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Subject: MASSACRES
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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 sung—halleluyah!
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