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Subject: GUARD DUTY
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First Line: What mean these loud aerial cracks I hear?
Last Line: "to see thy towering temple shine so fair / through the night-flaming, elemental air"
Subject(s): Escapes;freedom;guard Duty; Fugitives;liberty


GUARD DUTY, by TONY+(1) CURTIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A cold lspring morning in berlin
Last Line: Startle the thing into so many bloody pieces
Subject(s): Berlin, Germany; Guard Duty; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945)


GUARD DUTY, BIEN HOA, 1968, by KEVIN BOWEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He was just another soldier
Last Line: No one sleeps anymore
Subject(s): Guard Duty; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975


HERE IS MUSIC: FIRE GUARD AREA OFFICER: 1, by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: What time, day long, from house to house, from door
Last Line: "honour be yours, strong, brave, true, steadfast countrymen."
Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Courage; Fights; Firefighters; Guard Duty; Honor; Patriotism; Valor; Bravery


OF CAUTION, by FRANCESCO DA BARBERINI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Say, wouldst thou guard thy son
Last Line: Be free of fruit to all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Barberino, Francesco Da
Variant Title(s): Sentenze Of Caution
Subject(s): Guard Duty; Italian Renaissance; Prudence; Caution


ONE NIGHT ON GUARD DUTY, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The first salvo is gone before I can turn
Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D.
Subject(s): Guard Duty


PRISON AS A GRAY BOX, by HELEN DEGAN COHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is something you refuse to recognize
Last Line: Then we are afraid
Subject(s): Guard Duty; Prisons And Prisoners


SEVENTH ECLOGUE, by MIKLOS RADNOTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's getting dark; the wild oak fence is is hemmed
Last Line: I can not die, I can not live without you
Subject(s): Guard Duty; Prisoners Of War; Writing And Writers


SOLEDAD POEMS: UPSTAIRS IN THE EDUCATION WING, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
Last Line: They are mutant locusts %laying eggs in the dead
Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Guard Duty; Police; Prisons And Prisoners


SOLEDAD PRISON POEMS: FULL MOON OVER SOLEDAD, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: The light of a full moon
Last Line: Like the wing of an owl
Subject(s): Guard Duty; Police; Prisons And Prisoners; Solitude


THE ADVANCE GUARD, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They fret and fume at the humdrum round round of sleep and food and toil
Last Line: For civilization dogs the heels of a highly uncivilized crew.
Subject(s): Guard Duty; Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers


THE SORCERESS OF THE MOON, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Its gates are griffin-guarded gates
Last Line: The sorceress of the moon!
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Courts & Courtiers; Guard Duty; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


THE WATCH BY NIGHT, by EMMA LEE GLENN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Centurion, centurion
Last Line: Could keep immanuel from his throne.
Subject(s): Guard Duty; Watchmen


WALKING GUARD DUTY WITH THE 81ST ARTILLERY, by STEPHEN BANKHEAD    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had searched long for this quiet, tranquil spot
Last Line: They were shattered by a chopper's angry blade
Subject(s): Guard Duty; Peace


WATCH BOOK, by SUZANNE OWENS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was beautiful when it was summer
Last Line: Cutting capers. It is eight o'clock. Time for bed. %that is all, is all
Subject(s): Courthouses; Guard Duty; Kidnapping; Law And Lawyers; Prisons And Prisoners; Women - Captives


WATCH DOGS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Peking and heide, two brave dogs
Last Line: The waters, sky, and moon!
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Guard Duty