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Subject: CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` C'EST L'EXTASE LANGOUREUSE, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the ecstasy of languor
Subject(s): Conscientious Objectors


C'EST L'EXTASE LANGOUREUSE, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the ecstasy of languor
Last Line: Through this tepid evening, so low
Subject(s): Conscientious Objectors


C.O., by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We left the quarter peep shows, the lurid skin
Subject(s): Conscientious Objectors


CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gates clanged and they walked you into jail
Subject(s): Conscientious Objectors


LE MAL, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While the red spewings of the shot
Last Line: Proffer him a fat penny tied up in their rag
Subject(s): Conscientious Objectors


LE VOYAGE, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For the child, in love with maps and prints
Last Line: Of which the human soul has never known the name
Subject(s): Conscientious Objectors


MEMORIES OF WEST STREET AND LEPKE, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only teaching on tuesdays, book-worming
Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Memories Of West Street And Lepke
Subject(s): Boston; Conscientious Objectors; Lepke, Louis (1897-1944); Prisons & Prisoners; World War Ii; Convicts; Second World War


MEMORIES OF WEST STREET AND LEPKE, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only teaching on tuesdays, book-worming
Last Line: Hanging like an oasis in his air %of lost connections
Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Memories Of West Street And Lepk
Subject(s): Boston; Conscientious Objectors; Lepke, Louis (1897-1944); Prisons And Prisoners; World War Ii


THE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The gates clanged and they walked you into jail
Subject(s): Conscientious Objectors


THE GOLDEN CROSS, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We hold in memory all the whiter moons
Last Line: And lilies wet from no fair woodland's breast.
Subject(s): Conscientious Objectors; World War I; First World War


THE SUPREMER SACRIFICE, by FRANK WILMOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Close now the door; shut down the light
Last Line: When next I see the sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley
Subject(s): Conscientious Objectors; Insanity; Madness; Mental Illness