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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MASSACRES Matches Found: 38 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A PURIM RETROSPECT, by W. S. HOWARD Poem Text First Line: Come tell us the story again Last Line: "if only that one heart be true." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Jews - Women; Massacres; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Shoah; Judaism AFTER WIRIYAMU VILLAGE MASSACRE BY PORTUGUESE, by JACK A. MAPANJE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No, go back into your exile, go back quick Last Line: Where is your verse? You have no shame! %no, go back until our anger has simmered Subject(s): Exiles; Imperialism; Malawi; Massacres ALL ROADS SEEM TO LEAD HERE, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: You who stare at us out of the emptiness Last Line: As if. As if again. %as if Subject(s): Massacres; Roads BARS FIGHT, by LUCY TERRY PRINCE Poem Text First Line: August 'twas, the twenty-fifth Last Line: Was taken and carried off to canada. Subject(s): Deerfield, Massachusetts; Massacres; Native Americans - Wars CHANT OF THE BARDS BEFORE THEIR MASSACRE BY EDWARD I, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Raise ye the sword! Let the death-stroke Last Line: The children of song may not breathe in the chain! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Edward I, King Of England (1239-1307); Massacres; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen CONVERSATIONS IN PASSING, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Two university vans! %man, if that wasn't letting Last Line: Maybe we'll survive the streets of that town Subject(s): Massacres; Native Americans - History; Prisons And Prisoners; Racism; Tyranny And Tyrants DEERFIELD: 1703, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before the break of day the minister was awakened Subject(s): Deerfield, Massachusetts; Native Americans; Massacres; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America GERTRUDE OF WYOMING; OR, THE PENNSYLVANIAN COTTAGE, SELS., by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Massacres; Native Americans - Wars; Wyoming, Pennyslvania GERTRUDE OF WYOMING; OR, THE PENNSYLVANIAN COTTAGE: 1, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On susquehanna's side, fair wyoming Last Line: Was outalissi hailed, with bark and plumage bright. Variant Title(s): Description Of Wyoming Subject(s): Massacres; Native Americans - Wars; Wyoming, Pennyslvania GERTRUDE OF WYOMING; OR, THE PENNSYLVANIAN COTTAGE: 2, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A valley from the river shore withdrawn Last Line: In all that slept beneath her soft voluptuous ray. Subject(s): Massacres; Native Americans - Wars; Wyoming, Pennyslvania GERTRUDE OF WYOMING; OR, THE PENNSYLVANIAN COTTAGE: 3, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O love! In such a wilderness as this Last Line: The death-song of an indian chief! Subject(s): Massacres; Native Americans - Wars; Wyoming, Pennyslvania I HAVE WITNESSED THE MASSACRE, by MAHMOUD DARWISH Poem Source First Line: I have witnessed the massacre Last Line: And carnations grew Subject(s): Human Rights; Massacres; Middle East - Conflicts INDELIBLE TRACES, by MAKUZAYI MASSAKI Poem Source First Line: My crime is to bear the traces Last Line: By that bloody weekend Subject(s): Angola; Massacres INDIANS (DEERFIELD MEMORIAL HALL), by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Dulcimer, play me a little tune Last Line: Praise be for the story's end! Subject(s): Deerfield, Massachusetts; Massacres; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America MASSACRE, by SEMEZDIN MEHMEDINOVIC Poem Source First Line: Shots of the mass killing at ferhadija circle the globe Last Line: Shooting out of a burning drugstore Subject(s): Massacres MASSACRE OF THE MACPHERSON, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fhairshon swore a feud / against the clan m'tavish Last Line: And tamn ta whusky duty! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Massacres MASSACRE, OCTOBER '66, by WOLE SOYINKA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shards of sunlight touch me here Last Line: To stay the season of a mind Subject(s): Massacres; Nigerian Civil War MY LAI, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An embassy's tall gate off a dirt road Last Line: Of their lives by what death holds apart. Subject(s): Death; Massacres; Vietnam; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Dead, The NEW NATION, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mountain of white ice Subject(s): United States - History; Native Americans; Massacres; Slavery; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Serfs ON THE MASSACRE, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Text First Line: Ye heavens, pray for mercy on my head! Last Line: The bases deep of wickedness and shame. Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Jews; Massacres; Judaism POGROM, by SALVATORE GALIOTO Poem Source First Line: One of every four black men Last Line: Against all young black males %by imprisonment or infantry Subject(s): Blacks; Massacres; Racism PURIM, 1900, by ALICE D. BRAHAM Poem Text First Line: Thou poor wan phantom of a vanished joy Last Line: Israel forgets thee, purim! Thou art dead. Subject(s): Holidays; Israel; Jews; Massacres; Judaism SCULPTURES BY DIMITRI HADZI, by DAVID FERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This metal blooms in the dark of rome's / day light. Of how many deaths Last Line: Their brightness is dark with it Subject(s): Italy; Massacres; World War Ii - Atrocities; Italians SCULPTURES BY DIMITRI HADZI, by DAVID FERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This metal blooms in the dark of rome's %day light. Of how many deaths Last Line: Their brightness is dark with it Subject(s): Italy; Massacres; World War Ii - Atrocities SONG TO THE MEN OF ENGLAND, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men of england, wherefore plough Last Line: England be your sepulchre. Variant Title(s): True Freedom Subject(s): Freedom; Labor & Laborers; Manchester, England; Massacres; Liberty; Work; Workers THE CZAR'S OPPORTUNITY; THE SUNDAY MASSACRE, ST. PETERSBURGH, 1905, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He heard his loyal people cry Last Line: Marches the bloody way. Subject(s): Massacres; Nicholas Ii, Czar Of Russia (1868-1918) THE DYING BARD'S PROPHECY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hall of harps is lone tonight Last Line: Winds! Bear the spoiler one more tone of pride! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Edward I, King Of England (1239-1307); Massacres; Prophecy & Prophets; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen THE INDIAN MASSACRE, FR. ACADIA, by JOSEPH HOWE (1804-1873) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For them no stately canopy is spread Last Line: To charm the list'ning ear, or touch the heart. Subject(s): Acadia; Massacres; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE KISHINEFF MASSACRE, by ROSE STRAUSS Poem Text First Line: O lord, thy righteous wrath and vengeance pour Last Line: Will not be deaf, but with thy thunder smite. Subject(s): Jews; Massacres; Russia; Judaism; Soviet Union; Russians THE LAST BERKSHIRE ELEVEN: THE HEROES OF MAIWAND, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas at the disastrous battle of maiwand, in afghanistan Last Line: Until the last man in the arms of death stiff and stark lay. Subject(s): Afghanistan; Berkshire, England; Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Heroism; Massacres; War; Heroes; Heroines THE MASACRE AT SCIO, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep not for scio's children slain Last Line: Is shivered, to be worn no more. Subject(s): Greek War Of Independence (1821-1832); Chios (island), Greece; Massacres THE MASK OF ANARCHY; WRITTEN ON OCCASION OF MASSACRE AT MANCHESTER, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I lay asleep in italy Last Line: Ye are many, they are few!' Variant Title(s): The Masque Of Anarchy Subject(s): Anarchism & Anarchists; Manchester, England; Massacres THE MASSACRE OF THE JEWS, by R. A. LEVY Poem Text First Line: A wail comes o'er the swelling seas Last Line: "how long, our father, o! How long!" Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Massacres; Tyranny & Tyrants; Judaism; Dictators THE MASSACRE OF THE JEWS AT YORK, by MARION MOSS Poem Text First Line: There is an old and stately hall Last Line: The self-devoted victims sunghalleluyah! Subject(s): Israel; Jews; Jews - Persecution; Massacres; Judaism THE WYOMING MASSACRE, by URIAH TERRY Poem Text First Line: Kind heaven, assist the trembling muse Last Line: Of cruel tyranny. Subject(s): American Revolution; Massacres; Native Americans; Wyoming, Pennyslvania; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America TRAGIC IN TIME, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: So strong the prison doors Last Line: And the resurrection of the body Subject(s): Immortality; Massacres; Prisons And Prisoners; Tragedy WYOMING, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou com'st, in beauty, on my gaze at last Last Line: Has death no triumph-hours, save on the battle-day? Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Campbell, Thomas (1777-1844); Massacres; Native Americans - Wars; Wyoming, Pennyslvania WYOMING, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A demon yell, a flesh of steel, and massacre complete Subject(s): Massacres; Native Americans - Wars; Wyoming, Pennyslvania |
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