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Subject: DESERTION, MILITARY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DESERTER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: As I was awalking along the highway
Last Line: For he will make a soldier for his queen and country
Subject(s): "courts & Courtiers;cruelty;desertion, Military;soldiers;


DESERTION, by RUPERT BROOKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So light we were, so right we were, so fair faith shone
Last Line: Gay down the way, and on alo
Subject(s): Desertion, Military; Soldiers' Writings


THE COWARD, by EVE MERRIAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You, weeping wide atg war, weep with me now
Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva
Subject(s): Desertion, Military; Cowardice; War


THE DESERTER, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas, for the bright promise of our youth!
Last Line: Shot for desertion!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Desertion, Military


THE NEGATIVES, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dig in the soft earth all
Subject(s): Desertion, Military; Capital Punishment; Homecoming; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty