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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BELGIUM Matches Found: 70 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLADE OF BROKEN THINGS, by BLANCHE WEITBREC Poem Text First Line: The toy no skillful fingers may repair Last Line: The broken things are the immortal things! Subject(s): World War I - Belgium A BELGIAN CHRISTMAS EVE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, whose deep ways are in the sea Last Line: We know that thou art there. Variant Title(s): A Prayer In Time Of War Subject(s): Belgium; Christmas; World War I; Nativity, The; First World War A CROSS IN FLANDERS, by GEORGE ROSTREVOR HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the face of death, they say, he joked - he had no fear Last Line: The braver for his fear! Alternate Author Name(s): Rostrevor, George Subject(s): Courage; Fear; Flanders, Belgium; World War I - Casualties; Valor; Bravery A HARROW GRAVE IN FLANDERS, by ROBERT OFFLEY ASHBURTON CREWE-MILNES Poem Text First Line: Here in the marshland, past the battered bridge Last Line: We ask; and wait. Alternate Author Name(s): Crewe, 1st Marquess Of; Houghton, Baron Variant Title(s): Harrow And Flanders Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; Graves; World War I - Casualties; Tombs; Tombstones A TOMB IN GHENT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A smiling look she had, a figure slight Last Line: To kneel and pray by an old tomb in ghent. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Ghent, Belgium; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones A TRIP TO PARIS AND BELGIUM: 16. ANTWERP TO GHENT, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are upon the scheldt. We know we move Last Line: And clamor and the night. We are in ghent. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Ghent, Belgium; Travel; Journeys; Trips AN APPEAL TO AMERICA ON BEHALF OF THE BELGIAN DESTITUTE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven millions stand Last Line: No man can say? Subject(s): Belgium; United States; World War I; America; First World War AN ENGLISH BALLAD, ON THE TAKING OF NAMUR BY THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some folks are drunk, yet do not know it Last Line: And so be constable of france. Subject(s): Namur, Belgium; William Iii, King Of England (1650-1702) ANTWERP, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Gloom! %an october like november Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium ANTWERP, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Towers - eternal towers against the sky Last Line: And from their towers of tyranny hurled down. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Architecture & Architects; Buildings & Builders; Stones; World War I; Granite; Rocks; First World War ANTWERP AND BRUGES, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I climbed the stair in antwerp church Last Line: That my flesh felt the carillon. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Bruges, Belgium; Eyck, Jan Van (1395-1441); Memmeling, John (1430-1495); Paintings And Painters; Travel; Memling, Hans; Memlinc, Hans; Memmelinck, Hans; Journeys; Trips BELGIAN BELLS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Toll the bells for belgium, toll, toll, toll! Last Line: Peal the bells for belgium, peal, peal, peal! Subject(s): Belgium; Bells; World War I; First World War BELGIUM, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not with her ruined silver spires Last Line: The home of all that makes them great. Subject(s): World War I - Belgium BELGIUM - 1914, by FRANK C. LEWIS Poem Source First Line: The lithe flames flicker through the veil of night Subject(s): Belgium; Soldiers; World War I BELLS OF OSTEND (2), by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, I never, till life and its shadows shall end Subject(s): Bells; Ostend, Belgium BETWEEN NAMUR AND LIEGE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What lovelier home could gentle fancy choose? Last Line: From the smooth meadow-ground, serene and still! Subject(s): Liege, Belgium BRUGES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bruges I saw attired with golden light Last Line: Of nun-like females, with soft motion, glide! Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium BRUGES (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit of antiquity - enshrined Last Line: A deeper peace than that in deserts found! Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium BRUGES: QUAI DES AUGUSTINS; AFTER VAN DER VEER, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within the sad, deserted street Last Line: To silence and the waning day. Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium; Streets; Avenues CARILLON, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the ancient town of bruges Last Line: Of that quaint old flemish city. Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium CARNAGE: 3. LOUVAIN, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Serene in beauty's olden lineage Last Line: Where the dead hail him william of louvain! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Louvain, Belgium; Silence; Soul; World War I; Dead, The; Nightmares; First World War CARNAGE: 5. KULTUR, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If men must murder, pillage, sack, despoil Last Line: To answer him: once rheims was — and louvain! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Culture Conflict; Louvain, Belgium; Rheims, France; World War I; First World War CHRIST IN FLANDERS, by LUCY WHITMELL Poem Text First Line: We had forgotten you, or very nearly Last Line: And that you'll stand beside us to the last. Alternate Author Name(s): W., L. Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; Jesus Christ; Women; World War I; First World War DEAD OR ALIVE IN BELGIUM, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody you think is dead is alive Subject(s): Life; Death; Belgium; Dead, The DEATH AND THE FAIRIES, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before I joined the army Last Line: Who is holding carnival. Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; World War I; First World War DROMEDARY FROM THE ALTAR AT GHENT, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Ride your bike to cordoba! Your rain Last Line: So they'll mate faster. Drink beer (blanche) and dance Subject(s): Ghent, Belgium EASTER AT YPRES: 1915, by WALTER SCOTT STUART LYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sacred head was bound and diapered Last Line: And thou shalt reawake, though aye be scarred. Subject(s): World War I; Ypres, Belgium; First World War FLANDERS, by FREDERICK VICTOR BRANFORD Poem Source First Line: Two broken trees possess the plain Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium FLANDERS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flanders, the name of a place, a country of people Last Line: Washing wooden bowls in the winter sun by a window. Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium FLANDERS GRAVE, by NATHANIEL NATHANSON Poem Source First Line: In flanders fields peace reigns tonight Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium FLANDERS NOW, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There, where before no master action struck Last Line: Of glory save the light in a friend's eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; World War I; First World War FLANDERS POPPIES, by IAN DUNCAN COLVIN Poem Source First Line: Poppies, ye flaming blushes of july Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; Holidays; Veterans Day FLANDERS, O HOUSE OF PLENTY, by KAREL VAN DE WOESTIJNE Poem Source Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium HOMAGE TO FLANDERS, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Country of still canals, green willows, golden fields, all Last Line: Was a low land under a huge sky that I did not remember Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium IN ANTWERP, AT THE STAGECOACH, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: You escaped again Last Line: In paradise, when the chestnuts cracked Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium IN FLANDERS, by JAMES NORMAN HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could you have seen them marching Last Line: To see ten thousand fighting men. Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; Reality; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; World War I; First World War IN FLANDERS FIELD: AN ANSWER, by C. B. GALBREATH Poem Text First Line: In flanders fields the cannon boom Last Line: In flanders fields. Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; World War I; First World War IN FLANDERS FIELDS, by JOHN MCCRAE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In flanders fields the poppies blow / between the crosses, row on row Last Line: In flanders fields. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Flanders, Belgium; Freedom; Patriotism; Soldiers; World War I; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Liberty; First World War INCIDENT AT BRUGES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In bruges town is many a street Last Line: Of english liberty? Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium; Travel; Journeys; Trips INVENTORY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thanksgiving today. Soaked with sleet Last Line: Here: in america. In america. Subject(s): Belgium; Confessions; Daughters; Gardens & Gardening; Gratitude; Holidays; Honor; Larch Trees; Loss; Memory; Moving & Movers; Numbers; Omens; Refugees; Sons; Thanksgiving Day; Time; United States - Immigration & Emigtration JEFF HART, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jeff hart rode out of the gulch to war Last Line: Next morning the world came in. Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Belgium; Cowboys; War LANGEMARCK AT YPRES, by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the ballad of langemarck Last Line: In the great, grim fight. Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, W. W. Subject(s): World War I - Canada; Ypres, Belgium LEEK STREET, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In bruges, was a cul-de-sac so narrow Last Line: Float out over the canals. Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium; Children; Future Life; Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Love; Muskrats; Pain; Redemption; Salvation; Tongues; Torture; Violence; Youth; Childhood; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Judaism; Suffering; Misery LOVING YOU IN FLEMISH, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me love you in my tongue tonight Last Line: Verget awe noam en al de rest . . . Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Breughel The Elder, Pieter (1530-1569); Food & Eating; Language; Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Memmeling, John (1430-1495); Metaphor; Ostend, Belgium; Prostitution; Tongues; Brueghel The Elder, Pieter; Bruegel The Elder, Pieter; MOON AND THE NIGHT AND THE MEN, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the night of the belgian surrender the moon rose Last Line: Of none, nor of anyone, and the war %goes on, and the moon in the breast of man is cold Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Belgium; Leopold Iii, King Of The Belgians; World War Ii NATIONAL AIR: BELGIUM, by FRANCOIS VAN CAMPENHOUT Poem Source First Line: Who'd have believed such self-willed daring, that his base end he might attain Subject(s): National Song - Belgium ON THE BELGIAN EXPATRIATION, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt that people from the land of chimes Last Line: Of ravaged roof, and smouldering gable-end. Subject(s): Belgium; World War I; First World War OTTERBURN, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lad who went to flanders Last Line: And never will return. Subject(s): Death; Flanders, Belgium; Military; Soldiers; War; Dead, The QUAI DU ROSAIRE: BRUGES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These streets have such a tranquil, languid gait Last Line: Clusters of chimes in the far heavens hung. Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium RUINS (YPRES, 1917), by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Ruins of trees whose woeful arms Last Line: Clay crumbling slow to clay again. Subject(s): World War I; Ypres, Belgium; First World War SIR HUGH AND THE SWANS (KUNG VON DER ROSEN, BRUGES, 1488), by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wintry nights in flanders Last Line: Sir hugh o' the rose lies dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium SOUVENANCE DE LIEGE (NOVEMBER), by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grey city by the silver meuse, I fling Last Line: Of blue-and-grey behind her upturned head. Subject(s): Liege, Belgium; Sonnet (as Literary Form) THE BELFRY OF BRUGES, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the market-place of bruges stands the belfry ols and brown Last Line: Lo! The shadow of the belfry crossed the sun-illumined square. Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium THE BELLS OF BRUGES, by LOUISE BURTON LAIDLAW Poem Text First Line: Back with the same question, major? Last Line: "come on corporal.—damn this war!" Alternate Author Name(s): Backus, L., Mrs. Subject(s): Bells; Bruges, Belgium; World War I; First World War THE CARILLON (ANTWERP AND BRUGES), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At antwerp, there is a low wall Last Line: That my flesh felt the carillon. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Antwerp, Belgium; Bells; Bruges, Belgium THE CELLAR, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want my father to stop sending me down there Last Line: Yet another cry for mercy. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Antwerp, Belgium; Betrayal; Cellars; Duty; Fathers & Daughters; Food Habits; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Penance; Potatoes; Shame; Survival; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Basements; Shoah; Judaism THE CRICKETERS OF FLANDERS, by JAMES NORMAN HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first to climb the parapet Last Line: "a sportsman and a soldier still!" Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War THE FIRST BATTLE OF YPRES, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grey field of flanders, grim old battle-plain Last Line: From bixschoote to baecelaere and down to the lys river. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): World War I; Ypres, Belgium; First World War THE HEROES, by M. FORREST Poem Text First Line: In that valhalla where the heroes go Last Line: "pass in, mon brave,"" said that wise sentinel." Subject(s): World War I - Belgium THE MOON AND THE NIGHT AND THE MEN, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the night of the belgian surrender the moon rose Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Belgium; Leopold Iii, King Of The Belgians; World War Ii; Second World War THE NEW SLAVERY (GERMAN EXPATRIATION OF CIVIL POPULATIONS OF BELGIUM), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men of freedom, for whose ease Last Line: December 15, 1916. Subject(s): Belgium; World War I; First World War THE WIFE OF FLANDERS, by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Low and brown barns, thatched and repatched and tattered Last Line: Ride on and prosper. You have lost your spurs. Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterton, G. K. Subject(s): World War I - Belgium TO BELGIUM, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For right, not might, you fought. The foe Last Line: For right, not might. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Belgium; World War I; First World War TO BELGIUM IN EXILE, by OWEN SEAMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Land of the desolate, mother of tears Last Line: And come with honour to your own again. Subject(s): World War I - Belgium TO BELGIUM; CROWNED WITH THORNS, by HELEN GRAY CONE Poem Text First Line: Thou that a brave brief space didst keep Last Line: The awful honor of the crown of christ? Alternate Author Name(s): Green, Coroebus Subject(s): World War I - Belgium TO THE BELGIANS, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O race that caesar knew Last Line: Nameless, immortal dead. Subject(s): Damien, Father (1840-1889); World War I - Belgium VLAMERTINGHE: PASSING THE CHATEAU, JULY 1917, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And all her silken flanks with garlands drest Last Line: Is scarcely right; this red should have been much duller. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Belgium; World War I; First World War WAR (ON THE GERMAN INVASION OF BELGIUM), by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: They who take the sword Last Line: With the sword they shall be slain. Subject(s): Fights; Swords; Victory; World War I - Belgium YPRES, by RONALD GORELL BARNES Poem Text First Line: City of stark desolation Last Line: Built in the heart of man. Alternate Author Name(s): Gorell, 3d Baron Subject(s): World War I; Ypres, Belgium; First World War YPRES; SEPTEMBER, 1915, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Push on, my lord of wurtemberg, across the flemish fen! Last Line: Come, try your luck, whatever fate befalls you. Subject(s): England; Errors; Failure; Germany; Regret; Soldiers; War; World War I; Ypres, Belgium; English; Mistakes; Fallacies; Germans; First World War |
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