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Subject: D DAY (JUNE 6, 1944)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CARENTAN O CARENTAN, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Trees in the old days used to stand / and shape a shady land
Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); World War Ii; Normandy (france), Invasion Of; Second World War


CARENTAN O CARENTAN, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Trees in the old days used to stand %and shape a shady land
Last Line: We never yet had lost a man %or known what death could do
Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); World War Ii


D-DAWN - JUNE 6, 1944, by MARGARET MCGARVEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Father, sitting on the side of your startled bed
Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944)


D-DAY + ALL THE YEARS, by HOWARD NEMEROV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What daddy did on opening day? Yes, well
Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944)


D-DAY ODE FOR DEAN, by SYDNEY LEA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At first, up on the scaffold
Last Line: He meant to join them there %and never fall to harm
Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944)


LITANY FOR D-DAY: 1944, by HENRY MORTON ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Epaulettes of farragut, / powder-horn of boone
Last Line: Not to be safe, but free.
Variant Title(s): Litany For A New A.e.f.
Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); Normandy (france), Invasion Of


NORMANDY BEACH, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The waves on the normandy coast jump heavily toward us
Last Line: Lonely companion, %there's something I have to tell you but I don't know what
Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); Normandy, France; World War Ii


PERSPECTIVE: ANNIVERSARY, D-DAY, by MARY KARR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I hauled the army footlocker thunking
Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944)


REMEMBRANCE DAY, by JOHN F. DEANE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Behind the statue of st. Teresa of the flowers
Last Line: Were apple orchards blossoming
Variant Title(s): Fal
Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); Memory; Soldiers; War


TO JOAN OF ARC ON D-DAY, by MARY THERESE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Joan, be swift at the parapet
Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); Joan Of Arc (1412-1431)


VETERAN, by ANDREW MOTION    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the field, the wood
Subject(s): D Day (june 6, 1944); Veterans; World War Ii; Normandy (france), Invasion Of; Second World War