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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GERMAN REQUIEM, by JAMES FENTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down
Subject(s): Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Germans; Shoah; Judaism


A HUN, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He was just a prisoner
Last Line: Would never know how bravely a son had died.
Subject(s): Courage; Death; Germany; Injustice; Prisoners Of War; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Germans; First World War


A JEWISH FAMILY; IN A SMALL VALLEY OPPOSITE ST. GOAR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Genius of raphael! If thy wings
Last Line: And proud jerusalem!
Subject(s): Germany; Jews; Rhine (river), Europe; Germans; Judaism


AND BARBARROSSA SLEEPS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Defeat and death the germans knew
Last Line: Unmoved, shall barbarossa sleep!
Subject(s): Germany; Legends; World War I; Germans; First World War


ANNO 1839, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear distant germany, how often
Last Line: My tender verses there I wove.
Subject(s): Germany; Germans


ARMGART, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good morning, fraulein
Last Line: T is better that our griefs should not spread far.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Germany; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Philosophy & Philosophers; Sickness; Singing & Singers; Germans; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Illness; Songs


ARMISTICE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: And this was germany--this puff of dust
Last Line: This worn gray shoddy, and this iron rust!
Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; United States; World War I; Liberty; Germans; America; First World War


AT THE VILLA OF THE EMPEROR FREDERICK III AT SAN REMO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: San remo's palms in beauty stand / beside the storied sea
Last Line: The long waves ebb and flow.
Subject(s): Death; Germany; Love; Peace; Dead, The; Germans


ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 21, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Argonauts without a ship
Last Line: Cry aloud, and so awoke me.
Subject(s): Argo (ship); Germany; Jason; Sailing & Sailors; Germans; Seamen; Sails


BATTLEFIELDS, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the battlefields of birth
Last Line: Mothers, maddened mothers, curse you, germany!
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Death; Germany; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Germans


BINGEN ON THE RHINE, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A soldier of the legion lay dying in algiers
Last Line: The rhine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline
Subject(s): Germany; Patriotism; War; Germans


BISMARCK AT CANOSSA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not all disgraced, in that italian town
Last Line: Than his whom scorn saw shuddering in the snow!
Subject(s): Bismark, Otto Von (1815-1898); Germany; Germans


CHRISTINE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Most quaintly touching, in her
Last Line: "than yet I am to you. So ist good night."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Germany; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Germans; Sorrow; Sadness


DEAD MUSICIANS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From you, beethoven, bach, mozart
Last Line: They're dead ... For god's sake stop that gramophone.
Subject(s): Germany; Music & Musicians; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Germans; First World War


DOT LEEDLE BOY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O t's a leedle gristmas story
Last Line: For dot leedle boy of mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Germany; Santa Claus; Childhood; Nativity, The; Germans; Nicholas, Saint


ENGLAND TO GERMANY IN 1914, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O england, may god punish thee!'
Last Line: And present sight, your ancient name.
Subject(s): Germany; World War I; Germans; First World War


EPILOGUE: THE GERMAN MUSE, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here no age augustan flourished
Last Line: Mocks the servitude of song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Germany; Germans


FOOTNOTE: ADOLPH HITLER, GERMAN CHANCELLOR, 1933, by HENRY HARRISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was a man
Last Line: Thought the jews would not see germany again.
Subject(s): Germany; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Jews; Spain; Germans; Judaism


FREDERICK III OF GERMANY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not the bold brandenburg, at prussia's birth
Last Line: The manliest emperor, the imperial man!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Germany; Heroism; Prussia; Germans; Heroes; Heroines


GERMANY, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me sing germania' s glory!
Last Line: Ever flourish germany!
Subject(s): Germany; Love; Singing & Singers; Time; Germans; Songs


GERMANY, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little things make germany a lovely place
Subject(s): Germany; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 1, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the mournful month of november 'twas
Last Line: And the contact new vigour produces.
Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Singing & Singers; Liberty; Germans; Songs


