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Subject: LUSITANIA (SHIP)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` HIS CROWN OF SHAME (ON THE SINKING OF THE 'LUSITANIA'), by HENRY CHAPPELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Another gem to deck your crown of shame
Last Line: Hell's horrors pale before a prussian brain.
Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Grief; Heaven; Lusitania (ship); Shipwrecks; William Ii, Kaiser Of Germany (1859-1941; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


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


LUSITANIA, by ISAAC ROSENBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chaos! That coincides with this militant purpose
Last Line: Germany's gift — all earth they would give thee, chaos.
Subject(s): Lusitania (ship)


MARE LIBERUM, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You dare to say with perjured lips
Last Line: Till liberty is safe on sea and shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Lusitania (ship); Patriotism; Submarines; World War I; Submarine Warfare; U-boats; First World War


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 SUBMARINE THAT SANK THE LUSITANIA, by KATHARINE LEE BATES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sandrift white shall her victism stand
Subject(s): Lusitania (ship)


THE WHITE SHIPS AND THE RED, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With drooping sail and pennant
Last Line: But one -- shall be like blood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce
Subject(s): Ghost Ships; Lusitania (ship); Submarines; World War I; Submarine Warfare; U-boats; First World War


TO JANE ADDAMS AT THE HAGUE: 1. SPEAK NOW FOR PEACE, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lady of light, and our best woman, and queen
Last Line: Back of the smoke is the promise of kindness again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Addams, Jane (1860-1935); Lusitania (ship); Peace; Reform & Reformers; World War I; First World War