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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 thrust—back 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, stood—victor 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