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Subject: CHEMICAL WARFARE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CHRISTMAS: 1924, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Peace on earth!' was said. We sing it
Last Line: We've got as far as poison-gas
Subject(s): Chemical Warfare; Christmas


DULCE ET DECORUM EST, by WILFRED OWEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bent double, like old beggars under sacks
Last Line: Pro patria mori.
Subject(s): Chemical Warfare; Hate; Men; Patriotism; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War


SIR, IF YOU ARE, SIR, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sir, if you are, sir -- the unnameable flame
Last Line: Of naming and divining the unnameable flame
Subject(s): Chemical Warfare; Environment; Nuclear Waste; Trade


STOCKPILING, by JAYNE CORTEZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stockpiling of frozen trees
Last Line: Rises up %and spits fire %into the toxic tears %of this stockpile
Subject(s): Chemical Warfare