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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BLOOD Matches Found: 127 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CASE STATED, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now how shall I do with my love and my pride Last Line: Her spark saying nothing talks better than I. Subject(s): Blood; Love; Pride; Self-esteem; Self-respect A DIALOGUE, OCCASIONED BY MARCH OF HIGHLANDERS INTO LANCASHIRE, 1745, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were you not sadly frighten'd, honest harry Last Line: Harry. Yoi, sur, as lung as ere I con, I will. Subject(s): Blood; Fights; Lancashire, England; Scotland - Relations With England A VISIT TO GETTYSBURG, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will / touch stone Subject(s): American Civil War; Blood; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); United States - History; War; Gettysburg, Battle Of ADDRESS TO TEN THOUSAND FLEAS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hence, ye disturbers of my sleep" Last Line: That I may have some sleep tomorrow Subject(s): Blood;fleas;sleep AFTER THE PLANE CRASH, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: My second day in the hospital Last Line: I thought, and looked harder, %taking every little last thing in Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Blood; Healing; Hospitality; Miracles; Nome, Alaska; Poetry And Poets; Survival ANOTHER CAPTIVE STAR...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Must blood of murders and of wars regale Last Line: Which drowns in blood each age's history! Subject(s): Blood; Death; Earth; War; Dead, The; World AT LAST WE KILLED THE ROACHES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My hands were blades and it was murder murder %all over the place Subject(s): Blood; Murder BANGLA DESH: 1, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The festival of massacre: how make it vivid? Last Line: So beware. Because my heart is thirsting for blood. Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Bangladesh; Blood; Bodies; Violence BANGLA DESH: 2. THE BLOOD IN MY EYES, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Layer by layer, the dust of bitterness Last Line: Will be cleansed of blood forever. Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Bangladesh; Blood; Eyes; Healing; Tears; Cures BATTLE-CRIES, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, jim hez gone-ye didn't know? Last Line: Sick of his bloody spree. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Blood; Fights; Social Problems BEIRUT, by AHMAD FARAZ Poem Source First Line: Whose headless body is this Last Line: Who take god's name %are silent! Subject(s): Beirut - United States Troops (1982-3); Blood; Enemies; Human Rights; Tyranny And Tyrants BETWEEN US, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does my blood need a motive Last Line: Out of the same matter? Variant Title(s): I Have Already Written You Off Subject(s): Blood; Love - Nature Of BLEEDING, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stop bleeding said the knife Last Line: I don't I don't have to feel said the knife drying now %becoming shiny Subject(s): Blood BLOOD, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: She comes to the door Last Line: Red threads. %the same red Subject(s): Blood; Menstruation; Sex BLOOD, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a cold night Subject(s): Blood BLOOD, by JOHN HAINES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me if you see it now, Subject(s): Blood BLOOD, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blood is anonymous -- it has no name Last Line: Blood writes its own philosophy and creed. Subject(s): Blood BLOOD, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Known for its repertory lineages Subject(s): Blood; Religion; Theology BLOOD, by WYATT PRUNTY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Known for its repertory lineages Last Line: Blood surfaces our dust, and something more, %the potent changing earth of us Subject(s): Blood; Religion BLOOD, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pen filled with ink dark Last Line: Leaves of grass, and went to war Subject(s): Blood; Survival BLOOD IS A BRIGHT COLOR & TEARS ARE CLEAR, by MICHELLE T. CLINTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ever get yourself square & situated in a boxy apartment Last Line: Gotta hold up this scar to the light %and let you see Subject(s): Blood; Violence BLOOD ON THE WHEEL, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blood on the night soil man en route to the country prison Last Line: Bronze dead gold & diamond deep. Blood be fast