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 11, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold the wood of teutoburg
Last Line: And towards it I gave a few dollars.
Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Jahn, Frederick Ludwig (1778-1852); Neander, Johann August (1789-1850); Liberty; Germans; Mendel, David


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 12, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the wood in the dark the postchaise bump'd on
Last Line: It appear'd, though with much mutilation.
Subject(s): Censorship; Freedom; Germany; Liberty; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 13, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun arose near paderborn
Last Line: Thou dost suffer a sad expiation.
Subject(s): Censorship; Germany; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 14, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind was humid, and barren the land
Last Line: "o sun, thou accusing fire!"
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Germany; Murder; Singing & Singers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Germans; Songs


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 15, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A fine and prickly rain now descends
Last Line: "the roman proverb famous."
Subject(s): Animals; Germany; Horses; Rain; Soldiers; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 16, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The carriage's jolting woke me up
Last Line: "when I view the matter closely."
Subject(s): Chezy, Helmine (1783-1856); Germany; Karschin, Anna Luise (1711-1791); Mendelssohn, Moses (1729-1786); Mendelssohn-bartholdy, Felix (1809-1847); Chezy, Wilhelmine Christiane Von Klencke; Germans; Karsch, Anna


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 17, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wrangled in dream with the emperor thus
Last Line: "o emperor, come thou quickly!"
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dreams; Germany; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Nightmares; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 18, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The town of minden's a fortress strong
Last Line: As by my feelings knew I.
Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Liberty; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 19, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O danton, great was thy mistake
Last Line: "a comforting draught he was blending."
Subject(s): Germany; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 2, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whilst heavenly joys were warbled thus
Last Line: "our outward and inward dealings."
Subject(s): Germany; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 20, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In an hour from harburg to hamburg I went
Last Line: "but I leave the peel uneaten."
Subject(s): Germany; Politics & Government; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 24, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How I managed to mount the narrow stairs
Last Line: "with a little rum mix'd in it."
Subject(s): Germany; Love; Minstrels; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 25, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some tea the goddess quickly made
Last Line: And in my works as a poet.
Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Poetry & Poets; Liberty; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 27, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When summer's pleasant days have come
Last Line: Thou hadst better mind thy behaviour!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Germany; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Summer; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 5, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And when I came to the bridge o'er the rhine
Last Line: "farewell, we shall meet hereafter."
Subject(s): France; Germany; Musset, Alfred De (1810-1857); Rhine (river), Europe; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 6, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On paganini used always to wait
Last Line: "I'm the deed which thy thoughts engender."
Subject(s): Germany; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 7, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I homeward went, and as soundly I slept
Last Line: And I awoke from my slumbers.
Subject(s): Dreams; Germany; Hearts; Sleep; Nightmares; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 8, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From cologne to hagen it costs to post
Last Line: "of ""vive l'empereur!"" repeated."
Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Tears; Liberty; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 9, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I left cologne on my onward road
Last Line: With laurel leaves round their muzzle.
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Germany; Germans


HANS LACK-LAND, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell, my wife, said lack-land hans
Last Line: My name will never mention.
Subject(s): Farewell; Germany; Parting; Germans


HERMANN AND DOROTHEA, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Truly, I never have seen the market and street so deserted
Last Line: "might against might, and peace should revisit us all with its gladness."
Subject(s): Exiles; Freedom; Germany; Liberty; Germans


HOME, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My native land I will not leave
Last Line: A star in heav'n, I trust.
Subject(s): Germany; Patriotism; Germans


IN A CARRIAGE, UPON THE BANKS OF THE RHINE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Amid this dance of objects sadness steals
Last Line: And in fit measure cheers autumnal days.
Subject(s): Germany; Germans


IVY SONG; ON RECEIVING IVY LEAVES .. CASTLE OF RHEINFELS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! How could fancy crown with thee
Last Line: And all is thine at length!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Castles; Germany; Ivy; Ruins; Time; Germans


KATHE KOLLWITZ, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Held between wars
Subject(s): Women; Germany; Wars; Death; Children; Art & Artists; Germans; Dead, The; Childhood


