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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BATTLESHIPS Matches Found: 30 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SONG OF HOME-COMING, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark and cold on the far battle-field Last Line: O let the laurel grow there! Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Battleships; Homecoming; Memory; Mourning; Peace; Soldiers; War; War Injuries; Bereavement AIR FORCE PLAYS BASEBALL NEAR THE SOUTH CHINA SEA, by DALE RITTERBUSCH Poem Source First Line: He tells me a barrage of 8-inch guns Last Line: As if the fielders weren't even there Subject(s): Air Force - United States; Battleships; Soldiers; War AMERICA AT WAR, by GERTRUDE BROWN SMITH Poem Text First Line: America, / if thy sons can go to war Last Line: And war shall never more be. Subject(s): Battleships; World War I; First World War BATTLESHIPS, by LORI PETRI Poem Text First Line: They rock and ride like great grey gulls Last Line: The black lusts of the primal slime. Subject(s): Animals; Battleships; Bears; Navy - United States; American Navy BELTANE (FIRE OF GOD), by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: Red flares the pile with the flames mounting higher Last Line: God of the fire rides forth at the dawn! Subject(s): Battleships; Death; Fire; War; Dead, The FIGURING IT ALL UP, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The captain strode the quarter deck Last Line: The old arithmetic? Subject(s): Battleships;disasters;sea;shipwrecks;war;waves; Ocean FORGOTTEN CAPTAIN, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have many shadows. I was walking home Last Line: That too is a game, made heavy %with what is to come Subject(s): Battleships; Boats; Bombs; Death; Sailors And Sailing; Sea; War FRIEDRICH'S VOW, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dusked and gathered the folds of the night Last Line: By a lone far valley of fair lorraine. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Battleships; Blood; Death; Fights; Franco-prussian War (1870-1871); Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement IN DE MAWNIN', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: De good lawd hide me out er sight Last Line: En de war won't end in de mawnin'! Subject(s): Battleships LEXINGTON DAY, 1905, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: On the hundred and thirtieth lexington day Last Line: To our sons may he be their buckler and shield! Subject(s): American Revolution; Battleships; Freedom; Heroism; Lexington, Battle Of (1775); Patriotism; Liberty; Heroes; Heroines; Concord, Battle Of LIFE ON A BATTLESHIP, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rape of the bourgeoisie accomplished, the men Subject(s): Battleships LIFE ON A BATTLESHIP, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rape of the bourgeoisie accomplished, the men Last Line: To the final full, and end without rhetoric Subject(s): Battleships MINED, by JOEL T. ROGERS Poem Text First Line: Wearily, wearily, crawled the ship Last Line: As a woman shakes her hair. Subject(s): Battleships; Death; Fights; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF AN AGED AND HONORED RELATIVE: A POLYGOT IN PARADISE, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Recount the years, my song (a mournful round!) Last Line: Employs the european and the eastern tongues. Subject(s): Battleships; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement OXWICH BAY, GOWER, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night hung heavy, black and chill Last Line: Trailing like some winged bird. Subject(s): Battleships; Sea; Wales; War; Ocean; Welshmen; Welshwomen REPORTS: 1. ACOUSTIC SHADOWS, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: As lee pushed north and the dead flew Last Line: Pinned them to their bodies Subject(s): Battleships; Soldiers; War REPORTS: 4. POSTCARD FROM COLD HARBOR, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: So kind of you to write, to send this autumn Last Line: The quiet surrounding these words like parks Subject(s): Battleships; War; Writing And Writers SECRET ASSIGNMENT, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: People are coming to scan my face Last Line: The reluctant martyr Subject(s): Battleships; Death; Hungary - Communist Regime; Martyrs; Soldiers; War THE ALBION BATTLESHIP CALAMITY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1898, and on the 21st of june Last Line: The less chance we have of being killed. Subject(s): Battleships; Death; Despair; Dead, The THE BATTLE OF THE KEGS, by FRANCIS HOPKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gallants, attend and hear a friend Last Line: They'll make their boasts and brags, sir. Variant Title(s): British Valor Displayed Subject(s): American Revolution; Battleships; Great Britain - Civil War; Machinery & Machinists; Navy - United States; Patriotism; Soldiers; English Civil War; American Navy THE CAPTURE OF HAVANA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year 1762 that france and spain Last Line: And the londoners applauded the british for the honours they had won. Subject(s): Battleships; Fights; Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Havana, Cuba; Victory THE FLEET, by CHESTER FIRKINS Poem Text First Line: Gaunt rocks of death that darkly lay Last Line: Went forth for peace, or war. Subject(s): Battleships; Heroism; New York City; War; Heroes; Heroines; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE FOREIGN ADDRESS: WITH A YO, HO, HO, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O could I sing as you have fought Last Line: How to battle, to conquest, to glory, we dart! Subject(s): Battleships; Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Sailing & Sailors; Victory THE FORGOTTEN CAPTAIN, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have many shadows. I was walking home Subject(s): Battleships; Boats; Bombs; Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; War; Dead, The; Ocean THE HEART OF OCEAN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The grove's endearments are not thine Last Line: Heart of the moaning sea! Subject(s): Battleships; Death; Mortality; Mourning; Sea Gulls; Dead, The; Bereavement THE JEWS OF ENGLAND (1200-1902), by ISRAEL ZANGWILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An edward's england spat us out-a band Last Line: Her triumph o'er her own intolerance. Subject(s): Battleships; History; Jews; Right To Asylum; War; Historians; Judaism THE LOSS OF THE 'VICTORIA', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Now o'er britannia there hangs a gloom Last Line: For the brave british tars that have been drowned. Subject(s): Accidents; Battleships; Death; Loss; Dead, The THE SALUTE OF THE 'IMMORTALITE', by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: The coming dawn flung out her pennants grey Last Line: Till anglo-saxon peace shall lead the world. Subject(s): Battleships; Manila, Philippines; Navy - Great Britain; Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898); English Navy THE VETERAN TAR, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mariner, whom fate compell'd Last Line: The man of war expired. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Battleships; Heroism; Veterans; War; Heroes; Heroines TO THE MODERN BATTLESHIP, by ROBERT JAMES Poem Text First Line: Oh, men have fought with arrows Last Line: Three cheers for the battleship! Subject(s): Battleships; Enemies; Fights |
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