Subject(s): Blood; Social Commentary; City & Town Life BLOOD ORDEAL, FR. THE FAID MAID OF PERTH, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Viewless essence, thin and bare Last Line: And every drop cry blood for blood Subject(s): Blood; Vengeance BLOOD TALK, by ANTHONY S. ABBOTT Poem Source First Line: This one wades in thick hip boots Last Line: And red man, and dreams, and blood Subject(s): Blood BLOODROOT, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: A single leaf folds Last Line: Until her tender feet bleed Subject(s): Blood; Pain BRAIN BRUISED, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Like gray space, or lake confused Last Line: Ah, to be a cat, you think. %to experience, and shed, this life too Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Blood; Bruises; Dreams; Nome, Alaska CANNOT SWEETEN', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If that's water you wash your hands in Last Line: Dropping dropping dropping on it Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Blood; Sin; Deception CHARM AGAINST BLEEDING, WORCESTERSHIRE VERSION, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Jesus was born in bethlem Last Line: God spake, and the water stood, %and so shall now thy blood Subject(s): Blood CIRCULATION, by THOMAS WASHBOURNE Poem Source First Line: Our famous harvey hath made good Last Line: Return unto thy rest above the pole Subject(s): Blood; Harvey, William (1578-1657) COMMUNION, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful regia! Your veins are the fermentations Last Line: Already forever far from bethlehem! Subject(s): Blood; Bodies; Eucharist; Mothers CRUISERS' VERSE, by VICTOR NOEL Poem Source First Line: Look at them Last Line: Of salt and flesh Subject(s): Blood; Death; Shadows; Warships CUPID IN AMBUSH, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It oft to many has successful been Last Line: And in the wounds he sees he bears his part. Subject(s): Blood; Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Love; Mythology; Eros CYBORG, by SEKINE HIROSHI Poem Source First Line: I had a blood transfusion - it's been some time since I took 200 c.C. Last Line: Scientific progress has indeed begun to dismember this component of the earth Subject(s): Blood Transfusion DABNEY'S WIFE; SPRING 1863, by JOANNE LOWERY Poem Source First Line: It was all their idea, not hooker's Last Line: And rinsed and did not miss a thing Subject(s): African Americans - Women; American Civil War; Blood; Slavery; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War Injuries; Women And War EASIER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: How peacefully he wipes the bloddy knife Last Line: Is easier than chopping up a man Subject(s): Blood; Butchers; Knives; Lambs; Murder EDWARD (CHILD 12), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: How came this blood on your shirt sleeve Last Line: And that will never be, be, be, -- %and that will never be Subject(s): Blood; Children ELEGIES FROM THE NORTH 5, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: Now, in a bitter or a soft voice, in the lengthened melodies of a lament, in Last Line: Shared with everyone lost like you: do you recognize yourself in this poem? Subject(s): Blood; Death; Lament; Soldiers; War ELEGY ON MR. WILLIAM SMITH: MR. SMITH IS DEAD, by THOMAS CHATTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ascend, my muse, on sorrow's sable plume Last Line: The blood-stained tomb where smith and comfort lie. Subject(s): Blood; Death; Graves; Grief; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness EMBERS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the tragedy, I'll light for tilia Subject(s): Blood; Poetry & Poets; Tragedy EMBERS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the tragedy, I'll light for tilia Last Line: You'll drink my blood, like a virus! Subject(s): Blood; Poetry And Poets; Tragedy EMERGENCY ROOM, by KEN WALDMAN Poem Source First Line: Glasses part-crooked,-bent Last Line: My thank-you. A good doctor, %he expected no further answer Subject(s): Blood; Hospitals; Nome, Alaska; Physicians; Writing And Writers ENQUIRY CONCERNING THE BAT, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Bats have not heard a word of their literary reputation Last Line: Will cause its cave to be burned to ashes Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Blood; Caves; Vampires; Wings EPIGRAMME UPON BLOOD'S ATTEMPT TO STEALE THE CROWN, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When daring blood, his rents to have regain'd Last Line: A bishops cruelty, the crown was gone. Subject(s): Blood, Thomas (1618-1680) EXPERIENCE OF BLOOD, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never