Morton and forrest were as one. Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Southern States; War; South (u.s.) MAKING CANNON IN BETHLEHEM, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was long ago in bethlehem town Last Line: The great word is love, the right plan is peace! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Bethlehem, Palestine; Jesus Christ; Peace; Social Protest; Violence; War; Weapons; Ammunition MY BAY'NIT, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first I left blighty they gave me a bay'nit Last Line: Part of me outfit every time. Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War ON THE LAWN AT THE VILLA, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Americans; Weapons; Ammunition PROUD SONNET, by JEAN RICHEPIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The load we bear of trouble is self-made Last Line: You who would stab my heart, search where you will! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Fights SONG OF ARMS, FR. MARDI, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our clubs! Our clubs! Last Line: Shout narvi! Her groves in the storm! Subject(s): Arms & Armor SONG OF HYBRIAS THE CRETAN, by HYBRIAS THE CRETAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My wealth's a burly spear and brand Last Line: To call me king and lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Hybrias Of Crete Variant Title(s): Skolion (song Sung At Aristocratic Banquets);a Soldier's Riches Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Weapons; Ammunition THE HELMETS, A FRAGMENT, by THOMAS PENROSE Poem Text First Line: Twas midnight - every mortal eye was closed Last Line: The agonising priest. Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Fights; Soldiers THE MUNITION WORKERS, by DIANA JAMES Poem Text First Line: They sat upon a hill Last Line: With the dread weight of an eternal sleep. Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Labor & Laborers; Weapons; Ammunition; Work; Workers THE PATH OF SAFETY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Two jolly german barons lived in castles by the rhine Last Line: "the noble lord von donnerblitz, the graf von schlagenstein" Subject(s): Arms & Armor;brotherhood;germany;peace;war; Germans THE RIFLE, by COVINGTON HALL Poem Text First Line: Tis made of hard, death-tempered steel Last Line: The message men to tyrants speak! Alternate Author Name(s): Ami, Covington; Ami, Covami Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Assassination; Death; Militarism; Murder; Rifles; Social Protest; War; Weapons; Ammunition; Dead, The THE SWORD, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: A keen-edged sword in somebody's hand Last Line: For man till he reaches the utmost—god. Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Danger; Life; Swords; Weapons; Ammunition TO A CERTAIN VERY UGLY BUILDING: THE ARMORY, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Minotaur of madness, you certainly belong there Last Line: O slumtown symbol of war's grim insanity! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Army - Ireland; Buildings & Builders; Death; Pacifism; Social Protest; War; Weapons; Ammunition; Dead, The; Peace Movements TO A NINE-INCH GUN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Whether your shell hits the target or not Last Line: Seek bread to fill their mouths again Subject(s): Arms & Armor;guns;krupp (industrial Conglomerate);murder;war TO ARMS!, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: To arms! To arms! The heroes cry Last Line: "were there no honour, there would be no love" Subject(s): Arms & Armor;fights;heroism;soldiers; Heroes;heroines TO ARMS!, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now let the cry, 'to arms! To arms Last Line: And her ironclads the sea! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Humility; Trafalgar, Battle Of; War; Waterloo; Weapons; Ammunition; British Empire; England - Empire; Battle Of Waterloo TOWARD THE PIRAEUS: 5, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was not chastity that made me cold nor fear Last Line: Fiery-tempered, delicate, over-passionate steel. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Bible; Chastity; Despair; Weapons; Ammunition TRACER BULLET, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: In a straight line Last Line: The scaffold's uneasy floor. Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Bullets; Patriotism; Soldiers; Weapons; Ammunition |
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