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Subject: LEAGUE OF NATIONS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BEYOND WARS; FOR THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS, by DAVID MORTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then will a quiet gather around the door
Last Line: And a man ploughs, a woman sews and sings.
Subject(s): League Of Nations


LEAGUE OF NATIONS; THE PRESIDENT RETURNS TO AMERICA, by NANCY BYRD TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Back to our shores he comes from the sad strand
Last Line: A watch-fire on the topmost hill of time.
Subject(s): League Of Nations; Nations; Presidents, United States; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


MAXIMA CARTA (INSCRIBED TO PRESIDENT WILSON), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail, newest charter of the hopes of man!
Last Line: When all the world gives bond to break the unhallowed sword?
Subject(s): League Of Nations; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)


ROBBED (LEAGUE OF NATIONS REPUDIATED BY U.S. SENATE), by ETHELEAN TYSON GAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: I rode at dawn a chevalier of god
Last Line: But—so much cannon fodder left to rot.
Subject(s): League Of Nations; United States - Congress - Senate; War


SELASSIE AT GENEVA, by MARCUS B. CHRISTIAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They could have stayed the iron hand of might
Last Line: Blow, bugles! Armageddon has begun!
Subject(s): Haile Selassie. Emperor (1892-1975); League Of Nations


THE FAMILY OF NATIONS, by WILLARD WATTLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With that pathetic impudence of youth
Last Line: Forgets the boy and finds himself a man!
Subject(s): League Of Nations


THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS, by MARY SIEGRIST    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lo, joseph dreams his dream again
Last Line: A cain without a country, a judas at the board!
Subject(s): League Of Nations


THE WORLD IS ONE; DEDICATED TO WOODROW WILSON, by HINTON WHITE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The world is one; we cannot live apart
Last Line: The travail and the triumph of the years.
Subject(s): League Of Nations; Religion; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); Theology


TO THEE, MY COUNTRY, by LOUISE BURTON LAIDLAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: America, unbend that troubled brow!
Last Line: Shall false and foolish fears hold thee in thrall?
Alternate Author Name(s): Backus, L., Mrs.
Subject(s): League Of Nations; Nations; Peace; United States; War; America