knew there was so much blood Last Line: Because after all it was my blood too Subject(s): Blood; Death - Children; Suicide EXPERT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He scratches, giggles, sneers, looks, looks away Last Line: Again and he smells the bed where his mother bleeds Subject(s): Blood; Insanity; Mothers And Sons EXTRACTS FROM LUCIENNE: 55, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Alone in my blood I hold the whole of poesy. Death lingers far aloof Last Line: Shall I sing, undone, of one with faith so frail? Subject(s): Blood; Death; Dead, The FLOOD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blood has been harder to dam back than water Last Line: Oh, blood will out. It cannot be contained Variant Title(s): Bloo Subject(s): Blood FOR THE NEW YEAR 1761, by WILLIAM WHITEHEAD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still must the muse, indignant, hear Last Line: And albion's dreaded strength secure the world's repose. Subject(s): Blood; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Great Britain - Wars With France; Mourning; Navy - Great Britain; Ruins; British Empire; England - Empire; Bereavement; English Navy 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 GEO-BESTIARY: 33, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coyote's bloody face makes me Last Line: Tweezers because she plucked a flower with her toes. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Blood; Coyotes GIVING BLOOD, by JOHN E. GLOWNEY Poem Source First Line: Volunteers all: the white-haired nurses Last Line: Red as fire, %cadenced, blessedly anonymous Subject(s): Blood GIVING BLOOD, by JUDITH ROBBINS Poem Source First Line: I wonder about the theology Last Line: From the essence of the host Subject(s): Blood; Religion GOULBURN ISLAND CYCLE: SONG 14, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Blood is running down from the men's penes, men from goulburn islands Last Line: Blood, flowing like water Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Blood GRIEF, OF THE BLOODY HAND, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In an immense wood in the south of kent Last Line: And left him there struggling hard to gain his liberty. Subject(s): Blood; Crime & Criminals; Discontent; Grief; Kidnapping; Dissatisfaction; Sorrow; Sadness GUARDS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Look at the yellow flowers guarding the blue gate Last Line: Whose blood is that pooled in the street? Subject(s): Blood; Flowers; Streets HOLY RIVERS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The veins on the back of my hand (nwo that I'm old) Last Line: I ask you to take it in yours and trace the holy rivers with your fingers Subject(s): Blood Vessels; Hands; Old Age HUMAN MAP, by HEID E. ERDRICH Poem Source First Line: You will be happy to know someone has asked our cells to tell Last Line: Our bodies' code will crack. They will have their map Subject(s): Blood; Dna; Ethnic Identity; Science I HAVE FOUGHT A GOOD FIGHT', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who art thou that comest with a stedfast face Last Line: And I did not tremble, happy in his love Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Blood; Courage; Fights I WANT TO LIVE AS A MAGICIAN, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: It is not easy to move about on this earth with crumpled Last Line: From my pocket and perch them on blooming branches Subject(s): Blood; Buddhism; Memory; Pictures; War Injuries IN MY BLOOD, DESIRE, by RACHEL ESHED Poem Source First Line: I'll enter the lions' den with you Last Line: To tattoo in my flesh %as a mark of addictive love Subject(s): Blood; Desire; Love IN THE OCTAGONAL ROOM, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To see / blake's earth Last Line: Rests Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827); Blood; Cruelty; Pain; Tate Museum, London; Suffering; Misery IRONING, by JUDITH MINTY Poem Source First Line: The pattern flows. Leaves and flowers blend, a river spinning over the Last Line: -gle pink and blue. Green. I am ironing her blouse. Only this motion is %left Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Blood; Hospitals; Mothers And Daughters LAND OF ALVARGONZALEZ: EARTH, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: One morning in autumn Last Line: Orchard, beehives and fields Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Autumn; Blood; Fields; Seasons; Spain LOVE IN BLOODLINE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I saw my blood on your leg, the drop so Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Blood MAGIC WORDS TO STOP BLEEDING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: This blood Last Line: Wipe it off Subject(s): Blood; Eskimos; Magic; Native Americans MEXICAN NURSERY SONG: 11, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Johnny bumped his head Last Line: "ta-chun, ta-chun, ta-chun! He said" Subject(s): Blood MORE GIFTS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Who stands in the middle of the sick crowd Last Line: Offering gifts of contaminated blood? Subject(s): Blood; Collective Behavior; Sickness NEW ENGLAND, AUTUMN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our daughter dreamt of magnolias Last Line: I woke with a start as if we had set an alarm. Subject(s): Blood; Dreams; Family Life; New England; Nightmares; Relatives NO SIGN OF BLOOD, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nowhere, nowhere is there any trace of blood Last Line: Blood that in the end became the nourishment for dust Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Blood NO SIGN OF BLOOD, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nowhere, nowhere is there any trace of blood Last Line: Blood that in the end became the nourishment for dust Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Blood OF GENERAL GOURAUD, by ROBERTA BALFOUR Poem Text First Line: He wears an empty sleeve Last Line: To victory, to liberty,humanity! Subject(s): Blood; Courage; Generals; Leadership; Sacrifices; War; Valor; Bravery ORTHODOXIES 14, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: A pederast's boy under thumb was giving birth to him Last Line: Was it genuine backstitch, the coxcomb on his head saint trembles in rags Subject(s): Blood; Death; Disease PAIN, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a mystery that walks the earth Last Line: Thou feelest that I am! Subject(s): Blood; Death; Despair; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery POSTCARD: 4, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: I fell down beside him Last Line: Dries on my ears Subject(s): Blood; Death; War PRAYER-CHARM TO STOP BLEEDING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Jesus was born in bethlehem Last Line: And so shall now thy blood - %in the name of the father, son, etc Subject(s): Blood PROLOGUE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whose blood runs gay as summer's Last Line: One of your kith and kind. Subject(s): Blood; Hearts; Night; Bedtime RACHEL'S LULLABY, by TOVAH S. YAVIN Poem Source First Line: I gave a pint - I saved a pint Last Line: From the cloistered embers of my prayers Subject(s): Blood; Children RED SUNSET, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: As if all were good Last Line: She says to sister night as she tucks you in %and rattles the stars by your bed Subject(s): Blood; Death; Evening; Rest; Sleep REVENGE, by CHARLES HENRY WEBB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Revenge is a naked sword Last Line: Thou may'st find it sheathed in thine own. Alternate Author Name(s): Paul, John Subject(s): Blood; Pain; Revenge; Suffering; Misery RINGING OUT, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jubilate! Peace has conquered! Last Line: Glory to the lord of hosts! Subject(s): Blood; Peace; War RIVERS ARE NOT IMPASSIVE, by AIME CESAIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Same brawl / this big scar on my belly Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Blood; Rivers ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 20. ENFANT PERDU, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forlorn posts leading, thirty long years fought I Last Line: My arms break not, my heart alone doth break. Subject(s): Blood; Fear; Freedom; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Songs SESTINA: ALTAFORTE, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Damn it all! All this our south stinks peace Last Line: "hell blot black for alway the thought ""peace!" Subject(s): Blood; Peace; War SHE UNDERSTANDS ME, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is all blood and breaking Last Line: The same wound the same blood the same breaking Subject(s): Blood; Slavery; Serfs SHE UNDERSTANDS ME, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is all blood and breaking Last Line: She is always emptying and it is all %the same wound the sam blood the same breaking Subject(s): Blood; Slavery SISTER MARY APPASSIONATA ADDRESSES THE V.F.W., by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The madness of the blood! Only blood Last Line: Every river running to the sea runs red Subject(s): Blood; War SKY OF BLOOD, by GUSTAVE KAHN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hour of the white cloud has softened on the plain Last Line: O golden heath, o sky steeped in blood. Subject(s): Blood