KOBES I, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In eighteen hundred and forty-eight
Last Line: The echo rang wildly long after.
Subject(s): Germany; Ghosts; Life; Secrets; Supernatural; Germans


LOOK TO THE END, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The german empire is no more
Last Line: O, god!—and we've been proud!
Subject(s): Disasters; Germany; Lusitania (ship); Shipwrecks; United States; War; Germans; America


MEN AND BOYS, by KARL THEODORE KORNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The storm is out; the land is roused
Last Line: Swing the battle-sword who can!
Alternate Author Name(s): Korner, Charles Theodore
Variant Title(s): Men And Knaves
Subject(s): Germany; Patriotism; Germans


NIGHT THOUGHTS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When, germany, I think of thee
Last Line: And all my german cares beguiling!
Subject(s): Germany; Night; Thought; Germans; Bedtime; Thinking


ODE TO THE GERMANS, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The spirit of britannia
Last Line: And be free! -- and be free!
Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Liberty; Germans


ON READING AN ANTHOLOGY OF POSTWAR GERMAN POETRY, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: America saved me
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Germany; Germans


ON THE WATCHMAN'S ARRIVAL IN PARIS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good, watchman with face so sad and despairing
Last Line: The censorship will of itself disappear.
Subject(s): France; Freedom; Germany; Liberty; Germans


PATRIOTIC SONG, by ERNST MORITZ ARNDT    Poem Text                    
First Line: God, who gave iron, purposed never
Last Line: Or freedom's death we'll die!
Variant Title(s): Song Of The Fatherland
Subject(s): Germany; Patriotism; Germans


RECOLLECTIONS FROM KRAHWINKEL'S DAYS OF TERROR, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We, mayor and senate of the town
Last Line: And hold your tongues, or more's the pity.
Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Terror; Liberty; Germans


RHYMING, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bells go chiming
Last Line: O'er high germany.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Germany; Rhyme; Germans


ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: OUR MARINE (A NAUTICAL TALE), by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A dream of a fleet we lately dreamt
Last Line: "to the point from which we started."
Subject(s): Germany; Prutz, Robert Eduard (1816-1872); Germans


ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 16. IN OCTOBER 1849, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The weather now is calm and mild
Last Line: Seeing thou'rt ill, to say no more about it.
Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Hungary; Liberty; Germans


ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 4. THE DYING ONE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flying after bliss and light
Last Line: O have pity, gracious lord!
Subject(s): Death; Germany; Home; Dead, The; Germans


SONNET: 6. THE NIGHT WATCH ON THE DRACHENFELS; TO FRITZ VON B--., by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas midnight as we scaled the mountain height
Last Line: A wretched cold and cough took home with me!
Subject(s): Germany; Patriotism; Germans


ST. MIHIEL, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: They said the yankees wouldn't fight--that there was no living chance
Last Line: That the yankees did come over—that the yanks are really there!
Subject(s): Germany; United States; War; World War I; Germans; America; First World War


THE ADDED STARTER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: They're lining up at the starting point, they're
Last Line: The yankee horse looks 'round and sees—the kaiser's mount fall dead.
Subject(s): Germany; United States; War; World War I; Germans; America; First World War


THE ASS-ELECTION, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Being tired of freedom for some time past
Last Line: With evident gratification.
Subject(s): Elections; Germany; Voting; Voters; Suffrage; Germans


THE BARON'S LAST BANQUET, by ALBERT GORTON GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er a low couch the setting sun / had thrown its latest ray
Last Line: Old rudiger sat, dead.
Subject(s): Germany; Germans


THE BOOK OF YOLEK, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dowsed coals fume and hiss after your meal
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Germans; Shoah; Judaism


THE CHILD, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The good their gifts in dream enjoy
Last Line: To wear their clothes in peace.
Subject(s): Germany; Germans