SNIPER, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: Last monday, they rushed out like Last Line: Death comes from the trees Subject(s): Ambulances; Blood; Death; Guns; Violence SO MANY BLOOD-LAKES, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have now won two world-wars, neither of which concerned us, we were Last Line: So many blood-lakes: and we always fall in Subject(s): Patriotism; War; Blood SPECIMEN DAYS: DEATH OF A WISCONSIN OFFICER, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another characteristic scene of that dark and bloody 1863, from notes Last Line: They yield the field Subject(s): Blood; Hospitals; Nurses; Physicians; Soldiers; War Injuries SPREAD, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: This blood is the same color as the jam I used to eat every morning made of Last Line: Handle that's a string you pull right down out of yourself Subject(s): Blood; Girls; Menstruation; Women THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 2. DIET, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: Enough of air. A desert subject now Last Line: The old descending, in their turns to rise. Subject(s): Blood Vessels; Dieting; Health; Veins; Arteries THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 3. ON WASHING, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: Against the rigours of a damp cold heaven Last Line: To lose a husband's than a lover's heart. Subject(s): Blood; Bodies; Health; Love; Skin THE ART OF WAR: THE FEAST OF BLOOD, by JOSEPH FAWCETT Poem Text First Line: What mean these showy and these sounding signs Last Line: Light-footed trip,the feast, the feast of blood! Subject(s): Blood; War THE BATTLE OF CRESSY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the 26th of august, the sun was burning hot Last Line: And he thanked jack for capturing the bohemian standard during the fight. Subject(s): Blood; Cressy, Battle Of (1346); Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Victory; War THE BATTLE OF EH ALMA: FOUGHT IN 1854, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the heights of alma the battle began Last Line: Which was responded to by hurrahs, loud and clear. Subject(s): Alma, Battle Of The (1854); Blood; Crimean War (1853-1856); Death; Fights; War; Dead, The THE BATTLE OF INKERMANN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1854, and on the 5th of november Last Line: Alas! Pitiful to relate, thousands of innocent men. Subject(s): Alma, Battle Of The (1854); Blood; Crimean War (1853-1856); Death; Victory; War; Dead, The THE BEAR, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In late winter Last Line: Was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry, by which I lived? Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Blood; Life THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#1): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man thinks he is alive when he sees blood in his stool Subject(s): Blood; Death; Dead, The THE CALL OF THE BLOOD, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the water the shadows are creeping Last Line: Lights in the window and watch at the door. Subject(s): Blood; Fear; Life; Voices THE CAMPEADOR'S SPECTRE HOST, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On leon's towers deep midnight lay Last Line: That more than men had fought for god! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Blood; Death; Fights; Spain; Swords; Dead, The THE CONTEMPTIBLE NEUTRAL, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world was full of battle Last Line: While all the world's at war! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Variant Title(s): The Looker-on Subject(s): Blood; Fights; Soldiers; War THE EAGLE AND THE LION, by GEORGE FREDERICK Poem Text First Line: Alone on his rock nigh a hundred years Last Line: Of earth, and of sea, and of air. Subject(s): Animals; Blood; Brothers; Courts & Courtiers; Half-brothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE FIGHTING SWING, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once again the regiments marching down the street Last Line: Blood, dust, grapple and thrustback to the fighting swing! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Blood; Cowboys; Fights; Soldiers; War THE FINAL WAR, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Oh, east and west shall know not rest and the seas Last Line: Then over the world shall be unfurled the one white flag of peace. Subject(s): Blood; Nations; Patriotism; Peace; War THE FLOOD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blood has been harder to dam back than water Last Line: Oh, blood will out. It cannot be contained Variant Title(s): Blood Subject(s): Blood THE HEART IN THE JAR; MEDITATION UPON NOBEL PRIZE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alive it beats in a bosom of glass Last Line: Death and the artist grapple for the knife. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Blood Vessels; Carrel, Alexis (1873-1944); Health; Hearts; Medicine; Veins; Arteries; Drugs, Prescription THE IMPROVISATORE: LEOPOLD, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The battle is over; the dews of the fog Last Line: The storm was hushed. Men tell not where he went. Subject(s): Adoption; Betrayal; Blood; Clergy; Death; Despair; Evil; Loss; Love; Violence; War; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The THE INDIAN QUEEN: HYMN TO THE SUN, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You to whom victory we owe Last Line: And by their loss of pow'r declare your own. Subject(s): Altars; Blood; Sacrifices; Sun THE MENSTRUAL HUT, by ANNIE FINCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can I listen to the moon? Last Line: Your blood will listen, every time Subject(s): Blood THE POPPY FIELDS OF SERGEY, by KATE SLAUGHTER MCKINNEY Poem Text First Line: Oh! The poppy fields of sergey Last Line: Where the blood-red poppies grow. Subject(s): Blood; Death; Fields; Poppies; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE RIDING, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said to my young soul riding Last Line: Wheresoever I go. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Blood; Horseback Riding THE SURPRISE OF ANTIOCH, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mournfully beamed the pale moonlight Last Line: The traitor's head away! Subject(s): Blood; Christianity; Crusades; Fights; Swords THE THORN OF PRESTON, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reviving with the genial airs Last Line: Sad relics of the fight! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Blood; Mourning; Soldiers; Solitude; War; Bereavement; Loneliness TO THE MASTERS OF 1917, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The task is done. The student look Last Line: By the touch of the master sanctified. Subject(s): Blood; Death; Pain; War; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery TRAGEDY, by VIRGINIA A. ALLIN Poem Text First Line: I brought you a rose Last Line: The blood was mine! Subject(s): Blood; Love - Loss Of; Tragedy TRANSFORMATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Her scream of love ripping his head Last Line: Of a bumpy bed Subject(s): Blood; Change; Relationships; Sex TYSON'S CORNER, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were as tough as our glasses Last Line: We made a promise. Subject(s): Blood; Slavery; Serfs UNTITLED, 1968; FOR MARK ROTHKO, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's no such thing as an emergency Last Line: I know someone, or his assistant, suffered here Variant Title(s): Veronica Subject(s): Blood; Drinks & Drinking; Evening; Wine; Sunset; Twilight UPPER CRUST, by DICK HAYMAN Poem Source First Line: Breeding is important Last Line: Is thoroughly well-bred Subject(s): Blood; Family Life VICTOR JOFFRE!, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: The summer's night was falling o'er the / marne Last Line: In chaos. There calm and stern, stoodvictor joffre. Subject(s): Anxiety; Blood; Death; Fights; Patriotism; Soldiers; War; Dead, The VISIONS: 9, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was asleep, and calmly slept Last Line: The pale-as-marble maid. Subject(s): Blood; Dreams; Love; Pain; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery VISIT TO GETTYSBURG, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will %touch stone Last Line: And touch stone %for this touchstone Subject(s): American Civil War; Blood; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); U.s. - History; War VOLUNTARY MUTILATION, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: Rather than have to serve %in the emperor's armies Last Line: That what they saw was the blood %of soldiers Subject(s): Blood; Soldiers; War Injuries WHITENESS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White roses set in ivory urns Last Line: The white sea of the tears of god. Subject(s): Blood; Drinks & Drinking; Flowers; Jesus Christ; Night; Roses; Tears; Wine; Bedtime WITH THE TWO LOST ONES, by KELLY PARSONS Poem Source First Line: One is red, one is blue %both tied like veins to the heart Last Line: Each of us searching %for our own found Subject(s): Blood Vessels; Hearts YOUNGEST / PURPLEST BUM, by STEVE EFFINGHAM Poem Source Last Line: Sparkled beneath the sunshine Subject(s): Accidents; Ambulances; Blood; Commuters |
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