THE CONFLICT: 5. KRUPPISM, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Crowned on the twilight battlefield, there bends
Last Line: So long shall we serve krupp instead of christ.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Death; Germany; Jesus Christ; Krupp (industrial Conglomerate); Loss; Loyalty; World War I; Dead, The; Germans; First World War


THE DIVER, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, where is the knight or the squire so bold
Last Line: Shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Drowning; Germany; Germans


THE GERMAN ART, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By no kind augustus reared
Last Line: From its deep—the heart!
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Germany; Germans


THE IRON CHANCELLOR, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Above the grave where bismarck sleeps
Last Line: Two eagles screamed of victory.
Subject(s): Bismark, Otto Von (1815-1898); Germany; Prussia; Germans


THE PASSENGERS OF A RETARDED SUBMERSIBLE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The american people: / what was it kept you so long, brave german submersible?
Last Line: Shall be ever the home for us this land can never be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Germany; Lusitania (ship); World War I; Germans; First World War


THE PATH OF SAFETY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Two jolly german barons lived in castles by the rhine
Last Line: "the noble lord von donnerblitz, the graf von schlagenstein"
Subject(s): Arms & Armor;brotherhood;germany;peace;war; Germans


THE PROMISE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You no more shall barefoot crawl
Last Line: And the worthy burgomaster.
Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Liberty; Germans


THE RITTERS RIDE FORTH, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, beautiful valley
Last Line: The ritters ride forth!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Germany; Germans


THE RITTERS RIDE HOME, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As eagles return to their eyrie
Last Line: The ritters' last home!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac
Subject(s): Germany; Germans


THE TENDENCY, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: German bard! Extol our glorious
Last Line: To the common public's level.
Subject(s): Freedom; Germany; Liberty; Germans


THE TROOPER'S DEATH, by GEORG HERWEGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The weary night is o'er at last!
Last Line: Such dying!
Subject(s): Germany; War; Germans


THE WATCH ON THE RHINE, by MAX SCHNECKENBURGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A voice resounds like thunder peal
Last Line: Firm stand thy sons to watch the rhine!
Subject(s): Germany; Patriotism; Rhine (river), Europe; Germans


THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is topsy-turvy turn'd
Last Line: "long life to the king!"" shouting gladly."
Subject(s): Epitaphs; Germany; Heroism; Germans; Heroes; Heroines


TO A BAVARIAN GIRL, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou, bavaria's brown-eyed daughter
Last Line: Flower of isar's vale!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Danube (river); Dreams; Germany; Girls; Life; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Germans


TO GERMANY, by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You are blind like us. Your hurt no man designed
Last Line: The darkness and the thunder and the rain.
Subject(s): Germany; World War I; Germans; First World War


TO THE SPIRIT OF LUTHER, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Luther, come back to thy degenerate land
Last Line: Brutes breed them bodies: who shall breed them souls?
Subject(s): Germany; Luther, Martin (1483-1546); World War I; Germans; First World War


TO THE WATCHMAN (ON A RECENT OCCASION), by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If heart and style remain still true
Last Line: The proper direction in which to be turning.
Subject(s): Germany; Treason & Traitors; Germans


UNION SONG, by ERNST MORITZ ARNDT    Poem Text                    
First Line: This blessed hour we are united
Last Line: We must believe in, we must hold!
Subject(s): Germany; Patriotism; Germans


WESTPHALIAN SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When thou to my true love com'st
Last Line: "say, I come tomorrow"
Subject(s): Death;germany;hearts;heaven;love - Loss Of; "dead, The;germans;paradise;


WIND, by RON PADGETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now it is over and everyone knew it
Last Line: "the postcard making it ""right"" instead of wrong"
Subject(s): Exchange Students; Germany; Foreign Exchange Programs; Germans


YPRES; SEPTEMBER, 1915, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Push on, my lord of wurtemberg, across the flemish fen!
Last Line: Come, try your luck, whatever fate befalls you.
Subject(s): England; Errors; Failure; Germany; Regret; Soldiers; War; World War I; Ypres, Belgium; English; Mistakes; Fallacies; Germans; First World War